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Page 224 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 581
581 These encouragements where balanced by fresh tribulations. The enemies of mankind, seeing that despite everything my work was nearing manifest success, redoubled their malice. Both Raoul and I began to have attacks of rather inexplicable illness which increased in frequency and severity, until we were both almost continuously ill. My trouble was a strange fever --- Mediterranean fever, I finally concluded. The temperature never reached any great height, but quinine had no effect. The local doctor diagnosed it as an infection of the liver an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 215
… quantity or quality. 485. Carroll,4”7—See ‘' Alicein Wonderland,” Cap. Dit. : 508. AKusha-grass.*8—The sacred grass of the Hindus. 509. Mantra.*8—A sacred verse, suitable for constant repetition, with a view to quieting the thought. Anyone can see how simple and effective a means this is. 519. Gayatri,.°—This is the translation of the most holy verse of the Hindus. ‘The gender of Savitri has been the subject of much discussion, and I believe grammatically itis masculine. But for mystical reasons I have made it otherwise. Fool! 557- Prayer\—Thi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 183
…variety of nature in this district impressed itself upon my mind. One would have said that it was theoretically impossible to combine so many types of mountain. The obvious exception to the otherwise invariable rule of practical inaccessibility was the Golden Throne, a minor point of which Conway claims to have climbed. I was very disgusted at the bad taste of some of the coolies who had been with him in saying that he had never been on the mountain at all, but turned back at the foot of the ice fall. How could such common creatures presume to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 483
… the New York World which had distinguished itself by printing Harry Kemp's rubbish about my magical exploits. The editor, a genial Irishman --- remarkable precisely for being half educated neither more nor less correct to eight places of decimals --- observing that Kemp's statements involved numerous physical impossibilities took him to a notary and made him swear to their truth. I have told elsewhere how it came to be written. Hearing of my arrival Kemp hurried to implore me not to give him away. I contemptuously agreed to save his face. Of c…
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
…thout quantity or quality. 485. Carroll.47—See “Alice in Wonderland,” Cap. Ult. 508. Kusha-grass.48—The sacred grass of the Hindus. 509. Mantra.49—A sacred verse, suitable for constant repitition, with a view to quieting the thought. Any one can see how simple and effective a means this is. 519. Gayatri.50—This is the translation of the most holy verse of the Hindus. The gender of Savitri has been the subject of much discussion and I believe grammatically it is masculine. B ut for mystical reasons I have made it otherwise. Fool ! 557. Prayer.51…
1929 · PDF PAGE 436
…instigation of Cremers, who not only justified, but boasted of her conduct. It may be matter for surprise that I was not warned of the woman's character by this confession. But I have one invariable rule in dealing with those that come to me for training and that is: to pay no attention whatever to their relations with myself, but to advise them according to the principles of the A.'. A.'., as if we lived in different planets. For instance, if a man tells me he is a thief, I refuse on principle to lock up my spoons; I use the information solely…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
… 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 realises when one identifies the wand with the Mahalingam,* up which Brahma flew at the rate of 84,000 yojanas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…ossip. I have never read Boswell and have never been able to bring myself to face the average memoir. With regard to history1 again, I demanded that the subject should be important. I did not see why I should bother my head about the Crimean War. I studied philosophy and kindred subjects with the greatest enthusiasm; but resented the form in which it was set forth by such people as Plato. It seemed to me that the argument of any of Plato's dialogues might have been presented much more clearly and cogently in about a tenth of the space. I made a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 192
…inuous bad weather. There is nearly always a period of the day when one can get at least an hour or two which is fairly decent. The townsman's observations are confined to a small section of the day. The weather on the Baltoro glacier may therefore be judged as quite exceptionally abominable. I have had very bad luck (on the whole) with my weather on mountains. Even in Mexico, we had a fortnight of cold and wet which had no parallel in the memory of man, and caused the stoves in the city to be sold out in the first forty-eight hours. Then I was…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
INDEX OF FIRST LINES 243 Infinite delicacy in great strength, ili. 118 In presenting this theory of the Universe, li. 233 In response to many suggestions, ll. 3 In such a conflict I stand neuter, 11. 183 In the Beginning God began, i. 251 In the blind hour of madness, |. 64 In the brave old days, 1. 82 In the days of the spring of my being, ili, 129 In the dim porchway, 1i. 69 In the fevered days and nights, il. 195 In the grim woods, i. 36 In the heather deeply hidden, iil, 136 In the hospital bed she lay, il. 1 In the night my passion fancies…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…red 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 Ness, half w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 245
… on finding that Mathers was attacking us. He succeeded in killing most of the dogs. (At this time I kept a pack of bloodhounds and went man- hunting over the moors.) The servants too were constantly being made ill, one in one way, and one in another. We therefore employed the appropriate talismans from The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin against him, evoking Beelzebub and his forty-nine servitors. Rose had suddenly acquired the power of clairvoyance. Her description of these servitors is printed in The Bagh-i-Muattar, pages 39, 40. (I m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…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 the tree. It was a woman vigorou…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
NOTES 193 the impossible, the already violated in the act of commanding, but a bitter commentary on the foul evil of this aimless, hopeless universe, this compact of misery, meanness, and cruelty. Let us pass on. THE SECOND PRECEPT. The Second Precept is directed against theft. Theft is the appropriation to one’s own use of that to which another has a right. Let us see therefore whether or no the Buddha was a thief. The answer of course is in the affirmative. For to issue a command is to attempt to deprive another of his most precious possessio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 519
519 of the irremediable calamity which threatens to engulf the whole of humanity since it is now an accepted principle of business to endeavour to make tyranny international, to suppress all customs of historical interest, and indeed everything which lends variety or distraction to human society in the interest of making a market for standardized products. The moral excuse for these activities is miserably thin, for the element which it is most important to suppress is originality as such, even when the question concerns the very idea of crafts…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
… tor-105. There’s one. . . Six Six Six,3— This opinion has been recently (and most oppor- tunely) confirmed by the Rev. Father Simons, Roman Catholic Missionary (and head of the Corner in Kashmir Stamps), Baramulla, Kash- mir. 106. Gallup.%*— For information apply to Mr. Sidney Lee. 11. ‘'/t zs the number ofa Man."'3—Rev. xill. 18, 117. Frves.AA—Dukes., 122, (Elsewhere.)3> — See ‘‘ Songs Spirit” and other works, 128. The Qabalistic Balm.3®— May be studied in ‘‘The Kabbalah (szc) Unveiled”’ (Redway). It is much to be wished that some one would u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
… energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Sir Palamedes expressed himself fully in following the Questing Beast. His success (as described in the poem) would in reality have left him with nothing to live for. My own life has been indescribably ecstatic, because even when I thought that there was a reward and a rest at the end, my imagination pictured them as so remote that I was in no danger of getting what I …
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
NOTES 51 the impossible, the already violated in the act of commanding, but a bitter commentary on the foul evil of this aimless, hopeless universe, this compact of misery, meanness, and cruelty. Let us pass on. THE SECOND PRECEPT The Second Precept is directed against theft. Theft is the appropriation to one’s own use of that to which another has a right. Let us see therefore whether or no the Buddha was a thief. The answ er is of course in the affirmative. For to issue a command is to attempt to deprive another of his most precious possession…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…ure of the transaction involved. I doubt whether any one in history was ever furnished with such a completely rotten preparation for the management of practical affairs. My residence at Eastbourne broke up very suddenly. During the whole of my adolescence I had taken the romantic point of view of love; and I found that the universal practice was for elder people to interfere in the affairs of their juniors. Two people could not decide to marry without rousing a hurricane. There was never any exception. Engagements were always being made and bro…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…05. Theres one. . . Six Six Six.31— This opinion has most recently (and most oppor- tunely) been confirmed by the Rev. Father Simons, Roman Catholic Missionary (and head of the Corner in K ashmir Stamps), Baramulla, Kash- mir. 106. Gallup.32—For information apply to Mr. Sidney Lee. 111. “It is the number of a Man.”33—Rev. xiii. 18. 117. Fives.34—Dukes. 122. ( Elsewhere.)35—See “Songs of the Spirit” and other works. 128. The Qabalistic Balm.36—May be studied in “The Kabbalah ( sic) Unveiled” (Redway). It is much to be w ished that some one woul…