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…er. That rune these boys forget, miserable ones! Therefore, lost in the unthinkable depths of their depravity, do they dream evil dreams called “ Others,” “ Fellow-men ” and the like (Fellow-men is really a nightmare so appalling that only the “pass men” of the G. W. B. ever dream it, since it implies the ghastly and horrible phantasm of “ mankind”). Now in their better selves is a certain force whose troubled reflec tion is called “Love.” This tinctures the dream, and they instantly feel compassion for the “ Others "—who, being merely unpurified…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…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 Soul. [BONES protests violently, and is reminded that dis cussion follows, net/er interrupts, the Paper.] But why insist? The so-called casuists of the Christian Church have exhaustively investi gated this subject; and all they say is none the less true because it is subtle or immoral, as the stupid and the puritan pretend. Cardinal Newman may …
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…nes. Train up a child and a moustache—why don't you get Cecil some Pommade Hongroise? I attribute Pommade Hongroise to Gemini; and it is called the Waxen or Sticky Intelli gence, because it sticketh together everything that is stuck together, and disposeth in right conformation the hairs that are beneath the supernals in that Orifice of the Nose of the Most Holy Ancient One which is called His Nose, and distributeth tens of thousands of severities upon the Inferiors. This is that which is written. Psalms, xcix, 4. “ The Nose which is not a Nose.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…at they had put in his hands when they buried him. Then I went away, and cried, and cried, and cried. But before I had got very far they called me back; and the people who had been so stern were smiling, and I saw they had taken the coflin out of the little C_urinter mortuos room with seven sides. And the coffin was quite, quite empty. Then filiiiffiiiiue; they began to tell us all about it, and I heard my Fairy Prince within mumm' the little room saying holy exalted things, such as the stars trace in the sky as they travel in the Car called “Milli…
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
…of shark than had hitherto infested their shores. So they carried Kwaw shoulder-high to the Yoshiwara, and passed him the glad hand, and called out the Indians, and annexed his per sonal property for relics, and otherwise followed the customs of the best New York Society, while the German Band accompanied the famous Ka Ru So to the following delightful ballad: CHORUS. Blow the tom-tom, hang the flute! Let us all be merry! I'm a party with acute Chronic 1. Monday I'm a skinny critter Quite Felicien-Rops-y. Blow the cymbal, bang the zither! Tuesda…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…oth. Match theml the Tree of Life in Eden Bower Grows balanced perfectly from root to flower.” -—This may be why the Reverend Mrs. Grundy Called him a sodomite the other Sunday. Good! chuckled Basil, when they had done laughing. If he'd worked that out as a boy, his alleged character might have forced him to its own path. When I was in Marrakesh, they lynched a poor old man because their mosque had been defiled in some real or imaginary way (with which he had in any case nothing to do, having been paralyzed for years). The excuse was, on the sole…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…ersity of his form, points that find ample accentuation in the course of the work. Crowley has been eminently unconventional, and has not called a spade an agricultural implement. Captain Fuller declares that what Beardsley and Whistler did for art, Crowley is now doing for poetry, and he adds that his hero is now superseding Swinburne. WHAT ’8 ON says: This work is called "a critical essay on the writings of Aleister Crowley." Yet it is, in truth, far more than this, being a highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…ng cases of symbolic coitus I know of. The man wasn’t of the hunting class; he was a head waiter, child of some Russian exiles of the so-called student persuasion, and his only notions of fox-hunting were taken from the Christmas numbers of the illustrated papers of his childhood! Strange how things stick! THE SYMBOLISTS TITAN EVE was thewed and sinewed: all the blood of Mother Earth Sang within her veins and gave her all the might of all her girth. Vladimir was small and dainty like a fairy knight to brand Greener circles with his dancing on t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…e god of weeping fools! The second, bright as burning coal, a white and wanton wolf of sin Who had an icy flame within the ulcer that she called her soul. Long years he bent him to the task; he worked his torture and his lust Out of the horror of the dust into the horror of the mask. The mewing lecherous devils crept out of the strongholds of the hills, And filled their blood with noisome thrills before the work of the adept. The ghuls that gloat on corpses cold would gather, glutted with their meat, And give it dead man’s chops to eat, and dead …
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…anic womanhood: Their love shall break the mask of wood, reveal the authentic face of Hell." All this the craftsman heard with pride: he called: his sickness and his whore Together at his vitals tore, and rent him that he laughed and died. 50, with the last convulsive shred of spending life, his fingers fold So subtly on that face of gold that all its peace is perfected. 1- * a» i- i- it And there it hangs, a thought obscene, to haunt our love with damned ghosts— Hark to their execrable hosts exulting as I kiss Katrine! It conquers? We will show…
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
… are everywhere hailed as the Godfather of your country l ” “ Do not tell me that the British war has ended disastrously for us!” and he called for the elaborate apparatus of hari-kari. “On the contrary, my lord, the ridiculous Sa Mon, who would never go to sea because he was afraid of being sick, although his genius for naval strategy had no equal in the Seven Abysses of Water, after a month as stowaway on a fishing boat (by the order of Kwaw) assumed the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, and has inflicted a series of complete and crushing defeats u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…y. There was a winged horse ready for us when we came out on the slopes of the mountain. You see the Sixth House is really in a mountain called Mount Abiegnus, only one doesn’t see it because one goes through indoors all the way. There’s one House you have to go outdoors to get to, because no passage has ever been made; but I’ll tell you about that afterwards; it’s the Third House. So we got on the horse and went away for our honeymoon. I shan’t tell you a single word about the honeymoon. Explicit Capitulum Secundum 'uel De Collegz'o ad S. S. p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
… a most mysterious word, because it has eleven letters in it. You remember the Houses are numbered both ways, so that the Third House is called the Eighth House too, and the Fifth the Sixth, and so on. But you can’t tell what lovely things that means till you’ve been through them all, and got to the very end. So when you look at the Ring and see I.N.R.I. and T.A.R.O. on it that means that it is like a policeman keeping on saying “ Pass along, please l” I would have liked to stay in the Fourth House all my life, but I began to see it was just a …
1907 · PDF PAGE 57
…oughts. In this event he is really nearer “untruthful ness” than otherwise, even though his answer chance to coincide with fact. This is called Perception of the Illusion of the Opposition of Contraries. Again, Professor M. will reply truthfully to his disciple N.’s ques tion, “ Master, are you hungry?” “I do not know,” or cast gloom over Xenophon’s Oakaaoa Oshawa with pavraupa pawaopa, or even rokvpflqepa vaquOpa. Because he is sceptical of the instrument of knowledge. But he would lie in saying the same words (taking the second instance) to a …
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
…arted from the Green Palace. There are three passages that lead to the Treasure House of Gold, and all of them are very dreadful. One is called the Terror by Night, and another the Arrow by Day, and the third has a name that people are afraid to hear, so I won’t say. Via P v. Oculus But in the first we came to a mighty throne of gray granite, shaped like the sweetest pussy eat you ever saw, and set up on a desolate heath. It was midnight, and the Devil came down and sat in the midst; but my Fairy Prince whispered: “Hush! it is a great secret, bu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…element of contradiction in the valuable paper to which we have all I am sure listened with remarkable pleasure. [Oh/ ehuek z't.'] Was I called upon, or were you? The Chairman. Order, if you please, greatly honoured Fratres. Mr. Bones has the floor. A Voiee. What will Mrs. Bones say to that? The Chairman. [Stemba] If I have any more unseemly interrup tions of this kind, I shall clear the Court. Mr. Bones. Thank you, sir. The very valuable paper to which I am sure—— [Tumull.
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…self to saké-and-soda. Refreshed, he continued: “ The men who are willing by this means to become the saviours of their country shall be called the Synagogue of Satan, so as to keep themselves from the friendship of the fools who mistake names for things. There shall be masters of the Synagogue, but they shall never seek to dominate. They shall most carefully abstain from inducing any man to seek the Tao by any other way than that of equilibrium. They shall develop individual genius without considering whether in their opinion its fruition will…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
… worships was a true mystical process. Indeed, at this day there are many cults in India (also, I believe, in the South Seas) of what is called Vamacharya. Religious frenzy is invoked by the aid of the Erotic and Bacchic frenzies mingled with that of the Muse of the Tom-Tom. Soma, bhang, arraq, and the Uniting of the Lingam and the Yoni! All, mind you, by a most elaborate ritual. But, on the other hand, there is perfect purity of thought in much of the avowedly Phallic symbolism of the world. For just as the sexual pleasure is entirely in a cla…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…is the way by which I always go to the King, my Father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a holy Magician called Hermes, who takes me through so quickly that I arrive sometimes even at the very moment that I start. Last of all is the most mysterious passage of them all, and if any of you saw it you would think there was a foolish man in it being bitten by crocodiles and dogs, and carrying a sack with nothing any use at all in it. But really it is the man who meant to wake up, and did wake up. So that is his House,…
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…of my Fairy Prince for a single instant, or of course I should have been turned into a horrid black toad. Then there was another passage called the Arrow by Day, and there was a most lovely lady all shining with the sun, and moon, and stars, who was lighting a great bowl of water with one hand, by dropping dew on it out of a cup, and with the other she was putting out a terrible fire with a torch. She had a red lion and a white eagle, that she had always had ever since she was a little girl. She had found them in a nasty pit full of all kinds of…