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Page 84 of 1211922 · PDF PAGE 137
…ered with a horrible chuckle. ‘‘ All right, mister,’’ he said. “ No offence meant,” and he threw an arm round Lou’s neck, and made a movement to kiss her. I was on my feet in a second, and swung my right to his jaw. It knocked him off the bench, and he lay flat. | In a moment the uproar began. All my old fighting instincts flashed to the surface. I realised instantly that we were in for the very row that Feccles had so wisely warned us to avoid. _ The whole crowd—men and women—were on their feet. They were rushing at us like stampeding cattle. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 504
…l becoming wiser and nobler every minute, as people did seventy years ago. In fact, one may suspect that the majority of well-instructed men expect nothing but that History will repeat itself, and our civilization go the way of all the others whose ruins we dig up in every quarter of the earth. Well, if we have to wait for the calamity, and for evolution to begin all over again in a number of centuries-with luck!-one thing is at least quite certain: we can do nothing about it. Any form of activity must be as futile and as fatuous as any other; …
1929 · PDF PAGE 470
470 Everyone wanted "business as usual", while Europe was overrun by madmen, fired by commercial ambitions, as it had been a hundred years before, fired by the military ambition of a man greater than Bloody Bill. Napoleon, at least, stood for humanity and for civilization. He gave France a code of laws better than any since that which Manu gave to India. Wilhelm offered nothing but the Kultur of the pig-iron-brained Herr Professor, and the conception of woman as the Kuh of Küche, Kirche und Kinder. That was what we were fighting --- not for our…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
… the King whom they are under be Invocated; and Counties or Earls any hour of the Day, so it be in Woods, or in any other places whither men resort not, or where no noise is, etc. CLASSIFIED LIST OF THE 72 CHIEF SPIRITS OF THE GOETIA, ACCORDING TO RESPECTIVE RANK. (Seal in Gold.) Kuinas: (1.) Bael; (9.) Paimon; (13.) Beleth; (20.) Purson; (32.) Asmoday; (45.) Viné; (51.) Balam; (61.) Zagan; (68.) Belial. (Seal in Copper.) Duxrs.—(2.) Agares; (6.) Valefor; (8.) Barbatos; (11.) Gusion; (15.) Eligos; (16.) Zepar; (18.) Bathin; (19.) Sallos; (23.) …
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
…n , deep problems of psychology , of sex , of the carnal , of the pathic , and of evil , all inter webbed and woven with the eternal filament of good . And so if we read this strange poet aright , we shall see as we progress onwards , that he has struck a sonorous note from the rim of Time , fulfilled of the knowledge of good and evil , sweet to the ears of those who are born children by the daughters of men to the sons of God , sweet as that mystic fruit was to the lips of Eve , daughter of God , child of the mystic Man . But we must speed on …
1919 · PDF PAGE 243
…ERNING THE LAW OF THELEMA @ état on the part of a King and of a Pope who saw their re- actionary, obscurantist, and tyrannical programme menaced by those knights who did not scruple to add the wisdom of the East to their own large interpretation of Christianity, and who represented in that time a movement towards the light of learning and of science, which has been brought to fruition in our own times by the labours of the Orientalists from Von-Hammer-Purgstall and Sir William Jones to Professor Rhys Davids and Madame Blavatsky, to say nothing …
1996 · PDF PAGE 209
…low thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.
1996 · PDF PAGE 212
…eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all. 17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! 19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 60
…istence; so that opposing fierce resistance to the all-law, stood loves and joys, delicate girls, and beautiful strong boys, and bearded men like gods, and golden things, and bright desires with wings, all beauties, and all truths of life poets have ever prized. .So showed the microscope, this agéd strife between all forms: but seen afar, seen well drawn in a focus, synthesised, the whole was sorrow and despair; agony biting through the fair; meanness, contemptibility, enthroned; all purposeless, all unatoned; all putrid of an hope, all vacant …
1929 · PDF PAGE 185
…d the photographer under Alpine conditions. I must admit to a certain heaviness of heart in obeying my instructions and sending back the men. It was so obviously right to take them up the slopes to the shoulder and establish the camp at a point whence Chogo Ri could have been reached without question, given one fine day. But my orders were formal and I never thought of disobedience. Of course, if I had foreseen the volte-face of the weather, I might have decided otherwise. I was a little worried by the failure of Pfannl and Wessely to maintain …
1929 · PDF PAGE 400
… solicitors who had represented me in the matter of Mathers. I did not care one way or the other what I did, but I took counsel with two men whose knowledge {638} of the world of men was indisputably great; one, a probationer, the Hon. Everard Fielding, the other, Raymond Radclyffe, who, though utterly indifferent to Magick, was passionately fond of poetry and thought mine first-class, and unrivalled in my generation. He edited a high-class financial weekly and was rightly reputed as the most incorruptible, high-minded and shrew critic of the c…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…d at the railway station, or at least on our arrival at Brighton. So I followed him. At the turning a big motor-car was waiting, and two men stood by on the pavement. They bowed silently before my companion, and made me enter the car. One of them took charge of the driving, and the other followed us two in the back seats. The man said but one word, “ Scat,” and we started at a terrific speed and were soon off on the road. I began to feel uneasy; but prudence stopped my speech in time, and the man next to me began to titter. Then he spoke; and t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…d at the railway station, or at least on our arrival at Brighton. So I followed him. At the turning a big motor-car was waiting, and two men stood by on the pavement. They bowed silently before my companion, and made me enter the car. One of them took charge of the driving, and the other followed us two in the back seats. The man said but one word, “ Scat,” and we started at a terrific speed and were soon off on the road. I began to feel uneasy; but prudence stopped my speech in time, and the man next to me began to titter. Then he spoke; and t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
…uality!) of the individual. Ananda Metteya in “ Buddhism”+ explains transmigration in contradistinction to reincarnation as follows. Two men standing on the shore of a lake watch the waves rolling land- wards. To the one who is unversed in science it appears that the wave travelling towards him retains its identity and shape, it is to him a mass of water that moves over the surface impelled by the wind. The other, who has a scientifically trained mind, knows that at each point upon the surface of the lake the particles of water are only rising …
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
…uality!) of the individual. Ananda Metteya in “ Buddhism”+ explains transmigration in contradistinction to reincarnation as follows. Two men standing on the shore of a lake watch the waves rolling land- wards. To the one who is unversed in science it appears that the wave travelling towards him retains its identity and shape, it is to him a mass of water that moves over the surface impelled by the wind. The other, who has a scientifically trained mind, knows that at each point upon the surface of the lake the particles of water are only rising …
1929 · PDF PAGE 577
…o prevent the Vatican employing the influence of the priests to attain political ends. I was also convinced of the importance of the movement and of its almost immediate success. I did my utmost to persuade Austin Harrison of the soundness of my judgment. He pooh-poohed the whole thing and only after interminable argument did I persuade him to let me write an article on the situation. He ultimately agreed, and I hunted all round London for a representative of Fascismo from whom I could obtain documentary material for my article. (The sequel is …
1905 · PDF PAGE 147
… again ! Let our alliance like a marriage stand, Supreme from strand to strand, The likeness of our love, the clasp of hand in hand. And men who come behind us yet unborn, Nor dimly guessed at down the brook of time, Shall celebrate the brave undying morn When the free nations put aside their scorn For friendship, rock no sundering surge may climb, the sea, Flushed with fresh victory, Lands royal, leal, and great, vast, beautiful, and free. Our children’s children shall unsheathe the sword Against the envy of some lyrant power : The leader of y…
1909 · PDF PAGE 390
… to it to spoil it. I had two hundred natives hanged, and as many burned alive, for form’s sake, and in order to show their fellow black men that my justice was impartial; but apart from this unim- portant little fact nothing followed the recovery of the mighty box. I had undertaken the difficult task of civilising the negroes ; and as it would be quite impossible for me to lose for an instant the sight and thought of my personal mission, I was not a little perplexed at the duality it presented at first. But I soon found out the truth. Cut in t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 390
… to it to spoil it. I had two hundred natives hanged, and as many burned alive, for form’s sake, and in order to show their fellow black men that my justice was impartial; but apart from this unim- portant little fact nothing followed the recovery of the mighty box. I had undertaken the difficult task of civilising the negroes ; and as it would be quite impossible for me to lose for an instant the sight and thought of my personal mission, I was not a little perplexed at the duality it presented at first. But I soon found out the truth. Cut in t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
…lag white, because I have left nothing upon the earth alive. I have feasted myself on the blood of the saints, but I am not suspected of men to be their enemy, for my fleece is white and warm, and my teeth are not the teeth of one that teareth flesh; and mine eyes are mild, and they know me not the chief of the lying spirits that the Father of all sent forth from before his face in the beginning. (His attribution is salt; the wolf mercury, and the raven sulphur.) Now the lamb grows small again, there is again nothing but the wheel, and the hand…