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Page 56 of 781922 · PDF PAGE 132
118 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Universe, and is consequently afraid of everything that doesn’t happen to fit its own limits. Lou and I had discarded the miserable measures of mankind. That sort of thing is all right for tailors and men of science; but we had sprung in one leap to be conterminous with the Universe. We were as incommensurable as the ratio of a circle to its diameter. We were as imaginary and unreal from their point of view as the square root of minus one. _ We didn’t ask humanity to judge us. It was simply a case of mistaken ident…
1922 · PDF PAGE 343
…is that privation always upsets the mental balance. A man who lacks food or money finds very queer thoughts come into his mind, and does things, not necessarily connected with his necessity, obsessing though that be, which are entirely out of keeping with his character.” I took a pencil, and wrote at once against the cross in column two “In order to make the most of Sister Athena’s illuminating discourse.” She laughed merrily. “You see, it’s Adam and Eve all over again! You're trying to shift the blame on to me. By the way, I see your body is n…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…erefore to obtain a judgment of the figure, independent of ail iutellectual or moral restraint. One must endeavour to appreliend it as a thing absolute in itself. One must treat it, in short, very much the same as one did the question $ as a mystical entity, till now unrelated with other phenomena. One must, so to speak, adore it as a god, uncritically: aSpeak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.” Il must be allowed to impose iis intrinsic individuality on the mind, to put its fingers independently on whatever notes it pleases. In this way one obtai…
1996 · PDF PAGE 40
…ss which is hostile or neutral. 6. Let this work freely from within, but heed not your environment, lest you make difference between one thing and another. Whatever it be, it is to be made one with you by Love. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the Law is OeXrjpia. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is Restrict…
1922 · PDF PAGE 224
210 The Diary of a Drug Fiend always will be. How was it that she could speak of another woman who loved him without jealousy, and, as things were, without envy? It was true, perhaps, after all, that he had some huge hypnotic power, and held them helpless, filed away like so many letters. But Maisie was bubbling over with energy and joy; it was absurd to think of her as vampirised, as a victim. I asked her about it point-blank. “‘ My dear Lou,” she laughed, ‘‘ don’t be too utterly gaga! My Will is to sing, and Lala’s is to help him in his work—…
1922 · PDF PAGE 237
Cold Turkey 223 Besides, the things he says he sees are all horrible and disgusting. But he says nothing at all now, any more. He begins to speak to me and checks himself... . It is very dark to-night. Rain is falling. Peter has gone down to the lake with his gun. I have taken this book from its hiding place. I am horribly frightened. I had no appetite at lunch, and Peter wouldn’t eat. He burst out in a hysterical appeal to me, reminded me of our love, and said he couldn’t believe it was all a sham. Why had I gone into the plot to drive him to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
…im." "I am glad," said Cyril. "And what end do you think I have reserved for you?" said the sorcerer, with sudden foam of ferocity. "Something charming, I am sure," said Cyril, silkily. "I always admired your work, you know. That translation of 'The Book of the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage,' in particular. You remember the passage about the wicked Antony of Prague," he went on, with sudden force and solemnity, "the marvellous things he did, and how he prospered — and how he was found by the roadside, his tongue torn out, and the dogs at …
1909 · PDF PAGE 374
…cided to send an extra porter with the first bird, in case of the next message being of an equal or superior volume, and as I know some- thing about pigeons, as before mentioned, I managed that in a very clever ‘way. I say clever because it is a very simple scheme in its cleverness, and nobody would say it if not I, but nevertheless it had to be found—like the egg of the late C.C. I bought a fine hen pigeon, and kept it with the Man-Cover’s messenger, so that they could rub acquaintance. WhenI noticed the first symptoms of love I blessed the ne…
1909 · PDF PAGE 374
…cided to send an extra porter with the first bird, in case of the next message being of an equal or superior volume, and as I know some- thing about pigeons, as before mentioned, I managed that in a very clever ‘way. I say clever because it is a very simple scheme in its cleverness, and nobody would say it if not I, but nevertheless it had to be found—like the egg of the late C.C. I bought a fine hen pigeon, and kept it with the Man-Cover’s messenger, so that they could rub acquaintance. WhenI noticed the first symptoms of love I blessed the ne…
1922 · PDF PAGE 92
…uite; and I dare say we did upset a good deal of the furniture, but that doesn’t matter, for we haven't got to pick it up. The important thing was that I caught Lou; and by-and-by we found ourselves completely out of breath ; and then, confound it, just when I wanted a quiet pipe before lunch, the telephone rang, and the porter wanted to know if we were at home to Mr. Elgin Feccles. Well, I told you before that I didn’t care for the man so much as that. As Stevenson observes, if he were the only tie that bound one to home, I think most of us wo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 179
…nce that adjectives spoilt nouns in literature, and you can certainly cut out that one. She’s a good sort, all the same, poor flabby old thing. She only takes M., and only gets that in solution ready to inject. She saw I was all in, and gave me a dose in the thigh. It doesn’t touch the spot like H., but it stops the worst of the suffering. She never gets up till tea-time. I left her a fiver. She promised to see what she could do that night with the man who gets it for her. She got very affectionate in a sentimental, motherly style, told me the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 335
…the consola- tion of these people. I can’t fool myself that I am a Wunderkind. You probably know without my telling you that I’ve done nothing all my life but potter. And if I’ve nothing to potter about, I go off into the blackest boredom.”’ Sister Athena acquiesced. ‘Yes, this place is kill or cure,” she admitted, with a laugh. “ But I’m glad to say that it’s cure for most people. The two I was telling you about only failed because their vanity and selfishness was so extreme. They interpreted everything wrong, and expected the world to fall do…
1954 · PDF PAGE 224
… is the human (nearly always female) that assumes these shapes by witchcraft . But in ancient Egypt they literally doted on this sort of thing. The papyri are full of formulas for operating such transmutations. But I think that this was mostly to afford some relaxation for the spirit of the dead man; he nipped out of his sarcophagus, and painted the town all the colours of the rainbow in one animal shape or another. The only experience I have of anything of this sort was when I was in Pacific waters, mostly at Honolulu or in Nippon. I was pract…
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
…here are no “standards of Right.” Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its orbit. To hell with “moral principle”; there is no such thing; that is a herd-delusion, and makes men cattle. Do not listen to the rational explanation of How Right It All Is, in the newspapers. We may moreover consider “Because” as involving the idea of causality, and therefore of duality. If cause and effect are really inseparable, as they must be by definition, it is mere clumsiness to regard them as separate; they are two aspects of one single idea, conceived a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 369
…“Why,” I stammered, ‘ Big Lion showed me how my heredity, my natural inclination, and the solution of my crisis, all pointed to the same thing.” “You said it,”’ she answered softly, and fired another quotation. ‘‘ The Law is for all.” “Tell me about it,” I said. My stupefaction and my annoyance were melting away. I began to perceive dimly that the Big Lion had worked out the whole situation in a masterly fashion. - He had done with his material—us, what I was doing with my material, the laws of mechanics. “‘ I discovered my will four days ago,”…
1906 · PDF PAGE 121
ACTUS QUINTUS ITS MEDEA. One thing remember! While you say the spell— Here is the parchment !—let no thought arise In any of your minds !1 ALCESTIS. [Zo her Sisters.] Remember that ! MEDEA. Else—Ototototoi ! FIRST DANAID. What woe is this? MEDEA, The charm is broken. SECOND DANAID., And our father MEDEA, Lost ! DANAIDES. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Ai Ai! MEDEA, Ai Ai! Aji Ai! ALCESTIS, Be brave, dear sisters, pluck your courage up ! Easy this one condition! All is safe. MEDEA. . Haste then! Good luck attend you!) When the hunt Returns, how joyful 1 Tt isa c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 94
… marred by her disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the fault is the seer’s and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. Never forget Blake’s words: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.” + Do not restrain your …
1910 · PDF PAGE 94
… marred by her disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the fault is the seer’s and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. Never forget Blake’s words: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.” + Do not restrain your …
1922 · PDF PAGE 181
…s. It didn’t exist before except in his rotten imagination. .. . I get such sudden spells of utter weariness. Dope would put me right. Nothing else has any effect. Everything that happens makes me want a sniff; and every sniff makes something happen. One can’t get away from the cage, but the complexity makes me... there, I can’t think what I started to say. My mind stops suddenly. It’s like dropping a vanity bag. You stop to pick it up and the things are all over the place and it always seems as if something were missing. One can never remember…
1906 · PDF PAGE 98
…him for an hour, and‘lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothing is but wisdom—and myself Think strongly that no other thing exists But strength: so with his subtleties of mind He baffles me ; and I lift up my club, And with one blow bespatter his wise brains. JASON. Ay, not for nothing did the darkness reign Those eight-and-forty hours,! O Zeus-begot ! 1 Zeus caused a night to extend to this length, that he might efficiently beget Hercules.