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Page 80 of 1051922 · PDF PAGE 67
Au Pays de Cocaine 53 most early Victorian sense of the word you can imagine. She was not only a true friend, but a wise friend. She had evidently foreseen that we were going to run short of good old snow. Now I want all you fellows to take it as read that a man, if he calls himself a man, isn’t the kind of man that wants to stop a honeymoon with a girl in a Japanese kimono of the variety described, to have to put on a lot of beastly clothes and hunt all around Paris for a dope peddler. Of course, you'll say at once that I could have rung for t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 132
…y panting like two hungry wolves when Feccles turned up with the disguises and the guns! , He repeated those instructions, and added one word
1954 · PDF PAGE 267
…His very simplest ideas, the primitive elements of his thought, had no true correspondences in any European terminology . The very ftrst word "Tao" presented a completely insoluble problem. It had been translated "Reason," "The Way," "TO ON." None of these convey any true conception of the Tao. The Tao is Reason in this sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being that necessary relation between the elements of thought which determines the laws of reason. In other words, the only reality is that which compels us to co…
1922 · PDF PAGE 101
…ou 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, but as I told Feccles, it would mean my selling out some beastly stock or something which might ta…
1922 · PDF PAGE 376
…sy of Basil, in particular. Lou, not having been troubled by either of these, had slid out of her habit as insidiously, if I may use the word, as she had slid into it. But the culminating joy of my heart was the com- pleteness of the solution of all my problems. There was no possibility of a relapse, because the cause of my downfall had been permanently removed. I could understand perfectly how it was that Basil could take a dose of heroin or cocaine, could indulge in hashish, ether, or opium as simply and usefully as the ordinary man can order…
1954 · PDF PAGE 313
…e Lamed a pair of balances. Some further detail might be indicated by taking the letters Daleth and Mem together , for Dam is the Hebrew word for blood. From such considerations one can build up a pictorial representation in one's mind which may serve as a standard to which any appearance of him should more or less conform. The question then takes the form of inquiry into how far such beings are immortal or eternal. In the above case, evidently his existence depends on that of the planet Venus; and one might suppose that , if that planet were s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 446
… Elohim, A'alion, etc., and look up the L-idea in your Book of Thoth, and in Magick, pp. 331 sqq.) and other peculiarly sacred names and words. Before cursing my way to dinner-oh! how I hate the need of food unless I am practising the "Ninth Art" and disguise myself as a gourmet-I must mention the letter M. This is the only letter that can be pronounced with the lips firmly closed; it is the beginning of speech, and so the Mother of the Alphabet. (Distinguish from N, the letter of the Female.) Look up Magick again; chapter VII (pp. 45-49) gives…
1954 · PDF PAGE 490
…, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind. The Equinox. in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone. There is one other matter of incomparable importance: the wars which have begun the disintegration of the world have followed, each at an interval of nine months, the operative publications of The Book of the Law. This again seems to make it almost certain that "They" not only know the future, at least in broad outline, but are at pains to arrange it. I have no doubt th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 81
…at deal of water. I-couldn’t trouble to pour myself out a glass. I couldn’t trouble to call the waiter, but I think I must have said the word “ water,”’ for Haidée filled my goblet. A smile wriggled across her face. It was the first sign of life she had given. Even the shaking hands had been in the nature of a mechanical reflex rather than of a voluntary action. There was something sinister and disquieting in her gesture. It was as if she had the after-taste in her mouth of some abominable bitterness. I looked across at Lou. I saw she had chang…
1954 · PDF PAGE 224
…hat. In certain types of animal there appears, if tradition have any weight, to be a curious quality of-sympathy? I doubt if that be the word, but can think of none better-which enables them to assume at times the human form. No. I-and the rest are also rans-is the seal. There is a whole body of literature about this. Then come wolves, hyc:enas, large dogs of the hunting type; occasionally leopards. Tales of cats and serpents are usually the other way round; it is the human (nearly always female) that assumes these shapes by witchcraft . But in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 249
…t , they remove definition . Their only refuge is in "superconsciousness." Splendid! but now 'belief has disappeared altogether; for the word has no sense unless it is subject to the laws of normal thought ... Tut! you must be feeling it yourself ; the further one goes, the darker the path. All I have written is somehow muddled and obscure, maugre my frenzied struggle for lucidity, simplicity . . . Is this the fault of my own sophistication? I asked myself. Tell you what! I'll trot round to my masseuse, and put it up to her. She is a simple cou…
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…r; the blaze bursts, splashes the skies. There is a Cry in an unknown tongue, it resounds through the Temple of the Universe; in its one Word is Death and Ecstasy, and thy title of honour, o thou, to Thyself High Priestess, Proph etess, Empress, to thyself the Goddess whose Name means Mother and whore! 56. Also for beauty’s sake and love’s! Commentary: It is obvious to the physiologist that beauty (that is, the fitness of proportion) and love (that is, the natural attraction between things whose union satisfies both) need for ful filment abso…
1922 · PDF PAGE 370
…We stood awhile in silence. Both our hearts were seething with suppressed necessity to speak. It was a long, long while before I found a word; and when it came, it was intense and calm and confident. “T love you.” Not all the concentration given by heroin, or the
1954 · PDF PAGE 73
… we wish to exchange thoughts, we must arrange a conventional code of sounds, of knots in string, of carved or written characters - in a word-embark upon the boundless ocean of hieroglyphics or symbols of one sort or another. (Presently I shall have to explain the supreme importance of such systems; in fact, the Universe itself is not, and cannot be, anything but an arrangement of symbolic characters!) Here we are, then, caught in a net of circumstances; if we are to do anything at all beyond automatic vegetative living, we must consciously app…
1954 · PDF PAGE 456
…s (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: "Self-discipline is a form of Restriction." (That, you remember, is "The Word of Sin.") Of all the utter rubbish! (Anyhow, he was a "centre of pestilence" for discussing the Book at all.) About 90 percent of Thelema, at a guess, is nothing but self-discipline. One is only allowed to do anything and everything so as to have more scope for exercising that virtue. Concentrate on "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." The point is that any possible act is to be performed if it is a n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
…fter night poring over the pages. (I have always been singularly thorough in anything I take up. My father had a favourite sermon on the word "but"; and I went through the whole Bible, page by page, enclosing this word, wherever it occurred, with an oblong of ink.) Apart from the few regular pieces for recitation, there was Paradise Lost. This bored me for the most part as much as it does now, but allowed me to gloat over the figures of Satan and sin. After all, Milton was a great poet; and the subconscious artistic self of him was therefore bi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…ive away illicit stills that I might happen to stumble across in my rambles. I needed no bribe. I am a free trader in every sense of the word. I have no sympathy with any regulations which interfere with the natural activities of human beings. I believe that they aggravate whatever trouble they are intended to prevent; and they create the greatest plague of humanity, officialdom, and encourage underhand conduct on both sides, furtiveness and espionage. Any law which tends to destroy manly qualities is a bad law, however necessary it may seem on…
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
…e of the fallacy Post hoc propter hoc, Are we to believe, asks the sceptic, that a number of learned men deliberately sat down and chose words for the sake of their numerical value? Language is a living thing, with many sources and diverse; can it be moulded in any such arbitrary fashion? The only reply seems to be a mere assertion that to some extent it certainly is so‘ Examples of a word being spelt deliberately wrong do occur; and such a jugglery as the changing 01 the names Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah can hardly be purposeless. Onc…
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
…e of the fallacy Post hoc propter hoc, Are we to believe, asks the sceptic, that a number of learned men deliberately sat down and chose words for the sake of their numerical value? Language is a living thing, with many sources and diverse; can it be moulded in any such arbitrary fashion? The only reply seems to be a mere assertion that to some extent it certainly is so‘ Examples of a word being spelt deliberately wrong do occur; and such a jugglery as the changing 01 the names Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah can hardly be purposeless. Onc…
1954 · PDF PAGE 56
…hat supersensible is getting on my nerves: do you mean "not in normal circumstances to be apprehended by the senses?" I suppose so. In a word: do fix a convenient season for going on the Astral Plane under my eye: half an hour (with a bit of luck) on not more than four evenings would put you in a- very different frame of mind. You will soon "feel your feet" and then "get your sea-legs" and then, much sooner than you think "Afloat in the aethyr, 0 my God! my God! ... White swan, bear thou ever me up between thy wings!" 3. Now then to your old Po…