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THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE

VOL.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Strange Houses of Sleep, 1906. A Book of Mystery and Vision, 1902. LucASTA Parables and Poems, 1889 A Soul's Comedy, 1887. :

ISRAFEL, 1886, 1894.

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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF

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CATHEDRAL HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW

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CONTENTS VOL. Portrait of the Author

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Frontispiece

STRANGE HOUSES OF SLEEP A. Ground-Plans of the House of Life.

— When the

man

of election begins to realise that he is normally in a dreaming state and that he must he aroused to attain himselj^

he

is

forthwith impelled

to

consider the mysteries of

his sleeps the greater and lesser also, with the manifestations thereto belonging, and it is in this manner that he becomes dedicated to the interpretation of his dreams.

Herein therefore

is the general thesis of the dream-life, certain vestiges, which are memories, of all that including which is without it. It is in this way that man awakens

the first sense of the quest. Being thus already in part in he order several illuminated, plans for the improveputs ment of his symbolical position. He beholds indeed the to

life, through which the become to him even as fountains of of sleep may as and his environment a Promise refreshment, of May. There is torpor and there is inhibition, hut there are also suggestions of states that have rewards beyond the dreams One is in effect already a Postulant at the of avarice. Pronaos of the Temple. B. Lesser Lights and Broideries of the Veil. When man takes thought of Nature and her sacramental service, he may discover after what manner some strange Herein is the consideration in full suspensions operate.

first

shining

of the sacramental

rivers

—

of the palmary messages promulgated by the outside world.

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Strange Houses of Sleep ^hese are Watches of the Morning, wherein the

The of simple Nature is made evident. hut therein is no been have tried, satisfaction.

ciency

ways

insuffi-

normal

Where

Amid such preludes and of Healing ? which leads to nothing ; in the realm the world pastorals of and the Trivia we meet with certain mercies ; of fragilities are

the

Wings

and judgments and become neophytes of the Lesser Mysteries, which are as Instructions in Early Alphabets for some who V

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