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Page 110 of 1731913 · PDF PAGE 509
…orresponds to the physical life, the second to the intelligence, the third to the will. Greasy and thick palms denote sensual tastes and great force of physical life; a thumb which is long, especially in its last phalanx, reveals a strong will, which may go as far as despotism ; short thumbs, on the contrary, show characters gentle and easily controlled. The habitual folds of the hand determine its lines. These lines are, then, the traces of habits, and the patient observer will know how to recognize them and how to judge them. The man whose ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
… story-teller Alexander Dumas dramatized this magical anecdote in the magnificent epitome of all legends which forms the prologue to his great epic novel, The Wandering Jew.‘ The scene takes place at Corinth; it is an old-time wedding with its beautiful children crowned with flowers, bearing the nuptial torches, and singing gracious epithalamia flowered with voluptuous images like the poems of Catullus. The bride is as beautiful in her chaste draperies as the ancient Polyhymnia; she is amorous and deliciously provoking in her modesty, like a Ve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…orresponds to the physical life, the second to the intelligence, the third to the will. Greasy and thick palms denote sensual tastes and great force of physical life; a thumb which is long, especially in its last phalanx, reveals a strong will, which may go as far as despotism ; short thumbs, on the contrary, show characters gentle and easily controlled. The habitual folds of the hand determine its lines. These lines are, then, the traces of habits, and the patient observer will know how to recognize them and how to judge them. The man whose ha…
1916 · PDF PAGE 11
…how curious a form Mr. Stuart has chosen for the expression of his thoughts. It is simple, attractive, and convenient, and possesses the great advantage that his messages are automatically dated. Mr. G. K. Chesterton, in one of his books, I think that on Browning, has remarked upon the utter futility of language. It is impossible to express thought, unless the person who is to receive it has already some inkling of what is meant. For example, if I say that someone is a Puritan, the remark may be taken as a complement or as an insult, according …
1916 · PDF PAGE 13
…ts remind one of the sea. It seems almost as if he grew physically much bigger. His personality fills the room. I have heard many of the great orators of the day, never one with one tithe of the passion and power of Mr. Stuart. Ben Tillett comes nearest. But Ben Tillett wastes his power in furious gesture. With Mr. Stuart the thunder of his tread and of his voice shake the house; but there is no loss of self-control. The speech is not diffuse, but extraordinarily concise and emphatic. The words rush out like molten steel from a converter under …
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…als are therefore well suited for such persons as are capable of understanding the spirit of Magick as opposed to the letter. One of the great advantages of them is that a large number of persons may take part, so that there is consequently more force available; but it is important that they should ail be initiâtes of the same mysteries, bound by the same oaths, and filled with the same aspirations. They should be associated only for this one purpose. Such a company being prepared, the story of the God should be dramatised by a well-skilled poe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…eactions to it. To recapitulate the historical basis of The Book of the Law, let me say that evolution (within human memory) shows three great steps: 1. the worship of the Mother, when the universe was conceived as simple nourishment drawn directly from her; 2. the worship of the Father, when the universe was imagined as catastrophic; 3. the worship of the Child, in which we come to perceive events as a continual growth partaking in its elements of both these methods. Egyptian theology foresaw this progress of humanity and symbolized it in the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…{470} 55 It is probably a rare incident for any young man to meet, in the flesh, the ideal of his boyhood's dreams. Such, however was my great good fortune. In the consul at Tengyueh, Mr. Litton, I found all that I had lost when Richard Burton died. He possessed the spirit of adventure in its noblest and most joyous form. He had the instinct for learning foreign languages and dealing with foreign people; and in one respect, his history had been similar. Some years before, he had been consul in another part of China which was the heart of the Bo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
…Hume , and Kant , taken unitedly or separately , the conclusion which is arrived at is, that the Reason alone is inadequate to solve the Great Problem ; for ultimately all systems based on a Rational foundation arrive at an inscrutable mystery— “ God ,” “ A Something ,” “ An å priori ,” beyond which they cannot pene trate . Where Agnosticism and Scientific Buddhism end , Crow leyanity begins . By Qabalistically tackling the question , it proposes a Future to all Rational Philosophies , thereby becom ing a mystical theurgy , whereby the difficul…
1910 · PDF PAGE 365
…own stones at the fishy god. A Society Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. True, every thought of Shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far-seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. His births are all Siamese twins; his god is Janus; his sign is Gemini . . . but his end is (I fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-Hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearily between his two stools, a lament- able loon. . . . This Nulli Secundus, inflated with fermenting Grape-Nuts! Fo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 365
…own stones at the fishy god. A Society Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. True, every thought of Shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far-seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. His births are all Siamese twins; his god is Janus; his sign is Gemini . . . but his end is (I fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-Hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearily between his two stools, a lament- able loon. . . . This Nulli Secundus, inflated with fermenting Grape-Nuts! Fo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 39
…thyr; there is a sense of absolute emptiness; no colour, no form, no substance. Only now and then there seem, as it were, the shadows of great angels, swept along. No sound; there is something very remorseless about the wind, passionless, that is very terrible. In a way, it is nerve-shaking. It seems as if some- thing kept on trying to open behind the wind, and just as it is about to open, the effort is exhausted. The wind is not cold or hot; there is no sense of any kind connected with it. One does not even feel it, for one is standing in fron…
1911 · PDF PAGE 90
THE EQUINOX storm of lightning. The least of their spears is like a great water-spout. On their shields are the eyes of Tetragrammaton, winged with flame,—white, red, black, yellow and blue. On their flanks are vast squadrons of elephants, and behind them is their meteor-artillery. They that sit upon the elephants are armed with the thunderbolt of Zeus. Now in all that host there is no motion. Yet they are not resting upon their arms, but tense and vigilant. And between them and me is the God Shu, whom before I did not see, because his force fi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…tion. And after this reception among the Brothers of the Silver Star comes the Vision of the Arrow. In the 4th A&thyr, the nature of the Great Work which the Master of the Temple must accomplish is shown more fully. The Holy Guardian Angel presents his Bride to the Mother, who presents her to the Father. One may remark that it is necessary to be a Master of the Temple before anything like a full understanding of these mysteries can be attained. In the 3rd A2thyr the Guards to the further Grades are exhibited. Now it may be asked, “ What has bec…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…tion. And after this reception among the Brothers of the Silver Star comes the Vision of the Arrow. In the 4th A&thyr, the nature of the Great Work which the Master of the Temple must accomplish is shown more fully. The Holy Guardian Angel presents his Bride to the Mother, who presents her to the Father. One may remark that it is necessary to be a Master of the Temple before anything like a full understanding of these mysteries can be attained. In the 3rd A2thyr the Guards to the further Grades are exhibited. Now it may be asked, “ What has bec…
1919 · PDF PAGE 93
… 50. Let the palms of brilliance flower upon our island; we shall eat of their fruit, and be glad. 51. But for me the lustral water, the great ablution, the dissolving of the soul in that resounding abyss. 52. [havea little son like a wanton goat; my daughter is 87
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
13 Chapter OF THE PROGRESS OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT; NOT FORGETTING OUR FRIENDS LAST SEEN IN PARIS, ABOUT WHOSE WELFARE MUCH ANXIETY MUST HAVE BEEN FELT EARLY in January Cyril Grey received a letter from Lord Antony Bowling. "My good Grey," it began, "may the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! "Morningside is off to America with his New Discovery in Science. It is that all crime is due to breathing. Statistics show (a) that all convicts…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…o construct composite portraits. My own poor effort is the most crude photography. Also, I beg him to excuse my personalities. He is too great a man at heart to resent jests at the expense of his perishable vehicle; he is himself a star bright-blazing, the more glorious for the thickness of the terrestrial vapours which it has had to pierce. We wandered back to Boleskine, after arranging with a doctor named Percival Bott to come and stay with us and undertake the accouchement. I asked my Aunt Annie to preside over the household, and an old frie…
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
… the concrete opinions of the many , morals the abstract sensations of the few . Outside ourselves ethics do not exist, for they are the great faculty of sentient existence . The law of the survival of the fittest is not moral , it is essential ; but , manifested through reason it becomes ethical . As regards the aspirations of the sexes , nature cares little whether John loves Ann or Mary . Man , however , cares much . John is not married , Ann is ; Nature implants a similar affinity in both , and they verge towards their own mag netic centre …
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…fant thought , and , assuming our manhood , decry an ideal that is not only brutal but absurd ; instead of reverencing it because of its great antiquity , or because of our conservative sympathies with the past days of our fathers . Woman is as clean as man , and a wife married or unmarried as pure as any virgin . Genera tion is no more filthy than alimentation ; both are necessary , both are accompanied by natural appetites ; the one maintains the individual , the other the race ; both may be carried to extremes , both may become lusts . The w…