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Page 102 of 1301922 · PDF PAGE 5
…om his own high heaven down To some obscure forgetful hell. For me Forsake thy hopes in him. We worship, we, Rather the dear delights we know and hold; The first cool kiss, within the water cold That draws its music from some bubbling well, Looks long, looks deadly, looks desirable, ‘The touch that fires, the next kiss, and the whole Body embracing, symbol of the soul, And all the perfect passion of an hour. Turn to me, pluck that amaranthine flower, And leave the doubtful blossoms of the sky! You dare not kiss me! dare not draw you nigh Lest I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…at's splendid of you," he said brightly. "I do appreciate that." [212] Brother Onofrio wriggled again. "I half think," he said "that you know the Great Experiment will be a failure, and that for some reason you don't care!" "The bluntness of the British diplomat was no match for the subtlety of the ambitious, wily, and astute Italian." "Confound it! Is there anything real or true to you?" "Wine, spirits, and cigars." "You won't be serious You jest about everything most vital; and you make solemnities of merest wisps of fancy. You would make dru…
1954 · PDF PAGE 262
… from Going. You are familiar with the Four Powers of the Sphinx, attributed by the Adepts of old time to their Four Elements. Air is to Know, Scire; Fire is to Will, Velie; Water is to Dare, Audere; and Earth is to Keep Silence, Tacere. But now that a fifth Element, Spirit, is generally recognized in the Qabalah, I have deemed it proper to add a Fifth Power corresponding: to Go, Ire. (The Book of Thoth, p. 275) Then, as Spirit is the Origin, the Essence, and the Sum of the other four, so is to Go in relation to those powers. And to Go is the v…
1954 · PDF PAGE 338
…ay the copper sulphate, and that's that." He does not consider how the copper feels about it; indeed, he doesn't believe that the copper knows about it at all. Yes, yes, of course; I know that's an extreme case. I only bring it in to show what could be done as a last resort, if pushed to the wall. Fortunately, we are not so ill situated . You will, I dare say, without my prompting, think of the surgeon and the schoolmaster; but I can go one better. We have in recent history a case almost precisely parallel. How did I begin this letter? By defin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 460
…ou need a few more journeys with me: you ought to get on to the stage where the vision results from a definite invocation. 1. How do you know They are "invisible"? I foresee that sooner or later you will be asking for more information about them, so I am planning a separate letter to supply this.-
1929 · PDF PAGE 472
…ut I discovered that his office was the office of a paper called The Fatherland, appearing weekly. To my surprise, the inmates seemed to know all about me; and, in the absence of Mr O'Brien, they produced the most extraordinary little amniote -- - half rat, half rabbit, if I am any zoologist at all --- whose name is Joseph Bernard Rethy. I looked at this specimen of the handiwork of the Creator with somewhat mixed feelings, gradually sagging towards a pessimistic atheism, especially when I learned that, like anyone in New York who can string to…
1909 · PDF PAGE 374
…ndent, I decided to send an extra porter with the first bird, in case of the next message being of an equal or superior volume, and as I know some- thing about pigeons, as before mentioned, I managed that in a very clever ‘way. I say clever because it is a very simple scheme in its cleverness, and nobody would say it if not I, but nevertheless it had to be found—like the egg of the late C.C. I bought a fine hen pigeon, and kept it with the Man-Cover’s messenger, so that they could rub acquaintance. WhenI noticed the first symptoms of love I ble…
1909 · PDF PAGE 374
…ndent, I decided to send an extra porter with the first bird, in case of the next message being of an equal or superior volume, and as I know some- thing about pigeons, as before mentioned, I managed that in a very clever ‘way. I say clever because it is a very simple scheme in its cleverness, and nobody would say it if not I, but nevertheless it had to be found—like the egg of the late C.C. I bought a fine hen pigeon, and kept it with the Man-Cover’s messenger, so that they could rub acquaintance. WhenI noticed the first symptoms of love I ble…
1922 · PDF PAGE 81
…, and swallowed a couple of glasses. Lou kept on looking up at me with a sort of anxiety as if she wanted advice of some kind and didn’t know how to ask for it. It was rather amusing. We started the entreé.. Lou got suddenly up from her seat. Feccles, with pretended alarm on his face, followed her hastily. I saw the waiter had hold of her other arm. It was really very amusing. That’s
1922 · PDF PAGE 92
… hungry you may happen to be, you don’t want to eat a dozen oxen en brochette. Natura non facit saltum. It’s only a question of applying knowledge in a reasonable manner. We had found out how to work the machine, and there was no reason in the world why we shouldn’t fly from here to Kalamazoo. So I took three quite small sniffs at reasonable intervals, and I was on the job once more. I chased Lou around the suite; and I dare say we did upset a good deal of the furniture, but that doesn’t matter, for we haven't got to pick it up. The important t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 179
…o have to let her kiss me when I went away. I wonder if I should get like that if I went on with dope. What absolute nonsense! For all I know, it may have prevented her going faster still. She must have had a beastly rotten life. The way she clawed at that five quid was the clue to her troubles; that and her ignorance of everything but the nastiest kind of vice and the meanest kind of crime.
1922 · PDF PAGE 217
…and confusion and blushes were put on like so much paint on the cheeks of a Piccadilly street- walker. It didn’t even hurt his vanity to know that I thought him an offensive old ogre. He had the thing I wanted, I had the thing he wanted, and he didn’t care if I drugged myself to death to-morrow, provided I had paid his price to-day. The callous cynicism on both sides had one good effect from the moral point of view. It prevented me wasting my time in trying to cheat him. He went on with his gambit. He explained that my marriage made a great dif…
1922 · PDF PAGE 335
…n a really alarmed tone. “I haven't got even the consola- tion of these people. I can’t fool myself that I am a Wunderkind. You probably know without my telling you that I’ve done nothing all my life but potter. And if I’ve nothing to potter about, I go off into the blackest boredom.”’ Sister Athena acquiesced. ‘Yes, this place is kill or cure,” she admitted, with a laugh. “ But I’m glad to say that it’s cure for most people. The two I was telling you about only failed because their vanity and selfishness was so extreme. They interpreted everyt…
1996 · PDF PAGE 108
…bulary, the more familiar his figures, the more readily is he recognized as a guide. To be accepted and admired, he must say what we all know, but have not told each other till it is tedious, and say it in simple and clear language, a little more emphatically and eloquently than we have been accustomed to hear; and he must please and flatter us in the telling by soothing our fears and stimulating our hopes and our self-esteem. When an Artist—whether in Astronomy, like Copernicus, Anthropology, like Ibsen, or Anatomy, like Darwin—selects a set o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 173
…Law is the Charter of Woman; the Word Thelema has opened the lock of Her “girdle of chastity.” Your Sphinx of stone has come to life; to know, to will, to dare and to keep silence. Yea, I, The Beast, my Scarlet Whore bestriding me, naked and crowned, drunk on Her golden Cup of Fornication, boasting Her self my bedfellow, have trodden Her in the Market place, and roared this Word that every woman is a star. And with that Word is uttered Woman’s Freedom; the fools and fribbles and flirts have heard my voice. The fox in woman hath heard the Lion …
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
… On the fourth day: I have dis- covered that spy is a damned swine of an opium- smoking lieutenant from Toulon. We have him; he doesnt know Paris. Now thendraw a line from the Gare de lEst to the Etoile; erect an equilateral triangle on that line. Think of the name of the world-famous man who lives at the apex. (This was a touch of super- genius, as it forced me to use the English alphabet for the basis of the cipher, and the spy spoke no language but his own, except a little Swiss.) From this time I shall communicate in a cipher of the d…
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
…tasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in His sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their Beauty, making new Harmonies with every hour, beyond belief for Joy.
1922 · PDF PAGE 178
…iend got her talking about her life. She has been in England nearly thirty years. I worked round to the interesting subject. She doesn’t know much about it. She thinks she can help. One of the women lodgers injects. She _ asked could we pay. It’s really rather comic. Eight thousand a year and one of the most beautiful houses near London. And here we are in this filthy hole being asked “can we pay!” by a hag that never saw a sovereign in her.life unless she stole it from some drunken client. Cockie seems to have lost his sense. He flashed a fift…
1929 · PDF PAGE 217
…ansion; we said we were her cousins — but when she, started a Navy, that was another barrel of fish! "I don't think I can bear this, you know!" "Cheer up! I'm one of the pirate crew!" "Oh, you're Captain Kidd!" "I have already stated my opinion as to the conversational value of puns. I'm going to turn in; you get busy, and find a neutral ship to rob." "I shall do my best to maintain the law of the sea." "Made by the pirate to suit his game. Good God! I can't see why we shouldn't be sensible. Why must we invoke Law and Gospel every time we want …
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
…the Heav ens of Poesy and Tale, of Music, Painting, and Sculpture, and into the Lore of the Mind itself, with its insatiable Joy of all Knowledge. Thence let them soar! 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him. Commentary: We must abolish the shadows by the Radiant Light of the Sun. Real things are only thrown into brighter glory by His effulgence. We need have no fear then to throw the Christians to the Lions. If there be indeed True Men among them, who happ…