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Page 202 of 2031929 · PDF PAGE 496
…st starving. Her femininity took advantage of the weariness of the besieging army to sally forth from the main gate. She wanted to curse God and die, and, presumably to get into training, cursed me. I could not comfort her. She threw herself on my couch and collapsed. I covered her with rugs and watched by her side all night. Refreshed by sleep, she was herself again when the sun struck the rocky ridge
1929 · PDF PAGE 538
…ll theories of government lose their destructive qualities. The Law of Thelema does not require the individual to behave himself because God set the squire and the parson to boss him. In obeying the law of his country he is fighting for his own hand. Modern social unrest is largely due to misunderstanding of the Law of Thelema. The workman has learnt to covet motor cars and portfolios, which he was not born to have. When he gets them, he becomes still more unhappy --- a fish out of water --- and ruins the community into the bargain. Under the L…
1929 · PDF PAGE 199
…ut only because he had butted into politics by his J'accuse; he was only denounced as obscene because any stick is good enough to beat a god with.
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
…g whatever to do with it. Suppose Edison, having perfected the phono- graph, had said, “I alone can make dumb things speak ; argal, I am God.” What would the world have said if telegraphy had been ex- ploited for miracle-mongering purposes ? Are these miracles less or greater than those of the Gospels ? Before we accept Mrs. Piper,* we want to know most exactly the conditions of the ex- periment, and to have some guarantee of the reliability of the witnesses. At Cana of Galilee the conditions of the transformation are not stated—save that they …
1929 · PDF PAGE 289
…ontempt. Nothing is worse for children than to be humiliated; they should be brought up to realize that they are "kings and priests unto God". The foreign colony at Tengyueh was small and dull. The head of the customs was Napier, the son of an old friend of my father's. He was a melancholy aristocrat who only kept himself from going insane in these monotonously uncongenial surroundings by a sort of Promethean courage. The other Britons have made no impression on my mind soever. There was a Norwegian missionary named Amundsen, even more colourle…
1929 · PDF PAGE 389
…through and attacked O.V. He flung him to the earth and tried to tear out his throat with froth-covered fangs. O.V. invoked the names of God and struck at Choronzon with the Magical Dagger. The demon was cowed by this courageous conduct and writhed back into the Triangle. O.V. then repaired the Circle; Choronzon resumed his ravings, but could not continue. He changed once more into the form of the woman whom O.V. loved, and exercised every seduction. O.V. stuck to his guns and the dialogue took other forms. He tried to shake O.V.'s faith in him…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
… had come up by the easy way from the Payerh tte. The guide regarded my appearance as strictly supernatural; but the American feared not God, neither regarded man. He had been trying to persuade the guide to go down to Sulden by the Hintere Grat and the guide had cold feet. My arrival changed the situation. Once assured that I was flesh and blood, the guide plucked up a little courage, which the American further stimulated {101} by a promise of additional dollars. As I had come up alone, the three of us could evidently go down together. I agree…
1929 · PDF PAGE 558
…cules, the beauty of Apollo, the grace of Antinos, the wisdom of Athena, the intelligence of Hermes, and every other gift of every other god, unless the anatomist is careful to supply a spine to support the structure, you will have a mollusc and not a man. You must have a fulcrum, not only to move the world, but to move a feather. Besides our regular members we had a short visit from the two sisters of Cypris, Mimi --- her twin --- and Helen, nearly twenty years her senior. Mimi was delighted. She yearned intensely to throw in her lot with us f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 472
472 simplicity. I did not argue whether or no he came from Italian stock. Nietzsche was to me almost an avatar of Thoth, the god of wisdom; and, whether or no he was a Polish Jew, Germany had possessed sufficient intelligence to profit by the thwackings that he gave her. Yes, I was almost convinced that the German directorate had decided to allow British hypocrisy and stupidity to win their battles for them by making themselves absurd and obscene in the eyes of all sensible people. One day, I think early in 1915. I was seated on the top of what…
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…r so terrible and irresistible that she surrendered herself to its loathed embrace without an effort, or even the faith in herself or in God that its empire might end. This attitude is, of course, characteristic of that vast class of moral cowards, whose only remedy for evil is to remove the occasion; whether it is a glass of cognac, a piqu blue blouse or a dollar left lying about. They feel themselves helpless. Sin must follow temptation. Righteousness is only possible in the absence of an alternative. We of Thelema pursue a policy exactly co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
… out what that sin was and do it very thoroughly. For (evidently) my position was exceedingly precarious. I was opposed to an omnipotent God; and for all I knew to the contrary, He might have predestined me to be saved. No matter how much I disbelieved in Jesus, no matter how many crimes I piled up, He might get me in spite of myself. The only possibility of outwitting Him was to bring him up against His own pledge that this particular sin should never be forgiven, with a certificate from the recording angel that I had duly done it. It seems in…
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…ry which has seldom been excelled. « . "American Register, _‘.. Many beautiful passages in the volume... strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occasionally repellent ‘ . " sche fremendous conception of that ‘world so wide’ . .. at his best in some of the shorter poems . . « stirring ‘rhythm. ° HIS swe linger with delight over the splendid line— “The murmurous song of the morning star, aflame o'er the birth of day.” ... . Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm... viyid_and pictorial . . . a painter's vision as well as …
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…f rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a common hypothesis, for it is hated. Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism, for I have not room for it in this column to-day. Suffice it for the moment to say that if this be indeed a true interpretation of the creed, as it is certainly a capabl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
…ot to Madrid my adventures were at an end. If I had had to stay there I should have been bored to death, even if it had been the city of God itself. The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Sir Palamedes expressed himself fully in following the Questing Beast. His success (as described in the poem) would in reality have left him with nothing to live for. My own…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…ef. will find little support in this claim on behalf of death. We all die; it was the Resurrection and Ascension which stamped Christ as God. Our Philosopher will, I think, fight shy of these events. The two thieves were ‘‘nailed up like vermin”’ on either side of Christ by precisely the same people; are they also gods? To found a religion on the fact of death, murder though it were, is hardly more than African fetichism. Does death prove more than life? Will Mr. Ches- terton never be happy until he is hanged? These then are the rear-guard acti…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…sense. (I can only imagine that such would be the result.) All their ‘‘ facts” are proved. We prove a world of spirits, the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, etc. But, with all that, we are not really one step advanced into the heart of the inquiry which lies at the heart of philosophy, ‘‘ What zs anything ?”’ I see a cat. Dr. Johnson says it is a cat. Berkeley says it is a group of sensations. Cankaracharya says it is an illusion, an in- carnation, or Gol, according to the hat he has got on, and is talking through. Spencer says it…
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…agery which has seldom been excelled. . '—American Register. Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occasionally repellent. “The tremendous conception of that ‘world so wide’... at his best in some of the shorter poems. . . stirring rhythm. “«,.”, we linger with delight over the splendid line— ‘<The murmurous song of the moming star, aflame o'er the birth of day.” Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter’s s well as a poet’s ear a fine …
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…agery which has seldom been excelled. . '—American Register. Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occasionally repellent. “The tremendous conception of that ‘world so wide’... at his best in some of the shorter poems. . . stirring rhythm. “«,.”, we linger with delight over the splendid line— ‘<The murmurous song of the moming star, aflame o'er the birth of day.” Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter’s s well as a poet’s ear a fine …
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
…which has seldom been excelled. . '— American Register. “... Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occasionally repellent. “The tremendous conception of that ‘world so wide’... at his best in some of the shorter poems . . . stirring rhythm. “*. . . we linger with delight over the splendid line— Se The murmurous song ofthe morning star, aflame o'er the birth of day, “«, . . Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter's vision as well as a …
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
…which has seldom been excelled. . '— American Register. “... Many beautiful passages in the volume . . . strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occasionally repellent. “The tremendous conception of that ‘world so wide’... at his best in some of the shorter poems . . . stirring rhythm. “*. . . we linger with delight over the splendid line— Se The murmurous song ofthe morning star, aflame o'er the birth of day, “«, . . Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter's vision as well as a …