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Page 67 of 901904 · PDF PAGE 40
…rily against the lower portion of the Imperial slit : and only the loyal assistance of the maids of honour in supporting and swinging my body kept me at all to my duty. Fuck me ! Hoarsely whis- pered the gin-smelling potato-trap of the still randy sovereign. I screwed up my almost deliquescing tickle-toby to the pitch of another jumble-giblets, but it was with no hopeful outlook. Frankly, to myself and the surgeons read my gloomy thought I was compelled to look facts in the face, and admit that a very few hours now would see me sink a corps…
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…ew. Fresh from his laurels at the Empire, the Hu- man Corkscrew had been commanded to appear before the K..g. If he can do that with his body, what will he not be able to do with his prick ? Thought the witty little woman, the worthy pupil of Immanuel Kant. She fitted act to deduction, and an hour after the performance the trouble-giblets of Kluckchoo was worming about in the universally admired cunnikin of the fashionable nestlecock. His complaisance was however not without rea- son. Tell your old fumble monger, said he when her delirium was a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 206
…get them, and keep to the Text! Cap. I, v. 26: . .. my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. V.30: This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. (There is a Qabalistic inner meaning in this text; "the
1929 · PDF PAGE 260
… helpless. On one occasion he actually tried to bribe a man with boots and claws to do his ordinary duty. As long as I was with the main body, these things didn't matter. Nobody dared to disobey the Bara Sahib. A moment's hesitation in complying with any order of mine and they saw a look in my eyes which removed the inhibition. They knew that I would not scold or wheedle, but had a strong suspicion that I might strike a man dead without warning; at the same time they knew that I would never give an {430} unreasonable order and that my active sy…
1922 · PDF PAGE 317
… he had made no effort. “One condition? ’’ her voice rang high and clear through the studio. “I’m giving you myself, my Lord and lover ; body and soul to have and to hold. What do conditions matter to me?” “Well,” said King Lamus, “ it’s really only a small condition ; and to prove that I keep my promises, I must keep them all round. You see, I promised to cure Sir Peter, too, and so my condition is that he comes with us.”’ She sprang to her feet as if a cobra had struck her. Her long arms wrestled against the unresisting air. The humiliation w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
…e his own figure (preferably robed in the proper magical garments, and armed with the proper magical weapons) as enveloping his physical body, or standing near to and in front of him. 3. Let him then transfer the seat of his consciousness to that imagined figure 3 so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 368
…so. You said it yourself! "Family pressure" was your pungent and pertinent expression. Just so. I think that "family" should include any body of persons with common interests which they expect or wish you to share. One's old school or university, the regiment, the golf club, the business, the party, the country: any of these may dislike very much your absorption in affairs alien to their own. But the family is the classic type, because its pull is so potent and persistent. It began when you gave your first yell; your personality is deliberately…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
… suppose that one is complying with heathen customs. Another early reminiscence. On February 29th, 1808, Alick was taken to see the dead body of his sister, Grace Mary Elizabeth2, who had only lived five hours. The incident made a curious impression on him. He did not see why he should be disturbed so uselessly. He couldn't do any good; the child was dead; it was none of his business. This attitude continued through his life. He has never attended any funeral3 But that of his father, which he did not mind doing, as he felt himself to be the rea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…pass, and it was desirable to massacre a goat upon the altar, which would be no less than the corpse itself. Vesquit, declaring that the body was to be sent to England, had a dummy shipped off in a coffin, and kept Gates on ice, which may or may not have been a great comfort to him. Abdul had no difficulty in procuring the cats which, much to their dissatisfaction, were caged in Arthwait's study, and fed on human flesh, which Vesquit easily procured from the dissecting-rooms of the local hospitals. But the goat was a more serious matter. An ord…
1937 · PDF PAGE 6
…diately be appointed to work out, when need arises, the details of the True Will of every indivi- dual, and even that of every corporate body whether social or commercial, while a judiciary will arise to determine the equity in the case of apparently conflicting claims. (Such cases will become progressively more rare as adjustment is attained). All appeal to precedent and authority, the deadwood of the Tree of Life, will be abolished, and strictly scientific standards will be the sole measure by which the executive power shall order the people.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 343
… sunny land of summer to the icy Polar Star. I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold. I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south With our passion in your body and our love upon your mouth --- With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew! My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you!1 This year was indeed my annus mirabilis in poetry. It began with Clouds Without Water, to which I have already called attention in the matter of its {555} 1. Cr…
1911 · PDF PAGE 100
…ould rush upon thee and tear thee. For when I made myself like unto a beautiful woman, if thou hadst come to me, I would have rotted thy body with the pox, and thy liver with cancer, and I would have torn off thy testicles with my teeth. And if I had seduced thy pride, and thou hadst bidden me to come into the circle, I would have trampled thee under foot, and for a thousand years shouldst thou have been but one of the tape-worms that isinme. And if I had seduced thy pity, and thou hadst poured one drop of water without the circle, then would I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…it, is every way perfect” (CCXX, I, 44) to banish; and (b) “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.” (CCXX, II, 62) to consecrate. For the Book of the Law contains the Suprême Spells. — 107
1922 · PDF PAGE 43
…say that I felt. I was Feeling itself ! I was all the possibilities of Feeling fulfilled to the uttermost. Yet, coincident with this, my body went on automatically with its own private affairs. She was escaping me. Her face eluded mine. “O Thou storm-drunk breath of the winds, that pant in the bosom of the mountains! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” Her breast sobbed out its song with weird intensity. I understood in a flash that this was her way of resistance. She was trying to insist to herself that she was a cosmic force; that she w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…erpret a passage of Bach. To play this is the principal weapon of your ceremony. In the course of your operation, you assume your astral body and rise far above the terrestrial atmosphere, while the music continues softly in the background. You open your eyes, and find that it is night . Dark clouds are on the horizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. This light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world . In…
1954 · PDF PAGE 375
342 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS droPt'ed like vitriol from his lips: "You - young - fool! You go and put the most tender part of your body where I wouldn't put my umbrella!" It is the magical formula of a man to push outwards, of a woman to close upon from without. This is commonly seen as the possessive instinct ; it may often be masked as "protective" but its essential truth is the impulse to devour. Hence the death-like idea of "home ," where she can digest her victims in security and at leisure. Hence, as even Jung saw in his very first book , and…
1922 · PDF PAGE 239
Cold Turkey 225 of animal life, and when one has got to the stage where one becomes wholly spiritual, the body becomes cold like a corpse.... A dreadful thing has happened. We have used up all the heroin, and there is hardly any cocaine. I remembered what I had sewn away in my white frock, and went to get it. It was on the floor in a corner of the drawing-room. It was all shrunk and rumpled and dirty, and it was still quite wet. I suppose I must have gone a long walk in the rain, though I don’t remember anything about it. All the heroin was was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
… sense of time natural to life, caused each act of the demon to appear of vast duration, although the intervals between the howls of the body on the bed were very short. Each pang of torture or suspense was born, rose to its crest, and died to be reborn again through what seemed countless aeons. Still more was this the case in the process of his as- similation by the demon. The coma of the dying man was a phenomenon altogether out of Time. The condi- tions of digestion were new to Arthur, he had no rea- son to suppose, no data from which to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 232
…y of quotations, would almost certainly result in your missing the point, "unable to see the wood for the trees." Let me put it that the body is formed by the super-position of layers, each representing a stage in the
1922 · PDF PAGE 349
…my hand. It was headed, “Reasons for taking it.” 1. My cough is very bad this morning. (Note: (a) Is cough really bad? (b) If so, is the body coughing because it is sick or because it wants to persuade you to give it some heroin ?) 2. To buck me up. 3. I can’t sleep without it. 4. I can’t keep awake without it. 5. I must be at my best to do what I have to do. If I can only bring that off, I need never take it again. 6. I must show I am master of it—free to say either “yes” or “no.” And I must be perfectly sure by saying “yes’’ at the moment. My…