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Page 58 of 1061910 · PDF PAGE 265
THE HASHEESH EATER cient for the action of a drama; the last left me in complete ignorance of any point far enough back in the past to date the commencement of the sentence. Its enunciation might have occupied years. I wasnot in the same life which had held me when I heard it begun. And now, with time, space expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distanc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
THE HASHEESH EATER cient for the action of a drama; the last left me in complete ignorance of any point far enough back in the past to date the commencement of the sentence. Its enunciation might have occupied years. I wasnot in the same life which had held me when I heard it begun. And now, with time, space expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distanc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
…than a child ; and her answer had the purity and strength of an angel. That even the foul monster who addressed her could support it, unblasted, was matter for astonishment. “Now the older voice broke into filthy insult, a very frenzy of malice. “T heard—O God !—the swish of a whip, and the sound of it falling upon flesh. “ There was silence awhile, save for the hideous laughter of the invisible horror inside. “ At last a piteous little moan. “My blood sangshrill within me. Out of myself, I sprang at the railings, and was over them in a second.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
…than a child ; and her answer had the purity and strength of an angel. That even the foul monster who addressed her could support it, unblasted, was matter for astonishment. “Now the older voice broke into filthy insult, a very frenzy of malice. “T heard—O God !—the swish of a whip, and the sound of it falling upon flesh. “ There was silence awhile, save for the hideous laughter of the invisible horror inside. “ At last a piteous little moan. “My blood sangshrill within me. Out of myself, I sprang at the railings, and was over them in a second.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 206
CHAPTER IV BELOW THE BRUTES September 13 I wonDER: how I have lived through this. Peter camé in last night just after I had closed my diary. I had never seen him like it before; his eyes were half out of his head, bloodshot and furious. He must have been drinking like a madman. He was trembling with rage. He came straight up to me, and hit me de- liberately in the face. “ That'll teach you,’ he shouted, and called me a foul name. : I couldn’t answer. I was too hurt, not by the blow, but by the surprise. I had pictured it so differently. He stag…
1907 · PDF PAGE 328
…ood example is that of Hugo de St. Victor . He made a three - fold division , the lowest being Cogitatio , the next Medi tatio , and the last and highest , Contemplatio . On a similar basis Richard de St. Victor erected six stages of contemplation : 1. In imaginatione secundum solam imaginationem . 2. In imaginatione secundum rationem . 3. In ratione secundum imaginationem . 4. In ratione secundum rationem . 5. Supra rationem sed non praeter rationem . 6. Supra rationem videtur esse praeter rationem . Y
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
…ence, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims of hope. It is the attach- ment to the visible sign of the things which one does not see. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” To affirm without folly that God is or that He is not, one must begin with a reasonable or unreasonable definition of God. Now, this definition, in order to be reasonable, must be hypothetical, analogical, and the negation of the know…
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
…ence, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims of hope. It is the attach- ment to the visible sign of the things which one does not see. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” To affirm without folly that God is or that He is not, one must begin with a reasonable or unreasonable definition of God. Now, this definition, in order to be reasonable, must be hypothetical, analogical, and the negation of the know…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
… Plate—by Satan, out of Lake 0’ Fire. So, calling Iblis of the jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the mom was dewy wet An hog for the Muezzin upstood, and chanted from the Minaret. “ There is no God! no God! (he sware) Mohammed was a charlatan! Sleep is more excellent than prayer! and pork is pleasant in the pan !” The elders knew that only one could crack such execrable quips. They hurried off to have the fun of slicing him in litt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
…ome across an almost more lurid description of this Mes saline in “ The Jilt,” in which her new -found lover feasts off the agony of her last victim , which still moistens her blood -red lips : His death lends savour to our passionate life ; His is the heart I taste upon your tongue ; His death -spasms our love -spasms , my wife ; His death -songs are the love -songs that you sung ! Ah ! Sweet , each kiss I drink from you is warm With the dear life -blood of a man-a man ! The scent of murder lures me , like a charm Tied by some subtlety Canidia…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…that never again, neither to save life, nor to retain honour, wilt thou set foot in the Street of the Four Winds ; so long as life shall last.’ “Even as he bade me, I rose with lifted hand and swore. “As I did so there resounded in the room ten sharp knocks, as of ivory on wood, in a certain peculiar cadence. “This was but the first of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of knowledge— books, manus…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…that never again, neither to save life, nor to retain honour, wilt thou set foot in the Street of the Four Winds ; so long as life shall last.’ “Even as he bade me, I rose with lifted hand and swore. “As I did so there resounded in the room ten sharp knocks, as of ivory on wood, in a certain peculiar cadence. “This was but the first of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of knowledge— books, manus…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…tu veux me perdre." His English had no equivalent She gave a little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “Your body and soul," she answered solemnly; her eyes sank into his, like a dagger into the belly of a faithless Kabyle woman. “ But beyond that, your secret! You know life, yet you can laugh from a mad heart ! ” " It is easily said. I am going to London to—morrow. There they will make me bankrupt, because I love my neigh- bour better than myself, and prosecute me f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…tu veux me perdre." His English had no equivalent She gave a little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “Your body and soul," she answered solemnly; her eyes sank into his, like a dagger into the belly of a faithless Kabyle woman. “ But beyond that, your secret! You know life, yet you can laugh from a mad heart ! ” " It is easily said. I am going to London to—morrow. There they will make me bankrupt, because I love my neigh- bour better than myself, and prosecute me f…
1996 · PDF PAGE 77
…s are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of Pisces, just as, in the Trumps VIII and XI, Leo and Libra do about Virgo. This last revelation makes our Tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical.3 The fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman Wisdom of the author of this Book to those who have laboured for years, in vain, to elucidate the problems of the Tarot. 1 [Liber CXI vel Aleph, The Book of Wisdom or Folly, p. 142. See Works Cited.] 2 [The “Old Comment” was omitted in this abridgemen…
1904 · PDF PAGE 13
THE SWORD OF SONG 6 We’ll have the ham to logic’s sandwich Of indignation: last bread bland, which After our scorn of God’s lust, terror, hate, Prometheus-fired, we’ll butter, perorate With oiled indifference, laughter’s silver: “Omne hoc verbum valet nil, vir” ! Let me help Babu Chander Grish up ! As by a posset of Hunyadi38 Clear mind! Was Soudan of the Mahdi Not cleared by Kitchener ? Ah, Tchhup ! Such nonsense for sound truth you dish up, Were I magician, no mere cadi, Not Samuel’s ghost you’d make me wish up, Nor Saul’s (the mighty son of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
… thought less ; the tomb is darker still ; into it creeps the thoughtful . The dead are our gods , soon we shall strike our tent for the last time and join the great caravanserai of the departed : Wend now thy way with brow serene , fear not thy humble tale to tell : The whispers of the Desert - wind ; the tinkling of the camel's bell . This beauty of Death as the releaser from the temptations of life , is finely drawn by the subtle pen of Aleister Crowley . Death is no longer the grub slimed skull , about whose sticky lips buzz the blue blow -…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…othing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to believe that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels al…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…othing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to believe that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels al…
1910 · PDF PAGE 90
…he blue of the whole sky, and the blue be illumined by the streamers of the false dawn, which is like death as the true dawn is like the last day.7 I hope, Habib, that thy podex is ca- pable of severe combat ; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar withdraw his member. 1. So our best M.S. [Persian text] But [Persian text] flesh — meaning buttocks — sounds more likely. Consideration of prosody support the text. 2. Meteor-struck : meteors are the stones flung by the angels at the Jinn who pry into Heaven. This epithet confirms our view of th…