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…saw was really there, and it was some kind of committee from Scotland, and that was all he knew. After lunch I discovered that the Great Heart of Scotland refused to admit that any member of the Kirk could have acquiesced in the amenities of the Anglican clergy. The elders had therefore sent out a committee to vindicate the innocence of MacDonald. I could no less in courtesy than make them feel more at home in Ceylon by revealing myself as an Inverness laird. They opened their hearts to me; they were already discouraged. They told me that the p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…e characteristic membrane, which necessitated an operation for phimosis some three lustres1 later. Lastly, he had upon the centre of his heart four hairs curling from left to right in the exact form of a Swastika2. He was baptised by the names of Edward Alexander, the latter being the surname of an old friend of this father's, deeply beloved by him for the holiness of his life --- by Plymouth Brethren standards, one may suppose. It seems probable that the boy was deeply impressed by being told, at what age (before six) does not appear, that Ale…
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
…, upon whom the whole Dog pounced as one man, to destroy him. But when they saw that his popular painting was not he, that he had a true heart and an honest ambition, how quickly were the swords beaten into absinthes and the spears into tournedos! {347} S---, again, with a face like a portrait by Rembrandt, a man of no great intellect, but making no pretence thereto, how he was loved for his jolly humour, his broad smile, his inimitable stories! Yet it must not be suppose that the average man, however sincere, had much of a welcome there. Witho…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…e to those sensitive people who are willing to be fooled, were absent. I strolled across to Juarez to kiss my girl goodbye. O Mexico, my heart still throbs and burns whenever memory brings you to my mind! For many other countries I have more admiration and respect, but none of them rivals your fascination. Your climate, your customs, your people, your strange landscapes of dreamlike enchantment rekindle my boyhood. Outside Juarez was a labour camp. Public works of some sort were in progress --- at least such progress as we find in Mexico! Hundr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 235
… invoked Thoth, the god of wisdom, presumably by the invocation printed in Liber Israfel (The Equinox, Vol. I, Vo. VII), which I knew by heart. I may also have been subconsciously wondering whether there was not something in her remarks, and wanted to be enlightened. The record says, "Thoth, invoked with great success, indwells us." But this strikes me as to some extent "written up" in a spirit of complacency, if not arrogance. I remember nothing of any result. March 18th. Possibly I repeated the invocation. The record says, "Revealed that the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…s conceived as an illusion, created by ignorant cravings. It is, in fact, a dream as defined by Freud's hypothesis. Allan was already at heart a Buddhist. The more he studied the Tripitika, "the three baskets of the law" --- waste paper baskets I used to call them --- the more he was attracted, but he was fearfully disappointed by the degeneracy of the Singalese bhikkhus. With rate exceptions, they were ignorant, idle, immoral and dishonest. At Anuradhapura, the sacred ruined city, there conduct is so openly scandalous as to have given rise to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
… occupies 400 closely printed pages: but Knowledge is in no wise advanced. It is no doubt more difficult to learn ‘‘ Paradise Lost’”’ by heart than ‘‘ We are Seven” ; but when you have done it, you are no better at figure-skating. I am not denying that the vast storehouses of fact do help us to a certain distillation (as it were) of their grain: but I may be allowed to complain with Maudsley that there is nobody competent to do it. Even when a genius does come along, his results will likely be as empirical as the facts they cover. Evolution is …
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
… now offers them the wine of the Via Lactea caught from the rosy nipples of the Virgin of the World, of which he hath drunk, whereby the heart of man is glad. The ATHEIST says: A capital exposition. . . . Far as we are from admiring the dreamy romanticism of Captain Fuller’s hero, his staunch denial of the supernatural, the divine, the mystical, must command our respect and sympathy. . . . A great future lies before Captain Fuller. , The PROPHETIC MERCURY says: A wonderful mystin book . . . [Follows a long excursus on Daniel X.] . . . The ever-…
1929 · PDF PAGE 387
…became subtly aware that this Work was more than the impersonal exploration which I had meant to make, I felt that a hand was holding my heart, that a breath was whispering words in a strange tongue whose accents were yet both awful in themselves and like enchantments encompassing my essence with an energy mighty to work on my will in some inscrutable way. I began to feel --- well, not exactly frightened; it was the subtle trembling of a maiden before the bridegroom. My ardour increased with every vision and every vision became intenser and mor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
270 eighth, and a week later accepted an invitation from the Maharaja of Moharbhanj to shoot big game in his province. I was very sad at heart about the death of my friends, but with regard to the mountain I was in excellent spirits. I had demonstrated beyond doubt the existence of an easy way up. I was sure of being able to establish a main camp within striking distance of the summit, and I had familiarized myself with all the vagaries of the weather and the snow. Cut short as the expedition had been, at its first leap, the actual attainment h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…he other voice was silent, and the noise of waters swept me Back into the world, and I lay asleep on a hillside Bearing for evermore the heart of a goddess, And the brain of a man, and the wings of the morning Clipped by the shears of the silence; so must I wander lonely, Nor know of the light till I enter into the darkness. He possessed the magical gift of conveying an idea of tremendous {563} vividness and importance by means of words that are unintelligible to the intellect. I go as Thunder that come but as a bird.
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
… the fabled destruction of Atlantis, andI trust that I shall take my readers with me when I affirm so proud a belief in the might of the heart whose in- tegrity is unassailable, clean of all crime, that I lay it down as a positive dictum that only by the decay in the mental and moral virility of Rome and not otherwise, was it possible for the slavish greed and anarchy of the Faith of Paul to gain a foothold. This faith was no new current of youth, sweep- ing away decadence: it was a force of the slime: a force with no single salutary germ of pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…n people; and in one respect, his history had been similar. Some years before, he had been consul in another part of China which was the heart of the Boxer movement. Moving, as he did, among the Chinese in the most intimate way, he understood the feeling behind the agitation. He employed his genius in unravelling the conspiracy an succeeded in discovering the plans of the Boxers in detail. This information he communicated to the authorities in Peking. It will be remembered that Burton did exactly the same thing in the matter of the Indian Mutin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…inter to the Sultan of Morocco. He wrote some of the worst poetry I have ever read. He was a jolly-all-round sportsman with an excellent heart and the cheery courage which comes from knocking about the world, and being knocked about by it. If his talents had been less varied, he might have made a success of almost anything. {179} 1. I ultimately conjectured: Equi Animo: "with the soul of a horse". 21 Allan Bennett was four years older than myself. His father, an engineer, had died when he was a boy; his mother had brought him up as a strict Cat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 207
…cause of the smell and the squashiness. I have never felt thus. To me the least of human beings, nay, less than they, have a place in my heart. "Everything that lives is holy." I can hardly bring myself to resent even the vilest and most offensive creatures. I have never been able to bear malice; I have never been able to understand how other people can do so. When I have been attacked, I have always looked at {349} 1. This amiable and worthy colonist occupied a studio on the Quai des Grands Augustins (now, I suppose, called Quai Maréchal Fous-…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…sion. Sin had been abolished, I was back in Eden. In London one cannot even go to the National Gallery or the British Museum with a pure heart as one goes to the Louvre or the Prado. One cannot get away from the sense that one is performing an act of piety. Concerts are even more dreadful than the opera. The surroundings are invariably bleak; one feels that the artist is doing it on purpose. Singing and playing demand background. Singing is the natural expression of human emotion, the joy of youth and life as connected with the landscapes of Co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…nd tells the utterly false, utterly funny story about me that I wrote one sonnet for ‘* L’Ange déchu” and another for ‘ Icare.” The real heart of the attack is, of course, against Rodin’s intention, and it is my object to show what rubbish it is, even granting the literary basis of criticism to be valid. I am 109
1944 · PDF PAGE 72
…t much more seductive. Yet I know it to be Lilith. And above him is the Great Sigil of the Arrow, downward, but it is struck through the heart of the child. This child also is Abel. And the meaning of this part of the card is obscure, but that is the correct drawing of the Tarot card; and that is the correct magical fable from which the Hebrew scribes, who were not complete Initiates, stole their legend of the Fall and the subsequent events.” It is very significant that almost every sentence in this passage seems to reverse the meaning of the p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…nterfere with her charity. A woman of infinite kindness. Her health was naturally delicate; an attack of rheumatic fever had damaged her heart and she died before her time. The meanness and selfishness of my Uncle Tom were principally responsible. He would not engage a secretary; he forced her to slave for the Scripture Union and it killed her. One anecdote throws a curious light upon my character in these early days and also reveals her as possessed of a certain sense of humour. Some years before, on the platform at Redhill with my father, I h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 526
…endly bouts have resulted in a few deaths --- the more the merrier! Liber Aleph, The Book of Wisdom or Folly was intended to express the heart of my doctrine in the most deep and delicate dimensions. (Before using the word dimensions many considerations occurred to me. It is startling; that quality itself is not repugnant to its use in such a connection. Its use was followed by a discussion between myself and my cynocephalus, who was herself struck by the singularity of the word, so much so, that I had to warn her not to spell it with two d's, …