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…n 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, and I heard my Fairy Prince within mumm' the little room saying holy exalted things, such as the stars trace in the sky as they travel in the Car called “Millions of Years.” Then they took me into the little room, and there was my Fairy Prince standing in the middle. 50 I knelt down and we all kissed his beautiful feet, and the myriads …
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
16 KONX OM PAX swam de Via that when Fairy Princes were really and truly married they became Fairy Kings; and that l was quite wrong ever to be ashamed of being only a little girl and afraid of spoiling his prospects, because really, you see, he could never become King and have a son a Fairy Prince without me. But one can only do that by getting to the Third House, and it ’s a dreadful journey, I do most honestly assure you. There are two passages, one from the Eighth House and one from the Sixth; the first is all water, and the second is almost…
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…d hole, and lost my Fairy Prince, and nailed me to the red board, took away the table and opened the box, and there was my Fairy Prince, quite, quite dead. If you only knew how sorry I felt! But I had with me a walking-stick with wings, and a shining sun at the top that had been his, and I touched him on the breast to try and wake him; but it was no good. Only I seemed to hear his voice'saying wonderful things, and it was quite certain he wasn’t really dead. Sol put the walking-stick on his breast, and another little thing he had which I Pastos…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…u 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 comely; I think every one must love …
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
… is true) in Kether; but his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. What about your poetry? Bowley. Certainly, I am never—very seldom—very very seldom— aware of what I am going to write, am writing, have …
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
…be no parting there ! "P O bourgeoisie! you read no doubt, But still you have a lot to learn. I am a lover, not a lout. My thoughts take quite another turn. I who have bitten through your skin Envy the surgeon who could dip His deft and conscious fingers in Your bowels, and twitch a scornful lip. I would have paddled in you, played Childlike and cloudless of your pain. I would have kissed the wound, and made A pleasant ripple in your brain. Within the startling lovelier mouth New-cut my brother torch should flare And pour to ease its awful drouth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…ouse at all. But the real serious difficulty is the outdoors. You have to leave the House of Love, as they call the Fourth House. You are quite, quite naked: you must take 011' your husband-clothes, and your baby clothes, and all your pleasure clothes, and your skin, and your flesh, and your bones, every one of them must come right off. And then you must take off your feeling clothes; and then your idea clothes; and then what we call your tendency clothes which you have always worn, and which make you what you are. After that you take off your co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…ey would fly up into the air, shrieking the funniest kind of songs, and then suddenly one would come down flop, and you saw she was really quite young and ever so lovely, and she would have nothing on, and as you looked at her she would crumble away like a biscuit. Then there was another passage which was really too secret Via r v. Hamus for anything; all I shall tell you is, there was the most beautiful God dess that ever was, and she was washing herself in a river of dew. If you ask what she is doing, she says: “ I’m making thunderbolts.” It wa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…use of the Palace. It was a great dome of violet, and in the centre the moon shone. She was a full moon, and yet she looked like a woman quite, quite young. Yet her hair was silver, and finer than spiders’ webs, and it rayed about her, like one can’t say what; it was all too beautiful. In the middle of the hall there was a black stone pillar, from the top of which sprang a fountain of pearls; and as they fell upon the floor, they changed the dark marble to the colour of blood, Domus X v. Regnum v. Port: Loci secludum lementa Qliphoth Via n v. Cru…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…from it. J. E. PATTERSON. THE NEW AGE says: What is this wonderful abstraction we call the British public? Before Mafeking night we knew quite well what it was. The female part of it was Mrs. Grundy, the well-known old lady in white cotton stockin , elastic-side boots, stuffy petticoats, and a grim determination to give everyone a bit of her mind. The male gart of it was an idealistic old gentleman of prolific habits with a thetic faith in the ritish constitution, and a habit of locking up the house at ten o’c ock every weekday and at half-past …
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…outh, All is the enemy of Truth. Where are you now?” “ My worthy friend !” (I answered) “take it to the end. I do not think you prove it quite That truth and lies are opposite. But upon This we can agree: There is none other God than He.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
…tful ballad: CHORUS. Blow the tom-tom, hang the flute! Let us all be merry! I'm a party with acute Chronic 1. Monday I'm a skinny critter Quite Felicien-Rops-y. Blow the cymbal, bang the zither! Tuesday I have dropsy. Chorus.
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…onal monster. I for one shall not be surprised at the Day of Judgment to hear that the Constantine of Protestantism was actuated by some quite simple motive like suppressed vegetarianism. Very likely it never happened at all, said Denzi! thoughtfully. Nothing ever did. Look at the Christ-myth. The Trial and Death and so on—mere stage-directions from a ritual of Mithraism. . . . But who was Mithras? asked the big man. Like any other question, it goes on for ever, til! you get to the big question. With your answer to it, said Basil. On the questi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…, but the atavism comes through. As long as you wear a tie that the Neanderthal cave man would have discarded as out of date I can never quite class you with this century. Bones. Before Abraham was, I am. Bowie]. [Taking no notice] I call it a Christian tie. Faith in your wife’s afi'ection surviving it; charity, which is not ashamed; hope—no, only Hope Brothers. Bones. This is in some ways a digression— Bowley. I can prove—— Bones. I know you can. Don’t. Bowley. Well, about truth. Surely I am right in saying that “I don’t know ” and keeping sile…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…traights—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 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 w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
…KONX OM PAX Via '1 v. Valium and seventy-eight is six times thirteen. To get into the Wake World you must know your thirteen times table quite well. So if you take them both together that makes eleven times thirteen, and then you say “Abrahadabra,” which is a most mysterious word, because it has eleven letters in it. You remember the Houses are numbered both ways, so that the Third House is called the Eighth House too, and the Fifth the Sixth, and so on. But you can’t tell what lovely things that means till you’ve been through them all, and got…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…rand Slam 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 t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…, and the lamp meant you were to tell everybody and make them glad, and the stick was like a guide to tell you which to do. But I didn’t quite believe that, because I am getting a grown-up girl now, and I wasn’t to be put off like that. I could see that the stick was really the measuring rod with which the whole Palace was built, and the lamp was the only light they had to build it by, and the cloak was the abyss of darkness that covers it all up. That is why dream-people never see beautiful things like I’m tell ing you about. All their houses …
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
… afraid; only whenever one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hands in its mouth and shuts it. So we went through quite safely, and I thought of Daniel in the lions’ den. The Fourth House is the most wonderful of all I had ever seen. It is the most heavenly blue mansion; it is built of beryl and amethyst, and lapis lazuli and turquoise and sapphire. The centre of the floor is a pool of purest aquamarine, and in it is water, only you can see every drop as a separate crystal, and the blue tinge filtering through the light. Ab…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…I when we are one. You wouldn’t understand that either. And the last thing I shall say is that one begins to see that there isn’t really quite a Wide-Wide-Wide-Wake-World till the Serpent outside has finished eating up his tail, and I don’t really and truly understand that myself. But it doesn’t matter; what you must Via I v. Camelus Via 3 v. Domus Via x v. 805 Domus If v. Sapientia Domus I v. Corona Summa