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Page 54 of 1001929 · PDF PAGE 462
…nd, second, its situation on the Hudson, and as the most convenient outlet for the produce of the hinterland. Manhattan Island, being so long and narrow, presented peculiar problems of transportation. To this is due the system of elevated and underground {732} railways. The width of the water which separates if from Long Island, New York State and New Jersey limited its expansion in those directions. Even with bridges and subways, transport was tedious and congested. The evident consequence was that the value of land in Manhattan became prohibi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…LANCHE. The captain’s name was Florimond de Cham pdivers. DENYS. I did not hear it. [A jawse.] Blanche, will you kiss me? [They take one long look and then tenderly and very deliberately kiss. They remain sa, silently delighting an each other. ALAIN, [Comes forward with a chuckle.) Good morning, nephew ! [They leap up covered with confusion, recover their self- possession, and curtsey and bow respectfully, hand in hand. CURTAIN.
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
186 THE STAR IN THE WEST I died the moment when you tore away The bleeding veil of my virginity. The pain was sudden — and the joy was long . Persists that triumph , keenly , utterly ! Write , then , in thy mysterious book of song : “ Death chisels marble where life moulded clay. ” 1 And again : Dim winds shall whisper echoes of Our slow ecstatic breath , Telling all worlds how sweet is love , How beautiful is Death.2 Thus in this cup which Aleister Crowley offers us , we find that to sip the honey of Virtue is to quaff the wormwood of Vice ; t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…ow- ing the Magical Will to come slowly forth, daily stronger, in contrast to my old plan, desperation kindling a store of fuel dried by long neglect, deSpair inflaming a mad energy that would blaze with violence for a few hours and then go out—and nothing done. “Not hurling, according to the oracle, a transcendent foot towards Piety." Quite slowly and simply therefore did I wash myself and robe myself as laid down in the Goetia, taking the Violet Robe of an Exempt Adept (being a single Garment), wearing the Ring of an Exempt Adept, and that Sec…
1909 · PDF PAGE 365
…a wretched night!” The sound of my voice startled him. He seized my arm and hurried me towards the lamp-post. Then he stared at me for a long time, and, speaking slowly, hammering every syllable in my ear, while the rain continued its monotonous lamentation, he began: “T should be very much surprised if this were not the cover I am waiting for. No fallacies will induce me to free you now that at last I have found you. I was dead; my life was nothing more than a spring without motion. Every twenty-one days, according to the calendar, I came, pac…
1909 · PDF PAGE 365
…a wretched night!” The sound of my voice startled him. He seized my arm and hurried me towards the lamp-post. Then he stared at me for a long time, and, speaking slowly, hammering every syllable in my ear, while the rain continued its monotonous lamentation, he began: “T should be very much surprised if this were not the cover I am waiting for. No fallacies will induce me to free you now that at last I have found you. I was dead; my life was nothing more than a spring without motion. Every twenty-one days, according to the calendar, I came, pac…
1911 · PDF PAGE 69
…rein shadows are free; within is darkness itself, and the essence and quintessence of darkness. In this terrific silence I abode for very long; then for an instant that seemed longer than many lives the sun of heaven broke in andsmotemineeye, so that I fellbackwardnighfainting. But he bade me be 01 good cheer and return to the task. I obeyed; andbeholdl againthe sun,and behind the sun aglimpse 01 one appointed equally to be hidden and to be seen, each as may be fitting. But the brightness of the sun and its heat dazzled me and scorched me. My mem…
1911 · PDF PAGE 69
…rein shadows are free; within is darkness itself, and the essence and quintessence of darkness. In this terrific silence I abode for very long; then for an instant that seemed longer than many lives the sun of heaven broke in andsmotemineeye, so that I fellbackwardnighfainting. But he bade me be 01 good cheer and return to the task. I obeyed; andbeholdl againthe sun,and behind the sun aglimpse 01 one appointed equally to be hidden and to be seen, each as may be fitting. But the brightness of the sun and its heat dazzled me and scorched me. My mem…
1911 · PDF PAGE 148
…the sun is a pair of balances, held steady; and twined about the central pole of the balance is the little green poisonous snake, with a long forked tongue rapidly darting. And the Angel that hath spoken with me before, saith to me: The eye of His benignancy is opened; therefore veileth 146
1922 · PDF PAGE 60
…e, and damn the expense! I thought of a thousand pounds as enough to paint Paris every colour of the spectrum for a quite in- definitely long period; but at the end of the week the thousand pounds was gone, and so was another thousand pounds for which I had cabled to London; and we had absolutely nothing to show for it except a couple of dresses for Lou, and a few not very expensive pieces of jewellery. We felt that we were very economical. We were too happy to need to spend money. For one thing, love never needs more than a pittance, and I had…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…he book. His manner was so ferocious that I was positively startled; and the interesting thing about the incident is this. I had been so long so alert lest I should be accused of disbelief, that it almost took my breath away to hear a man in authority speak so openly1. I have explained how I had vainly sought supreme wickedness in the Church of England. I had even gone to so-called "high" churches and on one occasion dared to enter the portals of the papists. But I had found nothing wicked even there. They all seemed to me to be tarred with the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 390
… great green snake that bounds the Universe. 70. No Arhan, O Lanoo, becomes one in that birth when for the first time the Soul begins to long for final liberation. Vet, O thou anxious one, no warrior volunteering fight in the fierce strife between the living and the dead, not one recruit can ever be refused the right to enter on the Path that leads toward the field of Battle. For either he shall win, or he shall fail. It is most important that the Master should not reject any pupil. As it is written in Liber Legis, “He must teach, but he may ma…
1922 · PDF PAGE 219
… I don’t know why I was stupid enough to trouble my head to invent one. She's a real good sport, Maisie, and doesn’t care what you do as long as you don’t interfere with her. She had some white silk, and we sewed up the H. in little packets, and stitched them in the flounces of my dress. I kept about half, and put it in an old envelope she had. That was to make my peace with Peter. But I needed two or three good goes on the spot. I had a fit of hysterical crying and trembling. I must have fainted for a bit. I found myself on the sofa with Maisi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 122
…s ago—no, seven years ago.” Roderic stared in surprise. How should any one—such a man, of all men—remember his daub, a thing himself had long forgotten? The oldster read his thought. “There was one corner of that picture which interested me deeply, deeply,” he said. “TI called to see you; you had gone—none knew where. I am indeed glad to have met you at last. Perhaps you would be good enough to show me your pictures —you have other pictures of Paris? I am interested in Paris—in Paris itself—in the stones and bricks of it. Might I—if you have no…
1909 · PDF PAGE 122
…s ago—no, seven years ago.” Roderic stared in surprise. How should any one—such a man, of all men—remember his daub, a thing himself had long forgotten? The oldster read his thought. “There was one corner of that picture which interested me deeply, deeply,” he said. “TI called to see you; you had gone—none knew where. I am indeed glad to have met you at last. Perhaps you would be good enough to show me your pictures —you have other pictures of Paris? I am interested in Paris—in Paris itself—in the stones and bricks of it. Might I—if you have no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…e devout wish that wemight hear no more of that noise which was now leaving the English coast . Thereupon ( as the bravest will , when a long tension of the spirit is happily relaxed ) Sir Robert Howard let the strain down with a Alippant remark , that ' He could scarce have wished the
1919 · PDF PAGE 404
…incarnated as a pig or a Pisacha. Consequently Moksha is not liberation at all, for Nirvana means cessation of that which, after however long a period, may change. This is all clear enough, but then the Buddhist goes on and takes the word Nibbana to mean exactly that which the Hindus meant by Nirvana, insisting strenuously that it is entirely different. And so indeed it is. But if one proceeds further to enquire, “Then what is it?” one finds oneself involved in very considerable difficulty. It is a difficulty which I cannot pretend to solve, ev…
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…. All is black, Void of all cause, all aim ; unkenned, As if I had been dead indeed— All in Christ's name! And I look back, And then and long time after lack Courage or strength to hurl the creed Down to the heaven it sprang from! No! Not this inspires the indignant blow L Poem does not treat of Palz- ontology: nor of poet's youth : nor of Christian infamies. Poet forced tomystic position.
1912 · PDF PAGE 134
…d a dainty dinner. This had continued for nearly three years with no inter- ruption but once when the Professor’s wife, from whom he had long been separated, succeeded in getting into the house on some pretence, and creating a very considerable uproar before the Professor and his butler could master her rage. She was a big muscular woman from Australia with the body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the laboratory and timely return with a bottle of chloroform. The Pr…
1912 · PDF PAGE 134
…d a dainty dinner. This had continued for nearly three years with no inter- ruption but once when the Professor’s wife, from whom he had long been separated, succeeded in getting into the house on some pretence, and creating a very considerable uproar before the Professor and his butler could master her rage. She was a big muscular woman from Australia with the body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the laboratory and timely return with a bottle of chloroform. The Pr…