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…ith regard to sleep. It suddenly dawned upon me that this painful process of gradually learning to abstain, was not a cure at all in any right sense of the word. Basil was perfectly right.. I must reverse the entire process and reckon my life in positive terms. That’s
… house at the Abbey from the main buildings. “The climb has put you out of breath,” he said. “ Take a sniff of this; it will put you all right in a second.” I pushed the man’s hand away impatiently, and the little heap of powder fell to the ground. “‘ Oh, it’s like that, is it?’ said Basil laughing. I realised how rude I had been, and began to apologise. “ That’s all right,’’ he said. ‘‘ But, of course, you aren’t going to get out of it as easily as that. You don’t give up eating mutton because you ate too much one day and got indigestion. You'…
…eams. Strange dreams that ever flow, yet flow amiss The while a slow voice whispers : “‘ This, perchance then ruts!” Yet never comes the right one. Time is ended. Time.and Eternity with Fate have blended 207
…eams. Strange dreams that ever flow, yet flow amiss The while a slow voice whispers : “‘ This, perchance then ruts!” Yet never comes the right one. Time is ended. Time.and Eternity with Fate have blended 207
A N O P E N L E T T E R TO L O R D B E AV E R B R O O K To the Right Honourable Lord Beaverbrook : My Lord, I make this appeal to you as a Peer of the Realm an appointed guardian of its public honour and as proprietor of the Sunday Express, to redress a most grave and indefensible injury committed by that paper against the social honour, life, and work of an English gentleman and man of letters, and against the personal virtue of three very noble women who have renounced their private ambitions in order to help in his work. I. The case is as …
…e true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. According to him, we have no right to decide off- hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And as long as his peculiarity doesn’t damage or interfere with other people, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be left alone. But if it is the man’s fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness ; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of…
…er a Fiery lord of the Aeon, the watery element, so far as water is below the Abyss, is definitely hostile, unless the opposition is the right opposition implied in marriage. But in this card the only question is of the “redemption” of the submerged element, and therefore every‐ thing is reversed. This idea of sacrifice is, in the final analysis, a wrong idea. “I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” “Every man and every woman is a…
…ice took on a tone of grave concern, almost paternal. “Not much |” I countered cheerfully, ‘‘ it’s splendid. I can do with another sniff right now!” I suited the action to the words, like Hamlet’s ideal mummer. “Won't you be persuaded ?”’ I queried maliciously. “* Ah, no, I thank you, dear Sir Peter! Your remarks have raised me to the highest pinnacle of happiness.”’ I took a fourth dose, just for luck. “Well, on the other hand, I discovered that, thanks to the very Act which I had so arduously laboured to put upon the Statute Book, that little…
…me surprise that they were extra- ordinarily dirty. She explained her smile. “ Of course, if you count time by years, you're very likely right. But what have the calculations of astronomers to do with the life of the soul? Before I started heroin, year followed year, and nothing worth while happened. It was like a child scribbling in a ledger. Now that I’ve got into the heroin life, a minute or an hour—TI don’t know which and I don’t care— contains more real life than any five years’ period in my unregenerate days. You talk of death. Why should…
…ame to her, my thought untold Being that she, too, might be cold. I laid my hand upon her breast. Cold ! Icy cold ! Ah you have guessed. Right. She was dead, quite dead. And so You see, friend, I shall never know. She kept her secret. Leave me alone ! OrI shall hardly keep my own !
… the Stars. “as ye will”. It should be abundantly clear from the foregoing remarks that each individual has an absolute and indefeasible right to use his sexual vehicle in accordance with its own proper character, and that he is responsible only to himself. But he should not injure himself and his right aforesaid; acts invasive of another individual’s equal rights are implicitly self-aggressions. A thief can hardly complain on theoretical grounds if he is himself robbed.
…s lie. Mrs. G. says to Father H. in the confessional, “I have not flirted with Mr. 1.,” and lies, because (on the theory) Father H. has a right to know. [BONES z'ntery'erts, “ Flirted! Autres temps, Autres motsl You’re improving, Frater ! ” Reader replies “ Pig l ”] But she says the same words with truth to Mrs. 1., who is merely asking out of curiosity. For if she changes the subject, or is rude, it is tantamount to a con fession, and Mrs. J. has no right to trick or force one from her. This is called Keeping the Vow of Secrecy which one has sw…
…ctices of Pranayama: 30. 15. 60. Concentration on Ajna Chakkra. The effect was as of light gradually glimmering forth and becoming very bright. Tried drinking through nose; * but could not accomplish it properly. Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharana on nose nine minutes. The nose is perhaps my least sensitive organ. Would I do better to try my tongue? Dharana, four minutes…
…ctices of Pranayama: 30. 15. 60. Concentration on Ajna Chakkra. The effect was as of light gradually glimmering forth and becoming very bright. Tried drinking through nose; * but could not accomplish it properly. Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharana on nose nine minutes. The nose is perhaps my least sensitive organ. Would I do better to try my tongue? Dharana, four minutes…
… we dip Back to the earth and leave the bed sublime, And tune our kisses to a terrene rhyme. So, once again before we left the ship With right good will our bodies cling and slip, And the life’s flame sinks as the kisses climb. There never has been such a supreme kiss Since heaven and earth began to be as this ! Doubt nothing of it ! yet our spirits knew Its savour was as roses fallen to dust : Our proper food was of Selenian dew, And love without a battle conquered lust. 78
…h this letter, and I beg you to excuse me. But as you know, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh . . . you are perfectly right to retort that it need not speak so much! I add no more, but our glad greeting to all men: Love is the law, love under will. Iam, dear sir, Yours in the Bonds of the Order, J. B. MASON. 238
…f ye all. Commentary: It is proper to obey The Beast, because His Law is pure Freedom, and He will give no command which is other than a Right Interpretation of this Freedom. But it is neces sary for the development of Freedom itself to have an organiza tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control. This is especially necessary in time of war, as even the so- called “democratic” nations have been taught by Experience, since they would not learn from Germany. Now this age is pre eminently a “time of war,” most of all now…
…d their freedom of spirit to the real liberty which they had won; and cocaine is merely Dutch courage. However, while it lasts, it’s all right.
…that we should make proper contact with all, for love means union; and the proper condition of union is determined by will. Consider the right attitude to adopt in the matter of cholera. One should love it, that is, study it intimately; not otherwise can one be sure of maintaining the right relation with it, which is, not to allow it to interfere with one’s will to live. (And almost everything that is true of Cholera is true of Christians.)1 1 [See Crowley’s discussion of verses 59-60 in his commentary to ch. II, v. 24, p. 114.] 2 [Possibly the…
…strongly and persistently advocates, tends to make people feel that any positive attitude or gesture is certainly wrong, whatever may be right. They forget that the opposite may, within the limit of the universe of discourse, amount to nothing. They fall into flabbiness. I avoid this-see the example at the very outset of this letter-by saying: "Yes, I hate so-and-so like hell; I want to exterminate the very memory of the bastard from the earth, after I have personally superintended having him 'seven years a-killing' winding up by hanging, disem…