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Page 77 of 771929 · PDF PAGE 302
…illages and the people seem to possess infinitesimal importance. On the ninth there was a novelty of another kind. The dignity of Johnny White as interpreter entitled him to ride on horseback; but naturally he had to be content with a somewhat sorry screw, wile my own pony was a fairly decent animal. He thought the time ripe to attempt to force me to "lose face": that is, to become an object of ridicule to the coolies. If he had succeeded, I need hardly point out, there would have been and end of all discipline and we should probably have been …
1929 · PDF PAGE 309
…ch had made canned food a drug on the market, though there was practically nothing else to eat; and secondly by the shooting of Stanford White, which let loose all the suppressed sexual hysteria of the whole population. They would talk of nothing else. Everyone screamed in public and in private about satyrs and angel children, and vampires, and the unwritten law, and men higher up, and stamping out impurity. For the first time in my life I came into contact with mob madness. Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep peopl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…of Dayton, Tennessee, and some others do in a monkey-house. A similar situation exists in the southern states of America, where the pure whites are outnumbered by the negroes, and where a large population of mixed blood provides the logical link. In south Africa, again, we find the same situation; and the practical result is that the white man, feeling his footing insecure, dares not tolerate the native as he can in India, where the relations between the population and the conquering invader are understood by both parties. The Singalese governm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 552
…to perdition, that after a careful consideration the Navy Department had unanimously decided that they could sweep the seas clear of the White Ensign without troubling themselves to put him to the inconvenience of co-operating. Shaking the pipe-clay of Annapolis from his person, he favoured New York with a flying visit, dropped in on me, and --- please could I find him a job? I did what I could, but before I found him work, he had got the Lafayette to {871} 1. WEH note: This is C. F. Russel try him as a waiter. I thought he might be of use to m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 183
… rest. At the corner of the Baltoro glacier and its northern affluent, the Chogo Lungma, as I named it, one has to cross a scree of pure white marble. Eckenstein, who arrived at this point in a snowstorm, found it very distressing. He told me that it was impossible to pick footholds; the entire surface was a blinding glare. Camp 8 (16,592 feet) is situated at the foot of a subsidiary spur descending from the ridge of which Chogo Ri is the climax. I was now in full view of the mountain itself, bar clouds; and, my first duty being to reconnoitre …
1929 · PDF PAGE 436
…ociety in America, which, under cover of moral indignation, forged false evidence against convenient candidates, implicating them in the white slave traffic, extracting hush money, or prosecuting when the victim was not worth despoiling or refused to pay up, and sometimes by way of "making an example", in order to frighten the next batch whose blood they proposed to suck. I left a book of signed cheques in her charge; I allowed her access to my private papers. I gave no sign that I saw how she was corrupting the loyalty of Laylah and making mis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 255
…e for which even one's experience of Chogo Ri has not prepared me, there stands the mass of Kangchenjunga, faint rose, faint blue, clear white, in the dawn. On reaching the foot of the hills, one transfers to a toy railway, which climbs the six thousand odd feet to Darjeeling by means of complicated curves and even loops. One ascends rapidly; the view constantly changes; one begins to appreciate the geology of the country as a whole. In the foreground the tropical vegetation is superbly thick and rich. One is so relieved by the change to cool s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…nearly two hours before we got him into the boat. The excitement over, I observed that a sleet was driving heavily and that the loch was white with foam. Also that we were off a lee shore, and that shore about the middle of the precipice. We could do nothing but pull for life in the teeth of the gale, which increased in violence every moment. We were both already tired out. Despite every effort, we were forced, foot by foot, towards the rocks. By great luck, there is one gap in those infernal little cliffs. But the boat was not under control. H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…of love. The early hours of the morning, in winter, are bitterly cold, and the river is covered to a height of several feet with a dense white mist which does not disappear till well after sunrise. I kept very quiet the next day, for repeated attacks of fever had begun to interfere with my digestive apparatus. Just as nightfall two deer came down to drink at the river side. It was rather dark for a shot and the deer could hardly be distinguished from the surrounding foliage, but the men very cleverly and silently held the boat and I let fly. Th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 462
…in.X6 ina s7z pp. | Handgomely bound, Cloth Gilt extra, Gilt Tope. 155 net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed’on fine quality Rag Paper. Bound in White Vellum, Gilt Tops. 21s._net. An English translation of this celebrated work of the well-known French Occultist is now for the first time offered to the British Public. THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC, Including the Rites and. Mysteries of Goétic Theurgy, Sorcery, and infernal Necromancy. "By A. "E, Ware, Crown to, gilt tops, 376 pp.» illustrated with about 180 engravings, beautifully bound in art canvas, wi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 612
…in. x 6in., $72 pp. Handsomely bound, Cloth Gill extra, Gilt Tops. 155.net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed on fine quality Rag Paper. Bound in White Vellum, Gilt Tops, 218. net. . eit, English translation of this celebrated work of the well-known French Occultist is now for the first time offered to the ritish Pul THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC. Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goétic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy. By A. E. WaiTE. Crown gto, gilt tops, 376 pp. illustrated with about x80 engravings, beautifully bound in art canvas, with …
1913 · PDF PAGE 612
…in. x 6in., $72 pp. Handsomely bound, Cloth Gill extra, Gilt Tops. 155.net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed on fine quality Rag Paper. Bound in White Vellum, Gilt Tops, 218. net. . eit, English translation of this celebrated work of the well-known French Occultist is now for the first time offered to the ritish Pul THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC. Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goétic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy. By A. E. WaiTE. Crown gto, gilt tops, 376 pp. illustrated with about x80 engravings, beautifully bound in art canvas, with …
1911 · PDF PAGE 308
…literature of CEREMONIAL Masic anv THe SecreT TravitioN IN CuxistiAN Tistss; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least, as the texts are concerned, ‘The work is issued in crowh to, and includes about 80 engravings, some of which are full-page plates. Price x58. net. Post free. Handsomely bound. JUST PUBLISHED. WAITE (A. E.). The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, and an Analysis of the Inter-Relation Between the Craft andthe High Dearees, in respect oftheir term of Research, expressed by t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 308
…literature of CEREMONIAL Masic anv THe SecreT TravitioN IN CuxistiAN Tistss; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least, as the texts are concerned, ‘The work is issued in crowh to, and includes about 80 engravings, some of which are full-page plates. Price x58. net. Post free. Handsomely bound. JUST PUBLISHED. WAITE (A. E.). The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, and an Analysis of the Inter-Relation Between the Craft andthe High Dearees, in respect oftheir term of Research, expressed by t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 423
… literature of CERRMONIAL Macic ann tH Secret Trapition IN Curistian Tintes; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least as the texts are concerned. The work is issued in crown 4to, and includes about x80 engravings, some of which are full-page plates. Price rss. net. Post free. Handsomely bound. _{UST PUBLISHED . ; WAITE (A. E.). The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, and an Analysis of the Inter-Relation between the Craft and the High Degrees, in respect of their term of Research, expresse…
1912 · PDF PAGE 423
… literature of CERRMONIAL Macic ann tH Secret Trapition IN Curistian Tintes; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least as the texts are concerned. The work is issued in crown 4to, and includes about x80 engravings, some of which are full-page plates. Price rss. net. Post free. Handsomely bound. _{UST PUBLISHED . ; WAITE (A. E.). The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, and an Analysis of the Inter-Relation between the Craft and the High Degrees, in respect of their term of Research, expresse…