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Page 100 of 1061929 · PDF PAGE 435
…ns. He gave them imitations of how the murderer might have accomplished his task without arousing the suspicion of his victims until the last moment. Cremers objected that his escape must have been a risky matter, because of his habit of devouring certain portions of the ladies before leaving them. What about the blood on his collar and shirt? The lecturer demonstrated that any gentleman in evening dress had merely to turn up the collar of a light overcoat to conceal any traces of his supper. Time passed! Mabel tired of her friend, but did not …
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…e : the smallest contributions will be thank- fully received. NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY 1. I flung out of chapel.1—Browning, Xmas Eve, III. last line. 3. Venus Bower and Osiris Tomb.2— Crowley, Tannhaäuser. 5. God.3—Hebrew, \yhla, Gen. iii. 5. 5. gods.4— Hebrew, \yhla, Gen. iii. 5. The Revisers, seeing this most awkard juxtaposition, have gone yet one step lower and translated both words by “God.” In other passages, however, they have been compelled to disclose their own dishonesty and translate \yhla by “gods.” For evidence of this the reader m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 322
…e missed it on account of our determination to see things with our own eyes. We were, no doubt, quite ready to put the Great Work first, last and all the time; but we were hampered in doing so by our settled conviction as to what the Great Work might imply. For my part, at least, I know that I was always arguing that such and such a course couldn't be right on general principles, as I had done when Rose herself had told me how to invoke Horus; and I had not learned the lesson that my idea of "general Principles" was not reliable. The entry of A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
…ic. Everyone had plenty to do, plenty to eat, plenty of leisure and plenty of pleasure. Everyone was happy. Of course it was too good to last. Communications were restored and a month later society had relapsed into a dog-fight for dollars. {207} 24 Lying sick in the Hotel Iturbide, I was attended by an American doctor named Parsons, which whom I stuck up a warm friendship. He was certainly a "live wire". The faculty had just devised as new source of income by inventing appendicitis. Parsons heard of this and wired to the States for a partner w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 263
…Stage, his intense as- piration, his right understanding, his care- fully guarded speech—perhaps for many years of self-control— have at last borne outward fruit, till all his acts are loving, and pure, and done without hope of gain, he has attained the Fourth Step, called Sammakammanto. And when, growing yet holier, that habit of Right Action grows firm and inalienable, when his whole life is lived for the Faith that is in him, when every act of his daily life, yea, of his sleep also, is set to a holy purpose, when not one thought or deed that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…onfer; special powers were obtained in view of my limited sojourn, and I was pushed rapidly through and admitted to the thirty-third and last degree before I left the country. I had also a certain amount of latitude granted by Mathers to initiate suitable people in partibus. I, therefore, established an entirely new Order of my own, called L.I.L.: the "Lamp of the Invisible Light". Don Jesus became its first High Priest. In the Order L.I.L., the letters L.P.D. are the monograms of the mysteries. An explanation of these letter is given by Dumas …
1929 · PDF PAGE 470
…is holding out." (This was about a month after it fell.) "A million and a half Russians of the steam-roller brand passed through England last night in a first-class carriage on their way to Flanders. They travelled from St Petersburg to Archangel by a railway which has a single line and whose rolling stock consists of three engines, one tied up with really serviceable iron wire, and the others with pieces of excellent efficient string --- and four trucks which aren't so bad, I honestly believe. And why they disembarked all those men in Scotland…
1929 · PDF PAGE 477
… conduct of Germany intolerable. The scabby old camel, almost ready to start for its trip through dryness, was looking wistfully for the last straw. {754} 1. WEH note: There is a file of this correspondence in British Intelligence.
1929 · PDF PAGE 478
…ed Submarine Campaign". I secretly calculated, rightly as the gods would have it, that so outrageous a violation of all law would be the last straw, and force America to throw off the burden of neutrality. My German friends were loud in their congratulations. It was confidently whispered among the cognoscenti that von Bernstorff's judgment swayed at its impact. He withdrew his objections to that brutality, that insane savagery, that brought America into the war. But there's a tick in every sleeping-bag. My countrymen stayed right with me to the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…ed up the mountain to find him. Again he had gone. I rushed back. In vain I hunted him through the hotels and at the railway station. At last I got a report than an Englishmen corresponding to {164} his description had started to walk down the valley to Brigue. I hurled myself headlong in pursuit. This time I was rewarded. I caught up with him some ten miles below Zermatt. I told him of my search for the Secret Sanctuary of the Saints and convinced him of my desperate earnestness. He hinted that he knew of an Assembly which might be that for wh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 288
…is not proper bridge; only an insecure-looking tree trunk. I had doubts about my pony and decided to walk across. I was of course riding last to prevent straggling, and by the time I had crossed the stream the rest of the party were out of sight around the corner of the path which rises sharply along the hillside, in order to cross the mountain. I had got a little stiff with riding and thought I would stretch my {472}
1929 · PDF PAGE 368
… define the difference between Dedekindian and Cantorian cuts, and whose nights are not disturbed by anxiety about the truth of Fermat's last theorem. A fortiori, we had better swoop on the Straits of Gibraltar and tell a tale of Tangiers. (I will confine myself to mentioning that I got a charming letter from my exquisite Dorothy, to which I replied by the poem "Telepathy" in The Winged Beetle.) In point of fact, we may not be much better off even here. Most true tales worth telling are either incredible, improper or both. One of the reforms wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 245
… for investigating, and learning to bring under our control, all the divergent phenomena of our prison,a work which we undertake that at last we may be able to break down the walls, and find that freedom which an inconsiderate Inversion has denied. The mystical precepts of pseudo-Zoroaster, Buddha, Cankaracharya, pseudo-Christ and the rest, are for advanced students only, for direct attack on the problem. Our servants, the soldiers, lawyers, ‘all forms of govern- ment, make this our nobler work possible, and it is the gravest possible mistake t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…ess, and horrid despair, ii. 1 That which is highest as the deep, i. 34 The ashen sky, too sick for sleep, ii. 12 The conqueror rides at last, i. 85 The constant ripple of your long white hands, i, I13 The crowns of Gods and mortals within, ii. 141 The essential features of Buddhism, ii. 244 The eternal spring is in the heart of youth, ili, 116 The Evolution of Things is thus described by - the Qabalists, i. 265 The figure of the Marquis of Glenstrae, iii. 38 The foolish bells with their discordant clang, i, 202 The fragrant gateways of the daw…
1929 · PDF PAGE 400
… my course had been made clear by my own Chiefs. It was almost as if they had foreseen the circumstances. The case was met by almost the last clause of "The Vision and the Voice": Mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty; yes, thrice and four times mighty art thou. He that riseth up against thee shall be thrown down, though thou raise not so much as thy little finger against him. And he that speaketh evil against thee shall be put to shame, though thy lips utter not the littlest syllable against him. And he that thinketh evil concerning thee shall be con…
1929 · PDF PAGE 536
…ca has produced. The American is at heart acutely ashamed of his defects. His ideal of perfection is intensely dear to him, and I am the last person to blame him for refusing to admit that its attainment is impossible. But his nerves are constantly raw from realizing in his inmost heart that he is, after all, lacking in all sorts of ways.
1906 · PDF PAGE 257
…mes obscurely, perhaps even untraceably, so that we have no real right to predicate their connection.” 1 Huxley, Essays, V., 136. 2 This last sentence will be best understood by those who have practised up to a certain point. At first it is easy to trace back by a connected chain of thoughts from the thought which awakes us to the fact that we are wandering to the original thought. Later, and notably as we improve, this becomes first difficult, then impossible. At first sight this fact suggests that we are injuring our brains by the practice, b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…ded change, My thought Long ran in one delicious groove. Now newly sits the appointed court To try another case, to prove Another crime. Last week the law Dealt with the garter's gross offence, You were the Judge, enthroned on awe: I wove that eloquent defence, Unwove that Rhadamanthine frown Which I had made myéeelf, my star; For I was counsel for the crown, And I the prisoner at the bar. Did you not see—the sight is sad !— How tiny was the part you played, How little use the poet had Even in Maytime for a maid? Why! all's a whirl; but I, be s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
… whose only source of information was "Little Roscoe". An amusing situation arose out of this early devotion to the art of Flamel. In my last term at Malvern a panic-stricken board of governors determined to create a science side and started a chemistry class. With laudable economy they put it in charge of one Mr. Faber, a broken-down classical master, possibly in the belief that as he had a German name he knew as much as Ostwald. The result was that I had constantly to correct him in class; and he could do nothing, because the authorities, whe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 323
… sheepish way, obviously embarrassed. It was as if he had been thrust by surprise into the position of an ambassador. "Sahib," he said, "last night I had a tamasha." I reproached him laughingly. Tamasha means an entertainment of any kind, and, in the East, frequently implies a certain amount of liveliness, possibly an indulgence in forbidden liquor and flirtation; but he merely meant a dream. The usual words for dream are khwab, roya, wahm. Evidently he wished to imply that his dream was not an ordinary one, that it was a genuine vision. (I for…