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Page 73 of 731929 · PDF PAGE 494
…reflections suggested by absinthe with descriptions of the inn, its guests, and the city. From New Orleans I went to stay with my cousin Lawrence Bishop on his orange and grapefruit plantation in Florida. I shall describe elsewhere the spiritual abyss in which these lost souls were plunged. I cannot think of Florida, but in my ears rings the exceeding bitter cry of poor little sixteen-year-old Alma, "I've found it doesn't pay to tell the truth." This visit opened up an expanse and depth of heartache which I had thought impossible. Cousin Lawren…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…strapped to his back. Robinson had urged him to lower it separately. As nor Einstein or the Blessed Virgin Mary was there to suspend the law of gravitation, I have no idea how we got to the bottom undamaged; but when we did I promptly took off the rope and walked home, utterly disgusted with the vanity which had endangered the party. Of course, there could only be one end to that sort of thing, and Jones ended by killing himself and three guides on the Zinal side of the Dent Blanche a few years later. {89} The imbecility of the accident is show…
1929 · PDF PAGE 516
…le I have done my utmost to advance directly towards truth by the regular traditional magical and mystical methods which The Book of the Law had perfected, I have constantly sought pari passu to correlate my results with those of modern intellectual progress; indeed, to demonstrate that the deepest thinkers are unwittingly approaching the apprehension of initiated ideas, and are in fact, despite themselves, being compelled to extend their definition of the Ruach to include conceptions proper to Neschamah, that they are, in other words, becoming…
1929 · PDF PAGE 565
…eived the same treatment as everyone else. Warner started at once to heap insults upon, and hurl defiance at, the representatives of the law. What interests me most in all this is the problem of how such a man ever does any business. In my own case, part of my original plan involved the placing of large orders with his firm. When a stranger calls to bring him gold he is thrown out. It beats me altogether. My next important business was to re-establish my connection with editors. I called on the English Review. Austin Harrison welcomed me as war…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…ry right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—-the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily suppose that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandoned his home; true, but Nature has to be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condition of offence. ‘I didn’t mean to”’ isa poor excuse for an officer failing to obey an order. Enough of this- in any case a minor ques- tion ; since even on the lowest moral grounds— and we, I trus…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…ary right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily assume that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandoned his home ; true, but Nature has to be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condition of offence. “I didn’t mean to” is a poor excuse for an officer failing to obey an order. Enough of this—in any case a minor ques- tion; since even on the lowest moral grounds— and we, I trust,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…ualism. Making Things g9 Right. Utilising nergy, Master, of be Mastered. The Voice that is heard in Loneliness. The Ingrafted Word. “The Law of TL.--The ‘ofan Invalid. The Invalid’s Alter Ego. The Evolution ofa Thief; The Honest Man, The Lvolution ofa Liar; The Truthful Man, The Evolution ofa Miser; The Benefactor. ‘The Evolution of an Egotist; The Self-Forgetful Man. The Evolution ofa Drunkard; The Self-Possessed Man. The Evolution of a Libertine; The Strong M: the Evolution of a Flirt; ‘The Divine Womanly.. Part II1.—Stilling the Tempest. Liv…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…ualism. Making Things g9 Right. Utilising nergy, Master, of be Mastered. The Voice that is heard in Loneliness. The Ingrafted Word. “The Law of TL.--The ‘ofan Invalid. The Invalid’s Alter Ego. The Evolution ofa Thief; The Honest Man, The Lvolution ofa Liar; The Truthful Man, The Evolution ofa Miser; The Benefactor. ‘The Evolution of an Egotist; The Self-Forgetful Man. The Evolution ofa Drunkard; The Self-Possessed Man. The Evolution of a Libertine; The Strong M: the Evolution of a Flirt; ‘The Divine Womanly.. Part II1.—Stilling the Tempest. Liv…