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Page 108 of 1121910 · PDF PAGE 493
…uilding of character, with as much pleasure as this has afforded. Characterized throughout by a cheery optimism, the perusal of it is as good as any tonic, and far better than most.”—Pall Mall Gasette. MENTAL MEDICINE: Some Practical Suggestions from a Spiritual Standpoint. By Ouiver HuckEt, $.T.D. With an Introduction by Lewettys F. Barker, M.D. SumMary OF ConTENTS—The New Outlook for Health. The Unique Powers of Mind. The Spiritual Mastery of the Body. Faith as a Vital Force. The Healing Value of Prayer. Glimpses of the Sub-conscious Self. Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
…uilding of character, with as much pleasure as this has afforded. Characterized throughout by a cheery optimism, the perusal of it is as good as any tonic, and far better than most.”—Pall Mall Gasette. MENTAL MEDICINE: Some Practical Suggestions from a Spiritual Standpoint. By Ouiver HuckEt, $.T.D. With an Introduction by Lewettys F. Barker, M.D. SumMary OF ConTENTS—The New Outlook for Health. The Unique Powers of Mind. The Spiritual Mastery of the Body. Faith as a Vital Force. The Healing Value of Prayer. Glimpses of the Sub-conscious Self. Th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…. 96 O crimson cheeks of love's fierce fever, i. 171 Of course I might have known it was a lie, ll. 74 O friends and brothers, ii. 127 O good St. Patrick, turn again, ii. 48 O Gretchen, when the morn is gray, i. 243 O happy of mortals, ii. 103 Oh! I had such a bad dream, i. 58 ‘Oh, very well!"’ I think you say, ii. 160 O if these words were swords, i. 167 O iron, bow to silver’s piercing note! ill. 183 O kissable Tarshitering! the wild bird calls _ its mate—and I? ili. 87 O Lesbian maiden, ii. 6 O Light in Light! O flashing wings of fire! ili, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 397
… teach you the first principles of writing. When I met you, you were not so much as a fifth-rate journalist, and now you can write quite good prose with no more than my blue pencil through two out of every three adjectives, and five out of every six commas. Another three years with me and I will make you a master, but please don't think that either I or the Work depend on you, any more than J.P.Morgan depends on his favourite clerk." To return, however, to the rituals. These seven were really seven acts of one play, for their order was necessar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 392
…ving a shepherd; the motives and controlling element had been removed and he was more or less cut off from the past. One thing seemed as good as another. He acted irresponsibly. He went on with his work more by force of habit than anything else, and the events of his life were, so to say, more chemical reactions between his character and his circumstances. In the spring, a few days before the publication of number three of The Equinox, which contained the Ritual of the 5° = 6ř degree of the old Order, Mathers served him with an injunction restr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 256
…e mountain. On July 9th, only twenty-six days after my arrival in Darjeeling, the rain stopped for a few minutes and I was able to get a good view of the mountain through my glasses. It entirely confirmed my theoretical conclusions; the highest peak was almost certainly easy to reach from the col to the west of it, and there could be no doubt that it was an easy walk up to that col by a couloir of sorts which I called Jacob's Rake (a "portmanteau" of Jacob's ladder and Lord's rake). The word couloir does not quite describe it; the word "rake" d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 249
…reciate as a means of covering necessary distances, but not otherwise. I like swooping down the slopes, and an occasional jump is rather good fun. But to go back up hill again! No, thank you! {413} 1. Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden. The Cresta run was great joy and the sports committee paid me the greatest compliment of asking my advice about its construction. But it seemed to me ideally perfect. The only suggestions which I had to make were connected with safety; and, in fact, several men have been killed since through the precautions propos…
1929 · PDF PAGE 374
… especially in Chapter III, entirely repugnant. I was content to leave these points to be cleared up by the gods themselves in their own good time. They had proved that I could trust them to manage what was after all their own affair and not mine. I refrained from pushing my criticism. I took the general sense of the Book, so far as I understood it, as at once the starting point and the summit of my Magick. This change of attitude was tremendous. I had always been tongue-tied in the matter of expressing my spiritual self in poetry and my lyrics…
1929 · PDF PAGE 274
…ne cannot do anything to help things along. On the contrary, one has to avoid the slightest action. The waiting sounds as if it might be good practice for meditation. I found it quite the opposite, for the object of one's vigil is itself a distraction, and if one concentrated on the sport, it would of course disappear, as had already happened to my nose and my navel. Soon after dark I began to hear the noises of the jungle, from the rustling of leaves and grasses as small animals moved cautiously about their business to the distant roaring of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 579
…an. The only irregularity that had ever occurred at any time was intercourse between unmarried people, which is, after all, universal in good society, and in our case was untainted by any objectionable features apart from the question of formality. I fail to understand why it should be considered excusable to seduce a woman and leave her to shift for herself, while if one receives her as a permanent friend and cares for her well-being long after the liaison had lapsed one should be considered a scoundrel. The idea seems to be that it is immoral…
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…ed him. He remembers one Sunday when she found him reading Martin Rattler and scolded him. Edward Crowley took his part. If the book was good enough to read on any day, why not on Sunday? To Edward Crowley, every day was the Lord's Day; sabbatarianism was Judiasm. When Alick was eight or thereabouts he was taken by his father to his first school. This was a private school at St. Leonards, kept by an old man named Habershon and his two sons, very strict Evangelicals. Edward Crowley wanted to warn his son against the commonest incident of English…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…ame patent and the school was broken up in consequence. As regards myself, the mischief had been done. I, who had been a happy, healthy, good-natured, popular boy, had learned to endure complete solitude for months at a time. I spoke to no boy and the masters always addressed me, when necessity compelled them, with sanctimonious horror. The bread and water diet, and the punishment of perpetual walking round the playground during school hours, had broken down my constitution. I was taken to a doctor, who found that I was suffering severely from …
1929 · PDF PAGE 169
…ts an admirable servant, so much so that I brought him from Kashmir in 1905 and took him with me across China. His subordinates were all good men in their way and we had not trouble with them. Our transport as far as Askole, the last village, depended on local coolies or ponies, a hundred and fifty of one or fifty of the other. Occasionally the same set would make two or three marches with us, but as a rule they were changed every day. Except on one or two occasions when the ignorance and bad manners of the Austrians let to misunderstanding, ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 352
…f Fuller, Eckenstein and Gerald Kelly, as well as her doctor. They were none of them very hopeful, but they agreed that it might do some good to leave her and refuse to return until guarantees were given that she had stopped drinking. There did really seem some hope; the power of love might work the miracle, and certainly my love for Rose was stronger than ever, although cut away completely from its physical support. I have always been peculiarly sensitive about trifles in my rapports with women; the most trivial thing can put me off completely…
1929 · PDF PAGE 569
…the true facts as narrated above. Since that time, the winter of 1918-19. I had heard no more of him directly. But Jane Wolfe had seen a good deal of them in Los Angeles. They had separated finally. (They were always doing that, but always the madman had come back and started some new scrap.)
1929 · PDF PAGE 393
…ollery, an excuse for drunken rowdiness, or a sinister association for political intrigues and commercial pirates. Reuss told me a {628} good deal of the history of the various rites, which is just as confused and criminal as any other branch of history; but he did persuade me that there were a few men who took the matter seriously and believed that the foolish formalism concealed really important magical secrets. This view was confirmed when The Arcane Schools of John Yarker came to me for review. I wrote to the author, who recognized my title…
1929 · PDF PAGE 180
…t issuing from its vast black source certainly created an ugly impression. The reason maybe that stopping, as I naturally did, to have a good look at it, the presence of that vast body of ice produced a slight physical chill which I promptly translated into emotional terms and attribute wrongly to what I saw instead of to what I felt. There is also probably a strong Freudian element; to cold, black muddiness of the water and its relentless turmoil, its unstaunchability, so to speak, may
1929 · PDF PAGE 186
…ives to pull a sledge. It is about three hours' march to Camp 11. The going was not bad, though I was still rather sick. The weather was good enough to go out. I went a considerable distance up the slopes of the mountain. There is some conflict in opinion as to the height reached by various members of the party. Eckenstein was fanatically determined never to exaggerate any exploit. We made a very great number of boiling-point determinations of the heights of our camps; but even these are subject to various sources of error. Camp 11 is roughly 2…
1929 · PDF PAGE 427
… matter of trees, which might be found almost anywhere. Recognition beyond all possibility of doubt was what he promised. He had been as good as his word. I was entirely overwhelmed. I jumped out of the car and ran up to the house. I found Virakam in the main room. The instant I entered I understood that it was entirely suited for a Temple. The walls were decorated with crude frescoes which somehow suggested the exact atmosphere proper to the Work. The very shape of the room seemed somehow significant. Further, it seemed as if it were filled wi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…those loose slopes he could hardly help it. Having put our man through the mill, we became seriously friendly. He took his lesson like a good sportsman and made his {219} apologies in the Mexican Herald, by writing a long account of his adventure in the style of the then famous Mr. Dooley. Eckenstein and I lived in an American apartment house, from the roof of which one could see a great distance down a principal thoroughfare. Eckenstein used to lure people to discuss eyesight and mention that mine was miraculous for distant objects. It would b…