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Page 19 of 1081922 · PDF PAGE 151
…, Lady Pendragon,” he said. ‘‘ There _ can be no doubt at all that this man will be caught in a very few hours, and you'll have all your things back.’ a Of course I had sense enough to know that he didn’t believe a word of what he was saying. The proverb, “ Set a thief to catch a thief,” doesn’t apply to Italy. If a thief were worth stealing, that would be another story. , There was no boat back to Naples that night. There was nothing to do but to wait till the morning. The manager was extremely sympathetic. He got us some clothes, if not exact…
1922 · PDF PAGE 100
…“If this got out, every financier in Paris would buy the thing over our heads. I wouldn’t have mentioned it to you at all except for two things. I know you're on the square —that goes without saying; but the real point is this, that I told you I rather believe in the Occult.” “Oh, yes,” cried Lou, “then, of course, you know King Lamus.”’ } Feccles started as if he had received a blow in the face. For a moment he was completely out of counten- ance. It seemed as if he were going to say several things, and decided not to. But his face was black a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 291
…er parts of the world, as you know, and in some of those places there are still taboos about eating and hunting and fishing—all sorts of things which we in England take quite simply, in consequence of which they give no trouble. “ But where a man has to think of a thousand things before he has his dinner: what he eats, and how it was killed, and who cooked it, and so on for ever and ever, he gets no chance to develop his mind in more important ways. Taboo is responsible for the low mental and moral development of the peoples whom it afflicts, m…
1898 · PDF PAGE 69
…he breeze that mocks My ear, and waves his old majestic locks About his head. There fell upon my ear : “ O soul contemplative of distant things, Who hast a poet’s heart, even if thy pen Be dry and barren, who dost hold Love dear, Speed forth this message on the fiery wings Of stinging song to all the race of men : That they have hope ; for we are happy here.” 59
1899 · PDF PAGE 96
…rge of moor- lands ; Tempest, thunder, birds, and the breeze of summer Join to augment it. So the sound-world, filled of the fire of all things, Rolls majestic torrents of mighty music Through the stars where dwell the avenging spirits Bound in the whirlwind . . . So the cliffs their Song . . . For the mist re- gathers, Girds them bride-like, fit for the sun to kiss them ; Darkness falls like dewfall about the hillsides ; Night is upon me.
1906 · PDF PAGE 112
The same fool’s problem. I explain The simple state of things in vain. He chose to study God, and die in it. He made his bed, and he must lie in it. VI. After my dinner I debate (Urged to the task by habit’s Fate) The project of a poisoning. In hell one finds that everything Is easy. Poison to my hand; A cunning potion cool and bland Fit to administer the draught :— How like old times! I nodded, laughed, Poisoned my neighbour, a young girl Sent here for marrying an earl. Of course she did not die. But then On earth I never killed my men; They o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 104
…assion good. 2ND SATYR Nay ! for all the world-decay Rots from sapphirine to grey. All the leprous lichen clings Round the comeliness of things. Brothers ! sisters ! fauns and elves ! Dryads ! Oreads ! Undines ! Fairies, let us hide ourselves
1913 · PDF PAGE 65
…e breeze that mocks My ear, and waves his old majestic locks About his head . There fell upon my ear ; “ O soul contemplative of distant things , Who hast a poet 's heart , even if thy pen Be dry and barren , who dost hold love dear , Speed forth this message on the fiery wings Of stinging song to all the race of men ; That they have hope ; for we are happy here ."
1929 · PDF PAGE 450
… bed-bugs. Luckily I had warned Leila that in Russia the bug is as inseparable from the bed as the snail from his shell. In a day or two things calmed down. Then there came suddenly upon me a period of stupendous spiritual impulse --- even more concentrated than that of 1911. In a café, I met a young Hungarian girl named Anny Ringler; tall, tense, lean as a starving leopardess, with wild insatiable eyes and a long straight thin mouth, a scarlet scar which seemed to ache with the anguish of hunger for some satisfaction beyond earth's power to su…
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
…d I flying together beyond the bounds of eternity, side by side; her low, persistent throb in perfect second to my great galloping boom. Things of this sort take place outside time and space. It is quite wrong to say that what happened in the taxi ever began or ended. What happened was that our attention was distracted from the eternal truth of this essential marriage of our souls by the chauffeur, who had stopped the taxi and opened the door. “ Here we are, sir,” he said, with a grin. Sir Peter Pendragon and Lou Laleham automatically reappeare…
1954 · PDF PAGE 489
…to-day an obvious peril of the most menacing. In 1904 no ordinary sane person foresaw anything of the sort. But special knowledge alters things, and it is certain that the Masters anticipated , with great exactness of calculation, the way things would go in the political world. Practically all the messages received during the "Cairo Working" (March-April 1904 e.v.) came to me through 1. The OtanceUor of the Exchequer, having fIXed the increase of Income Tax at threepence, proceeded to defraud the Insurance Companies by insuring himself against …
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
…e tune Of our ripe rhythm, seeded the hideous play Of death-worms crawling on a corpse, afloat With life that takes its thirst Only from things accurst. Closer than Clodias clasp, Death had me down To his black heart, and fed upon my breath, So that we seemed a stillnesswhiter than The stars, more silent than the stars, a crown Of stars ! For in the icy kiss of death I found that God that is denied to man So long as love and thought And life avail him aught.
1922 · PDF PAGE 344
…l too young to have acquired settled phobias. Hermes, at the age of five, was already accustomed to witness surgical operations and such things, to face the dangers of drowning and falling from cliffs, with the result that he had completely lost his fear of such things. These principles were explained to us during the breathing spaces between the sets. Sister Cypris and three or four others came down from the other houses to take part in the game. The intense activity and lightheartedness of every- body amazed us. We were asked to join in the g…
1910 · PDF PAGE 457
…and fetid fog. Within its heart pale phantoms crawl. Breathless with foolish haste they jog And jostle, all for naught! They scrawl Vain things all night that they disown Ere day. They call and bawl and squall Hoarse cries; they moan, they groan. A stone Hath better sense! And these among A cabbage-headed god they own, With wandering eye and jabbering tongue. He, rotting in that grimy sewer And charnel-house of death and dung, Shrieks : “ How the air is sweet and pure! Give me the entrails of a frog And I will teach thee! Lo! the lure F 81
1910 · PDF PAGE 457
…and fetid fog. Within its heart pale phantoms crawl. Breathless with foolish haste they jog And jostle, all for naught! They scrawl Vain things all night that they disown Ere day. They call and bawl and squall Hoarse cries; they moan, they groan. A stone Hath better sense! And these among A cabbage-headed god they own, With wandering eye and jabbering tongue. He, rotting in that grimy sewer And charnel-house of death and dung, Shrieks : “ How the air is sweet and pure! Give me the entrails of a frog And I will teach thee! Lo! the lure F 81
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
… that the change of size and distance is not in accord- ance with optical laws. No one has kept living objects “dead still.”{ One of two things may occur: a) The figure remains in one spot, but alters in size, ig Pp (4) The figure remains same apparent size, but alters in distance. * Normally this isso. + In the position many of the Egyptian gods assume. t Qy.: Is this from habit of expecting living things to move? I can, I think, succeed in keeping them still—Voze dy P. Ill
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
… that the change of size and distance is not in accord- ance with optical laws. No one has kept living objects “dead still.”{ One of two things may occur: a) The figure remains in one spot, but alters in size, ig Pp (4) The figure remains same apparent size, but alters in distance. * Normally this isso. + In the position many of the Egyptian gods assume. t Qy.: Is this from habit of expecting living things to move? I can, I think, succeed in keeping them still—Voze dy P. Ill
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
…t Payne Knight’s essays ‘ On the Worship of Pria- pus ’. The lady was usually represented by the ‘ Early Christians ’ (our models in all things) as a naked female with a lascivious grin ; offering with her hands, apparently to the first comer, a vulva which is of the shape and relative size of a horse- collar ! Any ordinary man who attempted to in- dulge her fancy would find himself in the position of Baker’s blue-jay. But with God all things are possible. I am tempted to add that even plain paederasty, without any question of symbol at all, is…
1922 · PDF PAGE 353
…eant of nature. Yet against all such ideas we could not help but hear the insistent voice of Haidee Lamoureux, that the end of all these things is death. She had deliberately renounced existence as futile, and there was no answer to her pleadings. Besides this, my mind had eaten up its pabulum. I had literally nothing to think of except heroin, and I discovered that heroin appealed to me behind all veils, as being an escape from life. A man who has once experienced the drug-life finds it difficult to put up with the inanity of normal existence.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…he world, the little world my sister”. The misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from realization of itself, and from intelligent cooperation with its destiny, than any other dozen things put together. The vileness and falseness of reli gion itself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. There is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every a…