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… OR, THE FORTY LIARS 31 engaging Dr. Waistcoat’s celebrated troupe of Variety Artistes to per form at intervals during the evening. Mrs. Bones. I’m sure we’re very much obliged by your kindness; I trust it did not cost you too much. Bowley. Waistcoat is an old friend of mine, you know; connected with the Straights—the Dover Straights—on the mother’s side. Non Omnis Moriar is his motto. Very likely; but, on the other hand,he ’5 never really quite alive; so one can bargain with him to great advantage. Mrs. Bones. Well, I’m sure it will all be mos…
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46 KONX OM PAX Bowley. Then what is the converse of Truth? Bones. My dear Pilate, it certainly is not falsehood. A crooked line is not the contradictory of a straight one. Curves and corners alike exclude the straight line and— Bowley. No proposition can possibly have two logical contradic tories. Bones. There I pass. Bowley. Keynes. Bones. I should certainly have brought it in justifiable homicide had the remark been Abel’s. Bowley. Our old friendship— Bones. All very well—you know I should never have made such a remark in real life and it’s da…
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ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 49 Bo'zuley. A bold bad man, brother. Bones. What does he do, brother? Bowley. He buys eggs without haggling, and the horns of a goat cum ouo, and parricides’ skulls, and wands, and daggers, and Sanitary Towels, and—— Bones. Then what does he do, brother? Bowley. He gets a beautiful big circle—— Bones. [In a voice 1f thunder.] Stop! do not parody the most formidable words that agony ever wrung from the lips of initiation! He works in a circle, brother. He says: I am inside, and you can't get at me. He says One an…
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…morality. It ar0se from my trying to save my wife pain by concealing from her the fact that she was not, in the grand phrase of Emerson— Bones. Washington Irving, I think— Bowley. Some Yankee—the only oyster in the stew. Bones. Who told you, Supreme Magus of our Ancient Order! [with profound sarcasm] to go about saving people pain? Bowley. I give in. But really I tell you that you will never attain to the Brotherhood until you have genuinely conquered the Illusion of the Pairs of Opposites. Truthfulness and Lying are just as much opposites as w…
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… supreme Ritual, and these two are one, which is None. Thus far the authentic voice of O. M. [Respectful silence. The Chairman. Now, Mr. Bones, with the accent on the Now, we shall be glad to hear any remarks you may have to make. Mr. Bones. We have all listened, I am sure, with great attention to Mr. Bowley’s valuable paper. At this late hour, however, it would ill become me [No] No ./]—it would little accord with the disposition of this meeting were I to [A voice: “ Cut the cackle, man, and come to the 'osses.”]——I am sure our greatly honoure…
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… and generally made a Grand Slam in Swords. Any one but a benighted Hindu would have declared Hearts and sent the girl across on a raft! Bones. I don’t see it, quite. Bowley. Nor do I. It’s the story, though. Bones. I suppose devotion to one’s profession is a form of Truth. But even if, as you say, it is often a question of courage and will, these are the very qualities which this truth telling stimulates. It’s a V.C. touch to reply to a lady who asks how her hat suits “ Not at all." Bowley. It seems to me mere boorishness. Bones. No! the lady …
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44 KONX OM PAX Enter NOGAI-I. My little bit of sweet-stufi'l [She exhibits her External Splendour and Internal Corrup tion, and exit. Bones. As to levels though, all levels are one. If I cancel out a and —a, the result is the same as if I cancel roooa and -- ioooa. I am only concerned to cancel. Bowley. All right, my gay Io=I—in Kether it’s all very well. In the Ruach one must do as the Ruach does. [MRS. BONES, without, sereaming, “My spoons! My silver spoons! Where are my spoons?” Bones. Then what becomes of our Great Work? Bowley. Ignore the f…
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50 KONX OM PAX Bones. Especially as interpreted by followers absolutely wallowing in Ruach. Bowley. Shall we leave it at that? That Bones finds objective truth a Way up the Tree, and a Fruit in the topmost bough? Bones. I am more positive than that. Bowley. Less Zoroaster and more Pyrrho, please Lord, for Brother Bones! else you will fall into the way of Paul, and perish in the gain saying of Mohammed. Bones. You are obstinate about the necessity of scorning the objective results of illumination. But let us consider the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, …
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… “truth.” In the lower worlds, where are we? Take this frivolous Mrs. I. Why does she elude Mrs. 1.? From fear. Bowley. Fear is failure. Bones. More, G. H. Frater! It is the forerunner of failure. Bowley. I certainly recommend people to be without fear. Bones. The more so that in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not. Bowley. Pass thou on! Bones. 1 take in my hand page 39 of your able monograph and follow my guide Axiokersos, the Second of the Samothracian Kabeiri, to the Portal on whose veil is written “ No separate Existence! ” If I asse…
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ALI SLOPER; OR, T and the falsehood thereof hath rung its sepulchral summons down the Halls that men call Time. [BONES boils ot/er. MRS. BONES strokes his marble brow. Now it hath occurred that some of the younger Adepts, the light hearted and foolish of the Great White Brotherhood, those who slip back oftenest to normal consciousness of the Universe, so that even their pure wings are soiled in the mire of sense, perception, reason, and their foul kind, some of those boys, I say, forget the Writing on the outer Veil of the Indicible Arcanum, th…
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…the view from Binah; but the view from Chesed is “ Let me keep this machine in perfect order, in case our S.H. Frater wants to dictate.” Bones. Just so; and if Brother Bowley goes on lying, our S.H. Frater will one day strike the A key and find a B on the paper. Then he will probably say: Damn the machine l—and do it. Bowley. We are leaving exactitude and wallowing in analogy. We have run up and down the planes till we are less like Exempt Adepti than monkeys on sticks; we Bones. We had better go to bed.
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…, ‘5)” 09.33:? Q1“) do)” ““Z’J” DRAMA TIS PERSONfi ( Wit]: suggestion: jbr cast) Au SLOPER (aged no years) . . Mr. Christian Rosencreutz. BONES (“ Greatly Honoured Frater C.C.R.”) . . . . . Mr. W..d..n Gr..ssm..th. Mas. Bonns . . . . . Miss C..m..ll.. Cl..fi'..rd. BABY BONES (aged fifteen months) . Mr' ' ' 5c ' ' r ' ' SCh ' ' or Miss L..c..l.. H..Il. BOWLEY (“Greatly Honoured Frater N.L.”) . . . . . . Miss L..ly Br..yt..n. IMAGINARY CHAIRMAN, WAl'rs, arc. Any imaginary actors. DR. Wiusrcon'ns Famous TROUPE 0F PANTOMIMISTS (“THE Fon'rv LIARS”): Wh…
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32 KONX OM PAX Bowley. More coffee, please. I attribute the Baby to Malkuth. Mrs. Bones, may I paint the baby bright yellow all over? Heedless of Mother’s sighs and groans He painted blue the Baby Bones, in the well-known porphyrean of the late john Keats, on whom be peace. At this stage in my career—drop that silly Babu twaddle !——I offer you the following desperate alternative, greatly honoured F rater! We will go on with the Table, or I will read you my latest glorious masterpiece entitled Amath. The Hebrew for Truth, Baby! Reflect, O bat-eye…
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… the laughs, so that there is no excuse whatever for any ofyou to complain of having passed an unprurient evening.” The scene rises. The Bones FAMILY and MR. BOWLEY sitting round the fire. U17 stage, MRS. P .. TR .. CK C .. MPB .. LL chased by MR. M..RT..N H..RV..Y runsofi'R. andbarhs hershin on a chair. Mrs. P. C‘. I am not happy! I am not happy! 0 leyndyvaine, what shall I say? Mr. M H. Most people would say Damn, ma belle Mygrainel Mrs. P. C. [Aside.] If Maeterlinck gives meaname likeaheadache, will not Shaw call me simply a cough-drop? [ExiL …
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…m to possess such thoughts (involving further discrimination) as the perception of the pairs of opposites as real. In fact, my thought “ Bones ” may be allowed to believe that he is real, and that there is no other God but he—for such a thought is hardly an illusion—but Bones must not and shall not think that there is an opposition of black and white, good and evil, truth and falsehood. One of our weaker brethren (and I alas! had relied on him as strong among the strong 1) recently plumed himself vastly on this per ception of the Illusion of th…
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…and tells the truth. Student C. says the same words to Professor D., and lies. The bottle and its contents being the same in each case. [BONES laughs contemptuoust and is frowned at.] Because B. wants a drink and Professor D. a bottle free from moisture. This is a malicious lie if Student C. is trying to excuse his slackness, and the accident of his having truly emptied the bottle would not absolve him. This is Confusion of the Matter of Speech. [BONES opens his mouth —and shuts it again with a severe efibrt. E. says to F.: “John the Baptist had…
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…ays to Father H. in the confessional, “I have not flirted with Mr. 1.,” and lies, because (on the theory) Father H. has a right to know. [BONES z'ntery'erts, “ Flirted! Autres temps, Autres motsl You’re improving, Frater ! ” Reader replies “ Pig l ”] But she says the same words with truth to Mrs. 1., who is merely asking out of curiosity. For if she changes the subject, or is rude, it is tantamount to a con fession, and Mrs. J. has no right to trick or force one from her. This is called Keeping the Vow of Secrecy which one has sworn to one’s own…
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ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 47 in value to yours of telling truth to a man in the sense he under stands. Bones. Yes; I may grant so much: but my formula is a good one too. Bowley. I promise to try it. Bones. You have two advantages. One is the common or Garden Magic; you acquire the habit of telling truth in the low material ob jective sense, and nature is bound (as Levi says) “to accommodate herself to the statement of the magician.” Thus, one may take hold of a hot iron, or coal, saying “ It does not hurt ” and it doesn’t. 80101:]. I have…
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…iled. He came back very draggle-tailed; And, poised above me in the air, Whined “Mr. Sphinx, now, is it fair? My business is to rack the bones Of saints like you and Mr. Jones! I’m paid to accuse the brethren, sir!" “ I do not blame you, Lucifer. I take my pleasure in your frown Because you ‘represent the Crown.’ And all your prattle means to me: There is none other God than He.” The Devil seemed to see the point. Pleased that I did not say “Aroint l ” Pleased that in Asmodee I sight Brave Lucifer, the Lord of Light, Pleased with my Qabalistic …
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…somebody.) You do well to treat it lightly, said Basil. It’s the most terrible story I ever heard. A fico for your tragedies of blood and bones! Indeed, ’tis the one hopeless hell, added the Scholar. It is true? You knew the man? I did, returned the big man. As nice a fellow as you could find in three continents. And lost! lost! lost! Oh! when will men be free of all this superstition? groaned Denzil. Never, said the Scholar. Now, said the big man. I can’t see it, cried Denzil, but it shall be! it shall be! And he rolled off this great oath: I SW…