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Page 55 of 841954 · PDF PAGE 117
… ravages of that kind of micro-organism. We have been obliged to expose, perhaps at too considerable a length, the main doctrines of the three Schools. The task, however tedious, has been necessary in order to explain with reasonable lucidity their connection with the world which their ideas direct; that is to say, the nature of their political activities. The Yellow School, in accordance with its doctrine of perfectly elastic reaction and non-interference, holds itself, generally speaking, entirely apart from all such questions. We can hardly …
1929 · PDF PAGE 175
…ss best in one's twenties. For a Himalayan expedition or dramatic composition, it is better to be forty than thirty. Eckenstein at forty-three, despite his congenital tendency to respiratory troubles, was by no means too old; and Knowles, twenty years younger, was emphatically too young. Guillarmod, at thirty-three, and Wessley, at thirty-one suffered less than any of us. In Wessely's case this was mostly because he had no imagination enough to be ill. None of us had ever seen such a perfect pig. He was very greedy and {299} 1. WEH Note: 100.7 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 229
…lking home from the theatre, slipped and saved himself by putting his hands to the ground. He scratched himself slightly and died within three days. There are also terrible thorns. My head tracker came to me one day with one in his foot. The end was protruding and I imagined that I should have no difficulty in pulling it out with forceps. But the thorn was soft as pith. I had to cut open the man's sole along the whole length of the thorn, seven and three quarter inches. His skin was a tough as rawhide, the epidermis a quarter of an inch thick. …
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
…the palm of his hand by his thumb. His forefinger tickled Bobines clitoris, and between his third and fourth fingers Dicks best leg of three vibrated. Claras medlar got a fair share of fun out of his knuckles. With is left arm it was the same, substi- tuting the names of Dora, Edward, Frank, Ethel, George and Fanny. Gertie and Herminia seized each one of his shoulder blades in their gaping cabbage-fields, while Imogen and Jenny were en- gaged with his elbow joints. Harry and Isaac had their drumsticks in his mouth ; Katherine got a nose-fuck…
1919 · PDF PAGE 339
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE together form a single word or Trinity, indicating that the Real must ‘be regarded as of this three-fold nature, Birth, Life and Death, not successive, but one. Those who have reached trances in which ‘time’ is no more will understand better than others how this may be. 20. Bestride the Bird of Life if thou wouldst know. The word “know” is specially used here in a technical sense. Avidya, ignorance, the first of the fetters, is more- over one which includes all the others. With regard to this Swan ‘Aum’ compare the foll…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…t that moment crying out for? The story of his "Judgment of Paris," as they called it, came into her mind. Some years before, he had had three women in love with him at once. It seemed to each that she was the only one. But they discovered the arrangement — he never took pains to hide such things — and they agreed to confront him. They called at his studio together, and [51] told him that he must choose one of them. He smoked a full pipe before replying; then went to his bedroom and returned with a pair of socks — in need of attention. "Simon, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 174
…Lynn, and I was going to meet my girl! The next entertainment is a rope bridge. The "ropes" in question are composed of twigs. There are three main ropes, one to walk on and two to hold. The relations between the three are secured by a trellis of smaller twigs. They are a little terrifying at first sight, it is only fair to admit; but one cannot help thinking that Sir Martin Conway was almost too considerate of the nervousness of others when he insisted on roping Zurbriggen on one side of him an Bruce on the other before pirouetting lightly acr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
… absurdly exaggerated; or vice versa. No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective. I only stayed in New York two or three days and then travelled direct to Mexico City. It was my first experience of a really long journey by train. The psychology is very curious. Journeys of more than half an hour begin to be tedious. Edinburgh to Inverness: I used to feel on the verge of insanity before I had got half way. But after two or three days in the train one becomes acclimatized. The city of Mexico began by irritating me intensely.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
…other time. Explicit Capitulum Pn'mum val De C ollegio Extemo. PART II I WAS telling you how we started from the Green Palace. There are three passages that lead to the Treasure House of Gold, and all of them are very dreadful. One is called the Terror by Night, and another the Arrow by Day, and the third has a name that people are afraid to hear, so I won’t say. Via P v. Oculus But in the first we came to a mighty throne of gray granite, shaped like the sweetest pussy eat you ever saw, and set up on a desolate heath. It was midnight, and the De…
1911 · PDF PAGE 113
THE VISION AND THE VOICE ported upon three legs, of silver, and within it an hemisphere of copper, and upon the top a grating of gilded silver, and there- upon shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two parts of stacte, and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of sandal. And this is enough. And he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal. And even if he be of higher rank than a Probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the Probationer, for th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 55
…ter had purged us of that orchestral oratorio business; but, on the other hand, we were still full of intense practical activity. We ate three breakfasts each. And as we ate we talked ; talked racy, violent nonsense, most of it. Yet we were both well aware that the whole thing was camouflage. What we had to do was to get married as quickly as we could, and lay in a stock of cocaine, and go away and have a perfectly glorious time for ever and ever. We sent for emergency clothes in the town, and went stalking a parson. He was an old man who had l…
1922 · PDF PAGE 143
…dn’t know how long I’d been away from England. I couldn’t have told him the day or the month on a bet. Lou helped me out. “We left Paris three weeks ago to-morrow,” she said positively enough, though the tone of her voice
1907 · PDF PAGE 252
…e shone through my love’s deep eyes, li. 9 The sword is made sharp in our hands, i. 70 The sword that was broken is perfect, iii. 58 The Three Characteristics, ii. 246 The third time bitterly came reason back, ii. 79 The unutterable void of Hell is stirred, i. 185 The valleys, that are splendid, i. 174 The vault of purple that I strove, i. 29 The veil o’ th’ mist of the quiet wood is lifted to the seer’s gaze, iii. 117 The Virgin lies at Bethlehem, ii. 14 The wail of the wind in the desolate land, i. 49 The wandering waters move about the world…
1910 · PDF PAGE 185
… Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, and on the 23rd shipped by S.S. Kapurthala from Rangoon to Calcutta, arriving there on the 26th. For the first three months of 1902 no record was kept by P. of his meditations and mystical exercises, except one which is as curious as it is interesting, and which consists of a minutely detailed table showing the Classification of the Dreams he dreamt from the 8th of February to the 19th of March. P., it may be mentioned, was much subjected to dreaming, but perhaps rarely were they so persistent and vivid as he now exper…
1910 · PDF PAGE 185
… Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, and on the 23rd shipped by S.S. Kapurthala from Rangoon to Calcutta, arriving there on the 26th. For the first three months of 1902 no record was kept by P. of his meditations and mystical exercises, except one which is as curious as it is interesting, and which consists of a minutely detailed table showing the Classification of the Dreams he dreamt from the 8th of February to the 19th of March. P., it may be mentioned, was much subjected to dreaming, but perhaps rarely were they so persistent and vivid as he now exper…
1919 · PDF PAGE 129
…d to identity by the force of your holy meditation. The greatest gift of the Law, then, cometh forth by the most perfect practice of the Three Lesser Gifts. And so thoroughly must you travail in this Work that you are able to pass from one side of the equation to the other at will: nay, to comprehend the whole at once, and for ever. This then your time-and-space-bound soul shall travel according to its nature in its orbit, revealing the Law to them that walk in chains, for that this is your particular function. Now here is the Mystery of the Or…
1954 · PDF PAGE 118
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (3) 85 would be likely to increase rather than to diminish the mischief. It remains somewhat contemptuously aloof from the eternal conflict of the Black School with the White. At the same time, there is a certain feeling among the Yellow adepts that should either of these Schools become annihilated, the result might well be that the victor would sooner or later turn his released energy against themselves. In accordance, therefore, with their general plan of non-action, as expressed in The Tao Teh King, of dealing with mi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 265
…or carrying this out. For yourself, you should join us as soon as you can with at least ten loads of asttu and Naga to help us. The next three days will be the crisis of the expedition. With cordial friendship, yours. There was no difficulty whatever in carrying out these perfectly simple, normal instructions. Camp 5 is at the height of twenty to twenty-one thousand feet and certainly not more than two to three thousand feet above Camp 3. We had taken the first ascent very easily, it having been transformed into a regular snow track with immens…
1929 · PDF PAGE 333
…ritten. It is a very complete and just exposition of my views, and it is especially to be noticed that within the one hundred and thirty-three pages there is no reference to The Book of the Law. (At the time of publication, therefore, I was still keeping the hem of my garment scrupulously away from the Cairo working.) By the time he had written this chapter, I had brought him to see that materialism, in any ordinary sense of the word, was thoroughly unsatisfactory as an explanation of the universe; but he was not in the least inclined to accept…
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
…he spending anonyma fainted with pleasure, and the cautious Kluckchoo withdrew, only to be summoned in all haste to the royal apartments three days later, when Mrs Arthur disclosed her find to her keeper. To make a long story short, the K..g was so de- lighted with the Appendix-fuck of Kluckchoo, that he did absolutely nothing else all day and all night. Affairs of state went by the board, and to the cringing official who dared to remind him of his approaching coronation, he replied : Bugger the Coronation ! This language shocked the prudish En…