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46 KONX OM PAX Bowley. Then what is the converse of Truth? Bones. My dear Pilate, it certainly is not falsehood. A crooked line is not the contradictory of a straight one. Curves and corners alike exclude the straight line and— Bowley. No proposition can possibly have two logical contradic tories. Bones. There I pass. Bowley. Keynes. Bones. I should certainly have brought it in justifiable homicide had the remark been Abel’s. Bowley. Our old friendship— Bones. All very well—you know I should never have made such a remark in real life and it’s da…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…rm at intervals during the evening. Mrs. Bones. I’m sure we’re very much obliged by your kindness; I trust it did not cost you too much. Bowley. Waistcoat is an old friend of mine, you know; connected with the Straights—the Dover Straights—on the mother’s side. Non Omnis Moriar is his motto. Very likely; but, on the other hand,he ’5 never really quite alive; so one can bargain with him to great advantage. Mrs. Bones. Well, I’m sure it will all be most delightful. We get very little of the old-fashioned Christmases now. Bones. Two thousand years…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
… the Absence of Paths in the Abyss of the Great Gulf Fixed will kindly leave the Court. I will myself set the example. [Exeunt Bonus and BOWLEY :011'. Bowie]. Your method of keeping silence is a good one. Dialogue is the best form, after all. But hush! who comes? Enter the YONLY YEATS, with druid apple-blossom in his hair, and the druid casting-net qf the stars in one hand. Doe: his turn and exit. Boner. To continue—True! And saying “ true,” let us discuss “truth.” In the lower worlds, where are we? Take this frivolous Mrs. I. Why does she elud…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 49 Bo'zuley. A bold bad man, brother. Bones. What does he do, brother? Bowley. He buys eggs without haggling, and the horns of a goat cum ouo, and parricides’ skulls, and wands, and daggers, and Sanitary Towels, and—— Bones. Then what does he do, brother? Bowley. He gets a beautiful big circle—— Bones. [In a voice 1f thunder.] Stop! do not parody the most formidable words that agony ever wrung from the lips of initiation! He works in a circle, brother. He says: I am inside, and you can't get at me. He says One an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…o save my wife pain by concealing from her the fact that she was not, in the grand phrase of Emerson— Bones. Washington Irving, I think— Bowley. Some Yankee—the only oyster in the stew. Bones. Who told you, Supreme Magus of our Ancient Order! [with profound sarcasm] to go about saving people pain? Bowley. I give in. But really I tell you that you will never attain to the Brotherhood until you have genuinely conquered the Illusion of the Pairs of Opposites. Truthfulness and Lying are just as much opposites as white and black, good and evil—— Bon…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
50 KONX OM PAX Bones. Especially as interpreted by followers absolutely wallowing in Ruach. Bowley. Shall we leave it at that? That Bones finds objective truth a Way up the Tree, and a Fruit in the topmost bough? Bones. I am more positive than that. Bowley. Less Zoroaster and more Pyrrho, please Lord, for Brother Bones! else you will fall into the way of Paul, and perish in the gain saying of Mohammed. Bones. You are obstinate about the necessity of scorning the objective results of illumination. But let us consider the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
…, all levels are one. If I cancel out a and —a, the result is the same as if I cancel roooa and -- ioooa. I am only concerned to cancel. Bowley. All right, my gay Io=I—in Kether it’s all very well. In the Ruach one must do as the Ruach does. [MRS. BONES, without, sereaming, “My spoons! My silver spoons! Where are my spoons?” Bones. Then what becomes of our Great Work? Bowley. Ignore the fool and his silly questions is as good a formula as yours. But hushl Who comes here? Enter the MYSTERIOUS MATHERS, but, failing to borrow the necessary propert…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…ew from Chesed is “ Let me keep this machine in perfect order, in case our S.H. Frater wants to dictate.” Bones. Just so; and if Brother Bowley goes on lying, our S.H. Frater will one day strike the A key and find a B on the paper. Then he will probably say: Damn the machine l—and do it. Bowley. We are leaving exactitude and wallowing in analogy. We have run up and down the planes till we are less like Exempt Adepti than monkeys on sticks; we Bones. We had better go to bed.
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…am in Swords. Any one but a benighted Hindu would have declared Hearts and sent the girl across on a raft! Bones. I don’t see it, quite. Bowley. Nor do I. It’s the story, though. Bones. I suppose devotion to one’s profession is a form of Truth. But even if, as you say, it is often a question of courage and will, these are the very qualities which this truth telling stimulates. It’s a V.C. touch to reply to a lady who asks how her hat suits “ Not at all." Bowley. It seems to me mere boorishness. Bones. No! the lady is none the worse for the stab…
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…there is no excuse whatever for any ofyou to complain of having passed an unprurient evening.” The scene rises. The Bones FAMILY and MR. BOWLEY sitting round the fire. U17 stage, MRS. P .. TR .. CK C .. MPB .. LL chased by MR. M..RT..N H..RV..Y runsofi'R. andbarhs hershin on a chair. Mrs. P. C‘. I am not happy! I am not happy! 0 leyndyvaine, what shall I say? Mr. M H. Most people would say Damn, ma belle Mygrainel Mrs. P. C. [Aside.] If Maeterlinck gives meaname likeaheadache, will not Shaw call me simply a cough-drop? [ExiL Prompter. [Angn'ly.] …
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
…Mas. Bonns . . . . . Miss C..m..ll.. Cl..fi'..rd. BABY BONES (aged fifteen months) . Mr' ' ' 5c ' ' r ' ' SCh ' ' or Miss L..c..l.. H..Il. BOWLEY (“Greatly Honoured Frater N.L.”) . . . . . . Miss L..ly Br..yt..n. IMAGINARY CHAIRMAN, WAl'rs, arc. Any imaginary actors. DR. Wiusrcon'ns Famous TROUPE 0F PANTOMIMISTS (“THE Fon'rv LIARS”): Whitehead . . . Equilibrist. Din and Doni . . . Knockabouts. Daath . . . . . Sensation Baby. Nehushtan . . . . Serpentine Dancer. The Ales (Ralph, Mike, and Sam) . . . . Serio-Comics. Lucy Furr and Florrie Farr . Egy…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
… Now, we shall be glad to hear any remarks you may have to make. Mr. Bones. We have all listened, I am sure, with great attention to Mr. Bowley’s valuable paper. At this late hour, however, it would ill become me [No] No ./]—it would little accord with the disposition of this meeting were I to [A voice: “ Cut the cackle, man, and come to the 'osses.”]——I am sure our greatly honoured Frater [A voice: “ Speak up l”]—I thunder in your cars! It ’s a fine paper, but it’s all R. O. T. Rot. [Christmas waits outside begin {he hymn: In the hospital bed s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…alue to yours of telling truth to a man in the sense he under stands. Bones. Yes; I may grant so much: but my formula is a good one too. Bowley. I promise to try it. Bones. You have two advantages. One is the common or Garden Magic; you acquire the habit of telling truth in the low material ob jective sense, and nature is bound (as Levi says) “to accommodate herself to the statement of the magician.” Thus, one may take hold of a hot iron, or coal, saying “ It does not hurt ” and it doesn’t. 80101:]. I have tried that. But I thought it a questio…
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32 KONX OM PAX Bowley. More coffee, please. I attribute the Baby to Malkuth. Mrs. Bones, may I paint the baby bright yellow all over? Heedless of Mother’s sighs and groans He painted blue the Baby Bones, in the well-known porphyrean of the late john Keats, on whom be peace. At this stage in my career—drop that silly Babu twaddle !——I offer you the following desperate alternative, greatly honoured F rater! We will go on with the Table, or I will read you my latest glorious masterpiece entitled Amath. The Hebrew for Truth, Baby! Reflect, O bat-eye…