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Page 53 of 1001929 · PDF PAGE 230
… utterly out of the picture. It was composed of genuine antiques with shaking heads, stooping shoulders, slobbering jaws from which hung long {383} 1. People said: the revenge of a Ceylon Big Bug, whom MacDonald had ordered off the field at some jamboree when he had turned up in mufti. white goatish beards, and bleared red eyes that blinked even in the twilight of the luncheon as if the very idea of sunlight was an infernal terror. I called on the khansamah to tell me if I was suffering from delirium tremens. He told me no; what I saw was reall…
1906 · PDF PAGE 171
…. With mild eyes full of love, and tresses What price . ‘, Kut Humi? 40 Blanched in those lonely wildernesses Where he found wisdom, and long hands Gentle, pale olive ‘gainst the sand’s Amber and gold. At sight, I knew him ; Swifter than light I flashed, ran to him, 46 And at his holy feet prostrated My head ; then, all my being sated With love, cried “ Master! I must know. Already I can love.” E’en so. The sage saluted me r7q1 trav? 2222? 20h, how wise 50 @aaqT ATF mt qzt ava 1 Grampa must ° ~ ° have been, Wat Ve wa B ayfas AMA Bobbie| Zi ATS …
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…Youth most certainly tends towards certain ideals , and frequently results in a definite hero - worship ; but genius cannot be bound for long ; it will eventually find its own level . The mere fact that certain forms of thought and modes of ex pression occur here as they have occurred elsewhere , should be as a literary barometer , enabling us to judge the mental standard of the writer . All great writers will have many points in common . It is more than probable that Aleister Crowley had already read most of Shakespeare before he wrote “ The M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 324
…As mist I dissipate : I am borne , I draw Through chasms on the mountains : stormy gusts Of ancient sorrows and forgotten lusts Bear me along : they touch me not : I waste. The memory of long lives interlaced Fades in my tading . I disintegrate Fall into black oblivion of Fate . My being divides . I have forgot my name . I am blown out as a thin subtle flame, I am no more . And Nor shall the mind revoke at ease These myriad cressets from the sun ; Constrained in sober destinies Thought's river shall its ripples run Into the one , the one , the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 59
…dering as observed by me in simple meditation without drugs. It should be taken, I think, as the normal action of the untrained mind. So long as the thoughts are strongly thrown out, rational, the critical glyphs approve, and the thought-current moves harmoniously to its end. Such are the trained thought-currents of educated men. The irrespon- sible and aimless chatter of women and clergymen is the result of weak thoughts constantly drowned by their associated critical glyphs. Mere sympathetic glyphs, too, may be excited in really feeble intell…
1909 · PDF PAGE 59
…dering as observed by me in simple meditation without drugs. It should be taken, I think, as the normal action of the untrained mind. So long as the thoughts are strongly thrown out, rational, the critical glyphs approve, and the thought-current moves harmoniously to its end. Such are the trained thought-currents of educated men. The irrespon- sible and aimless chatter of women and clergymen is the result of weak thoughts constantly drowned by their associated critical glyphs. Mere sympathetic glyphs, too, may be excited in really feeble intell…
1909 · PDF PAGE 352
…Martin, used to salt the flesh of seals with burnt seaware. This flesh was eaten by the common people in the spring-time “with a pointed long stick instead of a fork, to prevent the strong smell which 344
1909 · PDF PAGE 352
…Martin, used to salt the flesh of seals with burnt seaware. This flesh was eaten by the common people in the spring-time “with a pointed long stick instead of a fork, to prevent the strong smell which 344
1910 · PDF PAGE 220
…ributes, as transcending the plane where activity and rotundity are incompatibles) but saw nothing; and putting His legs up, lighted His long pipe and settled down to a quiet perusal of a fascinating ‘cosmic romance” called Berashith by two pseudonymous authors, G. O. Varr and L. O.Heem— of ingenious fancy, exalted imaginative faculty, and a tendency, which would later be deemed undesirable, to slop over into the filthiest details whenever the love-interest became dominant. Oh, but it was a most enthralling narrative! Beginning with a comic acc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 220
…ributes, as transcending the plane where activity and rotundity are incompatibles) but saw nothing; and putting His legs up, lighted His long pipe and settled down to a quiet perusal of a fascinating ‘cosmic romance” called Berashith by two pseudonymous authors, G. O. Varr and L. O.Heem— of ingenious fancy, exalted imaginative faculty, and a tendency, which would later be deemed undesirable, to slop over into the filthiest details whenever the love-interest became dominant. Oh, but it was a most enthralling narrative! Beginning with a comic acc…
1911 · PDF PAGE 103
…this Aethyr is neither beginning nor end, for it is all hotch-potch, because it is of the wicked on earth and the damned in hell. And so long as it be hotch-potch, it mattereth little what may be written by the sea-green incorruptible Scribe. The horror of it will be given in another place and time, and through another Seer, and that Seer shall be slain as a result of his revealing. But the present Seer, who is not P...., seeth not the horror, because he is shut up, and hath no name. (Now was there some further parleying betwixt the demon and t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
…a! ha! Hullo, dear! Didn‘t see you, little white mouse! Let's have coffee, dear, and the brown brandy. No more patients for a bit. Come along, Fielding, eh? [He leads FIELDING to the consulting-mom, while MRS. BOB goes aut L.] Dr. F. This is an exceptional case, old man. I do hope you won‘t frighten her. Dr. B. Great God! always the same old story. They never come to me until the rest of you have finished them, and then it’s my candid opinion you want. Then you get it, by Heaven ! and instead of blaming yourselves, or the patient, or the disease…
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
…a! ha! Hullo, dear! Didn‘t see you, little white mouse! Let's have coffee, dear, and the brown brandy. No more patients for a bit. Come along, Fielding, eh? [He leads FIELDING to the consulting-mom, while MRS. BOB goes aut L.] Dr. F. This is an exceptional case, old man. I do hope you won‘t frighten her. Dr. B. Great God! always the same old story. They never come to me until the rest of you have finished them, and then it’s my candid opinion you want. Then you get it, by Heaven ! and instead of blaming yourselves, or the patient, or the disease…
1922 · PDF PAGE 90
…estures were limp and languid. I realised that I was utterly exhausted. | “I couldn’t sleep at all,” she said, ‘after what seemed a very long time in which I tried to pull myself together. My mind went running on like mad—lI’ve had a perfectly ripping time—perfectly top-hole! I simply couldn’t get up till I remembered what that man Feccles said about a hair of the dog. So I rolled out of bed and crawled across to the H. and took one little sniff, and sat on the floor till it worked. It’s great stuff when you know the ropes. It picked me up ina …
1906 · PDF PAGE 284
…ther in the orthodox travesty of Buddha's meaning, a mere survival of some fetichistic theophagy. Myst, Doesn’t it say somewhere that ‘* Long words butter no parsnips” ? Scept. It ought to. But pray proceed with your defence of religion—for I presume it is intended as such. Myst. I was saying that if unconsciousness be not reckoned as consciousness, the death- thought is eternal heaven orhell, as it chances to be pleasant or prinful. But, on the other hand, if it be so reckoned, if that and that alone has in death no awakening, no change, then …
1909 · PDF PAGE 371
…o impostor. But he refused to listen to me, and called his two men. They came, and began verifying the measure he had taken of me. “ Too long,” said he, when it was completed. ‘“ You have grown out of shape. We shall have to cut out and plane you in order that you should exactly fit my mighty box. However, as you pretend to have seen in it things which a cover cannot possibly see, I must give myself a day to think it over.” I felt instantly relieved, and began to hope again. “Perhaps I shall not be cut out and planed after all,” thought I; and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 371
…o impostor. But he refused to listen to me, and called his two men. They came, and began verifying the measure he had taken of me. “ Too long,” said he, when it was completed. ‘“ You have grown out of shape. We shall have to cut out and plane you in order that you should exactly fit my mighty box. However, as you pretend to have seen in it things which a cover cannot possibly see, I must give myself a day to think it over.” I felt instantly relieved, and began to hope again. “Perhaps I shall not be cut out and planed after all,” thought I; and …
1915 · PDF PAGE 1
…nited States of America to join in. We are only about 6 to 1 at present, and feel insecure. My own view is simpler. We have waited for a long while to smash Germany and steal her goods. We have taken a first-class opportunity, and we shall never regret it. We thank God that we are not as other men. There are no stained glass windows bright enough for us. Our haloes are top heavy. We have quite forgotten that the Belgian is the most cruel, mean, and cowardly cur in Europe, that we have demonstrated till all are blue against him as assassin, tort…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…urite pupil. Later, he wasted a great deal of time praising my slight figure and my piquant face, with its big round grey eyes and their long black lashes; but the first attraction was my singular gift. Few men, and, I believe, no other women, could approach me in one of the most priceless qualifications for scientific study, the faculty of apprehending minute differences. My memory was poor, extraordinarily so; I had the ut- most trouble to enter Cambridge at all. But I could ad- just a micrometer better than either students or profes- sor, an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 409
…ing a positive pleasure to work against the pale persistent pang; but, as the Buddha has shown, the remedy increases the disease. I have long since come to the point in which I could say that I had enjoyed all possible forms of delight to the utmost possible extent. I am not blasé; I can still enjoy everything as well as I ever could. More: I know how to extract infinite rapture from the most insignificant incidents, but this faculty depends on the refusal to accept such currency at its own valuation. This being so, it is on the whole easier to…