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Page 72 of 1061904 · PDF PAGE 77
Abandoned in disgust. You will wonder however how it was that Leilas monthlies did not last out the 1000, by the figures only 14 hrs, 57 min. The answer was that she was peculiarly constructed in this way. Her so-called monthlies occurred every four days, and lasted but twelve hours, never more. I was consequently biffed off every time about 925 or so. The wisdom of this provision of Nature was soon evident. The desirability of breeding another Leila had lent wings (to use a metaphor) to the reproductive mechanism of the lousy-notched barr…
1911 · PDF PAGE 60
…alf a score and three that are scores, and six, by Aiwass, that is his guardian, the mighty Angel that extendeth from the first unto the last, and maketh known the mysteries that are beyond. And the method and the form of invocation whereby aman shall attain to the knowledge and conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel shall be given unto thee in the proper place, and seeing that the word is deadlier than lightning, do thou meditate straitly thereupon, solitary, in a place where is no living thing visible, but only the light of the sun. And 58
1954 · PDF PAGE 92
…vide instead of multiplying. Thus, X3 - 2 = X3 -:- X2 = Xl , just as if you had merely subtracted the'} from the 3 in the index. Now, at last, we come to the point of real importance to our thesis: how shall we interpret XO? We may write it, obviously, as Xl - 1 or xn-n. Good, divide. Then Xl -:- Xl = I. This is the same, clearly enough, whatever X may be. Q. Ah, but what we started to do was discover the meaning of Nothing. It is not correct to write it simply as 0; for that 0 implies an index 01 , or 02, or on. And if our Nothing is to be abs…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
…n the pavement a bedrageled female. THE WoMAN. Come home, ducky, won’t you? THE MAN. O God! OGod! I cannot bear it any longer. It is the last I have. [He fumbles awhile inside his coat. THE WoMAN (catching hold of him). Come, stand me a glass of wine, there’s a dear. THE MAN. Ah! that is well. Can I use this woman, I wonder ? THE WOMAN. O God! I am punished. Sir Percy here! What is the matter, dear my love? SIR PERCY. Never mind love—you are? MOLLY. O sir, your Molly, that you broke the heart of. See what has come to me! SiR PERCY. Ah, if you k…
1909 · PDF PAGE 346
…which lay apart from the rest, and so one maiden was left behind. Despite her entreaties and her tears, he kept the skin, and she was at last obliged to follow him to his hut. They married and had many children, who were like all other children, except for a thin web between their fingers, and for years husband and wife lived at peace. But every ninth night she would steal down to the beach and talk with one large seal in an unknown tongue, and then return with saddened countenance. And so the years passed, until one day, whilst playing in the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 346
…which lay apart from the rest, and so one maiden was left behind. Despite her entreaties and her tears, he kept the skin, and she was at last obliged to follow him to his hut. They married and had many children, who were like all other children, except for a thin web between their fingers, and for years husband and wife lived at peace. But every ninth night she would steal down to the beach and talk with one large seal in an unknown tongue, and then return with saddened countenance. And so the years passed, until one day, whilst playing in the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
… I had given seems to have been whispered round from one to the other, for each one nods gravely as if in solemn acquiescence, until the last one whispers the same words in my ears. But they have a different sense. I had taken them to be a denial of the existence of God, but the man who says them to me evidently means nothing of the sort: What he Iv Rk 129
1919 · PDF PAGE 117
…n that One Idea. And at the first it may be fixed and dead, or lightly held. This may then pass into dryness, or into repulsion. Then at last by pure persistence in that Act of Will to Love, shall Love himself arise, as a bird, as a flame, as a song, and the whole Soul shall wing a fiery path of music unto the Ultimate Heaven of Possession. Now in this method there are many roads and ways, some simple and direct, some hidden and mysterious, even as it is with human love whereof no man hath made so much as the first sketches for a Map: for Love …
1922 · PDF PAGE 287
…at down and began to accompany her. I found myself enthralled by watching the man’s mind work. It taught me something con- stantly. This last act, for example. We couldn’t go out as we were, and the singing would be an alternative distraction. At the same time, he wanted Maisie’s back turned so that we could take our heroin. We wanted it very badly indeed; and yet—so strange is nature |—we were just as ashamed to take it secretly as a moment before we had been to take it openly. The thought hit me between the eyes. It has already been mentioned…
1922 · PDF PAGE 359
… on this occult stuff of yours. Don’t think I’m rude. I’m very grateful for all you’ve done for me.” Strangely enough, the memory of the last few months had just returned to my mind. Yet it was merely the background of the burning flame of thought that filled my consciousness. Basil did not answer, and as we walked down the hill together I began to explain my ideas about the new helicopter. Almost without knowing it, we had reached the door of the large house which the Abbey used for a refectory, and we sat down on the stone seats which lined i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…masculine type of female, the Amazon, whô' is balanced in the number Eight by the féminine type of male. In the number Nine we reach the last of the purely mental qualities. It identifies change with stability. Pendant to this sixfold System is the number Ten 1 which includes the whole of Matter as we know it by the senses. It is impossible here to explain thoroughly the complété conception; for it cannot be too clearly uriderstood that this is a classification of the Universe, that there is nothing which is not comprehended therein. The Articl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…er trial by far if you order him to leap into the water with a millstone round his neck; but this is scarcely “ cricket,” even if at the last moment you pull him out of the water and restore life by artificial respira- tion. Further, it is not teaching him how to swim, or how to improve his powers of swimming. In the 1°=10° Ritual the Neophyte enters the first sphere of the Elements, the Element of Earth, and is at once liable to fall prey to the terrible worldly obsessions of the path of n. This dark path he journeys up only to become child of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…er trial by far if you order him to leap into the water with a millstone round his neck; but this is scarcely “ cricket,” even if at the last moment you pull him out of the water and restore life by artificial respira- tion. Further, it is not teaching him how to swim, or how to improve his powers of swimming. In the 1°=10° Ritual the Neophyte enters the first sphere of the Elements, the Element of Earth, and is at once liable to fall prey to the terrible worldly obsessions of the path of n. This dark path he journeys up only to become child of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 61
… For as that straight path of the Arrow cleaving the Rainbow became righteousness in her that sitteth in the hall of double truth, so at last is she exalted unto the throne of the High Priestess, the Priestess of the Silver Star, wherein also is thine Angel made manifest. And this is the mystery of the camel that is ten days in the desert, and is not athirst, because he hath within him that water which is the dew distilled from the night of Nuit. Triple is the cord of silver, that it may not be loosed; and three score and half a score and three…
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
At Telepylus 329 habit that had destroyed our love. It was only in sleep that she was beautiful at all in these last months. Waking, the expression of tenseness and wretchedness, the nervous twitching of her face and the destruction of her complexion by the inability of the liver to throw off the toxic effects of the drug, made her look not only twice her age but ugly, with that ugliness of vice and illness which is so much more repulsive than any merely zsthetic errors of nature. Lou, more than any girl I ever knew, depended for her beauty upo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
cat, into her shit-slot, and into her delicate mouth respectively. The last of the men was unlucky, for the teeth of the now agonizing girl scratched his treacle-tap, and hurt him. With a roar like a fiend the savage black, holding her by the hair, tore out her teeth by main force and again plunged his greasy gap-stopper into the talk-trap, thus partly drowning her pitiful cries, and nearly choking her when a second or two later his boiling bliss-blanc- mange foamed in a perfect cataract down her throat. At the same instant the twain at the low…
1922 · PDF PAGE 302
…* Well,” he said, “ I think I may say without boasting that I trust I have never tried to shirk it. Your approval has absolved me of the last shred of hesitation. I must explain, my dear Sir Peter, that I have always been a poor man. The service of humanity demands many sacrifices from its devotees, and I assure you that in that bottle there lies not only, as I now feel assured, the salvation of mankind from one of its direst dangers, but an enormous fortune.” He leant forward and tapped my knee with his fore- finger. | ““ An enormous fortune,”…
1929 · PDF PAGE 196
…t she revealed the truth of her godhead; and by the end of April there was no wreath of snow on Apennine, or Alban, or Apulian Hill. The last day of the month was hot and still as midsummer; the slopes of Posillippo begged a breath from Ocean, and were denied. So heavy a haze hung on the sea that not only Capri, not only the blue spur that stabs the sunset, but Vesuvius itself, were hidden from the Villa where Iliel and her friends were nested. Sunset was sombre and splendid; the disc itself was but a vague intensity of angry Indian red. His ag…
1954 · PDF PAGE 201
…c stove in the East or the South, is best: it must not need attention. One can usually buy stoves with excellent appropriate symbolism. (Last time I did this- 13 e.v.-I got a perfect Ferranti at Harrods. The circular copper bowl, with the central Disk as the source of heat, is unsurpassable.) The walls should be "self-coloured," a neutral tint-green, grey or blue-grey? -and entirely bare, unless you put up, in the proper quarters, the proper designs, such as the "Watch Towers"-see The Equinox. Vol. I, No.7. Remember that your "East," your Kibla…
1929 · PDF PAGE 194
…rows slightly, for this was indeed carrying coals to Newcastle. Baltistan consists exclusively of rocks, streams and dried apricots. The last named are its principal export. A moment --- and I understood! The poor old man had been unable to cross the plateau and was returning home to die! I expressed my sympathy and offered help. Oh, no, not at all! He had carried his sack all the way to Srinagar; but finding on arrival that the price of his produce had gone down by a fraction of a penny a pound, he refused to sell and was bringing the stuff ba…