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Page 52 of 761906 · PDF PAGE 172
…ight, at any rate, In strength of spirit growing straight And life as light a-living out !” So Swinburne doth sublimely state, And he is right beyond a doubt. So, ’'m a poet or a rhymer ; A mountaineer or mountain climber. So much for Crowley’s vital primer. The inward life of soul and heart, That is a thing occult, apart : - But yet his metier or his kismet As much as these you have of his met. So—you be butcher ; you be baker ; You, Plymouth Brother, and you, Quaker; You, Mountebank, you, corset-maker :— While for you, my big beauty,” (Chicag…
1922 · PDF PAGE 93
…is cigarette case with us, and he valued it very much because it had been given him by his Aunt Sophronia. Well, you know, there it was, right on the table, or rather, under the table, because the table was on top of it. When we got the table on its legs again, we saw quite plainly that the cigarette case had been under it, and therefore must have been on top of it before it was overturned. Feccles laughed heartily at the humorous character of the incident. I suppose it was funny in a sort of way. On the other hand, I don’t think it was quite t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 345
…e of Cypris and Athena, toiled up the goat track which made a zigzag on the grassy tongue. Their party attacked the rock buttress on our right. King Lamus made Hermes lead up the most astonish- ingly precipitous crags, with little advice and no assistance. But his hand was always within reach of the boy; so that if he made a mistake and fell, he could immediately be caught without hurting himself. But the child himself did not know how carefully he was being watched and guarded. Basil treated him In every way as a responsible leader. Their prog…
1919 · PDF PAGE 118
…nly true Will, which is that already implied in the acceptance of the Law. Be it also well understood of you that it is not necessary or right to shut off natural activity of any kind, as certain false folk, eunuchs of the spirit, most foully teach, to the destruc- tion of many. For in every thing soever inhereth its own perfection proper to it, and to neglect the full operation and function of any one part bringeth distortion and degenera- tion to the whole. Act therefore in all ways, but transform- ing the effect of all these ways to the One …
1922 · PDF PAGE 238
…cal night. I will get into the big car under the sheet. He won't look for me there, and the angels will be on the watch. It came out all right. I slept on the seat of the car. I had a dreadful nightmare, and woke sweating all over. Then I went to sleep again. I was with six angels who carried me through the air to a place which I mustn’t describe. It is a great and wonderful mystery. It is awful and miraculously wonderful to be the woman clothed with the sun. The sublimity of it would have frightened me only a few weeks ago.. I have been gently…
1922 · PDF PAGE 240
… to happen! I can think of nothing but H. Everything in the body is wrong. It aches intolerably. Even a single dose would put everything right. It makes me forget who I am, and the wonderful
1922 · PDF PAGE 271
…ed. It was the first time in months that I had ever seen her make the slightest movement that wasn’t absolutely necessary. “You're quite right,”’ she said. “ We said nothing to each other about it, and I hadn’t the slightest con- scious intention of doing what I did. But the moment I got to London I drove to the place where I knew I could get heroin. And when I got back, I found that Peter had been out trying to find the man who had sold him the cocaine before. I assure you it wasn’t deliberate.” “That’s exactly the trouble,” retorted Lamus.
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
… the skirts of his garments. The orderly called the Staff to dinner. Cyril, as the guest of the evening, was on the Commander-in-Chief's right hand. "You have been very highly recommended to me," said the old Cavalry leader, when the time came to smoke, "and I look to you to distinguish yourself accordingly. You will be under the orders of Colonel Mavor, of course; you should report to him at once." "May I give you some information direct?" asked Cyril. "The matter hardly brooks delay, as I see it: you should know it at once, and — to be frank …
1954 · PDF PAGE 441
…ar; to cast a "spell" explains itself; and the Angel (e.g., of a Church, see Revelations I, II) was merely the Secretary. I wanted to go right back, before letters were put together to make words at all. This is, I believe, almost wholly original work, though I'm not sure that Fabre d'Olivet didn't skate round the edges. I put to myself this question: when I pronounce the letter so-and-so, what thought or class of thought tends to arise in my mind? (If you practise this in public, people may wonder!) With the vowels, one does seem to find a nat…
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…ks sky-high. We had better busy ourselves about this while it is still possible to get back to freedom without universal bloodshed. "All right, Master, you win! Now give us your own idea of Utopia." An Utopia to end Utopias? Very good, so I will. Education, to begin with; well, you've had all that in another letter. The main thing to remember is that I want every individual taught as such, according to his own special qualities. Then, teach them both sides of every question: history, for example, as the play of economic forces, also, as due to …
1922 · PDF PAGE 87
…e would the controversy become. But my eyes were certainly wide open; and I was lying on my back, whereas I can never sleep except on my right side, or else, strangely enough, in a sitting position. And the thoughts began to make themselves more conscious as [ lay. You know how thoughts fade out imperceptibly as one goes to sleep. Well, here they were, fading in. I found myself practically deprived of volition on the physical plane. It was as if it had become im- possible for me to wish to move or to speak. I was
1922 · PDF PAGE 232
…ady for any high development. Men are always revoltingly gross. Think how they are even about love. I must say this for Cockie, he’s all right about that. The very flower of purity—a perfect knight ! Yet we went through a period of a very evil character. No doubt we had to be purged of all our baser elements. There is a great sympathy between us at times, and it is not soiled by any animality. The only thing is I’m not sure whether it hasn’t been too great a strain for his mind—the process of purifi- cation. He certainly has some very queer ide…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
… drawer. As luck would have it, the weapon exploded. The bullet broke his jaw, tore away four molars, smashed the cheek-bone, pulped the right eye, and, glancing from the frontal bone, found its billet in the ceiling. He lost consciousness and fell. His head struck the grate where yet smouldered the ashes of the photograph.
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
92 KONX OM PAX You may be right, said Basil, in thinking as you evidently do that much of the ceremonial debauchery of the Pagan worships was a true mystical process. Indeed, at this day there are many cults in India (also, I believe, in the South Seas) of what is called Vamacharya. Religious frenzy is invoked by the aid of the Erotic and Bacchic frenzies mingled with that of the Muse of the Tom-Tom. Soma, bhang, arraq, and the Uniting of the Lingam and the Yoni! All, mind you, by a most elaborate ritual. But, on the other hand, there is perfec…
1922 · PDF PAGE 94
…already than he knows what to do with, otherwise I’d be only too glad to let him in on the 7ez-de-chaussée.”’ Well, you know, that’s all right about my being a millionaire, and all that. It’s one thing being a single man running round London perfectly happy with a shilling cigar and a stall at the Victoria Palace, and it’s quite another being on a honeymoon with a girl whom her most intimate friends call ‘‘ Unlimited Lou.” Feccles did not know that I had spent more than a third of my annual income in a fortnight. But, of course, I couldn’t tell…
1922 · PDF PAGE 364
…as he thought, by getting me absorbed in my helicopter. I was to be the complacent husband, and allow my wife to go off with another man right under my nose, while I was busy with my calculations. I was to be the mars complaisant, was I? Well, the fiend was ingenious, but he had calculated wrong for once. I got up and deliberately slapped him in the face. “‘ Before breakfast,” he said to Sister Athena,“ we shall require pistols for two and coffee for one. But
1929 · PDF PAGE 538
…itical systems beyond the criticisms which have undermined all previous theories of government. There is no need for the fraud of divine right or the cant of democracy. The right of
1904 · PDF PAGE 31
…might, at any rate, In strength of spirit growing straight And life as light a-lving out !” So Swinburne doth sublimely state, And he is right beyond a doubt. So, I’m a poet or a rhymer ; A mountaineer or mountain climber. So much for Crowley’s vital primer. The inward life of soul and heart, That is a thing occult, apart : But yet his metier or his kismet As much as these you have of his met. So—you be butcher ; you be baker ; You, Plymouth Brother, and you, Quaker ; You, Mountebank, you, corset-maker :— While for you, my big beauty,20 (Chicag…
1922 · PDF PAGE 318
304 The Diary of a Drug Fiend He put his arm around her waist, and brought her over to me, his right hand fastened under my arm-pit. And he lifted me bodily out of my chair as if he had reached down like Hercules into the darkest depths of hell, and dragged forth a damned soul into the light of heaven. He put her hands in mine and closed his own over them. “ Whom God hath joined together, ” he said solemnly, “let no man put asunder.” He turned on his heel and became a man of quick decisive action. “Maisie,” he said, ‘‘ you have the key. Go over…
1954 · PDF PAGE 219
…t destroys aU sense of values. Its origin is usually obscure. The least irrational base of it is the sense ofsmell. It was, ifI remember rightly, the Comte de St. Germain who advised Louise de la Valliere to fix her exquisitely broidered kerchief in such wise that it protected her from contact with her saddle, and then , after a morning's hard gallop, to find an excuse for using it to wipe the brows of the perspiring king. It took him years to recover! The story is well known, and the plan widely adopted with remarkably unvarying success. But b…