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Page 129 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 436
…lties, within a certain limited scope. It was natural for him to bring into action those forces which impinge directly upon the material world. For instance, his ability to perform divination by means of geomancy (which presumes the action of intelligences of a gross type) has no parallel in my experience. Let me illustrate what I mean. By profession Frater Semper Paratus was a chartered accountant. He would be called in to audit the finances of some firm. He would find himself confronted by an overwhelming mass of documents. "It means three we…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
…aste. “There is a lion in the way.” For me these practices are useless ; but for the benefit of others less fortunate I give them to the world, together with this explanation of, and apology for, them. I trust that this explanation will enable many students who have hitherto, by a puerile objectivity in their view of the question, ob- tained no results, to succeed; that the apology may impress upon our scornful men of science that the study of the bacillus should give place to that of the baculum, the little to the great— how great one only rea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
…ships of the journey had removed my physiological protection and the bug stated to buzz about. I was thus the proud possessor of another world's record; the only man who had had malaria at over twenty thousand feet! Incidentally, I was also the only poet at that altitude. I have always been very amused at Shelley's boast that he had "trodden the glaciers of the Alps" --- the Mer de Glace and the Glacier des Boissons! But I was actually writing poetry in these camps. Better poetry. Like the man who committed suicide when he learnt that the was u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 558
…careful to supply a spine to support the structure, you will have a mollusc and not a man. You must have a fulcrum, not only to move the world, but to move a feather. Besides our regular members we had a short visit from the two sisters of Cypris, Mimi --- her twin --- and Helen, nearly twenty years her senior. Mimi was delighted. She yearned intensely to throw in her lot with us for life and yet she was inhibited by subconscious fear. The chains from civilization clanked on her ankles and wrists. She stayed with us for a fortnight and then wen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 115
…y to live in any new city the ordinary life of the people. I wander about and presently come unexpectedly upon one of the wonders of the world. In this way one gets the thrill which those who have sold their souls to Baedeker miss. Imagine the delight of discovering the Coliseum or the Taj Mahal for oneself, at a moment, perhaps, when one's mind was preoccupied with commonplace ideas! I may have missed a few masterpieces, but not many; and people who go to see them on purpose miss them all altogether. The maximum of romance and pleasure is to b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 255
…e and a suggestion of moisture that it comes as a shock to remember that this is the Teri, one of the most deadly fever districts in the world. By lunchtime the character of the vegetation is already markedly altered. The heavy tangle of the low country begins to give place to mountain sprightliness, but also the view tends to disappear altogether. One enters the region of almost eternal mist. The day is warm; and yet one is chilled to the bone. One is glad to come out on to an exposed ridge at Ghum and find the train begins to go down hill. It…
1929 · PDF PAGE 540
… statesman that the economic problem can be solved on these lines, and that any other principles are wasteful as well as irrational. The world is bankrupt today chiefly because well- meaning philanthropists have tried to make people happy by loading them with what they believe to be benefits because they are so to themselves. {852} "The mind is improved by reading." We therefore insist on everyone learning to read, with the result that their minds have been unsettled, clouded, confused and filled with falsehood by cheap fiction, sensational non…
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…ult, ..." Only so could will be pure and perfect More grossly, we must understand that being chosen by the gods to do their work for the world, we must no waste our love on any one child. The race of man is our real offspring begotten by my word
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
…the safety valve. The fault lies with the engineer. At the present moment, society is blowing up in larger or smaller spots all over the world, because it has failed to develop a system by which all its members can be adequately nourished without conflict and the waste products eliminated without discomfort. On the whole, I was so well guarded that incidents like the above were rate accidents. I had been taught by bitter experience that almost anybody might be a spy, so that the slightest indiscretion in talking to an apparently harmless strang…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…terrace covered with fine river sand. This ends in a "lodge" where the spirits may congregate. It would appear the simplest thing in the world for a man with forty thousand pounds, who is ready to spend every penny of it on the achievement of his purpose, to find a suitable house in a very few weeks. But a magical house is as hard to find as a magical book to publish. I scoured the country in vain. Not till the end of August 1899 did I find an estate which suited me. This was the manor of Boleskine and Abertarff, on the south-east side of Loch …
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…n actual experience. The effects of my continued bouts of fever had been to make me spiritually sensitive. The jungle spoke to me of the world which lies behind material manifestation. I perceived directly that every phenomenon, from the ripple of the river to the fragrance of the flowers, is the language by which the subtle souls of nature speak to our senses. That night we were tied up under a teak tree, and as I lay awake with my eyes fixed ecstatically on its grace and vigour, I found myself in the embraces of the Nat or elemental spirit of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 208
…of Orientals. If ever was one person whom honest Hindus would have been justified in tearing to pieces it was Madame Blavatsky. That our world-worn men of art should believe for a moment that moral salvation is possible and supremely important is an unmixed benefit. But to believe for a moment that it is to be found by going to particular places or reading particular books or joining particular societies is to make for the thou- sandth time the mistake that is at once materialism and superstition. If Mr. Crowley and the new mystics think for on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 516
…acles, or by the singularly happy choice that I had made of the people among whom I dwell, I had not seen in all its naked nastiness the world of mankind. I had seen a good deal of cruelty, stupidity and callousness; I realized how ignoble were the lives of the average man and woman, but there had been practically always a reasonable amount of compensation. It is necessary to live in the United States and know the people well to get a really clear view of hell with the lid off. I had already been some time in the country, but the truth about Ne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…arallel to the attempts of the Church to pretend that there was no such thing as science. The result was not dissimilar. In 1901 all the world's records, except one, were held by myself and Eckenstein. The exception was 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 519
… subconsciously, lies underneath all attempts to extend "civilization". The progress of this pestilence is only too visible all over the world. Standardized hotels and standardized merchandise have invaded the remotest districts, and these would be economically impossible unless supported by the forcible suppression of local competition. When, therefore, we find the newspapers indignant at Mohammedan morality, we may suspect the real trouble is that American hatters see no hope of disposing of their surplus stock, as long as the wicked Oriental…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…ls. If there was one person whom honest Hindus would ever have been justified in tearing to pieces it was Madame Blavatsky. That our world-worn men of ar t should believe for a moment that moral salvation is possible and supremely important is an unm ixed benefit. But to believe for a moment that it is to be found by going to particular places or r eading particular books or joining particular socieites is to make for the thou- sandth time the mistake that is at once materialism and superstition. If Mr. Crowley and the new mystics think for…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…gin 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 Alter Ego. The Evolution ofa Thief; The Honest Man, The Lvolution ofa Liar; The Truthful Man, The Evolutio…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…gin 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 Alter Ego. The Evolution ofa Thief; The Honest Man, The Lvolution ofa Liar; The Truthful Man, The Evolutio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
… well-meaning Albany, is a minor tragedy), what hell could be more horrible than the dragging out ofa cancerous existence in the bestial world of hate their hideous hearts had made, now, even for better men, for ever dark and gloomy, robbed of the glory of the glowing Goneril, the royal Regan, and only partially redeemed by the absence of the harlot Cordelia and the monster Lear. V. It may possibly be objected by the censorious, by the effete parasites of a grim conventionalism, that I have proved too much. Even by con- ventional standards Edmu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…ympatheticist is himself an Agnostic does not excuse him. True, if every one thought as he does there would be no formal religion in the world, but only that individual communion of the consciousness with its self-consciousness which constitutes genuine religion, and should never inflame passion or inspire intolerance, since the non- Ego lies beyond its province. But he knows as well as I do that there are thousands in this country who would gladly * Not to confuse with Tambourine or alter into Tamburlesque.