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Page 72 of 1121904 · PDF PAGE 21
…iginality. But a pleasanter glance overspread his face, and lit his kindly grey eyes, for his own wit kept him in almost perpetual good humour let us say nothing of all this but what gentlemen should say. I might find it hard to explain the ladys respi- ratory apparatus, but she could hardly account for the condition of her gigg and gut-end. A jammy proposition ! acquiesced the venal newsman. A pretty spunky, turdy, mess ! De mortuis nil nisi bonum ! insinuated the tempter. The reporter hesitated. Tuam nasam in meum an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 20
…magine, give long odds to one of Frederick’s grenadiers. It is useless to attack the mystic by asking him if he is quite sure Samadhi is good for his poor health; ’tis like asking the huntsman to be very careful, please, not to hurt the fox. The ultimate Question, the one that really knocks Samadhi to pieces, is such a stupendous Idea that it is far more of a! than all previous !’s whatever, for all its ? form. And the name of that Question is Nibbana. Take this matter of the soul. When Mr. Judas McCabbage asks the Man in the Street why he beli…
1954 · PDF PAGE 39
6 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Your postscript made me smile. It is not a very good advertisement for the kind of people with whom you have been associated in the past. My own position is a very simple one. I obeyed the injunction to "buy a perfectly black hen, without haggling." I have spent over 100,000 pounds of my inherited money on this work; and if I had a thousand times that amount today it would all go in the same direction. It is only when one is built in this way, to stand entirely aloof from all considerations of twopence halfpenny more or f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 160
…had responded? Nothing. So then there is still a remnant whose independence, sense of reality, and manhood begin to count when the dear, good, woolly flock scatter in terror at the wolfs first howl. Yes, they are there, and they can get us back our freedom-if only we can make them see that the enemy in Whitehall is more insidiously fatal than the foe in Brownshirt House. On this note of hope I will back to my silence. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 355
…UT TEARS tenant was coming in on the first of July. We had four days in which to amuse ourselves; and we let ourselves go for a thorough good time. Thus like a thunderbolt comes the incident of June 28, thus described in my diary: Glory be to Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit in the Highest! A little before midday I was impelled mysteriously (though exhausted by playing fives, billiards, etc. till nearly six this morning) to make a final search for the Elemental Tablets. And lo! when I had at last abandoned the search, I cast mine eyes upon a hole in …
1906 · PDF PAGE 150
…and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,? I warrant you'll journey a wiser man ever hence! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, 16 Cares nought if that be, or be not, God’s right use of it),'® In all that forest of verses one tree?! Yclept “ Red Cotton Nightcap Country”: How a goldsmith, between the Ravishing Virgin And a leman too rotten to put a purge in, 20 Day by day and hour by hour, In a Browningesque forest of thoughts having lost himself, Expecting a miracle, solemnly tossed himself Off from the top of a tower…
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
… at lei- sure ; a turd in the hand is worth two in the bush ; a prick in time saves nine ; it’s a wise Wilde that knows his own Q. ; one good turn deserves another ; frig wise and fuck foolish ; there’s better boys in the choir than ever came out of it all of which goes to show that it took no genius to write ‘ John Ploughman ’. Not that if Charles Spurgeon had been12 one of us, his style would have approx- imated to that of Walter Pater ; a stylist is as direct a miracle of God as a sodomite. No ! I must not proselytise ! there are enough of u…
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
… though (no doubt) the phenomena recorded in this book are ‘non-evidcntial,’ I do feel the sincerity of the writer. I am confident of her good faith DIOGENES. TABLOID TALES, By LOUISEי4131101316]? i:. To quote the preface of Horatio Bottomley, “ Louise Heilgers is the only female writer of short stories of the present day." She is in truth one of the ten million, her heart is their heart, her mind their mind, and consequently her thoughts their thoughts. She will soon be acclaimed as a popular author. lt is refreshing indeed to find somebody writ…
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
… though (no doubt) the phenomena recorded in this book are ‘non-evidcntial,’ I do feel the sincerity of the writer. I am confident of her good faith DIOGENES. TABLOID TALES, By LOUISEי4131101316]? i:. To quote the preface of Horatio Bottomley, “ Louise Heilgers is the only female writer of short stories of the present day." She is in truth one of the ten million, her heart is their heart, her mind their mind, and consequently her thoughts their thoughts. She will soon be acclaimed as a popular author. lt is refreshing indeed to find somebody writ…
1922 · PDF PAGE 231
…th a shot gun. He aimed it two or three times, but didn’t fire. He came back to me after putting the gun in a corner. He said, ‘ It’s no good. They’ re too spry. The only chance to get them is at night.” He was hungry too. We rang for some food. Nobody answered the bell..
1954 · PDF PAGE 184
…imply forget about the whole thing?" Yes, I do. Well now, have I any shadow of an excuse? Yes, I have, after a fashion; I don't think it good manners to force my idiosyncrasies down people's throats, and I don't want to appear more of an eccentric than I need. It might detract from my personal influence, and so actually harm the Work that I am trying to perform. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
THE VIRGIN 93 the other extremity we shall inevitably discover dis use ; polarity is universal ; hot , cold ; good , bad , etc. This duality is in reality only apparent , there being no definite line of division . So in Love , if one system of Ethics tends towards abuse , then we may be certain that the reverse will be uselessly sterile , and that the only possible system to follow will as usual lie directly between these extremes , and in this case , in the region of Use . If now , supposing at one end of our pole we find Lust seated crimson a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
…t one more trial. There must be people in all these immense houses. Doubtless they love the dying traveller, and will give him to drink. Good friends! water! water!” A horribly deafening din poured down on me from the four sides of the square. Every sash of all the hundred stories of every house in that colossal quadrangle flew up as by one spring. Awakened by my call, at every window stood a terrific maniac. Sublimely in the air above me, in front, beside me, on either hand, and behind my back, a wilderness of insane faces gnashed at me, glare…
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
…t one more trial. There must be people in all these immense houses. Doubtless they love the dying traveller, and will give him to drink. Good friends! water! water!” A horribly deafening din poured down on me from the four sides of the square. Every sash of all the hundred stories of every house in that colossal quadrangle flew up as by one spring. Awakened by my call, at every window stood a terrific maniac. Sublimely in the air above me, in front, beside me, on either hand, and behind my back, a wilderness of insane faces gnashed at me, glare…
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…he heart, and the peace of the soul. We do not say this in the hope of convincing the scoffer, but only to guide the seeker. Courage and good hope to him; he will surely find, since we ourselves have found. The magical dogma is not that of the mediums. The mediums who dogmatize can teach nothing but anarchy, since their inspiration is drawn from a disordered exaltation. They are always predicting disasters; they deny hierarchical authority; they pose, like Vintras, as sovereign pontiffs. 224
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…he heart, and the peace of the soul. We do not say this in the hope of convincing the scoffer, but only to guide the seeker. Courage and good hope to him; he will surely find, since we ourselves have found. The magical dogma is not that of the mediums. The mediums who dogmatize can teach nothing but anarchy, since their inspiration is drawn from a disordered exaltation. They are always predicting disasters; they deny hierarchical authority; they pose, like Vintras, as sovereign pontiffs. 224
1906 · PDF PAGE 99
… reputed wise. Hast thou not learnt a lesson from the hap Of Heracles supreme in—shipbuilding? I by my meekness will abash thy strength. Good Argus, thou art unsurpassed in art To curve the rougher timbers, to make smooth The joints and girders, and to plane and work The iron and the nailheads, and to lift Row after row the tiers of benches thrice In triple beauty, and to shape the oars, To raise the mast—— ARGUS. Thy knowledge staggers me! IIow wast thou thus instructed? JASON. By much thought. To clamp the decks—— 1 Argus is wittily character…
1909 · PDF PAGE 81
…. — More classical affectation for “ the secret thing in the holy place ”, THE VAMPIRE Savonarola. — An ascetic Florentine doctor, For a good modern account of vampires and their habits, consult Mr Bram Stoker's Dra- cula. Kriss, — The Malayan dagger.
1909 · PDF PAGE 302
…e fifth ; then may it be said that the Ritual has succeeded in its purpose and has initiated him, otherwise that it has failed. It is no good (even if you are the Hierophant himself) pretending to represent mm before you have realised what is meant by mwn. The real knowledge acquired by P. at this time, as we shall find in a subsequent chapter, was gained by his workings with Fras. C.S., V. N. and I. A.; and so ardent was he in his search after knowledge that he even went so far as to invoke Mercury by obtaining access to and copying the 5°=6° …
1909 · PDF PAGE 302
…e fifth ; then may it be said that the Ritual has succeeded in its purpose and has initiated him, otherwise that it has failed. It is no good (even if you are the Hierophant himself) pretending to represent mm before you have realised what is meant by mwn. The real knowledge acquired by P. at this time, as we shall find in a subsequent chapter, was gained by his workings with Fras. C.S., V. N. and I. A.; and so ardent was he in his search after knowledge that he even went so far as to invoke Mercury by obtaining access to and copying the 5°=6° …