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Page 49 of 921922 · PDF PAGE 176
…’t be made to stop by that beast. We'd get it despite him. We wouldn't be treated like children ; we'd get as much as we wanted and we'd take it all the time, if it killed us. The conflict in myself raged all the afternoon. Cockie had gone to sleep. He snored and groaned. He was like one’s idea of a convict. He hadn’t shaved for two days. My own nails were black. I felt sticky and clammy all over. I hadn't dressed myself. I had thrown my clothes on carelessly. Cockie woke about dinner-time. We couldn’t go down as we were. We were suddenly stung…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…f understanding the spirit of Magick as opposed to the letter. One of the great advantages of them is that a large number of persons may take part, so that there is consequently more force available; but it is important that they should ail be initiâtes of the same mysteries, bound by the same oaths, and filled with the same aspirations. They should be associated only for this one purpose. Such a company being prepared, the story of the God should be dramatised by a well-skilled poet accustomed to this form of composition. Lengthy speeches and …
1954 · PDF PAGE 221
…ly, an automatic rigidity of the muscles; and thirdly, the very curious phenomenon of causing the body, while still absolutely rigid, to take little hops in various directions. It seems as if one were somehow raised, possibly an inch from the ground, and deposited very gently a short distance away. I saw a very striking case of this at Kandy. When
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
…your original small one.” The fallacy is obvious. The big circle is not infinite at all, but is itself limited by the little one. But to take away the little circle, that is the method of the esoteric Christian or the mystic. But the process is never perfect, because however small the little circle becomes, its relation with the big circle is still finite. But even allowing for a moment that the Absolute is really attainable, is the nothingness of the finity related to it really identical with that attained directly by the Buddhist Arahat? This…
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…d a lot of maidens in the hope of making rain. So—one must suppose, for here I reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This will presumably be very difficult to do because he is probably (for all the “ Grace of the Lord Shiva” business) an expert in the Vififianam trances, and having thus created an eternal Universe and an even more eternal Absence of Universe, both of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…d a lot of maidens in the hope of making rain. So—one must suppose, for here I reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This will presumably be very difficult to do because he is probably (for all the “ Grace of the Lord Shiva” business) an expert in the Vififianam trances, and having thus created an eternal Universe and an even more eternal Absence of Universe, both of …
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
…air, earth, and water, and you can do whatever in natural life they prevent you from doing. For instance, by conquering earth, one could take a short cut to Australia; or by conquering water, one can live at the bottom of the Ganges. They say there is a holy man at Benares who does this, coming up only once a year to comfort and in- struct his disciples. But nobody need believe this unless he wants to; and you are even advised to conquer that desire should it arise. It will be interesting when science really determines the variables and constan…
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
…en more acute type than that which follows the removal of morphia or cocaine from their slaves. There is little doubt that Congress will take immediate action to penalize this filthy vice as it deserves, and Fresh Air will be included among the drugs to which the Harrison Law applies. Hot Air, as the natural food of the People, will of course be permitted. "I saw Sister Cybele the other day. She was [171] passing through London to visit friends in Scotland. I tried to alleviate that dreadful destiny by asking her to dinner, and we had an amusin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…c precipice, over which we may cast all our impedimenta of lies and trickeries, political, social, moral, and religious, and (ourselves) take wings and fly. The comparison be- tween myself and the masters of English thought I have named is unintentional, though perhaps unavoidable; and though the presumption is, of course, absurd, yet a straw will show which way the wind blows as well as the most beautiful and elaborate vane : and in this sense it is my most eager hope that I may not unjustly draw a com- parison between myself and the great re-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…rious state . ( Ask chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same Or else the prey of putrefaction .? And we intend to take it as such , otherwise , like This is the earlier Fichtean Crowley , though he has already passed through Schelling to Hegel , and grouped this triad in one , as it were Fichte in excelsis ; not the middle , who has called the triad “ Schelling ."; still less the latter , who , perceiv ing the antinomies of reason , dismisses alike the data and con clusions of all the sciences with an all - embracing scep…
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
…he most wicked (unbalanced) person obtains the highest end.” Those who would practise Dharana successfully should live alone, and should take care to distract the mind as little as possible. They should not speak much or work much, and they should avoid all places, persons and food which repel them.; The first signs of success will be better health and temperament, and a clearer voice. Those who practise zeal- ously will towards the final stages of Dharana hear sounds as of the pealing of distant bells,{ and will see specks of light floating be…
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
…he most wicked (unbalanced) person obtains the highest end.” Those who would practise Dharana successfully should live alone, and should take care to distract the mind as little as possible. They should not speak much or work much, and they should avoid all places, persons and food which repel them.; The first signs of success will be better health and temperament, and a clearer voice. Those who practise zeal- ously will towards the final stages of Dharana hear sounds as of the pealing of distant bells,{ and will see specks of light floating be…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…t 's business may well account for the public neglect into which poetry has fallen as a pretty occupation for sensitive souls . Until we take the trouble to re - clothe it in con . crete forms — and the old forms lie ready to our hand , while new ones are well worth inventing — the virtuose may applaud , but we shall miss the catholic appeal of great art . This small but sufficient volume of Cambridge verse , written between 1900 and 1913 , proves at any rate that the poetic impulse abides and is strong in the University which , so justly proud…
1913 · PDF PAGE 503
…All that, one will say, happened in the imagination of the sufferers. But where, then, would you expect facts of a supernatural order to take place? What is certain is that all these visionaries have seen and touched, that they have had the most vivid feeling of a formidable reality. We speak of it from our own experience, and there are visions of our own first youth, passed in retreat and asceticism, whose memory makes us shudder even now. 205
1913 · PDF PAGE 503
…All that, one will say, happened in the imagination of the sufferers. But where, then, would you expect facts of a supernatural order to take place? What is certain is that all these visionaries have seen and touched, that they have had the most vivid feeling of a formidable reality. We speak of it from our own experience, and there are visions of our own first youth, passed in retreat and asceticism, whose memory makes us shudder even now. 205
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…e a dumb-bell, the ends being much too big to go through the hole. Eckenstein said that he was almost ready to swear that he saw the man take them up separately and rapidly put them together, {160} in which condition he had them and was never able to take them apart. He explored the surface minutely for signs of complexity of structure but without success. I never saw the toy, he having sent it to Mr. W. W. Rouse Ball, a great authority on such matters, but also baffled in this case. We were naturally always interested in any problems concerned…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…be,’ I said firmly. “*Go, brave knight !’—a delicate smile lit up her face— ‘I trust myself to you.’ “T bent on my right knee to her. ‘I take you,’ I said, ‘to be my lady, to fight in your cause, to honour and love you for ever.’ “She put out her right hand—oh, the delicate beauty of it | I kissed it. ‘My knight,’ she said, ‘Jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death—kiss me!’ “With a sob I caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. I closed my eyes in trance ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground bef…
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
THE MAN-COVER hint about my wives suggested to me that I might soon have achild whom I could bring up in the idea that he was to take my place. I could also shape an infant better than an old seaman. So I left him to the whales and other fishes, and proceeded towards the oasis. The two wives he had spoken of were the same women who caused my last illness. But their sweet smile prevented me from using any abusive language, which, in fact, they could not understand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allow…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…be,’ I said firmly. “*Go, brave knight !’—a delicate smile lit up her face— ‘I trust myself to you.’ “T bent on my right knee to her. ‘I take you,’ I said, ‘to be my lady, to fight in your cause, to honour and love you for ever.’ “She put out her right hand—oh, the delicate beauty of it | I kissed it. ‘My knight,’ she said, ‘Jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death—kiss me!’ “With a sob I caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. I closed my eyes in trance ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground bef…
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
THE MAN-COVER hint about my wives suggested to me that I might soon have achild whom I could bring up in the idea that he was to take my place. I could also shape an infant better than an old seaman. So I left him to the whales and other fishes, and proceeded towards the oasis. The two wives he had spoken of were the same women who caused my last illness. But their sweet smile prevented me from using any abusive language, which, in fact, they could not understand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allow…