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…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 dam bad form to give it me in a dialogue where I can’t help myself, but have to say exactly what you like. Bowley. Oh, come! I've given you all the best speeches. The Lord hath given—look out! Bones. I trust to your honour. Where were we? Anyway, I tell you this: it 's a ripping good formula as such. Bowley. Now we come down to the Black Magicia…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…y word, sir—words fail me. Bones. One thing more—it’s the first truth that ’s diflicult to tell; the habit is easily acquired. Bowley. You know what an expert liar I have always been. You know my capacity for making a full and true confession of countless crimes without enlightening a soul. You know my shameless maxim, “ Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.” To try your formula I must control not only my words, but my tones, the shape of my mouth, the mirth of my eyes, the ready ambiguity of my shou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…od Into the Eleusinian oceanl Certainly, the plane is very low indeed. We hardly came here to learn thatl said Basil indignantly. We all know that cold-blooded murder (even) may become a duty—witness Hodson and the pistolling of the Delhi Princesl His brother laughed: I don’t know about duty, but to murder you in cold blood would be a pleasure.
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
… 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 bull, with a w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…er, because it just isn’t. But he said to me: “ Princess, you haven’t been all over the Palace yet. Your special House is the Third, you know, because it’s so convenient for the Second where I usually live. The King my Father lives in the First; he’s never to be seen, you know. He’s very, very old nowadays; I am practically Regent of course. You must never forget that I am really He; only one generation back is not so far, and I entirely represent his thought. Soon," he whispered ever so softly, “you will be a mother; there will be a Fairy Prin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 57
…? Frater Neophyte K. asks our S. H. Frater L. 8°= 3°. “Are there such things as elemental spirits in the scientific sense?” Now Frater L. knows that there are (just as Professor Ray Lankester would assure a Hottentot of the reality of microscopic objects), but he also knows that there are not, seeing that all is but an illusory veil of the Indicible Arcanum in the Adytum of God nourished Silence. Frater L. will therefore reply Yes! if he thinks Frater K. in danger of scepticism. He will reply No! if he thinks Frater K. is a curiosity monger. In …
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
love, so far as he may be seen in a few lines, taken from amongst hundreds of their kind: To know you love me; that your bod lea 5 With the quick passion of your sou : to Know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps: Ah ! in the very triumph-hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell! These lines are not flawless; yet it needs no adjectives as drums to sound their praises. The palate that cannot appreciate such a vintage to the full knows not the taste of good wine. T11: Imperialism of Lam—I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
…on Abiegnus, and my name is ‘ Flodden ' Iames. I am not up to small deceits or any sinful games: And I’ll tell in simple language what I know about the bounder That broke up our Society—and also broke the founder l ” The Clippers . . . . Eccentrics. Happy Hal Barthe with Tim Urah and Ike Baker . . Quick Change Artists. Le Marbre . . . . Lightning Calculator. Mac and Mic . . . . Face Artists. THE YONLY YEATS. \Vhat are Yeats? Berridge and his Magic Clasp. Mo Locke and Bill Feegur . Serios. Miss Schnarr . . . . Diseuse. Shaddai L. Hye in his grea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…name I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The passage where the twins live is very difficult too. They are two sisters; and one is very pure and good, and the other is a horrid fast woman. But that shows you how silly dream language is— really there is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…My raptures follow fast and thick: I even tend to overeat. You would not daily with Doreen Because her fairness was to fade, Because you know the things unclean That go to make a mortal maid. I, if her rotten corpse were mine, Would take it as my natural food, Denying all but the Divine Alike in evil and in good. Aspasia may skin me close, And Lais load me with disease. Poor pleasures, bitter bargains, those? I still despise Diogenes. Why must the prig be still the judge? The Deadly-Livelies audit life? Ask of the drone about the drudge! Comput…
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…omething of his, so I took a shepherd’s staff, and a little whip with os'ii'iedism blood on it, and jewels oozing from the blood, if you know what I mean, that they had put in his hands when they buried him. Then I went away, and cried, and cried, and cried. But before I had got very far they called me back; and the people who had been so stern were smiling, and I saw they had taken the coflin out of the little C_urinter mortuos room with seven sides. And the coffin was quite, quite empty. Then filiiiffiiiiue; they began to tell us all about it, an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
…y to go, and you feel the most horrible sensation of falling away from everything that ever was. You’ve got no nothing at all; you don’t know how awful it all is. You would turn back if you could only stop falling; but luckily you can’t. So you fall and fall faster and faster; and I can’t tell you any more. The Third House is called the House of Sorrow. They gave me new clothes of the queerest kind, because one never thinks of them as one’s own clothes, but only as clothes. It is a House of utmost Darkness. There is a pool of black solemn water…
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
…hed your wish, not with‘tears, but with laughter; he had his wish, as you shall have yours. In spite of all, that nameless man is widely known as any in the world; they know not his name: they call him Jesus Christ. Now all the evil wrought by Jesus Christ is as nothing to the wish of that unknown poet. From this pinnacle of Adeptship we weigh the Universe in other scales—but this doctrine is known to you and understood of you, and I need say no more. Then said Arthur: Verily, all is Maya, all! He is God, and there is none other God than He! In…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…id the big man, that Mr. Jones is the Unutterable Tao. Why not leave it at that? I will, said Basil, if Arthur will read us something. I know what he was leading up to when our friend~played with his opponent’s ball. A brother is a dreadful handicap! sighed Arthur. Still, here you are! And he read:
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…rapples with the problems of human consciousness and has realized the ab soluteness of zero. He perceives that when consciousness, as we know it, is absolutely indrawn, so that it exists in ure isolation, it knows an ecstasy which can only be ex— pressed in the thought, “ I 0 not exist." This last paradox of human manifestation as been perceived by every school of mystics. “ Man’s darkness is a leathern sheath, Myself the sun-bright sword,” is the feeling of the consciousness as it returns to its human state, admirably expressed by Mr. Crowley …
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…ry man must find his own way to freedom. Let me read to you about my mad friends. One of the most inter esting cases of symbolic coitus I know of. The man wasn’t of the hunting class; he was a head waiter, child of some Russian exiles of the so-called student persuasion, and his only notions of fox-hunting were taken from the Christmas numbers of the illustrated papers of his childhood! Strange how things stick! THE SYMBOLISTS TITAN EVE was thewed and sinewed: all the blood of Mother Earth Sang within her veins and gave her all the might of all …
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
… andpery‘orms Serpentine Dance. Exit. Bones. In answer to your last remark, you and I are near enough to the Halls of the Great Order to know how secret is the Brother hood. What if your fool with his silly question should be a Master of the Temple talking to you in Samadbic language? Bowie]. My dear man, I will destroy him as soon as the rest. 61':pi'y is my reply to Binah as well as to Jesod. But hushl who comes here?
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
… self alone; Human ethics will not loosen our Astarte’s crimson zone. You will never fit your forehead with your father’s fancy hats: You know more about salvation than the Reverend Robert Rats. Well, you have most certainly met an unpleasant set of people, ex claimed the big man. Can’t we be a bit cheerful for a change? The night wears on: we must part. I think you would like my Gipsy girl, said Denzil, without scruple or difiidence. If she’s a sane clean human being, we shall. So Arthur Gray voiced the general feeling. Without further debate he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 118
…were misunderstood— and they’re in the Asylum at this minute. Misunderstandingl said the big man; why will people try to judge others? I know less of my own brain—and dfortian' of my brother’s -—than I do of an oyster. Yet I try to instruct my brother, and let the oyster gang his ain gait. Read that jest of yours about the Qabalistic Rabbi! said Arthur. I will. He was the dearest old man in the world; absolutely incapable of doing anything to shock the most puritanical. Yet his curious studies in the Zohar got him a reputation unfit even to spea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…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 hence we shall all be saying the same about Bow…