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Page 84 of 1121922 · PDF PAGE 68
…y the clock—but what’s the use of talking about clocks when Einstein has proved that time is only another dimension of space? What’s the good of astronomers proving that the earth wiggles round 1000 miles an hour, and wiggles on 1000 miles a minute, if you can’t keep going? It would be absolutely silly to hang about and get left behind, and very likely find ourselves on the moon, and nobody to talk to but Jules \Verne, H. G. Wells, and that crowd.
1922 · PDF PAGE 85
…ow-animals when he acquired self-consciousness. This is in fact the meaning of the legend of “The Fall.” We have become as gods, knowing good and evil, and the D.D.F. F
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…e muddy road, he merely expressed, in a cipher contrived by a combination of circumstances, his otherwise inex- pressible wish to get on good terms with Queen Elizabeth. The significance of his action was determined by the concourse of circumstances. The reality can hâve no reason for reproducing itself exclusively in that especial form. It can hâve no reason for remembering that so extravagant a ritual happened to be necessary to worship. Therefore, however well a man might remember his incarnation as Julius Caesar, there is no necessity for h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 305
…, or the subjects which had interested and excited me during that period, and (b) the physical conditions of the moment. For instance, a good deal of the time of the experiment, I was sleeping in what might have been euphemistically called a houseboat. It was liable to leak; and on such occasions as I woke to find water trickling down my nose, I found that the dream from which I had wakened was an adventure of some sort in connection with water. (It is quite notorious, I believe, that many asthmatic subjects are pestered by dreams of having bee…
1954 · PDF PAGE 425
…T TEARS is nearly always a mistake to try to do things entirely off one's own bat . It is much simpler to look for an existing force, in good working order , that is doing the sort of stuff that you need, and take from it, or control in it, just that bit of it that you happen to require . You can, theoretically , walk from Cadiz to Vladivostock; but unless there be some special reason, it will save time and waste of energy to make use of a fraction of the machine-power that happens to be moving in that direction . This is particularly true of m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 289
…ing rain, during which the ayah was both kicked and bitten by a mule. The day after that it was again my turn to be kicked. I have had a good deal of experience with mules in various parts of the world; but only in this short section did such things occur. This day was again very wet. The road led over a pass three thousand feet high. I say "road", and of course this is the main highway from Burma to China, just as the road we had followed from Srinagar is the main highway from Kashmir to Turkestan. In neither case would it be considered good g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
… the lyre ! They tremble to hear me, The powers of the fire. Come near me to cheer me! Be near and inspire ! Be strength in my heart and good courage, and speed in the single desire ! The fire knows its master ! They flicker and flare, Dread dogs of disaster, Wild slaves of despair. Faster and faster— My soul is aware Of a sound that is dimmer and duller, wide wings adrift of the air. the tameless ones hear and obey? From secretest places Whence darkness is drawn, Where terrible faces Enkindle the dawn, From wordless wide spaces, The ultimate l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…HOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. The wise Professor reconstructs duality, Made of mentality and animality. His arguments are forcible and true, But yet his propositions will not do ; For when the full circumference is run We can resolve them gaily into one. Nay, though he talk of monism, we feel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One …
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
…mal clambering amongst the rocks, about four feet of it being above water. The woman, who had a splendid view of it, describes it as a “ good-looking person,” while the man says it was “a woman covered over with brown hair.” At last the couple tried to get hold of it, when it took a header into the sea and disappeared. The man is confident he has seen the fabled mermaid, but people in the district are of opinion that the animal must belong to the seal tribe. An animal of similar description was seen by several people at Deerness two years ago.”…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…HOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. The wise Professor reconstructs duality, Made of mentality and animality. His arguments are forcible and true, But yet his propositions will not do ; For when the full circumference is run We can resolve them gaily into one. Nay, though he talk of monism, we feel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One …
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
…mal clambering amongst the rocks, about four feet of it being above water. The woman, who had a splendid view of it, describes it as a “ good-looking person,” while the man says it was “a woman covered over with brown hair.” At last the couple tried to get hold of it, when it took a header into the sea and disappeared. The man is confident he has seen the fabled mermaid, but people in the district are of opinion that the animal must belong to the seal tribe. An animal of similar description was seen by several people at Deerness two years ago.”…
1922 · PDF PAGE 73
… of it, the English language has its limitations. When mathemati- cians and men of science want to exchange thoughts, English isn’t much good. They've had to invent new words, new symbols. Look at Einstein’s equations. I knew a man once that knew James Hinton, who invented the fourth dimension. Pretty bright chap, he was, but Hinton thought, on the most ordinary subjects, at least six times as fast as he did, and when it came to Hinton’s explaining himself, he simply couldn’t do it. That’s the great trouble when a new thinker comes along. They …
1922 · PDF PAGE 220
…rnagentleman. ‘If I were a dog,’ he said to me once, ‘I should bark. If I were an owl, I should hoot. There’s nothing in either which is good or bad in itself. The only question is, what is the natural gesture?’ He thinks it his mission in the world to establish this Law of Thelema.” She saw my puzzled look. “‘ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,’ ”’ she quoted merrily. “‘ You must have heard those words before ! ”’ I admitted it. We laughed together over our friend's eccentricity. “ He says that to every one he meets,” she explain…
1954 · PDF PAGE 257
…point, however, we have forgotten; although my Libra inclinations do bias me personally , they also make me fair-minded, "a judge, and a good judge too" in the memorable phrase of the late William Schwenk Gilbert. So I will sum up what is to be said for and against this Golden Mean. As usual, nobody has taken the trouble to define the term. We know that it was extolled by both the Greek and the Chinese philosophers; but I cannot see that they meant much more than to counsel the avoidance of extremes , whether of measures or of opinions ; and to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 330
…ng ago, the Law of Karma is the Law of Inertia. Nor is it necessary to assert that it always works out in this way; "sometimes" is quite good enough. Besides, to say "sometimes" explains (or rather, avoids) most of the evident objections to the theory . I grant you cheerfully that Reincarnation is a comparatively rare occurrence; and it throws upon the objector the onus of proving an A or an E proposition. What is it that reincarnates? We have had this before , in another connection; it is the Supernal Triad of lechidah, Chiah, and Neschamah th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…half-formed faces" moving shadowy through the dimly-lit room. When it was a matter of the sense of touch, it was far otherwise; I got it good and hearty-but that is not the su bject of this letter. I find all this excessively tedious; I resent having to write about it at all; I wonder whether I am breaking some beastly
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…and was now up in arms against what their freeborn spirit consid- ered an unwarrantable and tyrannical demand on their manhood it is a good thing, said George W.....m himself, to have a giants strength, but tyr- annous to use it like a giant while the sporting instinct of the race was equally aroused, and they were as one man (so the Pink Un voiced the gener- ous feeling of the community) in their resolve to stand away, and lets see the Frenchy have his whack out I was now, in the words of the sweet singer of Israel, faint yet purs…
1922 · PDF PAGE 125
…. ‘** Well,” said I to Feccles, ‘‘ this suits me down to the ground. I’m trying to forget what you said about my brain, because it isn’t good for a young man to be puffed up with intellectual vanity. But I certainly am the luckiest man in the world.” M. Hector Laroche gave us a delightful hour, telling of some of his past exploits in the war. He was as modest as he was brave; but for all that, we could see well enough what amazing astuteness he had brought to the service of our country in her hour of peril. We could imagine him making rings rou…
1922 · PDF PAGE 212
…n. I should tell him I had drawn blanks. I felt I could eat again, and had some light food and a couple of whiskies and sodas. I felt so good that I drove straight back to Greek Street, and poured out a mournful tale of failure. It
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
… and how things work out. What is money? A medium of exchange devised to facilitate the transaction of business. Oil in the engine. Very good, then; if instead of letting it flow as freely and smoothly as possible, you baulk its very nature; you prevent it from doing its True Will. So every "restriction" (that word again!) on the exchange of wealth is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. Parable No. Three, "The Fairy Bank Note." One evening a man walked into an inn and asked for hospitality. In the morning, when his bill came, he found he …