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Page 89 of 901929 · PDF PAGE 302
…te, not as Alpine peaks or Scottish locks differ, merely in detail; in China, one is always discovering a totally strange fairyland. The spirit of a man is reborn with every such vision. It is not even possible to compare and contrast these beauties; each is entirely individual, lord of its own atmosphere; the points of similarity with other places such as geological formations, the flora, the villages and the people seem to possess infinitesimal importance. On the ninth there was a novelty of another kind. The dignity of Johnny White as interp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 250
… from slander to domestic destruction. I am afraid that my adventures have lost me the citizenship of the world. Alastor is my name, the Spirit of solitude, the Wanderer in the Waste. I am only at home in the Elysian Fields, conversing with the mighty men of old. I dislike London, not because it is busy and noisy and dirty and dark and sordid, ad so on, but because it is so pettily provincial. I live in a city beyond time and space; how much more beyond the ticking centuries and the itching inches of London! I have accustomed myself so long to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 495
…near its northern limit at 110th Street. From the bow window of the drawing-room trees only were to be seen. They rested and rejoiced my spirit. I could forget New York, although within half an hour from my office. My salary was twenty dollars a week; two dollars more than that of my typist. Life had taught me to enjoy outrages of this kind. It gave me pleasure to contrast my own generosity with the meanness of
1929 · PDF PAGE 494
…Orleans I went to stay with my cousin Lawrence Bishop on his orange and grapefruit plantation in Florida. I shall describe elsewhere the spiritual abyss in which these lost souls were plunged. I cannot think of Florida, but in my ears rings the exceeding bitter cry of poor little sixteen-year-old Alma, "I've found it doesn't pay to tell the truth." This visit opened up an expanse and depth of heartache which I had thought impossible. Cousin Lawrence saw how ill I was. The family fed on offal which I would not have thrown to a decent pig. He had…
1929 · PDF PAGE 199
…time in Paris known as the Sibyl, his own "belle amie". That night they called on her; and from her P. discovered, for he led her in the spirit, the following remarkable facts. The vision at first was of little importance, then by degrees the seer was led to a house which P. recognized as that in which D.D.C.F. lived. He entered one of the rooms, which he also at once recognized; but curious to say, instead of finding D.D.C.F. and V.N.R. there, he found Theo and Mrs. Horos. Mr. Horos (M.S.R.) incarnated in the body of V.N.R. and Mrs. Horos (S.V…
1929 · PDF PAGE 347
…more than to be a peer of the realm does in modern times. It was for me to sweep away all this nonsense, to re-establish the ordeals, in spirit and in truth. I was at first ignorant enough of Magick to imagine that this could be done by the simple process of replacing sham formalities by real ones. I proposed, for example, to test people's courage by putting them in actual contact with the four elements, and so on, as was apparently done in ancient Egypt; but experience soon taught me that an ordeal, however severe, is not much use in genuine i…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
…alth to Lord Ronald Gower ! 86. Swinburne.19— “ But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.”—Hertha. 104. My big beauty.20—Pink on Spot ; Player Green, in Hand. But I have “starred” since I went down in that pocket. 120. My Balti coolies.21—See my “The higher the Fewer.”* 125. Eton.22—A school, noted for its breed of cads. The battle of Waterloo ( 1815) w as won on its playing-fields. 128-30. Ive seen them.23—Sir J. Maundevill, “Voiage and Travill,” ch. xv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 255
…e is a touch of coolness in the air which is not wholly the chill of death. The sticky sweat on one's body begins to evaporate and one's spirit to revive. There is a call to Chota Hazri. One steps out of the carriage. Good God! Not many miles away across the level to the east rise thickly wooded slopes, a confused tangle both of hills (as it seems) and of trees, and behind them again, still higher heights of misty purple and green. And then --- good God! Is it a mirage? Is it a phantom of hope created by courage from the chaos of nightmare? For…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…genuine criticism of the shallow philosophy of optimism which went with the polite Christianity of the time. I was analysing life in the spirit of Schopenhauer. I couldn't see any sense in pretending that life was not full of horrors. Death and trousers are facts in nature; and merely to avoid reference to them or to invent euphemisms for them does not alter their character. I was reduced to gloating on murder and putrefaction, simply because these things gave the most forcible denial to the assumptions current at home. Paganism is wholesome be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
156 This poem was inspired by an actual experience. The effects of my continued bouts of fever had been to make me spiritually sensitive. The jungle spoke to me of the world which lies behind material manifestation. I perceived directly that every phenomenon, from the ripple of the river to the fragrance of the flowers, is the language by which the subtle souls of nature speak to our senses. That night we were tied up under a teak tree, and as I lay awake with my eyes fixed ecstatically on its grace and vigour, I found myself in the embraces of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 517
…tood its roots in the moral weakness and physical incompetence of our breed of monkeys. I had been familiar enough with its romantic and spiritual implication, with the social and economic complications which degrade its ideal, and even with the brutalities and blasphemies which lust and greed impose upon it. I had never understood it as the expression of the bitter need of desperation which is after all its true nature so far as all but a very few individuals rari nantes in gurgito vasto are concerned. It would be impossible for me even to att…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…ies 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 bootmaker! Later on, it became a public scandal t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…a extravagances in thought and jn diction his work is that of a cultured scholar, his verbal artistry. undeniably inspired with the true spirit of poetry. Whether he sings of ‘Violet skies all rimmed in tune,’ of red ravens, of purple kisses, of silver. stars “crested with amber melody,’ or of the ‘rhythmic sway of the idle moom he ts always musical albeit, like Wagner, whose effects he’ now and then ‘distinctly. recalls, often utterly unintelligible, In striking contrast to the chaste and serenely beautiful “Diana Rides’. . . are no less He gi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…tion apply to Mr. Sidney Lee. 11. ‘'/t zs the number ofa Man."'3—Rev. xill. 18, 117. Frves.AA—Dukes., 122, (Elsewhere.)3> — See ‘‘ Songs Spirit” and other works, 128. The Qabalistic Balm.3®— May be studied in ‘‘The Kabbalah (szc) Unveiled”’ (Redway). It is much to be wished that some one would undertake the preparation of an English translation of Rabbi Jischak Ben Loria’s ‘‘De Revolutionibus Animarum,” and of the book ‘‘ Beth Elohim.” 139. Cain.?7—Gen. iv. 8. 152. Hunyadi,*8—Hunyadi Janos, a Hunga- rian table water. 161. Nadi,3°—For this diffi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…elegram, came to fetch me away from the accursed spot. The incident had a wholesome effect on my own family. They had failed to break my spirit and begun to realize that I had reached the stage when I could make as much trouble for them as they could for me. The best thing they could do was to let me go my own way. I had won the fight; and the evidence of my triumph was my season in the Bernese Oberland on my own responsibility. I was recalled by a telegram. They had decided to let me go to Trinity; and the entrance examination was only a week …
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
… apply to Mr. Sidney Lee. 111. “It is the number of a Man.”33—Rev. xiii. 18. 117. Fives.34—Dukes. 122. ( Elsewhere.)35—See “Songs of the Spirit” and other works. 128. The Qabalistic Balm.36—May be studied in “The Kabbalah ( sic) Unveiled” (Redway). It is much to be w ished that some one would undertake the preparation of an English translation of Rabbi Jischak Ben Loria’s “De Revolutionibus Animarum,” and of the book “Beth Elohim.” 139. Cain.37—Gen. iv. 8. 152. Hunyadi.38—Hunyadi Janos, a Hunga- rian table water. 161. Nadi.39—For this difficult…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
… the moment of his despair ; confronted with the dead bodies of the splendid sisters, the catafalque of all his hopes, he can exclaim in spiritual triumph over material disaster—the victory of a true man’s spirit over Fate— ** Vet Edmund was belov -d.”’ I'dgar is left alive with Albany, alone of all that crew; and if remorse could touch their brutal and callous souls (for the degeneration of the weakling, well-meaning Albany, is a minor tragedy), what hell could be more horrible than the dragging out ofa cancerous existence in the bestial world…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…n the moment of his despair; confronted with the dead bodies of the splendid sisters, the catafalque of all his hopes, he can exclaim in spiritual triumph over material disaster—the victory of a true man’s spirit over Fate— “Yet Edmund was beloved.” Edgar is left alive with Albany, alone of all that crew; and if remorse could touch their brutal and callous souls (for the degeneration of the weakling, well-meaning Albany, is a minor tragedy), what hell could be more horrible than the dragging out of a cancerous existence in the bestial world of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…al extravagances in thought and in diction his work is that of a cultured scholar, his verbal artistry undeniably inspired with the true spirit of poetry. Whether he sings of ‘ Violet skies all rimmed in tune,” of red ravens, of purple kisses, of silver stars ‘crested with amber melody,’ or of the ‘rhythmic sway of the idle moon,’ he is always musical albeit, like Wagner, whose effects he now and then distinctly recalls, often utterly unintelligible. . . . In striking contrast to the chaste and serenely beautiful ‘Diana Rides? . . . are no less…
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…al extravagances in thought and in diction his work is that of a cultured scholar, his verbal artistry undeniably inspired with the true spirit of poetry. Whether he sings of ‘ Violet skies all rimmed in tune,” of red ravens, of purple kisses, of silver stars ‘crested with amber melody,’ or of the ‘rhythmic sway of the idle moon,’ he is always musical albeit, like Wagner, whose effects he now and then distinctly recalls, often utterly unintelligible. . . . In striking contrast to the chaste and serenely beautiful ‘Diana Rides? . . . are no less…