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Page 78 of 871929 · PDF PAGE 179
…t for the slope. The current carries down round stones in the most dangerous way. When Knowles tried to ford this river on the way back, though the water was barely kneedeep, he was swept away at once, and would have been drowned or battered to death in a few seconds if he had not been promptly pulled back by the rope which he had prudently put on. As it was, he received two violent blows from stones, one of which nearly snapped his thigh and the other his spine. On looking at the photographs of this stream, it seems positively ridiculous to as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 462
…tely known. But we may divide the class into two great groups; those in whom the development is a system of degeneration, and those who, though sometimes exhibiting the most exquisite fruition, fail to attain full development and achieve the work of which they should be capable through their frailty. The men whose achievement is uniform are always constitutionally robust; despite all difficulties they attain a great age and produce continuously. Rodin, Browning, {731} Carlyle, Pasteur, Lister, Kelvin, Gladstone, Whitman were all grand old men. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…onocle avow, Distorted from Divinity And wrought in subtler fashion now. An invocation shrined and sealed Be this! The many hear me not, Though I be vocal, thou revealed. I scorn the eye, uphold the—what Gods call the lotus poppy-hued, Brave wound of weeping Isis !—eye Of Demiourgos, understood Of none, O Lily, ladily Laden with lays of Buddhist bard, Maiden with ways and bays of mirth, And music—is the saying hard? Shall ‘‘ Cryptic Coptic ” block the birth Of holy ecstasy? Forbid, Ye Gods, forbid! Posed block, you fail Of bulging heart by droo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…pposed to be the best in the valley. I was very shocked to find that is was customary in the Tyrol to go two on a rope instead of three, though in point of fact this was the only thing they knew about climbing. But I was amazed beyond measure to find that I was a much better rock climber than my guide. He did not know what rock climbing was, judged by Cumberland standards! I had no experience of snow and ice; so here, of course, I was the reverent disciple. Imagine my astonishment, then, when after two or three days Pingerra slipped and fell on…
1906 · PDF PAGE 270
…roduce my system of continuous footnotes, on the analogy of continuous fractions. In this case they are recurring—a great art in itself, though an error ineso far that they fail to sub- serve the great object of all footnotes, viz. to distract the attention of the reader. h Text appended :— CALIBAN ON. PATMOS. Being the Last Adventure of the Beloved Disciple. [CoME, kids, lambs, doves, cubs, cuddle! Hear ye John Pronounce on the primordial protoplast Palingenetic, palzeontologic, And beat that beggar’s bleeding NWN IA With truth veracious, alet…
1929 · PDF PAGE 308
…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 was a hint of the curious horror that emptiness always evokes, whether it is a space of starless night or a bleak and barren waste of land. The one exception is the Sahara Desert where, for some reason that I cannot name, the suggestion is not in the least of vacancy and barrenness, but rather of some subtle and secret sprin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…wale of the boat. Luckily no harm came of it. I was now more anxious than ever to get hold of the beast or to pin him with the boathook, thought his struggles were gradually ceasing, but nothing we could do was any good; little by little he slid off the shallow into the deep water and sank. After hunting about for twenty minutes we gave the affair up as a bad job. Rowing slowly up the stream, we soon caught sight of another fine beast, though not quite so big as the one we lost. I took, however, an extraordinarily careful shot at it and had the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
…ness innumerable incidents and it becomes hard to select those which possess significance. He was taught by tutors; but they have faded, though their lessons have not. He was very thoroughly grounded in geography, history, Latin and arithmetic. His cousin, Gregor Grant, six years older than himself, was a constant visitor; a somewhat strange indulgence, as Gregor was brought up in Presbyterianism. The lad was very proud of his pedigree. Edward Crowley used to ridicule this, saying, "My family sprang from a gardener who was turned out of the gar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
378 brewing. I put my foot down; and though I almost had to use main force to get Neuburg to go home, I had my way. I was still talking to my own friend at half-past two, when I heard the click of the garden gate and steps on the path. The house door opened and shut with sinister softness. There there was absolute silence. A few minutes later there was a frightened scream from Mrs. Gnaggs. I threw on a dressing gown and went out. She was standing in a kimono on 1. WEH Note: This is a typical misunderstanding (by Crowley and the Engineer, not th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 457
…ar more presumptuous when he tackles the United States. India indeed is huge and varied beyond hope of human comprehension, but America, though its population is only a third of that of Hindustan, is composed of elements infinitely more varied, besides which India does at least stand still and allow one to look at it, whereas the United States undergoes a revolutionary change continually. I passed through the country in 1900. In 1906 I found it unrecognizable. My third visit in 1914 gave me another surprise, and during the following five years …
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
… being on the right side of the fence! The Buddhist leaves no chances of this kind; in all his categories he is infinitely un- extended; though the categories themselves exist; he is in fact 04+8+C+D+4+.+% and capable of no conceivable change, unless we imagine Nirvana to be. incomprehensibly divided by Nirvana, which would (supposing the two Nirvanas to possess identical cate- gories) result in the production of the original 0°. Buta further change would be necessary even then before serious mischief could result. In short, I think we may dism…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…in onward in a. torrent of bold and magnificent images. Here, for instance, is a piece 0 “fine writing " which, of its kind, is excellent, though its meaning we presume not to fathom: O, Dweller in the Land of U2, thou also shalt be made drunken; but thy cup shall be hewn from the sapphire of the heavens, and thy wine shall be crushed from the clusters of innumerable stars; and thou s alt make thysell naked, and thy white limbs shall be splashed with the urple foam of immor tality. Thou shalt tear the ewelled tassels from the purse of thy spendth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
…wn daughter with such ditch-water. All the same, I feel grateful. Her stupid lie put it into my head to make the experiment in question, though of course with the knowledge and approval of the girl. The result is recorded in a subsequent chapter. {225} When I began to develop this power consciously, I obtained considerable success. At the time of this journey I had arranged to visit a sister of the Order who lived in Hong Kong; at prearranged times, so that she might be looking out for me. Several of these visits turned out well. She saw and he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…ices as colour and reflections. We moved according to the laws of the astral plane; that is, without making the normal physical actions, though we were able to use our limbs in the ordinary way. We communicated, sometimes by audible speech, sometimes by direct transmission of thought such as occurs every day in ordinary life, when one knows what a friend is going to say before he says it. One very curious phenomenon must be recorded. In the early days we had arranged special hours for our interviews by calculating the difference of time due to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
… a Tolstoyan, and several other things all at once. He endevoured to express his spiritual state by wearing the green star of Esperanto, though he could not speak the language; by refusing to wear a hat, even in London, to wash, and to wear trousers. Whenever addressed, he wriggled convulsively, and his lips, which were three times too large for him, and had been put on hastily as an afterthought, emitted the most extraordinary laugh that had ever come my way; to these advantages he united those of being extraordinarily well read, over flowing …
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…there, I spent most of my time in that quarter. It was the first time that I had come into contact with the Chinese spirit in bulk; and, though thee exiles were naturally the least attractive specimens of the race, I realized instantly their spiritual superiority to the Anglo-Saxon, and my own deep-seated affinity to their point of view. The Chinaman is not obsessed by the delusion that the profits and pleasures of life are really valuable. He gets all the more out of them because he knows their worthlessness, and is consequently immune from th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 168
…s not use women as coolies. The people are Mohammedans governed by a ruling caste of Hindus. This leads to complications; for one thing, though the river is full of mahsir, one is not allowed to fish for them, because one of them had swallowed the soul of the maharajah in his youth! Another inconvenience is that one cannot bet beef to eat, for Kashmir is theoretically an independent state. The Mohammedan has, of course, no objection to beef; it is the Hindu who prohibits it. A curious misfortune overtook a native in this connection. His little …
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
…es. 13. Your Reverence,29—TVhe imaginary Aunt | Sally for the poetic cocoanut.* | 16. ‘' God's right use of tt.”’ %"—'* And many an eel, though no adept In God's right reason for it, kept Gnawing his kidneys half a year.” Shelley, Peter Bell the Third. 17. One tree.A—Note the altered value of. * Crowley confuses two common pastoral amuse: | ments—throwing wooden balls at cocoanuts and sticks | at Aunt Sally. the metaphor, such elasticity having led Prof. Bliimengarten to surmise them to be india- rubber trees, 27. ‘' Truth, that's the gold.” “—…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
… the mincing, posturing qualities of the literary Plymouth Brother. They pretended to think it an unpardonable crime not to speak Irish, though they could not speak it themselves; and they worked in their mealymouthed way towards the galvanization of the political, ethnological and literary corpse of the Irish nation. Ireland has been badly treated, we all know; but her only salvation lay in forgetting her nonsense. What is the use of setting up a scarecrow provincialism, in re-establishing a barbarous and fantastic language which is as dead as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…dness and lack of appropriateness add to its charm. The processions to which we are accustomed in Europe and America are all so cleverly though out that the effect is merely to irritate. The Perahera is a gigantic jollification; they bring out all their elephants, dancers, monks, officials, drums, horns, torches --- anything that makes a blaze of a noise, and let them all loose at once. The effect is of impromptu excitement. Poor, serious, single-minded Allan, with his whole soul set on alleviating the sufferings of humanity and helping them to…