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Page 156 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 56
…here advocated has always been more or less in full swing. Such societies exist in circumstances highly inimical to a {111} satisfactory life. Financial considerations alone make this obvious; yet it is notorious that such people are almost uniformly happy. There is no revolt against the facts of life, because there is no constraint. The individual is respected as such and is allowed to act as he or she likes without penalty or even reproach. Only when selfish or commercial considerations arise do we find catastrophe. It is commonly supposed th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 371
… out a lustre of lunacy by a moment of sanity. I am suffering to this day from the effects of having wasted some of the best years of my life in the stupid and stubborn struggle to set up my conscious self against its silent sovereign, my true soul. "Had Zimri peace who slew his master?" The superficial reader may smile at my superstition. Why should I be so sure that the accident of finding an old portfolio in a loft was no accident, but a coup de maître struck by people, for all anyone can prove, who have no existence except in my diseased im…
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
…d no such disabilities. Advancing, I showed its quiet dignity to the first lady. This woman, who had so great an influence upon my after life, merits a few words of description. By race a full-blooded Ne- gress, by profession a threepenny-uprighter, by education a woman of singular charm and spiritu- ality, by inclination a sapphist and cocksucker, by disease a barrel, she was as delicious a rabbit-pie as I ever laid this knife to. Over six feet in height, she measured even more around her waist, owing to a dropsy on the one hand, and on the ot…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…the physique of the nation had been seriously impaired by the results of a law which, by assuring them in case of injury or illness of a life long competence in idleness which they could never have obtained otherwise by the most laborious toil, encouraged all workers to be utterly careless of their health. The training of servants indeed at this time consisted solely of careful practical instruction in the art of falling down stairs; and the richest man in the country was an ex butler who, by breaking his leg on no less than thirty-eight occasi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 197
…d refuse inexorably the petitions of the patient. Yet he must always be ready with his syringe, in case of a sudden collapse threatening life itself. There were three principal methods of cure: Cutting the drug off at once, and trust to the patient’s surviving ; then there was a long tedious method of diminishing the daily dose. It was a matter of months. During the whole of the time, the agony of the patient con- tinues in a diluted form. It was the choice between plunging into boiling oil and being splashed with it every day for an indefinite…
1922 · PDF PAGE 344
…ally excited. The whole system of King Lamus was to enable people to take no notice, that is, no emotional notice, of anything soever in life. A great deal of the fascination of drugs arises from the fuss that is made about them; the focusing of the attention upon them. Absinthe, forbidden in France, Switzerland, and Italy, is still sold freely in England, and no one ever met an English absinthe fiend. If any one took it into his head to start a newspaper campaign against absinthe, it would become a public danger in very short order. King Lamus…
1922 · PDF PAGE 380
…cal with our own perpetual travelling through time. Lou pressed my hand. I found myself repeating the words of the creed. ““T confess my life, one, individual, and eternal, that was, and is, and is to come.’ ”’ Her voice murmured in my ear, ‘‘I believe in the communion of Saints.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…s. Here was the overwhelming truth; in death man lives again, and lives for ever. Yet we might have thought of it; the phantasmagoria of life which throng the mind of a drowning man might have suggested something of the sort to any man with a sympathetic and active imagination. Worse even than the thoughts themselves was the apprehension of the thoughts ere they arose. Carbun- cles, boils, ulcers, cancers, there is no equivalent for these pustules of the bowels of hell, into whose seething convolutions Arthur sank deeper, ever deeper. The magni…
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
TABLE I XI ELEMENTS (WITH THEIR PLANE- TARY RULERS) Do not confuse with rulers of Zodiac. XII THE TREE OF LIFE Root of A lst Plane, Middle Pillar tt tt A 2nd tt Right tt tt tt V 2nd tt Left tt tt tt V 3rd tt Right tt tt tt A 3rd tt Left tt tt tt A 4th tt Middle tt tt tt A 5th tt Right tt tt tt V 5th tt Left tt tt tt A 6th tt Middle tt tt tt V 7th tt tt tt Hot and Moist A Path joins 1-2 tt tt 1-3 t> tt 1-6 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ tt tt 2-3 0 A ¥ tt tt 2-6 9 V ü tt tt 2-4 ï> A tt » 3-6 cf V tt tt 3-5 0 A ¥ tt tt 4-5 9 V U tt tt 4-6 tt tt 4-7 A 5 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 546
…love for my child, or nourishing my human hope upon her. As ever, the Yi made no error; despite every effort she never took firm hold of life. She grew feebler and frailer constantly, and in the second week of October bade us farewell. Weak fool that I am! I would not accept the warning of the wisdom of the "Yi". I set my teeth and swore that she should live. Her helplessness only inflamed my love. I clutched the broken straw of hope more desperately every day, and when at last the axe fell it was as if my own neck had been upon the block. For …
1905 · PDF PAGE 240
…he sole detested fear That can annul our conquests, and arouse Our rapt dream-kisses. TANNHAUSER. That is my intent. It is the spiritual life of things I seek—Thou knowest ! VENUS. Oh, I did not mean ! Remember my dilemma! Hear me speak The story of her. She is a wicked witch That seeketh to delude thy sleepy sense In vicious purpose and malignant hope To ape my Godhead. [ Thunder. TANNHAUSER. Thunder rolls again. I am uneasy. VENUS. Feed it not at all! May not my servants of the elements Play children’s gambols on the mountain crest About our …
1922 · PDF PAGE 191
…al greetings |—were perfectly well able to use these things in moderation as one does soap. “ But, apart from this, do you find that the life of a ‘Heroine’ makes you abnormally ‘suggestible ?’ “ As you know, I object to the methods of Coué and Baudouin. They ask us deliberately to abandon free will and clear mentality for the semi-hypnotic state of the medieval peasant; to return like ‘the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire’ from which we have been extricated by evolution. “Now, doesn’t waltzing with the Hero’s Bride or making Sn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…ing by doing nothing. I know it sounds difficult; one day I will explain. But the practical result is that I lead a placid and contented life, and nothing ever happens; he, on the contrary, makes trouble everywhere, excites the wrath of Turks, and worse, if I am right; he thereby brings about a situation where perfectly competent ladies' maids have epileptic fits, mediums endeavour to procure blood from bewitching damozels — and now there's a Thing in the Garden." His voice had a wail of comic disgust. "However, this is Cyril's funeral, not min…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…asty filth about free love or something, isn't it?) Theodore Bugg was not a sensitive man; excess of intuitive sympathy had not made his life a hell; but he felt that his domestic relations were strained. Especially since that Mrs. Grahame had evinced a liking for Gertrude. Her husband's colonelcy was the gilding of the pill; but the pill was a bitter one, for Mrs. Grahame went motoring and even golfing on Sunday instead of going to Church, and once or twice had taken Gertrude with her, to the scandal of the neighbourhood. Colonel Grahame, to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 415
…l memory. (See also AL, I: 58.) The more previous incarnations one can remember, the less important appears the moment when the curve of life dips below the horizon. (One very curious point: when one looks back at the moment of one of one's deaths, one exclaims: "By love! that was a narrow escape, and no mistake!" Escape from what? Me no savvy; but such is the fact.) How to acquire that Memory? The development of the Magical Record is by far the most important of one's weapons. How to use the Record is not easy to explain; but there is a sort o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 506
…ich I had never experienced. Its occurrence marks a definite stage in my spiritual career. It is so important to the understanding of my life that it must be quoted verbatim from the record which I made immediately on my returning to my apartment --- where I received an additional proof that I had come successfully through the ordeal in the shape of a telegram from Pasht explaining why she had left the city, and how she had been prevented from letting me know. (Another string of lies!) Result: This is one of the greatest experiences of my life.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
…ible (Kall the proud picturer eo ball opener haw LI supporter Cd peel cherisher pea all-seer wiplel’| consoler solid reckoner | giver of life exl| advocate of all dol,!l sole pdtiiel| most mighty Js the rst ‘| Cor. V. (continued)— J 31 i lag! bountiful giver a lil ela! holder all-wise gl! will exalter humbler all-hearer hater Jus! al just judge long-suffering, all-knower gracious sl asta worthy of thanks pardoner eal pe | protector the great glorious numberer cage! wad| hearer of com- _ beholder of hearts plaints S309) reconciler healer, wise R…
1911 · PDF PAGE 68
…orceress, the lust of the spirit. And by my dancing I gather for my mother Nuit the heads of all them that are baptised in the waters of life. I am the lust of the spirit that eateth up the soul of man. I have prepared a feast for the adepts, and they that partake thereof shall see God. Now it is clear what she has woven in her dance; it is the Crimson Rose of 49 Petals, and the Pillars are the Cross with which it is conjoined. And between the pillars shoot out rays of pure green fire; and now all the pillars are golden. She ceases to dance, an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 529
…as ever happened to anybody. I was not only shown the knowledge and ingenuity required to choose a name for himself which will sum up my life and thought both in the past and in the future as also to include explanations of historical mysteries; but he seems able to arrange for people that I never hear of to exercise an intimate influence on my life at the exact moment when the effect will give the demonstration its highest possible dramatic value. Suppose, for instance, that Jacob had sent me his solution within a month of the publication of t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…haracter. Such an expression of violences is found in the author of the following works. It is the custom to study, even if briefly, the life of a great writer from the biographical stand- point. In this case it is impossible to follow the usual course, for I have no wish to blast the useful public career of the most talented artist of our day, and there can be no doubt that precision of allu- sion would cause his innumerable friends to rec- [2]