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Page 54 of 781954 · PDF PAGE 441
408 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS "Bogey" comes from this, though!); think of the dam of a stream, and of a young thing, and damn. Think of all the different kinds of box and cock and rock. (G.K. Chesterton must have made tens of thousands of pounds out of it!) Think of "let," meaning both to prevent and to allow. Think of "check" to a chess-player, a banker, a draper , a waitress, a fox-hunter, and a Slovak! The importance of all this : I'm sure I've told you how Thoth, God of all Magick, the Wisdom and the Word, is usually shown with style and papyrus…
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…by observation, have the sense to keep secret. Now whatever their own peculiar genius may select as their line, they will realise that nothing is possible in any way while the accursed system stands. Their first duty is Revolt. And presently some one will come along with the wit and the will and the weapon, and blow the whole most damnable bag of tricks 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.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 137
…d make every act a sacrament, full of divinest ecstasy and nourishment. There is no act which true delicacy cannot consecrate. It is one thing to be like a sow, uncon scious of the mire, and unable to discriminate between sweet food and sour; another to take the filth firmly and force oneself to discover the purity therein, initiating even the body to overcome its natural repulsion and partake with the soul at this Eucharist. We “believe in the Miracle of the Mass” not only because meat and drink are actually “transmuted in us daily into spiri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 304
304 the Yangtze; for one thing, the delays at Bhamo and Tengyueh had robbed me of time. I was anxious to get to Europe in good time to prepare a new expedition to Kangchenjunga for 1907. I had the mountain, so to speak, in my pocket. A part of average strength could make as certain of strolling to the top as if it were the Strand. I decided, therefore, to turn south and make for Tonkin. On March 2nd, after breakfast and tiffin with the consul general, who was unfortunately short of stores and could only spare us a couple of tins of butter, we s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 78
… connection with some vague gossip about some crooked financial affair. I had it in my mind, vaguely enough, that that must have had something to do with the trouble at school. He was not the sort of boy to be expelled for any of the ordinary reasons. It was certainly something to do with the subtlety of his intellect. To tell you the truth, he had been a sort of hero of mine at school. He possessed all the qualities I most admired—and lacked—in their fullest expansion. I had known him very slightly ; but his disappearance had been a great shoc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 232
…d 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 ideas. Sometimes _ I catch him looking at me with some deep suspicion in his eyes. His mind is harping on the Germans. He broke out just now into a denunciation of Gretel Webster as a German spy, and rambled on from that to say something that I couldn’t properly understan…
1922 · PDF PAGE 299
…’t be left alone. But if it is the man’s fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness ; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of eating it or not eating it ; if he imagines that most of the people he meets are also sawdust-eaters, and above all, if he thinks that the salvation of the world depends entirely upon making laws to compel people to eat sawdust, whether they like it or not, then it is fair to say that his mind is unbalanced on the subject ; and that, further, the practice itself, how…
1954 · PDF PAGE 269
236 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS evidently illogical. What remains? We must not hastily answer "Nothing remains." There is some thing inherent in the nature of consciousness, reason, perception, sensation, and of the universe of which they inform us, which is responsible for the fact that we observe these phenomena and not others; that we reflect upon them as we do, and not otherwise. But, even deeper than this, part of the reality of the inscrutable energy which determined the form of our experience, consists in determining that experience should take…
1929 · PDF PAGE 573
…rough. But he, poor innocent lad, took it all as a matter of course. I am not a prude, as I hope this book may prove. But passion is one thing and dirt another. In my letter from Rome, I wrote the naked truth --- that an Oxford man should look after his wife and that if he mixed with such creatures infection was inevitable. I think my straight speaking opened his eyes. He collected the necessary cash and came to the abbey. Betty had done her best to hold him in London. Her only idea of life was this wallowing in the hog trough nuzzled by the sn…
1922 · PDF PAGE 282
268 The Diary of a Drug Fiend “‘ Well,” he said, “it certainly is extraordinary stuff if it does two precisely opposite things at the will of the taker.” oo, He spoke sarcastically. He refrained from telling me what he told me long afterwards, that the apparently contradictory properties that I was ascribing to it were really there, that it can be used by the expert to produce a number of effects, some of which seem at first sight mutually exclusive. ‘* Well, look here, Sir Peter,’”’ went on Lamus. ‘ You can’t have it both ways. You really ough…
1922 · PDF PAGE 364
…iscovered what her own will is, and has gone off to do it.” “Qh, damnation,” said I. “‘ Here, you know, I say I can’t allow that sort of thing!” The Big Lion turned his sternest gaze upon me. “Now, Sir Peter,” he said incisively, ‘ pull yourself together. You've only just discovered your own will, and you naturally want to be let alone to do it. And yet, at the very first opportunity, you butt in and want to interfere with your own wife doing hers. Let me tell you point-blank that it’s none of your business what she chooses to do. Haven’t you s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 31
…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 (Chicago packs pork) I’ll teach you the trick to be hen-of-the-walk. Shrick a music-hall song with a double ong-tong ! Dance a sprightly can-can at Paree or Bolong ! Or the d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…t nobody could possibly look at it unless they had love in their eyes; and in the middle was an eye without an eyelid. That could see anything, I should think, but you see it never could go to sleep, because there wasn’t any eye lid. On the sides were written I.N.R.l. and T.A.R.O., which mean many strange and beautiful things, and terrible things too. I should think any one would be afraid to hurt any one who wore that ring. It is all cut out of an amethyst, and my Fairy Prince said: “Whenever you want me, look into the ring and call me ever so…
1922 · PDF PAGE 160
…edge, and yet it didn’t seem to throw any light. It seems that in the medical books, they speak of what they call “ Drug virginity.” The thing was to get it back; and according to the books the only way to do it is to take nothing for a long time. He said it was really just the same as any other appetite. If you have a big lunch you can't expect to be hungry at tea-time. But then, what is one to do in the meanwhile? August 18 We lay in bed very late. I didn’t seem to miss my sleep; but I was too weak to get out of bed. We had to buck ourselves …
1922 · PDF PAGE 318
…sunder.” He turned on his heel and became a man of quick decisive action. “Maisie,” he said, ‘‘ you have the key. Go over and have their things packed and leave them in the cloak room at Victoria. Lala, ’phone for reserve places and a cabin for these good people on the boat. London’s no place for us—too many philanthropists about seeking whom they may devour. Ring up Dupont and have him send in dinner for five for seven o'clock. We'll catch the ten o'clock and be in Telepylus sabse qelds 4. a3 Maisie was already out of the studio and Lala at th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 29
…d have been the first to admit this, though he has often admitted that he was altogether incapable of editing his own material. The only thing ever to issue from his pen which he demanded must never be edited was a group of select writings called The Holy Books. and above all, The Book of the Law. "Change not so much as the style of a letter .... " What I have deleted is mostly rambling or repetitious statements, a few quotations from Robert Browning-none of which in any case interfere with the meaning of any particular passage. This is then th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 219
… for a change? This power-if it be one-is very curious indeed. It connects more directly with magnetism than almost any other. The first thing we think of when someone says "magnet" is picking up iron filings as a child. Age before honesty! Let Father Poulain SJ. speak first! He is obliged to admit the phenomenon, because the Church has done so. But precisely similar accounts of the levitation of pagans and heretics must be, according to him, lies, or Works of the Devil. As for the method, "God employs the
1954 · PDF PAGE 480
…wdlerized edition, bet you a tosser! -and was enchanted, like the rest of us, so that he sighed "I wish these tales were true!" The same thing happened to me; but I set my teeth, and muttered: "I will make these tales true!" Well, I have, haven't I? You said it yourself! Yes child, my deepest attitude is to be found in my life. I have been to most of the holy inaccessible places, and talked with the most holy inaccessible men; I have dared all the most dangerous adventures, both of the flesh and of the spirit; and 1 challenge the world's litera…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…yself. You may be able to interpret it. The experiment had lasted about half an hour when he sat up gasping with effort. I have seen nothing, heard nothing, I said. Not one thought has passed from you to me. But at that very moment what had been in his mind flashed into mine. It is a blind abyss, I told him, and there hangs in it a vulture vaster than the whole starry system. Yes, he said, that was it. But that was not all. I could not get beyond it. I shall try again. He tried. Again I was cut off from his thought, al- though his …
1922 · PDF PAGE 278
…try, don’t you think? But of-course ' you'll be needing heroin all the time, and I notice that you have a plentiful supply, so there’s nothing to worry about there. It’s not taking the drug that does the ' . harm, it’s the not knowing what you take. SoI brought you a couple of charts marked off into hours ; and what I want you to do is to promise to make a cross in the proper space every time you take it.” The condition was easy enough. What we had been dreading, in spite of what Lamus had said, was the forcible suppression which we had experie…