Protection Against Evil People by Austin Spare [NSFW]

Encountered on the Book of Faces and, again, here.

Strange images of myself did I create,

As I gazed into the seeming pit of others,

Losing myself in the thoughtfulness

Of my unreal self, as humanity saw me.

But alas ! on entering to the consciousness

Of my real being to find fostering

“The all-prevailing woman,”

And I strayed with her, into the path direct.*

“Hail! the Jewel in the Lotus!”

- Austin Spare, Earth: Inferno (1905).

* Italix mine.