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Page 69 of 1141922 · PDF PAGE 339
…w-born. Big Lion puts us through it without our knowing what he’s doing. Though I’ve been through it myself, I didn’t know in this clear way what had really happened until I tried to explain it to you.” The sense of being enchanted came over me again very strongly. I looked across at Lou, and I could see in her eyes that she felt the same. But she was trembling with excitement and eagerness. Her eyes were fixed on the face of Sister Athena with devouring ardour. She was looking forward to undergoing this terrific experience. My own mood was sli…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…ny was best: that was Atmosphere; it put me right back among the old familiar scenes; I thought I was somewhere on the South-Eastern Railway waiting for a train." Lisa flamed indignation. "She's the most wonderful dancer in the world." "Yes, she is that," said her lover, with affected heavy sadness. "Wonderful! My father used to say, too, that she used even to dance well when she was forty." The nostrils of la Giuffria dilated. She understood that it was a monster that had carried her away; and she made ready for a last battle. But Simon Iff an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 300
…larity in the names of the exchanges, or in the numbers . It is the most grotesquely impossible case of "wrong number" that ever came my way. Now for one or two oddities. Recently, needing to relax, I borrowed three "thrillers" from different sources. In every case, the plot turned on two men being so alike that no one could tell them apart. (Rupert of Hentzau , John Chilcote, M.P.,Melander's Millions.) I travelled from Louisville to Detroit by a railroad whose nickname was the "Big Four," my object being some business connected with my Book 4.…
1919 · PDF PAGE 244
THE EQUINOX are born. Every man is in his own way a king, or at least heir to some kingdom. We have many examples of such society to-day, notably universities and all associations of sport. No. 5 in the Harvard crew does not turn round in the middle of the race and reproach No. 4 for being merely No. 4; nor do the pitcher and catcher of a crack baseball nine revile each other because their tasks are different. It is to be noted that wherever team-work is necessary social toler- ance is an essential. The common soldier is invested with a uniform…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…ntrymen of Cook, drake and Nelson were not behindhand with wise advice couched in language of frankness and fancy. They learned that the way to make a barge go was to walk up and down the broad flat gunwale with a pole. She was certainly very hard to start; but it got easier as she gathered way. They entered into the spirit of the sport and began to run up and down with their poles, exciting each other to emulation with cheerful laughter. Pride filled their souls as they observed {161} that their rapid mastery of the awkward craft was appreciat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…h after a pleasant journey of ten miles. After lunch we went off to Kyoukghyi. The next day we resumed our journey; I walked most of the way and shot some partridges and pigeons for lunch, which we took at Leh-Joung; this isbungalow, but a not a village. We went on in the afternoon to Yegyanzin, fortune to meet Garr, where we had the good the forest commissioner of theUnfortunately he was unable district, and his assistant Hopwood. to giveto have no difficulty in getting me any elephants, as they were all in use; but told me I ought coolies and…
1911 · PDF PAGE 156
…uch as fall; bring forth those that increase; and destroy the rotten. (This means that everything shall take its own pleasure in its own way.) No place let it remain in onenumber. (‘‘ No place” is the infinite Ain. . . . “Let remain in one number”; that is, let it be con- centrated in Kether.) Add and diminish until the stars be numbered. (It is a mystery of the Logos being formulated by the Qabalah, because the stars are all letters of the Holy Alphabet, as it was said in a former Aethyr.) Arise! Movel and Appear! before the covenant of his mo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 144
…g at the Caligula at Capri; and our clothes, our pass- ports, our money, and everything are there.” I couldn’t help being pleased by the way in which she rose to the crisis; her practical good sense, her memory of those details that are so important in business, though the male temperament regards them as a necessary. nuisance. These are the things that one needs in an official muddle. “You don’t know any Italian at all?” asked the consul. ; “Only a few words,” she admitted, “ though, of course, Sir Peter’s knowledge of French and Latin help hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…, and swords with undulating blades issued from each re-entrant angle. Their return broke up the conversation, and Sister Cybele led the way, with Lisa on her arm, to the lobby. There the wonder of the house began. The wall facing the front door was masked by a group of statuary of heroic size. It was a bronze, and represented Mercury leading Hercules into Hades. In the background stood Charon in his boat, one hand upon his oar, the other stretched to receive his obolus. Sister Cybele waited until all the guests were in the boat. Then she made …
1954 · PDF PAGE 51
… structure of the Universe, and their relations the form of expression of our Understanding of it. In Greek and Hebrew there is no other way of writing numbers; our 1, 2, 3, etc. comes from the Phoenicians through the Arabs. You need no more of Greek and Hebrew than these values, some sacred words-knowledge grows by use-and books of reference. One cannot set a pupil definite tasks beyond the groundwork I am giving you, and we should find this correspondence taking clear shape of its own accord. You have really more than you can do already. And …
1954 · PDF PAGE 101
…tion either of hatred or of sympathy. So far as it attempts to influence the course of events at all, it does so in the only intelligent way conceivable: it seeks to diminish internal friction. It remains, therefore, in a contemplative attitude. To use the terms of Western philosophy, there is in its attitude something of the stoicism of Zeno; or of the Pickwickianism, if I may use the term, of Epicurus. The ideal reaction to phenomena is that of perfect elasticity. It possesses something of the cold-bloodedness of mathematics; and for this rea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 466
… him then all Opportunity to pursue the Path which he thus indicates . Learn this, that he, being young, will weary quickly of all false Ways, however pleasant they may be to him at the outset; but of the true Way he will not weary. This being in this Manner discovered, thou mayst prepare it for him perfectly ; for no man can keep all Roads open for ever. And to him making his Choice, explain how one may not travel far on anyone Road without a general Knowledge of Things apparently irrelevant. And with that he will understand , and bend him wis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 182
…s kind that we found on the whole glacier. The day after, I crossed the glacier to Lhungka. It was a very nervous business picking one's way across the moraines, especially as I had to build stone men to guide the other parties, and I had only the vaguest ideas as to what point on the other bank of the glacier to make for. I climbed a high point in the middle and took compass observations, as I could now see Masherbrum (25,660 feet) and Gusherbrum (26,630 feet). These peaks are the most spectacular of the whole range; the one as stupendous wedg…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…has destroyed his former hobby , will in its turn run riot over all , till it also becomes such a pest , that it too , will have to give way to something better . Never contented , man ultimately finds that his double collection of manna rots . What the end will be no one knows , and few care ; that we shall ever reach a state verging on perfection is most improbable ; man could not stand it for long unless his worldly span were one of unam bitious affluence , and his heavenly one of spasmodic sensuality and forgetfulness . To have plenty of mo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
…en came earthquake as he had foreseen; and he and the boats also were swallowed up. In the tidal wave of the earthquake I was borne far away, even from the fair man my brother; and in the darkness he was lost to me. I knew not even whether he had perished. But fashioning a raft from the loose planks of the wreckage, I made shift to paddle. The ark was invisible, and I had no more memory thereof, so turned away was I and absorbed in the bright signs upon the way. And now my raft was like to sink, and my arms were exceeding weary, when a voice so…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
…en came earthquake as he had foreseen; and he and the boats also were swallowed up. In the tidal wave of the earthquake I was borne far away, even from the fair man my brother; and in the darkness he was lost to me. I knew not even whether he had perished. But fashioning a raft from the loose planks of the wreckage, I made shift to paddle. The ark was invisible, and I had no more memory thereof, so turned away was I and absorbed in the bright signs upon the way. And now my raft was like to sink, and my arms were exceeding weary, when a voice so…
1922 · PDF PAGE 147
…d our high spirits to our companion. He attributed them, no doubt, to our prospects of getting out of the scrape. Lou rattled on all the way about life in London, and I told the story—bar the snow part—of our elope- ment. He thawed out completely. Our confidence had reassured him. We shook hands amid all-round genial laughter
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…is-idea persists, but is now the formula for incarnating demi-gods, or divine kings; these must be slain and raised from the dead in one way or another. 1 Aeon of Horus. Two sexes in one person. FIAOF: 93, the full formula, recognizing the Sun as the Son (Star), as the pre-existent manifested Unit from which ail springs and to which ail returns. The Great Work is to make the initial FF of Assiah (the world of material illusion) into the final FIF of Atziluth,2 the world of pure reality. Spelling the Name in full, FF -f- IFD -f- ALP -f- OIN -f- …
1947 · PDF PAGE 7
…t but do thy will. Do that and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. There are four gates to one palace : the floor of that palace is of silver and gold ; lapis lazuli and jasper are there ; and all rare scents ; jasmine and rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates ; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink ? Ho ! warrior, if thy servant sink ? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore. This also is …
1954 · PDF PAGE 266
…litude of the desert, whether among the sierras of Spain or the Sands of the Sahara, I found that the philosophy of Lao-tze resumed its sway upon my soul, subtler and stronger on each successive occasion. But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest , stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States, one is almost always conscious of an instincti…