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# The Golden Threshold/Poems/Past and Future

PAST AND FUTURE
The new hath come and now the old retires: And so the past becomes a mountain-cell, Where lone, apart, old hermit-memories dwell In consecrated calm, forgotten yet Of the keen heart that hastens to forget Old longings in fulfilling new desires.
And now the Soul stands in a vague, intense Expectancy and anguish of suspense, On the dim chamber-threshold . . . lo! he sees, Like a strange, fated bride as yet unknow, His timid future shrinking there alone, Beneath her marriage-veil of mysteries.
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/The Poet's Love-Song

THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong, I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind The world to my desire, and hold the wind A voiceless captive to my conquering song. I need thee not, I am content with these: Keep silence in thy soul, beyond the seas!
But in the desolate hour of midnight, when An ecstasy of starry silence sleeps On the still mountains and the soundless deeps, And my soul hungers for thy voice, O then, Love, like the magic of wild melodies, Let thy soul answer mine across the seas!
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad

NIGHTFALL IN THE CITY OF HYDERABAD
See how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat, Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote.
See the white river that flashes and scintillates, Curved like a tusk from the mouth of the city-gates.
Hark, from the minaret, how the muezzins call Floats like a battle-flag over the city wall.
From trellised balconies, languid and luminous Faces gleam, veiled in a splendour voluminous.
​Leisurely elephants wind through the winding lanes. Swinging their silver bells hung from their silver chains.
Round the high Char Minar sounds of gay cavalcades Blend with the music of cymbals and serenades.
Over the city bridge Night comes majestical. Borne like a queen to a sumptuous festival.
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/The Pardah Nashin

THE PARDAH NASHIN
Her life is a revolving dream Of languid and sequestered ease; Her girdles and her fillets gleam Like changing fires on sunset seas; Her raiment is like morning mist, Shot opal, gold and amethyst.
From thieving light of eyes impure, From coveting sun or wind's caress, Her days are guarded and secure Behind her carven lattices, Like jewels in a turbaned crest, Like secrets in a lover's breast.
​But though no hand unsanctioned dares Unveil the mysteries of her grace, Time lifts the curtain unawares, And Sorrow looks into her face... Who shall prevent the subtle years, Or shield a woman's eyes from tears?
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/Street Cries

STREET CRIES
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky, Rousing the world to labour's various cry, To tend the flock, to bind the mellowing grain, From ardent toil to forge a little gain, And fasting men go forth on hurrying feet, Buy bread, buy bread, rings down the eager street.
When the earth falters and the waters swoon With the implacable radiance of noon, And in dim shelters koils hush their notes, And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat, Buy fruit, buy fruit, steals down the panting street.
​When twilight twinkling o'er the gay bazaars, Unfurls a sudden canopy of stars, When lutes are strung and fragrant torches lit On white roof-terraces where lovers sit Drinking together of life's poignant sweet, Buy flowers, buy flowers, floats down the singing street.
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/The Indian Gipsy

THE INDIAN GIPSY
In tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace Of bygone colours, broidered to the knee, Behold her, daughter of a wandering race, Tameless, with the bold falcon's agile grace. And the lithe tiger's sinuous majesty.
With frugal skill her simple wants she tends, She folds her tawny heifers and her sheep On lonely meadows when the daylight ends, Ere the quick night upon her flock descends Like a black panther from the caves of sleep.
Time's river winds in foaming centuries Its changing, swift, irrevocable course To far off and incalculable seas; She is twin-born with primal mysteries, And drinks of life at Time's forgotten source.
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/The Poet to Death

THE POET TO DEATH
Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring; Fair is my youth, and rich the echoing boughs Where dhadikulas sing.
Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die With all my blossoming hopes unharvested. My joys ungarnered, all my songs unsung, And all my tears unshed.
Tarry a while, till I am satisfied Of love and grief, of earth and altering sky; Till all my human hungers are fulfilled, O Death, I cannot die!
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/The Royal Tombs of Golconda

THE ROYAL TOMBS OF GOLCONDA
I muse among these silent fanes Whose spacious darkness guards your dust; Around me sleep the hoary plains That hold your ancient wars in trust. I pause, my dreaming spirit hears, Across the wind's unquiet tides, The glimmering music of your spears, The laughter of your royal brides.
In vain, O Kings, doth time aspire To make your names oblivion's sport, While yonder hill wears like a tiar The ruined grandeur of your fort. ​Though centuries falter and decline, Your proven strongholds shall remain Embodied memories of your line, Incarnate legends of your reign.
O Queens, in vain old Fate decreed Your flower-like bodies to the tomb; Death is in truth the vital seed Of your imperishable bloom. Each new-born year the bulbuls sing Their songs of your renascent loves; Your beauty wakens with the spring To kindle these pomegranate groves.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/To Earl Aberdeen 10 January 1844

Queen Victoria to the Earl of Aberdeen.
Claremont, 10th January 1844.
The Queen understands that there is a negotiation with Sweden and Denmark pending about the cessation of their tribute to Morocco, likewise that Prince Metternich has sent a despatch condemning as unfair the understanding come to between us and France about the Spanish marriage; that there is a notion of exchanging Hong Kong for a more healthy colony.
The Queen, taking a deep interest in all these matters, and feeling it her duty to do so, begs Lord Aberdeen to keep her always well informed of what is on the tapis in his Department.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/From Queen of Belgians 7 October 1844

The Queen of the Belgians to Queen Victoria.
Laeken, 7th October 1844.
My dearly beloved Victoria,—. . .I wrote to my mother, to quiet her, all you kindly tell me about my dear ​father. We are quite sure, I assure you, that you and Albert will take care of him, and that he is with you in safe hand. And what makes my mother uneasy is the fear that, being at liberty and without control, he will make too much, as she says, le jeune homme, ride, go about, and do everything as if he was still twenty years old. If I must tell you all the truth, she is afraid also he will eat too much. I am sure he will tell it to you himself, as he was so much amused with this fear; but to do her pleasure, being well assured by me that you would allow it, and that it was even customary, he has given up, of himself, all thought of attending your early breakfast: but I perceive I write as if he was not already under your roof. I will also only say, that though he has sent over his horses in case they should be wanted, my mother begs you to prevent, if possible, his riding at all. I wrote to her already that I supposed there would be no occasion for riding, and that your promenades would be either on foot or in carriage. I entrusted Montpensier with all my messages for you, my beloved Victoria and your dear children. He hopes you will permit him, during his stay at Windsor, to make two excursions—one to London, and one to Woolwich—he is very curious to see, as an artillery officer. I mention it as he would be, perhaps, too shy or too discreet to mention it himself. He might very well do those two trips by the railroad and be back for dinner-time, and I am sure you will have no objection to them. . . . Yours most devotedly, Louise.
I am very glad that Lord Charles Wellesley is one of those who will attend my father. Montpensier and him will have surely capital fun together, and he was, you know, a great favourite with every one at Eu. If by chance Lord Hardwicke was in waiting during my father’s stay, you must kindly put my father in mind to thank him for the famous cheese, which arrived safely, and was found very good. . . .
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/From Robert Peel 23 April 1844

Sir Robert Peel to Queen Victoria.
Whitehall, 23rd April 1844.
Sir Robert Peel, with his humble duty to your Majesty, begs leave to acquaint your Majesty that he has every reason to believe that the Court of Directors will to-morrow, by an unanimous vote, resolve on the actual recall of Lord Ellenborough.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/From Viscount Melbourne 9 October 1844

Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria.
Brocket Hall, 9th October 1844.
Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and thanks your Majesty much for the letter of the 7th inst., which he has just received, and with very great satisfaction, as he had begun to think your Majesty’s silence rather long. But he perfectly understands the reasons which prevented your Majesty from writing during your stay in the Highlands. Lord Melbourne is very glad to find that your Majesty enjoyed that country so much, and is so enthusiastically fond of it. Lord Melbourne believes that he was at the places which your Majesty mentions. In the year 1802 he stayed some months in Perthshire with the late Lord Kinnaird, and enjoyed it much. It annoys him sometimes to think how altered he is in strength since that time. Lord Melbourne has never yet thanked your Majesty for the pretty etchings of poor Islay and Eos, which your Majesty sent to Lord Melbourne when he was last at Windsor. Lord Melbourne has ordered them both to be framed, and will hang them up in his room here. They will afford Lord Melbourne most agreeable and pleasing souvenirs of the happiest period of his life, for he cannot say otherwise than that he continually misses and regrets the time when he had daily confidential communication with your ​Majesty. Lord Glenlyon has one merit in Lord Melbourne’s eyes, which is that he was a steady and firm supporter to the last of Lord Melbourne’s Government. Lord Melbourne hopes and trusts that he feels no animosity against those who opposed him. But he does and always shall entertain a kindly and grateful recollection of those who supported him.
Lord Melbourne begs to be remembered to His Royal Highness.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/From Viscount Melbourne 19 June 1844

Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria.
South Street, 19th June 1844.
Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and thanks your Majesty much for the letter of the 14th inst. Lord Melbourne was very glad to have the opportunity of seeing the Emperor of Russia at Chiswick. Lord Melbourne humbly believes that the opinion, which your Majesty has formed and expresses of the Emperor’s character is just, and he considers it extremely fortunate that a sovereign of such weight and influence in Europe, and with whom it is probable that Great Britain will have such near and intimate relations, should also be a man upon whose honour and veracity strong reliance may be safely and securely placed.
Lord Melbourne is very glad to believe that the late political ​movements, with which the public mind has been agitated, have subsided, and are entirely terminated by the last vote of the House of Commons, and by the determination evinced to support the Administration.
This finishes for the present a business which at one moment seemed likely to be troublesome, and out of which there did not appear to present itself any hope or practicable escape.
Lord Melbourne will not make any observation upon what is known and understood to have passed, further than to say that, as far as he is acquainted with the history of public affairs in this country, it is an entire novelty, quite new and unprecedented. Many a Minister has said to the Crown, “My advice must be taken, and my measures must be adopted,” but no Minister has ever yet held this language or advanced this pretension to either House of Parliament. However, it seems to be successful at present, and success will justify much. Whether it will tend to permanent strength or a steady conduct of public affairs, remains to be seen.
Lord Melbourne begs to be respectfully remembered to His Royal Highness.
* ↑ See ante, p. 16.
* ↑ Lord Melbourne refers to the House rescinding its own vote.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/From Robert Peel 5 May 1844

Sir Robert Peel to Queen Victoria.
Whitehall, 5th May 1844
Sir Robert Peel, with his humble duty to your Majesty, and believing that he is acting in accordance with your Majesty’s own opinion, begs leave to submit to your Majesty that it may be advisable that he should by the present mail inform Lord Ellenborough that it is your Majesty’s intention to confer on him, at a very early period, as a mark of your Majesty’s approval of Lord Ellenborough’s conduct and services in India, the rank of an Earl and the Grand Cross of the Bath.
Lord Ellenborough may be at liberty (should your Majesty approve) to notify this publicly in India—and thus make it known that the general line of policy recently pursued has had the full sanction of your Majesty, and will not be departed from.
These were the honours conferred upon Lord Auckland.
If they were conferred on the instant, it might rather seem a ​rebuke to the East India Company than a deliberate approval of the conduct of Lord Ellenborough, but these honours might shortly follow the conclusion of the affair respecting the selection of Lord Ellenborough’s successor, and any discussion that may arise in Parliament.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/From Viscount Melbourne 3 April 1844

Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria.
South Street, 3rd April 1844.
Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, with many thanks for your Majesty’s note of the 28th ult. Lord Melbourne believes that your Majesty is quite right in saying that Lord Melbourne has still some health left, if he will but take care of it. Lord Melbourne told Dr Holland, with- out mentioning your Majesty’s name, that this had been said to him by a friend, and Dr Holland immediately said that it was very just and true, and very well expressed, and quite what he should have said himself. At the same time, the change from strength to weakness and the evident progress of decadence is a very hard and disagreeable trial. Lord Melbourne has been reading Cicero on old age, a very pretty treatise, but he does not find much consolation after it; the principal practical resources and alleviations which he recommends are agriculture and gardening, to both of which, but more particularly to the latter, Lord Melbourne has already had recourse. It is certainly, as your Majesty says, wrong to be impatient and to repine at everything, but still it is difficult not to be so. Lady Uxbridge’s death is a shocking event, a dreadful loss to him and to all. Lord Melbourne always liked her. Lord Melbourne is going down to Brocket Hall to-morrow, and will try to get Uxbridge and the girls to come over and dine.
Lord Melbourne has felt very much for the grief which your Majesty must feel at a separation, even short and temporary, from the Prince, and it is extremely amiable to feel comforted by the recollection of the extreme pleasure which his visit will give to his and your Majesty’s relations. It is, of course, ​impossible that your Majesty should in travelling divest yourself of your character and dignity.
Lord Melbourne has just driven round the Regent’s Park, where there are many almond trees in bloom, and looking beautiful.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 13/To Earl Aberdeen 13 January 1844

Queen Victoria to the Earl of Aberdeen.
Claremont, 13th January 1844.
The Queen has received Lord Aberdeen's letter of the 10th, and returns him the papers which he sent her, with her best thanks. She does not remember to have seen them before.
The Queen takes this opportunity to beg Lord Aberdeen to cause the despatches to be sent a little sooner from the Foreign Office, as drafts in particular have often come to the Queen a week or fortnight after they had actually been sent across the sea.
With respect to the Hanoverian Orders, Lord Aberdeen has not quite understood what the Queen meant. It was Sir C. Thornton and others to whom the Queen had refused permission to accept the favour, on a former occasion, by which the King of Hanover was much affronted. The Queen would not like to have herself additionally fettered by any new regulation, but Lord Aberdeen will certainly concur with the Queen that ​it would not be expedient to give to the King of Hanover a power which the Queen herself does not possess, viz. that of granting orders as favours, or for personal services; as the number of the different classes of the Guelphic Order bestowed on Englishmen is innumerable, it would actually invest the King with such a power, which, considering how much such things are sought after, might be extremely inconvenient.
The Queen will not give a final decision upon this case until she returns to Windsor, where she has papers explanatory of the reasons which caused her to decline the King of Hanover's application in 1838.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 96

SECTION iii
MISCELLANEOUS
CHAPTER 96
RESPECTABILITY OF BIRTH
951. Rectitude and a sense of shame come by nature only to men who are born of a good family.
952. Men of family fall not from three things, namely, correct conduct, truth, and a sense of shame.
953. Four are the attributes of the true gentleman: a smiling face, a liberal hand, sweetness of speech, and condescension.
954. Men of family would not tarnish their name even for the sake of tens of millions.
955. Behold the men of ancient family : they give not up their liberality even when their means of munificence are diminished.
​956. Behold the men who are anxious to keep pure the honourable traditions of their family: they will never take to deceit nor descend to ignoble deeds.
957. The fault of a man of noble family will show conspicuously even as the spot in the body of the moon.
958. If rudeness of speech showeth itself in a man coming of a good family, people would even suspect the legitimacy of his descent.
959. The nature of a soil is known by the seedling that groweth therein: even so is the family of a man known by the words that come out of his mouth.
960. If thou desire virtue, thou must cultivate the sense of shame: and if thou want to honour thy family, thou must be respectful unto all.
# The Kybalion

Written by Three Initiates, considered to be a pseudonym of William Walker Atkinson. Purports to convey the teachings of the legendary Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretized figure of ancient Greek's Hermes and ancient Egypt's Thoth.
THE
KYBALION
A STUDY OF
THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY OF
ANCIENT EGYPT AND
GREECE
BY
THREE INITIATES
"THE LIPS OF WISDOM ARE CLOSED, EXCEPT TO THE EARS OF UNDERSTANDING"
THE YOGI PUBLICATION SOCIETY
MASONIC TEMPLE
CHICAGO, ILL.
Copyright 1908
BY
THE YOGI PUBLICATION SOCIETY.
Entered at Stationer's Hall.
All rights reserved
TO
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS
KNOWN BY THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AS
"THE GREAT GREAT"
AND
"MASTER OF MASTERS"
THIS LITTLE VOLUME OF HERMETIC TEACHINGS IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED
CONTENTS
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# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 97

CHAPTER 97
HONOUR
961. Forbear from those things that would lower thee, even though they should be indispensable for the very preservation of thy life.
962. Behold the men that desire to leave an honoured name behind them : they will not do that which is not right even for the sake of glory.
963. Cultivate modesty in the day of prosperity : but in the day of thy decline hold fast to thy dignity.
964. Behold the men that have soiled a name that was honourable : they are even as the locks of hair that have been shaven off the head and thrown away.
965. Even men who are grand as a mountain will look small if they do an ignoble thing, though it should be only of the measure of a kunri seed.
​966. It bringeth not glory, neither doth it open the way unto heaven: why then doth a man try to live by fawning on men that despise him ?
967. It is better for a man to meet his doom at once without any ado than to maintain himself by hanging on to those that scorn him.
968. Is the skin immortal, that men desire to save it even at the cost of honour ?
969. The kavarima giveth up its life when it loseth its wool : there are men who are as sensitive and they put an end to their lives when they cannot save their honour.
970. Behold the men of honour who refuse to outlive their good name: the world will join its hands and worship at the altar of their glory.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 94

CHAPTER 94
GAMBLING
931. Take not to gambling even if thou win : for thy wins are even as the baited hook that the fish swalloweth.
932. Behold the gamblers who lose a hundred where they gain but one: is there forsooth a way even for them to thrive in the world?
933. If a man bet constantly over dice, his substance will only go into stranger hands.
934. Nothing bringeth on wretchedness so surely as gambling: for it killeth a man's good name and driveth his heart to every ignoble deed.
935. Many there have been who were proud of their skill in the throwing of dice and were mad after the gambling-house: but there hath not been a single man of them that did not come to grief.
​936. Behold the men that are blinded by the Genius of Wretchedness who cometh in the form of a passion for gambling : they will starve and suffer every misery.
937. If thou throw away thy time at the gambling-house, thy inheritance will be consumed and thy fair name will be wiped out.
938. Gambling will consume thy substance and corrupt thy honesty: it will harden thy heart and bring on thee misery.
939. Glory, learning, wealth, and even food and clothing will depart from the man who betaketh himself to gambling.
940. The passion for gambling increaseth with the losses incurred in the bettings: even so doth the craving of the soul for life grow with the griefs that it suffereth therein.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 98

CHAPTER 98
GREATNESS
971. An aspiration for noble achievement, that is what is called greatness : and littleness is the thought that sayeth, I shall live without it.
972. The manner of birth is the same for all men: but their reputations vary because they differ in the lives that they lead.
972. Even if they are noble, those that are not noble are not noble; and even if they are low-born, those that are not low are not low.
974. Even as chastity in a woman, greatness can be maintained only by being true to one's own self.
975. Those that are great have the puissance to employ adequate means and achieve things that are impossible for others.
​976. It is not in the grain of small men to revere the great and earn their good will and favour.
977. If fortune falleth to the lot of the little-minded their insolence will know no bounds.
978. Greatness is ever unpretending and modest: but littleness vaunteth its merits before all the world.
979. Greatness showeth condescension unto all: but littleness is the very acme of insolence.
980. Greatness is always for screening the infirmities of others : but littleness will talk nothing but scandal.