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Page 55 of 781922 · PDF PAGE 338
324 The Diary of a Drug Fiend are probably more ignorant than yourself; you get into the beastly thing and press the proper button, and if it goes it’s an automobile, and you’ve made no mistake. Didn’t you read what it says in the Book of the Law: “Success is your proof?’’ And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing …
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
…ld Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. *9- There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour. 20. Ail holy things and ail symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. These animais are sacred unto me 5 the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. Ail corpses are sacred unto me3 they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. Ail lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. I am …
1954 · PDF PAGE 371
…hat you know what you are being punished for, and learn your lesson at once. This process is, naturally , very painful at times; for one thing, you can't dope yourself with illusions about your being a grand-souled, great-hearted , misunderstood saint, martyr, and hero. And-this I tell you from most bitter experience-the agony is sometimes all but unendurable. The Masters (or the Lords of Karma, or whatever you like: I have to put all this in a silly romantic language, if I am to get the meaning across at all) see the position with absolute acc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 220
…hen I thoroughly loathed and despised him. Yet I knew that Basil would admire and love me for that very loyalty itself. It was the first thing that I had ever had to show him. My only asset had made me bankrupt for ever! Maisie had been talking quietly while I was thinking these things. I slid out of my concentration to hear her voice once more. She was in the middle of an explanation of her relations with Basil. “‘ He claims to be utterly selfish,’ vibrated her tense tones, “ because he includes every individual in his idea of himself. He can’…
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
… wait, wait for the Holy Spirit ; but that’s a memory so far, far off ! There are times when I almost doubt it, yet my faith is the only thing that prevents my going insane. I can't endure without H. The sympathy of suffering has brought Peter closer. We lie about and look at each other; but we can’t touch, the skin is too painful. We are both restless as it is impossible to describe. It irritates us to see each other like this, and we can’t do anything; we constantly get up with the idea of doing something, but we sit down again immediately. T…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
… as being my critical apparatus. It is hard to say what motive impelled me to work so desperately hard as I did. Much of the work was anything but pleasant; and at the time, no {114} 1. There is no such thing as history. The facts, even were they available, are too numerous to grasp. A selection must be made; and this can only be one-sided, because the selector is enclosed in the same network of time and space as his subject. less than now, it appeared quite useless. But I had a strong sense of duty about it. I think the idea was mostly to make…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…as now up in arms against what their freeborn spirit consid- ered an unwarrantable and tyrannical demand on their manhood it is a good thing, said George W.....m himself, to have a giants strength, but tyr- annous to use it like a giant while the sporting instinct of the race was equally aroused, and they were as one man (so the Pink Un voiced the gener- ous feeling of the community) in their resolve to stand away, and lets see the Frenchy have his whack out I was now, in the words of the sweet singer of Israel, faint yet pursuing,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 164
…n that date he writes: During the last few days some important events have taken place. First however I must mention that I have heard nothing from Frater P.A. since the retirement except a P.C. to say that he had received my record. On... I received a letter dated in London, Jan. roth, from the Chancellor of A.".A."., ask- ing the results of my work since I became a Probationer. Answered same on Jan. 26th, and was surprised and pleased on Feb. 26th, to receive a reply passing me to the Grade of Neophyte, followed by the necessary documents. An…
1922 · PDF PAGE 212
…ould; but under the new law, he couldn’t do more than prescribe ten doses of an eighth of a grain apiece. Four or five sniffs, the whole thing! And he wouldn't dare to repeat it in less than a week. However, it was better than nothing. He told me where to get it made up. I found a cloak-room where I could put the packets into one, and started. The relief was immense. I went on, dose after dose. Cockie could get his own. I should tell him I had drawn blanks. I felt I could eat again, and had some light food and a couple of whiskies and sodas. I …
1954 · PDF PAGE 455
…s, is Hobgoblin No. 1 on the Path of the Wise. If you are fooled by that, you will never get out of the stinking bog of platitudinous mouthings of make-believe "Masters." Need I refer to the fact that most of the unco' guid are penny plain hypocrites . A little less vile are those whose prejudices are Freudian in character, who "compound for sins that they're inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." Perhaps we have now relaxed enough; we see that the "Holy man" is not such a fool as he looks; and we may get on with our excursions in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 266
… leave the whole responsibility to me, but I could not bring three heavily loaded men up such slopes without assistance, and there was nothing to do but await their return. In the meantime, I saw to my surprise that a large party had arrived at Camp 5. When I dot down I found that Tartarin's hysteria and Pighi's malignant stupidity had created yet another muddle. They had arrived at the camp, bringing with them some seventeen or twenty coolies, and they had not brought any of the things of which we stood in such need. Their behaviour was utterl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…atural capacity for Magick, and my every action proved that I intended to devote myself to it "without keeping back the least imaginable thing". He suggested that I should join the Body of which he was an adept; known, to a few of the more enlightened seekers, ass the Hermetic Order of the G.·. D.·.. A short account of this Order is necessary. Most of the facts concerning it are given here and there in The Equinox; but the story is so lengthy and complex that it would require a volume to itself. Briefly, however, the facts are as follows: Some …
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
… are his powers? He can watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom ; Nor heed, nor see, what things they be . . . Let Mr. Straightforward and Mr. Veracity and Mr. Scom-tmtell-a lie and Mr. George Washington Redivivus reflect that there are people in the world with sensoria sighted to a different range from themselves! There is such a thing as a point of view. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto the Man in the Moon, who stood on the shores of Lake Copernicus and said: “What a beautiful
1954 · PDF PAGE 530
…wever point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga. It…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
… both ending and unending?” “Is it neither the one nor the other?” And further all such questions as “Are the soul and the body the same thing?” “Is the soul distinct from the body?” ‘Does a Tathagata exist after death?” ‘Does he not exist after death?” “Does * In spite of the fact that Buddhism urges that “the whole world is under the Law of Causation,” it commands its followers to lead pure and noble lives, in place of dishonourable ones, in spite of their having no freedom of choice between good and evil. “Let us not lose ourselves in vain s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
… both ending and unending?” “Is it neither the one nor the other?” And further all such questions as “Are the soul and the body the same thing?” “Is the soul distinct from the body?” ‘Does a Tathagata exist after death?” ‘Does he not exist after death?” “Does * In spite of the fact that Buddhism urges that “the whole world is under the Law of Causation,” it commands its followers to lead pure and noble lives, in place of dishonourable ones, in spite of their having no freedom of choice between good and evil. “Let us not lose ourselves in vain s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 131
…fering with his business. That sort of knowledge will always come in useful in case of another European War. It was knowing that sort of thing that had put Feccles where he was in the Secret Service, the trusted confident of those mysterious intelligences that watch over the welfare of our beloved country. Thank you, that will conclude the evening’s entertain- ment. I will say this for Feccles. He always understood instinctively when he wasn’t wanted. So immedi- ately the arrangements were made, he excused himself hastily, because he had to go …
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
…uld he care to join you in a spot of lunch" at the Ritz, or wherever you feel that he will be the happiest. When you can do this sort of thing as it should be done, without embarrassment , false shame, with your whole heart in your words-do it simply, to sum up-you will find yourself way up on the road to that royal republic which is the ideal of human society . Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. Let me insist that "pity" is nearly always an impostor. It is the psychic consolation for fear, the "pitiful man" really is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 192
…ala. It is true that by all accounts it was pretty bad. One report said that a hundred men had died. For some reason I treated the whole thing with scepticism; and when I passed through Askole I certainly saw no signs of agitation or mourning. The only precaution I took was to prevent my men coming in contact with the villagers. But Eckenstein and Knowles would not pass through the village at all. They decided to return to Shigar by the Skoro La, which is a pass avoiding the big bend formed by the Bralduh Nalan and the Shigar Rivers. It is just…
1922 · PDF PAGE 67
…om you the fact that he always wore a slightly shocked expression, especially in the way he cut his beard. It was emphati- cally not the thing whenever he came into the suite. I am a bit of a psychologist myself, and I know perfectly well that that man wouldn’t have got us cocaine, not if we’d offered him a Bureau de Tabac for doing it. Now, of course, I’m not going to ask you to believe that Gretel Webster knew anything about that waiter— beastly old prig! All she had done was to exhibit wise forethought and intelligent friendship. She had exp…