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Page 92 of 1121996 · PDF PAGE 51
…independent of, his neighbour’s preference for the other. He must not be ashamed or afraid of being homosexual if he happens to be so at heart; he must not attempt to violate his own true nature because public opinion, or mediaeval morality, or reli gious prejudice would wish he were otherwise. The oyster stays shut in his shell for all Darwin may say about his “low stage of evolution,” or Puritans about his priapistic character, or idealists about his unfitness for civic government. The advocates of homosexuality—primus inter pares,1 John Add…
1922 · PDF PAGE 208
…I brought him the stuff, sitting down by his side and lifting his head with one hand while I gave it to him on the back of the other. My heart sank like a stone in deep water. The old familiar attitude, the old familiar act !—and yet how different in every point! The convulsive movements stopped immediately. He sat up almost at once on one elbow. The only sign of distress was that he still breathed heavily. All his anger, too, had disappeared. He seemed tired, like a convalescent, but as tractable as a child. He smiled faintly. I don’t know if …
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…t sentiments, and what an unfortunate omen—dear, dear me! And I have the honour to offer you the hand— I presume you already possess the heart—of the Lady Blanche de Malétroit. DENYS. You—what ? ALAIN, Tut! Tut! The marriage, if you please, will take place in an hour. DENYS. [ Aszde.] Oh, he is mad after all! [Aloud.] What nightmare is this? ALAIN. You are not very polite to the lady—not as polite as your letter. DENYS. My letter? [ALAIN takes up letter from table and reads, 75 ALAIN (reads). ““O white-bosomed Blanche! I am pale and wan with su…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…ial gloom; it was in one of the waiting- rooms that James Thomson conceived the idea for his City of Dreadful Night; but it is still the heart of London, throbbing with a clear longing towards Paris. A man who goes to Paris from Victoria will never reach Paris! He will find only the city of the demi-mondaine and the tourist. It was not by appreciation of these facts, it was not even by instinct, that Lavinia King chose to arrive at Charing Cross. She was, in her peculiar, esoteric style, the most famous dancer in the world; and she was about to…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…d to invocations of the Gods, such considérations do not apply. The Gods are beyond most material conditions. It is necessarv to hll the heart and mïnd with the proper basis for manuestauon. The higher the nature of the God, the more true tins is. The Holy Guardian Angel has always the necessary hasis. His manifestation dépends solely on the readiness oî tue Aspirant, and ail magical ceremonies used in that invocation are merely intended to préparé that Aspirant; not in any way to attract or influence Him. It is His constant and et ornai "W ill…
1930 · PDF PAGE 101
…lly before the shrine, as if thereby giving up the shadow for the substance. But it is useless to do this unless thou do really in thine heart value the talisman beyond ail else that thou hast. 38. Concerning minor methods adjuvant in the Ceremonies. — III. Rehearsal.— It may assist if the traditional history of the particular Deity be rehearsed before him; perhaps this is best done in dramatic form. This method is the main one recommended in the “Exercitios Espirituales” of St. Ignatius, whose work may be taken as a model. Let the Philosophus …
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
…on a correct standard. There are facts and facts: one would not necessarily be much the wiser if one got the Encyclopaedia Britannica by heart, or the Tables of Logarithms. The one aim of Mathematics, in fact-Whitehead points this out in his little Shilling Arithmetic-is to make one fact do the work of thousands. What we are looking for is a working Hierarchy of Facts. That takes us back at once to our original "addition and subtraction " remark in my letter on Mind. Classification, the first step, proceeds by putting similar things together, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 44
33 MOLLY. Oh, Percy, Percy, am I not your love? Sik PERcY. I am sorry, heartily, Miss Tyson. MOLLY. SIR PERCY. I did indeed speak foolishly. ANGELA (aszde). Your purse ! SIR PERCY (aside). O that were devilish—she’s a good girl ! ANGELA. I hate her. SiR PERcY. Buy yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches | [Pings his purse down. CARRUTHERS. O Lord Christ ! In one short day—he was a gentleman ! Sir Percival! Would God I were dead too ! If he had lived—thank God he died! Sir Percy, Lend me your pistol ; here’s a heart to hit ! [Sir Percy…
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
…ssue a mortal blow. It sets in their place a gospel which, it is true, makes high demands, but which is valid for the achievement of the heart’s desire; for the satisfaction of our dolorous and aching needs; for the building of a true and enduring City of God. Louis Umfraville Wilkinson London, 1946 E.v.
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…weep of the sword ! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! Rise up from mine innermost being ! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart ! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life depart ! Till the Eye that was blind ? Be a lamp to my mind! 1 The Hindus hold that the Kundalini, the spring of spiritual power, lies coiled and sleep- ing upon a lotus-flower at the base of the spine. She may be aroused by various methods. 2 The ‘‘third eye,’ that rudimentary eye called the pineal gland. Coil fast all thy coils on me, dy…
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
…ayest thou, O wisest of our race, Ahinoam, the aged priest of God, Who weighest out the stars with balances, And knowest best of men the heart of man? ANWINOAM. Ye are as children, and nowise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. perchance ! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. Sing to him CHoRrus, What say ye, brethren? him Some sweet low ditty, or the louder pean? Shall we sing to AHINOAM. They verily think I speak, not mocking them. CHORUS, Who shall uncover such a tongue for wiles, And pluc…
1905 · PDF PAGE 128
…break the spirit of the bravest Greek ; While with an harlot one may leap again Free as the waters of the western main, And turn with no heart-pang the vessel’s beak Out to the oceans that all seamen seek.
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
…ATED, Tam most miserable. But truth must leap In this tremendous moment from my lips, Its long-shut barrier. For I pity thee With my old heart’s whole pity. Thou art young, And beautiful, and proud, and dear to me, Whom I have served thy life through. Now that love Demands a deadlier service—to speak truth. Thou art not Horus, but a man as I. CHORUS. Thou art not Horus, but aman. Thy life Is not of the immortals, but, as ours, ' Stands at the summons of the hooded death. * This play deals with the effect of shattering all the solid bases of a y…
1922 · PDF PAGE 187
…or instance, we took too much one night and made ourselves sick. It took three or four hours to get back, and that was absolute hell. My heart is a little fretful at times. It’s certainly great, Peter Pan having medical knowledge. He went out and got some strychnine and put me right. Champagne helps H. quite a lot. Youmustn’t drink it off. The thing to do is to sip it very slowly. It helps one to move one’s hands.
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…cérémonial details likewise may be left to experiment. The method of killing is practically uniform. The animal should be stabbed to the heart, or its throat severed, in either case by the knife. Ail other methods of killing are less efficacious; even in the case of Crucifixion death is given by stabbing.8 One may remark that warm-blooded animais only are used as victims: with two principal exceptions. The first is the serpent, which is only used in a very spécial Ritual ; 4 the second the magical beetles of Liber Legis. (See Part IV.) has take…
1907 · PDF PAGE 315
…ssible by Hatha Yoga . And some yogis have become so perfect in the control of their various organs that they have been able to stop the heart beating at will , etc. 2 An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , pp . 70 , 75 .
1922 · PDF PAGE 202
…th the plaits. The action was as absolutely natural and innocent as a kitten playing with a skein of wool. | It stabbed my vanity to the heart for a second to realise that he could do a thing like that without mixing it up with sexual ideas. Yet it was that very superiority to human instincts that made me trust him. “Sir Peter’s not here,” he said lightly and kindly. I knew that it had pleased him that I had not mentioned my own troubles.
1905 · PDF PAGE 92
…eseems the mercy shown To his repentance by this maiden queen. The Lord is merciful to them that show Mercy, and all such as are pure of heart ; Thy crown, Adulah, wears a double flower Of these fair blossoms wreathed in one device Of perfect love in perfect maidenhood. JARED [recovering himself). Nay, but my voice must fill the song of joy With gratitude, and meet thanksgiving. Me More than these others it beseems, who love Less dearly for their innocence than I, Pardoned of my unpardonable sin. ADULAH. The flowers turn westerward; the sun is …
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…ts choral in their course! O thou self-formulated sire! Self-master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name. For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and I to-morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn | I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death. Hail! ye twin hawks high pinnacled That watch upon the un…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…shame! shame! shame! Tell me you have not read it, Sir Percy ! Str Percy. Some I did read— How know you my name? ANGELA. I read it in my heart. O but I am ashamed to speak to you! Or would be were not that name as a brand to blot out all feeling from me for evermore. SIR PERCY (aside). How she speaks! singing. (Aloud.) Indeed, I read too far, It is indeed an angel ANGELA. Pity me! Sir PERCY. Dear lady, the joy to know, and so per- fectly to express such love is enough. ANGELA. You mock me! That girl—do you in truth love her? She is most beautif…