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…n of attention, and even our dreams continued the exaltation of our love. The importance of any incident was negligible. In the ordinary way one’s actions are to a certain extent inhibited. As the phrase goes, one thinks twice before doing so and so. We weren’t thinking twice any more. Desire was transformed into action without the slightest check. Fatigue, too, had been completely banished. | We woke the next morning with the sun. We stood on the balcony in our dressing-gowns and watched him rise. We felt ourselves one with him, as fresh and a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
… [298] "But I don't see any armed men." "You will. Haven't you seen the papers?" "I never see papers. I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way mother used to make them."
1954 · PDF PAGE 64
…ure by the empirical application of certain principles whose interplay involves different orders of idea, connected with each other in a way beyond our present comprehension. (Illustration: We are able to light cities by rule-of-thumb methods. We do not know what consciousness is, or how it is connected with muscular action; what electricity is or how it is connected with the machines that generate it; and our methods depend on calculations involving mathematical ideas which have no correspondence in the Universe as we know it. 3 ) 12. Man is i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 136
…ing downhill for many years—reached the bottom long ago, and found it the easiest place to live.He was aggressively friendly in a brutal way, and warned us that our disguises might be a source of danger; any one could see through them, and the fact of our having adopted them might arouse the quick suspicion of the Neapolitan mind. He called for drinks, and toasted King and Country with a sort of surly pride in his origin. He reminded me of Kipling’s broken-down Englishman. “Don’t you be afraid,” he said to Lou. “I won't let you come to any harm…
1922 · PDF PAGE 150
…ls with an efficiency worthy of the best traditions of the profession. The thing seemed to sink into Lou’s mind like a person seeing his way through a chess problem. Her face was absolutely white with cold and concentrated rage. ‘He must have watched us in Paris,’ she said. “He must have known that we had spent the money we were going to put into his swindle, and made up his mind that his best course was to get the jewellery and the rest of the cash. _ She sat down suddenly, collapsed; and began to cry. It developed into violent hysterics, whic…
1922 · PDF PAGE 382
…was permitted for a purpose. We obtained the ineffable assurance of the existence of a spiritual energy that worked its wondrous will in ways too strange for the heart of man to understand until the time should be ripe. The pestilence of the past had immunised us against its poison. The devil had defeated himself. We had attained a higher stage of evolution. And this under- standing of the past filled us with absolute faith in the future. The chaos of crumbled civilisations whose monuments were on the rock before us, had left that rock un- marr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…he silver of the veil (just as within is written “No existence!” in silver letters upon the gold of the veil). [BONES smiles, seeing the way to destroy the argument of the Paper. That rune these boys forget, miserable ones! Therefore, lost in the unthinkable depths of their depravity, do they dream evil dreams called “ Others,” “ Fellow-men ” and the like (Fellow-men is really a nightmare so appalling that only the “pass men” of the G. W. B. ever dream it, since it implies the ghastly and horrible phantasm of “ mankind”). Now in their better se…
1922 · PDF PAGE 225
…s Madness arr I put myself out for King Lamus? “ Every step he treads is smeared with blood,” as Gretel once said. Yes, in some infernal way he had made me one of his victims. ‘‘ All right—you shall get enough magical diary to let you know that I’m out of your clutches— I’ll put down just those things which will tell you how I hate you—how I have outwitted you—and you shall read them when my Dead Soul has got a Dead Body to match it.” September 14 I expected Peter would be in; impatient to know if I'd wangled McCall. Instead, he turned up after…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…Dijon, and put them into the train for Marseilles. There they took ship, and came to Naples by sea, without adventure. The enemy, in one way or another, had been thrown utterly off the track. [132] It was early in the morning when they landed; at three o'clock they had visited such local deities as commanded their more urgent piety; the Museum, Vergil's Tomb, also Michaelsen the bookseller and vendor of images of the Ineffable. At four they started, hand in hand, along the shore, towards their new home. An hour's walk brought them to the foot o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 214
…tails. But why should you? The model for Mr. Sludge was David Dunbar? (Douglas) Home, who was really quite a distinguished person in his way, and succeeded in pulling some remarkably instructed and blue-blooded legs. Personally, I believe him to have been genuine, getting real results through pacts with elementals,
1954 · PDF PAGE 291
258 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS myself at this old riddle of 718. Half-a-dozen comic failures. But I felt that there was something on the way. Idly, I put down Stele in the Greek 52, and said, Perhaps we can make a "name" out of the difference between that and 718. I jumped. 718 - 52 = 666 My own name! Why, of course, quoth he, in glee; it is in fact the Stele of 666; for it is the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu , my name in those past days. Oh no! said Something, that's not good enough! "Count well its name"-the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu: a name is somethin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 303
…fine view of lakes and hills. But the next six days were utterly uninteresting. Not until the sixteenth did the featureless plateau give way to the grand wooded gorges which caress Tatz'assa Tang. The village has no good inn, so we went on to a lovely glade which afforded a delightful and romantic place for a camp. I fell ill, I don't know of what, for the next three days. Whatever scenery there may have been I was too sick to observe. {493} We reached Yunnanfu on the twentieth. Mr. Wilkinson, the consul general, wrote that he was very sorry no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 257
… bad weather at Darjeeling, which made me feel absolutely hopeless, there was no new snow at all on the mountain. Only forty-five miles away, it had been continuous fine weather. I went down to Calcutta with a light heart. I had had good news too from Tartarin. He had persuaded a Swiss army officer, Alexis Pache, to join us. The other man of the party was named Remond, who had had a fair amount of guideless experience on the Alps. On the fifteenth I had a telegram from the doctor that he had been shipwrecked in the Red Sea. I might have known i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 58
… out to India and all sorts of places, and walked all over everybody because they were too ignorant to realise the difficulties in their way. They were taught that if one had good blood in one’s veins, and a public school and university training to habituate one to being a lord of creation, and to the feeling that
1929 · PDF PAGE 35
…ment that I now force myself to nar- rate. The prologue has been long; it has been necessary to put the facts before mankind in a simple way so that they may seize the opportunity of the proper kind of suicide. I beg my readers most earnestly not to doubt my statements: the notes of our experiments, left in my will to the greatest thinker now living, Professor von Buhle, will make clear the truth of my relation, and the great and terrible necessity of immediate, drastic, action. PART II I THE stunning physical fact of my husband's illness was t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…o examine the evidence at their disposai. This paper has been written not only with the object of attracting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A.'. A.*, as the basis for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the Law, love under will. O. M. 7 = 4D A.\À.\ Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C.... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalù, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° np and the Moon in I4°)f . 244 —
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
… by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. The Origin of Evil. What is within the “Heir”? Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought-World. The Language of Sug- gestion. Constructive Imagination. The Power of Impression. How to Remove Impressions. Your Individualism. Making Things go Right. Utilizing Energy. Master, or be Mastered. The Voice that is heard in Loneliness. The Ingrafted Word. The Law of Liberty. Part II. —The Evolution of an Invalid; The Invalid’s Alter Ego. The Evolution of a Thief: …
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
… by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. The Origin of Evil. What is within the “Heir”? Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought-World. The Language of Sug- gestion. Constructive Imagination. The Power of Impression. How to Remove Impressions. Your Individualism. Making Things go Right. Utilizing Energy. Master, or be Mastered. The Voice that is heard in Loneliness. The Ingrafted Word. The Law of Liberty. Part II. —The Evolution of an Invalid; The Invalid’s Alter Ego. The Evolution of a Thief: …
1929 · PDF PAGE 211
211 Now, at this time, Gerald Kelly was in his Whistler-Velasquez period. Kelly's mind is in no way creative or even critical in the true sense of the word. He was a scholar. He would convince himself by elaborate argument that So-and-so was the greatest of all artists; and he would then endeavour to discover the secrets of the master in the spirit of the analytical chemist, and proceed to paint with the most pitiful perseverance in the style of his latest hero. I possess sketches by Kelly which I defy the world to distinguish from Beardsley, R…
1929 · PDF PAGE 410
410 In Tunisia, the railway from Sousse to Sfax, which crosses the desert like a chord whose arc is the bulge of the coast between these towns, passes a village called El-Djemm. This is an isolated spot; there is no fertile country anywhere near it. It consists of a cluster of Arab huts in the gap of a coliseum. This structure was at one time the headquarters of a formidable gang of brigands and the gap was made by the artillery sent to smoke them out. The point is that this coliseum is a tremendous affair. The old town must have sheltered at l…