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…‘man of bad character ; but thaton discovering him to be so, he instantly disowned his ? Maruers. Yes, Scowri0, KC. Mr. Crowley may have thought that even an mocent association with such a person was criminal? Maries, “He was very young and foolish Scourio, KC. It is this that he referred to in his remark to Dr. Berridge? Mavuns. May be. Scowvi0, K.C. ‘The date tallies 2 {@) he pom (ao the foutote) as ft pine in 85, tai trae ofthe sles inate" o ery
1922 · PDF PAGE 60
…ds in cash from London, thinking as I did so how jolly it was to be reckless. We were going to have a good time, and damn the expense! I thought of a thousand pounds as enough to paint Paris every colour of the spectrum for a quite in- definitely long period; but at the end of the week the thousand pounds was gone, and so was another thousand pounds for which I had cabled to London; and we had absolutely nothing to show for it except a couple of dresses for Lou, and a few not very expensive pieces of jewellery. We felt that we were very economi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
…is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysician, we will content ourselves with the simpler task of measuring our thoughts by the only stan- dard which is unquestionably valid, consciousness. Scept. But if that consciousness deceive us ? Myst. We are the more deceived! But it is after all indifferent ; for it is we who are deceived. Idle to pretend that any oth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 298
…d ones have passed away , some singing , some laughing , some weeping ; and in their place have come the clowns and pantaloons of modern thought , hurling rational sausages at each others ' heads , and waylaying un wary curates , foolish young women , and the inarticu late guardians of the peace . We are indeed living in an approximate age , when in proportion to the simple distance , instead of the square of that distance , inversely our knowledge be comes known ; yet curious to say , as Rousseau once said : “ The choice which is opposed to Re…
1911 · PDF PAGE 123
…l not. And yet again there is another cause wherefore He hath permitted them to enter thus far within the frontiers of Eden, so that His thought should never swerve from compassion. But do thou behold the brilliance of Love, that casteth forth seven stars upon thine head from her right hand, and crowneth thee with a crown of seven roses. Behold! She is seated upon the throne of turquoise and lapis lazuli, and she is like a flawless emerald, and upon the pillars that support the canopy 121
1913 · PDF PAGE 548
…taking their enthusiasms, one grows accustomed to their logic that has lost its way, one ends by finding that they are not as mad as one thought at first. Thence to believing that they alone are right there is but one step. One likes them, one approves of them, one is as mad as they are. The affections are free and may be based on reason, but sympathies are of fatalism, and very frequently unreasonable. They depend on the more or less balanced attractions of the magnetic light, and act on men in the same way as upon animals. One will stupidly t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 548
…taking their enthusiasms, one grows accustomed to their logic that has lost its way, one ends by finding that they are not as mad as one thought at first. Thence to believing that they alone are right there is but one step. One likes them, one approves of them, one is as mad as they are. The affections are free and may be based on reason, but sympathies are of fatalism, and very frequently unreasonable. They depend on the more or less balanced attractions of the magnetic light, and act on men in the same way as upon animals. One will stupidly t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…wale of the boat. Luckily no harm came of it. I was now more anxious than ever to get hold of the beast or to pin him with the boathook, thought his struggles were gradually ceasing, but nothing we could do was any good; little by little he slid off the shallow into the deep water and sank. After hunting about for twenty minutes we gave the affair up as a bad job. Rowing slowly up the stream, we soon caught sight of another fine beast, though not quite so big as the one we lost. I took, however, an extraordinarily careful shot at it and had the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 180
…his (Reverence to Ganesh’ !) ® And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends, Division, 415 Thought, wisdom, drop away. I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. Some poetry. There is a Jake * amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break. 420 Oh! the deep brilliance of the lake! The roar of ice that cracks and goes Crashing within the water! Glows The pale pure water, shakes and slides The glittering sun through emerald tides, 425 So that faint ripples of young light : Laugh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 122
…tared in surprise. How should any one—such a man, of all men—remember his daub, a thing himself had long forgotten? The oldster read his thought. “There was one corner of that picture which interested me deeply, deeply,” he said. “TI called to see you; you had gone—none knew where. I am indeed glad to have met you at last. Perhaps you would be good enough to show me your pictures —you have other pictures of Paris? I am interested in Paris—in Paris itself—in the stones and bricks of it. Might I—if you have nothing better to do—come to your studi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 122
…tared in surprise. How should any one—such a man, of all men—remember his daub, a thing himself had long forgotten? The oldster read his thought. “There was one corner of that picture which interested me deeply, deeply,” he said. “TI called to see you; you had gone—none knew where. I am indeed glad to have met you at last. Perhaps you would be good enough to show me your pictures —you have other pictures of Paris? I am interested in Paris—in Paris itself—in the stones and bricks of it. Might I—if you have nothing better to do—come to your studi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…ied mildly, “ is perhaps not altogether justified. Though the hole be indeed but a bare inch—yet Graphiel owns himself beaten.” “T never thought much of Graphiel!” sneered the archangel, and his serpents echoed him till the world was filled with mocking laughter. But when he had left, he charged them straitly that the work must be regarded seriously. It would never do to fail! 205
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…ied mildly, “ is perhaps not altogether justified. Though the hole be indeed but a bare inch—yet Graphiel owns himself beaten.” “T never thought much of Graphiel!” sneered the archangel, and his serpents echoed him till the world was filled with mocking laughter. But when he had left, he charged them straitly that the work must be regarded seriously. It would never do to fail! 205
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
…s a terrible slave to convention, and may perhaps acquiesce in Hafiz as the undergraduate of to-day acquiesces in Milton. 7. The central thought of these two chapters is represented in the Buddhist philosophy, per- haps ; but in the Hindu practice, certainly. It is true that the Hindu claims the extinction of self in Parabrahm (Jivatma in Paramatma) as the pheno- menon in question ; but this is clearly a petitio principii, since we can always retort that any per- ception however glorious is less than the brain which perceives it. The Hindu woul…
1922 · PDF PAGE 119
…od streams down their bodies, crazily crimson in the stabbing sunlight, and making little scabs of mire upon the torrid trampled sand. I thought of the mcenads and Bacchus; I saw them through the vivid eyes of Euripides and Swinburne. And still unsatisfied, I craved for stranger symbols yet. I became a Witch-Doctor presiding over a cannibal feast, driving the yellow mob of murderers into a fiercer Comus-rout, as the maddening beat of the tom- tom and the sinister scream of the bull-roarer destroy every human quality 1in the worshippers and make…
1922 · PDF PAGE 325
…earn,” he said. “We have to learn to use our eyes, and reading spoils them.” “ But why?” asked Lou, in surprise. “I don’t understand. I ‘thought reading was the best way to get knowledge.” Dionysus put his foot down. Enough of Betause, be he damned for a dod.” It wasn’t physical fatigue this time. These amazing children had made us forget all physical sensation. But when one is walking up-hill it is impossible to D.D.F. X
1944 · PDF PAGE 250
…R THE LANCE AND GRAAL! WANDER ALONE, AND SING! IN THE KING’S PALACE HIS DAUGHTER AWAITS THEE. In spiritual matters, the Fool means idea, thought, spirituality, that which endeavours to transcend earth. In material matters, it may, if badly dignified, mean folly, eccentricity, or even mania. But the essential of this card is that it represents an original, subtle, sudden impulse or impact, coming from a completely strange quarter. All such impulses are right, if rightly received; and the good or ill interpretation of the card depends entirely on…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…wer of Samadhi stand the assault of Question-time? Is not the idea of Samadhi just as dependent on all the other ideas—man, time, being, thought, logic? If I seek to explain Samadhi by analogy, am I not often found talking as if we knew all about Evolution, and Mathematics, and His- tory? Complex and unscientific studies, mere straws before the blast of our hunchback friend! Well, one of the buttresses is just the small matter of common sense. The other day I was with Dorothy, and, as I foolishly imagined, very cosy: for her sandwiches are cele…
1912 · PDF PAGE 134
…rom his work in time to hear her play the fiddle ; anyhow, he hated music. Nor had Muriel ever stayed too late to alarm her landlady, who thought she played at supper as well as at tea. The illness of the Secretary for War alarmed only the German Ambassador, who could not be positive that in case of his death an accident might not happen and a capable person be appointed to the post. The annoyance of his death—telephoned to the Office at three o’clock one afternoon—was concentrated on Professor Zircon, torn away from a compound with half the Gree…
1912 · PDF PAGE 134
…rom his work in time to hear her play the fiddle ; anyhow, he hated music. Nor had Muriel ever stayed too late to alarm her landlady, who thought she played at supper as well as at tea. The illness of the Secretary for War alarmed only the German Ambassador, who could not be positive that in case of his death an accident might not happen and a capable person be appointed to the post. The annoyance of his death—telephoned to the Office at three o’clock one afternoon—was concentrated on Professor Zircon, torn away from a compound with half the Gree…