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Page 100 of 1591910 · PDF PAGE 38
…trike while the tool is hot ; don’t bugger in haste, or withdraw at lei- sure ; a turd in the hand is worth two in the bush ; a prick in time saves nine ; it’s a wise Wilde that knows his own Q. ; one good turn deserves another ; frig wise and fuck foolish ; there’s better boys in the choir than ever came out of it all of which goes to show that it took no genius to write ‘ John Ploughman ’. Not that if Charles Spurgeon had been12 one of us, his style would have approx- imated to that of Walter Pater ; a stylist is as direct a miracle of God as…
1913 · PDF PAGE 35
…ese letters reached the defendant she wrote a letter to the plaintiff on February 7, 1912, from on board steamer, in which for the first time she set up that plaintiff has been ill-treating and starving his children. The plaintiff submits that this is an impudent and malicious lie trumped up by the defendant in view to further legal proceedings, as would be seen from the fact that the plaintiff was all along one of the ¢vusted members of the Theosophical Society and the Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section thereof, and was…
1913 · PDF PAGE 35
…ese letters reached the defendant she wrote a letter to the plaintiff on February 7, 1912, from on board steamer, in which for the first time she set up that plaintiff has been ill-treating and starving his children. The plaintiff submits that this is an impudent and malicious lie trumped up by the defendant in view to further legal proceedings, as would be seen from the fact that the plaintiff was all along one of the ¢vusted members of the Theosophical Society and the Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section thereof, and was…
1919 · PDF PAGE 142
…nai, that even now the second six months may be made to balance the first six, and that what is passed may yet be for the best?” At that time he had not found out that things always turn out for the best; it took him a long while to realize this, but it is evident that soon afterwards his efforts produced some result; for we find an entry on Sunday, August 7th, 1910. “I have found (for a few moments) the Peace which passeth all understanding. Amen.” This was evidently the fore- shadowing of his first really notable result, the first Dawn- ing o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 258
… It was worse when I went in: for I could see that she was as shocked as McCall. Then I got in front of a glass. Howis it thatin all the times I’ve looked at myself in these months I’ve never seen what they see in a second ? Good God! it’s too awful to talk about. My face is drawn and haggard and pale and wrinkled. I might be sixty. Well, what do I care? I’ve had three beautiful sniffs ! Madame dolled me up as well as she could. Already I looked much better, and I felt superb. Peter was out when I got to Greek Street; so I opened my dressing ca…
1961 · PDF PAGE 221
…yss and declared himself 8°=38 (without bothering to go through the grades Zelator to Adeptus Exemptus inclusive first), and whom at the time Crowley believed to be his Magical Son. An abortive edition was advertised around 1938 as Equinox III (4); it was finally published post- humously as Equinox III (6) in 1962, edited by Karl Germer and his Brazilian disciple Marcelo Motta. A corrected edition edited by Hymenæus Beta was published by Samuel Weiser in 1991. This e-text of Liber Aleph was based on one in Internet circulation, key-entered …
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
… the problem of the poem, either lyrically or satirically. Turn to any page at random and the truth of this will become apparent. In his time at Cambridge Pollitt had been very prominent as a female impersonator and dancer. He called himself Diane de Rougy --- aprés Liane de Pougy. The grossness of people who do not understand art naturally misinterpreted this aesthetic gesture and connected it with a tendency to androgynity. I never saw the slightest symptoms of anything of the kind in him; though the subject sometimes came under discussion. B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…o have become one. At first this union usually takes place with explosive violence. There are many other characteristics; in particular, time and space are abolished. This, however, occurs with almost equal completeness in certain states of normal abstract thought. {242} The attainment of this trance is likely to upset the whole moral balance of the student. He often attributes and exaggerated importance to the imperfect ideas which represent his memory of what happened. He cannot possibly remember the thing itself, because his mind lacks the m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 468
…work was, what humiliations and privations it involved, I set my teeth and stuck to the job. Now then, as to the form of my report. From time to time I sketched various statements intended for various readers. I have chosen the one which I wrote in a moment of heartbreak, when, after my work had been crowned with success, I found that my two oldest friends understood me so little that they thought it their duty to urge me to justify my conduct to the world by bringing an action against the most scurrilous blackmailing weekly in London. I was th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 322
… as I approached them they gave way before me. Then a voice whispered to me ‘Smite’; thereupon, drawing my sword with fury I smote three times, upon which a great wailing arose. “Having smitten down many with those three blows, I descended among them, but left my sword behind me. Thinking I had forgotten it, in vain I tried to return, and in my strivings was of a sudden armed with many potent lightnings; then at my feet there fell away a great hollow column of rolling smoke. Seeing it, I approached it and gazing down it, beheld at its furthermo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 322
… as I approached them they gave way before me. Then a voice whispered to me ‘Smite’; thereupon, drawing my sword with fury I smote three times, upon which a great wailing arose. “Having smitten down many with those three blows, I descended among them, but left my sword behind me. Thinking I had forgotten it, in vain I tried to return, and in my strivings was of a sudden armed with many potent lightnings; then at my feet there fell away a great hollow column of rolling smoke. Seeing it, I approached it and gazing down it, beheld at its furthermo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
… alone, staring into immense and empty spaces. Presently I found that I was in a colossal square, as of some European city, alone at the time of evening twilight, and surrounded by houses hundreds of stories high. I was bitterly athirst. I ran to the middle of the square, and reached it after an infinity of travel. There was a fountain carved in iron, every jet inimitably sculptured in mockery of water, yet dry as the ashes ofafurnace. “I shall perish with thirst,” Icried. “ Yet one more trial. There must be people in all these immense houses. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
… alone, staring into immense and empty spaces. Presently I found that I was in a colossal square, as of some European city, alone at the time of evening twilight, and surrounded by houses hundreds of stories high. I was bitterly athirst. I ran to the middle of the square, and reached it after an infinity of travel. There was a fountain carved in iron, every jet inimitably sculptured in mockery of water, yet dry as the ashes ofafurnace. “I shall perish with thirst,” Icried. “ Yet one more trial. There must be people in all these immense houses. …
1922 · PDF PAGE 244
…of him. He might shoot me in a mad fit. He has got a target pistol, a very old one with long, thin bullets, and carries it about all the time. He never mentions the Germans now. He talks about a gang of hypnotists that have got hold of him, and put evil thoughts in his mind. He says that if he could shoot one of them it would break the spell. He tells me not to look at him as I do; but I have to be on the watch lest he should attack me. Then he mixes up my hypnotic gaze with ideas of passion. He keeps on repeating :— *“‘ Steadily stares and squ…
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
… this message; owh- momdvvtxskzvgcqxzllhtrejrgscpxjrmsgausrgwhbdxzldabe, which, when deciphered (and the spy would gnash his teeth every time Dodu signalled a W), only meant: The peaches of 1761 are luminous in the gardens of Ver- sailles. Or again: Hunt; the imprisoned Pope; the Pompa- dour; the Stag and Cross. The men of the fourth of September; their leader divided by the letters of the Vic- tim of the Eighth of Thermidor. Crillon was unfortunate that day, though braver than ever. Such were the indications from which I sought to pie…
1906 · PDF PAGE 99
…, But genial when—— These ship- ARGUS. The proper treatment is Kindness—like lions whom Demeter tamed. THESEUS. I promise thee, the next time thou art wroth, A second kindness from Alcides’ hand. ARGUS. Spare me that, King, and take, thyself, a club. JASON. King Theseus, thou art far reputed wise. Hast thou not learnt a lesson from the hap Of Heracles supreme in—shipbuilding? I by my meekness will abash thy strength. Good Argus, thou art unsurpassed in art To curve the rougher timbers, to make smooth The joints and girders, and to plane and wor…
1909 · PDF PAGE 249
…s wrote to S.D.A., and in accordance with instructions received, an Order was founded which worked in a semi-secret manner. “ After some time S.D.A. died: further requests for help were met with a prompt refusal from the colleagues of S.D.A. It was written by one of them that S.D.A.’s scheme had always been regarded with disapproval. But since the absolute rule of the adepts is never to interfere with the judgment of any other person whomsoever—how much more, then, one of them- selves, and that one most highly revered !—they had refrained from …
1909 · PDF PAGE 249
…s wrote to S.D.A., and in accordance with instructions received, an Order was founded which worked in a semi-secret manner. “ After some time S.D.A. died: further requests for help were met with a prompt refusal from the colleagues of S.D.A. It was written by one of them that S.D.A.’s scheme had always been regarded with disapproval. But since the absolute rule of the adepts is never to interfere with the judgment of any other person whomsoever—how much more, then, one of them- selves, and that one most highly revered !—they had refrained from …
1910 · PDF PAGE 25
…assioned and the matter impeccable. I therefore turn my readers over to it without further parley, for I feel that they must be (by this time) thoroughly tired of the prosing of one who is after all not a writer, but a soldier. [In deference to the wishes of the widow of the gallant soldier who penned these lines, and gave his life to his country in S. Africa, we do not carry out his intention of attaching his name to them (during her lifetime) and designate him only by his chosen non de plume, Alain Lutiy. Ed.] 1. The two books have nothing in…
1912 · PDF PAGE 16
…nce the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be lightl’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children 01 Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can possibly be known in regard to God, Nature and Man. Every sage that ever exist…