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Page 188 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 549
… sin. The sense of shame is cowardly and servile. It is based on ignorance that one is a star. "Conscience makes cowards of us all." The man who respects himself will not act unworthily, but if we hammer into his head from infancy that most of his natural impulses are evil, we enslave his spirit. The most natural actions are done furtively. He lurks and lies. Brought up to believe that his right is wrong, he will do what he thinks wrong as easily as what he thinks right. In this way canned ethics breed crime. Jane Wolfe soon found that we were …
1922 · PDF PAGE 92
…be, you don’t want to eat a dozen oxen en brochette. Natura non facit saltum. It’s only a question of applying knowledge in a reasonable manner. We had found out how to work the machine, and there was no reason in the world why we shouldn’t fly from here to Kalamazoo. So I took three quite small sniffs at reasonable intervals, and I was on the job once more. I chased Lou around the suite; and I dare say we did upset a good deal of the furniture, but that doesn’t matter, for we haven't got to pick it up. The important thing was that I caught Lou…
1922 · PDF PAGE 179
Indian Summer 165 But I am crying, only the tears won’t come. I’m snivelling like a woman I once saw when I visited the hospital. I haven’t got a handkerchief. I can’t bring myself to wash in that dirty cracked basin. We've brought no soap. The towel’s soiled and torn. I must have some H.... I’ve just been to see Lillie Fitzroy. How can men give her money? Her hair is gray, crudely dyed. She has wrinkles and rotten teeth. She was in bed, of course. I shook her roughly to wake her. I’ve lost every feeling for others, and people see it, and it sp…
1922 · PDF PAGE 217
…Brutes 203 silly story of love at first sight on the spur of the moment. It was just a gambit. And as for me, I loathed the sight of the man, and he knew it. And he knew, too, that I wanted that heroin desperately badly. The real nature of the transaction was as plain as a prison plum-pudding. But I suppose it does amuse one in a sort of way to ape various affected attitudes. He knew that my modesty and confusion and blushes were put on like so much paint on the cheeks of a Piccadilly street- walker. It didn’t even hurt his vanity to know that …
1922 · PDF PAGE 342
…y different. The point about this (she was very serious now) is that we want you to know what is going on in your own mind. We all do so many stupid things, for bad reason or no reason at all. ‘Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do’ applies to nine- tenths of our actions. We get so much work done in this Abbey because we have learnt to watch our minds and prevent ourselves wasting a moment on what is worthless, or cancelling out one course of action by another, and so getting nowhere. In the case of this experiment of yours, in learn…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
…iate causes. And let this be doue very fully and minutely. Here, for example, is a body erect and motionless. Let the adept consider the many forces which maintain it 5 firstly, the attraction cf the earth, of the sun, of the planets, of the farthest stars, nay of every mote of dust in the room, one cf which (could it be annihilated) would cause that body to move, although so imper- ceptibly. Also the résistance of the floor, the pressure of the air, and ail other external conditions. Secondly, the internai forces which sustain it, the vast and…
1954 · PDF PAGE 224
… be a curious quality of-sympathy? I doubt if that be the word, but can think of none better-which enables them to assume at times the human form. No. I-and the rest are also rans-is the seal. There is a whole body of literature about this. Then come wolves, hyc:enas, large dogs of the hunting type; occasionally leopards. Tales of cats and serpents are usually the other way round; it is the human (nearly always female) that assumes these shapes by witchcraft . But in ancient Egypt they literally doted on this sort of thing. The papyri are full …
1954 · PDF PAGE 522
LIFE A GAMBLE 489 So off we go. Risks, we have agreed, are always unavoidable; but we can calculate them. The best and wisest man I ever knew, the late Oscar Eckenstein , was once offered a job which gave him a fifty percent chance of survival. He calmly sat down, worked out his "expectation of life," his "expectation of income," and the Lord alone knows what other factors. It came out that the pay offered was a thousand pounds or so less than he might expect normally, so he turned down the offer. Not a trace of sentiment of any kind! Now let u…
1996 · PDF PAGE 108
… be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. Commentary: Drunkenness is a curse and a hindrance only to slaves. Shelley’s couriers were “drunk on the wind of their own
1922 · PDF PAGE 80
… began to tell her of the old school. As if by accident, he gave an account of the circumstances which had led to his leaving. ““ My old man was in the city, you know,” I heard him say, ‘‘ and he dropped his pile ‘somewhere in Lom- bard Street’’’ (he gave a false little laugh), ‘““ where he couldn’t pick it up, so that was the end of my academic career. He persuaded old Rosenbaum, the banker, that I had a certain talent for finance, and got me. a job as private secretary. I really did take to it like a duck to water, and things have gone very w…
1922 · PDF PAGE 98
…cked up in Washington, things are pretty awkward. But then, you know, it’s just that sort of situation which provides opportunities to a man with real brains. Victorian prosperity made us all rich without our knowing anything about it or doing anything for it.” “Yes,” I admitted, “ the gilt edges seem to have come off the gingerbread securities.” “Well, look here, Pendragon,” he said, pulling ‘his chair half round so as to face me squarely, and making his points by tapping his Corona on a plate, “ the future lies with just two things as far as …
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
…thendraw a line from the Gare de lEst to the Etoile; erect an equilateral triangle on that line. Think of the name of the world-famous man who lives at the apex. (This was a touch of super- genius, as it forced me to use the English alphabet for the basis of the cipher, and the spy spoke no language but his own, except a little Swiss.) From this time I shall communicate in a cipher of the direct additive nu- merical order, and the key shall be his name. It was only my incomparably strong constitution which enabled me to add the task of de…
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
…possible form inane or inert; in him do all partake the sacrament of birth to Truth. LIBERTY leaps in the Heart of the Master; for every man and every woman is a star. Each follows, free and joyful, its own Will; for every Will alike has its essential function in the rhythm of the Heart of the Master. No star can stray from its self-chosen course: for in the infinite soul of space all ways are endless, all-embracing: perfect. LOVE burns in the Heart of the Master: he, seeing only God in every thing, with the white flame of worship purges it of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 73
…adventured into an Universe of immeasurable, of incalculable, possibilities, of situations never contemplated by the trend of Evolution. Man is a marine monster; when he decided that it would be better for him somehow to live on land, he had to grow lungs instead of gills. When we want to travel over soft snow, we have to invent the ski; when we wish to exchange thoughts, we must arrange a conventional code of sounds, of knots in string, of carved or written characters - in a word-embark upon the boundless ocean of hieroglyphics or symbols of o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 150
ORPHEUS All we are shapen fair In many forms of grace, But change is everywhere, And time is all our share And all the ways of space. One lives an hour of day; One even man’s life exceeds; One loves to chase and slay; One loves to sing and play; Each soul to his own deeds ! A share of joy is ours, A double share of grief; So sum the many hours In many hopes and powers, All powers except the chief. Emotion fills our souls, And love delights us well, And joy of sense full rolls ; But leads us, and controls Life’s céntral citadel. Whence we were d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
… of the Magician! That which he has, he has not; but that which he is, he is; and that which he will be, he will be. And neither God nor Man, nor ail the malice of Choronzon, can either check him, or cause him to waver for one instant upon the Path. This command and this promise hâve been given by ail the Magi without exception. And where this command has been obeyed, this promise has been most certainly fulfilled. III In ail actions the same formulae are applicable. To invoke a god, i.e. to raise yourself to that godhead, the process is threef…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…ceived this Word; it is communicated by Him to the proper postulants, at the proper time and place, in the proper circumstances. 2. Each man has a different Great Work, just as no two points on the circumference of a circle are connected with the centre by the same radius. The Word will be correspondingly unique. 71 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 217
…oved that he could no longer rely on Italy. And when Russia resorted to so shameless an assassination as that of Sarajevo — my dear good man! England has been a pirate as she always was. From Hengist and Horsa, and the Vikings, she first learnt the trick. William the Conqueror was a pirate; so was Francis Drake. Look at Morgan, whom we knighted, and all the other buccaneers! Look at our system of privateering! Ever hear of the 'Alabama'? We learnt the secret of sea-power; we can cut the alimentary canal of any nation in Europe — bar Switzerland…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
…him as a chemist no less than we do of Van Helmont, whose conception of gas ranks him as one of those rare geniuses who hâve increased human knowledge by a fundamentally important idea. The literature of Alchemy is immense. Practicaliy ail of it is wholly or partially unintelligible. Its treatises, from the aAsch Metzareph” of the Hebrews to the “Chariot of Antimony” are deliberately couched in hieratic riddles. Ecclesiastical persécution, and the profanation of the secrets of power, were equally dreaded. Worse still, from our point of view, th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
…IVITATIS [39—On the Foundations of the State] Say not, o my Son, that in this Argument I have set Limits to individual Freedom. For each Man in this State which I pur pose is fulfilling his own True Will by his eager Acquiescence in the Order necessary to the Welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. But see thou well to it that thou set high the Standard of Satisfaction, and that to every one be a Surplus of Leisure and of Energy, so that, his Will of Self-preservation being fulfilled by the Performance of his Function in the State, he m…