FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
3,449 matching pages
Page 39 of 1731954 · PDF PAGE 414
…e, looking for tigers, and trusting to my sense of direction to take me back to camp. All my mountain climbing was guideless, and a very great deal of it solitary. Well, this is not an example for you to copy, is it? But it gives an idea of the principle "Take the bull by the horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to unlighted houses. One may explore such places, looking for adventure-and it was rather a point of…
1902 · PDF PAGE 52
…e with the dawn of love. The dragon to eclipse this moon of mine ! TannhAuser. I sleep not. Those were Her mysterious words As faded the great vision. And I knew In some forgotten corner of my brain Some desperate truth. Venus. Forget this foolishness ! [ There cometh a shadow. I am afraid, even I ! What moves me thus ? TannhAuser. I saw the mighty vision as before Forming in front of the awakening east, All permeated with the rose of dawn, And pale with delicate green light and shade, 50
1902 · PDF PAGE 137
… him, him unarmed, Not daring ! But he reached his hand to me ! " Good luck, old friend ! " and, smiling, he was gone. Gone to the Pope —Great soul to mountebank ! It was her wish, they whisper. Well-a-day ! He's gone, and not a friend have I again. This bank is soft with delicate white moss. No pillow better in broad Germany. Were Madeline but here ! What rustle stirs 135
1904 · PDF PAGE 15
…rt-lived omen of success to me. WOMEN. Nay, but adventure and the prophecy! JASON. I see I have but small support in you. WOMEN. Not so, great Jason! Had I suffered much, My spirit had been broken to the scourge. Now, being strong and happy, with what joy I cry: Evohe! Revolution! I have grown weary of this tiresome peace. JASON. I promise you intense unhappiness. WOMEN, Here is the ugly monster! Out! To think
1911 · PDF PAGE 263
…AURUS. Love. VENUS. Brother Libra, what is the place? LIBRA. The Mountain of Venus, that hangeth from the navel of the Universe over the Great Abyss. VENUS. Let us celebrate the Rite of Venus. [LUNA plays a waltz tune. The PROBATIONERS dame taget/ter,] ?־ VENUS. Children of Love, what is the hour? ALL. [A confused murmur.] It is the hour of love. [ALL sink down together. The lag/tts ga aut. A long pause] 85
1911 · PDF PAGE 263
…AURUS. Love. VENUS. Brother Libra, what is the place? LIBRA. The Mountain of Venus, that hangeth from the navel of the Universe over the Great Abyss. VENUS. Let us celebrate the Rite of Venus. [LUNA plays a waltz tune. The PROBATIONERS dame taget/ter,] ?־ VENUS. Children of Love, what is the hour? ALL. [A confused murmur.] It is the hour of love. [ALL sink down together. The lag/tts ga aut. A long pause] 85
1912 · PDF PAGE 105
XXXVIII Srr PaLaMeEDE of great renown Rode through the land upon the quest, His sword loose and his vizor down, His buckler braced, his lance in rest. Now, then, God save thee, Palamede! Who courseth yonder on the field? Those silver arms, that sable steed, The sun and rose upon his shield? The strange knight spurs to him. Disdain Curls the proud lip as he uplifts His vizor. ‘Come, an end! In vain, Sir Fox, thy thousand turns and shifts!” Sir Palamede was white with fear. Lord Christ! those features were his own; His own that voice so icy clear…
1912 · PDF PAGE 187
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT H R U THE GREAT ANGEL is set over the operations of the Secret Wisdom Α...ΚΖ The First and the Last “WIIAT thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the Seven Abodes which be in Aushiah.” “And I saw in the Right Hand of Him that Sate upon the Throne a Book, sealed with Seven Seals." “ Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the Seals thereof? " S.V.M.B.O.L.A, £— THE FRONTISPIECE CONSISTS of a Crux Ansata, which is a form of the Rosy Cross One arm is scarlet, with the symbols of Leo and the Wand i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 187
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT H R U THE GREAT ANGEL is set over the operations of the Secret Wisdom Α...ΚΖ The First and the Last “WIIAT thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the Seven Abodes which be in Aushiah.” “And I saw in the Right Hand of Him that Sate upon the Throne a Book, sealed with Seven Seals." “ Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the Seals thereof? " S.V.M.B.O.L.A, £— THE FRONTISPIECE CONSISTS of a Crux Ansata, which is a form of the Rosy Cross One arm is scarlet, with the symbols of Leo and the Wand i…
1928 · PDF PAGE 26
…wag- ging his tail, which is, I suppose, for these poor creatures the sign which corresponds to smiles and laughter, comes near and with great curi- osity rests his nose upon the unstoppered flask; then, suddenly recoiling in fright, he barks at me reproachfully. Ah, wretched dog, if I had offered you a parcel of ordure you would have sniffed it with delight and very likely eaten it up! Unworthy companion of this sad life of mine, how you re- semble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate perfumes which only ex- asperate it, but…
1928 · PDF PAGE 134
…ountenance, where the mobile nostrils sniff up the unknown and the impossible, there breaks forth with ineffable grace the laughter of a great mouth red and white and delicious; as who should dream of the miracle of a su- perb flower blossoming on volcanic soil. There are women who fill one with desire to conquer them and to enjoy them, but she makes me wish to die by inches underneath her eyes.
1917 · PDF PAGE 1
… the Book as the Stars are scattered through the field at Night. Rejoice with me, all ye people! At the very head of the Book stands the great charter of our godhead: “Every man and every woman is a star.” We are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. Is not that good tidings? Then comes the first call of the Great Goddess Nuit, Lady of the Starry Heaven, who is also Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. Hear her first summons to us me…
1954 · PDF PAGE 44
… a few months from now. Incidentally , I personally get nothing out of it; secretarial work costs money these days. But there is another great advantage; it keeps both of us up to the mark. Also, in such letters a great deal of odds and ends of knowledge tum up automatically; valuable stuff, but hard to fit into an ordinary book. You suggest that fortnightly is frequent enough; yes, but one doesn't want to lose the thread, once one starts. Possibly ten days might be best. But please understand that this suggestion arose solely from your own sta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 528
… with me through his own name being of equivalent value. There was however so far no link between the Order to which he belonged and the Great Order; 729 is not a significant number in the Cabbala of Thelema. But when I asked him to assign a mystic name to the Camel, he replied "Ahitha" which adds to 555, an obvious correlative with my own number in the Great Order, 666. It defined, so to speak, the function of the Camel in that Order. Striking as were these results, I maintained my sceptical method and proceeded to apply test after test. The W…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…d finally the will to act is denied. Propositions perhaps true to the Master, but certainly not so to the disciple. Because Titian was a great artist and Rodin is a great sculptor, that is no reason why we should abolish art schools and set an embargo on clay. If the will to act is but a mirage of the mind, then equally so is the will to differentiate or select. If this be true, and the chain of Cause and Effect is eternal, how is it then that Cause A produces effect B, and Cause B effect C, and Cause A+B +C effect X. Where originates this powe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…d finally the will to act is denied. Propositions perhaps true to the Master, but certainly not so to the disciple. Because Titian was a great artist and Rodin is a great sculptor, that is no reason why we should abolish art schools and set an embargo on clay. If the will to act is but a mirage of the mind, then equally so is the will to differentiate or select. If this be true, and the chain of Cause and Effect is eternal, how is it then that Cause A produces effect B, and Cause B effect C, and Cause A+B +C effect X. Where originates this powe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
… or (3 the whole ceremony. Examples of the former kind are Tetragrammaton, I.A.O., and Abrahadabra. An example of the latter kind is the great Word StiBeTTChe- PhMeFSHiSS, which is a line drawn on the Tree of Life (Coptic attributions) in a certain manner.1 2 With ail such words it is of the utmost importance that they should never be spoken until the suprême moment, and even then they should burst from the magician almost despite himself — so great should be his réluctance 3 to utter them. In fact, they should be the utterance of the God in hi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 191
… take that stupendous example of literary subterfuge—Azny Lear. Let me digress to the history of my own conversion. Syllogistically,—All great men (e.g. Shaw) are agnostics and subverters of morals. Shake- speare was a great man. Therefore Shakespeare was an agnostic and a subverter of morals. prtort this is then certain, But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—so I killed Rousseau! Beware of a priori / Let us find our facts, guided in the search. by a priori methods, no doubt; but the result will t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 28
…out with freaks. I suppose it is on the same principle as the old kings used to keep fools and dwarfs to amuse them. ‘‘Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.” But whichever way it is, the burden is usually too heavy for their shoulders. You remember Frank Harris's story of the Ugly Duckling? If you don’t, you’d better get busy and do it. That’s really what’s so frightful in flying—the fear of oneself, the feeling that one has got out of one’s class, that all the old kindly familiar things below ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
"Great. But I thought — " "Prehistoric. It's perfectly Cocker." [325] Such conversations lack the merit of intelligibility to the outsider; but then the outsider is particularly to be kept from understanding. Dialogues of this curious sort determine most important events in English society and "haute politique." "Then see to it that I get taken seriously." "Surely, Kurille!" "Precetur oculis mellitis!" "Kurille, Catulle!" When Englishmen return to the use of the dead languages, it is a sign of that moral state which is said by the Psalmist to r…