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Page 70 of 1001922 · PDF PAGE 269
…e torn away from the fixed idea which had imposed itself as the necessary conclusion of a course of thought and action extending over so long a peri I can imagine a man reprieved at the foot of a scaffold experiencing an acute annoyance at being wrenched away from the logical outcome of his tendencies. “Cowards die many times before their death.” And those who have decided whether with their will or against it, to put an end to their lives, must resent interference. As Schopenhauer says, the will to die is inherent in all of us, as much as the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 380
…gentlemen, and they would be eternally honoured and grateful if we would send the money from Madrid! On arrival at that city, we noticed long queues of people besieging the Banks; I put my finger to my nose, and said Aha! But, sitting down at a cafe, oh no! not at all! Pesos were passing without question. Well, well! So I got into conversation with a knowledgeable-looking bloke, and he told me the whole story. It seemed that the Director of Customs had a brother in Mexico D.F. who manufactured brass bedsteads. The uprights of these were packed …
1996 · PDF PAGE 94
…t the Annihilation of the Ego in the Abyss is the condition of emanci pating the true Self, and exalting it to unimaginable heights. So long as one remains “one’s self,” one is overwhelmed by the Uni verse; destroy the sense of self, and every event is equally an expression of one’s Will, since its occurrence is the resultant of the concourse of the forces which one recognizes as one’s own. 9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. Commentary:…
1929 · PDF PAGE 205
…te. Clouds without Water came four years later. I am still sitting sleepily in the twilight in Europe; after my day's labour three years long in the blazing sun of the great world. I spent many of my evenings at a little restaurant called the Chat blanc in the rue d'Odessa, where was "an upper room furnished" and consecrated informally to a sort of international clique of writer, painters, sculptors, students and their friends. It has been described with accurate vigour in the introduction to Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden. I quote the passag…
1922 · PDF PAGE 82
…sips of very old Armagnac; it pulled us together. But all the virtue had gone out of us; we might have been convalescents from some very long and wasting illness. “‘ There’s nothing to be alarmed about,” said Feccles, with his curious little laugh. “A trifling indiscretion.” I winced at the word. It took me back to King Lamus. I hated that fellow more than ever. He had begun to obsess me. Confound him |! Lou had confided the whole story to our host, who admitted that he was familiar with these matters. “You see, my dear Sir Peter,” he said, “‘ …
1929 · PDF PAGE 261
…n which lies, as one may say, in the embrace of Kangchenjunga. These slopes were the critical point of the passage. It intended to fix a long knotted rope at the top, if necessary, to serve as hand-hold for the coolies, it being now certain that we could establish our main camp at the foot of Jacob's Rake. Certain, that is, bar the interference of absolute perversity. The following day showed me that such perversity was only too likely to put a spoke in the wheel. The arrangement was that I was to find my way to Camp 3, which I had already been…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
… mountains among the sturdy peasants or went abroad. North- western Europe appealed to me. There was a certain element of romance in the long nights, the cold clear air, the ice. I loved to wander solitary in Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. There was a mystery in the streets and a spontaneous gaiety in the places of amusement, which satisfied my soul. Life seemed both more remote and more intense. As a stranger, I never came into contact with the malaise, the soul-searching, the psychological dissatisfaction which Ibsen and Strindberg desc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 362
…ething to love in every strange face, to admire even the dreariest wilderness of sunburnt scrub. We knew that nothing really mattered so long as we got to Madrid. The world went on very well without us and its fortunes were none of our business. The only thing that could annoy us was interference with out intention to get to Madrid, though we didn't want to go there except insofar as we had taken it into our heads to set our faces towards it. All these lessons would be of value when I got to London. I meant to tell mankind to aspire to a new st…
1922 · PDF PAGE 180
…rkish bath. I couldn’t stand that loathsome house any more. It has done me lots of good. The massage has calmed my nerves. I slept for a long while, and a cup of tea has revived me. I tried to read a paper, but every line opens the wound. They seem to have gone mad about dope. . . I suppose it’s really quite natural. I remember my father telling me once that the inequality of wealth
1922 · PDF PAGE 323
Out of Harm’s Way 309 take it easy. I'll tell them to get some refreshments ready and send some one down to bring you along.” He waved his hand and strode up the hill with the steady swinging step of the practised mountaineer. Lou’s hand crept into mine. We were alone with nature. A new feeling had been born in us. The sense of personality had somehow faded out. I drew her gently into my arms; and we exchanged a long kiss such as we had never done before. We were not kissing each other. We were parts of the picture, whose natural expression it …
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…ent from bad to worse as I grew in moral power. Part of the time I was well enough to go to a day school in Streatham, where I learnt at long last the terrible secret which I had racked my brains to discover for nearly three years. Here was certainly a sin worth sinning and I applied myself with characteristic vigour to its practice. As my father had been accustomed to drink wine, I could not see how drinking could be a sin. There was, therefore, no object in doing it. I never touched wine until I got to Trinity and I have never felt the smalle…
1922 · PDF PAGE 69
Au Pays de Cocaine 55 _Now I don’t want you to think that that white silk packet was very big. Lou stooped over the table, her long thin tongue shot out of her mouth like an ant-eater in the Dictionary of National Biography or whatever it is, and twiddled it round in that snow till I nearly went out of my mind. I laughed like a hyena, to think of what she’d said tome. “ Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.” That chap Swinburne was always talking about bitter kisses. What did he know, poor old boy? Until you’ve got your mouth full of cocaine, you d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 441
…ple may wonder!) With the vowels, one does seem to find a natural correspondence. (I wrote a ballet , The Blind Prophet, on these lines, long before it struck me to investigate on scientific lines.) The Hindus knew this with their A-U-M: A is the open breath, 0 the controlled force, M no breath at all. (See Magick, pp. 45-49.) To me I is a shrill feminine sound, as o is the roar of the male. U is pursed , E hardly significant. As to Magick, the Gnostics were chili con carne plus molten platinum plus a few girls I have known on the vowels. Their…
1996 · PDF PAGE 208
…phabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it…
1899 · PDF PAGE 252
…, the snake Leapt in the sunlight, and its body brake With glistening scales that golden skin of hers. And writhing with pure shame, the long grass whirrs With her sharp flight of fury and despair.’ There is no new note here. Even the epithets are conventional ; nor does the author take to heart his master’s advice to poets to ‘load each line with gold. In an epilogue to the story, written in a rougher metre, the author is somewhat happier.”— The Critic. 6
1922 · PDF PAGE 299
…ave no right to decide off- hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And as long as his peculiarity doesn’t damage or interfere with other people, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be left alone. But if it is the man’s fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness ; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of eating it or not eating it ; if he imagines that most of the people he meets are also sawdust-eaters, and above all, if he thinks…
1906 · PDF PAGE 215
…therwise. Fool! 557- Prayer\—This fish-story is literally true. The condition was that the Almighty should have the odds of an unusually long line,—the place was really a swift stream, just debouching into a lake—and of an unusual slowness of drawing in the cast. But what does any miracle prove? If the Affaire Cana were proved to me, I should merely record the facts: Water may under certain unknown conditions become wine. It is a pity that the owner of the secret remains silent, and entirely lamentable that he should attempt to deduce from his …
1922 · PDF PAGE 283
…the first two doses made us lively, and with the third we were out of bed and having a bath for the first time in—I’m ashamed to say how long. Lou fell into a rage at the condition of our underwear, and of our outer clothes, too, for the matter of that. It was all soiled and dirty and stained. We must literally have stunk. And with the realisation of this came an acute feeling of disgrace that we should have been going about with Lamus and Lala in such a condition. If they had said anything about it to us, we might have worked up an artificial …
1954 · PDF PAGE 219
…ay impatiently, but there isn't any miracle about all this in the ordinary sense of the word. True, but why the devil do you want me, so long as you're getting what you need? Just being childlike, I suppose! No? Merely that you can explain such matters to yourself well enough. All right; on to No.2. Shall we look at levitation for a change? This power-if it be one-is very curious indeed. It connects more directly with magnetism than almost any other. The first thing we think of when someone says "magnet" is picking up iron filings as a child. A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…ve a very small door, and should be without any windows; it should be level and without any holes; it should be neither too high nor too long. It should be very clean, being daily smeared over with cow- dung, and should be free from all insects. Outside it should be a small corridor with a raised seat and a well, and the whole should be surrounded by a wall... .* ili. Time. The hours in which Yoga should be performed vary with the instructions of the Guru, but usually they should be four times a day, at sunrise, mid-day, sunset and mid-night. i…