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…gression and seditious disturbance instead of thinking it tyrannical. Everyone, whatever his ambition, will feel that he can rely on the whole force of the state to assist him; for all ambitions alike will be respected by all, with the single proviso that they shall not tend to restrict the equal right of the rest. No man will be ashamed of himself, and so be forced into concealment and hypocrisy while at the same time having his idea distorted into monstrous shapes of disease by the pressure of public opinion.
1929 · PDF PAGE 554
…ver I could to help him, whatever it was. He, however, persuaded himself that he must keep his plans dark and the final absurdity of the whole thing was that I was aware from the beginning exactly what he intended to do. Our relations ended, bar occasional correspondence, towards the end of the year, when he left us to go to Australia avowedly to help Frater Progradior in establishing the Law. However, he only stayed a short time in Sydney and went on to San Francisco, where, free from all guidance or control, he broke out into a series of spas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…ng on murder and putrefaction, simply because these things gave the most forcible denial to the assumptions current at home. Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life; but I was not allowed to take a normal view of nature. In my situation, I could not dismiss the falsities of Christianity with a smile; I was compelled to fight fire with fire and to oppose their poisoned poultices with poisoned daggers. Such was the influence of home life. But it was partially interfered with by the more decent current of school life. I have menti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 517
… very nature of things. In a country where the most week and ignorant, the least intelligent and resourceful, find it easy enough on the whole to earn a fairly decent living, and where the slightest capacity of almost any sort makes it a safe bet that ten years will put its possessor in Easy Street, I was to find myself a candidate for complete destitution. For many months I was, for the first time in my life, constantly preoccupied with the problem of keeping myself alive, and did so only by the operations of periodical windfalls. Again and ag…
1929 · PDF PAGE 527
… flames of hell itself, I doubt whether I should have been warm. Night after night I sat, all through, rigid as a corpse, and icier; the whole of my life concentrated in two spots; the small section of my brain which was occupied in the work, and my right wrist and fingers. I remember with absolute clearness that my consciousness appeared to start from a perfectly dead forearm. The book is written in prose, yet there is a formal circumscription more imminent than anything which would have been possible in poetry. I limited myself by making a po…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
… Court sense is not here in question. It assumes too much proprietary right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—-the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily suppose that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandoned his home; true, but Nature has to be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condition of offence. ‘I didn’t mean to”’ isa poor excuse for an officer failing to obey an order. Enough of this- in any case a minor …
1929 · PDF PAGE 519
519 of the irremediable calamity which threatens to engulf the whole of humanity since it is now an accepted principle of business to endeavour to make tyranny international, to suppress all customs of historical interest, and indeed everything which lends variety or distraction to human society in the interest of making a market for standardized products. The moral excuse for these activities is miserably thin, for the element which it is most important to suppress is originality as such, even when the question concerns the very idea of crafts…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…ire’s brandied shrieks, and his First Series of Poems and Ballads was the legitimate echo of that not fierier note. But English Art as a whole was unmoved, at any rate not stirred to any depth, by this wave of debauchery. The great thinkers maintained the even keel, and the windy waters lay not for their frailer barks to cross. ‘I here is one exception of note, till this day unsus- pected, in the person of George Archibald Bishop. Ina corner of Paris this young poet (for in his nature the flower of poesy did spring, did even take root and give …
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
… C ourt sense is not here in question. It assumes too much proprietary right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily assume that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandoned his home ; true, but Nature has to be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condition of offence. “I didn’t mean to” is a poor excuse for an officer failing to obey an order. Enough of this—in any case a minor q…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…h a completely rotten preparation for the management of practical affairs. My residence at Eastbourne broke up very suddenly. During the whole of my adolescence I had taken the romantic point of view of love; and I found that the universal practice was for elder people to interfere in the affairs of their juniors. Two people could not decide to marry without rousing a hurricane. There was never any exception. Engagements were always being made and broken on unintelligible religious grounds. The family of the Lamberts was no exception to this. T…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…man who could have been duplicated in a Ten Cent Store. It doesn't matter what the work is; if it is worth while doing, it demands one's whole attention, and a woman is only tolerable in one's life if she is trained to help the man in his work without the slightest reference to any other interests soever. The necessary self-abnegation and concentration on his part must be matched by similar qualities on hers. I say matched --- I might say better, surpassed --- for such devotion must be blind. A man can become his work, so that he satisfies hims…
1929 · PDF PAGE 498
…finally made up his mind to speak. "Are you Mr Crowley?" he said. In my surprise I nearly forgot to say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." We then got into conversation. It appeared that he was in charge of the "Intelligence" of Dachers County, New York; whereupon I confided to him that the Department of Justice had instructed me to keep my eyes open for any suspicious incidents. He requested me to to report anything of the sort also to him, to which, of course, I gladly agreed. He then confided that my own behaviour had turned…
1929 · PDF PAGE 349
…imation from the authorities that their exceedingly mild programme of half-baked infidelity was displeasing to the powers that were. The whole incident was trivial in its way, but it taught me an important lesson of policy. The more upright and uncompromising one is, the safer one is from attack. One's enemies will resort to the most despicable subterfuges, but they will not have the courage to come into the open and they will in one way or another fall into the pit which they dig. It is true that one can apparently be damaged
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…re’s brandied shrieks, and his First Series of Poems and Ballads w as the legitimate echo of that not fierier note. But English Art as a whole was unmoved, at any rate not stirred to any depth, by this wave of debauchery. The great thinkers maintained the even keel, and the windy waters lay not for their frailer barks to cross. There is one exception of note, till this day unsus- pected, in the person of George Archibald Bishop. In a corner of Paris this young poet (for in his nature the flower of poesy did spring, did even take root and give s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
… acuteness, foresees that Cordelia will be hanged, thus liberating him from his ‘‘most filthy bargain”: there is but one alarum, and the whole set of scoundrels surrender. Note this well; it 1s not by brute force that the battle is won; for even if we exonerate the King of France, we may easily believe that the moral strength of the sisters cowed the French. This is the more evident, since in Act V. Shakespeare strikes his final blow at the absurdity of the duel, when Edmund is dis- honestly slain by the beast Edgar. Yet the poet's faith is sti…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
… acuteness, forsees that Cordelia w ill be hanged, thus liberating him from his “most filthy bargain” : there is but one alarum, and the whole set of scoundrels surrender. Note this well; it is not by brute force that the battle is w on ; for even if we exonerate the King of France, we may easily believe that the moral strength of the sisters cowed the French. This is the more evident, since in Act V. Shakespeare strikes his final blow at the absurdity of the duel, when Edmund is dis- honestly slain by the beast Edgar. Yet the poet’s faith is s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…iven con- sciousness the lie, but consciousness survives and smiles. Reason is a part of consciousness and can never be greater than its whole; this Spencer sees ; but reason is not even any part of this new consciousness (which I, and many others, have too rarely achieved) and therefore can never touch it: this I see, and this will I hope be patent to those ardent and spiritually- minded agnostics of whom Huxley and Tyndall are for all history-time the prototypes. Know or doubt! is the alternative of highwayman Huxley; ‘' Believe’”’ is not to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
…en working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains, How they were lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told vy relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only source at the disposal of the biogr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…ven con- sciousness the lie, but consciousness survives and smiles. R eason is a part of consciousness and can never be greater than the whole ; this Spencer sees; but reason is not even any part of this new consciousness (which I, and many others, have too rarely achieved) and therefore can never touch it: this I see, and this w ill I hope be patent to those ardent and spiritually- minded agnostics of whom Huxley and Tyndall are for all history-time the prototypes. Know or doubt! is the alternative of the highwayman Huxley ; “Believe” is not t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…ten working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrace the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they w ere lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only source at the disposal of the bio…