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Page 53 of 841904 · PDF PAGE 85
…neck. And then the luxurious confession with which this story be- gan. Left to himself, Clayton invented incidentally twenty-three quite new curses, called Le W... a lit- tle bitch, kissed the mark of the little bitchs teeth on his hand, and generally conducted himself as an officer and a gentleman would do, provided he were also a devout Christian. He foresaw trou- ble. It came pretty quickly. Two days afterwards Clayton had to quit his lovers room in a great hurry, as heavy footsteps trod the passage. The Captain was in his dressing-gown an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 212
…ment. Apollonius must certainly have made the closest links between his Ruach and his Supernal Triad, and this would have gone seeking a new incarnation elsewhere. All the available Ruach left floating around in the Akasha must have been comparatively worthless odds and ends, true QIiphoth or "Shells of the Dead" -just those parts of him, in a word, which Apollonius would have deliberately discarded at his death. So what use would they be to Levi? Even if there were among them a few such elements as would serve his purpose, they would have been…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…ildren’s Special Service Mission. ANGELA. Yes, your Lordship is indeed a true friend to the little ones. A curious coincidence. I am the new president of the Zenana Mission. GLENSTRAKE. You! ANGELA. Think of the poor heathen women kept in such terrible seclusion ! GLENSTRAE. Ah! I had not thought your sympathy was genuine; but there, there! There is more real good in human nature than— ANGELA. Genuine enough! this ! But what a jest is GLENSTRAE, A most remarkable coincidence—a very pleasant reminder, Shall we sup? ANGELA, Yes; a magnum of Pol R…
1919 · PDF PAGE 247
… that our founder, born as he was to the purple, has fulfilled it. Ihave not the volume at my side, living as I am this her- mit life in New Hampshire, but its gist is that Kings and Popes have not power to redeem the world because they sur- round themselves with splendour and dignity. They possess all that other men desire, and therefore their motives are suspect. If any person of position, says Levi, insists upon living a life of hardship and inconvenience when he could do otherwise, then men will trust him, and he will be able to execute his…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…y train; but part of my plan in wandering about the world was to put myself in unpleasant situations on purpose, provided that they were new. This small French boat offered an adventure. A storm was raging; the Dupleix was some days late, and when she arrived, it was too rough for her to come into the harbour. I had to row out to her in an open boat. I had dismissed my servant and was the only passenger from shore. I note the fact as showing that I had in a sense broken with the past; the point will appear in a few paragraphs. The voyage was at…
1909 · PDF PAGE 356
…anished for ever. Such was the end of the land-trows, and, although it put a stop to the making of further fairy-stories, it opened up a new hunting-ground for the weaver of romances in the caves beneath the sea. And even where there is no definite tale or detailed legend to tell beside the inglenook, there is sure to be some quaint conceit of metempsychosis which they can whisper when a seal comes near them. Was not Pharaoh’s army turned into a school of seals? And that great white seal, which the fishermen have seen, and whose track is like t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 356
…anished for ever. Such was the end of the land-trows, and, although it put a stop to the making of further fairy-stories, it opened up a new hunting-ground for the weaver of romances in the caves beneath the sea. And even where there is no definite tale or detailed legend to tell beside the inglenook, there is sure to be some quaint conceit of metempsychosis which they can whisper when a seal comes near them. Was not Pharaoh’s army turned into a school of seals? And that great white seal, which the fishermen have seen, and whose track is like t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 55
…oth of us were as fresh as paint. What we needed was hot food and lots of it. We got it. It seemed as if we had entered upon an entirely new phase. The disaster had purged us of that orchestral oratorio business; but, on the other hand, we were still full of intense practical activity. We ate three breakfasts each. And as we ate we talked ; talked racy, violent nonsense, most of it. Yet we were both well aware that the whole thing was camouflage. What we had to do was to get married as quickly as we could, and lay in a stock of cocaine, and go …
1922 · PDF PAGE 350
…my mind would clear up immediately, and I should be able to think out good plans for stopping it. 12. The gods may be leading me to some new ex- perience through taking it. 13. It is quite certainly a mistake putting down all little discomforts as results of taking it. Very likely, nearly all of them are illusions; the rest, due to the unwise use of it. I am simply scaring myself into saying “no.” 14. It is bad for me morally to say “no.” I must not be a coward about it. 15. There is no evidence at all that the reasonable use of heroin does not…
1922 · PDF PAGE 184
… 23 The night has been a miracle! We went on taking H. pretty steadily. I think the C. spoils it. Our love bloomed afresh as if it was a new creation. We were lapsed in boundless bliss| *‘ Awake, for ever awake ! Awake as one never is | While sleep is a possible end, Awake in the void, the abyss.”
1944 · PDF PAGE 11
…ce the whole of his Magical Mind pictorially on the skeleton of the ancient Qabalistic tradition. He accepted this colossal burden; it renewed his energy and his enthusiasm. Yet the burden was sore: the anticipated three months’ work extended to five years. Her success as his interpreter surpasses belief. She had to work from his very rough sketches, often from mere descriptions, or from reading between the lines of the old packs. She devoted her genius to the Work. With incredible rapidity she picked up the rhythm, and with inex‐ haustible pat…
1954 · PDF PAGE 27
…s to say is so interesting that the following is quoted from that letter. My special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a new Renaissance might in due season rekindle the hidden Light. I was accordingly to make a Quintessence
1929 · PDF PAGE 241
… own. I had the manuscript typed. I issued a circular letter to a number of my friends, something in the nature of a proclamation of the New Aeon, but I took no trouble to follow it up. I took a certain number of wide-reaching plans for assuming responsibility, but they remained in the stage of reverie. I dropped the whole business, to all intents and purposes. I completely abandoned my diary. I even neglected a really first-rate opportunity for bringing The Book of the Law into public notice, for Mrs. Besant was on the ship by which Ouarda and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 350
…e job before they grow again. But modern hydras have not this pitiful paucity of talking machines. Hardly a month passes but I hear some new and perfectly fantastic yarn about myself, sometimes flattering, sometimes the reverse, but nearly always entirely baseless, and, as often as not, bearing internal evidence of its absurdity. I have been sufficiently amused to wish to make a collection of these legends, but I find that my memory refuses to record rubbish of this kind. It insists on having some peg whereon to hang its old clothes. I am not s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 5
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1910 · PDF PAGE 200
…er is probably not determined by the antecedents in consciousness. Its essential characteristic being the unity of Subject and Object, a new world is revealed. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see. The slaying of any of these thoughts often leaves their echoes gradually dying away. Now that we have come to the end of this long chapter, let us turn back on the upward slope and survey the road which winds beneath us, and lose not heart when but little of it can be seen, for the mountain’s side is steep, and the dis- tance from…
1910 · PDF PAGE 200
…er is probably not determined by the antecedents in consciousness. Its essential characteristic being the unity of Subject and Object, a new world is revealed. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see. The slaying of any of these thoughts often leaves their echoes gradually dying away. Now that we have come to the end of this long chapter, let us turn back on the upward slope and survey the road which winds beneath us, and lose not heart when but little of it can be seen, for the mountain’s side is steep, and the dis- tance from…
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…hen imagines a bomb dropping first in one place. then in another; one imagines the damage, and what one then has to do to counteract the new dangers-perhaps a wall oj your house has gone, and you must get clear before the rooj
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…und with a most hideous serpent. And I was helpless. In the end he devoured that rose—winged companion of my journey, and went seeking a new prey. Now in this cataract I had most surely been wrecked but that I clung tightly to the boat. This indeed floated as serenely as if it had been upon the still waters of a lake; and when I had a little plucked up courage, I saw sitting at the helm him that is appointed to steer; I saw him face to face. This then endured for a space; and with his aid I began ship—building. “ For” (said he) “there are many t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…und with a most hideous serpent. And I was helpless. In the end he devoured that rose—winged companion of my journey, and went seeking a new prey. Now in this cataract I had most surely been wrecked but that I clung tightly to the boat. This indeed floated as serenely as if it had been upon the still waters of a lake; and when I had a little plucked up courage, I saw sitting at the helm him that is appointed to steer; I saw him face to face. This then endured for a space; and with his aid I began ship—building. “ For” (said he) “there are many t…