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…ther of a son born at 30 Clarendon Square, Leamington, Warwichshire2, on the 12th day of October3 1875 E.V. between eleven and twelve at night. Leo was just rising at the time, as nearly as can be ascertained. The branch of the family of Crowley to which this man belonged has been settled in England since Tudor times: in the days of Bad Queen Bess there was a Bishop Crowley, who wrote epigrams in the style of Marital. One of them --- the only one I know --- runs thus:
1929 · PDF PAGE 281
…te of pure gold on the Htee of the Shwe Dagon, and while this operation was in progress, a tigress indiscreetly walked into the city one night, climbed the scaffolding and was shot by an Englishman. The outrage to the community, which objects to the slaying, even by accident, of an insect, was causing serious political trouble. Their most holy shrine defiled by deliberate murder! There was also considerable friction between the petty English authorities and the Buddhist ponggis of European extraction who were trying to settle in Rangoon, live t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 207
…nfirmed stammerer, by ringing the changes on this disgraceful episode of his career. Morrice was invariably mellow drunk all day and all night. He would look up from his crčme de menthe and oeufs sur le plat, clear his throat and tell Maugham with grave importance that he would like to consult him on a matter concerning the welfare of art and artists. "What would you do if ---" and after repeating himself in a hundred ways so as to prolong the rigmarole to the utmost, he would wind up by confessing to the premonitory symptoms of some comic an r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 280
…med dramatically. My prosaic reply was, "You've got here just in time to see me hanged!" Thornton gave a dinner party in our honour that night. My wife sat at his right hand. I saw that she was upset about something. I had no opportunity to talk to Thornon alone before dinner. He kept on giving a curious gesture and then raising two fingers. My stupid mind could not imagine what he was driving at. After dinner he took me and Rose aside for a moment. The unimaginable had happened. My single shot had gone clean through the abdomen of the man with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 367
…ut of it. It was on October 2nd, 1919 that I first attained to this Pisgah-sight of the promised land, Pari- Nibbana. I was spending the night in Fleischmann's Turkish Baths in New York. It was my custom in all such places to practise the tenth clause of my vow as a Master of the Temple, "To interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul", by forcing advertisements and other public announcements to yield some spiritual significance. I would either apply the Cabbala to the words and manipulate the numbers so as to reach a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 263
…There was, however, a certain amount of natural shelter afforded by rocks and I was able to construct a fairly comfortable place for the night. There was a better camp three hours higher; but the weather, after a fine morning, had begun to look bad and the snow was in bad condition. The men, too, though perfectly happy, were most of them very tired, and some of them knocked over by what they supposed to be mountain sickness --- symptoms of exhaustion, headache, pains in the abdomen, dizziness and so forth. I knew what the trouble was and went r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…in its (to them un- seemly) adulation of the rising star. Their unfraternal feeling may even lead them to employ a sandbagger and a dark night to rid them of this dreamer Joseph. In the case of the success, in the heavy weights, of the Meudon Chicken (M. Rodin will forgive us for the lengths to which we carry our analogy), envy has given up hope even of sandbags, and is now engaged in the ridiculous task of attempting to disconcert the eye of the Fancy Boy by flipping paper pellets at him across the arena. They do not reach him, it is true: but…
1904 · PDF PAGE 110
…result in the overwhelm ing of its essentials in the tide of justly scornful or justly casuistic criti- cism.—A. C. the beads of Arabian-Night-Entertainment are strung.1 I propose therefore to deal with these and some other minor points of the Buddhist metaphysis, and trace out their s cientific analogies, or, as I hope to show, more often identities. First then let us exam ine that great Summary of the Buddhist Faith, the Four Noble Truths. III. THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS. (1) S ORROW.—Existence is Sorrow. T his means that “no known form of Existen…
1905 · PDF PAGE 230
…e dwell, eternal shapes of shadowy light. Only the love on earth that shook and smote us Begets new stars—truth’s flowers fallen through night Beyond the gold and glamour of Life's lotus! Eternal bliss of Love in birthless bowers ! Light, the gemmed robes of Love! Life, lifted breath, Ageless existence deifying death ! Love, the sole flower beyond these lesser flowers !— In thee at last the live fruit quickeneth ? Eternal bliss of Love in birthless bowers ! There, secret! Knowit! Now forget! Betray not Wisdom unto Folly ! Less sweet is Joy than…
1929 · PDF PAGE 502
… that looked at with the figure vertical instead of horizontal, it meant something. I was seized with a spasm of creative energy and all night long I splashed the central canvas with paint. When she took the pose I had asked her, "What shall I call the picture; what shall I paint you as?" She had said, "Paint me as a dead soul." My screen is called Dead Souls. She stood central, her head the keystone of the arch of monsters. Her face is ghastly green. Her fleshless body lustreless, white and grey-blue shadows beneath the ribs. On the left-hand …
1929 · PDF PAGE 499
…eleine had her hysterics. When she tired of being not noticed, I took her back to the tent and made tea. "And that", I remarked, is good night to the visit to the vicarage. If we can mend that bundle of firewood at all, which I doubt, we can't even begin till we've got materials from Staatsburg, which means tomorrow morning!" "But I must get to my brother's!" she persisted petulantly. I gave a short, but instructive lecture on the physical geography of islands, especially insisting on the definition as a piece of land wholly surrounded by water…
1929 · PDF PAGE 470
…lding out." (This was about a month after it fell.) "A million and a half Russians of the steam-roller brand passed through England last night in a first-class carriage on their way to Flanders. They travelled from St Petersburg to Archangel by a railway which has a single line and whose rolling stock consists of three engines, one tied up with really serviceable iron wire, and the others with pieces of excellent efficient string --- and four trucks which aren't so bad, I honestly believe. And why they disembarked all those men in Scotland and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…e verses, ii. 170 The mighty sound of forests, i. 51 The mind with visions clouded, i. 50 The moon spans Heaven’s architrave, ii. 63 The night is void of stars: the moon is full, ili, 62 The ‘‘ Nineteenth Mahakalpa”’ brought out its April Number, ii. 230 Then let not memory shrink abashed, iii. 10 Then one-third of all humanity are steady, ii. 156 The note of the silence is changed, ili. 15 The old sun rolls; the old earth spins, iii. 111 The physiologist reproaches, ii. 209 The poet slept. HiS fingers twine, iii. 89 The polished silver flings …
1929 · PDF PAGE 399
…igure is standing on the altar and he recites the paraphrase of one of Bradlaugh's sermons made by James Thomson in The City of Dreadful Night, "O melancholy brothers, dark, dark, dark." This superb dirge ends: But if you would not this poor life fulfil, Lo, you are free to end it when you will, Without the fear of waking after death. Darkness falls, complete and sudden; a wild dance to the tomtom ends in {637} the crash of the dancer's body at the foot of the altar. Silence. A shot. The ghastly flickering of incandescent sodium vapour then lig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…n my lips, A dawn of many molten suns, And laughed in springtide of delight ; But now eclipse inveils your mood Of me: descends artistic night ; I see a sun called solitude. So models kiss, and understand So far: the picture moves them not. By label they approve the grand; By critic’s candour rave o’er rot. But, let me hoist you Thornycroft, And cry ‘' Behold this Rodin!” bring Some Poynter, lift the thing aloft, Announce a Morice, see you fling Your soul on knees in fervid praise :— If so—Off, Lilith ! runs the phrase. Now, is no barb upon the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 229
….! Thou too shalt know, an thou wilt :—ask how, and we come suddenly back to our subject, Just as a dreamer may wander through countless nightmares, to find himself in the end on the top of a precipice, whence falling, he shall find himself in bed. Hear wisdom! the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, A man is almost obliged to be in com- munion with God when God is blowing his hat off, drenching him to the skin, whistling through his very bones, scaring him almost to death with a flash of lightning, and so on. When he gets time to think, he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 190
…fever. Vomiting again complicated things. On the thirtieth it cleared in the afternoon and my fever broke in sleep and perspiration. The night was very cold and the morrow fine until the evening, when snow began to fall, gently indeed, but with inexorable cruelty. I was well on the first of August, but the snowstorm had developed extraordinary violence. A man came up from the valley with khabar (news) that cholera had closed the right bank of the Bralduh Nala. It looked as though our retreat had been cut off.
1929 · PDF PAGE 419
…one would know it. It is the very pith and marrow of terror. Cynical it may be, but I defy the lord of dreams to send any more plutonian nightmare to haunt our mortal sleep. This criticism (from the Poetry Review) fills me with honest pride. I finished the play during the night and instantly picked up the idea of "Adonis", which by an unparalleled tour de force I had kept intact at the back of my mind. I finished this play also straight off. The most remarkable point of this most remarkable achievement is that no two plays could have been more …
1929 · PDF PAGE 492
492 She was making quite a lot of money by now so he pestered her day and night, whenever he could spare a moment from the German prostitute with whom he was now living, having been thrown out by my eccentric friend. He had queer ideas, had the eminent mongrel. The cost of a double room being slightly less than that of two single, he effected a prudent economy by putting this girl in the same bed with his wife when he was out of town. During this time I was often away in Washington, thus missing a good deal of the fun. In June, I came back prop…
1929 · PDF PAGE 323
…pish way, obviously embarrassed. It was as if he had been thrust by surprise into the position of an ambassador. "Sahib," he said, "last night I had a tamasha." I reproached him laughingly. Tamasha means an entertainment of any kind, and, in the East, frequently implies a certain amount of liveliness, possibly an indulgence in forbidden liquor and flirtation; but he merely meant a dream. The usual words for dream are khwab, roya, wahm. Evidently he wished to imply that his dream was not an ordinary one, that it was a genuine vision. (I forgot t…