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Page 77 of 1141954 · PDF PAGE 150
…ss. And in her is a perfect purity of that which is above; yet she is sent as the Redeemer to them that are below. For there is no other way into the Supernal Mystery but through her and the Beast on which she rideth; and the Magician is set beyond her to deceive the brothers of blackness, lest they should make unto themselves a crown; for if there were two crowns, then should Y gdrasil, that ancient tree, be cast out into the Abyss, uprooted and cast down into the Outermost Abyss, and the Arcanum which is in the Adytum should be profaned; and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
… faith , it is unfair to be the same to all . Syra. What ! unfair to take revenge on your enemies ? or for them to be caught in the very way they try to catch you ? Alas ! wretched me ! why do not your age and beauty belong to me , or else these sentiments of mine to you ? ” So long as we mentally castrate ourselves , so long will this world remain a stew-pot of vice ; for it is only when we have realized the ideal of Free Love , and have taken the matrix of prostitution and cut from it the gem which underlies all its gross vulgarity and sensua…
1909 · PDF PAGE 373
THE MAN-COVER the South Coast to the private yacht which, no doubt, was awaiting.us. This is my way of explaining it, but of course it is a mere suggestion. It might have been an airship that took me away, independent of terrestrial laws, regardless of Customs Duties—who knows, perhaps hovering over London and Scotland Yard and my dear old house in which I was so happy—but . . . Mec scive fas est omnia. The only thing I am certain of is that I was either planed to fit the coffin, or the coffin to fit me; and then I;woke up. Iwas on board a sea-…
1909 · PDF PAGE 373
THE MAN-COVER the South Coast to the private yacht which, no doubt, was awaiting.us. This is my way of explaining it, but of course it is a mere suggestion. It might have been an airship that took me away, independent of terrestrial laws, regardless of Customs Duties—who knows, perhaps hovering over London and Scotland Yard and my dear old house in which I was so happy—but . . . Mec scive fas est omnia. The only thing I am certain of is that I was either planed to fit the coffin, or the coffin to fit me; and then I;woke up. Iwas on board a sea-…
1922 · PDF PAGE 27
…d my companion. “ Rotten! That fellow Fordham never seems to make a clean job of it anyhow. Say, look here, thisis my night out. You go ’way like a good boy, tell all those boys and girls come and have dinner.” The waiter knew well enough who was meant; and presently I found myself shaking hands with several perfect strangers in terms which implied the warmest and most unquenchable affection. It was really rather a distinguished crowd. One of the men was a fat German Jew, who looked at first sight like a piece of canned pork that has got mislai…
1922 · PDF PAGE 43
…I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” Her breast sobbed out its song with weird intensity. I understood in a flash that this was her way of resistance. She was trying to insist to herself that she was a cosmic force; that she was not a woman at all ; that a man meant nothing to her. She fought desper- ately against me, sliding so serpent-like about the bounds of space. Of course, it was really the taxi— but I didn’t know it then, and I’m not quite sure of it now. “T wish to God,” I said to myself in a fury, “ I had one more sniff of that Sn…
1922 · PDF PAGE 126
112 The Diary of a Drug Fiend rotten red-tape, but “of course, they’re right in a way, there are quite a lot of chaps that wouldn't know how to use it, might get a bit above themselves and give something away—you know how it is.” So we left him quietly smoking, and went back to our own little cubby and had the most glorious night, whispering imaginary intrigues which somehow lent stronger wing to the real rapture of our love. We neither of us slept. We simply sailed through the darkness to find the dawn caressing the crest of Posilippo and the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…anist by the arm, and drew him to the window-seat. Rumour accused Lavinia of too close intimacy with the musician: and rumour does not always lie. She took advantage of the situation to caress him. Monet- Knott, for that was his name, took her action as a matter of course. Her passion satisfied alike his purse and his vanity; and, being without temperament — he was the curate type of ladies' man — he suited the dancer, who would have found a more masterful lover in her way. This creature could not even excite the jealousy of the wealthy automob…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…s the crown of all. The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness. Now we get back to the Qabalah-how to make use of it. Let us suppose that you have been making an invocation, or shall we call it an investigation, and suppose you want to interpret a passage of Bach. To play this is the principal weapon of your ceremony. In the c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 402
…irection in which he should start his exploration . That was easy. The next question was the distance involved, and he could think of no way of framing questions which would inform him on that very important point. He got at it indirectly , however, by asking as to his means of transport , and as to that the answer was quite clear and unmistakeable . He was to use a horse. Well, he had a Boer pony, and next morning he set forth with provisions for a day's journey . On and on he went and found no geological indication of any mineral wealth. Pres…
1929 · PDF PAGE 294
… for all commercial purposes and this number varied with the district. Now, as it happened, this number was constantly decreased all the way to Yunnanfu, so that if I wished to buy something at Tengyuen for a hundred cash I had to hand over a string containing eighty-nine coins, whereas a similar transaction at Talifu required only seventy odd, and near Yunnansen forty-six if I remember right. I was consequently always having to take off coins from my original strings. The number of my strings therefore increased as I went along, although I was…
1922 · PDF PAGE 84
70 The Diary of a Drug Fiend even mediocre refinement if they were always acutely conscious of the process of digestion.” She gave a little shiver. “You've read the Mystics, Sir Peter?” interrupted Feccles. “Y’m afraid not, my dear man,’ I replied. “ Fact is, I haven't read anything much unless I had to.” ““T went into it rather for a couple of years,” he returned, and then stopped short and flushed. The thought had apparently called up some very unpleasant memories. He tried to cover his corfusion by volubility, and began an elaborate expositi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 110
…ds. The only thing I’m not sure about is whether it’s a sixteen- ounce pound or a twelve-ounce pound. But I don’t see what it matters anyway, if you’ve got a pound of snow or H. you can go on for a long while, but apparently it’s rather awkward orchestrating them. Quain says that people accustomed to opium and its derivatives can take an enormous amount of cocaine without any bother. In the ordinary way, half a grain of cocaine can cause death, but we were taking the stuff with absolute carelessness. One doesn’t think of measuring it as one wou…
1922 · PDF PAGE 117
…as, so to speak, an act of religion. It was the very fact that it was not an act of necessity which made it an act of piety. In the same way, I cannot say that the dose did us any particular good. It was at once a routine and a ritual. It was a commemoration like the Protestant communion, and at the same time a consecration like the Catholic. It reminded us that we Were heirs to the royal rapture in which we were afloat. But also it refreshed that rapture. We noticed that in spite of the Alpine air, we did not seem to have any great. appetite f…
1922 · PDF PAGE 273
…ght she was the resident spirit of the place. She informed it, gave it a meaning. The intimacy between her and her master was not in any way personal. She was the medium by which his thoughts became per- ceptible.
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…mutation of her being. She greeted Cyril with peculiar warmth — indeed, it had been she to whom he had once thrown a pair of socks. In a way, it was he that had made her a great artist; for his personality had broken down her dykes; not till she met him had she ever let herself go. And it was by a magical trick that he had shown her how to use her art as a vehicle for her soul. Later, he had brought her into the Order, realizing the inestimable value of her virtue; and if she was not its most advanced member she was its most beloved. They calle…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
… somewhere, or roll us up. Verdun will be isolated. Der Kronprinz (God bless his noble heart!) will walk through, and goose-step all the way to Paris. It is the only chance for the Hohenzollern dynasty." "It is military madness." "They think they have enough in hand to risk it. But see, sir, for God's sake see the conclusion! If I'm right, Von Kluck is bound to swerve East, right across our front — and we'll smash him!" "He couldn't risk such a crazy manoeuvre." "Mark my word, sir, he will." "And what do you suggest that I should do about it? U…
1910 · PDF PAGE 258
…Taggart Doctor in Letters Fellow and Lecturer Of Trinity College In Cambridge, and Fellow Of the Berritish Ac—ad—em—y,. I wonder, by the way, whether “letters” isn’t a {misprint. If not, did he really qualify at the Sorbonne ? ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE ARCANE SCHOOLS. By JOHN YARKER. William Tait, 3 Wellington Park Avenue, Belfast. 12s. net. The reader of this treatise is at first overwhelmed by the immensity of Brother Yarker’s erudition. He seems to have examined and quoted every document that ever existed. It is true that he occasionally refers …
1910 · PDF PAGE 258
…Taggart Doctor in Letters Fellow and Lecturer Of Trinity College In Cambridge, and Fellow Of the Berritish Ac—ad—em—y,. I wonder, by the way, whether “letters” isn’t a {misprint. If not, did he really qualify at the Sorbonne ? ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE ARCANE SCHOOLS. By JOHN YARKER. William Tait, 3 Wellington Park Avenue, Belfast. 12s. net. The reader of this treatise is at first overwhelmed by the immensity of Brother Yarker’s erudition. He seems to have examined and quoted every document that ever existed. It is true that he occasionally refers …
1922 · PDF PAGE 214
…te such an important person as ‘that, and I only married Sir Peter in July.” “‘ Ah, that accounts for it,’’ said the doctor. ‘I’ve been away all the summer in the heather with the Marchioness of Eigg. Quite out of the world, quite out of the world. Well, I’m sure you're very happy, my dear Lady Pendragon.”’ He always mentioned a title with a noise like a child sucking a stick of barley sugar. I saw at once the way to appeal to him. “Well, of course, you know,” I said, ‘in really smart circles one has to offer heroin and cocaine to people. It’s …