Equinox I (04).pdf
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304 THE EQUINOX young and beautiful in the precision of its mechanical actions. She let her eye fall upon him and wondered. . . . Presently he had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensations, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he know of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us!) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great Goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the Vault of our beloved Brethren the Ka D Sh Knights of C P.A...P.P. C). To cut our tale short, for the time is approaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voice of the Lady. She thanked him, him, a poor peasant, her slave, and left him to his work. Her image, however, remained clear before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of her. Well, little Piotr heard it all. As there was but one woman in the whole world whom he loved, the description of another woman did not in the least attract his attention. Only when mention was made of her magnificent jewels did his ears stand up. “What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her tiny hand in his, a little later. “They are beautiful things, Piotr,” she answered. “They are beautiful to the eye.” “Hah!” he sighed—for that was the one thing he could not well realize. “They are stones with fire or water in them.”
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV “What, do they burn? do they feel cool to the hand?” “Only to the eye, dear. I remember. One sets them in gold and wears them hanging from the ear, or round one's neck.” “Would you like to feel some, Ljubov?” “Oh yes! . . . But, it’s no use, dear, I couldn't see them.” “Perhaps you would like just to pass your fingers over then, and try to imagine what they . . . er . . . look like?” “I think I would. Then I could explain better to you what I mean.” Piotr signed again and soon left her. In the evening he wandered around the house where the Lady was staying. She was walking in the garden and he listened to her voice while she sang softly to herself. Presently she sat down. Piotr was well used to directing his steps without the use of eyes, and he managed to creep behind her. A fixed idea had taken possession of his childish brain. He would take the jewels everyone thought so beautiful, and take them to Ljubov. Suddenly, he sprang forward and his hands searched in the darkness for the ears. A tiny little sound, made by the Lady, as she turned round, helped him to find the place. His fingers closed on each side over the ears and he pulled out with a violent movement. The Lady fell unconscious without having uttered a sound, so acute and sudden had been the pain. Piotr went away slowly, his hands grasping two ear-rings with a little piece of human flesh attached to them. 305
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3<strong>04</strong><br />
THE EQUINOX<br />
young and beautiful in the precision of its mechanical actions.<br />
She let her eye fall upon him and wondered. . . . Presently he<br />
had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at<br />
her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensations,<br />
sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama.<br />
Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor<br />
ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days,<br />
for a divine apparition. Had he know of OUR LADY<br />
HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe!<br />
may she gleefully look upon us!) he would have considered his<br />
vision to be a visit of the great Goddess (her name be rapidly<br />
uttered in the Vault of our beloved Brethren the Ka D Sh<br />
Knights of C P.A...P.P. C).<br />
To cut our tale short, for the time is approaching for our<br />
libations, the peasant heard the voice of the Lady. She<br />
thanked him, him, a poor peasant, her slave, and left him to<br />
his work. Her image, however, remained clear before his eyes<br />
and he did not fail in his description of her.<br />
Well, little Piotr heard it all. As there was but one woman<br />
in the whole world whom he loved, the description of another<br />
woman did not in the least attract his attention. Only when<br />
mention was made of her magnificent jewels did his ears<br />
stand up.<br />
“What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her<br />
tiny hand in his, a little later.<br />
“They are beautiful things, Piotr,” she answered. “They<br />
are beautiful to the eye.”<br />
“Hah!” he sighed—for that was the one thing he could not<br />
well realize.<br />
“They are stones with fire or water in them.”