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Page 104 of 1051929 · PDF PAGE 115
…he Second Order, I wore a certain jewelled ornament of gold upon my heart. I arranged that when I had it on, I was to permit no thought, word or action, save such as pertained directly to my magical aspirations. When I took it off I was, on the contrary, to permit no such things; I was to be utterly uninitiate. It was like Jekyll and Hyde, but with the two personalities balanced and complete in themselves. I found this practice of very great service. It was in fact essentially a beginning of systematic control of thought. The method is now inco…
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…ganic functions of her essence. So passed the summer. With autumn came calamity. I have already told of my own great sorrow. The second sword stroke was that her own inconsolable grief so prostrated the Ape that our hope to retrieve our great loss dragged its anchor. The past had perished and now the future failed us. An operation was necessary to save her own life. My faculties were utterly paralysed. I stood as if petrified in the studio, while in the next room the surgeon drew forth the dead from the living. I shall never forgive myself. I c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 245
…the injunction of Aiwass. We had arranged before leaving Egypt for the "abstruction" of the Stele of Revealing. I did not understand the word or the context, and contented myself with having a replica made by one of the artists attached to the museum. We now proceeded to prepare the "perfume" and the "Cakes" according to the prescription given in chapter III, verses 23-9. We had resumed Magical work, in a desultory way, on finding that Mathers was attacking us. He succeeded in killing most of the dogs. (At this time I kept a pack of bloodhounds…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…nts before the final smash. But his reputation is founded principally on climbs which he did not make at all, in the proper sense of the word. He used to go out with a couple of photographers and have himself lowered up and down a climb repeatedly until he had learnt its peculiarities, and then make the "first ascent" before a crowd of admirers. Now the essential difficulty of negotiating a pitch of any length is that one has to waste any amount of time and strength while one is finding out where the holds are. There is no credit at all in repe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 516
… themselves, being compelled to extend their definition of the Ruach to include conceptions proper to Neschamah, that they are, in other words, becoming initiates in our sense of the word without suspecting that they are committing high treason against the majesty of materialism. The remaining Chokmah days of the initiation proper seemed to be devoted principally to showing the candidate the material on which he is to work. I hope it will not sound too strange if I say that up to this time of my life I had been to a certain extent living in a f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…ue metaphor is not always appreciated.) I cannot make the public understand that to treat a man as an enemy in the ordinary sense of the word, to damage him in every possible way, and otherwise to disintegrate him, is simply to cut off one's nose to spite one's face. There is nothing in the universe which is not indissolubly one with every other thing; and the greatest man is he who makes no difference between any one thing and any other thing. He becomes the "chief of all" as stated in The Book of the Law. {829} 85 We may now return to the sub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 262
…hat they had positively refused to go further, but they picked up their loads and strolled cheerfully up the slopes without so much as a word of admonition. {433} Not understanding the secret of my power, though he had seen it exercised so often by Eckenstein and myself, he imagined that I must be terrorizing the men by threats and beatings. In point of fact, I never struck a man during the entire expedition, save on one occasion to be described presently. Camp 3 was extremely pleasant. It afforded magnificent views in every direction and one h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…s that of the greatest height attained by man. This was claimed by Matthias Zurbriggen, who was not a guide in the ordinary sense of the word, but a convict who had learnt all his climbing from Eckenstein at the request of the ne'er-do-weel's family, who didn't know what to do with him and probably hoped that he would kill himself on the mountains. The Alpine Club even tried to fake records. One party made a great fuss over and ascent of the Dent Blanche. It was proved later that they had not been on the mountain at all and that one at least of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 355
…medes, The World's Tragedy and "Mr. Todd". In particular, I wrote the autobiographical preface to The World's Tragedy, some ten thousand words, at a stretch; and certain lyrics, mostly about Dorothy, of whom more in a moment. "Mr. Todd", as the name implies, is a personification of death an the idea of the play is to introduce him as deus ex machina, helping the characters one by one out of their various troubles. The idea sounds a good one, but apart from availing myself of my opportunities for double entendre ("I was told the other day that h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…rial world which I detested by their means. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. In my search for a suitable sin which might earn me the diabolical V.C., I {67} obviously enough came in touch with the usual thing. Champney was always sniffing around it, but -- - to me --- he was completely unintelligible. I frequented the boys whose reputation for wickedness was best established, and was further directed in my inqu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…stian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime courage to state that my ‘‘ Sword of Song” begins with an effort to expound Buddhism, but that my hatred of Christianity overcame me as I went on, and that I end up literally raving. My book is possibly difficult in many ways, but only Mr. Chesterton would have tried to understand it by reading it backward. Repartee apart, it is surely an ascertainable fact that while the first 29 pages* are almost exclusively occupied with an attack on C…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…cipitous as anything in Cumberland. He wrote back immediately a warm letter of congratulation. It was evident that we had been using the word "chalk" to cover two widely different species of material. I published some of my records in the local newspapers with the idea of inspiring the natives with praiseworthy enthusiasm. Once again I had misjudged humanity. All I got was a leading article beginning the the words, "Insensate folly takes various forms." Another shock was to come. Cousin Gregor suddenly declared that he was engaged to be married…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…horoughly referred phenomena to a single standard that they have lost their individual significance, just as when one has understood the word "cat", the letters c a t have lost their own value and become mere arbitrary elements of an idea. Further: on reviewing one's life in perspective the astronomical sequence ceases to be significant. Events rearrange themselves in an order outside time and space, just as in a picture there is no way of distinguishing at what point on the canvas the artist began to paint. Alas! it is impossible to make this …
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…nd the Invention. The Ascension of Ideas. Living by Insight or by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. ‘The Origin of Evil. What is within the Ht Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. ‘The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought World, The Language of Suggestion, Constructive Imagination. The Power of Impression. How to Remove Impressions. Your Individualism. Making Things g9 Right. Utilising nergy, Master, of be Mastered. The Voice that is heard in Loneliness. The Ingrafted Word. “The Law of TL.--The ‘ofan Invalid. The Invalid’s Alte…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…nd the Invention. The Ascension of Ideas. Living by Insight or by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. ‘The Origin of Evil. What is within the Ht Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. ‘The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought World, The Language of Suggestion, Constructive Imagination. The Power of Impression. How to Remove Impressions. Your Individualism. Making Things g9 Right. Utilising nergy, Master, of be Mastered. The Voice that is heard in Loneliness. The Ingrafted Word. “The Law of TL.--The ‘ofan Invalid. The Invalid’s Alte…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…bt left in our minds as to who really was the hero of the play, the partizan- ship of France should settle it. Shakespeare has never any word but ridicule for the French; never aught but praise of England and love for her: are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other work and insult the English for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated Frenchman? Moreover, Cordelia reckons without her host. The British bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels, doubtless with the con- nivance of the King of France, who, wit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…ed by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories. Such a night- mare now rides us; once again philosophy has said its last word, and arrived ata dead- lock. Aristotle, in reducing to the fundamental contradictions-in-terms which they involve the figments of the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Platonists, the Pyrrhonists; Kant, in his reductio ad absurdum of the Thomists, the Scotists, the Wolfians,—all the warring brood, alike only in the inability to reconcile the ultimate antinomies of a cosmogony only grosser for its pinchbeck …
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…bt left in our minds as to who really was the hero of the play, the partizan- ship of France should settle it. Shakespeare has never any word but ridicule for the French; never aught but praise of England and love for her : are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other w ork and insult the English for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated Frenchmen ? Moreover, Cordelia reckons w ithout her host. The British bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels, doubtless with the con- nivance of the King of France, who,…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…d by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories. Such a night- mare now rides us ; once again philosophy has said its last word, and arrived at a dead- lock. Aristotle, in reducing to the fundamental contradictions-in-terms which they involve the figments of the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Platonists, the Pyrrhonists ; Kant, in his reductio ad absurdam of the Thomists, the Scotists, the Wolffians,—all the warring brood, alike only in the inability to reconcile the ultimate antimonies of a cosmogony only grosser for its pinchbe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 198
192 THE SWORD OF SONG 97. While their Buddha I attack.—Many Buddhists think I fill the bill with the following remarks on— PANSIL.?0 Unwilling as I am to sap the foundations of the Buddhist religion by the introduction of Porphyry’s terrible catapult, Allegory, I am yet compelled by the more fearful ballista of Aristotle, Dilemma. This is the two-handed engine spoken of by the prophet Milton ! * This is the horn of the prophet Zeruiah, and with this am I, though no Syrian, utterly pushed, till I find myself back against the dead wall of Dogma. …