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Page 82 of 921905 · PDF PAGE 101
… those pale gods above, Too perfect for their iron rods to break, Arise, awake, and die for death’s own sake! That one forgetfulness may take us three, Still three, still one, to the Lethean sea ; That all its waters may be sweet as those We wandered by, sweet sisters of the rose, That perfect night before we fled, we two Who were so silent down that avenue Grown golden with the moonlight, who should be No longer two, but one; nor one, but three. And now it is the spring; the ice is breaking; The waters roar; the winds their wings are shaking T…
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
…ut we might argue for months and aeons as to which of the two it is. Myst. Here Hindu practice bears out Western speculation, whether we take the shadowy idealism of Berkeley, or the self- refuted! Monism of Haeckel. All these men got our results, and interpreted them in the partial light of their varied intellect, their diverse surrounding and education. But the result is the same physiological pheno- 1 Haeckel, postulating a unity, is compelled to ascribe to it a tendency to dividuality, thus stultifying his postulate. See the ‘‘ Riddle of th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…ith- drawing our caustics and adopting a protective treatment, we point to the beautiful clean bandages and ask the clinic to admire! To take one concrete example: the English T is clearly equivalent in sound to the Hebrew n, the Greek 71, the Arabic ~, and the Coptic "J, but the numeration is not the same. Again, we have a clear analogy in shape (perhaps a whole series of analogies), which, on comparing the modern alphabets with primeval examples, breaks up and is indecipherable. The same difficulty in another form permeates the question of go…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…g that he wanted to explore? However this may be, he used to make up his mind with absolute finality as to whether he would or would not take some particular course. If he would, be panted after it like the hart after the water brooks; if no, nothing would persuade him to waste an hour on it. It was while he was at this school that he began to write poetry. He had read none, except "Casabianca", "Excelsior", the doggerel of Sir Walter Scott and such trash. But he had a genuine love for the simple Hymns for the little Flock compiled by the "Bret…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…"Put not thy trust in princes." 'Tis a speech Might thee, O Gordon-Cumming, something teach. It seems absurd that a boy of my age should take an interest in such matters and become so positive a partisan. But I had an ingrained hatred for the Hanoverian usurper and took for granted what I still believe to have been the fact, that the man who cheated was not Gordon-Cumming. Of the second poem I retain: Poor lady! whom a wicked jury's hate In face of facts as iron as the grave To which they would have doomed thee -- bitter fate! Thee guiltless to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”’ 3 The banyan tree puts forth branches which droop to the earth and take root. A single tree may thus spread over many acres.
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…oming from America to marry her in a few weeks. I engaged a companion-housekeeper easily enough. What a man wants is a woman whom he can take down from the shelves when required and who can be trusted to stay on them when not. It is true that a woman is much more amusing when she possesses individuality and initiative, but it is the basest kind of sensuality to wish to be amused. The ideal woman should prevent a man from being amused or disturbed in any way, whether by his won passions or the incidents of everyday life. I forget the surname of …
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…inion. And our Father could not at that tim e stay him: though for himself had he cut off the grip, y et for others —well, let each m an take his s word! The way went through a forest. Now between two trees hung a man by one heel (Love was that tree).5 Crossed were his legs, and his arms behind his head, that hung ever downw ards, the fingers locked. “Who art thou ?” quoth our Father. “He that came before thee.” “Who am I ?” “ He that com eth after m e.” W ith that wors hipped our F ather, and took a present of a great jewel fro m him, and went…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
…n case, though many similar phenomena have occurred, as already recorded, I regard them as due to defects of insulation. They warn me to take pains to perfect my circle. The art of producing phenomena at will is a totally different question. The simplest, most rational, and most direct method had been known to me since the summer of 1911; but for some reason, I had never practised it systematically or recorded my results methodically. I believe this to have been due to an instinctive reluctance in respect of the nature of the method. It was not…
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…eligion in question, whichever it may be, sufficiently indicate (as a rule) by the very method of their apology. The alter- native is to take the religion symbolically, esoterically; but to move one step in this direction is to start on a journey whose end cannot be determined. The religion, ceasing to be a tangible thing, an object uniform for all sane eyes, becomes rather that mist whereon the sun of the soul casts up, like Brocken spectre, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory encompassing them. The f…
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
… the utmost storms of the Sahara! ‘¢ Blessed and more blessed! For one day came a holy Bhikkhu from the land of the “Peacock,? and would take up his abode in the hollow of their very tree. And little Perdu’ R Abu used to keep the mosquitoes away with the gossamer of his wings, so that the good man might be at peace. ‘‘Now the British Government abodein that land, and when it heard that there was a Bhikkhu living in a tree, and that the village folk brought him rice and onions and gramo- phones, it saw that it must not be. ‘‘And little Perdu’ R …
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…rkeley, that reason teaches us that the testimony of conscious- ness is untrue; it is absurd, with Spencer, to refute reason; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its impro- bity. Now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly re- sponsible for its untruthfulness. We seek (also by empiric means, alas!) to control it, to con- centrate it, to observe more accurately—has this source of possible error been sufficiently recognised ?—what its testimony really is. Experience has taught me, so fa…
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
…anp; a Dedicatory Sonnet by Victor B. Nevzure; and an Introduction by ALEISTER CROWLEY. PRICE FIFTY CENTS “Thisis a whirlpool, and no mistake; a witches’ cauldron wherein suns and stars and souls, and Lilith and Sappho, ‘and ‘whispering hair,’ and corpses and poppies jostle one another in a heaving brew of iridestent, quasi-putrescent, ‘ultra-modernity. Quite good reading all the same. Take p. 44:—... . And we must thank the mysterious V. B. N. for a really inspired line— ‘Thou lyric laughter of the enfranchised male.’ The naughty new ‘male, sm…
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…scribed is the state called Dhyana by the Hindus and Buddhists. The method of attaining it is sane, healthy, and scientific. I would not take the pains to describe that method, had not illiterate, and too often mystical advo- cates of the practice obscured the simple
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…k midnight was clear. Think ! I who have borne Thee, nor tire— May I not lift up on Thy lyre Most reverent fingers, and follow Thy path, take Thy reins, drive Thy chariot and horses of song without fear? Let the lightning be harnessed before me, The thunder be chained to my car, The sea roll asunder that bore me, The sky peal my clarion of war ! As a warrior’s my chariot shall gyre! As a lord I will sharpen the lyre ! The stars and the moon shall adore me, Not seeing mean me, but Thyself in the glory, the splendidest star. Around me the planets…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…ther words, hypocrisy and sneaking were the only virtues. Naturally, one of several boys who might be involved in the same offence would take fright and save his skin by sneaking. The informer was always believed implicitly, as against probability, or even possibility, with complete disregard of the testimony of other and independent witnesses. For instance, a boy named Glascott, with insane taint, told Mr. Champney that he had visited me (twelve years old) at my mother's house during the holidays --- true so far, he had --- and found me lying …
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…or anything beyond a not unamiable imbecility. However, there was but one thing to be done, to argue her into conviction. They agreed to take eight-hour shifts; and for all I know, they are arguing still, and neither of the meetings at Oban can meet! As it happened, my mother took the minority view. This means that she cut herself off from every single intimate friend. On the strength of a text in one of the epistles, she refused to shake hands with anyone who was teaching false doctrine. The very few remaining were new friends. My associates c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…scious of the rough working. Further, he does not feel the actual impression made by each individual impact upon the mind. He totally mistakes its character, which is, in reality, arbitrary and imperative. The first analysis shows it as out of relation with its predecessors and successors. Later on, one discovers the subconscious links which join the elements. This process of subdivision seems as if it might be continued indefinitely. I will try and make matters clearer by an illustration. The normal man looking form the top of the Jungfrau see…
1929 · PDF PAGE 335
…in such sort that my friendship wit him is one of the dearest memories of my life. I dedicated The Winged Beetle to him. Alas, I did not take into account the corrupting influence of women. He held out a long while against the insidious pressure of his wife. It was perhaps only through the treachery of another man that mischief was finally made between us. But nothing can destroy the past, and the long years of our intimate friendship were indeed fertile. We saw each other nearly every day and worked together in perfect harmony. In "The Temple …
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…edicatory Sonnet by Vicror B. NEusurG; and an Introduction by ALEISTER CROWLEY. PRICE ONE SHILLING NET _ {This is a whirlpool, and no mistake; a witches’ cauldron wherein suns and stars and souls, and Lilith and Sappho, and ‘whispering hair,’ and corpses and poppies, jostle one another in a heaving brew ofiridescent, quasi-putrescent, ultra-modemity. Quite good reading all the same, Take p. 44:— - « « « And we must thank the mysterious V. B. N. for a really inspired line— “Thou lyric laughter of the enfranchised male.’ ++... The naughty new ‘ma…