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Page 61 of 761954 · PDF PAGE 289
…simple to reply : why, but of course! God was most careful not to let them know what they were really doing, or they would have died of fright! This argument was actually put forward by the Spiritists when Zancig confessed that his music-hall exploits· were accomplished by means of a code. It is quite useless to get any sense whatever into the heads of these bigoted imbeciles. 2. The date of the prophecy must antecede that of its fulfilment. The very greatest care must be taken to ensure this. When both dates are remote, as in the case of "fulf…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…ishad!" He turned brusquely to Lisa with the finality of one who has explained everything to the satisfaction of everybody. "Yes, you do right to speak in defence of Eusapia Palladino; we will investigate her when we reach Naples." "You seem determined that I should go to Naples?" "Nothing to do with me: the master's orders. He'll explain, by-and-by. Now let's prove that this lady, whose locks are bushy and black as a raven's, has no hairs concealed upon her person!" "I hate you when you're cynical and sarcastic." "Love me, love my dog!" — Simo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…od, which streamed from his own scalp. "Quick! back to the studio!" said Simon. "We don't want to make explanations. They'll both be all right in five minutes, and they'll think it all a dream. As, indeed, like the rest of things, it is!" But Cyril had to carry la Giuffria. The rapid successions of these mysterious events had ended by throwing her consciousness completely out of gear. She lay in a deep trance. [71] "A very fortunate circumstance!" remarked Simon, when he observed it. "This is the time to take her over to the Profess-House." Cyr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
… The animal instinct in man is the twin of the ape’s or the bull’s. Yet this is the one thing lawful in the code of the bourgeois. He is right to consider the act, as he knows it, degrading. It is, indeed, for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dig nity of man or of the majesty of the God within him. So is the
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
…entury, and replaces the weak tea of the past by his own stinking cabbage- water, It seems useless nowadays to call for a draught of the right Wine of Tacchus. The Evangelicals object to the wine, and the Rationalists to the God. We had filed off the fetter, and while the sores yet burn, find another heavier iron yet firmer on the other foot—as Stevenson so magnificently parabled unto us. Then how this nauseous stinkard quibbles ! This defender of truth! How he delights with apish malice to write “in England,” wishing his hearers to understand …
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
…entury, and replaces the weak tea of the past by his own stinking cabbage- water, It seems useless nowadays to call for a draught of the right Wine of Tacchus. The Evangelicals object to the wine, and the Rationalists to the God. We had filed off the fetter, and while the sores yet burn, find another heavier iron yet firmer on the other foot—as Stevenson so magnificently parabled unto us. Then how this nauseous stinkard quibbles ! This defender of truth! How he delights with apish malice to write “in England,” wishing his hearers to understand …
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
…e is a Mighty, Strong Duke, and appeareth in the Form of an hurtful Angel riding on an Infernal Beast like a Dragon, and carrying in his right hand a Viper. Thou must in no wise let him approach too near unto thee, lest he do thee * Figure 30. * Figure 31. * This hardly agrees with the statement that he is a great liar, and not to be trusted. * See ante, Spirit No. 13. 1g
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
… not bad, despite its incongruities: P. “Frater Perdurabo, on the one occasion on which I was able to sec Him as He really appears, was brighter than the Sun at noon. I fell instantly to the floor in a swoon which lasted several hours, during which I was initiated.” Soror A.*,. Cf. Rev. I, 12-17. 1. The whole idea of the Word Sacrifice, as commonly understaad, rests upon an error and superstition, and is unscientific, besides being metaphysically false. The law of Thelema has totally changed the Point of View as to this matter. Unless you hâve …
1905 · PDF PAGE 254
…him, and new love ! ~“ TLEINRICH. You are the poet! To your instinct then ! Here's to the insight given us by God! LANDGRAVE. Wolfram is right ; a truce to jest to-day, The dogs are loose. Ride forward, gentle- men! [Amid the winding of horns and cries of the huntsmen the company moves off. HEINRICH. They hate his very name! Dear Tannhiuser ! [ Axze. ACT IV. ‘* So, force is sorrow, and each sorrow, force: What then? since Swiftness gives the charioteer The palm, his hope be in the vivid horse Whose neck God clothed with thunder, not the steer S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…ave. Then she saw that the coast was changed: it was the familiar Posilippo which hung above her, and she could see Vesuvius away to the right. She turned to breast the steep slope between her and the road, when she found herself confronted by something that she could not see. She had only a feeling that it was black, that it was icy cold, and that it wished to take the tablet from her. Her first sentiment was that of acute hatred and repulsion; but the thing, whatever it was, seemed so wretched, that she felt she would like to help it. Then sh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 213
…g to his needs, you know. By the way, what's it about? Anything?" "The people think it's about the violation of solemn treaties, and the rights of the little nations, and so on; the governments think it's about commercial expansion; but I who made it know that it is the baptism of blood of the New Aeon. How could we promulgate the Law of Liberty in a world where Freedom has been strangled by industrialism? Men have become such slaves that they submit to laws which would have made a revolution in any other country since the world began; they hav…
1906 · PDF PAGE 136
…e sash. A leopard’s skin ts over his shoulders, clasped with a golden clasp about his neck. He bears an ‘‘ankh” in his left hand, in hts right a caduceus! wand. On his head ts the winged helmet of Mercury, and his sandals are winged also. Hes muttering low some fervent prayer, and anon casts incense upon the censer. The low muttering continues for a considerable time, MAURYA re- maining quite still, as one rapt in her own thoughts. Suddenly, with startling vehemence, the song breaks out. CRIOSDA. HaiL! HaiLt! Halt! [MauRYA, startled, looks up a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…rned from those passages. I began to see now how very unreal even the Wake-world is, because there is just a little dream in it, and the right world is the Wide-Wide-Wide-Wake-World. My lover calls me little Lola Wide awake, not Lola Daydream any more. But it is always Lola, because I am the Key of Delights. I never told you about the first two houses, and really you wouldn’t understand. But the second House is gray, because the light and dark flash by so quick it’s all blended into one; and in it lives my lover, and that ’s all I care about. Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…ight, and kissing a girl, and reading novels, and playing cards, and going to the theatre, and whistling on the Sabbath!" "I hope you're right. You're old, which tends, I suppose, to make you optimistic. In my young ears there always rings the scream of terror of the slave when you offer to strike off his fetters." "All Europe will be scream and stench for years to come. But the new generation will fear neither poverty nor death. They will fear weakness; they will fear dishonour." [301]
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…” and I saw that it was so. We did all the most beautiful wicked things you can imagine, and yet all the time we knew they were good and right, and must be done if ever we were to get to the House of Gold. 50 we en joyed ourselves very much and ate the most extraordinary supper you can think of. There were babies roasted whole and stuffed with pork sausages and olives; and some of the girls cut off chops and steaks from their own bodies, and gave them to a beautiful white cook at a silver grill, that was lighted with the gas of dead bodies and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…ced a great agony. Why had he had dealings with the Ithacans? Ina lonely place he pondered sadly. An angel spoke to him. “Martin, you do right to be sad, but it was the only way.” Never again did he go to any council. He was wont to say with tears that if he had saved the heretics he himself had lost power over men and over demons. They have outraged the meaning of the episode who explain Martin’s protest as merely against the surrender of the Church to Secular Power. It was 2se- humanité of which he held the Ithacans guilty. St. Martin of Tour…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…ced a great agony. Why had he had dealings with the Ithacans? Ina lonely place he pondered sadly. An angel spoke to him. “Martin, you do right to be sad, but it was the only way.” Never again did he go to any council. He was wont to say with tears that if he had saved the heretics he himself had lost power over men and over demons. They have outraged the meaning of the episode who explain Martin’s protest as merely against the surrender of the Church to Secular Power. It was 2se- humanité of which he held the Ithacans guilty. St. Martin of Tour…
1929 · PDF PAGE 213
…ine crop of the regular Highland superstitions. The howl of a bulldog, exactly like the crying of a child, is heard far off. GEORGE. All right. It's only that damned dog of M'Alister's. He does it every night. FENELLA. He sees the ghost of old Lord Lovat. GEORGE. Old Lord Lovat? FENELLA. Yes; they beheaded him after the '45. He rolls his head up and down the corridors. GEORGE Pleasant pastime! FENELLA. What else is a man to do? GEORGE. What's that tapping? (He stops to listen.) FENELLA. Go on! It's only the old woman.
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…you examined the Countess. Oughtn't I to look at her hands if this is to be evidential?" Simon Iff's smile showed him that he was on the right track. He took the medium's hands, and inspected them minutely. Of course he found no hairs; he was not looking for them. "Do you know," he said, "I think we ought to file off these nails. There's such a lot of room for hairs and things." The Pasha immediately protested. "I don't think we ought to interfere with a lady's manicuring," he said indignantly. "Surely we can trust our eyes!" Cyril Grey had bea…
1944 · PDF PAGE 30
…fixed facts. Bertrand Russell says that in this subject “no‐ body knows what he is talking about, and it matters to nobody whether he is right or wrong”.