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Page 105 of 1061929 · PDF PAGE 516
…he utmost vehemence in the interests of the impregnable spiritual position which I had built on the rock of my own actual experience. At last it had become conceivable that this antinomy might be overcome, and that in the best way, in the way indicated by the symbolism of the Cabbalah itself; that is to say, the eyes of science were opening gradually to the perception that the results of observation and experiment demanded an interpretation as repugnant to common sense (as understood by the man in the street and the Rationalist Press Associatio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 517
…not clearly remember, for example, my reasons for going to New Orleans almost immediately after returning from Lake Pasquaney. It was my last glimpse of beauty for a long while. The old French-Spanish quarter of the city is the only decent inhabited district that I discovered in America. From the architecture to the manners of the people, their clothes, their customs and their cookery, all was delightful. It was like being back in Europe again with the added charm of a certain wildness and romance; it was a civilization sui generis, with its ow…
1929 · PDF PAGE 527
…ome five minutes babbling she pierced my defences by some remark concerning an egg under a palm tree. This aroused me instantly, for the last instruction given to myself and Soror Virakam was to go to the desert and look for just that thing. I saw then a kind of continuity between those visions and these. It was as if the intelligence communicating were taking up the story at the point at which it had been dropped. Of course, it might have been a mere coincidence. But that point could be easily settled by cross-examination. I began to ask quest…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…and we, I trust, soar higher !—the error in question may be resolved into a mixture of murder, theft, and intoxication. (We consider the last under the Fifth Precept.) THE Four tH Precerr, Here we come to what in a way is the fundamental joke of these precepts. A com- mand is not a lie, of course; possibly cannot be; yet surely an allegorical order is one in essence, and [ have no longer a shadow of a doubt that these so-called ‘‘precepts’’ are a species of savage practical joke. Apart from this there can hardly be much doubt, when critical exe…
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…e Triumph of Pan’ contains poems alive with music and rich in thought. “Mr. Neuburg writes with distinetion, and the book, from first to last, is one which lovers of poetry will appreciate.”—standard. “, + full of the throbbing fever of life which one cannot confine into measure on all_ occasions, «‘civie Triumph of Pan’ is full of sonorous lines, with wonderful word pictures and poetic imagery which has seldom been excelled. « . "American Register, _‘.. Many beautiful passages in the volume... strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imag…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
… MR. CHESTERTON By ALEISTER CROWLEY When a battle is all but lost and won, the victor is sometimes aware of a brilliancy and dash in the last forlorn hope which was lacking in those initial manoeuvres which decided the fortune of the day. Hence comes it that Our Reviewer’s apology for Christianity compares so favourably with the methods of ponderous blunder on which people like Paley and Gladstone have relied. But alas! the very vivacity of the attack may leave the column without that support which might enable it, if checked, to retire in good…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…— and we, I trust, soar higher!—the error in question may be resolved into a mixture of murder, theft and intoxication. (We consider the last under the Fifth Precept.) THE FOURTH PRECEPT Here w e come to w hat in a way is the fundamental joke of these precepts. A command is not a lie, of course; possibly cannot be; yet surely an allegorical order is one in essence, and I have no longer a shadow of a doubt that these so-called “precepts” are a species of savage practical joke. Apart from this there can hardly be much doubt, when critical exegesi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 498
…. Nobody seemed to know anything definite. He had had all Staatsburg "on the grill". He had found it impossible to identify me, until at last one of the girls in the post office, evidently in a class by herself in the matter of intelligence, supplied a clue. She knew me by the scarlet tassels of my golf stockings. He had had me watched, and of course found nothing wrong, but on asking New York City if they could supplement the information, he learned to his intense amazement that I was myself working for the Department of Justice. He told me of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…ly send, Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send intime" (IL. 245-249). And in that last supreme hour of agony he claims Regan as his wife, as if by accident; it is not the passionate assertion of a thing doubt- ful, but the natural reference to a thing well known and indisputable. And in the moment of his despair ; confronted with the dead bodies of the splendid sisters, the catafalque of all his hopes, he can exclaim in spiritual triumph over material disaster—the victory of a true man’s sp…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…mpanied by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories. Such a night- mare now rides us; once again philosophy has said its last word, and arrived ata dead- lock. Aristotle, in reducing to the fundamental contradictions-in-terms which they involve the figments of the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Platonists, the Pyrrhonists; Kant, in his reductio ad absurdum of the Thomists, the Scotists, the Wolfians,—all the warring brood, alike only in the inability to reconcile the ultimate antinomies of a cosmogony only grosser for its pinch…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…y send, Be brief in it, to the castle ; for my w rit Is on the life Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send in time.” (ll. 245-249). And in that last supreme hour of agony he claims Regan as his wife, as if by accident ; it is not the passionate assertion of a thing doubt- ful, but the natural reference to a thing well known and indisputable. And in the moment of his despair; confronted with the dead bodies of the splendid sisters, the catafalque of all his hopes, he can exclaim in spiritual triumph over material disaster—the victory of a true man’s sp…
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…e ‘Triumph of Pan’ contains poems alive with music and rich in thought. Mr. Neuburg writes with distinction, and the book, from first to last,isone which lovers of poetry will appreciate.” —Standard, “ full of the throbbing fever of life which one cannot confine into measure on all occasions. «The Triumph of Pan’ is full of sonorous lines, with wonderful word pictures and poetic imagery which has seldom been excelled. . '—American Register. Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…e ‘Triumph of Pan’ contains poems alive with music and rich in thought. Mr. Neuburg writes with distinction, and the book, from first to last,isone which lovers of poetry will appreciate.” —Standard, “ full of the throbbing fever of life which one cannot confine into measure on all occasions. «The Triumph of Pan’ is full of sonorous lines, with wonderful word pictures and poetic imagery which has seldom been excelled. . '—American Register. Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
…he Triumph of Pan? contains poems alive with music and rich in thought. Mr. Neuburg writes with distinction, and the book, from first to last,is one which lovers of poetry will appreciate.” —Svandard, + full of the throbbing fever of life which one cannot confine into measure on all occasions. “<The Triumph of Pan’ is full of sonorous lines, with wonderful word pictures and poetic imagery which has seldom been excelled. . '— American Register. “... Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery…
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
…he Triumph of Pan? contains poems alive with music and rich in thought. Mr. Neuburg writes with distinction, and the book, from first to last,is one which lovers of poetry will appreciate.” —Svandard, + full of the throbbing fever of life which one cannot confine into measure on all occasions. “<The Triumph of Pan’ is full of sonorous lines, with wonderful word pictures and poetic imagery which has seldom been excelled. . '— American Register. “... Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery…
1906 · PDF PAGE 200
…; we are compelled to it by the nature of things themselves — para- doxical as that seems—and the Buddha knew it | THE FIFTH PRECEPT. At last we arrive at the end of our weary journey—surely in this weather we may have a drink! East of Suez,+ Trombone-Macaulay (as I may surely say, when Browning writes Banjo-Byron {) tells us, a man may raise a Thirst. No, shrieks the Blessed One, the Perfected One, the Enlightened One, do not drink! It is like the streets of Paris when they were placarded with rival posters— Ne buvez pas de |’Alcool ! L’Alcool…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…panied by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories. Such a night- mare now rides us ; once again philosophy has said its last word, and arrived at a dead- lock. Aristotle, in reducing to the fundamental contradictions-in-terms which they involve the figments of the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Platonists, the Pyrrhonists ; Kant, in his reductio ad absurdam of the Thomists, the Scotists, the Wolffians,—all the warring brood, alike only in the inability to reconcile the ultimate antimonies of a cosmogony only grosser for its pi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…me; w e are compelled to it by the nature of things themselves—para- doxical as that seems—and the Buddha knew it! THE FIFTH PRECEPT. At last we arrive at the end of our weary journey—surely in this weather we may have a drink! East of Suez,† Trombone-Macaulay (as I may surely say, when Browning writes Banjo-Byron‡) tells us, a man may raise a Thirst. No, shrieks the Blessed One, the Perfected One, the Enlightened One, do not drink! It is like the streets of Paris when they were placarded with rival posters— Ne buvez pas de l’Alcool ! L’Alcool …
1906 · PDF PAGE 193
… himself or his wife, mark ye well !). Albany enters—-a simple, orderly-minded man ; he must not be confused with Cornwall; he is at the last Lear's dog; yet even he in decent measured speech sides with his wife. Is Lear quieted? No! He utters the most horrible curse, not excepting that of Count Cenci, that a father ever pronounced. Incoherent threats succeed to the boilings-over of the hideous malice of a beastly mind; but a hundred knights are a hundred knights, and a threat is a threat. Goneril had not fulfilled her duty to herself, to her p…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…to himself or his wife, mark ye well!). Albany enters—a simple, ordely-minded man ; he must not be confused with Cornwall ; he is at the last Lear’s dog ; yet even he in decent measured speech sides with his wife. Is Lear quited ? No ! H e utters the most horrible curse, not excepting that of Count Cenci, that a father ever pronounced. Incoherent threats succeed to the boilings-over of the hideous malice of a beastly mind ; but a hundred knights are a hundred knights, and a threat is a threat. Goneril had not fulfilled her duty to herself, to h…