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Page 77 of 1151909 · PDF PAGE 350
…o, and after a while, she gave birth to two fine seal-calves, who were no sooner on the rocks than they clutched at their mother. Mansie thought to himself that the calf-hides would make a nice waistcoat, so he ran forward, and the seal-mother rowed herself over the face of the rock with her fins into the sea, but the two young ones had not the wit to flee. So Mansie seized them both, and the distress of the mother was terrible to see. She swam about and about, and beat herself with her fins like one dis- tracted; and then she would clamber up,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
…etter Temple than that of Luxor or of Karnak. He had still the old illusion that to succeed on one plane you must fail on another; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was not for three years later that it fully illuminated his mind. This illusion,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 545
…leaves it to freeze to death. If such and such a celebrated man, for example, had not scandalously solicited wealth, would one ever have thought of endowing his old muse? Who would have left him legacies? Virtue has our admiration, our purse owes it nothing, that great lady is rich enough without us. One would rather give to vice, it is so poor! “T do not like beggars, and I only give to the poor who are ashamed to beg,” said one day a man of wit. ‘ But what do you give them since you do not know them?” “TI give them my admiration and my esteem…
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
…etter Temple than that of Luxor or of Karnak. He had still the old illusion that to succeed on one plane you must fail on another; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was not for three years later that it fully illuminated his mind. This illusion,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 545
…leaves it to freeze to death. If such and such a celebrated man, for example, had not scandalously solicited wealth, would one ever have thought of endowing his old muse? Who would have left him legacies? Virtue has our admiration, our purse owes it nothing, that great lady is rich enough without us. One would rather give to vice, it is so poor! “T do not like beggars, and I only give to the poor who are ashamed to beg,” said one day a man of wit. ‘ But what do you give them since you do not know them?” “TI give them my admiration and my esteem…
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
…h realising the love and pity that is in his heart—that man has attained to Stage the Third. “And becaus e of the great power of a man’s thoughts and words to change his being, because by thinking of the pitiful our acts grow full of m ercy, therefore is Stage the Fourth called Right Conduct. To him who has gained this Fourth Stage, his intense as-piration, his right understanding, his care-fully guarded speech—perhaps for many years of self-control—have at last borne outward fruit, till all his acts are loving, and pure, and done without hope …
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
…minous.) And now he shows the tablet again, and he says: As there are 49 letters in the tablet, so are there 49 kinds of cosmos in every thought of God. And there are 49 interpretations of every cosmos, and each interpretation is manifested in 49 ways. Thus also are the calls 49, but to each call there are 49 visions. And each vision is composed of 49 elements, except in the roth Aethyr, that is accurséd, and that hath 42. All this while the dewdrops have turned into cascades of gold finer than the eyelashes of a little child. And though the ex…
1911 · PDF PAGE 136
… I work. And the Barb crieth: I wait. And the Voice of the Aethyr echoeth: It beams. It burns. It blooms. And now there cometh a strange thought; this Arrow is 134
1922 · PDF PAGE 136
… ; some shame- lessly caressing ; some sunk in bestial stupor. Among the last was a burly brute who somehow fascinated our attention. We thought ourselves quite safe in speaking English ; and for all I know we were talking at the top of our voices. Lou maintained that this particular man was English himself. He was apparently asleep ;; but presently he lifted his head from the table, stretched his great arms, and called for a drink, in Italian. He drained his glass at a gulp, and then came suddenly over to our table and addressed us in English.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 150
…m the animal inside me; the original Pendragon, if you know what I mean; the creature with blind instincts and an automatic apparatus of thought. “You see how it is,” I heard myself saying,‘ passports, no cash, no clothes—nothing!”’ | I was speaking of myself in the third person. The whole process of human life and action had stopped automatically as far as the hotel was concerned. The knot of babbling gossipers was like a swarm of mosquitoes.
1922 · PDF PAGE 382
…s, into the vaulted room with its fantastic frescoes that was the strangers’ room of the Abbey of Thelema ; and we laughed softly, as we thought that we should never more be strangers. GLASGOW: W. COLLINS SONS AND CO. LTD.
1954 · PDF PAGE 131
… of Q." Do we? But you do not doubt that if you were to learn the meaning of all these unfamiliar terms, you would be able to follow his thought. Now take a paragraph from an "occult teacher." What's more, I'll give you wheat, not tares; it seems terrifyingly easy for sound instruction to degenerate into a 'pi-jaw'. Here goes! To don Nirmanakaya's humble robe is to forego eternal bliss for self, to help on man's salvation. To reach Nirvana's bliss but to renounce it, is the supreme, the final step-the highest on Renunciation's Path. Follows a c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…but Death! "Peace be with thee!" says Death. "And peace with thee," replied the sage. "But I did not expect to see thee here to-night; I thought you were to meet my friend Isaak, and he's in Baghdad." "It wants an hour yet of the time," says Death briskly; "and he's galloping hither as fast as he can." At least, don't let the Gods have the laugh on you! Hello! Here's the Book of Lies again! What fun. The Smoking Dog Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and tak…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…ted me from realizing my relations with the authorities. I had timidly accepted the conventional chaff, but now almost before that first thought was formulated my inmost instincts sprang into consciousness. I shouted to the few scattered gownsmen that were still in the square and hurled myself headlong to the rescue of my detested tyrant. He was pretty well under the weather, warding off feebly the brutal blows that the cowardly cads rained on his face. His cap was gone and his gown was in shreds. His bulldogs had been handled still more roughl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…try. This again was one of my characteristically crude ideas, yet the result was surprisingly good --- much better, perhaps, than I ever thought, or think now. No less a critic than Marcel Schwob called it "a little masterpiece". And many other people of taste and judgment have professed themselves in love with it. Possibly the simplicity of its realism, its sincere and shame-free expression of every facet of my mind, constitute real merit. It is certainly true that most people find much of my work hard to read. The intensity of my passion, the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 127
… vine could be planted upon the holy hill of Zion. Now again I stand in the centre, and all things whirl by with incessant fury. And the thought of the god entereth my mind, and I cry aloud: Behold, the volatile is become fixed; and in the heart of eternal motion is eternal rest. So is the Peace beneath the sea that rageth with her storms; so is the changeful moon, the dead planet that revolveth no more. So the far-seeing, the far-darting hawk is poised passionless in the blue; so also the ibis that is long of limb meditateth soli- tary in the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 112
…ike butterflies settling on lilies. A buzz went round the tables. Lou’s beauty intoxicated everybody. Her jewellery dazzled the crowd. I thought of an assembly of Greeks of the best period unexpectedly visited by Apollo and Venus. We palpitated not only with our internal ecstasy but with the intoxicating sense that the whole world admired and envied us. We made them feel like the contents of a waste-paper basket. The head waiter himself became a high priest. He rose to the situation like the genius he was. He was mentally on his knees as he ven…
1922 · PDF PAGE 225
…ah, all our troubles are over!” We opened our last three half-bottles of fizz to celebrate the occasion, and he gave me some coke. And I thought I didn’t like it! It’s the finest stuff there is. A sniff to the right and a sniff to the left and a big heap right on my tongue; and that wasn't all. “I tell you what’s been wrong,” he said in the morning. ‘‘ Who the hell could expect to be right in a place like this? I’ve got right on to the ropes. We need never run short any more. We'll go down to Barley Grange and have another honeymoon. You're my …
1911 · PDF PAGE 55
…green, and sky-blue, and pale gold, and silver, and lilac, solemnly chanting without words. It is music wonderful beyond all that can be thought. And now we go out of the chamber; on the right is a pylon, and the right figure is Isis, and the left figure * No angel has been mentioned. The Seer was lost to being. 53
1929 · PDF PAGE 370
… --- but it struck me that it would be useful to get my large paintings of the four Elemental Watch Towers which I had made in Mexico. I thought these were probably in Boleskine. I decided to go up there for a fortnight or so. Incidentally, I had the conveniences for conferring upon Neuburg the degree of neophyte, he having passed brilliantly through his year as a probationer. I consequently asked him, and an Emmanuel man named Kenneth Ward, to come and stay with me. I had met Ward at Wastdale Head shortly before, having gone there to renew my …