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…tiful the body is Lapped in fatigue's caressing ecstasies! ....For then the soul is free to leap above it, To soar, to dive, to seek and find his mate In the dominion of the uncreate, ....And lastly --- to return to it, and love it! This was my last adventure. I returned to New York by short stages and resumed the anchorless tossing. The one new feature was my affair with Stuart X. The next act was the appearance of Ananda K. Koomaraswamy, the Eurasian critic of religion and art, with his wife, Ratan Devi, a musician from Yorkshire, who had fal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
79 offered me for ten times the proper price, I would buy it on the spot, even though I knew that I had only to go round the corner to find an honest tradesman. I did this sort of thing on purpose to affirm magically that nothing mattered except the work of the moment. It was "Take not thought for the morrow" carried out in its most literal sense. I made a point of putting God on His honour, so to speak, to supply anything I might need by demonstrating to {147} him that I would not keep back the least imaginable fraction of my resources. I acqu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
6 The bawds of the stews be all turnčd out: But I think they inhabit all England throughout. (I cannot find the modern book which quotes this as a footnote and have not been able to trace the original volume.) The Crowleys, are, however, of Celtic origin; the name O'Crowley is common in south-west Ireland, and the Breton family of de Quérouaille --- which gave England a Duchess of Portsmouth --- or de Kerval is of the same stock. Legend will have it that the then head of the family came to England with the Earl of Richmond and helped to make hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…utions of a G. R. (Great Retirement). In dream flew to me an angel, bearing an ankh, to comfort me." We may now transcribe the diary. We find the great mind, the complex man, purged through and through of thought, stripped of all things human and divine, centred upon one single aspiration, as simple as the love of a child for its father. Like lightning from heaven? Not lest swift flashed back the obvious question of the practical man, how? The answer was immediate: "INVOKING OFTEN". I need not have asked. They were the words of Zoroaster indeed…
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
…ts to include only those elements which have proved their vitality by making a clear permanent impression on the mind. I am not sure and find no record of the writing of "The Blind Prophet", but it may well have been during this wonderful week. It is an attempt at a new form of art, a combination of ballet and grand opera. The predominant vowels in any passage indicate an appropriate passion. Thus "i" goes with shrillness and the violin; "o" and "u" coo, like flutes. The Blind Prophet represents the deep broad a; the Queen of the Dancers the fl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 409
…sychological fact is at the basis of such phenomena as fetishism. The saint hurries to the Thebaid to avoid the danger of Thais, only to find that the very stones rise up and take her place. Neuburg had a friend who had a friend who was an anarchist. He would not drink cocoa "because it excited his animal passions". {652} Little as I have seen of the Sahara, I have reconstructed its story in outline to my own satisfaction. I am convinced that the earth is slowly losing its water and that this explains what one sees in the Mediterranean basin, w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 308
…t of my life. The ship I should have sailed by left Honolulu in due course and fetched up four days later outside the golden Gate --- to find San Francisco a raging flower of flame. I sailed on April 21st by The Empress of India, took a flying glance at Japan and put out into the Pacific. A savage sea without a sail, ...Grey gulphs and green aglittering. We never sighted the slightest suggestion of life all the way to Vancouver, twelve days of chilly boredom, though there was a certain impressiveness in the very dreariness and desolation. There…
1929 · PDF PAGE 278
…ed it to him; I insisted on his seeing, smelling, tasting and touching it; but he left the house and reported that he had been unable to find it. In this particular instance I knew what I was doing. I deliberately overwhelmed his mind with my earnestness in helping him and other objects of thought. I cut the connecting link between his senses and his mind. But we digress. I enjoyed lazily the splendour of the drowsy night as I jogged along with lighted pipe --- never tobacco tasted better --- in the broken-down old gharry up to Thornton's. {456…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…vitably embitters those who seek to lay up treasure on earth. A man must really be a very dull brute if, attaining all his ambitions, he finds satisfaction. The Eastern from Lao Tzu and the Buddha to Zoroaster and Ecclesiastes, feels in his very bones the futility of earthly existence. It is the first postulate of his philosophy. California got on my nerves. Life in all its forms grew rank and gross, without a touch of subtlety. I embodied this feeling in a sonnet: . . . gross and great Her varied fruits and flowers alike create Glories most un…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
… Church is upon us. If only the destruction is sufficiently com- plete, if only all England will turn Atheist, we may perhaps be able to find some Chris- tians here and there. As long as ‘‘ church” means either a building, an assembly, or even has any meaning at all of a_ kind to be intelligible to the ordinary man, so long is Christ rejected, and the Pharisee supreme. Now the materialism which has always been the curse of Christianity was no doubt partly due to the fact that the early dis- ciples were poor men. You cannot bribe a rich man with…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
…re, Ah !—goes on working, goes on smoking, Until he goes right on to Woking. 637. No one supposes me a Satnt.54—On in- quiry, however, I find that some do. 686. Amrita.>>—The Elixir of Life : the Dew of Immortality.
1929 · PDF PAGE 447
…ks or to pay me the balance owing to me on their own statement. They trusted to be able to steal them, having heard that I was unable to find the money necessary to sue them. I thus found myself after the war entirely penniless and without clothes, except for some of my Highland costumes which had been sent for repair to a tailor just before the outbreak of hostilities and had remained safely in storage. I do not regret these events, except that I grieve over the calamity to my brother. I believe it to have been part of the plan of the gods tha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…, and the man who does not strain constantly to this end is simply a brute made wretched and ashamed by the fact of selfconsciousness. I find by experience that this theory represents the facts very closely. I thought it necessary to give at least the bare skeleton, because the next months of our story compel me. It is no longer possible to interweave my three lives. My ordinary career becomes a welter of strange adventures, some of the most uncanny kind; yet the spiritual life is all-important and {469} absolutely simple. The one is linked to …
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…re, Ah !—goes on working, goes on smoking, Until he goes right on to Woking. 637. No one supposes me a Saint.54—On in- quiry, however, I find that some do. 686. Amrita.55—The Elixir of Life : the Dew of Immortality.
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
… selfish, but I have found that even my best friends, with few exceptions, run away or cool off whenever I need their assistance. I also find that I am not understood. I remember an incident in America. A man who purported to be an occult teacher, and was in reality an ignorant charlatan, had been the object of my onslaught. He had every reason to regard me as his bitterest enemy. In course of time, he was found out and arrested. I went at once to the police court. Only one of his hundreds of devoted followers --- and they were extravagantly de…
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…astic and fearful a genie. Few tourists know even the most elementary facts about such simple matters as climate. I myself was amazed to find how many of the ideas which I had derived from my reading were utterly incorrect. Once, for instance we arrived at an inn late at night. It was shut. We had heard that when the coach arrived they would open, so we decided to wait for the half hour or so, as we needed food and sleep. It was a cold, drear night. To pass the time we took a stroll across the sand, intending to climb a small hill and get a moo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…ng the Mantra: "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva." D.D.C.F., angrier than ever, sought the sideboard, but soon returned, only to find Frater I.A. still muttering: "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva." "Will you stop blaspheming?" cried D.D.C.F.; but the holy man only said: "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva." "If you don't stop I will shoot you!" said D.D.C.F., drawing a revolver from his pocket and leveling it at I.A.'s head; but I.A., being concentrated, took no notice and continued to mutter: "Shiva, Shiva,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
… change would be sufficient by itself to ensure the theoretical impossibility of editing a life like mine on any consistent principle. I find myself obliged, for these and many other reasons, to abandon altogether any idea of conceiving an artistic structure for the work or formulating an artistic purpose. All that I can do is to describe everything that I remember, as best I can, as if it were, in itself, the centre of interest. I must trust nature so to order matters that, in the multiplicity of the material, the proper proportion will someho…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
… those things which are consonant with his nature and powers. The whole question is, therefore, one of practice; and by this standard we find that there is no particular reason for quarrelling with the conventional nomenclature. At this time I had not worked out any such apology for the theories of transcendentalism. I took everything as it came and submitted it to the test of experience. As it happened, I had no reason at any time to doubt the reality of the magical universe. I began my practical work with astral visions and found to my surpri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…r. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, and still more his Queen Victoria, as also in discussing periods with the younger generation, I find total failure to appreciate the attitude of artists and advanced thinkers who remember her jubilee. They cannot realize that to us Victoria was sheer suffocation. While she lived it would be impossible to tale a single step in any direction. She was a huge and heavy fog; we could not see, we could not breathe. Under her, England had advanced automatically to prosperity. Science too had surged up from spor…