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Page 41 of 921913 · PDF PAGE 546
…sh to make me the accomplice of your incapacity, the abetter of your suicide. You want to put a premium on wretchedness. For whom do you take me? Do you think I am a rascal like yourself? .. .” And yet another :— “By the way, old fellow, could you lend me a thousand pounds? I want to seduce an honest woman.” ‘Ah! that is bad, but I can never refuse anything to a friend. Here they are. When you have succeeded you might give me her address.” That is what is called in England, and elsewhere, the manners of a gentleman. “The man of honour who is ou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 546
…sh to make me the accomplice of your incapacity, the abetter of your suicide. You want to put a premium on wretchedness. For whom do you take me? Do you think I am a rascal like yourself? .. .” And yet another :— “By the way, old fellow, could you lend me a thousand pounds? I want to seduce an honest woman.” ‘Ah! that is bad, but I can never refuse anything to a friend. Here they are. When you have succeeded you might give me her address.” That is what is called in England, and elsewhere, the manners of a gentleman. “The man of honour who is ou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…finally, at the present day, some hireling parasites of the decaying faith—at once the origin and the product of that decay—endeavour to take advantage of the ‘‘Greek movement” or the ‘‘ Neo-pagan revival” in the vain hope of diverting the public attention from the phalanx of Rationalism—traitorously admitted by Luther, and now sitting crowned and inexpugnable in the very citadel of the faith —to their own dishonest lie that Paganism was a faith whose motto was ‘Carpe diem,”? and whose methods were drink, dance, and Studio Murder.2. Why is Proc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…granting the literary basis of criticism to be valid: I am given to understand that something of the sort described above does sometimes take place in the naming of a statue (of the allegorical description especially). But that is a question of felicity, of epigram; never of subject. | 5
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…n Edmund speaks as follows : . why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base , base ? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth , within a dull , stale , tired bed , Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops , Got ' tween asleep and wake ? In “ Jephthah ” we find an almost identical rendering of the above , concerning the children of free love : 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 101 .
1913 · PDF PAGE 48
…. and the Egucnox and all the rest of it are a stupid joke of Aleister Crowley’s. He merely wished to see if any one were fool enough to take him seriously. Several have done so, and he does not regret the few thousand pounds it has cost him. Few people are ignorant of the fact that the A... A.*. and the Eguinox and all the rest of it area dishonest device of Aleister Crowley’s to pile up an enormous fortune in a few months. With the three-and-a-half millions sterling he has made he will now retire to Paris,1 and emulate Nero, Caligula, Vitelli…
1913 · PDF PAGE 48
…. and the Egucnox and all the rest of it are a stupid joke of Aleister Crowley’s. He merely wished to see if any one were fool enough to take him seriously. Several have done so, and he does not regret the few thousand pounds it has cost him. Few people are ignorant of the fact that the A... A.*. and the Eguinox and all the rest of it area dishonest device of Aleister Crowley’s to pile up an enormous fortune in a few months. With the three-and-a-half millions sterling he has made he will now retire to Paris,1 and emulate Nero, Caligula, Vitelli…
1919 · PDF PAGE 394
…or every effect as soon as it occurs becomes a new cause, and it is always equal to its cause. ‘There is no waste or dissipation. If you take an atom of hydrogen and combine it with one hundred thousand other atoms in turn, it still remains hydrogen, and it has not lost any of its qualities. The harmony of the doctrines of Action and Non-Action is to be found in The Way of the Tao. One should do what is perfectly natural to one; but this can only be done when one’s consciousness is merged in the Universal or Phallic Consciousness. 82. The “Open…
1922 · PDF PAGE 172
158 The Diary of a Drug Fiend sincerity. I crushed down the realisation with furious anger. “T encourage you to take drugs,” he went on, “exactly as I encourage you to fly. Drugs claim to be every man’s master. ‘Is it such terrible odds— - The heir of ages of wonder, The crown of earth for an hour, The master of tide and thunder _ Against the juice of a flower ? Ay! in the roar and the rattle Of all the armies of sin, This is the only battle He never was known to win.’ You children are the flower of the new generation. You have got to fear noth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…the fringe of reeds across the lake. And that was all I saw. I remained unable to reply. At this time I was the last man in the world to take anything of the sort seriously; more I was resolved not to do so even {527} at the cost of restraining the theory of sensory hallucination. What struck me dumb was hearing an old shikari tell the story of Excalibur in language so near to that of Malory as to make no odds. Could one of his sahibs have told him the tale long ago, so that it popped up in this strange fashion with me as the hearer? I had no d…
1909 · PDF PAGE 121
…nness. A less grave fault, by far; it is easy and absurd to get a kind of hysterical ecstasy over religion, love, or Wine. A German will take off his hat and dance and jodel to the sunrise—and nothing comes of it! Darwin studies Nature with more reverence and enthusiasm, but without antics—and out comes the Law of Evolution. 50 it is written “ By their fruits ye shall know them" But about this question of spiritual overfeeding—what did Darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! many a time) when he wished every pigeon in the world …
1919 · PDF PAGE 190
…dely, in fact to every one with whom one comes into social relations. We are not to add to this gift by preaching and the like. They can take it or leave it. Note, pray thee, verse 41 of this chapter: “Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house; all must be done well and with business way.” This is very clear instruction indeed. There is to be a modern centralized business organization at the Kaaba— which, We think, does not mean Boleskine, but any conve- nient headquarters. Note, pray thee, in verse 42 of this chapter the injunction: “Success is thy…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…g us. O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. {The PRIEST joins hands upon the breast of the PRIESTESS, and takes bach his Tance. Irle turns to the peopley lowers and Taises the Tance y and makes -f* upon them.) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The PEOPLE. Love is the law, love under will. {He lowers the Tancey and turns to East. The PRIESTESS takes the lance in her right handy wtth her left hand she ofjers the Paten. The PRIEST kneels.) The PRIEST. In my mouth be the essence of the life of the Sun. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 113
80 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Because you know the things unclean That go to make a mortal maid. I, if her rotten corpse were mine, Would take it as my natural food , Denying all but the Divine Alike in evil and in good. Aspasia may skin me close, And Lais load me with disease. Poor pleasures, bitter bargains, these? I shall despise Diogenes. Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. There is thus in this School no attempt to deny that Nature is, as Zoroaster said, "a fatal and evil force"; but Nature i:::, so to speak, "the First…
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
…eeping her word, but it had become impossible to do any work where she was. She was in a state of continual irritation. I was obliged to take rooms in Jermyn Street in order to have a moment to myself. In the autumn of 1907 on returning from Tangiers, I {534} found that she had obtained one hundred and fifty bottles of whisky from one grocer alone in five months. Confronted with the fact, she broke down and agreed to take a cure for two months, in an establishment at Leicester. At the end of that time I took her climbing for a fortnight and she…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…have put a colossal ! against our vital ? need we inquire whether after all the soldier is not going to develop spinal curvature. Let us take the first step ; let us sing: “1 do not ask to see The distant path ; one step’s enough for me.” But (you will doubtless say) I pith your ? itself with another ?: Why question life at all? Why not remain “a clean-living Irish gentleman” content with his handicap, and contemptuous of card and pencil? Is not the Buddha’s goad “ Everything is sorrow” little better than a currish whine? What do I care for old…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
215 take up her duties towards the middle of August. I only stayed two or three days in Edinburgh and, having attended to the matter of wine and woman, completed the triad by writing The God-Eater. This sort play is singularly unsatisfactory as a work of art, but extremely significant as a piece of autohagiography. The explanatory note in my Collected Works is itself obscure. The idea of this obscure and fantastic play is a follows: By a glorious act human misery is secured (history of Christianity). Hence, appreciation of the personality of Je…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…yreceived one of these missiles in the eye, my attention was called to the disturber: I will now do my part as a law-abiding citizen and take my boot to the offender, as a warning to him and all of his kidney. I shall not mention his name: that he would enjoy: that is perhaps what he hoped. I will merely state that he is one of those unwashen and oleaginous individuals who are a kind of Mérodack-Jauneau without the Mérodack, ie., without the gleam of intention in their work which to the lay mind redeems even the most grotesque imbecility of tec…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
…nd Evans arise , as also do such religious Ananiases as Dowie and Torrey ; all battening as greedy vultures on the mental dead , as they take their place on the eternal towers of silence — true mutilators of corpses . Ulric in “ The Mother's Tragedy ," tells Cora that “ Excess is danger , equally in prayer as in debauchery .” 2 And this the howling mob of religionists can never grasp . We know of the spots in the Agapae , and we know to what they referred : Out ! out ! the ghastly torches of the feast ! Let darkness hide us and the night discov…
1912 · PDF PAGE 97
…ds, when it was- safely locked up again, he would undress with a certain unction. Once even he attempted—with the aid of a bath towelwto take the pose before the mirror. And he saw nothing ridiculous in that, just as he saw nothing beautiful in the photograph, Nakedness is lust: so ran his simple gospel of aesthetics. Shame quickened him, too, to measures of expiation or precaution He read family prayers twice a day instead of once, and he took the chair at the Annual Meeting of a Society for Sending Out Trousers to Converted Hindoos. As everyb…