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…We get very little of the old-fashioned Christmases now. Bones. Two thousand years hence we shall all be saying the same about Bowleymas Day in the sunset of Bowleyanity. Bowley. Respect my modesty—Pyrrho-Zoroastrianism, if you please. Mrs. Bones. More coffee? Bowley. Please. You do not ask what your husband means. Mrs. Bones. I give you two up. Bones. To-day we celebrate Christ’s birth; then, Bowley’s. Bowls). I,hide my blushes in thy breast, O babe! [Does so; the child weeps] Take it, for God’s sakel [Done. The child smiles. Mrs. Bones. But I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 89 Our best. You want a tender gray, Prepare your palette half the day, Take brush, and find to your surprise The snout of scarlet stab your eyes. Bad art, my boy! I never cared To try the piece again. —We’ve aired Our dinner. By the way, though, here You are. That ’s it! How smooth and clear The moonlight runs from point to hilt! Steel in the end beats silver-gilt! Well, there’s an end of my cigar: The girls will wonder where we are. Strange! how this question of motive deceives historians—and others! said the scho…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…e, and l clung to his neck as we galloped into the night. Then he told me he would take me to his Palace and show me everything, and one day when we were married I should be mistress of it all. Then I wanted to be married to him at once, and then I saw it couldn’t be, because I was so sleepy and had bad dreams, and one can’t be a good wife if one is always doing that sort of thing. But he said I would be older one day, and not sleep so much, and every one slept a little, but the great thing was not to be lazy and contented with the dreams, so I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
… 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 87
…y of humanity, realization of our identity with the great and holy Tao." Wherewith he set aside no less than three hundred and sixty-five days in every year, and one extra day every fourth year, as days of special rejoicing.
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
…se of training by which she shall comprehend the holiness of sex. Chastity forms part of that training, and I should hope to see her one day a happy wife and mother. To the prude equally I prescribe a course of training by which she shall comprehend the holiness of sex. Unchastity forms part of that training, and I should hope to see her one day a happy wife and mother. “To the bigot I commend a course of Thomas Henry Huxley; to the infidel a practical study of ceremonial magic. Then, when the
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…t it! [Readsfrom MS.] noel An essay upon Truth by the boy O.M., Member of the Order of the A:‘: A:': To the first paragraph of “Ascension Day” (dearly beloved brethren), it is written as a Fingerpost—and worthy is it to be graven with a needle upon the eye-comers so that whoso would be warned should be warned! “What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; but Crowley waits for an answer.” He did more than wait: he took active measures to discover; and though an answer in the Key of Affirmation would, in its very exordium, beggar human language, yet we may…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…st-ce donc, en verité, que ce pierre? C’est le fondement de la philosophie absolue, c’est le supréme et inébranlable raison.”—LEVI. “One day when I was all alone I found a wondrous little stone. It lay forgotten on the road Far from the ways of man's abode. When on this stone mine eyes I cast I saw my Treasure found at last. —--0 stone, so red and rare and wise! 0 fragment of far Paradise l ” MACHEN.
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…ness; and within three months he has nearly doubled the revenue and halved the taxes. Your lordship has spent millions of yen; but is to-day a richer man than when your excellency went to sleep." “I will go and see this Kwaw,” said the Daimio. The servants then admitted that the Mikado in person had been waiting at the palace door for over three months, for the very purpose of begging permission to conduct him thither, but that he had been unwilling to disturb the sleep of the Godfather of his country. Impossible to describe the affecting scene…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…g skeleton. Each to his taste: if you prefer This loathly brooding on Decay, I call it Growth, and lovelier Than all the glamours of the day.
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
proper adjustment of their braces than they ever did before. So we find as faith has ost power, prurience has gained sway. In the days of Alexander V1 a child would have been disembowelled for spelling Homousios with a second i and 2. Pope would not have been considered as worthy of the Vic erenc of Christ unless he had held secret intercourse with every single member 5? his family. But to-day with such pietistic parasites as the Protestant Pioneer and the Freethinker, with such Christian inverts as In-Gram and F66-Té, such puritanical broken-bo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
…tence Of envy of its excellence. We laughed—but not at the same joke. All girls are blind with their own smoke. A man may come, his lazy day, Cuddle and coo an hour away, Yet in his heart is bound to feel: “ N o woman '5 worth an inch of steel.” Woman has always played the sphinx. An open secretl How the minx Covers her single aim, poor saint! With many a foxy futile feint. The same thing civilized or wild: “I want a man: I want a child.” Man has a real secret—kept Close as a Rosy Cross adept! The safer that the sapient sheep Have never guessed…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
…upposing Modern conditions hamper youths Who seek to grasp these simple Truths. But to my yarn. Carlotta lay So sleepy-soft one summer’s day That really I could not resist it. I took the dagger out and kissed it. Like a cat’s tongue that daintily laps, I slipped it in between her paps. At first, of course, the shrieking swerves One’s thought: it irritates the nerves; And out of tone the laughter lies At the poor innocent’s surprise. But soon there triumphs cool and clean The touching pathos of the scene. No word of anger, be assured! A strange s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
… of hair, and big, big, round eyes, always wondering at everything. Never mind, it’s only a nuisance. I shall tell you what happened one day when I said
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…ot understand all he says, he sees something that is of far greater importance to him, as shown here: So I press on. Fresh strength from day to day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high. So I depart upon the desert way; So I strive ever toward the copper sky, With lips burnt black, and blind in either eye. I move for ever to my in tic goal, Where I may drain a ountatn never dry; And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satist my souL And fitly may that pronouncement be rounded off with these four lines as a message to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
60 KONX OM PAX ll. Wednesday cardiac symptoms come; Thursday diabetic. Blow the fiddle, strum the drum! Friday I'm paretic. Chorus. m. If on Saturday my foes Join in legions serriedI Then, on Sunday, I suppose, I'll be beri-beriedl Chorus. One need not be intimately familiar with the Japanese character understand that Kwaw and his feat were forgotten in a very few day but a wealthy Daimio, with a taste for observation, took it into h head to inquire of Kwaw for what purpose he had entered the count in so strange a manner. It will simplify matter…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…one, Things grosser than it looked upon where Neva rolls or Tiber swings. We shall exceed: its lips unclean shall answer at the Judgment Day: “ The greatest of them all, I say, were this my poet and his queen l ” Ah, God! we look upon the Thames; the Arno’s palaces are gone. Dull glows the misty horizon with London’s stinking stratagems. But lift the lid of earth and see the good flame gush and wrap us round! For us, the Gods of the Profound, may England equal Italy. And 1 who revelled with Faustine in Rome make madder music here “[110 poise upo…
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THE WAKE WORLD Y name is Lola, because I am the Key of Delights, and the other children in my dream call me Lola Daydream. When I am awake, you see, I know that I am dreaming, so that they must be very silly children, don’t you think? There are people in the dream, too, who are quite grown up and horrid; but the really important thing is the wake-up person. There is only one, for there never could be any one like him. I call him my Fairy Prince. He rides a horse with beautiful wings like a swan, or sometimes a strange creature like a lion or a …
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… that lead to the Treasure House of Gold, and all of them are very dreadful. One is called the Terror by Night, and another the Arrow by Day, and the third has a name that people are afraid to hear, so I won’t say. Via P v. Oculus But in the first we came to a mighty throne of gray granite, shaped like the sweetest pussy eat you ever saw, and set up on a desolate heath. It was midnight, and the Devil came down and sat in the midst; but my Fairy Prince whispered: “Hush! it is a great secret, but his name is Yeheswah, and he is the Saviour of the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
… perhaps thought by some (may it be credited?) to have written the lines: To thine own self be true, And it will follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all Eternity !—and the possibility of lying is avoided. For one speaketh not, nor, if one spake, is there any to hear. Know that the greater the Adept, the more truthful; should he—in error—speak, the more must he appear a liar to those …