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Page 97 of 1291929 · PDF PAGE 310
…my feet after the blasting bolt of my bereavement, I found myself with an infected gland in the groin which required excision. The first day I left the nursing home I got a chill in the right eye which obstructed a nasal duct and required a whole series of extremely painful operations which proved unsuccessful. In the course of these, I got neuralgia; this continued day and night for months, so violently that I felt myself going mad. After a bare months comparative health I acquired an ulcerated throat which knocked me out completely until the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…phenomenize! (and) (appear) [177] Upon this skeleton, a fair example of his earlier manner, for no man attains the summit of an art in a day, he would build a superstructure by the deft introduction of parentheses, amplifying each word until the original coherence of the paragraph was diluted to such an extent that the true trail was undiscoverable. The effect upon his public was to impress them with the universality of his learning. Arthwait being thus well out of harm's way, Vesquit and Abdul set to work on the less arduous of the preparation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
…enedict. But it's a con game; I'm from Missouri. Four-flushing gold brick merchants! Believe me, some bull! I took it like playing three days in Bumville. Them boobs got my goat for fair, babe. No pipe!" "You were interdicted in consequence of some scandal?" "I ran a sporting house on the side, and I guess they endorsed my license for speeding." "Your Bishop took umbrage at some business activity which he judged incompatible with your vows?" "Like Kelly did." "Oh, Bishop Kelly. Far too severe a disciplinarian, in my judgment. But you are still …
1954 · PDF PAGE 17
…ourage to step down voluntarily from a role originally foisted upon him and which he came to realize he was unfit to fulfill. Since that day he has evidenced a loathing for organizations, for societies of the kind of the Theosophical Society, and has espoused a free philosophic attitude that is reminiscent of Zen Buddhism at its best. He has lectured on many occasions throughout the world, and has several books to his credit that have been thought to be both profound and wise. Crowley's condemnation is cruel and harsh, perhaps because of his ow…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…ked and disobedient Spirit N., into the Lake of Fire which is prepared for the damnéd and accurséd spirits, and there to remain unto the day of doom, and never more to be remembered before the face of Gop, who shall come to judge the quick, and the dead, and the world, by fire. TueEn the exorcist must put the box into the fire, and by-and-by the Spirit will come, but as soon as he is come, quench the fire that the box is in, and make a sweet perfume, and give him welcome and a kind entertain- ment, showing unto him the Pentacle that is at the b…
1919 · PDF PAGE 57
…ere are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! …
1899 · PDF PAGE 254
… power and beauty of thought are concerned, we consider that the author of ‘ The Tale of Archais’ holds the first place among the latter-day poets. But there are passages in the book in our opinion quite unsuit- able for the perusal of the white maidens of England, to whom it is dedicated. We do not know whether the poet is an up- holder of ‘Art for Art’s sake,’ which means that it is better to — paint an immoral picture well than to paint a moral picture badly. If this is the case, we would counsel him to abandon this dangerous fallacy, and.to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 121
…ronomical calcula- tions as to whether we ought to put our watches on an hour or back an hour at the frontier ; and I don’t know to this day whether I came to any correct con- clusion. I had an even chance of being right; but there it stopped. I remember getting out to stretch our legs at Rome, and that we had a mad impulse to try to see the sights during the twenty minutes or so we had to wait. . I might have done it; but on the platform at Rome I was brought up with a shock. An impossible thing had happened. “Great Scot,” cried a voice from t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 402
…was quite clear and unmistakeable . He was to use a horse. Well, he had a Boer pony, and next morning he set forth with provisions for a day's journey . On and on he went and found no geological indication of any mineral wealth. Presently he began to get tired and thought it was a little late. He could see in every direction across the Veldt and there was nothing at all. A mile or so in front of him, however, was a row of small kopjes. He said, I may as well go on and get a view from the top . This he did; and there was still no geological poin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 359
…th to a place that we called "Jack Straw's Castle", at the opening of a magnificent ravine through mighty cliffs of earth. The following day the road led over a high pass, a barren wilderness of bizarre beauty. It was nearly nightfall when we reached a wretched hamlet, so poor that there was really no food to be had. There was not even any pretence of an inn, and it was only by long negotiation and the display of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, in the shape of a silver dollar, that we persuaded the inhabitants to let us have a cup of goat'…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
…than any mere persistence of Levitical tradition, founded as it was on a popular superstition scarcely less gross than their own. But to-day no man can bring forward either the population nonsense or the heresy nonsense, so he brings up his dinner instead, under the equally absurd delusion that the process is physically dir- ty. In the interests of Light and Truth, one cannot too widely disseminate the grossly phrased, but noble, American proverb that “ A turd jumps away from a live prick like a grasshopper from a snake.” Anyway, one can wash1 …
1922 · PDF PAGE 110
…at’s the rule of nature. Eat when you're hungry. Nothing is worse for the health than settling down to a fixed ration of sO many meals a day. The grand old British principle of three meat meals has caused the supply of uric acid to exceed the demand in a most reprehensible manner. Physiology and economics, and, I should think, even geology, combine to protest. ‘Now we were living an absolutely wholesome life. We took a sniff of cocaine whenever the pace slackened up, and one of heroin when the cocaine showed any signs of taking the bit in its t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…destroy all values for this sense. If I am immortal, what is the difference between a long time and a short time? A thousand years and a day are obviously the same thing from the point of view of for ever. There is a subconscious clock in us, a clock wound up by the experience of the race to go for seventy years or so. Five minutes is a very long time to us if we are waiting for an omnibus, an age if we are waiting for a lover, nothing at all if we are pleasantly engaged or sleeping.1 We think of seven years as a long time in connection with …
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
…rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! Commentary: The feasts of fire and water indicate rejoicings to be made at the puberty of boys and girls respectively. The feast …
1904 · PDF PAGE 9
…, My uncle might stay, if he came, but Im off. None of us saw any joke, but I happened to call at the old gentlemans house the next day, and found him suffering from gout in both thumbs ! On another occasion he walked into a house in Paris, lazily surveyed the grinning girls, snapped out Une douzaine de Marennes ! and made for the door. He it was who painted a number in im- mense characters on the door of a girl he dis- liked. He had at one time a small studio. Two nuns came thither a begging. Opening the door to receive them, he witti…
1922 · PDF PAGE 279
…y diagnosed? No, Sir Peter, while you and I are wasting our time discussing. our troubles, there’s one thing working for us, never stops day or night, and that is Vts medicatrix nature.” Lala nodded emphatically. ‘“Didn’t you notice that even in the Red-Cross ?” she said to Lou. ‘“‘ The cases that got well were those that were left alone. All the surgeons did was to repair, as well as possible, the interference with nature caused by the wound. Anything beyond that was a mistake.” “We'll be back in about an hour,” said Lamus, “and take you to lu…
1922 · PDF PAGE 349
…o take heroin was clear-cut. It no longer produced any particular effect to take it. Now that I was getting down to two or three doses a day, at the most, it seemed as though there were no particular object in taking it, even as dulling the craving for it. I found it in- creasingly difficult to fill column two. King Lamus descended on me one morning, just after I had taken a dose, and was raking my brain for a reason for my action. I was alternately chewing the end of my pencil and making meaningless marks on the paper. I told him my difficulty…
1954 · PDF PAGE 454
…nasty, blesses the Barren Queen; and they all live happy ever after. This is not an Arabian Night's Tale of Antiquity; it is the same to-day; there are very few Englishmen who have spent any time in India who have not been approached with proposals of this character. Similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in France; the fils a papa was usually a hopeless rotter, and his wife often resorted to a famous monastery on the Riviera, where was an exceptionally holy Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, prayers unto whom removed sterility. But when …
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
… The Ibis Head.29—Characteristic of Tahuti. 157. Rolands crest.30—See “Two poets of Croisic,” xci. 159. A jest.31—See above : Ascension Day. 162. A mysterious way.32— “ God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants His foodsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.” Intentional species ? 171. The old hymn.33—This hymn, quoted I fear with some failure of memory—I have not the documents at hand—is attributed to the late Bishop of Natal, though I doubt this, as the consistent and trustful piety of its sentiment is ill-suited t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 193
…les. It was not our fault, for instance, that we were on the wrong side of the river, for the other bank involved a detour of some three days.) {327} It required more than one voyage to cross the river. It could not have been crossed at all but for the fact that it is divided into seven streams, only one of which could not be forded. Naturally, a passage was chosen where the current was least formidable. But for all that we were swept down about three-quarters of a mile in order to cross less than two hundred yards. In order to regain its start…