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The Voice of Virtue 2gI could—but there is still a matter of three thousand pounds to find. And remember, after insuring against all risks, and so forth, we shall be paying at the very least four thousand per cent.” I have never been any sort of a business man; but a child of twelve could grasp the gigantic nature of the proposition. “IT have brought the papers for your inspection, my dear Sir Peter. You will see that the capital is only £20,000 in shares of {1 fully paid up—and I am offering you £3000 at par.” “It’s princely, my dear sir,” I e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…e meals and I thought I ought to look into his room to see if all was well. I must explain that I have known only two European women and three European men who could sit in the attitude called Padmasana, which is that usually seen in seated images of the Buddha. Of these men, Allan was one. He could knot his legs so well that, putting his hands on the ground, he could swing his body to and fro in the air between them. When I looked into his room I found him, not seated on his meditation mat, which was in the centre of the room at the end farthe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…. Then there was a bank of soft roses with the sun shining on it, and above there was a red rose on a golden cross, and then there was a three-comered star, shining so bright that nobody could possibly look at it unless they had love in their eyes; and in the middle was an eye without an eyelid. That could see anything, I should think, but you see it never could go to sleep, because there wasn’t any eye lid. On the sides were written I.N.R.l. and T.A.R.O., which mean many strange and beautiful things, and terrible things too. I should think any…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
226 THE STAR IN THE WEST PARALLEL EXTRACTS FROM THE “ THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS " AND “ An ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING " “ Away then with all that “ The sceptic , therefore , had Scepticism , all those ridiculous better keep within his proper philosophical doubts . What a sphere . . . For here is the jest is it for a philosopher to chief and most confounding question the existence of sen objection to excessive sceptic sible things , till he hath it ism , that no durable good can proved to him from the vera ever resu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 380
…tonce. The news is startling. Having received my letter, he threatens to blow the island into the air, should any vessel approach within three miles, He informs me of his absolute decision never to leave the place, and never to allow any one to come within the distance mentioned. Provided he receives my pledge never to reveal the situation of his new landed pro- perty, he promises to keep me informed of all his doings. For the sake of the tale, I have made myself an accomplice of his crimes and follies. I am ashamed of myself, but curiosity is …
1909 · PDF PAGE 380
…tonce. The news is startling. Having received my letter, he threatens to blow the island into the air, should any vessel approach within three miles, He informs me of his absolute decision never to leave the place, and never to allow any one to come within the distance mentioned. Provided he receives my pledge never to reveal the situation of his new landed pro- perty, he promises to keep me informed of all his doings. For the sake of the tale, I have made myself an accomplice of his crimes and follies. I am ashamed of myself, but curiosity is …
1954 · PDF PAGE 120
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (3) 87 openly that they have triumphed all along the line. Their formula has attained the destruction of all positive qualities. It is only one step to the stage when the annihilation of all life and thought will appear as a fatal necessity. The materialism and vital scepticism of the present time, its frenzied rush for pleasure in total disregard of any idea of building for the future, testifies to a condition of complete moral disorder, of abject spiritual anarchy. The White School has thus been paralysed. We are remin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…d through and over me; then one of the strange inhabitants passed through me unconscious of me, and I returned. Golden Dawn symbol. 14m. Three breaks. May 8th. Position 1. 22m. Seven breaks, Calvary Cross. 50m. Did I go to sleep? 11th. Designed Abrahadabra for a pantacle.* 12th. I performed a Magic Ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at Astral Projection. I prefer the Esoteric Theosophist Society’s seven- fold division for these practical purposes. I think Physical Astral Projection should be preceded by a (ceremonial) “loosening of the gi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…d through and over me; then one of the strange inhabitants passed through me unconscious of me, and I returned. Golden Dawn symbol. 14m. Three breaks. May 8th. Position 1. 22m. Seven breaks, Calvary Cross. 50m. Did I go to sleep? 11th. Designed Abrahadabra for a pantacle.* 12th. I performed a Magic Ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at Astral Projection. I prefer the Esoteric Theosophist Society’s seven- fold division for these practical purposes. I think Physical Astral Projection should be preceded by a (ceremonial) “loosening of the gi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 319
…discovered, it would soon be spoilt. There is no harm, however, in indicating what the place itself is like, especially as not less than three thousand years ago it became one of the most famous places in the world. And one of its chief claims was that even then it was famous for the ruins of forgotten civilisations. To-day, the hand of man has left ephemeral scribbles all over the great rock which dominates the city. Approaching Telepylus from the west, we were astounded when that mighty crag burst into view as the train rounded a corner. Like…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…itrary and accidentai kind. 1 II Beside these open methods there are also a number of mental methods of Invocation, of which we may give three. The first method concerns the so-called astral body. The Magician should practise the formation of this body as recom- mended in Liber O, and learn to rise on the planes according to the instruction given in the same book, though limiting his arising” to the particular Symbol whose God he wishes to invoke. The second is to recite a mantra suitable to the God. The third is the assumption of the form of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 271
…light; to kindle the gnarled prose of stolid scholarship into the burgeoning blossom of lyrical flame. I completed my translation within three days, but during the last twenty years I have constantly reconsidered every sentence . The manuscript has been lent to a number of friends, scholars who have commended my work, and aspirants who have appreciated its adequacy to present the spirit of the Master's teaching. Those who had been
1922 · PDF PAGE 85
A Heroin Heroine a that want to wallow in action that need three meals a day. I hardly ever talk—words seem such waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet in- vented a language from my point of view. Human life or heroin life? I’ve tried them both; and I don’t regret having chosen as I did.” I said something about heroin shortening life. A wan smile flickered on her hollow cheeks. There was something appalling in its wintry splendour. It silenced us. She looked down at her hands. I noticed for the first time with extreme surprise th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
…he Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold 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 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 268
…235 As for TO ON, which superficially might seem the best translation of Tao as described in the text , it is the most misleading of the three . For TO ON possesses an extensive connotation implying a whole system of Platonic concepts, than which nothing can be more alien to the essential quality of the Tao. Tao is neither 'being' nor 'not being' in any sense which Europe could understand. It is neither existence , nor a condition or form of existence . Equally, TO MH ON gives no idea of Tao. Tao is altogether alien to all that class of thought…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…But all phrases are weak. It was Natures standing miracle.) which, as you will observe, is ninety-seven yards, two feet, and four and three quarter inches in length it is the sor- row of my life that I have never touched the 100 yard mark ! And standing in a long row, began to frig and suck it madly. As you can see, I can coil and uncoil it at pleasure : I can wind myself up in it : I could hang myself in it if the whim took me. I have dipped it in treacle, and given a Sunday- School treat which the children will remember for years the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
…lness of this description, for I know the swine well enough, and in no other than a book of filth would I have introduced any one of the three. Ed.) my artis- tic studies progressed but slowly, for much of my time was occupied with a liaison I had formed with Stephen Jimson, to whom the Ode (infra) is ad- dressed. This youth had the peculiar facility of spotting sodomites in the most unlikely places. He would in a short walk along the boulevard recog- nize as confreres in homosexual vice some ninety- five percent of the passers by. He was not h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
… But lying down doesn’t rest us; it irritates us more, so we get up again, and so on for ever. One can’t smoke a cigarette; after two or three puffs it drops from one’s fingers. The only respite I have is this diary. It relieves me to write of my sufferings; and besides, it is important for the spiritual life. Basil must have the record to read. I can’t remember dates, though. I don’t even know what year it is. The leaves in the park tell me it is autumn, and the nights are getting longer. The night is better than the day; there is less to irri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…at tea-time," said Lisa suddenly to Cyril. He simpered over her hand. Before they realized it, he had bowed himself out of the room. The three women looked at each other. Suddenly Lavinia King began to laugh. It was a harsh, unnatural performance: and for some reason her friend took it amiss. She went tempestuously into her bedroom, and banged the door behind her. Lavinia, almost equally cross, went into the opposite room and called her maid. In half-an-hour she was asleep. In the morning she went in to see her friend. She found her lying on th…
1938 · PDF PAGE 21
…ke one further step on the long road that leadeth to Perfection. Also, twice in that period, that is, at intervals of a little more than three, and a little less than seven, centuries, they send a lesser prophet to prepare the Way of the next Word, and to maintain or to restore the virtue of the Word then current. And on the unfurled portion of the chart I read the names of certain of these Brethren, and the Words as one was uttered after the other. But some I could not read, because the characters were strange. These: FU-HSI. After a great spa…