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Title: The Lords of the Ghostland
A History of the Ideal

Author: Edgar Saltus

Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31608]

Language: English

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THE LORDS OF THE GHOSTLAND

_A History of the Ideal_

By EDGAR SALTUS

"Errons, les doigts unis, dans
l'Alhambra du songe."
Renee Vivien

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
MCMVII

COPYRIGHT, 1907
BY EDGAR SALTUS

_The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. USA._

_By Mr. Saltus_

HISTORIA AMORIS
IMPERIAL PURPLE
MARY MAGDALEN
THE POMPS OF SATAN
THE PERFUME OF EROS
VANITY SQUARE

THE LORDS OF THE GHOSTLAND

I Brahma 7

II Ormuzd 39

III Amon-Ra 60

IV Bel-Marduk 81

V Jehovah 109

VI Zeus 140

VII Jupiter 166

VIII The Nec Plus Ultra 189

THE LORDS OF THE GHOSTLAND

I

BRAHMA

The ideal is the essence of poetry. In the virginal innocence of the
world, poetry was a term that meant discourse of the gods. A world
grown grey has learned to regard the gods as diseases of language.
Conceived, it may be, in fevers of fancy, perhaps, originally, they
were but deified words. Yet, it is as children of beauty and of dream
that they remain.

"Mortal has made the immortal," the _Rig-Veda_ explici