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…d leaves are in autumn in one’s dreams. The place we had come through was perfectly black everything, and only used for offices and such things. There were the most horrid things everywhere about; black beetles and cockroaches, and goodness knows what; but they can’t hurt when the Fairy Prince is there. I think a little girl would be eaten though if she went in there alone. Then he said: “ Come on! This is only the Servants’ Hall, nearly everybody stays there all their lives." And I said: “Kiss me I” So he said: “Every step you take is only pos…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…ht obscene, to haunt our love with damned ghosts— Hark to their execrable hosts exulting as I kiss Katrine! It conquers? We will show it things memorial of its splendours gone, Things grosser than it looked upon where Neva rolls or Tiber swings. We shall exceed: its lips unclean shall answer at the Judgment Day: “ The greatest of them all, I say, were this my poet and his queen l ” Ah, God! we look upon the Thames; the Arno’s palaces are gone. Dull glows the misty horizon with London’s stinking stratagems. But lift the lid of earth and see the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…ld go to sleep, because there wasn’t any eye lid. On the sides were written I.N.R.l. and T.A.R.O., which mean many strange and beautiful things, and terrible things too. I should think any one would be afraid to hurt any one who wore that ring. It is all cut out of an amethyst, and my Fairy Prince said: “Whenever you want me, look into the ring and call me ever so softly by my name, and kiss the ring, and worship it, and then look ever so deep down into it, and I will come to you.” So I made up a pretty poem to say every time I woke up, for you…
1907 · PDF PAGE 75
… the demonstra tion of St. Thomas Aquinas that this world is the best of all possible worlds, it follows that the imperfect condition of things which I am about to describe can only obtain in some other universe; prob ably the whole affair is but the figment of my diseased imagination. Yet if this be so, how can we reconcile disease with perfection? Clearly there is something wrong here; the apparent syllogism turns out on examination to be an enthymeme with a suppressed and impossible Major. There is no progression on these lines, and what I f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…es follow fast and thick: I even tend to overeat. You would not daily with Doreen Because her fairness was to fade, Because you know the things unclean That go to make a mortal maid. I, if her rotten corpse were mine, Would take it as my natural food, Denying all but the Divine Alike in evil and in good. Aspasia may skin me close, And Lais load me with disease. Poor pleasures, bitter bargains, those? I still despise Diogenes. Why must the prig be still the judge? The Deadly-Livelies audit life? Ask of the drone about the drudge! Compute the mis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…lind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! couldst thou nowhere rest A pivot for the universe? Must all things be alike confessed Mere changes rung upon a curse? I swear by all the bliss of blue My Phryne with her powder on Is just as false—and just as true— As your disgusting skeleton. Each to his taste: if you prefer This loathly brooding on Decay, I call it Growth, and lovelier Than all the glamours of the day.
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…nobody ever, that is Satan, and he is the Saviour of the World.” I We were a very great company, and I can’t tell you of all the strange things we did and said, or of the song we sang as we danced face out wards in a great circle ever closing in on the Devil on the throne. But whenever I saw a toad or a hat, or some horrid insect, my Fairy Prince always whispered: “It is the Saviour of the world,” and I saw that it was so. We did all the most beautiful wicked things you can imagine, and yet all the time we knew they were good and right, and mus…
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…beautiful rose in the ceiling. In the middle was a table all covered with beautiful pictures and texts, and there were ever such strange things on it. There was a little crucifix in the middle, all of diamonds Sepulchrum and emeralds and rubies, and other precious stones, and there was a ' dagger with a golden handle, and a cup full of the most delicious wine, and there was a curious coin with the strangest writing on it, and a funny little stick that was covered with flames, like a rose tree is with roses. Beside the strange coin was a heavy iro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…e get on. We came by and by to the Sixth House. I forgot to say that all those three paths were really one, be cause they all meant that things were difi‘erent inside to outside, and so people couldn’t judge. It was fearfully interesting; but mind you don’t go in those passages without the Fairy Prince. And of course there’s the Veil. I don’t think I’d better tell you about the Veil. I’ll only put your mouth to my head, and your hand—there, that’ll tell any body who knows that I’ve really been there, and that it’s all true that I’m telling you. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
… Jove, who knows? Perhaps he too is in the Plot. 1 like Scotch \Vhisky: he does not. He prefers Job to Second Kings. We disagree on many things.” He sniffed around the Adept (who lay low). He searched his luggage for his halo. He asked him frequently to dine Forgetting purposely the wine (Though the arcana of Nibbana Ignore the very name of Cana). He could not pass a herd of swine Without a hint; in fact, in fine, He took His Silence as a sign: “This is an Enemy of mine ! "
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…e. I know not all I sat , but through it all Mark the dim hint oly ultimate sunshine. Naturz’r CalI.—And how many others have said great things, yet knew not all they said! Was there ever a poetical would-be unraveller of that skein of mystery, wherein life and death and nature work together, who could explain half of what he said? No; because it was not he who said those things, but nature speaking through him. Yet, if Mr. Crowley does not understand all he says, he sees something that is of far greater importance to him, as shown here: So I p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 93
… to take you upon an high mountain and show you all the king doms of the earth. I have seen them, said the Socialist. But, said the Man, things look very different from that height. Poverty and vice are the same from any point of view, began the Socialist. Listen 1 said the other. Arthur Gray stretched his legs as well as the room would allow. Master, your pipe is out. Read us that yarn of your turn-to with Asmodee in Scotland. If ever a place seemed to defy God, “it is this, it is this, it is this.” Tune our instruments, master! The big man pu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…asion, 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 the green enamoured land.
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…nward malice in the gizzard. The path is easy, I suppose, for such an one to play the wizard. In any case he took the risk, and left off things like soap and eating, Till he could give the world a bisque, ten spells in thirty, and a beating. Well, at the age of eighty-eight he found himself the One-horse Wire For the Iehannum Maiden Plate—by Satan, out of Lake 0’ Fire. So, calling Iblis of the jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…ordship has commanded me to see that your holiness is supplied with everything that you desire.” Then the sage laughed aloud. IV f1 1% (“THINGS TO BE Banana”) Stx months passed by, and Juju, stirring in his sleep, remembered the duties of politeness, and asked for Kwaw. “ He is on your lordship’s estate at Nikko,” the servants hastened to reply, “ and he has turned the whole place completely upside down. Millions of yen have been expended monthly; he has even mortgaged this very palace in which your lordship has been asleep; a body of madmen ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…o the swinish multitude, steady purpose ever equili brating each thought with its opposite, had brought him at the end to the mastery of things. So earnestly would he gaze on God, and die, that God had given him of His own life, and sent him among men. But men knew him not. Only the babes could understand his strange grave smile. The fifth man was a classical scholar; much learning had made him mad. Yet, well as he knew Greek and Latin, he had not yet read enough to see therein the luminous image of the Creator. Last was a doctor who, gazing eve…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
…ed 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 little dream House too; and I couldn’t rest, because my own House was the very next one. But it’…
1907 · PDF PAGE 57
…ly changed the aspect of the Universe. How shall a god answer a man? Frater Neophyte K. asks our S. H. Frater L. 8°= 3°. “Are there such things as elemental spirits in the scientific sense?” Now Frater L. knows that there are (just as Professor Ray Lankester would assure a Hottentot of the reality of microscopic objects), but he also knows that there are not, seeing that all is but an illusory veil of the Indicible Arcanum in the Adytum of God nourished Silence. Frater L. will therefore reply Yes! if he thinks Frater K. in danger of scepticism. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…ge, let us say) moving and reposing. But these are not opposites. Zero and unity are not opposites. Bowley. Yet in another sense any two things are opposites. Bones. That is in Kether again. If you wish to cancel a number, however, zero is no use to you; you need a minus quantity. Bowley. Which (you are no doubt going to say) demands a geo metrical interpretation, and a very conventional one at that. Bones. Yes; even the Ruach can in a sense get rid of the Opposites. How much more then when we observe the matter from the point of view of Samadh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…ourable toil. There are those whose lives are rendered wretched by the fear of infection; they see bacteria of the deadliest sort in all things but the actual solutions of carbolic acid and mercuric chloride with which they hysterically combat their invisible foemen; such would I send to live in the bazaar at Delhi, where they shall haply learn that dirt makes little difl'erence after all. “There are slow men who need a few months’ experience of the bustle of the stockyards; there are business men in a hurry, and they shall travel in Central Asi…