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Page 90 of 1591912 · PDF PAGE 127
…hop—chop—chop—chop; I’m sick of it. Even in had a fine girl from Paris like that, what could I do but chop—chop—chop—chop? " For the first time in his life he went home half an hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell like night upon the forest, like a dark winter's night that afternoon of May. He was wet to the skin before he reached his hut. Opening the door, he glowered with dull surprise. Equally wet, standing in one corner and wringing out a blouse, was …
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…hop—chop—chop—chop; I’m sick of it. Even in had a fine girl from Paris like that, what could I do but chop—chop—chop—chop? " For the first time in his life he went home half an hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell like night upon the forest, like a dark winter's night that afternoon of May. He was wet to the skin before he reached his hut. Opening the door, he glowered with dull surprise. Equally wet, standing in one corner and wringing out a blouse, was …
1922 · PDF PAGE 250
236 The Diary of a Drug Fiend the first time I was glad of the war. My Red-Cross training made all the difference. There was a little fever, due to his intense weakness, and occasionally he had delirium. The obsession of the poem still enthralled him. While I was dressing the wounds he said feebly and dreamily :— “She it is, she, that found me ‘In the morphia honeymoon ; With silk and steel she bound me; In her poisonous milk she drowned me, Even now her arms surround me.” “Yes,” I said, “‘ but it’s your wife who loves you and is going to nurse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
The sick man stirred feebly. A portion of his brain had shaken off the poison for the moment, and was working furiously against time. I am going to die. The consolation of death is Religion. There is no use for Religion in life. How many atheists have I not known sign the arti- cles the sake of fellowships and livings! Religion in life is either an amusement and a soporific or a sham and a swindle. I was brought up a Presbyterian How easily I drifted into the English Church! And now where is God? Where is the Lamb of God? Where is the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
… life was very intense. My relations with women were entirely satisfactory. They gave me the maximum of bodily enjoyment and at the same time symbolized my theological notions of sin. Love was a challenge to Christianity. It was a degradation and a damnation. Swinburne had taught me the doctrine of justification by sin. Every woman that I met enabled me to affirm magically that I had defied the tyranny of the Plymouth Brethren and the Evangelicals. At the same time women were the source of romantic inspiration; and their caresses emancipated me…
1904 · PDF PAGE 20
…ins, Each cell a life, self-centred, free Yet self-subordinate to the whole For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the truth—why ! worship then Were not so imbecile for men! But that’s no Christian faith ! For where Enters the dogma of despair ? Despite his logic’s silver flow I must count Caird62 a mystic ! No ! You Christians shall not mask me so The plain words of your sacred books Behind friend Swedenborg hi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 163
…to the Buddha leading Calls real not-self. In any case There is not, there can never be A soul, or sword or armour needing, Incapable in time or space Or to inflict or suffer. We I think are gradually weeding The soil of dualism. Pheugh! Drop to the common Christian’s view! This is my point ; the world lies bleeding :—- | have pity: (Result of sin ?)—I do not care ; had Christ I will admit : here ! any? The you anywhere . Sheep and the I take your premisses themselves Goats. And, like the droll despiteful elves They are, they yet outwit your pl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…NYS. [With double entendre.) 1 have heard nothing. [He opens his arms to her. She still stands about to sob again, breaks down, but this time flings herself on him and sobs on his breast. Enter ALAIN unseen. [Softly.] My darling! [BLANCHE ratses her face. DENYS goes to kiss her, but she draws back. BLANCHE. The captain’s name was Florimond de Cham pdivers. DENYS. I did not hear it. [A jawse.] Blanche, will you kiss me? [They take one long look and then tenderly and very deliberately kiss. They remain sa, silently delighting an each other. ALAIN…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…o in that greater Death can we alone solve the mystery of pure being . Virtue and Vice they are one , being formless and eternal without time or number ; for whilst we live death is not , and the purities of state cannot be . We live in a land of mingled cloud and flame , on the marge of the kingdoms of the Positive and the Trans cendent , all is as a seething cauldron of finalities ; ever boiling up to vanish in the inane . Optimism and Pessimism , the former proffering to us the golden chalice filled with the vanities of life , the latter a l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 269
…licious landscape of revery along all the road to Canterbury. The music of my vision was still heard in echo; as the bells of Bow of old time called to Whittington, so did it call to me—“ Turn again, turn again.” And I turned. It will be remembered that the hasheesh states of ecstasy always alternate with less intense conditions, in which the prevailing phenomena are those of mirth or tranquillity In accordance with this law, in the present instance, Dan, to whom I had told my former experience, was not surprised to hear me break forth at the f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 269
…licious landscape of revery along all the road to Canterbury. The music of my vision was still heard in echo; as the bells of Bow of old time called to Whittington, so did it call to me—“ Turn again, turn again.” And I turned. It will be remembered that the hasheesh states of ecstasy always alternate with less intense conditions, in which the prevailing phenomena are those of mirth or tranquillity In accordance with this law, in the present instance, Dan, to whom I had told my former experience, was not surprised to hear me break forth at the f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…d to your view, wherein true patriotism is exemplified in glowing colours, and a series of transactions recorded, which the rude hand of Time can never erase. The obligations which influenced the first Brutus and Manlius to sacrifice their children to the love of their country are not more sacred than those which bind me to support the honour and reputation of this venerable order. “This moment, my son, you owe to me a second birth; should your conduct in life correspond with the principles of M., my remaining years will pass away with pleasure…
1913 · PDF PAGE 430
…re our eyes with tiresome publicity, this explanation, ancient as the facts themselves, rigorous as mathematics, but drawn for the first time from the shadows in which the hierophants of all ages have hidden it, would be a great scientific event if it could obtain sufficient light and publicity. This event we are perhaps about to prepare, for one would not permit us the audacious hope of accomplishing it. Here, in the first place, are the facts, in all their singularity. We have verified them, and we have established them with a rigorous exacti…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
…rgist to fall into oblivion, and even into contempt; he had, moreover, been attacked with violence in pamphlets whose authors had at one time been admirers of his doctrine, for the medium Vintras took it upon himself to dogmatize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subj…
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…ave lost. Take my book, observe the prescriptions of the ritual, and come again to see me in a week.” A week later he returned, but this time the workman declared that he had invented a life-saving machine of the greatest importance for the navy. The machine is perfectly 158
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…d to your view, wherein true patriotism is exemplified in glowing colours, and a series of transactions recorded, which the rude hand of Time can never erase. The obligations which influenced the first Brutus and Manlius to sacrifice their children to the love of their country are not more sacred than those which bind me to support the honour and reputation of this venerable order. “This moment, my son, you owe to me a second birth; should your conduct in life correspond with the principles of M., my remaining years will pass away with pleasure…
1913 · PDF PAGE 430
…re our eyes with tiresome publicity, this explanation, ancient as the facts themselves, rigorous as mathematics, but drawn for the first time from the shadows in which the hierophants of all ages have hidden it, would be a great scientific event if it could obtain sufficient light and publicity. This event we are perhaps about to prepare, for one would not permit us the audacious hope of accomplishing it. Here, in the first place, are the facts, in all their singularity. We have verified them, and we have established them with a rigorous exacti…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
…rgist to fall into oblivion, and even into contempt; he had, moreover, been attacked with violence in pamphlets whose authors had at one time been admirers of his doctrine, for the medium Vintras took it upon himself to dogmatize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subj…
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…ave lost. Take my book, observe the prescriptions of the ritual, and come again to see me in a week.” A week later he returned, but this time the workman declared that he had invented a life-saving machine of the greatest importance for the navy. The machine is perfectly 158
1913 · PDF PAGE 18
…es?” Maruins. Perhaps. Scorpio, K.C, I must ask you to remember that Crowley was brought up among the Plymouth Brethren, and thatat this time he nad no more knowledge of the world than most boys of 16, He swallowed your yarns easily enough, didn't he? Mavuirs. He did Sconrio, KC. Now take the second part. “For the last ieen months or two years there has been nothing that the police could get at me for.” ‘That implies that previous to that date there was something? Marans. Undoubtedly. Sconrio, K.C, Let me read you this passage from Crowley's wo…