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56 KONX OM PAX We must begin therefore by the simple and austere process of beginning. The condition of Japan was at this time (what time? Here we are in trouble with the historian at once. But let me say that I will have no interference with my story on the part of all these dull sensible people. I am going straight on, and if the reviews are unfavourable, one has always the resource of suicide) dangerously unstable. The warrior aristocracy of the Upper House had been so diluted with suc cessful cheesemongers that adulteration had become a vir…
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…]. I have tried that. But I thought it a question of courage and will. The Hindus have a game they call the Act of Truth. I remember one time King Brahmadatta or some ass wanted to cross the Ganges with his army and like a fool hadn’t brought pontoons; so he damned around for a hell of a time like a cat when you pepper her nose, and by and by up comes “well, I won’t say a —-, but a lady of no reputation,” and says, By Gosh, king, why don't we go and give long armed Bhishma and that crowd Johnny up the Orchard? All right, saucy! says Brahmadatta…
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… person in the whole world who is without the Pale of the Order; and even to Initiates who are not in possession of the Password for the time being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
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…laugh: “Who believes in Black Magic proves himself to be bewitchedl” I had a horrible case of it once—I shudder yet! I could imagine the time when my poor friend’s disease was epidemic; when the panic madness seized even on the govemment— I hae my dootsl said the scholar. Popular beliefs furnish con venient stalking-horses for political subterfuge. No! said the Doctor. Disease of the mind as well as that of the body attacks all classes. While man is as subject to suggestion as he is, the simulation of belief is almost surrender to the belief it…
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…e Illusion of the Pairs of Opposites. Truthfulness and Lying are just as much opposites as white and black, good and evil—— Bones. I sometimes doubt if any of these are opposites at all. Next time you run up to Kether, look down the Tree and see what Truth looks like from there! Take the case of heat and cold, at one time the typical opposites. Nowadays we conceive of a hot body as one in violent internal motion, a cold body as in moderate motion. Bowley. Fast and slow. Bones. Or even (to allow the enemy every advantage, let us say) moving and …
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95% on, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To make the punishment lit the crime— The punishment fit the crime! W. S. GILBERT. I Q g (“THE DECAY or MANNERS.”) INCE nobody can have the presumptiop to doubt 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 …
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…Prince there, and we v' “mm had the most delicious honeymoon, and I had a beautiful baby, and then I remembered myself, but only just in time, and said: “ Kiss me i " And he kissed me and said: “ My goodness I But that was a near thing that time; my little girl nearly went to sleep. Most people who reach the Seventh House stay there all their lives, I can tell you.” —
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…“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 must be done if ever we were to get to the House of Gold. 50 we en joyed ourselves very much and ate the most extraordinary supper you can think of. There were babies roasted whole and stuffed with pork sausages and olives; and some of the girls cut off chops and steaks from their own bodies, and gave them to a beautiful white cook at a silver grill, that was lighted …
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…, and people getting up out of the coffins. My Fairy Prince said: “ Most people never wake up for anything less.” So we went (at the same time it was; you see in dreams people can only be in one place at a time; that’s the best of being awake) through another passage, which was lighted by the Sun. Yet there were fairies dancing in a great green ring, just as if it was night. And there were two children playing by the wall, and my Fairy Prince and I played as we went; and he said: “ The difference is that we are going through. Most people play wi…
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… and in we chip (lnvigorated by our rest) Just where the jury at the ’Quest At the Asylum duly find “Suicide while of Unsound Mind.” This time we skip from earth to heaven God stands among the Spirits Seven. The Seven Lamps about Him flame. Myriad archangels cry His name. Millions of elders, prophets, preachers, Saints, martyrs, virgins, hermits, teachers, Angels, evangelists, apostles All singing like a lot of throstles All out of tune with one another, And every one a Plymouth Brother, With praise set heaven in a whirl. Up slinks the poor bedev…
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…, is (on this illusory plane of Maya) one of the wonders of the world. He is never seen or heard, felt or smelt. Nor hath he been at any time tasted of any. Yet he is everywhere; in all, and causer of all, and apart from all. By profession he is a curator in the British Museum; but that is going very low indeed upon the plane of Maya. I have already told you, said the big man, that Mr. Jones is the Unutterable Tao. Why not leave it at that? I will, said Basil, if Arthur will read us something. I know what he was leading up to when our friend~pl…
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… of the moment. Essays in Light! I hear somebody exclaim. This man was obscure enough before, but now . . . ll! Very like. ’Tis the first time I have written careless of lucidity. By the usual paradox, I may expect some vn
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…ild ass beat (uselessly, if he wished to wake them) upon the tombs of the sportsmen that once thronged those desolate halls. During this time Kwaw devoted his entire attention to the pursuit of philosophy; for the vast quantities of excellent stores abandoned by the British left him no anxiety upon the score of hunger. In the first year be disciplined and conquered his body and its emotions. In the next six years be disciplined and conquered his mind and its thoughts. In the next two years he had reduced the Universe to the Yang and the Yin and …
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20 KONX OM PAX Via '1 v. Valium and seventy-eight is six times thirteen. To get into the Wake World you must know your thirteen times table quite well. So if you take them both together that makes eleven times thirteen, and then you say “Abrahadabra,” which is 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 …
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…t was at the end of them. And now I’m only a little girl, and I’m ever so tired of writing, but I’ll tell you all about the rest another time. Explicit Capitulum Pn'mum val De C ollegio Extemo. PART II I WAS telling you how we started 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 t…
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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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…ins live from the Sixth to the Third, but that isn’t allowed unless you have been to the Fourth House too, and go from there at the same time. It was here they told me what T.A.R.O. on the ring meant. First it means gate, and it is the name of my Fairy Prince, when you spell it in full letter by letter. There are seventy-eight parts to it, which makes a perfect plan of the whole Palace, so you can always find your way, if you remember to say T.A.R.O. Then you remember I.N.R.l. was on the ring too. I.N.R.I. is short for L.V.X., which means the br…
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…your honourable discourse!” exclaimed the half awakened Daimio. Kwaw went on, and I think it only fair to say that he went on for a long time, and that because you have been fool enough to read thus far, you have no excuse for being fool enough to read farther. “ Phenacetin is a useful drug in fever, but woe to that patient who shall imbibe it in collapse. Because calomel is a dangerous remedy in appendicitis, we do not condemn its use in simple indigestions. “ As above so beneath! said Hermes the thrice greatest. The laws of the physical world…
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…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 see I am a very sleepy girl, and dream ever so much about the other children; and that is a pity, because there is only one thing I love, and that is my Fairy Prince. 50 this is the poem I did to worship the ring, part is words, and part is pictures. You must pick out what the pictures mean, and then it all makes poetry. THE INVOCATION OF THE RING ADONAIl Thou inmost A, Self-glittering …
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… flames darting through the air, each one a little sob of happy love. One began to see what the dream~world was really for at last; every time any one kissed any one for real love, that was a little throb of violet flame in this beautiful House in the Wake-World. And we bathed and swam in the pool, and were so happy you can’t think. But they said: “Little girl, you must pay for the entertainment.” [I forgot to tell you there was music like fountains make as they rise and fall, only of course much more wonderful than that.] So I asked what I must …