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Page 84 of 1151922 · PDF PAGE 21
… body to become temporarily un- conscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom. You see what gloomy thoughts a fellow can have, even when he’s Fortune’s pet. It’s a disease of civilisa- tion. We're in an intermediate stage between the stupor of the peasant and—something that is not yet properly developed. I went into the café and sat down at one of the marble tables. I had a momentary thrill of joy—it reminded me of France so much—of all those days of ferocious gambling with Death. I couldn't see a soul I kn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…ent devilishness of the universe. Insanity is the logical consequence of such a faith. No, sir, I will spare you the description. Bevan thought that there had already been too much description, and in his complacent English way surmised that Duguesclin was exaggerating, as he was aware that Frenchmen did. But he only remarked that it must have been terrible. He would have given a good deal, now, to have avoided the conversation. It was not altogether nice to be on a lonely platform with a self- confessed multiple murderer, who had presumably e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 186
… send even $200. What are you going to do about it? Skimp, and save your expenses, and make yourself miserable and incapable of vigorous thought or action? You may succeed in saving enough to swing the deal; but you won't get a penny beyond the amount actually needed - and look at the cost in moral grandeur! No, go and stand yourself a champagne luncheon , and stroll up Bond Street with an 8% "Hoyo de Monterey ," and squander $30 on some utterly useless bauble. Then the $500 will swell to $1000, and arrive two days early at that! There are one …
1929 · PDF PAGE 559
…servant, so uniformly considerate and kind. When that lazy big lion suddenly leapt from his lair, she suffered the shock of her life. "I thought there might be something of the sort," she said, startled out of prudence, "but I didn't think it would come for a long while." She had hoped to do irreparable damage before being found out, and now she learnt, as so many before her and since, that the big lion sleeps with one eye open. Baffled and broken, her only idea was revenge. She did an amazing thing. She went to some consul in Palermo and swore…
1922 · PDF PAGE 63
Au Pays de Cocaine 49 cocaine does. The sober continuity of thought is broken up. One goes off at a tangent, a fresh, fierce, fantastic tangent, on the slightest &kcuse. One’s sense of proportion is gone; and despite all the millions of miles that one cheerily goes out of one’s way, one never loses sight of one’s goal. While I have been writing all this, I have never lost sight for a moment of the fact that I am telling you about the box and the letter from Gretel. We met a girl in Paris, half a Red Indian, a lovely baby with the fascination of…
1922 · PDF PAGE 333
…me here two years ago, every detail was an annoyance and an insult. But I came around gradually, through seeing that everything had been thought out. These people were enormously more efficient than I was, through economising the time and trouble which I had been accustomed to waste on trifles. I could no more fight them than Dionysus could fight Jack Dempsey. There is absolutely nothing to do here in the way of amusement except walking and climbing and reading, and playing Thelema; and, of course, bathing in the summer. The housework occupies …
1922 · PDF PAGE 338
…ny time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing through her mind than even those to which she was giving such airy expres- sion. : We watched her intently. The heroin had calmed and intensified our thought, which was intensely stimulated by her explanation. We had no wish to interrupt. We wished she could have gone on talking for ever. Her self-absorption became still more marked. After a very long pause she went on slowly talking, so …
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
… my grandmother was pure Eng- lish, a Higginbotham, one of the Warwickshire Hig- ginbothams (what has that to do with his stupid- ity? thought Bevan) and the majority of my compan- ions were men not only devoid of intelligence, but of education. The one pinnacled exception was the great Doduha! you start? Bevan had not done anything of the sort; he had continued to exhibit the most stolid in- difference to the story. Yes, you are not mistaken; it was indeed the world- famous philosopher, the discoverer of Dodium, rarest of known elements,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 153
…termost Abyss is sickness of the aspiration, and sickness of the will, and sickness of the essence of all, and there is neither word nor thought wherein the image of its image is reflected. And whoso passeth into the outermost Abyss, except he be of them that understand, holdeth out his hands, and boweth his neck, unto the Chains of Choronzon. And as a devil he walketh about the earth, immortal, and he blasteth the flowers of the earth, and he corrupteth the fresh air, and he maketh poisonous the water; and the fire that is the friend of man, a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 268
… existence , nor a condition or form of existence . Equally, TO MH ON gives no idea of Tao. Tao is altogether alien to all that class of thought. From its connection with "that principle which necessarily underlies the fact that events occur" one might suppose that the "Becoming" of Heraclitus might assist us to describe the Tao. But the Tao is not a principle at all of that kind. To understand it requires an altogether different state of mind to any with which European thinkers in general are familiar. It is necessary to pursue unflinchingly t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
…ha-grass.48—The sacred grass of the Hindus. 509. Mantra.49—A sacred verse, suitable for constant repitition, with a view to quieting the thought. Any one can see how simple and effective a means this is. 519. Gayatri.50—This is the translation of the most holy verse of the Hindus. The gender of Savitri has been the subject of much discussion and I believe grammatically it is masculine. B ut for mystical reasons I have made it otherwise. Fool ! 557. Prayer.51—This fish-story is literally true. The condition was that the Almighty should have the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
…r lives, and little care Worries their souls—worse fools they seem Than even Christians. Do I dream ? Probing philosophy to marrow, What thought darts in its poisoned arrow But this ? (my wisdom, even to me, Seems folly) may their folly be True Wisdom ? O esteemed Tahuti !25 You are, you are, you are a beauty ! If after all these years of worship You hail Ra26 his bark or Nuit27 her ship * A flat cake of unleavened bread. As a m atter of fact they do not enjoy and indeed will not eat them, preferring “dok,” a paste of coarse flour and water, wr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…is conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One Unchanging Whole, At the same time, the book is well worth study ; It summarises thought. The style is [We regret that our space will not admit a more extended review.—ED.] 104
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…is conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One Unchanging Whole, At the same time, the book is well worth study ; It summarises thought. The style is [We regret that our space will not admit a more extended review.—ED.] 104
1922 · PDF PAGE 73
… out very well. Come to think of it, the English language has its limitations. When mathemati- cians and men of science want to exchange thoughts, English isn’t much good. They've had to invent new words, new symbols. Look at Einstein’s equations. I knew a man once that knew James Hinton, who invented the fourth dimension. Pretty bright chap, he was, but Hinton thought, on the most ordinary subjects, at least six times as fast as he did, and when it came to Hinton’s explaining himself, he simply couldn’t do it. That’s the great trouble when a n…
1954 · PDF PAGE 257
…ligious beliefs, and ends "and I'm dead sure you're right!" his host mildly rebukes him, saying: "But we are only moderately sure." Such thought plumbs the Abysses of Wisdom; at least, it may quite possibly do so. Forgive me if I emulate the teacher! But this is not as simple as it sounds. There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as fatal as Charybdis. No, this lofty and equable attitude is worse than wrong unless it derives from striking the balance between two very dista…
1954 · PDF PAGE 350
… chose me for (a) my literary skill, knowledge and judgment; (b) my scientific training; (c) my familiarity with Eastern ways, habits of thought , and sympathetic predisposition; (d) my stern adherence to Truth; (e) my moral courage ; (f) my dour persistence; and (g) my Karma as aforesaid. They prepared me by (a) pushing me rapidly forward both in Magick and in Yoga; (b) wearying me of both of them and making me despair of them both as a solution to the problem of Life, and (c) fixing me both in Buddhistic pessimism and scientific rationalism, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
… to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. 12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! Commentary: The whole doctrine of “love” is discussed in the Book Aleph (Wisdom or Folly) and should be studied therein. But note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every Star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…ngth, with the result that I have never read a page of Samuel Richardson. It is easier to understand the objection which I had to what I thought gossip. I have never read Boswell and have never been able to bring myself to face the average memoir. With regard to history1 again, I demanded that the subject should be important. I did not see why I should bother my head about the Crimean War. I studied philosophy and kindred subjects with the greatest enthusiasm; but resented the form in which it was set forth by such people as Plato. It seemed to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…. "I'm afraid I've no change till the Banks open." "Oh, stick to it-I'll be back next week-I've enough petrol to take me home." "Handy," thought Boniface, "that will just square my brewer." That reminded the brewer to pay his cornchandler, who had been worrying him to settle . He wasn't nasty about it; he really needed the money for his farmer, a worthy man who wanted to build some new outhouses, and the builder couldn't give any credit because he was being pressed by the man who supplied his materials, a man in great trouble on account of his …