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Page 99 of 1001929 · PDF PAGE 494
…t was a paradise. Its poverty and discomfort were transformed into luxury by the thought of Kennedy's kindness. I slept here for quite a long time. My health picked up gradually and, as the result of a Magical Operation on May 27th, became suddenly perfect. I was thus able, on May 28th and 30th, to perform two important Magical Operations completed by a third a few days later, with the object of giving effect to my will to establish the Law of Thelema. The result was that I secured control of The International and became contributing editor (im…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…very man is vile. There seems to be something in the climate of the island that stupefies the finer parts of a man if he lives there too long. The flavour of the tea seemed to me somehow symbolic. I remember one day pleading with the local shopkeeper to find me some Chinese tea. It chanced that the owner of a neighbouring plantation was in the shop. He butted in, remarking superciliously that he could put in the China flavour for me. "Yes," I said, "but can you take out the Ceylon flavour?" Before leaving Eckenstein, I had agreed to consider th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 573
573 classes. They could not help out. He had struggled along by getting odd articles into various papers. He and Betty lived in one filthy room in Fitzroy Street, a foul, frowsty, verminous den, stinking of the miasma of that great class who scrape through the years by dint of furtive cunning in dubious avocations. They were living from hand to mouth, with disaster eternally looming ahead, and the whisper of hope more faint and feeble as each effort ended in failure. Again, I thought I saw the design of the gods. This was the man I had needed f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 496
… my letter that the island was close to this town, and had foolishly failed to consult a map. She was tired with her week's work and the long journey; the train was late, night was falling, the wind was getting up, and the rain beginning to skirmish. The canoe was loaded down within an inch of the gunwale. The wind blew dead in our teeth. The river began to roughen and the rain to come down more steadily. Our progress was tediously slow and the journey not without peril. At one point the stream is bayed out so that for something like a mile one…
1929 · PDF PAGE 389
…leave the circle, or to break into it; so as to obsess him, to live in his life. O.V. had many narrow escapes, and once Choronzon made a long speech at a great pace to keep O.V. so busy writing it down that he would not notice that sand was being thrown from the Triangle so as to obliterate the Circle. The torrent of obscene blasphemy was beyond his power to keep up, concentration being impossible. It became an incoherent series of cries; then suddenly, perhaps catching the idea from O.V.'s mind, the demon began to recite Tom o"Bedlam. There wa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
…uckily, I have no nerves. 49. ram , ram . etc.9—“Thou, as I, art God (for this is the esoteric meaning of the common Hindu saluation). A long road and a heavy price ! To know is always a difficult work . . . Hullo ! Bravo ! Thy name (I have seen) is written in the stars. Come with me, pupil ! I will give thee medicine for the mind.” * The Phallus of Shiva th e Destro yer. It is really identical with the Qabalistic “Middle Pillar” of the “Tree of Life.” † An imaginary lady to whom Sairey Gamp in Dickens’ “Martin Chuzzlewit” used to appeal. ‡ Vid…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…surrender is, therefore, really self-surrender, whereas with him it is {96} rather self-realization. It is true that if a woman persists long enough in the habit, she will ultimately find herself therein. For woman is a creature of habit, that is, of solidified impulses. She has no individuality. Attached to a strong man who is no longer himself by this work, she may become a more or less reliable mood. Otherwise her moods change with her phantasms. But the most dominant mood of woman will always be motherhood. Nature itself, therefore, insures…
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…d and opposed on all sides. In those days there was practically no public way of getting about Paris at all. Mathers lived at Auteuil, a long way from the Arsenal, and met with so many bicycle accidents that he was driven to go on foot. (There is always occult opposition to the publication of important documents. It took me over three years to get my The Goetia through the press, and over two years in the case of 777. This is one of the facts whose cumulative effect makes it impossible to doubt the existence of spiritual forces.) Other misfortu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 332
…he principle of the university, should have been ipso facto deprived of their fellowships, yet they were perfectly safe in the saddle so long as they abstained from any overt act which the authorities could not overlook. We thought that this hypocrisy was not the harmless practical joke which it seems to be at first sight. We could not ourselves have acquiesced consciously in any such evasion, and we did not understand how people of such intellectual superiority could agree to hold their positions on such humiliating terms. It is (incidentally)…
1929 · PDF PAGE 192
…so that it never occurred to me to look at my watch till it began again. I had been altogether sixty-eight days on the glacier, two days longer than any other member of the party. It was another world's record; and, as far as I know, stands to this hour. I hope I may be allowed to die in peace with it. It would be a sorry ambition in anyone to grasp my laurels and I can assure him that to refrain will bring its own reward. Of these sixty-eight days, eight only were fine, and of these no three were consecutive. Of course some days were of mixed …
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…rovinces. I cannot forbear mentioning one charming incident. At some station or other, I was about to take the train. A white man with a long white beard came down the whole length of the train in the blazing sun to my carriage. He had seen that I was strange to the country and asked if he could be of any service. (Unless one knows the ropes, one has to put up with a lot of petty discomforts.) The man was Colonel Olcott. It was the first act of kindly thoughtfulness that I had ever known a theosophist perform --- and the last. For many years. T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
… three Hottentots alive, 11, 102 It’s rather hard, isn’t it, sir, ll. 145 It was impossible that she should come, ii. 74 I’ve talked too long: you're very good, il. 183 I was a fool to hide it, ili. 8 I was most weary of my work, ii. 67 I was so hopeless that I turned away, il. 65 I will not, and you will not. Stay! iii. r2 I will not bring abuse to point my pen, ii. 5 I will not now invite attack, ii. 151 I will not shake thy hand, old man, ii. 1 I will not waste my own time and that of my readers, il. 254 Je&HJAOUR was a mighty magician, il, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 540
… unnecessary to our work. We had found out and fixed in our minds that all such possessions, however delightful as new toys, were in the long run a nuisance. Whatever is not ultimately useful is a source of distraction and anxiety. It gets in one's way. It is like having to live with someone whom one does not love. We thus got rid of that senseless envy which embitters life by filling the mind with perverse cravings for things neither good nor bad in themselves, things fruitful of pleasure and profit to the people to whom they properly belong, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 565
…icles were even less adequately remunerated. And it was not only a task which Jove would have thrown up to get paid at all, but after prolonged humiliating haggling over the price, the ultimate cheque was more annoying than agreeable. He would argue for an hour that he had said pounds and not gunieas. I put up with the pest because it amused me. I can hardly explain why I enjoy watching such contemptible wrigglings. I suppose it is the same sort of fascination as makes one stop to watch a street squabble between two prostitutes. A further unple…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…column without that support which might enable it, if checked, to retire in good order; and it is with true pity for a gallant Myst. Wow long. have you been a sectary astronomical? oo | Scept. Exr—what? Myst, You are then an astronomer? opponent—who would be wiser to surrender— that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime courage to state that my ‘‘ Sword…
1929 · PDF PAGE 522
…t, he misunderstood one of my rules; and I think the game was spoilt in consequence. However, even as it was, Vanity Fair was devoting a long article every month to the subject, and I had only to wander into the appropriate circles to make myself the darling of the community. But the Secret Chiefs had it in mind that so far from doing anything of the sort, I should
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…on Beachy Head. My boyhood's idol was shattered at a blow. I received my first lesson in what the religions of the world have discovered long since, that no man who allows a woman to take any place in his life is capable of doing good work. (Similarly, men may be as foolish over dogs as old maids over cats.) A man who is strong enough to use women as slaves and playthings is all right. Even so, there is always a danger, though it is difficult to avoid it. In fact, I don't think it should be avoided. I think a man should train himself to master …
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…on Swerr Marve. Price 38. 6d. net. “Happily written, with knowledge and insight as well as gaiety and charm."—Light. “Admirable! It is a long time since we read a book on the fascinating subject of mind’s influence over matter, especially in the building of character, with as much pleasure as this has |. Characterised throughout by a cheery optimism, the perusal of it is as good as any tonic, and far better than most,"—Pad? Mall Gazette. MENTAL MEDICINE: Some Practical Suggestions from a Spiritual Standpoint. By Oxiver Hucxet, $.T.D. With an In…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…on Swerr Marve. Price 38. 6d. net. “Happily written, with knowledge and insight as well as gaiety and charm."—Light. “Admirable! It is a long time since we read a book on the fascinating subject of mind’s influence over matter, especially in the building of character, with as much pleasure as this has |. Characterised throughout by a cheery optimism, the perusal of it is as good as any tonic, and far better than most,"—Pad? Mall Gazette. MENTAL MEDICINE: Some Practical Suggestions from a Spiritual Standpoint. By Oxiver Hucxet, $.T.D. With an In…
1906 · PDF PAGE 200
…asy rules * To “take Pansil” is to vow obedience to these Precepts. ; t I do not propose to dilate on the moral truth which Ibsen has so long laboured to make clear: that no hard and fast rule of life can be universally applicable. Also, as in the famous case of the lady who saved (successively) the lives of her husband, her father, and her brother, the precepts clash. To allow to die is to kill—all this is obvious to the most ordinary thinkers. These precepts are of course ex- cellent general guides for the vulgar and ignorant, but you and I, …