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Page 59 of 1031922 · PDF PAGE 311
…s completely different from anything I’d ever seen in him. He turned away and flung himself into a chair, searched in his pockets for an old black pipe, filled it and lit it. He seemed the prey of a peculiar agitation. That again was utterly unlike him. He cleared his throat and got up, with an entire change of behaviour. He offered me one of his millionaire cigars and motioned to Lala to get me a drink. “‘ This is the latest fashion in the studio,” said Lala gaily. She was obviously trying to relieve the tension. ‘* Basil invented it last nigh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…to the moderns, without a flaw. But was it imaginary or was it real? Real enough to swal- low up the sane thought! At that instant the old Arthur reappeared. I am not the monster! I am Arthur Blair, of Fettes and Trinity. I have passed through a paroxysm.
1909 · PDF PAGE 125
…on. “ But the shame of me, as I slunk away down the streets| I would not go home that night at all, ashamed to face my own servants. “T told myself, in the end, that this was a rare accident; but for all that there must have remained a slight stain upon the mirror of perfect chivalry. In the old days when they taught logic in the schools one learnt how delicate a flower was a ‘universal affirmative.’ “It was some uneventful months after this ‘ tragedy of the ideal’ that Iwas again walking home very late. I had been to the Jardin des Plantes in …
1909 · PDF PAGE 125
…on. “ But the shame of me, as I slunk away down the streets| I would not go home that night at all, ashamed to face my own servants. “T told myself, in the end, that this was a rare accident; but for all that there must have remained a slight stain upon the mirror of perfect chivalry. In the old days when they taught logic in the schools one learnt how delicate a flower was a ‘universal affirmative.’ “It was some uneventful months after this ‘ tragedy of the ideal’ that Iwas again walking home very late. I had been to the Jardin des Plantes in …
1912 · PDF PAGE 50
THE EQUINOX he found his old comrade, I. A., now a member of the Buddhist Sangha, under the name οί Bhikku Ananda Metteya. It was from him that he received the instructions which were to help him to reach the great and terrible pinnacle of the mind whence the Adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter…
1912 · PDF PAGE 139
…minutes found the ring glittering in its dusty setting, like the eyes of a snake in the jungle. “Oh, you darling I " she cried, “Oh, you old fraud 1 You said nothing about making gold l" “ Ah] that’s a little accident,” replied the Professor. " Discoveries never come singly." “And is it really for me? All my very own?" ”Who else should it be for, darling?” “ You’re a darling sweet boy." “ Run away and wash your handsl I've warmed up your own element for you, you dear little Spirit of Salt!” She ran gleefully into the laboratory. On the bench st…
1912 · PDF PAGE 181
THE TELL-TALE HEART Come in, Warren; come in, Anderson; a cold night; we’ll have a drop of something to warm us by and by. [More mm” more at his ease. SERGEANT. Why, the fact is, Mr. Adams, neighbour Clark here heard a dreadful cry in the cottage, and JACK. Hal Ha! Clark, you're a funny fellow. It’s no joke to me, though, for the fact is I had the most awful dream SERGEANT. And so you shrieked, of course. Strikes me, neighbour Clark, you've found a pretty mare‘s nest. CLARK. But where’s 016 Meyer? I swear I saw him come in less than half an hou…
1912 · PDF PAGE 50
THE EQUINOX he found his old comrade, I. A., now a member of the Buddhist Sangha, under the name οί Bhikku Ananda Metteya. It was from him that he received the instructions which were to help him to reach the great and terrible pinnacle of the mind whence the Adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter…
1912 · PDF PAGE 139
…minutes found the ring glittering in its dusty setting, like the eyes of a snake in the jungle. “Oh, you darling I " she cried, “Oh, you old fraud 1 You said nothing about making gold l" “ Ah] that’s a little accident,” replied the Professor. " Discoveries never come singly." “And is it really for me? All my very own?" ”Who else should it be for, darling?” “ You’re a darling sweet boy." “ Run away and wash your handsl I've warmed up your own element for you, you dear little Spirit of Salt!” She ran gleefully into the laboratory. On the bench st…
1912 · PDF PAGE 181
THE TELL-TALE HEART Come in, Warren; come in, Anderson; a cold night; we’ll have a drop of something to warm us by and by. [More mm” more at his ease. SERGEANT. Why, the fact is, Mr. Adams, neighbour Clark here heard a dreadful cry in the cottage, and JACK. Hal Ha! Clark, you're a funny fellow. It’s no joke to me, though, for the fact is I had the most awful dream SERGEANT. And so you shrieked, of course. Strikes me, neighbour Clark, you've found a pretty mare‘s nest. CLARK. But where’s 016 Meyer? I swear I saw him come in less than half an hou…
1919 · PDF PAGE 94
…e roof of the Uni- verse; there is none to answer Thee. . 58. Thou art like a lonely pillar in the midst of the sea; there is none to behold Thee, O Thou who beholdest all! 59. Thou dost faint, thou dost fail, thou scribe; cried the desolate Voice; but I have filled thee with a wine whose sa- vour thou knowest not. 60. It shall avail to make drunken the people of the old gray sphere that rolls in the infinite Far-off; they shall lap the wine as dogs that lap the blood of a beautiful courtesan pierced through by the Spear of a swift rider throug…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
Line 6 Line 7 Line 8 G.\ D.*. (as it is printed in Equinox I, II, for the old aeon) the Hierophant is the perfected Osiris, who brings the candidate, the natural Osiris, to identity with himself. But in the new Aeon the Hierophant is Horus (Liber CCXX, I 49) therefore the Candidate will be Horus too. What then is the formula of the initiation of Horus ? It will no longer be that of the Man, through Death. It will be the natural growth of the Child. His expériences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. Their hieroglyph is the Pool: the innoc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
… was to claim to be treated exactly as if they were men in every respect. Gerald, always eager to oblige, addressed one of his models as old fellow, to her great satisfaction. Then he excused himself for a momentary absence in the terms which he would have used to another man. On his return, the lady had recovered her "sex and character", and had bolted. Woman can only mix with men on equal terms when adopts his morality lock, stock and barrel, and ceases to set an extravagant artificial value on her animal functions. The most high- principled …
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
…m Genesis to Revelations, But leave me with the Flaming Star,75 Jeheshua (See thou Zohar !)76 And thus our formidable Pigeon-77 Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am found Attacking nothing. Here’s the ground, Pistols, and coffee—three in one, (Alas, O Rabbi Schimeon !) But never a duellist—no Son, No Father, and (to please us most) Decency pleads—no Holy Ghost! All vanish at the touch of truth, A cobweb trio—like, in sooth, 705 710 715 720 725 730 735 740 Mystical mean-ing o f “Ascen-sion Day.” Futility of whole discus- si…
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…he door, he glowered with dull surprise. Equally wet, standing in one corner and wringing out a blouse, was a girl of about twenty years old, an Amazon maid. He could see that she was a lady—that is, that she was not a villager; but he had no means of knowing that she was the Honourable Diana Vi11iers-Jernyngham—Ketteringham. Placide spoke a patois that a Parisian might have surmised to be Cherokee, and Diana’s boarding—school French would have been given up by that Parisian as no earthly language at all. 85
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…he door, he glowered with dull surprise. Equally wet, standing in one corner and wringing out a blouse, was a girl of about twenty years old, an Amazon maid. He could see that she was a lady—that is, that she was not a villager; but he had no means of knowing that she was the Honourable Diana Vi11iers-Jernyngham—Ketteringham. Placide spoke a patois that a Parisian might have surmised to be Cherokee, and Diana’s boarding—school French would have been given up by that Parisian as no earthly language at all. 85
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
…Even apart from this, if Living Creatures are really existent things—which the name would suggest—the argument stands: The Rig-Veda, The Old Testament, The Insidecompletuar Britanniaware, The Sword of Song all refer to the Sun. *, there is a common source in literature. Mr. Waite’s fallacy is all very well, though, for people who have never kept Living Creatures, nor even made a fourth at Bridge. 5
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
… determined therefore to begin steadily and quietly, allow- 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 Gar…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…dy growth of alt- ruism pari-passu with the Gospel that advocates it, the world is come to such a pass that the canaille is throned. The Old Age Pensions folly, which is simply the offi- cial seal upon the survival of the unfittest, a check to ho- nest ambition, a playing into the hands of the unskilful and the vicious, all of those (in short) whom a healthy or- ganism crushes as the first condition of its well-being, is so “ popular ” that of all the House of Commons, the majo- rity of whom see as plainly as I do how things stand, bare- ly 1 %…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
…erve to be described in detail. There is in Paris a writer named Mr. Madrolle, who is, to say the least of it, a bit eccentric. He is an old man of good family. He wrote at first on behalf of Catholicism in the most exalted way, received most flattering encouragements from ecclesiastical authority, and even letters from the Holy See. Then he saw Vintras; and, led away by the prestige of his miracles, became a determined sectarian, and an irreconcil- able enemy of the hierarchy and of the clergy. At ‘the period when Eliphas Levi was publishing h…