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Page 70 of 1141911 · PDF PAGE 173
…essed is he that hath attained to look upon thy face. For I will hurl thee forth from my presence as a whirling thunderbolt to guard the ways, and whom thou smitest shall be smitten indeed. And whom thou lovest shall be loved indeed. And whether by smiting or by love thou workest, each one shall see my face, a glimmer through a thousand veils. And they shall rise up from love’s sleep or death’s, and gird themselves with a girdle of snake-skin for wisdom, and they shall wear the white tunic of purity, and the apron of flaming orange for will, an…
1922 · PDF PAGE 61
… more distractingly, deliriously glorious than ever. I had never been particularly keen on women. The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love ; in fact, I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels. But with cocaine, things are absolutely different. I want to emphasise the fact that cocaine is in reality a local anesthetic. Thatis the actual explanation of its action. One cannot feel one’s b…
1922 · PDF PAGE 65
…. Lou was giggling all over with irrepressible excite- ment. I know “ giggling all over” isn’t English; but I can’t express it any other way. She checked my rush as if she had been playing full back in an International Rugger match. “Get the scissors,’ she whispered. I understood in a second what she meant. It was perfectly true—we had been playing it a bit on the heavy side with that snow. I think it must have been about five sniffs. If you’re curious, all you have to do is to go back and count it up—to get me to ten thousand feet above the po…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…e through rocks and ice falls. This is not simply a question of good judgment; for in any given route, seen from a distance, there may always be a passage, perhaps not twenty feet in height, which would render the whole plan abortive. This is especially the case with ice falls, where much of the route is necessarily hidden from view. Obviously, one cannot see what is on the other side of a srac whose top one has theoretically reached. Yet I have never been wrong; I have never been forced to turn back from a climb once begun. I have also an ast…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…CY and MOLLY part. The effect of hts last dose ts worn off; clutching hts prescription, he goes off with set teeth. MOLLY goes the other way: to her enter a theatre- £oer. MOLLY. Won’t you come with me, ducky? THEATRE-GORR. Not to-night. See you some other night. MOLLY. Oh, do come, dearie ! THEATRE-GOER. No, I tell you—try Liverpool Street ! { Curfain,
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…. I know there's shops about here. So, turning, in his excitement and determination, he saw when you invoke the devil he is usually half-way to youa shop window full of photographs of the pictures and sculptures of the Louvre. He looked up and down the streetthe sight of a top hat might have saved him even at the eleventh hour. But no! nothing that looked in the least like an Englishman, even to his overheated fear of discovery. He peered and dodged about for a little like a man stalking dangerous game, and then, with sudden stealth, his back…
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
…tions to the existing automatic safeguards. The above remarks refer mainly to the technique of the business; and it is going a very long way to tell you that you ought to be able to work out the principles thereof from your general knowledge of Magick, but especially the Formula of Tetragrammaton, clearly stated and explained in Magick, Chapter III. Combine this with the heart of Chapter XII and you've got it! But there is another point at issue. This incidentally, is where the "automatic safeguards" come in. "Thou hast no right but to do thy w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 174
…olation, the same limestone water and similar conditions all along, the goitre varies from village to village in an absolutely irregular way. The whole nala is full of interest. It is a regular showplace for the weirdest phenomena. About an hour and a half above Ghomboro is a tributary nala, with only a trickle of water but swept by intermittent flushes of mud. Its crossing presented a certain problem. I had to post a man to give warning when a torrent was on the way. I myself went down into the bed of the torrent, which was very steep and slim…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…e minds {253} which are unable to accept any impression equably and critically. I have heard many great orators. The effect has nearly always been to make me wonder how they have the nerve to put forward such flimsy falsehoods. The excursion to the buried cities was an education in itself. The first impression was of the shocking callousness with which the coach horses were treated. There was not a single one along the whole route which was even moderately sound. I began to set its right value upon the first precept of Buddha: Not to take life.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 530
…successful. Whenever I do anything reasonable I come a cropper, and if I were to attempt to explain the events of my career in any other way, I should be confronted by a piled chaos of utterly unintelligible absurdities. The sale of The International left me stranded. War hysteria had reached its height. The British would not employ me, failing to understand or to trust. The Department of Justice, though warmly appreciative of my work, did not offer to pay me for it, nor did I ask them to do so. My stupid kingliness still stood in my way. I sho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…rms. I warned you in the beginning that there was an essential difficulty in these studies which is not to be by-passed or dodged in any way whatever. But, after all, it is the same difficulty which every child finds when he begins any study of any kind. In Latin, for instance, he is told that mensa means a table, that it belongs to the first declension and is feminine. There is no why about any of this; no explanation is possible; the child has to pick up the elements of the language one by one, taking what he is taught on trust. And it is onl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 44
…r in exactly this sense. Similarly, one may say that not to do one’s will is evidence of mental or moral insanity. When “duty points one way, and inclination the other,” it is proof that you are not one, but two. You have not centralized your control. This dichotomy is the beginning of conflict, which may result in a Jekyll-Hyde effect. Stevenson suggests that man may be discovered to be a “mere polity” of many individuals. The sages knew it long since. But the name of this polity is Choronzon,1 mob rule, unless every individ ual is absolutely…
1907 · PDF PAGE 252
… ii. 164 To die amid the blossoms of the frost, i. 135 To love you, Love, is all my happiness, i. 187 To-night I tread the unsubstantial way, i. 196 To return from our little digression to th original plan of our essay, ii. 256 To sea! Tosea! The ship is trim, iii. 5 Towards the mountains and the night, i. 89 To what God should he appeal? ii. 226 Truth, like old Gaul, is split in three, iii. 3 Turn back from safety: in my love ::bide, i. 133 ‘“‘ Truth, that’s the gold!” ii. 144 "Twas dark when church was out ! iii, 60 Twilight is over, i. 53 UL…
1929 · PDF PAGE 386
… human power to predict or to produce, that it is unique. The thirty Aethyrs being, however, only second in importance, though very far away, to that Book, the Lords of Vision were at pains to supply internal evidence, more than amply sufficient that the revelations therein contained may be regarded as reliable. No doubt the proof appears stronger to me than to anyone else, because I alone know exactly what happened; also because many passages refer to matters personal to myself, so that only I can fully appreciate the dovetailings. Just so a m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
… ! Ah, there is aye Srrk PERCY. Ah, love, at moonrise ! MOLLY. At my door ! Sirk PERCY. Tf[ell belch Its monsters one by one to stop the way ! I would be there. ANGELA, Christ ! he shall not be there! MOLLY. Farewell ! Sir PERCY. O fairest, fare thee well ! MOLLY. Farewell ! [ANGELA draws nearer, yel remains concvaled, Sirk PERCY. O but the moon is laggard ! MOLLY. IIard it is! Sirk PERCY. Time matters not. Iam so drunk with love, MOLLY. One kiss, one kiss ! Sirk PERCY. A million! Ay, slack moon, Dull moon, haste, haste ! MOoO.L.Ly Kiss me agai…
1922 · PDF PAGE 74
60 The Diary of a Drug Fiend belonged to eternity in some indefinable way ; and that infinite silence blossoms inscrutably into embrace. The heroin had begun to take hold. We felt ourselves crowned with colossal calm. We were masters; we had budded from nothingness into existence! And now, existence slowly compelled us to action. There was a necessity in our own natures which demanded expression and after the first intense inter-penetration of our individualities, we had reached the resultant of all the forces that composed us. In one sense, it…
1922 · PDF PAGE 285
…elf in the presence of an intelligence capable of out-manceuvring one’s own at every point without even taking the trouble to do so. The way he took everything for granted was in itself annoying. He strolled over to the charts, and stood studying them for a long time while he puffed at a cigar. Even the cigar was offensive. It was the kind that million- aires have specially made for themselves. Lamus smoked no other kind ; and yet he was a comparatively poor man. Of course, the explanation was perfectly simple. He really understood and really a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 316
…ank you.” My own voice made me wince. Could it really be I who was indulging in this vulgar repartee ? It was an extraordinary thing the way everything that happened seemed to make my position less and less dignified. The thought was interrupted by Lou’s gleaming tones. “ There, Basil, he sets me free. I come to you without a stain. You can keep your promise without breaking your faith.” She got up from the sofa and went across to his chair. She threw herself at his feet, and buried her face in his knees; while her long arms reached up and grop…
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…my life when it could profitably be introduced into my equipment. {149} 18 During the May term of 1898 I met another man who, in his own way, was interested in many of the same things as I was myself. His name was Gerald Festus Kelly. He is described in the telephone book as an artist; and the statement might have passed unchallenged indefinitely had not the Royal Academy recently elected him as an associate. He is hardly to be blamed for this disgrace. He struggled manfully. Even at the last moment, when he felt the thunderclouds about to brea…
1919 · PDF PAGE 418
…and the like, he is Black. To the Master of the Temple either proceeding appears blind and stupid. In the lower stages there is only one way right, and all the rest wrong. You are to aspire to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and of course to do any other things which may subserve that one purpose; but nothing else. And of course it is a mistake, unless under very special circum- stances, to perform any miracles, on the ground that they diminish the supreme energy reserved for the performance of the Main Task. It will …