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Page 78 of 1031922 · PDF PAGE 131
…d I wasn’t going to waste a minute. - J admit I was pretty sick about the way the white cloud let me down. I’d have gone after the silly old sun myself if: I hadn’t been a married man. - However, there we were alone, alone for ever, Lou and I in Capri, it was all much too good to be true! Sunlight and moonlight and starlight! They were all in her eyes. And she handed out the cocaine with such a provocative gesture! I knew what it was to be insane. I could understand perfectly well why the silly fools that aren’t insane are afraid of being insan…
1922 · PDF PAGE 221
…ere beyond our limitations of sense who has made me a singer instead of a milliner.” “Oh, yes, Maisie,” I interrupted, ‘‘ but that’s the old argument that the design of the Universe proves the existence of God; and people have stopped be- lieving in God chiefly because the design was shown to be incompatible with a consistent character.” “Oh, certainly,” she admitted without a qualm. “The evidence goes to show that there are many different gods, each with his own aim and his own method. Whether their conflicting ambitions can be reconciled (as …
1922 · PDF PAGE 266
…ts present state of cerebral collapse. He is teaching them to co-ordinate the facts in a higher synthesis. The suggestion is that of his old teacher, Prof. Henry Mauds- ley, with whom he studied insanity. Herbert Spencer, too, had a similar idea. But King Lamus is the first to endeavour to make a practical effort to embody this conception in a practical way. I seem to have wandered a long way from our fare- well dinner party; but my mind is still unable to -concentrate as it should. Heroin and cocaine enable one to attain a high degree of conce…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…n clothed with the Sun, between the Lamb that was slain and the Beast 666 whose deadly wound was healed; nor understands that Satan, the Old Serpent, in the Abyss, the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, is the Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinité Space that fiâmes with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused throughout the City of Jewels. Each “plane” is a veil of the one above it; the original individual Ideas become diversified as they express their éléments. Two men with almost identical ideas on a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…round. Argal, Stonehenge was dedicated to Eugenics. Listen to Johnny Bobson on Cleopatra’s Needle | The Needle is square in section. The old Egyptians thought the earth had four corners. Argal, The Needle was built to commemorate the theory. Or, even worse! The Needle is square in section. It must have been built so for a religious reason. Argal, The Egyptians thought that the earth had four corners. It is impossible to commit all possible logical fallacies in a single syllogism. This must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the R.P.A.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…round. Argal, Stonehenge was dedicated to Eugenics. Listen to Johnny Bobson on Cleopatra’s Needle | The Needle is square in section. The old Egyptians thought the earth had four corners. Argal, The Needle was built to commemorate the theory. Or, even worse! The Needle is square in section. It must have been built so for a religious reason. Argal, The Egyptians thought that the earth had four corners. It is impossible to commit all possible logical fallacies in a single syllogism. This must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the R.P.A.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 101
…ut my being lucky. My luck in the war had been prodigious. Then there was this inheritance, and Lou on the top of that; and here I’d met old Feccles by a piece of absolute chance, and there was this brilliant investment. That was the word—he was careful to point out that it was not a speculation, strictly speaking—absolutely waiting for me. We were so overjoyed that we could hardly grasp the practical details. The amount required was four thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds. Of course, there was no difficulty in getting a trifle like that, b…
1922 · PDF PAGE 190
… here all the same. I need a maid, and she could have gone out and got things. But we both felt that any one at all would be a pill. The old woman doesn’t bother us, thank goodness. I’m sure she still thinks we're spies. Bother, what’s this? ... Damn! It’s a letter from Basil! (Note. The original of this letter was destroyed. It is now printed from the carbon copy in the files of Mr. King Lamus. Ed.) “DEAR UNLIMITED Lov,—Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You will, I am sure, forgive me for boring you with a letter; but you know w…
1922 · PDF PAGE 216
…e me jump to think of the danger to that precious powder. But there was clearly only one thing to be done to get it: to fall in with the old fellow’s humour. I let my head fall on my breast and looked at him sideways out of the corners of my eyes. “You can’t expect a young girl to confess everything she has felt,’’ I whispered with a deep sigh, ‘‘ especially when she has had to kill it out of her heart. It does no good to talk of these things,’’ I went on. “I ought really not to have come. But how could I guess that you, a great doctor like you…
1922 · PDF PAGE 224
…contemplate. I could quite understand his idea of developing mankind into what is practically a new species, with new faculties, and the old fears, superstitions, and follies discarded for ever. I couldn’t stand it another second. Maisie had given him—and herself—up, and yet she possessed both herself and him: I had clung to him and to myself,. and I had lost both—Lost, lost for ever! I got up to go home; and before I reached the street I realised with desolate disgust. and despair the degree of my degradation, of my damnation ; and I hugged de…
1954 · PDF PAGE 490
… some equally unhelpful term. But she was always absolutely clear and precise as to the instructions . The New Aeon was to supersede the old; my special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a new Renaissance might in due season rekindle the hidden Light, I was accordingly to make a Quintessence of the Ancient Wisdom, and publish it in as permanent a form as possible. This I did in The Equinox . I should perhaps have been strictly classical, and admitted only the "Publication in Class A," "A-B," "8" and "0" material. But I had the i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 512
…ound one corner. Here was a buffet, loaded with priceless wines and liquors of all sorts-except the "soft"-and excellent variety of all cold "snack" refreshments. One gained it by a staircase from the lower floor. By the buffet , the old butler: oh, for a painter to portray his Weariness of Evil Wisdom! Our host led us to the gallery; "we ate and drank and saw" not God also, but the lady responsible for the heavy tread upon the stairs. A woman of the HaIles Centrales, in her early forties; coarse, brutal, ugly, robust, square-set, curiously rad…
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
…, My lyre shall charm ye, Thrice bound with iron, My voice disarm ye, The gate is in three For I am the soul overshadowed of Pillars of gold, pain ! But I will pass (My heart as a lion, Hail to ye, wardens My lyre as a key !) Of Death’s grey gardens ! To the gates of old, O flowerless and vineless your bower- To the place of despair less vale ! And the walls of dread, But I must alone The halls of the doomed, To the wonderful throne. The homes of the dead, Let fall the vain spears, shadows! The houses where Hailto ye! Hail! The beautiful air Is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 75
…n Initiate of very high standing; but in the work-a-day world, you are "really" the Fair Lady, and leave the minstrel to grow infirm and old and hire an orphan boy to carry his banjo! Now then, what bothers me is this: Have I or have I not explained this matter of "Magick"-"Why should I (who have only just heard of it, at least as a serious subject of study) acquire a knowledge of its principles, and of the powers conferred by its mastery?" Must I bribe you with promises of health, wealth, power over others, knowledge, thaumaturgical skill, suc…
1954 · PDF PAGE 262
…re that we observe. There is no Being apart from Going. You are familiar with the Four Powers of the Sphinx, attributed by the Adepts of old time to their Four Elements. Air is to Know, Scire; Fire is to Will, Velie; Water is to Dare, Audere; and Earth is to Keep Silence, Tacere. But now that a fifth Element, Spirit, is generally recognized in the Qabalah, I have deemed it proper to add a Fifth Power corresponding: to Go, Ire. (The Book of Thoth, p. 275) Then, as Spirit is the Origin, the Essence, and the Sum of the other four, so is to Go in r…
1922 · PDF PAGE 179
… pretend to have the kindness and gentleness which I used to have so much; which used to make people think me an amiable fool. Some one told me once that adjectives spoilt nouns in literature, and you can certainly cut out that one. She’s a good sort, all the same, poor flabby old thing. She only takes M., and only gets that in solution ready to inject. She saw I was all in, and gave me a dose in the thigh. It doesn’t touch the spot like H., but it stops the worst of the suffering. She never gets up till tea-time. I left her a fiver. She promis…
1922 · PDF PAGE 217
… like so much paint on the cheeks of a Piccadilly street- walker. It didn’t even hurt his vanity to know that I thought him an offensive old ogre. He had the thing I wanted, I had the thing he wanted, and he didn’t care if I drugged myself to death to-morrow, provided I had paid his price to-day. The callous cynicism on both sides had one good effect from the moral point of view. It prevented me wasting my time in trying to cheat him. He went on with his gambit. He explained that my marriage made a great difference. With reasonable caution, for…
1922 · PDF PAGE 71
Au Pays de Cocaine 57 guessed we might get tired of coco, ‘grateful and com- forting’ as it is. So the dear old thing sent us some heroin. And there are still some people who tell us that life is not worth living!” “Ever try it?’’ 1 asked, and delayed the answer with a kiss. | When the worst was over, she told me that she had only taken it once, and then, in a very minute dose, which had had no effect on her as far as she knew. “That’s all right,” I said, from the height of my superior knowledge. “It’s all a question of estimating the physiolog…
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
…. And no doubt such opponents 01 the modern Jew will acclaim this volume as an admirable disproof of that thesis which it purports to uphold, The dissimilarities, amounting in some cases to sheer contradiction, which mark many numbers, will appear proof positive that there is nothing in the numerical Qabalah, especially as we may presume that by filling up this dictionary from the ordinary Hebrew Lexicon one would arrive at a mere hatch-pot. Apart from this, there is a deeper-lying objection to the Qabalah; viz., that the theory is an example of…
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
…. And no doubt such opponents 01 the modern Jew will acclaim this volume as an admirable disproof of that thesis which it purports to uphold, The dissimilarities, amounting in some cases to sheer contradiction, which mark many numbers, will appear proof positive that there is nothing in the numerical Qabalah, especially as we may presume that by filling up this dictionary from the ordinary Hebrew Lexicon one would arrive at a mere hatch-pot. Apart from this, there is a deeper-lying objection to the Qabalah; viz., that the theory is an example of…