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Page 125 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 464
…rance which prevails even among the most highly educated people, not merely of well established facts of what in Europe is called common knowledge, but of the most elementary principles of nature, that is to say of facts which quite illiterate Europeans would know instinctively without having to learn them. I shall give examples of the impotence of their extravagant idealism to preserve them from outraging European convention of honour and good manners. Lastly, I shall illustrate the callousness and cruelty which characterize the people as a re…
1929 · PDF PAGE 499
…e incumbent of the parish of Staatsburg. She gave so many details so ingenuously that I might have believed her if I had not happened to know that the amenities of Staatsburg did not include any such person as she described. I politely professed to credit her and promised to take her ashore in time to reach him by dinner. To pass the afternoon we went for a paddle round the island. Near the northern point I noticed that my feet were wet. I knew that the canoe leaked slightly and forgot it. A hundred yards or so further on I found my ankles imme…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…ute. 51. Faraday.20—See Dictionary of National Biography. 64. I, of the Moderns, have let alone Greek.21— As far as they would let me. I know some. 74. Beard.22—“150. A Barba Senioris Sanc- tissimi pendet omnis ornatus omnium : & in- fluentia ; nam omnia appellantur ab illa barba, Influentia. “151. Hic est ornatus omnium ornatuum : Influentie superiores & inferiores omnes respi- ciunt istam Influentiam. “152. A b ista influentia dependet vita om- nium. “153. A b hac influentia dependet cœ li & terra ; pluviæ beneplaciti ; & alimenta omnium. “15…
1906 · PDF PAGE 204
…ee of Ceylon he wrote a book in which ‘‘ Buddhism ”’ is de- scribed as consisting of ‘‘ devil-dances.” Now, when a man, in a position to know the facts, writes a book of the subscription-cadging type, whose value for this purpose depends on the suppression of these facts, I think Iam to be commended for my moderation in using the term ‘‘ liar.” 212.—/bsen.43—Norwegian dramatist. This and the next sentence have nineteen distinct meanings. As, however, all (with one doubt- ful exception) are true, and taken together synthetically connote my conce…
1906 · PDF PAGE 263
… loving, to cherish ill- will toward none, to retire from those pleasures of sense which are the fruitful cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though we aspire to renounce the pleasures of sense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accomplishment of our aspiration. But if the desire to become pitiful and pure be but honest and earnest, we have gained the Second Step upon the Path-—Sammasankappo, Right Aspiration. He whose motives are pure has no need VOL. II, to conceal the Tr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…Medina, a descendant of the great duke of Armada fame, and one of the highest chiefs of Scottish {202} rite free-masonry. My Cabbalistic knowledge being already profound by current standards, he thought me worthy of the highest initiation in his power to confer; 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, esta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 390
390 we were both utterly exhausted, physically and in every other way. I hardly know how we ever got back to Bou Saâda. Not till the evening of the following day did I feel strong enough to invoke the ninth Aethyr. A surprise was waiting for me. The nineteenth Key contains the text of the original curse on creation. Each phrase formulates some calamity. I had always shuddered at its horror as I recited it. But now, the Abyss being crossed, and all its horror faced and mastered, the words of the Key suddenly thrilled with a meaning that I had ne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 470
…n as a man of letters --- as a critic --- I am an expert in cipher --- I read and write French as well as I write English (and the world knows how well that is) --- I have a fair acquaintance with a dozen other languages, including Hindustani --- my leg will keep me out of war as effectively as Mr Woodrow Wilson will keep America --- is there nothing I can do to serve my country as it appears that you are serving her?" He said, "I'm afraid you can't do anything --- you see I started in the Navy --- I had a year or two on a training ship before …
1929 · PDF PAGE 428
…epeatedly about her without shaking his testimony. I met Baggalay once or twice and his evidence corroborated Feilding's. When I came to know Carrington later, I found myself unable to attach serious credit to anything he said, and it certainly seemed suspicious that he should have acted as impresario to Eusapia shortly afterwards and exploited her in the United States. Besides this, I had analysed carefully the printed reports of the sittings. I could find no loophole; until one day my precious memory came to the rescue. It told me what is not…
1929 · PDF PAGE 184
… to make them cross to Yarkand; they knew that they {312} would die to a man; but they didn't mind, it was Kismet, and they wanted me to know that they would gladly die because I had been so nice to them. When I sent them home from Camp 10 they could hardly believe their ears, and their delight at being reprieved was pathetically charming. Modern writers have made a great deal of fun of the golden age; they have been at great pains to prove that primitive man is a bloodthirsty savage. The Balti gives them the lie. These men were all innocence, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 385
…pse between two successive sentences.) Such observations may be contemptuously dismissed as imaginary; but having already shown that all knowledge is equally an illusion, the thought is no inhibition. Yet there are different degrees of falsity and critical methods which are valid within their capacity. Thus we trust our experience of perspective to correct the crude statement of our eyesight that the furthest house in a suburban street is smaller in various ways. They may also verify our visions in various ways. They must be coherent and consis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 536
…t of others, in any allowable sense. They wanted more social success. Nobody seemed to have the faintest idea of what is really meant by knowledge and power. Some seemed anxious to help the progress of humanity; but here again, the wish was partly a puff-ball of pride, partly a maudlin sentiment such as one finds in servants' hall novelettes. The ignorance of all, without exception, was simply without limit. It {845} was rare to find a man who knew so much as the names of the most famous classics. Their ignorance was not even accessible to inst…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…t’s hiss, I shall not hear, My dear, for I shall be alone. III. What change of language! Ah, my dear, The reason is not far to seek. You know of old how oft I veer From French to Zend, from Jap to Greek. Teste der titre polyglot Del Berashith, xaXos kitab! I trust you take me, do you not? But change of thought—ay ! there's the barb To stick and quiver in your heart ! Well, little lady, what of art? IV, All things are branded change, My thought Long ran in one delicious groove. Now newly sits the appointed court To try another case, to prove Ano…
1907 · PDF PAGE 229
…r, that thou thyself art even now in the same trap! Willingly, reader; these slips happen when, although one cannot prove to others, one knows.! Thou too shalt know, an thou wilt :—ask how, and we come suddenly back to our subject, Just as a dreamer may wander through countless nightmares, to find himself in the end on the top of a precipice, whence falling, he shall find himself in bed. Hear wisdom! the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, A man is almost obliged to be in com- munion with God when God is blowing his hat off, drenching him t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 419
…uls is possibly the most ghastly death-dance in English literature. If Oscar Wilde had written it (but he could not have) everyone would know it. It is the very pith and marrow of terror. Cynical it may be, but I defy the lord of dreams to send any more plutonian nightmare to haunt our mortal sleep. This criticism (from the Poetry Review) fills me with honest pride. I finished the play during the night and instantly picked up the idea of "Adonis", which by an unparalleled tour de force I had kept intact at the back of my mind. I finished this p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 345
…cred Magick was not sterile. After returning from Morocco, the spirit came upon me and I wrote a number of books in a way which I hardly know how to describe. They were not taken from dictation like The Book of the Law nor were they my own composition. I cannot even call them automatic writing. I can only say that I was not wholly conscious at the time of what I was writing, and I felt that I had no right to "change" so much as the style of a letter. They were written with the utmost rapidity without pausing for thought for a single moment, and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 560
…-sided. No doubt thrift often becomes avarice and meanness, and contact with the soil a hardening and dehumanizing influence. But if you know how to take them the right way, you will find them a pretty good sort. I have a theory that English people find the French unsympathetic for one fundamental reason. Our neighbours and allies, from the President to the most primitive toiler, possess one quality which I have analysed at length elsewhere. They insist on refusing to fool themselves. They see no sense in pretending things are pretty when they …
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
… system of numbers, and of manipulating them, is merely a series of conventions. When I s ay that the s quare root of three is unreal, I know quite well that it is only so in relation to the series 1, 2, 3, &c., and that this series is equally unreal if I make 3 , p, 50 3 the m embers of a ternary s cale. But this, theoretically true, is practically absurd. If I mean “the number of a, b, and c,” it does not matter if I write 3 or 50 3 ; the idea is a definite one ; and it is the funda-mental ideas of consciousness of which we are treating, and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
83 should hardly be necessary to point out the extraordinary practical value of these qualities in deciding one's route in unknown country. In the actual technique of climbing, Eckenstein and I were still more complementary. It is impossible to imagine two methods more opposed. His climbing was invariably clean, orderly and intelligible; mine can hardly be described as human. I think my early untutored efforts, emphasized by my experience on chalk, did much to form my style. His movements were a series, mine were continuous; he used definite mu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 531
…author of the "King Khang King", the classic of Purity; which, by the way, I translated into English verse during this Retirement. All I know is that somehow or other I made a "great miss", forfeited my Mastership, and had to climb the ladder again from the bottom. It is the shame and agony of this which have prevented me from facing the memory --- so far. Almost every day I found myself in some new trance, each of course perfect in its own way, and each of a depth and sublimity which makes description impossible to attempt; yet all the time it…