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Page 70 of 2251922 · PDF PAGE 273
…9 was still a faint smell of bitter almond in the air. It reminded me of how the dinner might have ended, and I trembled all over like a man in an ague fit. What was happening in me? Had I suddenly fallen in love with life, or had I simply become aware of the fear of death ? When we reached the fresh air, I knew it was the former. Lamus had made me feel. The effect of the drug had been to kill all feelingin me. My impulse to kill myself had not been so wholly negative’as I had thought. It was a positive craving for what I supposed to be the anz…
1944 · PDF PAGE 86
The seers in the early days of the Aeon of Osiris foresaw the Manifestation of this com‐ ing Aeon in which we now live, and they regarded it with intense horror and fear, not under‐ standing the precession of the Aeons, and regarding every change as catastrophe. This is the real interpretation of, and the reason for, the diatribes against the Beast and the Scarlet Woman in the XIII, XVII and XVIII‐th chapters of the Apocalypse; but on the Tree of Life, the path of Gimel, the Moon, descending from the highest, cuts the path of Teth, Leo, the hou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 454
…LITY (1) 421 to carry out his very first duty to the State, the production of an heir. Quite contrary to this is the career of the "Holy Man." Accustomed to the severest physical toil, inured to all the rigours of climate, aloof from every noxious excess, he becomes a very champion of virility. More, he has been particularly trained for this form of asceticism by all sorts of secret methods and practices; some of these, by the way, I was able to learn myself, and found surprisingly efficacious. So we have the law of supply and demand at work as…
1903 · PDF PAGE 53
…t fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd ? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be bought ! 33
1905 · PDF PAGE 91
…rthly but tunes of thine own, in the vaults of Aornos that ring? Nor caring nor hearing For hearts that be bowed, Nor hating nor fearing Man’s crying aloud, Solemnly spearing _ The single, the crowd, Thou sittest remote and alone, unprofane, with due silence endowed ! , I call thee by Nature, My mother and friend ! By every creature! | By life and its end! By love, the true teacher, My chanting I send, Invoking thy stature immense, the terrible form of a fiend! I hear not a word, ' Though my music be rolled As the song of a bird Through fields …
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…rd of the of Fate . Forces of Life 8. Justice. . The Daughterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates of Matter: the Child of the Forces of Time . LETTER ATTRI- BUTION ` "h ιι?כ .₪,`כ V?מ 11כ B Φ V.??ע 151
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…rd of the of Fate . Forces of Life 8. Justice. . The Daughterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates of Matter: the Child of the Forces of Time . LETTER ATTRI- BUTION ` "h ιι?כ .₪,`כ V?מ 11כ B Φ V.??ע 151
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
Norman Davey . Far from life and land , unnumbered ships - enmeshed while sailors slumbered Glide in dripping weed encumbered to that magic, tragic main : While from out the sunset sheening , sounds a song of bitter meaning , Waking all the intervening oceans with its sad refrain . As your gallant ships go sailing - blocks acreaking , log atrailing , Can 't you hear us wailing , wailing ? Will you never , never heed Us , who lie with mate and man dead - sailless , rudderless and stranded Ever firmly , foully banded , bound with bleak Sargasso w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 98
…if less profound, writings of Einstein1. 1Compare Saturn, at one end of the Seven Sacred Wanderers, with the Moon at the other: the aged man and the young girl—see “The Formula of Tetragrammaton”. They are linked as no other two planets, since 32=9, and each contains in itself the extremes of its own idea. (See also Appendix: Atu xxi.)
1922 · PDF PAGE 290
…m to me that the modern criminal millionaire was actually assisted by the complexity of the Company laws. It is impossible for the plain man to understand them, so that an unscrupulous man armed with expert knowledge is much more likely to get the better of his unwary fellows than in the old days when his activities were confined to thimble-rigging and pulling favourites. “Oh, Basil,’ put in Maisie, ‘‘ do tell our friends what you were saying the other day about the South Sea Islands.”
1922 · PDF PAGE 351
…s destroyed my interest in them. 21. Heroin has removed my desire for liquor. If I must choose, I really think heroin is the better. 22. Man has a right to spiritual ambition. He has evolved to what he is, through making dangerous experiments. Heroin certainly helps me to obtain a new spiritual outlook on the world. I have no right to assume that the ruin of bodily health is injurious ; and ‘‘ whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” 23. So-and-so has taken it for years, and is all righ…
1954 · PDF PAGE 521
… why did the MS have to get lost? Even suicide is not a "dead bird." I knew a creature once - careless observers often mistook him for a man- who tried three times, pistol, rope and poison. Something always went wrong. (Like the Babbacombe murderer, who went to the scaffold three times, and lived to a green old age!) Finally he did poison himself , by accident, when he had no intention whatever of doing anything of the sort. Where's that Book of Lies? Ah, here we are. "It is chance, and chance only, that rules the Universe; therefore , and ther…
1907 · PDF PAGE 320
THE NEW WINE 313 Act ! Nor for faith nor folly turn ! The hour is nigh when man and wife , Knowing , shall worship face to face , Beget and bear the royal race. ' This is the divine union of the active with the passive 17177 formulating Tetragrammaton , and of the w descending upon the 1717 ' formulating Christ . It is the old story of Dévaki or of Mary , in which the aspirant falling into an ecstatic state , is visited by the divine essence ; in the one case under the form of Mahadeva , in the other under that of the Holy Spirit ; and losing c…
1898 · PDF PAGE 108
…lash forget the rust That clings them round, as fighting men Forget their wounds, with no distrust Of death. Yea, dust may turn to dust, Man’s spirit to his God again, But memory cannot fade, and while My hot devouring kisses rain On thy worn face, in writhing pain Biting my lips, that fiercely smile As tigers’ lips, and gnaw thy mouth, Till the blood spurts in dainty style And blinds and bruises me awhile, Yet satiates the awful drouth ; I suck, and shudder, and rave, and clutch, Thy breasts, with wounds and sores uncouth, Drenched with diseas…
1913 · PDF PAGE 127
… But who it was had sowed the seed , Who made it blossom , who Taught each of us the other 's need I know no more than you . THE AGES OF MAN . W E children in our crowded home W Had little food to eat, Our breeding was the right to roam And scavenge in the street ; My brothers died , my sister died , And I grew all accurst , With pigeon breast, with surly pride, With hunger and with thirst. When I was twenty years of age I earned my pound a week , I ate and drank the princely wage And almost I grew sleek : And then I married me a wife Who made …
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…en, Like a veil are drawn Over love and all delight; Grey desires invade the white. Love and life are but a span ; Woe is me! and woe is man! The sound stood trembling in the forest dim Lingering a little, yet there taketh him A strong man’s one short moment of despair. He fell, the last of Titans, his loose hair Tangled in roses ; while his heart and mind Broken and yet imperishable, blind, Hateful, desire they know not what, and turn Lastly to pray for death ; his wild eyes burn, And bitter tears divide his doubtful breath. So grew his anguis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
… be subjected to arbitration in the usual way and shall not be subject to appeal at law or otherwise. 7. Should a third, fourth or fifth man join the party, he shall sign this agreement before he is definitely accepted. Witness our hands. At Kandy, Oct. 12th, 1901. The expedition was composed of six members. Thanks to the Alpine Club, there was no Englishman of mountaineering ability and experience available. We had, however, a Trinity man named Knowles, aged twenty-two, which is far too young for work of this kind, which requires endurance. He…
1922 · PDF PAGE 211
…eroin out of him. This morning has taken everything out of me. I don’t care about saving myself. I know I can’t save Peter. Why must a woman always have a man for her motive ? All I want is H. Both Cockie and I need it heHishly. “Look here, Lou,’ he said with a cunning grin, such as I’d never seen before, quite out of keeping with his character. ‘‘ You doll yourself up and try the doctors. A man told me last night that there were some who would give you a prescription if you paid them enough. A tenner ought to do the trick.” He pulled some dirt…
1922 · PDF PAGE 269
King Lamus Intervenes 255 this; that they started taking the drugs because life, in one way or another, was one too many for them. And what is the result? The drugs have not in the least relieved the monotony of life or whatever their trouble was, and yet they have got into a state very like that of death, in which they are impotent to struggle. No, we must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. e can face that adventure as we've faced the others.”’ The personality of the man radiated en…
1922 · PDF PAGE 358
… mechanical perfection of railway travelling. When the war broke out I had gone straight to the engineering shops; and I became a flying man rather against my will, on account of my weight and the dearth of pilots. I broke off in my enthusiastic harangue, because King Lamus had stopped on the crest of the ridge which divided the strangers’ house at the Abbey from the main buildings. “The climb has put you out of breath,” he said. “ Take a sniff of this; it will put you all right in a second.” I pushed the man’s hand away impatiently, and the li…