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Page 180 of 2251904 · PDF PAGE 72
…Calling him up to her, she gave him a glance so fiery that the poor fellow was ravished. She slyly exposed her bonny Black Bess, and the mans nervous cane raised its beautiful head. She shrieked for help, crying that she was being raped by a slave. The overseer, who had assisted often enough at a simi- lar pastime, raised his stick, and struck the offend- ing pike-staff a severe blow, causing it to droop. The laughing girl continued her blandishments un- til the offence was repeated, and the punishment. Nearer and nearer she wove her delicious…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
still fast friends, but Monty was first favourite with the Captain and tyrannized over him to the previ- ously-unheard-of extent of demanding reciprocity en affaire damour. The Captain on his part only asked fidelity ; and indeed Monty had grown to love him so dearly that the thought of an adultery would have been insupportable. One day, how- ever, a sudden desire came upon him towards the most popular of the lieutenants, Andrew Clayton, a man of violent passions not usually associated with fair hair and rather timid grey eyes. Andrew saw the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 89
…hout was heard far off, and, rising up, Satan saw Adam returning with the spoil. He was now too near for him to escape. Eve with quick womans wit gathered her furs to her and squatting in front of the wood fire forced herself to appear nonchalant, while Satan gathered his coils together under her skirts. The fire blazed up as she tended it, and Adam joyfully saluted his mate with the patronizing air a man always thinks it proper to adopt with a social, physical and intellec- tual inferior. She received it with all the docility which an unfaith…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…n anything is (or can be) described by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever that he will never subdue until he has annihilated both.{ God, Immortality, Freedom, are appear- ances and not realities, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…n anything is (or can be) described by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever that he will never subdue until he has annihilated both.{ God, Immortality, Freedom, are appear- ances and not realities, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…) factote kinematodrastically, (move)(soon) overplus phenomenize! (and) (appear) [177] Upon this skeleton, a fair example of his earlier manner, for no man attains the summit of an art in a day, he would build a superstructure by the deft introduction of parentheses, amplifying each word until the original coherence of the paragraph was diluted to such an extent that the true trail was undiscoverable. The effect upon his public was to impress them with the universality of his learning. Arthwait being thus well out of harm's way, Vesquit and Abd…
1937 · PDF PAGE 6
… infinitely elastic, since it does not specify any particular goal of will as desirable, is yet infinitely rigid, in that it binds every man to follow out exactly the purpose for which he is fitted by here- dity, environment, experience, and self-development. The formula is thus also biologically indefeasible, as well as adequate, ethically to every individual, and politically to the State. 8. Let this formula be accepted by every government. Experts will immediately be appointed to work out, when need arises, the details of the True Will of ev…
1954 · PDF PAGE 55
… experience either cook up a hell-broth of self-induced obstacles to success in Astral travelling, or else shoot forth on the wings of romantic imagination and fool themselves for the rest of their lives in the manner of the Village Idiot. Yours, luckily, is the former trouble. But-is it plain obstinacy?-you do not exercise the sublime Art of Guru-bullying. You should have made one frenzied leap to my dying bed, thrust aside the cohorts of Mourning Archimandrites, and wrung my nose until I made you do it. And you repeatedly insist that it is di…
1929 · PDF PAGE 264
…f them, in disobedience to orders, had gone off by himself --- I never discovered exactly where --- and had fallen and been killed. This man, it was said, was carrying Pache's sleeping valise. This at least was certain, that the valise was missing. An accident being alleged, I sent down the doctor on the following morning to make in inquiry into the matter, and also to send up supplies of food and fuel which we needed urgently. Pache told me that Righi was deliberately withholding food from us. His conduct was murderously criminal, if only beca…
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
…her couch. All darkness dreams ‘The thing that is not, only seems. JASON. I know That star upon the serpent’s head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life’s plan. The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought’s abyss of tears and woes. Leave Sirenusa ! Even Greece Forget ! they are not there! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayer ! Leave the illusions, life and time And death, and seek that star sublime— Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are, And single through eternity …
1996 · PDF PAGE 95
…quinox 1(7) (1912); this account was republished as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will of its master. Sorrow thus appears as the result of any unsuccessful—therefore, ill- judged—struggle. Acquiescence in the order of Nature is the ultimate Wisdom. One must understand the Universe perfectly, and be utterly indifferent to its pressure. These are …
1899 · PDF PAGE 254
…r of Lamia and Charicles, and the means by which, with Aphrodite's aid, they eventually succeededin averting the curse of Zeus. ‘A Gentleman of the University of Cambridge’ wields a powerful pen, and much of his work is exceedingly beautiful. Unfortunately, we are unable to quote at any length, through want of space. The two stanzas appended are from the song on page 19: ‘Ere the grape of joy is golden With the summer and the sun, Ere the maidens unbeholden Gather one by one, To the vineyard comes the shower, No sweet rain to fresh the flower, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
…th in the aspirant psychic powers known as the Siddhis,§ the most important of which are (1) Anima (the * On the doctrines of this Mudra many popular American semi-occult works have been written, such as “ Karezza,” “Solar Biology,” and “The Goal of Life.” + It is to be noted here that the union is again that of the mystical Shakti and Shiva, but now within the man. All this symbolism is akin to that made use of by the Sufis. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iv, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63. § “Any person if he actively practises Yoga becomes a Siddha; be he…
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
…th in the aspirant psychic powers known as the Siddhis,§ the most important of which are (1) Anima (the * On the doctrines of this Mudra many popular American semi-occult works have been written, such as “ Karezza,” “Solar Biology,” and “The Goal of Life.” + It is to be noted here that the union is again that of the mystical Shakti and Shiva, but now within the man. All this symbolism is akin to that made use of by the Sufis. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iv, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63. § “Any person if he actively practises Yoga becomes a Siddha; be he…
1922 · PDF PAGE 43
…od in a flash that this was her way of resistance. She was trying to insist to herself that she was a cosmic force; that she was not a woman at all ; that a man meant nothing to her. She fought desper- ately against me, sliding so serpent-like about the bounds of space. Of course, it was really the taxi— but I didn’t know it then, and I’m not quite sure of it now. “T wish to God,” I said to myself in a fury, “ I had one more sniff of that Snow. I’d show her!” At that moment she threw me off as if I had been a feather. I felt myself all of a sud…
1922 · PDF PAGE 121
…r ears. Who should it be but our friend Feccles | Well, of course, I’d rather have seen the devil himself. After all, I'd behaved to the man rather shabbily; and, incidentally, made a great fool of myself. But what surprised me on second glance was that he was travelling very much incognito. He was hardly recognisable. I don’t think I mentioned he had fair hair with a bald patch, and was clean shaven. But now his hair was dark; and a toupée silently rebuked Nature’s
1922 · PDF PAGE 126
…eserved for us at the Caligula. We saw the Museum in the morning and automobiled out to Pompeii in the afternoon, and yet M. Laroche had managed everything for us so miraculously well that even this very full day left us perfectly fresh, murmuring through half-closed lips the magic sentence :— “ Dolce far niente.” The majority of people seem to stumble through this world without any conception of the possibilities of enjoyment. It is, of course, a matter of temperament. But even the few who can appreciate the language of Shelley, Keats and Swin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 375
… "You - young - fool! You go and put the most tender part of your body where I wouldn't put my umbrella!" It is the magical formula of a man to push outwards, of a woman to close upon from without. This is commonly seen as the possessive instinct ; it may often be masked as "protective" but its essential truth is the impulse to devour. Hence the death-like idea of "home ," where she can digest her victims in security and at leisure. Hence, as even Jung saw in his very first book , and wrote in stated terms, the first task of manhood - of the "h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 176
…-appetite is treated as simply as hunger. Frankness of speech and writing on sexual questions will dispel the ignorance which entraps so many unfortunate people; proper precaution against actual dangers will replace unnecessary and absurd precautions against imaginary or artificial dangers; and the quacks who trade on fear will be put out of business. All this must follow as the Light the night as soon as Woman, true to Herself, finds that She can no longer be false to any man. She must hold Herself and Her Will in honour; and She must compel t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 179
…ruel strife With my own being : hideous sorrow fills My heart—O misery ! my wife! my wife! Stay ! if I cannot be the Absolute, Let me be man! discard the wailing lute And wake the lyre: the mightier than me Drag up the courage in me to dispute The battle with despair: awake the strings Stronger than earth, than the immortal kings Alike of death and life: invoke the sea That I may cross her on the viewless wings Of song, find out the desolating river That girds the earth, unloose the silver quiver, Choosing an arrow of sharp song to run Down to …