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Page 73 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 496
… told her the story of my wife and put my foot down. I gave her to understand that if it happened again I was through. She knew me for a man of my word an quit, but a few days later it was as bad as ever. I gave her one more chance, but of course in vain. Early in October, I broke up the menage and transferred my headquarters to a studio in West 9th Street, which I shared with a friend of the Dog's, hereafter described as the Camel. Her name was Roddie Minor, a married woman living apart from her husband, a near artist of German extraction. She…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
staircase. By seven in the evening I was again in request. I was furious at the irony of my lot, for the corpse of a guardsman had caught my childish fancy, and the kingdom of England might have gone to hell for me I would rather have been strapped to the dead mans shako than wallow for a week in the royalist Busby in Christendom. But I had passed my word. I resumed the now dis- tasteful task. She has been like this for a month (I heard the Head Surgeon whisper to the German Ambassador, who had ventured to make his en- quiries with his Maste…
1954 · PDF PAGE 120
…c enlightenment by the general moral debility which had overtaken the races from which they drew their adepts, have prepared a guide for mankind. This man, of an extreme moral force and elevation, combined with a profound sense of worldly realities, has stood forth in an attempt to save the White School, to rehabilitate its formula, and to fling back from the bastions of moral freedom the howling savages of pessimism. Unless his appeal is heard, unless there comes a truly virile reaction against the creeping atrophy which is poisoning them, unl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 470
EDUCATION 437 his cheque very neatly made out-and signed it by making his mark! The Railroad Man was naturally flabbergasted , and could not help exclaiming, "Yet you made all those millions of yours-what would you have been if only you had been able to read and write? "Doorkeeper at the Synagogue" was the prompt reply . His illiteracy had disqualified him when he applied for the job after landing. The story is not only true, but "of all Truth"; see my previous letter on "Certainty ." Books are not the only medium even of learning; more, what t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
…ng from Kether, the Crown, upon Binah, the Great Sea. (See diagram). Note Christ as the Healer, and also his own expression: “The Son of Man cometh as a thief in the night.” Also this scripture (Matthew xxiv, 24‐7): “For as the lightning cometh out of the East and shineth even unto the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” Note also Christ’s relations with the money‐changers, his frequent parables, and the fact that his first disciple was a publican, i.e., tax‐collector. Note also Mercury as the deliverer of Prometheus. One half…
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…f someone gives me £200,000 pounds I automatically fail to notice it. It is a normal circumstance of life. Test me! 9. There are a great many other injunctions, all of which have to be examined independently in order to find whether they apply to Yoga in general, and to the particular advantage of any given student. We are to exclude especially all those considerations based on fantastic theories of the universe, or on the accidents of race or climate. For instance, in the time of the late Maharajah of Kashmir, mahsir fishing was forbidden thro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS WHICH IS HIDDEN IN THE MOUNTAIN OF ABIEGNUS “And a certain woman cast a piece of a mill stone upon Abimelech, and all to brake his Skull.”——ANON. “Whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken; but upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”-~ANON. “ Qu’est-ce donc, en verité, que ce pierre? C’est le fondement de la philosophie absolue, c’est le supréme et inébranlable raison.”—LEVI. “One day when I was all alone I found a wondrous little stone. It lay forgotten on the road Far from the ways…
1910 · PDF PAGE 230
…le yellow waistcoat, a rich violet lounge suit with braid, patent leather boots, pale blue socks. But the refinement and breeding of the man ave never in question. His hair ts reddish, curly, luxuriant. He is clean-shaved, and wears an eye-glass with a tortoiseshell rim. Topp has a face of keen pallor; he is dressed in black, with a flowing black cape, black motor-cap. He gives the impression of great age combined with great activity.
1910 · PDF PAGE 230
…le yellow waistcoat, a rich violet lounge suit with braid, patent leather boots, pale blue socks. But the refinement and breeding of the man ave never in question. His hair ts reddish, curly, luxuriant. He is clean-shaved, and wears an eye-glass with a tortoiseshell rim. Topp has a face of keen pallor; he is dressed in black, with a flowing black cape, black motor-cap. He gives the impression of great age combined with great activity.
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
…symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. These animais are sacred unto me 5 the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. Ail corpses are sacred unto me3 they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. Ail lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. I am the hideous god, and who mastereth me is uglier than I. 24- Yet I give more than Bacchus and Apolio; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. Who wo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 68
…for abducting my son. He’s coming with me now or there’ll be a fuss. Mark my words, you rascal ! [Enter two Footmen. VAUGHAN. Seize that man. [7Z<%ey seize and hold him after a strugole.| Esmé! go away to your room; this is no place for you. Now, sir, say all you have to say ! [ESME wazts 71 the doorway. BRANDON. Give me my son, and be damned to you! That’s all ; and it’s plain enough, I hope. PERCY. Father, Iam leaving Mr. Vaughan’s house, as I shall only get him into trouble if I stay. But I will not come home with you, you who broke my mothe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
AMONGST THE MERMAIDS to slay a seal again. The return was effected in the same way as the previous journey, and the horseman, on his departure, left sufficient gold to compensate the islander for the loss of his means of livelihood. This story is the only one out of the scores told to me in which the seal may be said to take the offensive, and I cannot trace it to any foreign source. Mr. Walter Traill Dennison in his “ Orcadian Sketches” tells us that the seal held a far higher place among the North- men than any of the lower animals. He had a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
AMONGST THE MERMAIDS to slay a seal again. The return was effected in the same way as the previous journey, and the horseman, on his departure, left sufficient gold to compensate the islander for the loss of his means of livelihood. This story is the only one out of the scores told to me in which the seal may be said to take the offensive, and I cannot trace it to any foreign source. Mr. Walter Traill Dennison in his “ Orcadian Sketches” tells us that the seal held a far higher place among the North- men than any of the lower animals. He had a …
1922 · PDF PAGE 73
…want to exchange thoughts, English isn’t much good. They've had to invent new words, new symbols. Look at Einstein’s equations. I knew a man once that knew James Hinton, who invented the fourth dimension. Pretty bright chap, he was, but Hinton thought, on the most ordinary subjects, at least six times as fast as he did, and when it came to Hinton’s explaining himself, he simply couldn’t do it. That’s the great trouble when a new thinker comes along. They all moan that they can’t understand him ; the fact annoys them very much ; and ten to one t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
…! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! Commentary: All those acts which excite the divine in man are proper to the Rite of Invocation. Religion, as understood by the vile Puritan, is the very oppo site of all this. He—it—seems to wish to kill his—its—soul by forbidding every expression of it, and every practice which might awaken it to expression. To hell with this Verbotenism! In particular, let me exhort all men and all women, for they are Stars! Heed well this holy Verse! True Religion is intoxica…
1898 · PDF PAGE 17
…ME., : Oh, but you grow whiter; you must be hurt. VAUGHAN. A knife! He must have stabbed him. Fetch a doctor, one of you, sharp! [Exzt a man. ESME. It is his heart; see, my hand is all covered with blood. Give me a handkerchief. Here,I will staunch the wound. [Ske attempts to prevent the bleeding with her handkerchtef.| Oh! Percy! [A pause] Oh! Percy ! : PERCY. I am going away, Esmé. I shall see you often.
1901 · PDF PAGE 43
…en, A web of fairy ticken, To make a fairy rose : Pure as the seas that lave With phosphorescent wave The sombre architrave Of Castle No-man-knows. Pure as the dreams, undreamt (That men have in contempt, That wise men yearn to see), Of angel forms exempt From mockeries that tempt Who fly about the lea ; Proclaiming things unheard, Unknown to brightest bird, Things, whose unspoken word Is utmost secrecy. So pure, so pale we lie, Like angels eye to eye, Like lovers lip to lip. So, the elect knight, I Keep vigil to the sky, While the dumb moments…
1902 · PDF PAGE 83
… too small to understand himself! Eldest Pilgrim. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! Tannhauser. You know not, friend, the man to whom you speak. I have lived long in miracles enough, Myself the crowning miracle of all, That I am merely here. God speed you, sirs ! I ask your blessing, not to stay therewith My soul's own need (though that is dire enough) But —he that blesseth shall himself be blessed ! My blessing were small help to you, my friends. L 8i
1905 · PDF PAGE 174
…t masses of ice, where the grasses Abandon the fells. There silence, arrayed as a spectre, Is visible, tangible, near, To the cup of the man pours nectar, To the heart of the coward is fear : 169
1913 · PDF PAGE 17
…the discretion inseparable from the due guarding of the secrets, and to all those qualities of courage, honour, and virtue without which man is not worthy of that name. 19, The 0.H.O, is only known to members of the VIII? and IX°. The National Grand Master General ad vitam is not approachable as such by any person who has not reached the VP’. All communications should be addressed to the Grand Secretary General, and all cheques drawn in favour of the Grand Treasurer General. Issued by Order, a “fe L. Barnursr, 1X° Grand Secretary General. Impri…