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…to tell me to do the precise contrary of what is expected of me. For this is my position; w hile the postulate of Agnosticism are in one sense eternal, I believe that the conclusions of Agnosticism are daily to be pushed back. We know our ignorance; with that fact we are twitted by those who do not know enough to understand
357 this than I pretended to discover his engagement to Dorothy and brought to him a sense of the grievous wrong which he had done her by his infidelity. I persuaded him that the only manly and honourable course was to tell her frankly what he had done. So we arranged a dinner party at which he should do so. She insisted on his going into every possible detail of his misdemeanour. Considering that he was the shyest man alive with women and that, furthermore, he supposed her to be even more delicate in repression, the dinner was excruciatingly f…
…sign away her liberty for two years, and as she refused to do this there was nothing for it but for me to obtain a divorce. There was no sense in my being plaintiff, though I had plenty of ground. To me it seemed a breach of the pledge to protect one's wife, which is the first point of a husband's honour. It was consequently agreed that Rose should be plaintiff and the necessary evidence was manufactured in the usual way. {594} My year was very much broken into by the vicissitudes of this wretched business. Rose was always begging to be taken b…
…s, can only be performed by adepts who fear and love God, and who practise chastity and numerous other virtues. But there is more common sense in such statements than meets the eye. A drunken debauchee cannot perform delicate manipulations in chemistry or physics; and the force with which the secret is concerned, while as material as the Becquerel emanations, is subtler than any yet known. To play great golf or great billiards, to observe delicate reactions, or to conduct recondite mathematical researches, demands more than physical superioriti…
…xed on my proboscis, 5— See Bhagavad-Gita, Atmasamyamyog. 67. Brahma-charya.'*—Right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. Baccy.“—A poisonous plant used by nicotomaniacs in their orgies and debauches. ‘“The filthy tobacco habit,” says ‘‘ Elijah the Restorer” of Zion, late of Sydney and Chicago. That colossal genius-donkey, Shaw, is another of them. But see Calverley. 78. His hat.\8—lt may be objected that Western, but never Eastern, magicians turn their headgear into a cornucopia or Pandora's box. But I must submit tha…
…he claimed to rule. The old lady was simple- minded, sincere and earnest. I did not grudge the labour of trying to get her to use common sense, but as almost invariable in America, and heartbreakingly common even in Europe, the task was beyond my powers. {791} Just as extreme hunger makes a man shovel down anything that looks like food, so the ache of the soul for truth makes it swallow whatever promises. The poor old woman was so pathetically eager to find a Master, that she would not banish the phantasm. I proved in a dozen different ways tha…
…ere he met C--- the brilliant but debauched sculptor, caustic of wit, though genial to his friends; N---, the great painter, whose royal sense of light made his canvases into a harmonious dream: he also the sweet friend of Bacchus, who filled him with a glow and melody of colour and thought. There too, were D- -- and L---, the one poet and philosopher, the other painter and --- I fear --- pederast. Twins in thought, the two were invincible in argument as they were supreme in their respective arts. Often have I sat, a privileged listener, while …
…. Men of high rank and position nearly always betray consciousness of inferiority to, and dependence upon, others. Snobbishness, in this sense, is so widely spread that I rarely feel at home, unless with a supreme genius like Augustus John. Aubrey Tanqueray is typical. He must not forfeit the esteem of his "little Parish", and avoids mortification by shifting from one parish to another. When Paula asks him. "Do you trouble yourself about what servants think? he answers, "Of course." If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other pe…
…o conscious connection with any other outburst of my genius; but I understood that from this time on I should find myself writing with a sense of responsibility, that my work would be coherent, each item (however complete in itself) an essential part of a pyramid, a monument whose orientation and proportions should proclaim my purpose. I should do nothing in future that was not as definitely directed to the execution of my true will as every step through Spain was taken with the object of reaching Madrid; and I reflected that many such steps mu…
…e scarred by barrancas gave place in a single march to the loveliest wooded hills, yet the slight magnification of everything produced a sense of tedium. To enjoy China fully, one must allow one's soul to expand to the scale of the scenery and this cannot be cone by ardour, as it can among great glaciers. It must be a gently beatific and philosophical adaptation of oneself to one's environment. During this month, my poetic genius was lulling itself by means of an ineffably beautiful rhythm and rime scheme. On this whole journey I composed only …
…s absurd affatr.*— ‘* About Lieutenant-Colonel Flare.’’— Gilkert, Bab Ballads. 636. Auto-hypnosis.°3—The scientific adver- sary has more sense than to talk of auto- hypnosis. He bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. In fact, Lyre and Lancet. Recipe for Curried Eggs. The physiologist reproaches Poor Mr. Crowley. ‘‘ This encroaches Upon your frail cerebral cortex, And turns its fairway to a vortex. Your cerebellum with cockroaches Is crammed; your lobes that thought they caught '' X” …
…his absurd affair.52— “About Lieutenant-Colone l Flare.”—Gilbert, Bab Ballads. 636. Auto-hypnosis.53—The scientific adver- sary has more sense than to talk of auto- hypnosis. He bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. In fact, Lyre and Lancet. Recipe for Curried Eggs. The physiologist reproaches Poor Mr. Crowley. “This encroaches Upon your frail cerebral cortex, And turns its fairway to a vortex. Your cerebellum with cockroaches Is crammed ; your lobes that thought they caught “X” Are…
… individual. The Abyss is empty of being; it is filled with all possible forms, each equally inane, each therefore evil in the only true sense of the word --- that is, meaningless but malignant, in so far as it craves to become real. These forms swirl senselessly into haphazard heaps like dust devils, and each such chance aggregation asserts itself to be an individual and shrieks, "I am I!" though aware all the time that its elements have no true bond; so that the slightest disturbance dissipates the delusion just as a horseman, meeting a dust …
…xed on my proboscis.15— See Bhagavad-Gita, Atmasamyamyog. 67. Brahma-charya.16—Right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. Baccy.17—A poisonous plant used by nicotomanics in their orgies and debauches. “The filthy tobacco habit,” says “Elijah the Restorer” of Zion, late of Sydney and Chicago. That colossal genius-donkey, Shaw, is another of them. But see Calverly. 78. His hat.18—It may be objected that Western, but never Eastern, magicians turn their headgear into a cornucopia or Pandor’s box. But I must submit that the…
…39.4° Centigrade. I did not at all realize the cause at first, simple as it was. The true explanation was very far-fetched in the actual sense of the word. My symptoms became unmistakable before long and I had to admit that I was suffering from malaria. The hardships of the journey had removed my physiological protection and the bug stated to buzz about. I was thus the proud possessor of another world's record; the only man who had had malaria at over twenty thousand feet! Incidentally, I was also the only poet at that altitude. I have always b…
…ation of the rough working involved, as one can explain the steps in the solution of a quadratic equation. In other words Magick in this sense is rather an art than a science. Jones realized at once that I had a tremendous natural capacity for Magick, and my every action proved that I intended to devote myself to it "without keeping back the least imaginable thing". He suggested that I should join the Body of which he was an adept; known, to a few of the more enlightened seekers, ass the Hermetic Order of the G.·. D.·.. A short account of this …
… that the symptoms were due to altitude but to indigestion. Burton was always my hero and the best thing about him is his amazing common sense. In one place, for instance, he refers to influenza as "that dreadful low fever called influenza": which is exactly the truth. When one compares with this description the buckets full of pseudo-scientific bilge of modern medicine, one's disgust makes one long for the level heads and clear eyes of such men as Burton. The descent to the valley offered little new to the eye. The broad Mud Nala had cakeddry;…
…of distraction and anxiety. It gets in one's way. It is like having to live with someone whom one does not love. We thus got rid of that senseless envy which embitters life by filling the mind with perverse cravings for things neither good nor bad in themselves, things fruitful of pleasure and profit to the people to whom they properly belong, but a source of misery to oneself, yet desired and hugged by the foolish who have not sense enough to see that what the mass of men imagine they want on the evidence of newspapers and salesmen may bring t…
…ds a pessimistic atheism, especially when I learned that, like anyone in New York who can string together a dozen words without sound or sense, he was a shining light of the Poetry Society. (But he is quite a nice boy.) I must admit that I did not know how to talk to him. With all the quickness of his Jewish apprehension, he decided that I was meat for his master, for whom he sent by means of the complicated manual gestures which form the true language of Jews, and, pace Professor Garner, of the other anthropoids. To my surprise, this master of…
…s earnings, and being found out is maddened by the thought of jail, sees red and kills his employer. We should rather sterilize sin. The sense of shame is cowardly and servile. It is based on ignorance that one is a star. "Conscience makes cowards of us all." The man who respects himself will not act unworthily, but if we hammer into his head from infancy that most of his natural impulses are evil, we enslave his spirit. The most natural actions are done furtively. He lurks and lies. Brought up to believe that his right is wrong, he will do wha…