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… It seems quite easy to do nowadays; why shouldn’t it lead to The Result? It used to be supposed to do so. Might be worth trying anyway; things can hardly be worse than they are. Or, one might go over to the Hammam, and have a long bath and sleep—but who can tell whether it would refresh, or merely destroy the whole edifice built up so laboriously in these ten days? At Pantheon. ἑdozen Marennes, Rognons Brochette, Lait chaud.
1910 · PDF PAGE 244
… My God !—Monsieur Delhomme, I am going to shock you. Oh! Oh! [She buries her face in her hands. He starts back, sur- prised at the turn things ave taking, and at the violence of her emotion and of its expression. DELHOMME. What is it? Are you ill? Have I EUPHEMIA. [Steady and straight before him.] 1 am another man’s—his—his mistress. There! [He reels, catches a chair and saves himself. Her breast heaves ; swallowing a sob, she runs out of the room. DELHOMME [Utterly dazed]. I—I—oh, my God! My father! My God! I thought her—oh, I dare not say it…
1910 · PDF PAGE 244
… My God !—Monsieur Delhomme, I am going to shock you. Oh! Oh! [She buries her face in her hands. He starts back, sur- prised at the turn things ave taking, and at the violence of her emotion and of its expression. DELHOMME. What is it? Are you ill? Have I EUPHEMIA. [Steady and straight before him.] 1 am another man’s—his—his mistress. There! [He reels, catches a chair and saves himself. Her breast heaves ; swallowing a sob, she runs out of the room. DELHOMME [Utterly dazed]. I—I—oh, my God! My father! My God! I thought her—oh, I dare not say it…
1913 · PDF PAGE 221
…es; still roses ; still the intoxication Of the scent of the world; the virgin still unborn To this riot of life, this sensuous crash of things, This fulsome fever fretting out her life.” So! It is said! No more may I unveil The mystery! The way is hidden from me. I know not; but the aching dream still stays, Burning me up to death; the cool, strong death, Even death I shall slay in the cool, strong colonnades: I shall bear the Rose of life to the heart of death. And death shall lead me back to the shadowy river, The murmuring waters shall mock…
1913 · PDF PAGE 221
…es; still roses ; still the intoxication Of the scent of the world; the virgin still unborn To this riot of life, this sensuous crash of things, This fulsome fever fretting out her life.” So! It is said! No more may I unveil The mystery! The way is hidden from me. I know not; but the aching dream still stays, Burning me up to death; the cool, strong death, Even death I shall slay in the cool, strong colonnades: I shall bear the Rose of life to the heart of death. And death shall lead me back to the shadowy river, The murmuring waters shall mock…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
…ssesses a structure of its own, and there are traces or grammar and syntax. However this may be, it works. Even the beginner finds that “things happen” when he uses it: and this is an advantage or disadvantage ! —shared by no other type of language. The rest need skill. This needs Prudence! The Egyptian Invocations are much purer, but their meaning has not been sufficiently studied by persons magically competent. We possess a number of Invocations in Greek of every degree of excellence ; in Latin but few, and those of inferioi quality. It will …
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
… the dose. If you go on long enough, something is nearly sure to happen! IV “The Mind of the Father said Into Three! and immediately all things were so divided.”—ZOROASTER. Let my readers be good enough to remember, then, that what follows concerns myself only. This must excuse the use of the first person, highly improper in a scientific essay, were it not that the personality of the experimenter is perhaps an essential. I cannot assert that my results would be achieved by another. Yet I have the strong conviction that I have eliminated many so…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
… the dose. If you go on long enough, something is nearly sure to happen! IV “The Mind of the Father said Into Three! and immediately all things were so divided.”—ZOROASTER. Let my readers be good enough to remember, then, that what follows concerns myself only. This must excuse the use of the first person, highly improper in a scientific essay, were it not that the personality of the experimenter is perhaps an essential. I cannot assert that my results would be achieved by another. Yet I have the strong conviction that I have eliminated many so…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
62 AMBERGRIS And O ! most lone The melancholy mountains shrine and throne, While far above all things God sits, the ultimate alone ! III. I sate upon the mossy promontory Where the cascade cleft not his mother rock, But swept in whirlwind lightning foam and glory, Vast circling with unwearying luminous shock To lure and lock Marvellous eddies in its wild caress ; And there the solemn echoes caught the stress, The strain of that impassive tide, Shook it and flung it high and wide, Till all the air took fire from that melodious roar ; All the mut…
1913 · PDF PAGE 478
…n substances, hashish, for example, intoxicate without taking away the use of reason, and cause to be seen with an astonishing vividness things which do not exist. A great part of the phenomena of Mr. Home belong to a natural influence similar to that of hashish. This is the reason why the medium refuses to operate except before a small number of persons chosen by him- self. The rest of these phenomena should be attributed to magnetic power. To see anything at Mr. Home's séawces is not a reassuring index of the health of him who sees. And even …
1913 · PDF PAGE 478
…n substances, hashish, for example, intoxicate without taking away the use of reason, and cause to be seen with an astonishing vividness things which do not exist. A great part of the phenomena of Mr. Home belong to a natural influence similar to that of hashish. This is the reason why the medium refuses to operate except before a small number of persons chosen by him- self. The rest of these phenomena should be attributed to magnetic power. To see anything at Mr. Home's séawces is not a reassuring index of the health of him who sees. And even …
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
“Prove ail things; hold fast that which is good”. St. Paul. “Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. “He must teach ; but he may make severe the ordeals. “The word of the Law is 0EAHMA.” LIBER AL vel xxxi: The Book of the Law. This book is for ALL: for every man, woman, and child. My former work has been misunderstood, and its scope limited, by my use of technical terms. It has attracted only too many dilettanti and eccentrics, weaklings seeking in “Ma…
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…ure of the earth, and I and the earth are one.” (AL. II, 26). The formula of this card is then the complete appreciation of all existing things. He re‐ joices in the rugged and the barren no less than in the smooth and the fertile. All things equally exalt him. He represents the finding of ecstasy in every phenomenon, however natu‐ rally repugnant; he transcends all limitations; he is Pan; he is All. It is important to notice some other correspondences. The three vowel‐consonants of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph, Yod, ‘Ayin, these three letters fo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…slation by Mr A.B. Waulkphast. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! Read ! I will not be a Cassandra. (i.e. a prophetess of evil.) I will write those things which become me : Xenophon (an ancient writer . . . ah ! did you once see Shelley plain ? in his extant mas- terpiece) did no more. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! I will not be a bad Cassandra. (i.e. a seer of future misfortunes.) O spring ! make me a poet (poetess) concerning thee ! Reign ! Live ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Alexandra ! I being unarmed. (Because Mrs Cox is a woman. Cf. Voltaire : O che sciagura es…
1910 · PDF PAGE 335
… bricks is a layer of earth, and if any sound at all percolates into this chamber of death, it is only the delicate tremor and rustle of things growing, of the grass seed pushing its tiny way through the mould, to break at the last into its narrow slip of bright green flame. This, and the weak whisper of trailing rose-roots in whose brown and ugly stems glow such a tender sap and noiseless fervour of exqui- site perfume. At intervals, maybe, this dark blue silence is wounded by strange creakings and indescribable tremors: noises that are really…
1910 · PDF PAGE 335
… bricks is a layer of earth, and if any sound at all percolates into this chamber of death, it is only the delicate tremor and rustle of things growing, of the grass seed pushing its tiny way through the mould, to break at the last into its narrow slip of bright green flame. This, and the weak whisper of trailing rose-roots in whose brown and ugly stems glow such a tender sap and noiseless fervour of exqui- site perfume. At intervals, maybe, this dark blue silence is wounded by strange creakings and indescribable tremors: noises that are really…
1911 · PDF PAGE 159
THE AUTUMN WOODS The grave of desolation 1 I am weary Of all things; let me sleep my life away! The breast 01 Fate is pregnant with despair Got on her by the piercing shaft of Time. Ah ! Unborn child of Fate and Time, I am weary Of them that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 159
THE AUTUMN WOODS The grave of desolation 1 I am weary Of all things; let me sleep my life away! The breast 01 Fate is pregnant with despair Got on her by the piercing shaft of Time. Ah ! Unborn child of Fate and Time, I am weary Of them that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
… is called into play, so that he who well uses the knowledge of the lower grades may be selected for invitation to the higher, where all things are declared openly. 2° They become partakers of the current of Universal Life in Liberty, Beauty, Harmony, and Love which flames within the heart of the O.T.0., and the Light of that august fraternity insen- sibly illuminates them ever more and more as they approach its central Sun, 3° They mect those persons most complemental to their own natures, and find unexpected help and brotherhood in the whole …
1913 · PDF PAGE 443
…exact and conscientious details with regard to the miracles?” “Oh, as many as you like!” And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn an eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic. L 145