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Page 73 of 1031929 · PDF PAGE 550
…au for fresh air and exercise, and also to make a little Magical Retirement. As soon as I sat down to look at myself, I was aware of the old wound. I knew there was only one way. I must open it up and cleanse it thoroughly. I went out northward. On my left, as I came to the city wall, was the hospital where just over a year before, the child was born. I strode fiercely forward with clenched teeth. But at the first breath of forest air the universal sorrow of nature flooded me and I broke out into strong sobbing. I refused to fool myself in any …
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…put “ No thoroughfare from here to the First House. The only way is out of doors. By order.” This was frightquy annoying, because in the old days we could walk about inside everywhere, and not get wet if it rained, but nowa days there isn’t any way from the Fourth to the Third House. You could go of course by chariot from the Fifth to the Third, or through the House where the twins live from the Sixth to the Third, but that isn’t allowed unless you have been to the Fourth House too, and go from there at the same time. It was here they told me w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
…e you! I am coming back again From the filth and fog to seek you in the sunny land of Spain. I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold. I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south With our passion in your body and our love upon your month— With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew! My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you! The men breathed freer. So powerfully did the song lift them that through the open window all the fragrance of Spain and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
Chapter5 OF THE THING IN THE GARDEN; AND OF THE WAY OF THE TAO "OH, little Brother!" said the old mystic sadly. "How long will it take you to work through this wretched business?" "I have omnipotence at my command, and eternity at my disposal," smiled the boy, using Eliphaz Levi's well-known formula. "I ought to explain," said Simple Simon, turning to Lisa. "This boy is a desperate magician confined within the circle of this forest. His plan is Action; he is all for Magick; give him a Wand and a host of Demons to control, and he is happy. For m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…upendous indeed. All his exaltation returned: now would Hecate favour him above all men. Well, he had but to take the body upstairs. The old woman understood these things; he would certify the death; there would be no fuss made over a poor prostitute. He would return at once to London, and open up the negotiations with "A.B." [276]
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…as my little fairy been doing lately? he asked with elephantine lightness. Oh, sketches mostly, father. This week we're copy- ing from old Greek masterpieces, though. Let me show you, father, dear. She opened the portfolio and turned over the leaves. I'm getting on splendidly. Mr., Davis thinks I ought to go to Paris and study properly. Do let me. How can you think of such a thing, Gertrude? A daughter of mine! Study properly!!! No indeed! A little
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
A....r and many another has sought every cranny of his natural orifices, every pox-hole of his worm- eaten flesh, every fat-fold of his obese person, yet his happiness was to be threatened, his faith in the Order of Things shaken, his whole soul thrown upon a novel and doubtful enterprise, and that at a moment when it might have been thought (go on, Hassan !) that Heaven itself had no more to offer him. It was one day of spring at W.nds.r. Mrs Ar- thur P...t lay in a bath of sticky sperm, not P...ts, not the K...gs ! Whose, then, you ask ? Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…ure then started growing rapidly in all dimensions till it reached a vast form, and as it grew it left behind it tiny emaciated withered old men sitting in similar positions, but with changed features, so much so that I should think it were due to other reasons besides emacia- tion.” D. A. considered this medita- D1acram 85. tion very satisfactory, but that Aura of Heaving Surfaces. nevertheless P. should attempt it again the next day. This, however, was impossible; as on the next day, Friday, he was suffering severely from headache and neuralg…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…ure then started growing rapidly in all dimensions till it reached a vast form, and as it grew it left behind it tiny emaciated withered old men sitting in similar positions, but with changed features, so much so that I should think it were due to other reasons besides emacia- tion.” D. A. considered this medita- D1acram 85. tion very satisfactory, but that Aura of Heaving Surfaces. nevertheless P. should attempt it again the next day. This, however, was impossible; as on the next day, Friday, he was suffering severely from headache and neuralg…
1922 · PDF PAGE 70
… fact that my name is Peter. I came out of my trance. I looked at the stuff with what I imagine to have been a dull, glazed eye. Then my old training came to my rescue. It was a white powder with a tendency to form little lumps rather like chalk. I rubbed it between my finger and thumb. I smelt it. That told me nothing. I ‘tasted it. That told me nothing, either, because the nerves of my tongue were entirely anezsthetised by the cocaine. But the investigation was a mere formality. I know now why I made it. It was the mere gesture of the male. I…
1922 · PDF PAGE 236
…d to keep from me. He always seems afraid of being spied on or overheard. I went up to the magic room to-night, Peter was sitting in the old man’s chair writing in a book. I couldn’t understand it at first. I had come straight up, and he was fast asleep downstairs! Then, of course, the whole mystery became clear. While he’s asleep, his astral double comes up and does magic. I knew it was very dangerous to disturb any one’s astral double, so I tiptoed out of the room ; but the double followed me noiselessly. Every time I looked over my shoulder …
1922 · PDF PAGE 308
…the moment of success he saw that his plan was in some incomprehensible danger. His mind’s spy-glass showed him a bird’s-eye view of the Old Bailey. The fact that there was no tangible reason for alarm only intensified the feeling of uneasiness. “She must be hiding for a joke,’”’ said Gretel in a hard, cold voice, mastering her anxiety by deliberate violence. We hunted over the apartment. There was no sign of her ; and her fur coat and cap were missing from the hall. I turned to Mrs. Webster. ‘““ What happened ?”’ I asked curtly. The woman had …
1922 · PDF PAGE 353
…story of my adventures from the night of my meeting Lou to our return to England from Naples. But when the episode was over, I found the old despair of life as strong as ever. The will to live was really dead in me. But two evenings later King Lamus came to smoke a pipe with me on the terrace at sunset. In his hand was the Paradiso record which I had written. Sister Athena had typed it. ‘““ My dear man,” he said, “ what I can’t see is why
1954 · PDF PAGE 98
…ects. There have always been, at least in nucleus, three main Schools of Philosophical practice. (We use the word 'philosophical' in the old good broad sense, as in the phrase "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge.") It is customary to describe these three Schools as Yellow, Black and White. The first thing necessary is to warn the reader that they must by no means be confounded with racial distinctions of colour; and they correspond still less with conventional symbols such as yellow caps, yellow rob…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…flows from the Ambrosial Moon is swallowed up by the Sun (in the M@ladhara Chakkra) { and destroyed, this loss causes the body to become old. If the aspirant can only prevent this flow of nectar by closing the hole in the palate of his mouth (the Brahmarandra), he will be able to utilize it to prevent the waste of his body. By * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v. It does not follow that missionaries are Yogis. t+ Compare. “From the Skull of the Ancient Being wells forth Dew, and this Dew will wake up the dead to a new life.”—The Zohar, /dva Rabba. “I wi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…flows from the Ambrosial Moon is swallowed up by the Sun (in the M@ladhara Chakkra) { and destroyed, this loss causes the body to become old. If the aspirant can only prevent this flow of nectar by closing the hole in the palate of his mouth (the Brahmarandra), he will be able to utilize it to prevent the waste of his body. By * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v. It does not follow that missionaries are Yogis. t+ Compare. “From the Skull of the Ancient Being wells forth Dew, and this Dew will wake up the dead to a new life.”—The Zohar, /dva Rabba. “I wi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 32
…t. “ This is the freedom we fought for.”’ I was entirely on the side of the speaker. I hadn't wanted a drink all evening, but now I was told I couldn’t have one, I wanted to raid their damn cellars and fight the Metropolitan Police and go up in my ‘plane and drop a few bombs on the silly old House of Commons. And yet I was in no sort of sympathy with the man. The contempt of his tone irritated me. He was in- human, somehow; that was what antagonised me. He turned to Owen. ‘“‘ Better come round to my studio,” he drawled; ‘‘T have a machine gun t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 369
…ts of Leon Trotsky, in command of the enemy, and chivalrously telegraphed him to withdraw his troops to certain positions, otherwise the old people would be shot. Trotsky replied "Shoot!" The point of this story is that I hope it will answer your next question: You are so very clear and firm about the family; then why don't you insist on all your pupils starting with a domestic holocaust? Why? Because a lot of my early rock climbing was done on Beachy Head. Ask me something harder! Look you now, chalk has every possible element of danger from t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 25
…- tence, and was compelled to the end of her life for the disease proved intractable to solace her- self as best she could with the cold comfort of a common clicket. Take out that bald-headed hermit ! (He inter- rupted himself) Whack it up ! Wallop it in ! Whats the nanny-goat for, you pimp, if you cant go tail- twitching her hairy old tuzzy-muzzy ? You shall suck the oysters out of the kidney pudding if youre good. Now my boy ! I complied with dignity, and in a moment found the Archbishop on my back gripping my hair with one violent h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
…shed sufferer : it was solid mar- row-bone she wanted, and tons of it at that. I toddled to the bed remember I was not yet eight years old ! Throwing a leisurely leg over the whisky-sodden mass of fat that Britons called their Q...n, I called Time ! And began. The slippery and lax bung-hole of the flatulent monarch was ill- suited to my boyish chink-stopper : but Love will find a way, and the head surgeon hastily ligatured its tapering delicacy to the protuberant and pendu- lous clitoris of the royal patient. Ten minutes later he was able to …