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Page 29 of 2251922 · PDF PAGE 27
…about half a minute I resented him; then I let myself go and found myself soothed almost to slumber by the flow of his talk. A wonderful man, like an imbecile child nine-tenths of the time, and yet, at the back of it all, one somehow saw the deep night of his mind suffused with faint sparks of his genius. I had not the slightest idea where he was taking me ; I did not care. I had gone to sleep inside. I woke to find myself sitting in the Café Wisteria once more. The head waiter was excitedly explaining to my companion what a wonderful scene he …
1922 · PDF PAGE 306
…und had lost its way to the extent of wandering into the Trustee’s private account without his suspecting it had behaved in so erratic a manner. “You are a man of the world, Sir Peter,’”’ he declared, almost blubbering, “‘ and I feel sure you understand.” I am not altogether a man of the world, as a matter of fact ; but, whether helped by the cocaine or not, I really did think I understood fairly well what had happened. ““ But why not go to the City?” I repeated, “ they ought to fight like wolves over such a plump little doe as the Schneezug!”’…
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…tter of course. Her passion satisfied alike his purse and his vanity; and, being without temperament — he was the curate type of ladies' man — he suited the dancer, who would have found a more masterful lover in her way. This creature could not even excite the jealousy of the wealthy automobile manufacturer who financed her. But this night she could not concentrate her thoughts upon him; they wandered continually to the man on the floor. "Who is he?" she whispered, rather fiercely, "what did you say his name was?" "Cyril Grey," answered Monet-K…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
…y mere persistence of Levitical tradition, founded as it was on a popular superstition scarcely less gross than their own. But to-day no man can bring forward either the population nonsense or the heresy nonsense, so he brings up his dinner instead, under the equally absurd delusion that the process is physically dir- ty. In the interests of Light and Truth, one cannot too widely disseminate the grossly phrased, but noble, American proverb that “ A turd jumps away from a live prick like a grasshopper from a snake.” Anyway, one can wash1 ! The s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
…tual truth. It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane. Ill. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM Man being a finite being, he is incapable of appre- hending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equili…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
…tual truth. It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane. Ill. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM Man being a finite being, he is incapable of appre- hending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equili…
1909 · PDF PAGE 8
…hall not in one letter change his book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the law is Θελημα. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein three grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 124
…the text with their preconceptions will always stand as one of the great foUies of the wise. Again, it is almost impossible for the well-mannered Christian to reaHze that Jesus Christ ate with his fingers. The temperance advocate makes believe that the wine at the marriage feast of Cana was non-alcoholic. It is a sort of mad syllogism. Nobody whom I respect does this. I respect So-and-so. Therefore, So-and-so did 7iot do this. The moralist of to-day is furious when one points to the fact that practically every great man in history was grossly a…
1961 · PDF PAGE 123
…K OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 111 Dz De Viris Magnanimis, Amore Præclarissimis (Of Great Men, most Distinguished in Love) NOW that in the Mind of Man is much Wisdom that is hidden, being the Treasure of his Sire that he inheriteth. Thus, night all of his moral Nature is unknown to him until his Puberty; that is, this Nature pertaineth not unto the Recording and Judging Apparatus of his Brain until it is put herein by the Stirring of that deeper Nature within him. Thou wilt mark also that great Men are commonly great Lovers; and this is in Part also beca…
1910 · PDF PAGE 393
SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Who is the naked man that spurs A charger into Camelot, His face like Christ's? What glory stirs The air around him, do ye wot ? Sir Arthur arms him, makes array Of seven times ten thousand men, And bids them follow and obey Sir Palamede the Saracen. 17
1910 · PDF PAGE 393
SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Who is the naked man that spurs A charger into Camelot, His face like Christ's? What glory stirs The air around him, do ye wot ? Sir Arthur arms him, makes array Of seven times ten thousand men, And bids them follow and obey Sir Palamede the Saracen. 17
1922 · PDF PAGE 253
…ations between things, and never the things in themselves. It became evident that the sorrow of the Universe was caused by the desire of manifestation, and that death could not do more than suppress one form of existence in favour of another. Of course, the smpasse is complete. There seems to be no solution of the problem. It is a vicious circle. At the same time, by acquiescence in actuality, the insane insistence on one’s individual anguish is abated. Sympathy with universal suffering brings one into a certain sombre serenity. It does not sho…
1911 · PDF PAGE 292
…TAURUS. Thyself, the Warden of the Holy Graal. Myself, the Lord of the Bow. A nymph, a satyr— PAN, I. And Pan! CANCER. Brother Pan, I command thee to honour our Lady Artemis. TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER 333-333'333— [PAN reeifes [horas/rain Swi'nbnrne’s “ Atalanta.” When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces . . . The wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. TAURUS. The goddess stirs not. CANCER. Silence is the secret of our Lady Artemis. PAN. Hath no man lifted her veil? CANCER No man hath lifted her veil. TAURUS. Bear the Cu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 292
…TAURUS. Thyself, the Warden of the Holy Graal. Myself, the Lord of the Bow. A nymph, a satyr— PAN, I. And Pan! CANCER. Brother Pan, I command thee to honour our Lady Artemis. TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER 333-333'333— [PAN reeifes [horas/rain Swi'nbnrne’s “ Atalanta.” When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces . . . The wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. TAURUS. The goddess stirs not. CANCER. Silence is the secret of our Lady Artemis. PAN. Hath no man lifted her veil? CANCER No man hath lifted her veil. TAURUS. Bear the Cu…
1926 · PDF PAGE 7
…hall not in one letter change his book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the law is Θελημα. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein three grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the …
1899 · PDF PAGE 93
…nds for the impotent spite of the Evil One, venting itself in personal malice. In short, I have ventured (I trust that in so doing the human pathos of the story has lost nothing, even from the merely legendary point of view), behind the veil of man’s blindness, and the inexorable Até, to hint at the cloudy conflict of the mysterious forces that rule beyond our vision or our comprehension ; and if, at the end, I have dared to lift that veil, and to put in the mouths of uninitiates words appreciative of those glorious destinies that overrule the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 122
…d the stallion wind ? ing flings The billows starward? fire-shod Whose foal- Whose the steeds That sweep throughout the world? What spearman sings The fearful chant of war That fires, and spurs, and maddens all the kings That rule o’er earth, and air, and ocean? Whose hand excites the star To shatter into fiery flakes? No man, No petty god, but One who governs all, Slips the sun’s leash, perceives the sparrow’s fall, . Too high for man to fear, too near for man to call. SONNETS.? TO THE AUTHOR OF THE PHRASE: ‘‘I AM NOT A GENTLEMAN AND I HAVE NO…
1899 · PDF PAGE 76
68 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Angry and wonderful, began to range Over her cheeks ; she bitterly began : I will not yield to thee—a mortal man Alone shall know my love. No God shall come From his high place and far immortal home To bend my will by force. Freeborn, I live In freedom, and the love that maidens give To men I give to one, but thou, most high, (For womans wits through your deceptions spy And know ye for Olympians) shall know A maidens heart no lover may win so. Farewell, and find a fairer maid to love! Farewell ! But he : Through a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 386
THE EQUINOX God of the Christians under the figure of a man with an ass’s head. Christians will shrug their shoulders when they see this knavery, and pray God for the poor ignorants who imagine that they insult them. M. the Count Joseph de Maistre, after having, in one of his most eloquent paradoxes, represented the hangman as a sacred being, and a permanent incarnation of divine justice upon earth, suggested that one should raise to the old man of Ferney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, als…
1913 · PDF PAGE 386
THE EQUINOX God of the Christians under the figure of a man with an ass’s head. Christians will shrug their shoulders when they see this knavery, and pray God for the poor ignorants who imagine that they insult them. M. the Count Joseph de Maistre, after having, in one of his most eloquent paradoxes, represented the hangman as a sacred being, and a permanent incarnation of divine justice upon earth, suggested that one should raise to the old man of Ferney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, als…