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DEAD WEIGHT since. He had wished to go down to posterity as the modern Fludd—and would have done so, only this time there were not eight persons saved. However, this was not the worst. The future saint (as it was written that he should become!) made incursions upon Magic, with the unhappiest results. Fundamentally incom- petent to apprehend the very nature of the question, and utterly incapable of humour, the ingenious Lévi pulled his leg to the limit. The future saint! could see only contradictions in the profundities of the master, and in com…
1922 · PDF PAGE 196
…m a nail.” I jerked his head back, and fastened my mouth on his. I sucked his breath into my lungs. I wanted to choke him; but there was time enough for that. 1 would torture him a few years longer first. I leapt away from him. He panted heavily. When he got his breath back, he glared at me horribly with the pin-point pupils of his sightless eyes. He began with romantic sadness, changing to demoniac glee. | “She was incarnate love In the hours when I first awoke her. Little by little I found The truth of her, stripped of clothing, Bitter beyond…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…the material muddle. Our sojourn, short as it was by worldly reckoning, proved to be pregnant with events of internal import. The tyrant time took his first wound in Kandy. {236} 28 Allan's adventures in Ceylon had been varied. His first idea had been to take the Yellow Robe; that is, to become a member of the Buddhist Sangha. These men are not priests or monks, as we understand the words; it is hard for European minds to understand the conditions of their life. They have renounced the world and live as mendicants; but it may be stated roughly …
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
…ding (by Crowley and the Engineer, not the Chinese contractor!). China has had standards of weights, materials and money for a very long time. These standards were set by imperial edict, and when originally propagated had penalties for violation up to and including death by torture. In plain words, when the Engineer demanded a change from the official standard, he coerced a violation of the law. The contractor attempted to explain by saying that the size of the bricks was a matter of ancient imperial law = "from the Jade Emperor, or spirit of t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…is black, Void of all cause, all aim ; unkenned, As if I had been dead indeed— All in Christ’s name ! And I look back, And then and long time after lack Courage or strength to hurl the creed Down to the heaven it sprang from ! No ! Not this inspires the indignant blow 660 666 670 675 680 685 690 695 700 Poem does not treat of Palæ- ontology : nor of poet’s youth : nor of Christian infamies. Poet forced to mystic position.
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…ong sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time—suppose, the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !)46 And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends. Division, Thought, wisdom, drop away. I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. There is a lake* amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break. Oh ! the deep brilliance of the lake ! The roar of ice that cracks and goes Crashing withi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…ally vulgar , vulgarly obscene , and obscenely insipid . Morals , the nation has none , merely a better art in disguising than in former times , that is all . We no longer can produce a Swift , a Congreve , or a Dryden , a Smollett , a Lever , or a Sterne , and yet our writers are legion — and as feculent as the flabby prostitutes of the street . The facetiae of the fifteenth century , “ Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles ,” “ The Decameron ,” “ The Heptameron ,” “ The Nights of Straparola ," “ Brantôme , ” etc. , etc. , are not only masterpieces for…
1907 · PDF PAGE 211
…man as an attempt to grasp all possible quantities emanating from the Ain Soph , which in itself remained Zero . Turning now for a short time from the Mystic to the Idealistic philosophy , we find that though both are closely united , the former founds its system on man's wondering ignorance in trying to link subject and object esoterically , whilst the latter builds up reality in mind perceptions , treating nothing as illusion but the reality of the materialists . Berkeley , when he de clared in his transcendental philosophy that esse = percip…
1909 · PDF PAGE 307
…stence of Causality as a common property of these three worlds. Let us strike out Matter, Sense and Spirit, and what is left? Surely not Time and Space, that twin inference con- ceived by that Matter, Sense and Spirit we have just put to bed.” “Don’t you think,” says the Scientific Illuminist, “that instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to wake up and doa little work? Thereare four of you, and the 299
1909 · PDF PAGE 307
…stence of Causality as a common property of these three worlds. Let us strike out Matter, Sense and Spirit, and what is left? Surely not Time and Space, that twin inference con- ceived by that Matter, Sense and Spirit we have just put to bed.” “Don’t you think,” says the Scientific Illuminist, “that instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to wake up and doa little work? Thereare four of you, and the 299
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…e highest sense,” j Gotama had to postulate some vehicle which would transmit the sorrow of one generation to another, of one instant of time to the next; and, not being able to use the familiar idea of Atman, he instead made that of Karma doa double duty. ‘He does not die until that evil Karma is exhausted,” says Nagasena.{ Now this brings us to an extraordinary complex question, namely the Jractical difference between the Karma minus Atman of the Buddhists and the Karma plus Atman of the later Vedantists? The Brahman’s idea, at first, was of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…e highest sense,” j Gotama had to postulate some vehicle which would transmit the sorrow of one generation to another, of one instant of time to the next; and, not being able to use the familiar idea of Atman, he instead made that of Karma doa double duty. ‘He does not die until that evil Karma is exhausted,” says Nagasena.{ Now this brings us to an extraordinary complex question, namely the Jractical difference between the Karma minus Atman of the Buddhists and the Karma plus Atman of the later Vedantists? The Brahman’s idea, at first, was of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
…e came near, he recognised me and crawled away again, hurriedly, like a wounded animal trying to escape from the hunter... . Most of the time, when we have energy to talk at all, we discuss how to get more H. and C. The C. has been fmished long ago. It’s no good without the H. We could go to Germany and get it; or even to London, but something keeps us from decision. I, of course, know what it is. It is necessary for me to undergo these torments that I may be purified completely from the flesh. But Peter doesn’t understand at all. He blames me …
1929 · PDF PAGE 176
…the end of the fight when Mr. Sorcerer broke the law. He was no longer fighting me, but the consolidated will of humanity; and he had no time to attack me when he was busy building breakwaters. "And that reminds me. We have a young friend at bay — with the worst pack of devils in the world at him. I wonder if I have done wrong to leave him so much to himself. But I wanted the boy to gain all the laurels; he's young enough to like them." "I think I know who you mean," said Lord Antony, smiling; "and I don't think you need be [248] very much afra…
1910 · PDF PAGE 66
…he epic poet of Persia. 7. Some M.S.S. end with this Takhallus. But the title seems hardly justified without what fol- lows. At the same time, it must be remembered that the titles are all probably of late insertion and for convenience of reference only. 8. According to Mahbub, this is an attack on the Q’uran. (He being like so many Persian to-day not only a Sufi, but a follower in secret of El Baab, delights to point out these things). For furious [Persian text] is a pun on [Persian text] Salir, a prophet, who converted some of the Thamud Trib…
1913 · PDF PAGE 321
…f duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to work. By itself it is only used in the plural, which will not do here, and throughout this treatise —TRANs. 23
1913 · PDF PAGE 353
…o deify death. Progress is the only reply that reason can give to the objections which the existence of evil raises. 1 Written about the time of the Crimean War, this indicates Levi’s attempt to use Imperialism as his magical weapon, just as Allan Bennett tried to use Buddhism. All these second-hand swords break, as Wagner saw when he wrote Siegfried, and invented a new Music, a Nothung which has shorn asunder more false sceptres than Wotan’s.—O. M. 55
1913 · PDF PAGE 465
… Eliphas, whose heart was sad, and consequently disposed to prayer, followed that way and entered the church. It might have been at that time about four o’clock in the afternoon. The church was full of the faithful, and the office was performed with great concentration, and extraordinary solemnity. The banners of the parishes of the city, and of the suburbs, bore witness to the public veneration for the virgin who saved Paris from famine and invasion. At the bottom of the church, the tomb of St. Geneviéve shone gloriously with light. They were …
1913 · PDF PAGE 466
…n his cross, walked slowly, and blessed to right and left the crowd which knelt about his path. Eliphas saw the Archbishop for the first time, and noticed the features of his countenance. They expressed kindliness and gentleness; but one might observe the expression of a great fatigue, and even of a nervous suffer- ing painfully dissimulated. The procession descended to the foot of the church, tra- versing the nave, went up again by the aisle at the left of the door, and came to the station of the tomb of St. Geneviéve; then it returned by the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 321
…f duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to work. By itself it is only used in the plural, which will not do here, and throughout this treatise —TRANs. 23