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Page 74 of 771912 · PDF PAGE 426
…ion. . . . The world will not willingly let it die.”— Vanity Fair. “On the cover a naked woman is riding a bat over a whirlpool ; craggy white mountains are behind her and a red sky behind all. There isa fine fierceness of movement in the design ; itis certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra.’ . . . It is all wery splendid. . - . We feel dveatily sensible of our outer darkn…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…ion. . . . The world will not willingly let it die.”— Vanity Fair. “On the cover a naked woman is riding a bat over a whirlpool 5 craggy white mountains are behind her and a red sky behind all. There isa fine fierceness of movement in the design ; itis certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra’. . . Itis all very splendid. . . . We feel drearily sensible of our outer darkness…
1913 · PDF PAGE 602
…rics. No serious student can afford to be without this delightful volume. The second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with cover design in gold. PRICE TEN SHILLINGS WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. Ltd., and through “ The Equinox” SOME PRESS OPINIONS Dr. M. D. EDER in The New Age “ Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be ! “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose’s perfume: you have set them free from all t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…ion. . . . The world will not willingly let it die.”— Vanity Fair. “On the cover a naked woman is riding a bat over a whirlpool 5 craggy white mountains are behind her and a red sky behind all. There isa fine fierceness of movement in the design ; itis certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra’. . . Itis all very splendid. . . . We feel drearily sensible of our outer darkness…
1913 · PDF PAGE 602
…rics. No serious student can afford to be without this delightful volume. The second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with cover design in gold. PRICE TEN SHILLINGS WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. Ltd., and through “ The Equinox” SOME PRESS OPINIONS Dr. M. D. EDER in The New Age “ Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be ! “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose’s perfume: you have set them free from all t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
… account, Jesus Christ. Forms, varnished yellow, around it, them, and (I suppose) Him. On one of them is a blackboard with the notice in white paint: 1 This scene, with the exception of the in- troduction of Mr. Chesterton, and (of course) Sir Percy and Molly, is an accurate description of the ‘‘meeting” at Streatham. ‘The inci- dents and style are authentic. 2 Themselves must be consulted for elucida- tion of these historic controversies. Outsiders, who merely noticed the horripilation of the Universe, but saw no obvious reason, have the key i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…ridge. But her true life was dresses, dinners and dances; and her thought were taken up by her husband and her lover. (In hot countries, white men being relaxed by the climate, European women, over- stimulated for the same reason, almost inevitably practise polyandry.) And she had won the first prize at a fancy dress ball by appearing in her adept's robes and regalia! No hope here, then! Nay, nor elsewhere! I saw clearly enough that the Gods meant me to work out my own puzzles without human help. I must stand alone. Well and good, so be it! I h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…cts is then quite passive: it matters little or nothing whether the cloud be the red m ist of Christianity , or the glim - mering silver-white of Celtic Paganism ; the hard grey dim-gilded of Buddhism, the fleecy opacity of Islam, or the my sterious medium of those ancient faiths which com e up in as many colours as their investigator has moods.* * “ In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naïve naturalism of many parts of those Scr iptures, in the divine autho- rity of which he fir mly believed, Philo bor rowed from the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…ngton, and the Leam with its weir --- he has loved weirs ever since --- Guy's Cliffe at Warwick, and the Castle with its terrace and the white peacocks: all these are as clear as if he had seen them last week. He recalls no other room in the house except his own bedroom, and that only because he "came to himself" one night to find a fire lighted, a steam kettle going, a strange woman present, an atmosphere of anxiety and a feeling of fever; for he had an attack of bronchitis. He remembers his first governess, Miss Arkell, a grey-haired lady wit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…’s task Is but to praise the peace of earth ; If Horror’s contrast that should ask, Off from this Paradise of mirth ! Let andy Lake, the white soul, mirror The generalised concept, limn clear England, a memory clean of error, A royal reason to be here. Therefore no reminiscence stirs My heart of when I lived in Kandy. Europe’s the focus now ! that blurs The picture of my Buddhist dandy, 1 } de vol. ii. p. 203, supra. 2“T promise Mr. Chesterton | A’ grand ap-pre-ci-a-tl-on | Of Brixton on Ascension Day.”— The Sword of Song.
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
… People said: the revenge of a Ceylon Big Bug, whom MacDonald had ordered off the field at some jamboree when he had turned up in mufti. white goatish beards, and bleared red eyes that blinked even in the twilight of the luncheon as if the very idea of sunlight was an infernal terror. I called on the khansamah to tell me if I was suffering from delirium tremens. He told me no; what I saw was really there, and it was some kind of committee from Scotland, and that was all he knew. After lunch I discovered that the Great Heart of Scotland refused …
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
…it did not know when to stop; Government has become Tyranny. One thinks of the Hydra when one reflects that King Charles was beheaded in White hall! The Ten of Cups is called Satiety. its attribution is Mars in Pisces. The watery sign has sunk into a stagnant dream, but in it broods and breeds the violent quality of Mars, to putrefy it. As it is written: “Until a dart strike through his liver.” The pursuit of pleasure has been crowned with perfect success; and constantly it is discovered that, having got everything that one wanted, one did not …
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…the disposal of its appointments, the little group of "brethren" surrounding him, and the surprise of finding himself, dressed in a long white garment, being suddenly dipped and lifted from the water. He has also a clear auditory remembrance of words spoken solemnly over him; though they meant nothing, he was impressed by the peculiar tone. It is not impossible that this gave him an all but
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
…but a little pile of dust". In a subsequent vision the Grade of Magus is foreshadowed; and the figure is that this dust is burnt into "a white ash", which ash is preserved in an Urn. It is difficult to convey the appropriateness of this symbolism, but the general idea is that the earthly or receptive part of the Master is destroyed. That which remains has passed through fire; and is therefore, in a sense, of the nature of fire. The Urn is engraved with a word or symbol expressive of the nature of the being whose ash is therein. The Magus is thu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…e set upon him that pardo‐ neth transgression. Behold the six‐fold Star that flameth in the Vault, the seal of the marriage of the great White King and his black slave.” So I looked into the Stone, and beheld the sixfold Star: the whole Aethyr is as tawny clouds, like the flame of a furnace. And there is a mighty host of Angels, blue and golden, that throng it, and they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of Be‐with‐us is at hand! For he hath cre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
…y burglar," took the candle and went down. No one in the hall. In the dining-room, in pitch darkness, Gnaggs was standing, trembling, as white as a fish's belly. I lit up, called upstairs that all was well, and told him he had no business to frighten his wife. He seemed incapable of speech. I got him a drink and he gradually pulled himself together. We started to smoke and he told me his story. He had left his bicycle on the kerb some fifty yards from the entrance to the house where his first wife lived and waited in the shadow for her lover to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 278
278 I had fired without aim, in pitch blackness; I could not even see the white robes of the men who held me. In the lightning moment of the flash I saw only that whitnesses were falling backwards away from me, as if I had upset a screen by accident. The blackness which followed the flash was Cimmerian. My eyes are naturally very slow to accommodate themselves to change of illumination --- I have never met any man equally helpless in case of sudden diminution of light. I had no thought soever as to whether my shot might have hit anybody. There …
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…l. 168 So, love, not thus for you and me! iii, 13 Some lives complain of their own happiness, i. 194 Some sins assume a garb so fine and white, 1, 132 Sometimes I think my blood in waves appears, ll, 18 Some years ago I thought to try, ii. 178 So much when philosophy’s lacteal river, ii. 168 So not one word derogatory, il. 152 -So now the Earl was-well a-weary, il. 49 SACRED, between the serpent fangs of pain, i. 199 1. Sakkaya-diz¢hi. t 4 D Belief in a ‘‘soul,” ii. 249 Sophie ! I loved her, tenderly at worst, i. 194 (1) Sorrow.—Enxistence is S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
…me we experienced native curiosity in wholesale form. We had been recommended to avoid this by secretiveness. This strange wild beast, a white woman, was to be camouflaged in Chinese clothes and bundled out of sight as soon as possible. I adopted exactly opposite tactics. I said to the people, "Come and see, enlarge your minds, increase your experience, take the fullest advantage of this opportunity." They were so accustomed to conventional European cowardice that at first they were inclined to be unruly and even suspicious. Can it be a trap? B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
299 shallow oblong with a rim of grassy mounds. It was highly cultivated land, paddy fields and plantations of white poppy ablaze in the sunlight with straight narrow channels of pure pale green and pale blue water marking off one meadow from another. Similar surprises constantly {487} crop up. Their unexpectedness suggests the atmosphere of Alice in Wonderland, while their formal beauty reminds one of the character visions of the "alchemical plant". A less accurate but perhaps more intelligible analogy is that of the curiously luminous, exquis…