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…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 woman’s face and breasts, and she has unfathomable eyes. My Fairy Prince is a …
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…ossibly look at it unless they had love in their eyes; and in the middle was an eye without an eyelid. That could see anything, I should think, but you see it never could go to sleep, because there wasn’t any eye lid. On the sides were written I.N.R.l. and T.A.R.O., which mean many strange and beautiful things, and terrible things too. I should think any one would be afraid to hurt any one who wore that ring. It is all cut out of an amethyst, and my Fairy Prince said: “Whenever you want me, look into the ring and call me ever so softly by my na…
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…silly games with counters, and ohl dear me, how they do cheat and quarrel. When any one gets a million counters, he is so glad you can’t think, and goes away and tries to change some of the counters for the things he really wants, and he can’t, so you nearly die of laughing, though of course it would be dreadfully sad if it were wake-life. But I was telling you about the ways to the Fourth House, and the third way is all full of lions, and a person might be afraid; only whenever one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hand…
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…metimes even at the very moment that I start. Last of all is the most mysterious passage of them all, and if any of you saw it you would think there was a foolish man in it being bitten by crocodiles and dogs, and carrying a sack with nothing any use at all in it. But really it is the man who meant to wake up, and did wake up. So that is his House, he is the old King himself, and so are you. So he wouldn’t care what any one thought he was. Really all the passages to the first Three Houses are very useful; all the dream-world and the half-dream w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…ne rose up, then one seemed to be quite, quite dead, and buried in the centre of a pyramid of the most brilliant light it is possible to think of. And it was wake-light too; and everybody knows that even wake-darkness is really brighter than the dream-light. So you must just guess what it was like. There was more than that too; I can’t possibly tell you. I know too what I.N.R.l. on the Ring meant: and I can’t tell you that either, because the dream-language has such a lot of important words missing. It’s a very silly language, I think. By and b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…se sodden slaves with sweat and paint Sicken the soul and make it faint. Build of the slimy scales of vice One concentrated cockatrice! “Think!” laughs the devil, “everywhere Is Rupert Street by Leicester Square.” “ True l ” I replied, “it spells to me: There is none other God than He.” He conjures up the loathly rout Of Christians crawling in and out,
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
88 KONX OM PAX With some most lucid miracle Of love too sweet to think or tell. “ Kiss me again before I die l ” And, as I kissed her, tenderly Shone like pale flames the sudden spheres Of dewy light, of eager tears. She touched my soul’s divinest chord: “I am so happy, dear my Lord.” And, breaking to the spirit bliss, “I go, dear. 0 so keen to kiss Our baby when I get to God ! ” Charrningl Why, damn it now! that’s odd. I’m surely in my dotage, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
… illusion, gentle youth, 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 64
…necessary properties, is unable to give his performance, and exit. Bones. This action does interrupt the dialogue. Bowley. Go to! Do you think I’ve studied British Drama for years for naught? [Voices without, complaining in material loss. Bowley. As I was saying, I would rather destroy the fool by ignoring him and his silly questions. But hushl who comes here? Enter NEI-IUSHTAN, 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 h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…ly 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 paladin entranced, In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel Immemorial as the marble in the hal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…ecret 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-bottle-throwers as Victor Rayson and Lord Groberts, we find that the name of the Man of Sorrows may be spelt with any letter in the alphabet; but that to replace Adrian’s barge by the LC.C. privy is a crime that should carry with it instantaneous decapitation. Captain Fuller will have none of this; with a. ripple of virgin laugh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…rying to 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 evi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
… secret of Mr. Crowley’s mind? Is the game worth the candle? The time of year being August and the weather inclement, we are inclined to think it possibly may be. Now is the appointed season, so let us hasten to study the world of Mr. Crowley before the rush of our own lives reabsorbs us. Our principal objection to Mr. Crowley’s style is that it is redundant. For instance, the organs of eneration are always cropping up in unexpected places, such as in Mr. Crowley’s brain—which is said to be pregnant—and in Rosa Mundi's heart—which contains a sy…
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
…otruding abdomen of the worthy Juju. “ Pray continue your honourable discourse!” exclaimed the half awakened Daimio. Kwaw went on, and I think it only fair to say that he went on for a long time, and that because you have been fool enough to read thus far, you have no excuse for being fool enough to read farther. “ Phenacetin is a useful drug in fever, but woe to that patient who shall imbibe it in collapse. Because calomel is a dangerous remedy in appendicitis, we do not condemn its use in simple indigestions. “ As above so beneath! said Herme…
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…x 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, indeed, while one is ta…
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
…hy lust refined Upon the ravaged souls of all mankind. An excellent photograph, said the big man. My own words just now were as strong, I think. Yet the one answer answers all. Arthur Gray broke in. You should hear the whole story, he said. Look at the inmost as well as the middle. Under correction, sir (politely to the doctor), I find that human beauty fades if we dissect the body. Yet your microscopist (in the first place) will find the detail of blood beautiful, just as I its banners in my lady’s face. And in the second place, does the dissectio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…light shaken ofl" from the invisible Crown of Glory, sparks which they have mistaken for corpse-lights or marsh-vapours, surrounding—they think it an inexplicable paradox l—one who, in all other respects, is so high and pure a being. The first point is, it takes two to make a lie. A. says to B.: “I have emptied all the water from the bottle,” and tells the truth. Student C. says the same words to Professor D., and lies. The bottle and its contents being the same in each case. [BONES laughs contemptuoust and is frowned at.] Because B. wants a drin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…e simple means by which Kwaw had worked his miracles! In a glade of brilliant cherry and hibiscus (and any other beautiful trees you can think of) stood a plain building of stone, which after all had not cost millions of yen, but a very few thousands only. lts height was equal to its breadth, and its length was equal to the sum of these, while the sum of these three measurements was precisely equal to ten times the age of Kwaw in units of the span of his hand. The walls were tremendously thick, and there was only one door and two windows, all i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…believe that he is real, and that there is no other God but he—for such a thought is hardly an illusion—but Bones must not and shall not think that there is an opposition of black and white, good and evil, truth and falsehood. One of our weaker brethren (and I alas! had relied on him as strong among the strong 1) recently plumed himself vastly on this per ception of the Illusion of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil— though “Why in the name of Glory was he proud?” considering that he had the authentic dictum of very Tikkunim for referring t…
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…If you ask what she is doing, she says: “ I’m making thunderbolts.” It was only starlight, and yet one could see quite clearly, so don’t think I’m making a mistake. The third path is a most terrible passage; it’s Via 9 v. Os all a great war, and there’s earthquakes and chariots Of fire, and all the castles breaking to pieces. I was glad when we came to the Green Palace. It was all built of malachite and emerald, and there was the loveliest Domus v11 gentlest living, and I was married to my Fairy Prince there, and we v' “mm had the most delicious…