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Page 192 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 568
…ed rank of Grand Inquisitor Commander. I liked Hammond personally so well that I even asked him to spend a week with me in Paris and see life, which till then had meant to him only the narrow and sordid circle of lower middle class English in parts of London barely distinguishable form slums. He beheld the heavens opened. Overflowed with gratitude and adoration, he acquired the sort of affection for me that a dog has for its master. Alas! this dog had the mange! supposedly as the result of vaccination in childhood with an impure preparation, he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 456
…ired by Jupiter, for it was the first short story that I had ever written which was accepted at once. More: I was told --- nothing in my life ever made me prouder -- - that Joseph Conrad said it was the best short story he had read in ten years. We ourselves became identified with Jupiter, but in different aspects. Frater L. T. was for some months following the personification of generosity, through himself with the most meagre resources. All sorts of strangers planted themselves on him and he entertained them. In my own case, I became that typ…
1929 · PDF PAGE 160
…ge of some Boer prisoners and obtain credit and cash by various misrepresentations. The twentieth and twenty-first were great days in my life. I wrote an essay which I originally gate the title "Crowleymas Day" and published under the title "Berashith" in Paris by itself, incorporating it subsequently in The Sword of Song. The general idea is to eliminate the idea of infinity from our conception of the cosmos. It also shows the essential identity of Manichaeism (Christianity), Vedantism and Buddhism. Instead of explaining the universe as modifi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 7
…ad who so commands alike my personal affection a nd moral admiration. My desire to find the Truth will be my pardon with him, whose sole life was spent in admiration of the Truth, though he never turned its form idable engines against the Citadel of the Almighty. If I be appealed of blasphemy or irreve- rence in m y treatm ent of these subjects, I will take refuge in Browning’s own apology, from the very poem I am attacking : “I have done: and if any blames me, Thinking that merely to touch in brevity The topics I dwell on were unlawful— Or wor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 471
…akes a worthy third to these. Put I did not even take the poll degree at Cambridge. I am an undergraduate of Trinity College. But I am a life member of that college; so much so, that when the Junior Dean attempted to prevent me from exercising my right to walk into its courts, I confronted him at the door of the chapel and called him a coward and a liar to his face. To rebuke the authorities of one's college is a distasteful duty; one too often imposed upon the modern undergraduate. But there is in me Roman virtue and I never shrink form a mora…
1929 · PDF PAGE 285
…n that all men equally require food, clothing and shelter, in the first place; and in the second, security from aggression in respect of life and property. Litton himself understood and appreciated the Chinese character perfectly. Though he was only the counsul of the most remote town of the most remote province of the most remote empire on earth, he ruled that whole province by the sheer strength of the superiority conferred by sympathy, integrity and moral courage. But his experience had not led him to expect that any other Englishman's chara…
1929 · PDF PAGE 176
…s of sugar starvation plus the effects of a recurrence of malaria, so that vomiting and diarrhoea were continuous. But never in my whole life have I tasted anything like that mutton. I gorged myself to the gullet, was violently sick and ordered a fresh dinner. I am more an antique Roman than a Dane, ....There's yet some mutton left. I may mention in this place that experience has convinced me of the truth of the Hindu theories about Prana. Apart from the chemical and physiological transactions involved in eating, one is nourished directly, but …
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
70 One day I took my cousin Gregor, who by this time was married and had discovered that his life was not worth keeping. We made the second ascent of the north-north-east ridge of Mont Collon. It is a long and severe climb. The conditions were very bad and Gregor was quite unequal to this class of climbing, so that I had to pull him up most of the way. We were very late on the mountain in consequence. I had no idea of the best way down, but decided to try the short and precipitous route which leads to the level glacier above the Vuibez Sracs. …
1905 · PDF PAGE 231
…h in Hebrew and Egypto- Christian symbolism is that by this means I may familiarise my readers with the one thing of any importance that life, travel, and study have taught me, to wit: the Origin of Religions. I take it that there have always, or nearly always, been on the earth those whom Councillor von Eckartshdusen,* the SvAmi Vivekananda® and their like, call 1 See their original documents, fairly enough translated in ‘‘ Real History of the Rosicru- cians,” by A. If. Waite. 2 Hindu sacred books. 3 The law. 4 Author of the ‘‘Cloud upon the S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 403
…led to find out the facts about the simplest matters. People printed falsehoods about my family, my fortune, the best-known events of my life. There was no attempt to be consistent or probable. To edit a newspaper while undergoing penal servitude seemed to strike nobody as beyond my ability, and so on ad nauseam. Still more absurdly, trifles which are true of hundreds of thousands of people became charged with the most sinister significance when applied to myself. I have been accused of living in a farmhouse, as if only assassins so far forget …
1929 · PDF PAGE 434
… by the men she was trying to deceive. At last she dropped to the depth of despair and in her drowning struggles lost her last link with life and love. She became a traitor and a thief; and bolted with her spoils to hide herself, like Fafnir, from the very eye of heaven. I failed to divine the essential hopelessness of helping her. I idealized her; I robed her in the royal vestures of romance. The power and passion of her playing inspired me. Her beauty, physical and moral, bewitched me. I failed to realize to what extent these qualities depend…
1907 · PDF PAGE 252
… moves not, i. 32 The worst of meals is that we have to meet, 1, 181 The young men are girded with swords, i. 72 This forbids the taking life in any form, ii. 192 This is my point; the world lies bleeding, ii, 157 This meditation differs fundamentally from the usual Hindu methods, ii. 252 This precept, against adultery, ii. 193 This prescription has been made up before, sir, ili. 44 This, then, is what I deem occurred, ii. 182 This time she set her will against my will, ii. 75 Those who are most familiar with the spirit of fair play which perva…
1929 · PDF PAGE 251
251 was destined to play a curious part in my life. He was a medical soldier and had spend countless years in India, Burma and South Africa without acquiring a single fact of interest. He was incapable of appreciating so much as a funny story, even an improper one if there were any touch of wit in it. But if anyone introduced an obscene word into the conversation on any pretext soever, he would rock with laughter and continue to titter for an indefinite period. {416} He was the first masochist I had ever met; in fact I have only met one other, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 293
… abeyance. His name was soon corrupted into "Janwar" --- which is Hindustani for "wild animal". The journey to Yunnanfu was unique in my life in one important respect. I became richer as I went along --- by the simple process of spending my money! It was impossible to get a change of silver except at one or two {479} points. I carried the bulk of my money in copper cash. (Everyone knows the coins with the square holes.) These furnished loads for two men. I must explain the financial status of this part of the world. Silver money had no denomina…
1929 · PDF PAGE 479
…. But I was not at ease. I was fed up with human beings. I resolved to disappear into the desert and give myself wholly to the religious life. I knew that my personal friends in England would understand what I had done in America: they would perhaps be proud of me. So far, so good. But I supposed, from the conversation of some genuinely intelligent Englishmen in high official positions who were travelling with me across the Atlantic, that England had recovered sang froid and settled down to reconstruction and the enjoyment of the fruits of vict…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…ers of nature, and of moral emancipation such that there was no intolerance of unkindness. The members of this Church lived their secret life of sanctity in the world, radiating
1929 · PDF PAGE 241
…osmographical problems solved by the Law of Thelema. I need not go into them more deeply in this place . But the subsequent events of my life will furnish constant illustration of how every time I violated the Law, as I sometimes did with what I was ass enough to call the noblest motives, I got myself into a mess --- and failed to benefit those on whose behalf I had chosen to make a fool of myself. {402} 50 It is part of my character to rest on my oars at the very moment when a spurt would take me past the post. I begin to be recognized as the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 167
… is superb. There are many lakes with floating gardens and on the river are houseboats in which many Europeans spend the summer. It is a life of dolce far niete of which the Thames could only offer a feeble imitation and Venice itself but a hectic parody. There is plenty of shooting in the valley, from bears, deer, wild sheep and wild goats to pigeons. I went out occasionally after the bigger game, though I prefer low country shooting. I hate climbing hills unless they are really difficult, as I hate everything which only goes half way. There i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 208
…ous. I could already love without attachment so far as physical desire was concerned. There are one or two small errors in my subsequent life and they are due to my failure
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…tic ideals. They had ordained that I should pass through every kind of hardship at the hands of nature, suffer all sorrow and shame that life can inflict. Their messenger must be tested by every ordeal --- not by those that he himself might choose. The boy who, asked to discuss some point of doctrine in the Epistles, replied, "Far be it from me to presume to parley with St. Paul: let me rather give a list of the kings of Israel and Judah!" (the only thing he knew), probably became a Cabinet minister; but similar adroitness does not avail the as…