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Page 152 of 1541929 · PDF PAGE 533
… well that their Order was at the best tomfoolery; and, for the rest, anything all the way down to fraud and blackmail. They desired the light which they knew me to possess. I offered to reorganize freemasonry, to replace the pomposities and banalities of their ragbag of rituals by a simple, lucid and coherent system. I soon saw that any effort would be a waste of time. Even their compact group was torn by bitter jealousies. Their leader, for all his fine talk, had only one real desire --- to communicate with his dead wife, a silly smirking soc…
1911 · PDF PAGE 305
…ked by very considerable literary ability.”—Scotsiman, «Twelve brilliant and striking essays."—Liverpool Daily Post. oo “Basa. combining lightness of expression with considerableepth and originality of thought.” Birmingham Daily Post « Mr Shitley illuminates his subject with a pleasing humour, and his book is readable and interesting as well as instructive.” —The Yorkshire Observer. DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOMENA. By Herewarp CarrINncToN and JouN R. MEADER. Ornamental black cloth, gilt, 8 in. x 5} in., 552 pp., 8s. 6d, net. CONTENTS PREFACE. P…
1911 · PDF PAGE 305
…ked by very considerable literary ability.”—Scotsiman, «Twelve brilliant and striking essays."—Liverpool Daily Post. oo “Basa. combining lightness of expression with considerableepth and originality of thought.” Birmingham Daily Post « Mr Shitley illuminates his subject with a pleasing humour, and his book is readable and interesting as well as instructive.” —The Yorkshire Observer. DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOMENA. By Herewarp CarrINncToN and JouN R. MEADER. Ornamental black cloth, gilt, 8 in. x 5} in., 552 pp., 8s. 6d, net. CONTENTS PREFACE. P…
1929 · PDF PAGE 169
…to make so many days' journey in the hope of acquiring fourpence without working for it. Another incident has peculiar value as throwing light on the genesis of stories of miraculous healings. Our custom was to have the doctor establish a temporary clinic at every halting place, where he would attend to toothdrawing, tapping for dropsy and such simple matters. I remember one man {289} with a fang which stuck out completely through his cheek, leaving a jagged ulcer all round it. It was obviously impossible to undertake any cases of illness other…
1929 · PDF PAGE 371
…elf, become inevitable when considered in their totality and, instead of themselves requiring to be explained, are the means of throwing light upon every obscure corner of the cosmos. The mere potency of the incident of June 28th proves that its implications were enormously beyond itself. I was inured to miracles of every kind and I no more allowed them to influence my action that Professor Ray Lankester is guided in his researches by Napoleon's Dream Book1. The finding of the manuscript was not even a miracle; it happened in the ordinary cours…
1929 · PDF PAGE 506
…nd was alert and active as a kitten --- post talem mortem! Mentally, I woke into Pure Love. This was symbolized as a cube1 of blue-white light like a diamond of the best quality. It was lucid, translucent, self-luminous and yet not radiating forth. I suppose because there was nothing else in the cosmos. This verb love is intransitive; the love has no object. My gross mind vanished; when, later on, memory pictures of Hilarion2 arose, they were rejected automatically. All the desire --- quality, the clinging, the fear, were no more; it was Pure L…
1929 · PDF PAGE 524
…ey felt it an honour to support a magazine with such high standards as I introduced. One little fact illustrates the position with lurid light. Having got my article free, the least I could do was to have half a dozen copies of the number in which it appeared sent to the authors. The proprietor would countermand such instructions behind my back, not because of the cost of the paper, for there were always ample "returns", but to save the postage. The upshot of all this was that I wrote the bulk of the paper myself, camouflaging the fact by the u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 529
…ld have, so to speak, signed himself with His Law, was irrefutable proof of his existence. I must add one cumulative proof which came to light only in 1923. The Book of the Law claims to express its ideas not by its literary meaning alone but by the actual letters of the manuscript. It had annoyed me --- after the above demonstration --- that in the manuscript the name was spelt AIWASS, which does not add to 93. But this year, reflecting that "The Book of the Law" is connected more with the Greek Cabbala than with the Hebrew, I transliterated A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 225
…t my prowess with the rifle; they respected it because they understood it. But they had been accustomed to white men relying on them for light and leading, and they made sure that I should be hopelessly lost without them in the jungle. Perhaps the chief part of my pleasure consisted in the problems presented by having to find my way home, very likely in the dark, after having pursued some quarry by a devious route, by virtue of my sense of direction, especially as impenetrable undergrowth, uncrossable patches of water, or marshes, may complicat…
1906 · PDF PAGE 212
…ut unvenerable institution. For convenience the English has been modernised. See Ap- pendix II. 329. Maya fashioned it.4'—Sir E, Arnold, Light of Asia. 335. Why should the Paramatma cease.??— The Universe is represented by orthodox Hin- dus as alternating between Evolution and In- volution. But apparently, in either state, it is the other which appears desirable, since the change is operated by Will, not by Necessity. 341. Blavatsky's Himalayan Balm.#—See the corkscrew theories of A. P, Sinnett in that masterpiece of confusion of thought — and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 310
…ies of life to have the leisure or even to feel the impulse to distil from life that quintessence, limpid truth, opalescent with lyrical light, which constitutes poetry. Not until sickness and sorrow had sobered my spirit did I once again find myself free to extract {504} the elixir of ecstasy from experience and fulfil my faculties by expressing myself in rhythm. I close this chapter with a sigh. For ten years my life had been a delirious dance to a maddening music with incarnate passion for my partner, and the boundless plain of the possible …
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…alismans, squares of vellum inscribed in Indian ink, a task which I undertook in the sunniest room in the house, I had to use artificial light even on the brightest days. It was a darkness which might almost be felt. The lodge and terrace, moreover, soon became peopled with shadowy shapes, sufficiently substantial, as a rule, to be almost opaque. I say shapes; and yet the truth is that they were no shapes properly speaking. The phenomenon is hard to describe. It was as if the faculty of vision suffered some interference; as if the objects of vi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 366
…eaker brethren got scared, or one of the stronger brethren remembered his duty to science --- I don't know which --- and switched on the light. No stranger was to be seen. We asked Brother Lucifer --- as I may call him! --- why he had broken the spell and each of us independently confirmed his story. We all agreed about the appearance of the visitor. We had all been impressed with the same feeling that he did not belong to the human species. I have mentioned two only of a very many experiences of the same kind, choosing those which seem the mos…
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…ut unvenerable institution. For convenience the English has been modernised. See Ap- pendix II. 329. Maya fashioned it.41—Sir E. Arnold, Light of Asia. 335. Why should the Paramatma cease.42— The Universe is represented by orthodox Hin- dus as alternating between Evolution and In- volution. But apparently, in either state, it is the other which appears desirable, since the change is operated by Will, not by Necessity. 341. Blavatskys Himalayan Balm.43—See the corkscrew theories of A . P. Sinnet in that masterpiece of confusion of thought—and n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 448
…ething entirely contrary to my inclinations. In the midst of my disgust, the spirit came upon me and I scribbled the chapter down by the light of a farthing dip. When I read it over, I was as discontented as before, but I stuck it into the book in a sort of anger at myself as a deliberate act of spite towards my readers. Shortly after publication, the O.H.O. came to me. (At that time I did not realize that there was anything in the O.T.O. beyond a convenient compendium of the more important truths of freemasonry.) He said that {709} since I was…
1906 · PDF PAGE 211
…urne.9— ‘‘ But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.” — Hertha. 104. My big beauty.»°—Pink on Spot ; Player, Green, in Hand. But I have ‘‘ starred” since I went down in ¢hat pocket. 120. My Balti coolies.A—See my ‘‘ The Higher the Fewer.” * 125. ton.22—A school, noted for its breed of cads. ‘The battle of Waterloo (1815) was won on its playing-fields. 128-30. /’ve seen them.—Sir J. Maundevill, ‘‘Voiage and Travill,” ch. xvi., recounts a similar incident, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 361
…nt communication with nature. I resolved to see whether by application of my methods, purged from all inessentials and understood in the light of common-sense physiology, psychology and anthropology, I could achieve in a place like Paris, within the period of the average man's annual holiday, what ad come as the climax of so many years of adventure. I also felt it proper to fit myself for the task which I had undertaken in publishing The Equinox, by fortifying myself with as much magical force as I might be able to invoke. The result of this re…
1929 · PDF PAGE 561
561 it from the staircase one inclines to the right. I was slightly surprised to find the whole staff of the hotel, from the manager to the porter, drawn up in a line between me and both the entrance and the restaurant. They all smiled and bowed obsequiously and awkwardly, like so many marionettes. The manager stepped forward, louted him low, and motioned me towards a passage leading to the left. I supposed that, it being out of the season, the regular restaurant was shut and meals served elsewhere. He bowed me into a sort of smoking-room and s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 232
…that “the Unknown,” whether minstrel, pilgrim, or Egyptian sage, represents Tannhduser in his true Self,—the ‘‘Only Being in an Abyss of Light!” The Tannhduser who talks is the ‘‘Only Being in an Abyss of Darkness,” the natural man ignorant of his identity with the Supreme Being. The various other characters are all little parts of Tannhiauser’s own consciousness and not real persons at all: whether good or bad, all alike hinder and help (and there is not one whose function is not thus double) the realisation of his true unity with all life, Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 292
…st we came to the crest of the ridge and began to run down the other side of the path towards the hot springs. There was just sufficient light in the east to reveal the landscape by the time we got {477} near the foot of the hill. Then I saw a litter slowly approaching. Forrest gave a shout and dashed enthusiastically forward; but I silently turned my horse, for I saw that the consul's legs were tied. The situation, apart from its tragic present, was full of anxiety for the future. How had Litton died! A glance at the body was not reassuring. T…