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Body o' me, Beltane, I tell thee this to-day she " "To-day," sighed Beltane, frowning, "to-day she spurneth me! Kneeling at her feet e'en as I was she shrank away as I had leprous been!" "Aye, lad, and then didst woo as well as kneel to her, didst clasp her to thee, lift her proud head that needs must she give to thine her eyes she is in sooth very woman did you this, my Beltane?"
We have to remember that the self he means is the highest self, that consciousness which he looks upon as open to the influx of the divine essence from which it came, and towards which all its upward tendencies lead, always aspiring, never resting; as he sings in "The Sphinx ": "The heavens that now draw him With sweetness untold, Once found, for new heavens He spurneth the old."
Also oft in perils where all men doubt and dread, the blind man, for he seeth no peril, is secure. And in like wise there as is no peril, the blind dreadeth most. He spurneth oft in plain way, and stumbleth oft; there he should heave up his foot, he boweth it downward. And in like wise there as he should set his foot to the ground, he heaveth it upward.
And steadfast goodly Odysseus answered him: "Most noble son of Atreus, Agamemnon king of men, he yonder hath no mind to quench his wrath, but is yet more filled of fury, and spurneth thee and thy gifts. He biddeth thee take counsel for thyself amid the Argives, how to save the ships and folk of the Achaians.
Pharisees hypocrites! because by their gay outside they deceived those that beheld them. Such is the root from whence flows all their righteousness. But doth the blind Pharisee think his state is such? Aye, but still God judgeth him for a hypocrite. God judgeth him for one that spurneth against Christ, even by every such work he doth. Behold, then, the evil that is in a man's own righteousness!
Never shall state nor gold Shelter his heart from aching Whoso the Altar of Justice old Spurneth to night unwaking. The Agamemnon was written when Athens stood at the height of her glory and her power, and before her sons, following the devices of their hearts, 'like a boy chasing a wingèd bird', had set a fatal stumbling-block in the way of their city, or smirched her with an intolerable stain.
And when ye shall see these sayings coming forth among you, then ye need not any longer spurn at the doings of the Lord, for the sword of his justice is in his right hand; and behold, at that day, if ye shall spurn at his doings he will cause that it shall soon overtake you. Wo unto him that spurneth at the doings of the Lord; yea, wo unto him that shall deny the Christ and his works!
We have to remember that the self he means is the highest self, that consciousness which he looks upon as open to the influx of the divine essence from which it came, and towards which all its upward tendencies lead, always aspiring, never resting; as he sings in "The Sphinx ": "The heavens that now draw him With sweetness untold, Once found, for new heavens He spurneth the old."
Other hounds flee and avoid the wood hound as pestilence and venom: and he is always exiled as it were an outlaw, and goeth alone wagging and rolling as a drunken beast, and runneth yawning, and his tongue hangeth out, and his mouth drivelleth and foameth, and his eyes be overturned and reared, and his ears lie backward, and his tail is wrinkled by the legs and thighs; and though his eyes be open, yet he stumbleth and spurneth against every thing.
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