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Page 83 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 472
…he Creator with somewhat mixed feelings, gradually sagging towards a pessimistic atheism, especially when I learned that, like anyone in New York who can string together a dozen words without sound or sense, he was a shining light of the Poetry Society. (But he is quite a nice boy.) I must admit that I did not know how to talk to him. With all the quickness of his Jewish apprehension, he decided that I was meat for his master, for whom he sent by means of the complicated manual gestures which form the true language of Jews, and, pace Professor …
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…exually. Descriptions and illustrations of diseases neither disgusted nor frightened us. The girls did not dress against each other. The new hat of one aroused no envy in her friend. The most cutting criticism made no wound. I would say frankly and even brutally what I thought of this or that trait in one of the girls, and she would take it in the same spirit as a patient submits to the surgeon's knife, knowing first, that whatever I said was inspired by the wish to eliminate error, and secondly that beneath the most ruthless contempt there was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 554
554 He suddenly developed an entirely new defect. I had always found him truthful. He now adopted a policy of deliberate deceitfulness with the greatest subtlety. It was perfectly imbecile. He had only to say what he wanted and I should have done whatever I could to help him, whatever it was. He, however, persuaded himself that he must keep his plans dark and the final absurdity of the whole thing was that I was aware from the beginning exactly what he intended to do. Our relations ended, bar occasional correspondence, towards the end of the ye…
1906 · PDF PAGE 208
…ble without the review referred to. I therefore reprint the * Sacred Books. portion thereof which is germane to my matter from the Dazly News, June 18, 1901 :— To the side of a mind concerned with idle merri- ment (sic /) thereis certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout and Nuit, and Ra and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the English mind to lend themselves to pious exhilara- tion. Mr. Crowley says in the same poem: The burden is too hard to bear, I took too adamant a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 516
…ow the people well to get a really clear view of hell with the lid off. I had already been some time in the country, but the truth about New York had been camouflaged. I, being who I was, had come into contact with the very cream of the city, and on my travels about the Union, I had seen little more than the superficial life of the people as it appears to the wanderer whose tent is a pullman car, a swagger hotel, or the abode of some friend who by that very fact is not truly representative of his community. I was soon to be brought into intimat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…ese stories from the category of jeux d'esprit. In particular, the story "Suffer the Little Children", whose setting is in Florida as I knew it, flames so fiercely with the passion excited in me by the conditions which I found there, a passion which I cannot fairly describe as pity, scorn, disgust, indignation, or even any combination of these, that I believe this tale may stand like the broken statue of Osymandias, in the eyes of a new civilization, as a witness of the tyranny and abomination which Christians have taught us to associate with t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… all authority. The average Alpine clubman qualifies by paying guides to haul him up a few hackneyed peaks. He is not expected to do any new climbs whatever; and it is an outrage to the spirit of the club to do anything original. Mummery had been blackballed because he was the most famous climber in England; and, though occasionally climbing with guides before he found Collie and Hastings, had been in fact the leader of the party. The club was, of course, afraid to give its real reasons for objecting to him. It circulated the lie that he was a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…t doubt it. I simply went over to Satan's side; and to this hour I cannot tell why. But I found myself as passionately eager to serve my new master as I had been to serve the old. I was anxious to distinguish myself by committing sin. Here again my attitude was extraordinarily subtle. It never occurred to me to steal or in any other way to infringe the decalogue. Such conduct would have been petty and contemptible. I wanted a supreme spiritual sin; and I had not the smallest idea how to set about it. There was a good deal of morbid curiosity am…
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…inates me moste ft is a tender Jittle lyric, delicate, iridescent, fragrant as a summer dawn, I take the liberty of quoting it in full « New Age, ie, Mr, Neubury a most regrettable collection of songs that deal with unrestrained affection. ++, There’s no denying ‘they are frsterate verse."——Pency Face in The Equinox. +4 We are dizzied and dazzled by a foaming rainbow-hued torrent of impassioned words. We are struck’ by the wealth and. boldness of the imagery, and the facility of mechanical execution. . . ft" is brilliant ‘work ... . one is boun…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…f modern Agnos- tics. None of these+ deal with Christianity at all, save for a chance and casual word. I look forward with pleasure to a new History of England, in which it will be pointed out how the warlike enthusiasm aroused liv the Tibetan expedition led to the disastrous plunge into the Boer War; disastrous because the separation of the Transvaal which resulted therefrom left us so weak that we fell an easy prey to William the Conqueror. Our Novelist should really makea strong effort to materialise his creation in ‘‘ The Napoleon of Nottin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
…was aroused by a hail. Ellis was three or four hundred feet down the slope! He urged me once more to glissade. He said he had invented a new method of exercising this art, which was to hold the axe by the shaft and use the pick as a brake. It was downright insanity; and took me absolutely by surprise, as previously he had been a sound and careful climber. I could do nothing to restrain him: I tried to humour him and suggested that he should "come up to where I was and start fair". But he wasn't taking any and let himself go. A few seconds later…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…ble without the review referred to. I therefore reprint the * Sacred Books. portion thereof which is germane to my matter from the Daily News, June 18, 1901 :— To the side of a mind concerned with idle merri- ment (sic !) there is certainly something a little funny in M r. Cr owley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such na mes as Mout and Nuit, and Ra and Shu, and Hor makhou. T hey do no seem to the English m ind to lend themselves to pious exhilara-tion. Mr Crowley says in the same poem : The burden is too hard to bear, I took too adam…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…e sanity of Dr. Henry Maudsley in such a book ‘¢ Life in Mind and Conduct ”! ” Hence I regard Agnosticism as little more than a basis of new research into spiritual facts, to be conducted by the methods won for us by men of science. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived —if he lived. Slavery was hated. A million men* died about it, and it was cast out of everywhere but the hearts of men.t Euripides hated Greek religion, and…
1906 · PDF PAGE 194
…kespeare for a despotism, massed in one lurid flame, phantasmagoric horror, the grim First Act rolls down. I. Act II. Sc. i. adds little new to our thesis, save that in line 80 we see Gloucester (ignorant of his own son’s handwriting!) accept the forged letter as genuine, as final proof, with not even the intervention of a Bertillon to excuse so palpable a folly, so egregious a crime. What father of to-day would disin- herit, would hunt down to death, a beloved son, on such evidence? Or are we to take it that the eclipse gave proof unshakable o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…espeare for a despotism, massed in one lurid flame, phantasmagoric horror, the grim First Act rolls down. II. Act II. Sc. i. adds little new to our thesis, save that in line 80 we see Gloucester (ignorant of his own son’s handwriting!) accept the forged letter as genuine, as final proof, with not even the intervention of a Bertillon to excuse so palpable a folly, so egregious a crime. What father of to-day would disin- herit, would hunt down to death, a beloved son, on such evidence? Or are we to take it that the eclipse gave proof unshakable o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 498
…es by its oracles, caused tyrants to tremble on their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity, or by fear." Wants SupeLiep. New PuBLicaTions SUPPLIED TO ORDER. Out ofprint books sought for and reported. Visitors to London who are interested should make a point of calling. Only two minutes from Chancery Lane. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7, GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN.
1910 · PDF PAGE 498
…es by its oracles, caused tyrants to tremble on their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity, or by fear." Wants SupeLiep. New PuBLicaTions SUPPLIED TO ORDER. Out ofprint books sought for and reported. Visitors to London who are interested should make a point of calling. Only two minutes from Chancery Lane. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7, GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN.
1919 · PDF PAGE 462
…ELS. Catalogues post free on application. Send me your list of “wants,” I have special facilities for acquiring rare and uncommon Books. New Publications supplied to order. Carriage paid within United Kingdom. THE HISTORY OF MAGIC. | Including a clear and precise Exposition ofits Processes, Rites and Mysteries. By Evtruas Leyt. Translated, Annotated and Introduced, by Arthur, Edward Waite, With Twenty lates, Large Demy Syo, 9 in.X6 ina s7z pp. | Handgomely bound, Cloth Gilt extra, Gilt Tope. 155 net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed’on fine quality Rag…
1913 · PDF PAGE 612
…S. Catalogues post free on application, Send me your list of ‘‘ wants," I have special facilities for acquiring rare and uncommon Books. New Publications supplied to order. Carrlage paid withia United Kingdom, THE HISTORY, OF MAGIC. Including a clear and precise Exposition of its Processes, Rites and Mysteries. By Euivntas Livi, Translated, Annotated and Introduced by Arthur Edward Waite. With Twenty Plates. Large Demy 8vo, 9 in. x 6in., $72 pp. Handsomely bound, Cloth Gill extra, Gilt Tops. 155.net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed on fine quality Rag…
1913 · PDF PAGE 612
…S. Catalogues post free on application, Send me your list of ‘‘ wants," I have special facilities for acquiring rare and uncommon Books. New Publications supplied to order. Carrlage paid withia United Kingdom, THE HISTORY, OF MAGIC. Including a clear and precise Exposition of its Processes, Rites and Mysteries. By Euivntas Livi, Translated, Annotated and Introduced by Arthur Edward Waite. With Twenty Plates. Large Demy 8vo, 9 in. x 6in., $72 pp. Handsomely bound, Cloth Gill extra, Gilt Tops. 155.net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed on fine quality Rag…