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…here the business is carried on. All the Palace rests upon this House; but you are called Lola because you are the Key of Delights. Many people stay here all their lives though.” I made him kiss me, and we went on to another passage which opened out of the Servants’ Hall. This passage was all fire and flame and full of coffins. There was an Angel blowing ever so hard on a trumpet, and people getting up out of the coffins. My Fairy Prince said: “ Most people never wake up for anything less.” So we went (at the same time it was; you see in dreams pe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
…when you are at liberty to imagine an unusually profound and peculiarly foul double entendre. We have also gone to the expense of hiring people to sit in the stalls and start the laughs, so that 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 …
1907 · PDF PAGE 118
…enough, but a long explanation—qui rexcuxe .s’accure. Better look for God in the filth itself than in the lame excuse for it! I once knew people as mad as that, said the Doctor. They were all right; they knew their own business; but they 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 your…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
THE WAKE WORLD 9 people reading them till they were so silly, they didn’t know what they were doing. And there were cheats, and doctors, and thieves; l was really very glad to go away. There were three ways into the Seventh House, and the first was Via? _ such a funny way. We walked through a pool, each on the arm of a “ cranium great big Beetle, and then we found ourselves on a narrow winding path. There were nasty Jackals about, they made such a noise, and at the end I could see two towers. Then there was the queerest moon you ever saw, only a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…hrough and through me, so that I was very glad when my Prince said: “You wouldn’t think it, would you, sweetheart? But there are lots of people who stay here all their lives.” There are three ways into the Fourth House from below. The first Vin: v- Pusnus passage is a very curious place, all full of wheels and ever such strange creatures, like monkeys and sphinxes and jackals climbing about them and trying to get to the top. It was very silly, because there isn’t really any top to a wheel at all; the place you want to get to is the centre, if yo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…a heavy iron chain, and I took it and put it round my neck because I was bound to my Fairy Prince, and I would never go about like other people till I found him again. And they took the dagger and dipped it in the cup, and stabbed me all over to show that I was not afraid to be hurt, if only I could find my Fairy Prince. Then I took the crucifix and held it up to make more light in case he was somewhere in the dark comers, but no! Yet I knew he was there somewhere, so I thought he must be in the box, for under the table was a great chest; and I w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…My Fairy Prince said: “Everybody that ever was has come along this path, and yet only one ever got to the end of it.” But I saw a lot of people walking straight through as if they knew it quite well; he explained, though, that they were really only one; and if you walked through that proved it. I thought that was silly, but he ’5 much older and wiser than I am; so I said nothing. The truth is that it is a very difficult Palace to talk about, and the further you get in, the harder it is to say what you mean because it all has to be put into dream…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…ly too easy to form a cult, To cry a crusade with " Deus Vult"— But you won't get much of a good result From empty-headed Athenians. The people of London much resemble Those empty-headed Athenians. I could very easily make them tremble, Those empty-headed Athenians. A pinch of Bible, a gallon of gas, And I, or any otherguess ass, Could bring to our mystical moonlight mass Those empty-headed Athenians. In fine, I have precious little use For empty-headed Athenians. The birds I have snared shall all go loose; They are empty-headed Athenians. I tho…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…e Mrs. 1.? From fear. Bowley. Fear is failure. Bones. More, G. H. Frater! It is the forerunner of failure. Bowley. I certainly recommend people to be without fear. Bones. The more so that in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not. Bowley. Pass thou on! Bones. 1 take in my hand page 39 of your able monograph and follow my guide Axiokersos, the Second of the Samothracian Kabeiri, to the Portal on whose veil is written “ No separate Existence! ” If I assert my own point of view, I deny the Unity—~But hush! who comes here? Enter WHITEHEAD, equi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…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 set to. LA GITANA YOUR hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the pal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…in October. Bowley. It is; and why did I arrange it on that date? Because I knew that I was the Messiah—pass the baby, please !—and that people would celebrate the day according to my word. Mrs. Bones. But why? [BONES signals wildly to her, but in vain. Bowley. Because children born in summer thrive best. Mrs. Bones. But why? Bowley. Brother, you waste alarm. They have ears and hear not. But I am not talking; I am making my Table of Correspondences. I drink to my Table of Correspondences. [Drinks BONES picks ufia book on Indian Mystialrm. Tlum d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…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 woman’s face and breasts, and she has unfathomable eyes. My Fairy Prince is a dark boy, very co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
… 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 World.” And that was very A."
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…r Wilde in his youth is supposed to have filched from Thomas Moore’s grandson: Take care, my friend, do not display thy wit! For what the people want to-day is But alasl the last word ofthe line is lost, and who shall find it? How much more so to-day, eighty years since that lusty decadent (l) swam the Hellespont; in this period, in which the blue blow-flies of Rational Rot have been stirred from the privies of our laboratories by such experts as Oliver Haeckel and Ernest Lodge, and which now batten on the sumptuous princeliness of mediaeval pedom…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
… 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—— Bones. I sometimes doubt if any of these are opposites at all. Next time you run up to Kether, look down the Tree and see what Truth looks like from the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…trouble with the historian at once. But let me say that I will have no interference with my story on the part of all these dull sensible people. I am going straight on, and if the reviews are unfavourable, one has always the resource of suicide) dangerously unstable. The warrior aristocracy of the Upper House had been so diluted with suc cessful cheesemongers that adulteration had become a virtue as highly profitable as adultery. In the Lower House brains were still esteemed, but they had been interpreted as the knack of passing examinations. Th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…against the attacks of those who, though they may be secretly stigmatized as doctrinaires, can bring forward unanswerable arguments. The people had power, but not reason; so were amenable to the fallacies which they mistook for reason and not to the power which they would have imagined to be tyranny. An intelligent plebs is docile; an educated canaille expects everything to be logical. The shallow sophisms of the socialist were intelligible; they could not be refuted by the profounder and therefore unintelligible propositions of the Tory. The m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
… I am, after all, a Poet. That ’5 right about the lake-reflected sun illuminating the blooming bees. I often hold long conversations with people, and discover long after that I wasn’t there at all. I often dream and am honestly puzzled whether the events of it have or have not happened. Bones. Consciously refuse to admit that your sensorium is not another's—that is all. About my second advantage—Brother, what is a Black Magician?
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…COUNTER-DEDICATION ix case of the hands quoted above. If they were not similar, they would no longer be contradictories, but contraries. People who begin to think for themselves usually fall into the error of contradicting normal ideas as taught by their seniors. Thus, one learns that marriage is right and adultery wrong. One thinks, and finds the beauty of the latter, the sordidity of the former; perhaps ending, with a little wit, in defending marriage because the delights of adultery are impossible without it. This attitude is good enough, ind…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…ey be . . . Let Mr. Straightforward and Mr. Veracity and Mr. Scom-tmtell-a lie and Mr. George Washington Redivivus reflect that there are people in the world with sensoria sighted to a different range from themselves! There is such a thing as a point of view. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto the Man in the Moon, who stood on the shores of Lake Copernicus and said: “What a beautiful