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Page 78 of 1121922 · PDF PAGE 31
…aid Owen, ‘‘ what you need is a drink. I know you perfectly well; I’ve known you for years and years and years, and I know you've done a good day’s work, and you've earned a drink. Sit right down and I’ll get the waiter.” I looked at Lamus, who had not uttered a word since his original greeting. There was something appalling in his eyes; they didn’t focus on the foreground. was only an incident of utter insignificance in an illimit- able landscape. His eyes were parallel; they were looking at infinity. Nothing mattered to him. I hated the beast…
1954 · PDF PAGE 82
…function of Venus, the Earth , the Sea, Libra, and others. So also abstract ideas; dishonesty means "an afflicted Mercury," generosity a good, though not always strong, Jupiter ; and so on. The Tree of Life has got to be learnt by heart ; you must know it backwards , forwards, sideways, and upside down; it must become the automatic background of all your thinking. You must keep on hanging everything that comes your way upon its proper bough. At first, of course, all this is dreadfully confusing ; but persist, and a time will come when all the o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 92
…t last, we come to the point of real importance to our thesis: how shall we interpret XO? We may write it, obviously, as Xl - 1 or xn-n. Good, divide. Then Xl -:- Xl = I. This is the same, clearly enough, whatever X may be. Q. Ah, but what we started to do was discover the meaning of Nothing. It is not correct to write it simply as 0; for that 0 implies an index 01 , or 02, or on. And if our Nothing is to be absolute Nothing, then there is not only no figure, but no index either. So we must write it as 0° . What is the value of this expression?…
1929 · PDF PAGE 224
…low the fashion with frightful fidelity. Norman Collie wrote the only book on mountains which possesses any literary merit. Mummery's is good because he really had something to say, but his style shows the influence of Collie. Owen Glynne Jones produced a patent plagiarism of Mummery's style; and when it came to the brothers Abraham, the bottom was reached. And what a bottom! In fact, two. {374} Of the older writers, Leslie Stephen is the only one worth mentioning, and to him mountaineering was of secondary interest. Tales of hunting, shooting …
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…a bit ! Let us spunk ! Let us come ! Why dont you lick me, Bertie ? Stuff some more rags up, Harry ! Now, Archbishop, can you give me a good soaking mouthful of your pleasure-pudding ? But I had seen enough. Leilas hand and the voluptuous orgie before me had completed the con- valescence of my invalid lollipop ; and with a yell of lust I flung myself upon her eternally open gravy- giver. The Archbishop and his dirty-minded old aunt were blotted out as the water-closet of my black judy sent its gushes of pus and hotchpotch over me, and gripp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
…age rolls by, as from the theatre. It stops owing to a block in the traffic. MOLLY. O sir! Iam so sorry for you. SIR PERCY. And a lot of good that does! Enter, on the pavement, the MARQUIS OF GLENSTRAE, 7” his fur coat. The occupant of the carriage, ANGELA, Lapy BAIRD, recognises him and leans out to greet him. GLENSTRAE. Ah, my dear lady, how do you do this cold weather? ANGELA. Weill, very well, thank you—and you? GLENSTRAE. Well enough—a little rheumatic, perhaps. H’m ! ANGELA. And the dear Marchioness? GLENSTRAE. Oh, very sad—there—there! S…
1922 · PDF PAGE 64
…; cocaine made flesh. Her mere existence made the Universe infinitely exciting. Say, if you like, she was possessed of the devil ! . Any good person, so-called, would have been shocked and scared at her appearance. She represented the siren, the vampire, Melusine, the dangerous, delicious devil that cowards have invented to explain their lack of manliness. Nothing would suit her mood but that we should dine up there in the room, so that she could wear the new kimono and dance for me at dinner. We ate gray caviare, spoonful by spoonful. Who care…
1922 · PDF PAGE 145
…Bubble Bursts 131 in my soul with his eyes. As for myself, I was absolutely stupefied by the pointless falsehood of the paragraph. “But, good God!” I exclaimed. ‘This is all absolute tosh.” “Excuse me,” said the consul, a little grimly, “T have not finished the paragraph. “I beg your pardon, sir,’’ I answered curtly. “Taking advantage of these facts,” he continued to read, “and of a slight facial resemblance to Sir Peter and Lady Pendragon, two well-known inter- national crooks have assumed their personalities, and are wandering around Naples a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 207
…f intelligence than that ever necessarily concentrated on the actual business of camp life. The rest, and the final revision, occupied a good deal of my time during the winter of 1902-1903. The MS. was accepted by the S. P. R. T. in May of this year, and after a post- final revision, rendered necessary by my Irish descent, went to press. 618. Hach life bound ever to the wheel,i2—Cf. Whately, ‘‘ Revelation of a Future State.” These original drafts |. 652. This, that, the other atheist’s death, 3— Their stories are usually untrue; but let us foll…
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
…med to say, “ Ye Sword of Song ” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man. Mr. Aleister Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet ; his “ Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood ; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intent to explain the beaut…
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
…e Law,” she said. It was the regular morning greeting at the Abbey. Accustomed as I was to the phrase, it still took me rather aback. “‘ Good-morning,”’ I said in a rather embarrassed way. ** The answer is ‘ Love is the law, love under will,’ ” she smiled. ‘“‘ We exchange this greeting so as to make sure that the sight of our friends doesn’t distract us from the Great Work. Now we can talk about whatever we like. Oh, no, we can’t, I must first inspect your yesterday’s chart.” I brought it out, and we sat down at the table together. Of course, t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 50
… is also excluded from “as ye will” to compromise the liberty of another person indirectly, as by taking advantage of the igno rance or good faith of another person to expose that person to the constraint of sickness, poverty, social detriment, or childbearing, unless with the well-informed and uninfluenced free will of that person. One must moreover avoid doing another injury by deforming his nature; for instance, to flog children at or near puberty may distort the sensitive nascent sexual character, and impress it with the stamp of masochism…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…lk -and -bun -walk , where we may rest and take our fill ; for he has unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , singing old songs and new , Alinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world , as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm ; or sweet notes of love , soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly . Here are the jewels of Heaven , of Havilah , and of Eden , with not a little of the fire of Hell , the flames of Gehenna , and the darkness of Dûat . If we look for pyramids and coloss…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…ion was bad. Tejas-Akasa.t 3» There was no difficulty in getting the object clear; but the mind wandered. Apas-Vayu.§ ry Result not very good. Winged-Globe and Flam- Meditation on both of these was only ing Sword.|| ry fair. * “The Bhagavad-Gita,” ii, 69, 70; vi, 32. Cf. “Konx om Pax,” pp. 73-77. + The ordinary Egyptian Winged-Globe is here meant, but as visualized by the mind’s eye; the meditation then takes place on the image in the mind. So with the following practices. + Tejas-Akasa is the Element of Fire. It is symbolized by a red triangle…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…ion was bad. Tejas-Akasa.t 3» There was no difficulty in getting the object clear; but the mind wandered. Apas-Vayu.§ ry Result not very good. Winged-Globe and Flam- Meditation on both of these was only ing Sword.|| ry fair. * “The Bhagavad-Gita,” ii, 69, 70; vi, 32. Cf. “Konx om Pax,” pp. 73-77. + The ordinary Egyptian Winged-Globe is here meant, but as visualized by the mind’s eye; the meditation then takes place on the image in the mind. So with the following practices. + Tejas-Akasa is the Element of Fire. It is symbolized by a red triangle…
1922 · PDF PAGE 91
…itter on the Snow 77 There was in this, however, hardly any element of joy. I was back to my normal self, but not to what you might call good form. I was perfectly able to do anything required, but the idea of doing it didn’t appeal. I thought a bath and a shower would put me right; and I certainly felt a very different man by the time I had got my clothes on. , When I came back into the sitting-room, I found Lou dancing daintily round the table. She went for me like a bull at a gate; swept me away to the couch and knelt at my side as I lay, wh…
1922 · PDF PAGE 340
…d the speech with a complicated series of gestures. When he had finished he returned and noticed that I was awake. “Well, did you have a good sleep ? ” he said softly, standing over my mattress. “I never had a better one.” It would be impossible to give the details of even one day at Telepylus. Life there has all the fullness of the heroin life with none of its disillusions. I must simply select such incidents as bear directly on our Purgatorio. I dropped off to sleep again after a short chat with Basil about indifferent affairs, and woke in th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 196
… that they were themselves arranging for their departure. The suspicion was confirmed when, one after the other, they came to wish her a good night. [277] She was more than ever determined to follow them to the Sabbath. By nine o'clock everything was still in the garden, save for the tread of Brother Onofrio's patrol, who paced the upper terrace, chanting in the soft and low, yet stern, tones of his well-modulated voice, the exorcism that magical guardians have sung for so many ages, with its refrain: "On them will I impose my will, the Law of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 525
…cial position; your financial situation; your physique, health, illnesses; your vita sexualis; your hobbies and amusements; what you are good at, what not; how you came to be interested in the Great Work; what (if you have been on false trails, Toshophists, Anthroposophagists, sham Rosicrucians, etc.) has been "your previous condition of servitude"; how you found me, and decided to enlist my aid. That, by itself, helps you to understand yourself, and me to understand you. From that point the keeping of the Record is quite easy. All you have to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 194
…n this respect elsewhere. Yet the march was very pleasant with many lovely flowers and streams. The weather was delightful and the going good. The next day we went to Kranub (Kalapani is another name for it) in less than six hours in a cold wind under a threatening sky. After camping, the rain poured down in torrents. On the thirtieth we came down from the plateau in eight hours to Burzil, where there was a dak baghla. It rained continually till the last hour, so that we missed the distant view, but the foreground told us of the complete change…