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Page 19 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 182
…e of not washing, one does not get at all dirty. After my bath on May 25th, I abstained until August 19th --- eighty-five days --- but I found myself absolutely clean except my hands and face. The only inconvenience was lice. These insects live inexpugnably in the seams of one's clothes. It is useless to try to dislodge them, because every time one gets near a Balti, the supply is renewed. Rdokass remains to this day in my memory as a veritable Geulah. It is a broad grassy ledge on the rocks two or three hundred feet above the glacier. There ar…
1899 · PDF PAGE 8
…ar resound ; The sun laughs gladlier on the heavier wheat, Because the fates must weave a winding-sheet At last for Fear. Deliverers are found Who will deliver. Mountain, stream, and brake, Lone wood, and sleepy lake, Are peopled with bright shapes that sing for freedom’s sake. Rocks, and pale fountains, and tall trees that quiver, And all the clouds that deck the sunset sky Move like the music of a mighty river Where ripples break, and rapids gleam and shiver, And calm rebuilds her empire bye-and-bye. For joy of this alliance all the earth For…
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
…tfelt before the fight. An Hundwd Houfand crpies fichey The air of FeaBey. Pet fome By fyxed €fay our Fengeane—ours, inxed! Fate, the md found, & ApHeA foloWed. Some (eBey and tWentp Houfand died, ae the great Bal uprifing followed fs Cetror, cafhed upon its fice, And Weeemed tom in (Ge win. Strife, Strength, courage, Bictory—that is Zift! +
1904 · PDF PAGE 94
Relieved him with such sudden glee As to upset his cup of tea. Also he found inconvenient When urchins shouted Good old stand ! When at a dance, the matrons lenient Would cough and smile behind a hand. And maidens with gazelle-like eyes Observe with wondering surprise. Besides, an everlasting aching Kept him for ever on the shove. At lunch or tea, asleep or waking, He felt the gentle hints of love. A parson too (O who could doubt it ?) Is best without it. When he began to read the text Preparatory to his sermon Twould rise, and he, beginni…
1909 · PDF PAGE 144
…arcissus had done, So I shook back my hair to stare at the sun ; My slim brown body I’d keep within The shade of the green hillside. x I found the groves of Pan; I came At length to a daisied field, And the sun shone out with his yellow flame That makes the harvest yield. Yellow and purple are corn and grape, But scarlet the god when he takes his shape At the sound of the awful hidden name In earth’s eclipse revealed. XI And as he clasped me, slim and slight, I roared with the pain he gave, And he cried, “I will hold thee here all night, My bea…
1909 · PDF PAGE 144
…arcissus had done, So I shook back my hair to stare at the sun ; My slim brown body I’d keep within The shade of the green hillside. x I found the groves of Pan; I came At length to a daisied field, And the sun shone out with his yellow flame That makes the harvest yield. Yellow and purple are corn and grape, But scarlet the god when he takes his shape At the sound of the awful hidden name In earth’s eclipse revealed. XI And as he clasped me, slim and slight, I roared with the pain he gave, And he cried, “I will hold thee here all night, My bea…
1928 · PDF PAGE 56
…I THE CLOCK THE Chinese can tell the time by looking in the eyes of a cat. One day a missionary, while walking in the suburbs of Nankin, found that he had forgotten his watch, and asked a little boy what the time was. The gutter-snipe of the Flowery Kingdom hesitated at first, then, recollecting himself, he replied, I will find out for you. A minute later he reappeared, holding in his arms a fine big cat, and looking, as the saying is, in the white of its eyes, he unhesitatingly affirmed, It is just a little before noon. This turned out to …
1961 · PDF PAGE 73
… all Relations are true upon their own Plane, and that it would be a Violation of Nature to adjust them skewwise. Thus, albeit thou hast found thy Self, and knowest Thy Self immortal and immutable beyond Time and Space, free of Causality, so thoroughly that even thy Mind partaketh constantly thereof, thou hast in no wise altered the Relations of thy Body with its Syndromics in the World whereof it is a Part. Wouldst thou lengthen the Life of thy Body? Then accommodate thou the Conditions of thy Body to its Environment by giving it Light, Air, F…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…ointed to various tokens of recent occupancy. The agent refused to admit the conclusion. They explored the back part of the premises and found the French windows through which Eckenstein had entered, and the garden gate, precisely as he had left them. On inquiry it 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; th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…he laws which govern them are the same as those which made Newton's apple fall. But Newton couldn't explain the law, and he said that he found himself quite unable to imagine a force acting at a distance, as gravitation it, (so called) appears to do. Science was hard put to it, and had finally to invent a substance called the ether, of which there was no evidence, only it must be there! But this ether had so many contradictory and impossible qualities, that people began to cast about for some other explanation. And it was found that by supposin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…irst person who crosses it receives a shock which may drive him insane, or even kill him. A magician would naturally be suspicious if he found anything of this kind on his front doorstep, so Arthwait cleverly determined to paint the pentagram in Gum Arabic, which would hardly be visible. Accordingly he went [161] to the Butterfly-net at dead of night, armed with this means of grace, and set to work by the light of a candle-lamp. He was careful to make the pentagram so large that it was impossible to cross the bridge without stepping over it. Ab…
1905 · PDF PAGE 144
…iant glory at my heart! And I? I drew away, apart, Lest by mere chance to me she came. But curling as a wind-blown flame She turned, she found me. As the dew Melts in the lake’s dissolving blue So to my arms she came. And now, Now, now I hold her! Broke the brow Of all wide heaven in thunder! Hear Tremendous vortices of fear Swirl in the ether. What new terror K? | 145
1929 · PDF PAGE 342
…or is a lion, the Algerian a deer and the Tunisian a hare. When subsequent journeys to North Africa enabled me to make the comparison, I found it strikingly true. The Moors have been called the Irish of of Islam, as the Burmese the Irish of Asia. The former metaphor is admirable. There is an independence, a pride, a devil-may-careishness and a bonhomie which reminds one strongly of the more boisterous type of Irish. The Burmese rather resemble the quiet, religious type. The moor is always on the look out for a lark. I found myself engaged in al…
1909 · PDF PAGE 145
… alone to sleep; And long I lay in a slumber dead. Then on hands and knees did I creep Back to the shade of the sheltering trees ; And I found my sheep on the shady leas; And my body was flushed, and my cheeks were red, And my eyes too bright to weep. 135
1909 · PDF PAGE 145
… alone to sleep; And long I lay in a slumber dead. Then on hands and knees did I creep Back to the shade of the sheltering trees ; And I found my sheep on the shady leas; And my body was flushed, and my cheeks were red, And my eyes too bright to weep. 135
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…it was sufficiently material to be perceptible to the ordinary physical sense of people whom I should visit in this shape. There will be found in my Magical Record numerous accounts af this last experiment. In the autumn of '98 my friend, J. L. Baker, whom I hastened to see in London on my return from the Alps, took me on my first astral journey. The details of the method are given in full in The Equinox, Vol. I No. II, (Liber O). I may here outline them thus: Imagine an image of yourself, standing in from of you. Transfer your consciousness to…
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…rly obscure, and apparently refers to some long-past event in the author’s life. To turn for a moment to an examin- tion of the facts as found in the poem. 1st day.—They are on a tropical island in the Pacific. 6th day and 11th.—The man is a meddler with magic and a believer in the Theosophical Doctrines of Evolution (4th day), and yet also in existence of Gods.* 8th day.—He calls his island “ the extreme west of all the world.” 16th day.—“ Alice ” had a husband living (where is mentioned in 48th day, but not printed now) and a boy was travelli…
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
…A LUNAE Drew back the veil of sleep ; But strange : the king turned idly, sought to press The bosom where love lately burnt supreme, And found no ivory deep. He turned and sought out life ; and nothing lived : Death, and nought died. The king’s brow fell. Sore grieved He rose, not knowing : and before his will Swan’s throat, dove’s eyes, moon’s breast, and woman’s mouth, And form desirable Of all the clustered love drew back : grew still “ O turn, my lover, turn thee to the South ! ” The girl’s warm song of the Siesta’s hour. Heedless of all th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…den ? I have got gall to be my drink, who mingled my wine with myrrh and musk and ambergris. I made my bed of silk and furs ; and waking found I had swooned to sleep upon the midden. Ah ! Were those virgin lips of thine polluted with some rank savour of Sabbatic lust ? What spell turned thee, the maiden, to a monkey jibbering anitphonal blasphemies. To those chaste chants I wooed thee by, the moment that touching thee, my fruit dissolved to dust, Fair-seeming Sodom-apple ! Yet thy kisses smote all my spine to shuddering ecstasies ! So strode th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 543
… the furniture and other assets, practically all the more valuable items had been taken out of the warehouse by Cowie and were not to be found. Cowie's insanity was made the excuse for endless delays in settling the various matters. I found myself almost penniless. My available funds scarcely sufficed to postpone starvation for more than a few weeks. It was quite impossible to seek legal redress against the thieves. I was also foolish enough to hope that Cowie might explain his actions and restore the property. (I have not yet succeeded in extr…