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Page 172 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 174
… after contributing his quota to the volume of the Bralduh, he walked cheerfully to his house without assistance, as he had not done for many months. Goitre is very common in this valley and I hoped to learn something about its etiology. As in the case of cancer, many attempt have been made to generalize from insufficient facts. One of the great arguments about goitre involves the Lötschenthal, where the people at the bottom of the valley could marry strangers from the Rhone valley, and those at the top go over {297} the Petersgrat and do their…
1905 · PDF PAGE 231
…wait with any degree of confidence. I trust that I may be forgiven for adopting the idea that Tannhiduser was one of those mysterious Germans whose reputed existence so perturbed the Middle Ages; in short, a Rosicrucian.! Some people may be surprised that a Member of that illustrious but unhappy fraternity should take cognizance of what my friend Bhikku Ananda Maitriya calls ‘‘ hog- nosed Egyptian deities,”’ still more that he should show reverence to symbols like the B. V. M. and the Holy Grail. But_ the most learned and profound students of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 247
…ng to incite illicit passions. Its critics had been simply unable to read the book. Flaubert was in reality grinding his heel into the woman's foolish face; he was showing that her conduct was not romantic and voluptuous, but sordid, stupid, bestial and anaphrodisiac. What could be more puritanical than Ghosts? It is the most frightful indictment of immorality that has ever been penned. Yet to the Anglo-Saxon it is "immoral". They don't understand a word, but it makes them think of their own beastliness; with the result that they discuss it fur…
1929 · PDF PAGE 434
… her claim to report accurately what people are thinking but fails to impress the English doctor through implored by the most eminent German professor in that department of science to allow her to work with him.) The editor wrote to my friend that he would like to publish the story, but required proof of its literal truth. I cannot comment upon such incidents. I have never been able to understand the psychology of such crass stupidity as I have found almost universal among editors and publishers. I can understand any man considering any piece o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 348
…g of seals. One night, as he sat by the fire, resting after his day's work, he heard a knocking at the door, and, on opening it, found a man on horseback. The stranger ex- plained that he had come on behalf of one who wished to buy a large number of skins, and then told him to mount up behind. Hoping to effect a good sale, the seal-hunter obeyed, and was carried away at a wild gallop, which ended on the brink of a precipice. There his strange companion grasped him, and plunged with him into the sea. Down they went, and down, till at length they…
1909 · PDF PAGE 348
…g of seals. One night, as he sat by the fire, resting after his day's work, he heard a knocking at the door, and, on opening it, found a man on horseback. The stranger ex- plained that he had come on behalf of one who wished to buy a large number of skins, and then told him to mount up behind. Hoping to effect a good sale, the seal-hunter obeyed, and was carried away at a wild gallop, which ended on the brink of a precipice. There his strange companion grasped him, and plunged with him into the sea. Down they went, and down, till at length they…
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
…called Pranayama. And thus it is that we find the Yogi saying that he who can control the Prana can control the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. The one carrie…
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
…called Pranayama. And thus it is that we find the Yogi saying that he who can control the Prana can control the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. The one carrie…
1922 · PDF PAGE 143
…onally objects of not unkindly ridicule from people in a less blesséd condition. “Quite so,” replied the vice-consul. “I’m not a married man myself ; but no doubt it is very delightful. “How do you like it in Norway? ” “Norway ?”’ I said, completely flabbergasted. “Yes,” he said. ‘‘ How do you like Norway; the climate, the Jax, the people, the fiords, the glaciers ? ” There was'-some huge mistake somewhere. “Norway ?”’ I said, with a rising inflection. I was on the brink of hysteria. “ I’ve never been to the place in my life. And if it’s anythi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 350
…ict ordinary people. 16. I take it because of its being prohibited. I decline being treated like a silly schooboy when I’m a responsible man. (Note: Then don’t behave like a silly school- boy. Why let the stupidity of governments drive you into taking the drug against your will ?—K. L.) 17. My friend likes me to take it with her. 18. My ability to take it shows my superiority over other people.
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
a microcosm in itself — and even archangels reach rarely to this centre of balance — is fit to treat on an equality with Man. The proper study of mankind is God; with Him is his business; and with Him alone. Some magicians hâve hired légions of spirits for some spécial purpose; but it has always proved a serious mistake. The whole idea of exchange is foreign to magick. The dignity of the magician forbids compacts. “The Earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof”. III The operations of Magick art are difficult to classify, as they merge into ea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 159
…vencal noisa, nausa, nueiza. But Diez claims the derivation from nausea-and by the Living Jingo, I consider Diez a hundred percent white man! I once had a most wholesome lesson: how diffuse and therefore unnecessary is much of even our most would-be-compressed speech. I had been charged by my Superior with the reconstruction of a certain ritual. This was in 1912; already the tempo of the world had speeded up mercilessly; to get people to learn even short passages by heart would be no easy job. So, warned by the prolix, pious, priggish and plati…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
… appeared that the house was vacant owing to the proprietor (a bachelor of some sixty years old, who had lived there a long while with a man and wife to keep house for him) having been ordered to the south of France for the winter. He had led a very retired life, seeing no company; the house had been furnished in early Victorian style. Only the one room where Eckenstein had had supper was unfurnished. The agent explained this by saying that the old man had taken the effects of his study with him to France, for the sake of their familiarity. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 386
…arns to recognize the style of a writer or painter so that the most plausible imitations fail to deceive, hard as it may be to say in so many words what strikes one as suspicious. Now, The Book of the Law guarantees itself by so closely woven a web of internal evidence of every kind, from Cabbalistic and mathematical proofs, and those depending on future events and similar facts, undeniably beyond human power to predict or to produce, that it is unique. The thirty Aethyrs being, however, only second in importance, though very far away, to that …
1904 · PDF PAGE 49
… could never have done by the honest pressure of your flabby Dripping Well of Knares- borough ? No, queen though you may be, an hon- est man condemns you to your face. The bit of stiff was Lady B....es and T....s should have been al- lowed to swallow the sex sauce, whereas you, haughty and selfish woman, cheated her tar bucket with your shrivelled crabapple, while, miser to the last, you took his perquisite to chew at your leisure with your minions, the dirty scavengers that gold still seduces to dip their luckless coney- catchers in the scabb…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 49 Bo'zuley. A bold bad man, brother. Bones. What does he do, brother? Bowley. He buys eggs without haggling, and the horns of a goat cum ouo, and parricides’ skulls, and wands, and daggers, and Sanitary Towels, and—— Bones. Then what does he do, brother? Bowley. He gets a beautiful big circle—— Bones. [In a voice 1f thunder.] Stop! do not parody the most formidable words that agony ever wrung from the lips of initiation! He works in a circle, brother. He says: I am inside, and you can't get at me. He says One an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 14
…dom of age ; in the moment of conquest he wastes the fruits of it, in the arms of luxury. It is through this weakness that the perfected man, the Sun, is of dual nature, and his evil twin slays him in his glory. So the triumphant Lord of Heaven, the beloved of Apollo and the Muses is brought down into the dust, and who shall mourn him but his Mother Nature, Venus, the lady of love and sorrow ? Well is it if she bears within her the Secret of Resurrection ! But even Venus owes all her charm to the swift messenger of the Gods, Mercury, the joyous…
1911 · PDF PAGE 43
… my ear: Go thou forth into the world, O thrice and four times blessed who hast gazed upon the horror of the loneliness of The First. No man shall look upon his face and live. And thou hast seen his eyes, and understood his heart, for the voice of the ape is the pulse of his heart and the labouring of his breast. Go, therefore, and rejoice, for thou art the prophet of the Aeon arising, wherein He is not. Give thou praise unto thy lady Nuit, and unto her lord Hadit, that are for thee and thy bride, and the winners of the ordeal X. And with that …
1922 · PDF PAGE 40
…t of it. I recognised, for one swift second, the meaning of my previous depression. It was my sense of inferiority to her! Now I was her man, her mate, her master! - I rose to catch her by the waist; but she whirled away down the floor of the club like an autumn leaf before the storm. I caught the glance of Gretel Webster’s eyes. I saw them glitter with triumphant malice; and for a moment she and Lou and cocaine and myself were all inextricably interlocked in a tangled confusion of ruinous thought. |
1922 · PDF PAGE 375
…tive of all my ideas. “‘ Most ritual,” he agreed, “ is vain observance, but if there is such a thing as the so-called spiritual force in man, it requires to be generated, collected, controlled, and applied, by using the appropriate measures, and these form true ritual.” And, in fact, the weird ceremony in progress in his Titan tower produced a definite effect upon me, unintelligible as it was to me for the most part, on one hand, and repellent as it was to my Protestant instincts on the other. I could not help being struck by the first of the c…