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Page 78 of 1081929 · PDF PAGE 35
…the way, seems universal. I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles. The censor habitually passes what I, who am no puritan, consider nauseating filth, while refusing to license Oedipus Rex, which we are compelled to assimilate at school. The country is flooded with the nasty pornography of women writers, while there is an outcry against epoch-making masterpieces of philosophy like Jurgen. The…
1905 · PDF PAGE 240
…detested fear That can annul our conquests, and arouse Our rapt dream-kisses. TANNHAUSER. That is my intent. It is the spiritual life of things I seek—Thou knowest ! VENUS. Oh, I did not mean ! Remember my dilemma! Hear me speak The story of her. She is a wicked witch That seeketh to delude thy sleepy sense In vicious purpose and malignant hope To ape my Godhead. [ Thunder. TANNHAUSER. Thunder rolls again. I am uneasy. VENUS. Feed it not at all! May not my servants of the elements Play children’s gambols on the mountain crest About our fortress…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
THE EQUINOX (7) Meditation practices on men and things.* (8) Elemental evocations.+ (9) Meditation to vivify telesmata.} (10) Astral projections.§ PHYSICAL WORK. (2) Careful drawings of the Gods in their colours. (6) Figure of Adonai ha Aretz in colour. [See Illustration.] right and left at right angles to the body, in the left hand a gold cup and in right ears of ripe corn. From her shoulders dark spreading wings, »=A deep yellow-green robe, upon the breast of which is a square gold lamen decorated with four scarlet Greek crosses. Round her wa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
THE EQUINOX (7) Meditation practices on men and things.* (8) Elemental evocations.+ (9) Meditation to vivify telesmata.} (10) Astral projections.§ PHYSICAL WORK. (2) Careful drawings of the Gods in their colours. (6) Figure of Adonai ha Aretz in colour. [See Illustration.] right and left at right angles to the body, in the left hand a gold cup and in right ears of ripe corn. From her shoulders dark spreading wings, »=A deep yellow-green robe, upon the breast of which is a square gold lamen decorated with four scarlet Greek crosses. Round her wa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 191
… and high intelligence like yourself and Sir Peter—to whom please give my most cordial greetings |—were perfectly well able to use these things in moderation as one does soap. “ But, apart from this, do you find that the life of a ‘Heroine’ makes you abnormally ‘suggestible ?’ “ As you know, I object to the methods of Coué and Baudouin. They ask us deliberately to abandon free will and clear mentality for the semi-hypnotic state of the medieval peasant; to return like ‘the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire’ from which we have bee…
1922 · PDF PAGE 268
…f string without the aid of the fourth dimension; but we can disentangle the complexities caused by dipping the string in water—and such things,”’ he added, with an almost malicious gravity in his tone. I knew what he meant. “It might very well be,” he continued, ‘ that when we fail to solve the puzzles of life, they remain with us. We have to do them sooner or later ; and it seems reason- able to suppose that the problems of life ought to be solved during life, while we have to our hands the apparatus in which they arose. We might find that af…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…altation 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]
1954 · PDF PAGE 95
…y multiply its combinations. This is something the same as mystic monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. It is no objection to this theory to ask who made the elements-the elements are at least there, and God, when you look for him, is not there. Theism is obscurum per obscurius. A male star is built up from the
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…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 ? The sticky sperm of Kluckchoo, the Human Corkscrew. Fresh from his laurels at the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 75
…vulsion of feeling was due to a mysterious premonition of the physiological effects of heroin in destroying love. Definitely stimulating things like alcohol, hashish and cocaine give free range to Cupid. Their destructive effect on him is simply due to the reaction. One is in debt, so to speak, because one has outrun the constable. But what I may call the philosophical types of dope, of which morphine and heroin are the principal examples, are directly inimical to active emotion and emotional action. The normal human feelings are transmuted int…
1922 · PDF PAGE 122
…n called suddenly away on business, I told him what I had written, with added apologies. The long journey had tired me deep down. I took things more seriously, though the cocaine prevented my realising that this was the case. ‘““My dear fellow,” he protested. ‘I’m extremely annoyed that you should have troubled yourself about the business at all. As a matter of fact, what happened is this. I went round to see those men at four o’clock, as arranged on the ’phone, and they were really so awfully decent about the whole thing that I had to let them…
1922 · PDF PAGE 146
…ted.” ““ Perhaps something’s happened to him,” suggested Lou. “ But that would really be too curious a coin- cidence.”’ , . ‘Well, these things do happen,’’ admitted the consul. He seemed somehow more at his ease with her, and better disposed, than when he was talking to me. Her magnetic beauty and her evident aristocracy could not help but have their effect. I found myself admiring her immensely, in quite a new way. It had never occurred to me that she could rise to a situation with such superb aplomb. ‘Won’t you sit down ? ”’ said the consul,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 236
…found a sheet of paper which he had forgotten to destroy—a letter to the War Office, warning them against German plots, and telling some things that have happened down here. I could hardly read it; his handwriting is absolutely gaga. He talks a great deal to himself. I overheard some of it. He thinks there may be a German spy in the War Office and is afraid to trust the post or telegraph. He kept on saying, “I’m at my wits’ end.” Then he went off into muttering about the plots against him. I am sure I could help him out if he would only trust m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…n him. His wrong had been hideous; if his vengeance seemed excessive and even indiscriminate, was not he a Frenchman? Frenchmen do these things! And after all Frenchmen were men. Bevan felt a great glow of benevolence; he re- membered that he was not only a man, but a Chris- tian. He determined to set the stranger at his ease. Your story interests me intensely, said he. I sym- pathise deeply with you in your wrongs and in your suf- ferings. I am heartily thankful that you have escaped, and I beg of you to proceed with the narration of your a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…Karma of his past life, without any opposition. 112, Remaining in the place, when the Yogi meditates deeply, idols appear to him as mere things of imagination, z.¢., he perceives the absurdity of idolatry.* The Sahasrara, or thousand-and-one-petalled lotus of the brain, is usually described as being situated above the head, but sometimes in the opening of the Brahmarandhra, or at the root of the palate. In its centre there is a Yoni which has its face looking downwards. In the centre of this Yoni is placed the mystical moon, which is continuall…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…Karma of his past life, without any opposition. 112, Remaining in the place, when the Yogi meditates deeply, idols appear to him as mere things of imagination, z.¢., he perceives the absurdity of idolatry.* The Sahasrara, or thousand-and-one-petalled lotus of the brain, is usually described as being situated above the head, but sometimes in the opening of the Brahmarandhra, or at the root of the palate. In its centre there is a Yoni which has its face looking downwards. In the centre of this Yoni is placed the mystical moon, which is continuall…
1922 · PDF PAGE 230
…out Peter. He can’t see into the spiritual world at all. On the contrary, he is getting a little queer in the head, and imagines he sees things which don’t exist at all. He’s constantly scratching himself. He behaved very strangely at dinner. I think the butler noticed it. At midnight we went up to the old man’s room and
1954 · PDF PAGE 208
…te The Book of the Law itself: "Now a curse on Because and his kin! ... Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!" (AL, 11:28-33) These things stink of Ignoratio Elenchi, or something painfully like it: a sort of slipping up a cog, of "confusing the planes ," of wilfully misunderstanding the gist of an argument. (All magicians, by the way, ought to be grounded solidly in Formal Logic.) Never forget, at the least, how simple it is to make a maniac's hell-broth of any proposition, however plain to common sense. All the above, now: - Buddhism ref…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…cise of rump- ing ; but the surgeon warned me that the sugges- tion would be taken in ill part. Her Majesty, he explained, is before all things respectable : not to save life, no ! Not to ensure the greatness of her empire or the happiness of her people, would she for a moment condescend to any unnatural prac- tice such as you suggest. I am aware that a num- ber of horses have perished in the service ; but I can certify that our distinguished patient was not at the time in a condition to differentiate between the steed and its rider. What she w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 377
…ing as humanity, espe- cially Theosophists, as Mme. Blavatsky herself discovered. But the best of all lustrations is death, in which all things unessential to progress are burned up. The plan is much better than that of the Elixir of Life. It is perfectly all right to use this Elixir for energy and youth, but despite all, im- pressions keep on cluttering up the mind, and once in a while it is certainly a splendid thing for everybody to have the Spring Cleaning of death. With regard to one’s purpose in doing anything at all, it depends on the na…