FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
2,286 matching pages
Page 80 of 1151922 · PDF PAGE 326
…ass ablaze with flowers and rolled over and over, tearing up tufts of grass and biting them to overcome our emotions. Dionysus evidently thought it was a game and began to romp; but Hermes, though evidently eager to join in the fun, was held back by his sense of responsibility. “‘ Where on earth did you learn such extraordinary language ? ”’ cried Lou at last, the tears running down her cheeks. Hermes became more serious than ever. “It’s from the Book of the Law. Change not so much as the style of a letter,” he said. We began quite seriously to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 226
… passage of that book. And-the book was not published until three years later, and from an address of which in 1910 I had not so much as thought of. The date of my adhesion to the O.T.O. (which, by the way, upset every principle and plan that I had ever held) is equally certain by virtue of subsequent published writings. Now go away and explain that! Well I've given you a fair account of some of the principal fascinations; as to the rest, bewitchments, sorceries, inhibitions and all that lot, it is enough if I say that they follow the regular L…
1954 · PDF PAGE 415
… types of Samadhi during the exercise of which these memories appear spontaneously, without warning of any kind. There is comfort in the thought that the persistent practice of seeking out one's fears, analysing them and their causes, then deliberately evoking them to "come out, you cad, and fight!" presently sets up a habit of mind which is a strong fortress against all fear's modes of assault; one springs automatically to action when a patrol sneaks up within range of one's guns. Particularly useful against the fear of death is the punctual a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 40
…le-toby to the pitch of another jumble-giblets, but it was with no hopeful outlook. Frankly, to myself and the surgeons read my gloomy thought I was compelled to look facts in the face, and admit that a very few hours now would see me sink a corpse at the very breach in which so many brave men had fallen fighting. For I was determined not to withdraw, even if the lady herself had been willing to let me off. This she was not. Her greasy and rotund arms held me to her bulging belly, the bloated and ill-smelling butter- bags flopping down with…
1922 · PDF PAGE 122
…dven- ture in the fairy tale which we were living. Lou herself was all gush and giggles to an extent which a month earlier I should have thought a shade off. But everything was equally exquisite on this grand com- bination honeymoon. Feccles appeared extremely amused by the encounter. I asked him with the proper degree of concern if he had had my note. He said no, he’d been called suddenly away on business, I told him what I had written, with added apologies. The long journey had tired me deep down. I took things more seriously, though the coca…
1922 · PDF PAGE 158
…to be able to get it pretty easily.. I don’ t know what’s the matter with us both. It made us a bit better to meet the old crowd, and we thought we'd celebrate.
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
dragging his feet in an irregular way. Ha! thought I, a drag for long, an ordinary pace for short. I imitated him eagerly, giving the Morse letter A. His alert mind grasped instantly my meaning; he altered his code (which had been of a different order) and replied with a Morse B on my own system. I answered C; he returned D. From that moment we could talk fluently and freely as if we were on the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix in our beloved Paris. However, conversation in such circum- stances is a lengthy affair. During the whole march to our w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…nally meet a case in which distaste of the normal, vital scepticism, or some similar trait, may push the individual to contrary poles of thought and action. We shall err if we fail to rec- ognise the common basis of the audacities of piety and impiety which may manifest in the same man. As one of our great specialists has shewn, it is unphilosophical, indeed contrary to proved fact, to suppose that a man like Jabez Balfour is necessar- ily insincere. His cruel frauds, his callous scepti- cism are no less genuine and no more so than his narrow r…
1922 · PDF PAGE 20
…es, just as in flying you have to make arrangements for starting and stopping. But it is a beastly nuisance to have to attend to them. I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn’t quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren’t such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease —that of thinking. My old commander was right. I thi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 148
… did so. We cannot help fancying that he was unwilling to do this. of his knowledge I find in the following lines :— ‘‘T have read much, thought much, experi- enced much, Yet would die rather than avow my fear The Naples’ liquefaction may be false. . . I hear you recommend, I might at least Eliminate, decrassify my faith Since I adopt it: keeping what I must And leaving what I can; such pointsas this... Still, when you bid me purify the same, To such a process I discern noend.. . First cut the liquefaction, what comes last But Fichte’s clever c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
…f in honest doubt which, believe me, is worth half the creeds, as to whether any given incident took place in sleep or waking. It may be thought that my accounts of various magical incidents are under suspicion; but being aware of my peculiarities, I have naturally been at great pains to eliminate any such source of error. Eckenstein's proof that I was dreaming depended on the physical evidence of the closed doorway and the unsaddled horses. It is of course easy to reply that I may have been asleep the second time as well as the first! And of c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 212
…ill, not by Necessity. 341. Blavatsky's Himalayan Balm.#—See the corkscrew theories of A. P, Sinnett in that masterpiece of confusion of thought — and nomenclature !—‘‘ Esoteric Buddhism."’ Also see the ‘‘ Voice of the Silence, or, The Butler’s Revenge.” Not Bp. Butler. 366. Ekam Advaita.44—Of course I now re- ject this utterly. But it is, I believe, a stage of thought necessary for many or most of us. The bulk of these poems was written when I was an Advaitist, incredible as the retrospect now appears. My revision has borne Buddhist fruits, bu…
1922 · PDF PAGE 309
… are a thousand and one reasons why she may have taken it into her head to go out. Why, of course—it’s awfully hot in here, she probably thought she’d take a turn in the fresh air. Anyhow, you don’t have to bother about me. You boys had better get down to the city and do your business. I'll wait here for her until she turns up, and spank her hard for frightening us all like this.” Platt and I put on our hats and coats. We were just shaking hands with Gretel, telling her to order herself a good lunch from downstairs, when we heard the latch-key …
1929 · PDF PAGE 203
…a Word; This All, this Sire and Lord of All, abides Behind the unbounded torrent of Its tides, [285] In silence of all deed, or word, or thought, So that we name It not, or name It Naught. This is the Truth behind the lie called God; This blots the heavens, and indwells the clod. This is the centre of all spheres, the flame In men and stars, the Soul behind the name, The spring of Life, the axle of the Wheel, All-mover, yet the One Thing immobile. Adore It not, for It adoreth thee, The shadow-shape of Its eternity. Lift up thyself! be strong to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 148
… as an evening star. And the light thereof shineth even unto the earth, and bringeth hope and help to them that dwell in the darkness of thought, and drink of the poison of life. Fifty are the gates of understanding, and one hundred and six are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is Death . (The Vision and the Voice, 14th Aethyr) And for his Work thereafter? So we enter the earth, and there is a veiled figure, in absolute darkness. Yet it is perfectly possible to see in it, so 1. I suppose that only a Magus could have heard this w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
… reciprocity en affaire damour. The Captain on his part only asked fidelity ; and indeed Monty had grown to love him so dearly that the thought of an adultery would have been insupportable. One day, how- ever, a sudden desire came upon him towards the most popular of the lieutenants, Andrew Clayton, a man of violent passions not usually associated with fair hair and rather timid grey eyes. Andrew saw the sly looks of the midshipman and one day went into his cabin and, stepping to his side with- out a word, gave him a fierce kiss, while his han…
1954 · PDF PAGE 17
… of Zen Buddhism at its best. He has lectured on many occasions throughout the world, and has several books to his credit that have been thought to be both profound and wise. Crowley's condemnation is cruel and harsh, perhaps because of his own ambition to be Logos Aionos, the Word of the Aeon, the World Teacher, and so he was a ruthless competitor who damned all other competition, real or otherwise.
1954 · PDF PAGE 276
… Method; this is because I could never make any headway with it; none at all. Fr:. lehi Aour , on the other hand, was a wizard at it; he thought that some people could use it that way, and others not: born so. If it should happen that you have that faculty, and no gift at all for the other , it's just too bad; you'd better buzz off, and get another Holy Guru less one-legged. There are, however, as I find on reading over what I have written elsewhere, quite a few lacunae in the exposition; and I may as well now do my best to stop one or two obvi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 476
…true human relations between men. Socialism means war. When the class moves as a class, there can be no exceptions . This is no original thought of mine ; Stalin and Hitler both saw it crystal-clear ; both , the one adroitly, the other clumsily, but with equally consummate hypocrisy , acted it out. They picked individuals to rule under their autocracy , killed off those that wouldn't fit, destroyed the power of the Trades Unions or Soviets while pretending to make them powerful and prosperous , and settled down to the serious business of prepar…
1996 · PDF PAGE 156
…here was some sort of natural selection; brains and stamina were necessary to survival. The race, as such, consequently improved. But we thought we knew oh! so much better, and we had “Christ’s law” and other slush. So the unfit crowded and contaminated the fit, until Earth herself grew nause ated with the mess. We had not only a war which killed some eight million men, in the flower of their age, picked men at that, in four years, but a pestilence which killed six million in six months. Are we going to repeat the insanity? Should we not rathe…