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Page 93 of 1001929 · PDF PAGE 570
…y by developing incurable kleptomania. Having inherited also her father's cleverness and cunning, her thefts had escaped detection for a long while, with the natural result that innocent people were always suffering from her misdeeds. Even when found out, she succeeded as often as not in putting her crimes on to others. No one would accept the responsibility of looking after her. She had returned with her parents to England. Betty and she lived in a big house in Cleveland Gardens. Dartnell had buried himself in Devonshire, turning up only when …
1929 · PDF PAGE 263
… to their names. I was utterly bewildered. The previous day had been a bare hour, and the march to Camp 4 perfectly easy and by no means long or trying for men without loads. I myself, though I had borne the burden and heat of the day more than anyone, was as fresh as paint and as fit as a fiddle. I had never felt better in my life. I was in perfect condition in every respect. I spent the afternoon nursing the invalids. Tartarin recovered by the next morning sufficiently to curse. I could not imagine what his grievance was an cannot imagine it …
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…ez; but here am [ illustrating, however feebly, the Works, in Poetry: and poetry cannot, un- fortunately, ever be pure technique. I have long wished to write ‘*‘ A Sonnet in W. and P.” (with Whip as the keynote); a triolet in U. and K. ; an ode in S. Sh. Sw. Sp. and Str.—and so on; but people would merely say ‘‘ Nonsense Verses” (so they do now, some of them !). So that my work is liable to the most vital misinterpretation. My lest friend tells the utterly false, utterly funny story about me that I wrote one sonnet for ‘* L’Ange déchu” and anot…
1906 · PDF PAGE 261
…choose for themselves, we can at least put them aside in one great class, the Thought-stiflers; and these truths are those which we have long accepted and to which you have re- cently and hardly won. It is to men of your stamp, men of inde-
1929 · PDF PAGE 468
…London. I was the angrier because at the moment I was practically {740} penniless, and because I hoped by submitting in silence a little longer to calumny, to make myself again useful to England in a similar capacity if certain eventualities, which I then thought not impossible, should materialize. Outraged in my most sensitive spot, I went to the Cadron Bleu at Fontainebleau, lunched, and began my reply to Horatio Bottomley. I found myself too indignant to write, so I went back to the house in the rue de Neuve which I had hired and got the Ape…
1929 · PDF PAGE 544
…r indescribably anguish to attain salvation, because her ignorance and animal appetite had usurped the throne of her soul and reigned so long unchallenged. Yet even of this came a marvel. Her command of English was imperfect; her spelling and grammar very defective. She had read little and that little worthless. Nor had she any ambition to learn to write. I had, of course, insisted on her recording her experiences in a Magical Diary, and what was my amazement, on reading the first section, to find it an unsurpassed masterpiece! This ignorant un…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…lways disliked riding in unusual vehicles unless himself in control. He became a reckless cyclist and motorist, but he was nervous for a long while with automobiles unless at the wheel. The last event of this period occurred at a railway station. He remembers its general appearance and that of the little family group. A porter, staggering under a heavy trunk, slid it suddenly off his back. It missed crushing the boy by a hair's breadth. He does not remember whether he was snatched away, or anything else, except his father's exclamation, "His gu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…. Some years before, on the platform at Redhill with my father, I had seen on the bookstall Across Patagonia by Lady Florence Dixie. The long name fascinated me; I begged him to buy it for me and he did. The name stuck and I decided to be King of Patagonia. Psycho-analysts will learn with pleasure that the name of my capital was Margaragstagregorstoryaka. "Margar" was derived from Margaret, queen of Henry VI, who was my favourite character in history. This is highly significant, as indicating the type of woman that I have always admired. I want…
1929 · PDF PAGE 526
…eless tortures which I saw inflicted as a mere matter of routine upon women and children as such broke open the sepulchre in which I had long since buried my own sufferings at the hands of Evangelicalism and released these fetid, noxious and malignant spectres once more to prey upon my mind. {830} So much for the profane. For the aspirant I wrote the book called De Lege Libellum, otherwise called The Sandal, in which I analysed the Law as the source of light, life, love and liberty, and pronounced a panegyric upon it in each of these respects s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…ition strictly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Ta…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…ition strictly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Ta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 555
…s the eagle's. His depression vanished and was replaced by calm, {876} deep joy, overflowing and manifest to all of us. He began to take long solitary walks across the hills and did his twenty miles a day as he had not done for a quarter of a century. We felt it as an actual bereavement when the time came for him to go back to Sydney. {877} 91 Few jewels in my collection of freaks are more precious than Cecil Maitland. From his birth, he aroused the liveliest hopes among students of entomology; for his father, a distinguished Anglican controver…
1929 · PDF PAGE 258
…d looking down I saw a leech on the back of it. How it managed to fall from the sky I don't know. I have seen leeches up to seven inches long; and there seems hardly any limit to the amount of blood they can assimilate. I heard of a gorged leech weighing nearly two pounds and I believe it without effort. Another strange sight in these parts is the sheep. Tartarin, still proud of his haggis, invented wonderful theories to explain the fact that they are muzzled. However, they are not mountons enragés; the muzzle is to prevent them from poisoning …
1929 · PDF PAGE 301
…ign devil had not gone very far; in fact, it had not yet reached the asymptote of its own curve. However, the clearing of the ground had long been complete. There are practically no wild animals in the province. I did not even see one of those famous pheasants which I was anxious to shoot. I had hitherto bagged nothing but occasional pigeons for the pot. At Talifu, nevertheless, there is great sport to be had. From the great deserts to the north, across the mighty mountains, migrate many magnificent birds, especially cranes and geese. I went ou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 435
…telling her favourite story. She boasted of her virginity and of the intimacy of her relations with Mabel Collins, with whom she lived a long time. Mabel had however divided her favours with a very strange man whose career had been extraordinary. He had been an officer in a cavalry regiment, a doctor, and I know not how many other things in his time. He was now in desperate poverty and depended entirely on Mabel Collins for his daily bread. This man claimed to be an advanced Magician, boasting of many mysterious powers and even occasionally dem…
1929 · PDF PAGE 336
…stomed to columns of eloquent praise from the most {544} important people in the world of letters, which had not sold a dozen copies; to long controversial criticism from such men as G. K. Chesterton, which had fallen absolutely flat. People acquiesced in me as the only living poet of any magnitude. (There were many better known and more highly reputed poets --- Francis Thompson, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, and later John Masefield, Rupert Brooke and other small fry, whose achievement at the best was limited by the narrowness of their ambitio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 499
… that she must have a bath. "Make your mind easy," said I, and quoted statistics about the area of the Hudson river. It took her quite a long time to convince herself that I was really one of those inhuman {786} monsters who cannot be dislodged from the fortress of patient smiling politeness and imperturbable good temper. But after dinner she gave it up with a sigh. "Oh well," she thought, "if I can't have my holiest joy of keeping a man on the jump, I suppose I may as well make shift with the next best thing, my famous imitation of a grand pas…
1906 · PDF PAGE 287
… to be settled offhand by our irre- sponsible selves, but one of method and research. Myst. And as such the matter of years. Scept. have long recognised this. That it should be started on a firm basis by re- sponsible scientific men; that it should be placed on equal terms in all respects with
1906 · PDF PAGE 204
…cented on the penultimate—bad cess to the bloody Saxons that made it so! The same with Tarshish (see Browning, Pippa Passes, I1., in the long:speech of Blu- phocks) and many others. 173. The liar Copleston.42 *—Bishop of Cal- _ * Copies were sent to any living persons mentioned in the ‘ Sword of Song,” accompanied by the follow- ing letter : Letters and Telegrams: BOLESKINE FOYERS is sufficient address. Bills, Writs, Summonses, etc. : CAMP XI., THE BALTORO GLACIER, BALTISTAN. O Millionaire ! Mr. Editor! Dear Mrs. Eddy, Your Holiness the Pope ! …
1906 · PDF PAGE 263
… can bring no sorrow in their train,} To him who has lived so, say the Holy Books, there comes a power which is unknown to ordinary men. Long training and restraint have given him conquest of his mind, he can 1 From my point of view, this is of course impossible. See Sec. IIT. If wilful infliction of pain only is meant, our state becomes moral, or even worse !—mystical. I should prefer to cancel this sentence. Cf. Appendix L., supra.—A, C, ) R