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Page 62 of 1031909 · PDF PAGE 3
… postage stamp These she had placed on my mantelpiece for pipe-spills, and forgotten about them. It is my pride and privilege through my old and esteemed consur, as I suppose I may say for the lady of confrère, to give the providentially rescued masterpiece ; alas ! too incomplete ! to the World of Society, though even the humblest may enjoy (A navvy, when they were repairing the street, whom I asked up to taste my delicious T. I think the ab- breviation is so clever, dont you ? and to whom I had read it, said : B...y good, miss, b...y …
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
The Golden Bough, by J. G. Frazer. The Text-Book of Folk Lore. Invalidable to ail students. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable text-book of old Systems of initiation. Tliree Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of sub¬ jective idealism. Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academie Scepticism. First Principles, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnos- ticism. Prolegomena, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics.…
1911 · PDF PAGE 148
…sses the sunshine. The man with the burette misses the sea. Some pious Dutchman of yore, who wanted to paint Abraham and Isaac, gave the old man a blunderbuss. Why not? You can shoot your son with a blunderbuss! I tell you it’s all symbolism, all hieroglyphics. Take Wagner ! " “Take a cigarette," said Ida. He shrugged his shoulders, and surrendered to the event. “ Mr Rolles," she said, ”it is your advice on life that we are asking. Let us talk seriously. This dear boy (she took the negro’s lips in her slim fingers and pinched them) likes me." “ …
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…it the expression and the hour of birth In silence through the adamantine girth. I rose in glory, gathered of the foam. The sea’s flower folded, charioting me risen Where dawn‘s rose stole from its pearlvglimmering home, And heaven laughed, and earth: and mine old prison, The seas that lay beneath the mighty dome, Shone with my splendour. Light did first bedizen Earth with its clusters of fiery dew and spray, When I looked forth and cried, “ It is the day!” The stars are dewdrops on my bosom’s space; The sun and moon are glances through my lashes,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 148
…sses the sunshine. The man with the burette misses the sea. Some pious Dutchman of yore, who wanted to paint Abraham and Isaac, gave the old man a blunderbuss. Why not? You can shoot your son with a blunderbuss! I tell you it’s all symbolism, all hieroglyphics. Take Wagner ! " “Take a cigarette," said Ida. He shrugged his shoulders, and surrendered to the event. “ Mr Rolles," she said, ”it is your advice on life that we are asking. Let us talk seriously. This dear boy (she took the negro’s lips in her slim fingers and pinched them) likes me." “ …
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…it the expression and the hour of birth In silence through the adamantine girth. I rose in glory, gathered of the foam. The sea’s flower folded, charioting me risen Where dawn‘s rose stole from its pearlvglimmering home, And heaven laughed, and earth: and mine old prison, The seas that lay beneath the mighty dome, Shone with my splendour. Light did first bedizen Earth with its clusters of fiery dew and spray, When I looked forth and cried, “ It is the day!” The stars are dewdrops on my bosom’s space; The sun and moon are glances through my lashes,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…s begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank, that Eliphas knew nothing of 153
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…s begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank, that Eliphas knew nothing of 153
1919 · PDF PAGE 103
…heard the voice of Adonai: Seal up the book of the Heart and the Serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. As fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the Pyramid of the ceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one Thought of Me thy delight Adonai. 59. And I answered and said: It is done even according unto Thy word. Anditwasdone. And they that read the book and debated thereon passed into t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 252
… cousin. Is my face so changed with care, My body shrunken with my suffering (That was not ever of the body) so? WOLFRAM. I know you, my old friend! Our chiefest bird ! Sweetest of singers ! TANNHAUSER. No, the naughty one! HEINRICH. Tannhauser! Yes! you dead. And we have thought LANDGRAVE. Friends, will you swear to him? HEINRICH. Yes, yes, ‘tis he! WOLFRAM. I know the blithe look in the sober eyes ! LANDGRAVE, Changed verily. It was most urgent, cousin, I were assured of your identity. — Three weeks the couriers scour the land for you, Urgent…
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
THE OLD BOTTLE 163 A treacherous bully , feeble as malign , Intolerable, inhuman , undivine , With spite close girded and with hatred shod , A snarling cur, the Christian's Christless God . Out ! misbegotten monster ! with thy brood , The obscene offspring of thy pigritude , Incestuous wedlock with the Pharisees That hail the Christ a son of thee ! Our knees Bend not before thee , and our earth -bowed brows Shake off their worship , and reject thy spouse , The harlot of the world ! For , proud and free , We stand beyond thy hatred , even we : W…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
…ssert , and still fewer are aware of ; for it has ever been the craft of the Christian Church to pass off on her paramours her worn -out old body as that of untasted virginity . The Catholic Church , the harlot of the seven hills , comes in for sparse mercy . In Tannhäuser we find the head of this infallible and august body of swindlers mocked as a mountebank , and his power as a “ barren staff .' In “ Ascension Day ” the whole Christian Church as a lie , “ abortion and iniquity ,” ? whose soldiers are no ardent warriors in triple steel , but l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
…ebleness, and only the utter fatuity of that or any other method of obtaining relief keeps one quietly writing. One feels, too, like the old woman in Thérése Raquin, dumb and paralysed even while bursting with the tremendous secret. Small wonder then if the adepts demand years of training before the things themselves are 75
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
…ebleness, and only the utter fatuity of that or any other method of obtaining relief keeps one quietly writing. One feels, too, like the old woman in Thérése Raquin, dumb and paralysed even while bursting with the tremendous secret. Small wonder then if the adepts demand years of training before the things themselves are 75
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…ll. Ill all the week. 28th. During the night began again meditation upon Ajna, and “Mantra Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 30th. Decide to do tests on old principle to see how I really stand. to perceive the (pleasant and unpleasant) sensation of a raising of the right foot” being the final form. The Buddha himself said that if a man practises Mahasatipatthana honestly and intelligently a result is certain. 179
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…ll. Ill all the week. 28th. During the night began again meditation upon Ajna, and “Mantra Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 30th. Decide to do tests on old principle to see how I really stand. to perceive the (pleasant and unpleasant) sensation of a raising of the right foot” being the final form. The Buddha himself said that if a man practises Mahasatipatthana honestly and intelligently a result is certain. 179
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
… their way through the joyous throng midst song and chorus , then from the lips of Archais rises : Light and dark are wed together Into golden weather : Sun and moon have kissed , and built Palaces star -gilt Whence a crystal stream of joy, love's eternal wine , is spilt. ' Such is one of the most pleasing of Aleister Crowley's poems ; touched by the genuine breath of adoration for the beautiful , a jewel set in fiery gold , a crimson sash embroidered with the pearls of the glowing orient ; Archais is one of the tenderest and most touching of w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 353
…is regarded not as an animal of the ordinary brute creation, but as one endowed with great wisdom, and closely allied to man. One of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. The seal was credited with being able to assume human form. While in human guise, he contracted marriages with human beings, and if we are to credit tradition, the Mac- Codrums of North Uist are the offspring of such a union. In former times the MacCodrums were known in the Western Islands as Stiechd nan Ron, or the offspring of the seals. Asa seal…
1909 · PDF PAGE 353
…is regarded not as an animal of the ordinary brute creation, but as one endowed with great wisdom, and closely allied to man. One of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. The seal was credited with being able to assume human form. While in human guise, he contracted marriages with human beings, and if we are to credit tradition, the Mac- Codrums of North Uist are the offspring of such a union. In former times the MacCodrums were known in the Western Islands as Stiechd nan Ron, or the offspring of the seals. Asa seal…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
… epitome of all legends which forms the prologue to his great epic novel, The Wandering Jew.‘ The scene takes place at Corinth; it is an old-time wedding with its beautiful children crowned with flowers, bearing the nuptial torches, and singing gracious epithalamia flowered with voluptuous images like the poems of Catullus. The bride is as beautiful in her chaste draperies as the ancient Polyhymnia; she is amorous and deliciously provoking in her modesty, like a Venus of Correggio, or a Grace of Canova. The bridegroom is Clinias, a disciple of …