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Page 86 of 1291919 · PDF PAGE 151
…th, 1911 to April 30th of that year, he kept a sci- entifically tabulated diary and during the prescribed three months he never missed a day in the performance of his appointed task. His results, during this period, were perhaps not of a very startling nature, but, as any true Student learns, it is the long and continued “grind,” the determined effort to carry out the work in hand or task set, in spite of every obstacle that may arise, that really counts when it comes to lasting results. It is the Will that needs training, and the accom- 143
1922 · PDF PAGE 129
…TO FRITTO Ir was about the end of the third week, I discover from Lou’s Diary (I had lost all count of time myself), that he came in one day with a smile of subtle triumph in his eyes. “ T’ve got on to the ropes,” he said, ‘‘ but I think I ought in fairness to warn you that the Gatto Fritto is a pretty hot place. I wouldn’t mind taking you as long as you go in disguise and have a gun in your pocket, ~but I really can’t take it on my conscience to have Lady Pendragon along.”’ I was so full up with cocaine I hardly knew what he was saying. It was…
1954 · PDF PAGE 449
416 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS This statement is the first need of the world to-day for we are plagued with Meddlesome Matties, male and female, whose one overmastering passion is to mind other peoples' business. They can think of nothing but "control." They aim at an Ethic like that of the Convict Prison; at a civilization like that of the Bees or the Termites. But neither history nor biology acquaint us with any form of progress achieved by any of these communities. Penal settlements and Pall Mall Clubs have not even made provision for the perpetua…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…ut to-night the lamp must be wasted, il. 36 But why revile, ii, 147 By palm and pagoda enchaunted, il. 121 By Wisdom framed from ancient days, ii. 97 CALL down that star whose tender eyes, i. 171 Can you believe the deadly will’s decree, i. 254 Chaldean fools, who prayed to stars and fires, lil, 19 Clear, deep, and blue, the sky, i. 49 Cloistral seclusion of the galleried pines, ili, 119 Clytie, beyond all praise, i. 120 Coiled in the hollow of the rock they kiss, iii. 122 Come back, come back, come back, Eurydice ! lil, 158 Come, child of wond…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…What worse? RHADAMANTHUS, The Gods thy guide! Go and assail him ! MINOS. Stay, The Queen of Hell! ALACUS. That way Leads to the light of day. RHADAMANTHUS. A woman’s heart may yearn, To a man’s love may turn. MINOS. Should she, the ravished, spurn A man whose love is reft? ZEACUS. Meadows and flowers she left To Him—O bosom cleft With a wife’s loss !—a wife. RHADAMANTHUS., Too doubtful is the strife. MINOs. Yet go! perchance to life. ZEACUS. Go! and the Gods above Guard thee, O soul of love! RHADAMANTHUS, I doubt me much thereof, ORPHEUS, Ah me…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…les of cupidity from the game of grab , she also hisses , Pray to God and he will tie a knot in his bandana and perhaps remember it some day ; but above all , sacrifice to me , or by Jove ! I will sacrifice you : and the fool , even in his folly , thought it were better to lose his wits than his brains , and his turnips than his turnip ; so he dug and he dug , and he slew and he slew , religion growing fatter and fatter , spawning churches and breeding sects , till unfortunate man found himself so hedged in by the spiritual , that in order to m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…be clothed in the brilliancy of God .' This added “ impulse " , which in the homogeneous protoplasm causes fission , is as mystical to - day as that added " something " which will cause the mind of one man to admire a Wagnerian opera , and another a drawing by Beardsley . No sound is in the air , vibrations only pass . No sound is in the brain , molecular changes only result . Where then is sound ? It is a creation in the mind by the divine “ I ” ; that unextended absolute Passivity , whose dwelling is in that equilibrating activity which balan…
1911 · PDF PAGE 82
…. And I ask him: Why does he tell me that? And he says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what day a flower shall bloom? And thou shalt give thy wisdom unto the world, and that shall be thy garden. And concerning time and death, thou hast naught to do with these things. For though a precious stone be hidden in the sand of the…
1912 · PDF PAGE 289
…n organization on the lines of the well-known and justly admired Children's Scripture Union. He issued a card, price one penny, with the days of the year, and a “portion of Scripture" indicated for reading on this day. As the card could be prepared in half an hour by any one, and printed at about fourpence halfpenny a hundred, there was a small but sufficient margin of profit— or would have been but for the expense of getting the scheme under way. My uncle's genius never hesitated. “Of all the puppies on earth, the ‘pi‘ set at Cambridge are the m…
1912 · PDF PAGE 289
…n organization on the lines of the well-known and justly admired Children's Scripture Union. He issued a card, price one penny, with the days of the year, and a “portion of Scripture" indicated for reading on this day. As the card could be prepared in half an hour by any one, and printed at about fourpence halfpenny a hundred, there was a small but sufficient margin of profit— or would have been but for the expense of getting the scheme under way. My uncle's genius never hesitated. “Of all the puppies on earth, the ‘pi‘ set at Cambridge are the m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…id, an argument about the God Shiva, the Destroyer, whom I.A. worshipped because, if one repeated his name often enough, Shiva would one day open his eye and destroy the universe, and whom D.D.C.F. feared and hated because He would one day open His eye and destroy D.D.C.F. I.A. closed the argument by assuming the position Padmasana and repeating the Mantra: "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva." D.D.C.F., angrier than ever, sought the sideboard, but soon returned, only to find Frater I.A. still muttering: "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva…
1906 · PDF PAGE 135
…irit passing down Involves my heart with gray: So the pale stars of even crown The glow of twilight ; dip and drown The last despairs of day. Oh ! closer yet and closer yet The pearl of faces grows. The hair is woven like a net Of moonlight round me : sweet is set The mouth’s unbudded rose. Oh never! did our lips once meet The dream were done for ever, And death should dawn, supremely sweet, One flash of knowledge subtle and fleet Borne on the waveless river. VOL, II. And therefore in the quiet hour I rose from lily pillows And swiftly sought t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…um of lust . There is no lust of Rome , of Greece , or Arabia , no vice of Sodom , of Paphos , or Lampsacus , that is not practised to - day in any of our larger modern towns . Lust of wealth , lust of ease , lust of renown , lie as cankering worms in our hearts ; and the cold bought lust of our marriage beds and our streets fill our days with woe . Chivalry is dead , and the gilded Ass reigns in the place of the champing Stallion , and brays its goatish desires over the naked form of the sterile Mule . No longer in this ice - bound age of froz…
1909 · PDF PAGE 65
…s I include such obsessions as music, religion, gambling, among drugs. Is the “Keswick week” less of a debauch than the navvy’s Bank Holiday? There are people who rush from meeting to meeting, and give up their whole lives to this unwholesome excess of stimulant; they are happy nowhere else; they become as irritable as the cocaine-fiend, and render wretched the lives of those who are forced to come in contact with them. Personally, Ihave never felt the bearing-rein of habit, though I have tried all the mental and physical poisons in turn. I smo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…flicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actually a Freethinker, thought it a grimly apt symbol of the religion of our day. On His right stood a plaster Muse, with a lyre, the effect being decidedly improved by some one who had affixed a comic mask with a grinning mouth and a long pink nose; on His left a stone plaque of Lakshmi, the Hindu Venus, a really very fine piece of work, clean and dignified, in a way the one sanity in the room, except an exquisite pencil sketch of a child, done with all the delicacy and strength of Wh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 65
…s I include such obsessions as music, religion, gambling, among drugs. Is the “Keswick week” less of a debauch than the navvy’s Bank Holiday? There are people who rush from meeting to meeting, and give up their whole lives to this unwholesome excess of stimulant; they are happy nowhere else; they become as irritable as the cocaine-fiend, and render wretched the lives of those who are forced to come in contact with them. Personally, Ihave never felt the bearing-rein of habit, though I have tried all the mental and physical poisons in turn. I smo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…flicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actually a Freethinker, thought it a grimly apt symbol of the religion of our day. On His right stood a plaster Muse, with a lyre, the effect being decidedly improved by some one who had affixed a comic mask with a grinning mouth and a long pink nose; on His left a stone plaque of Lakshmi, the Hindu Venus, a really very fine piece of work, clean and dignified, in a way the one sanity in the room, except an exquisite pencil sketch of a child, done with all the delicacy and strength of Wh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 199
…m to assume a morbid activity as soon as the primaries are stilled. Their character is that of the shorter kind of memory. Events of the day, etc. 3. Tertiary. Partake of the character of “reverie.” Very tempting and insidious. 4. Quaternary. Are closely connected with the control centre itself. Their nature is “How well I’m doing it,” or “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to. ..?” These are prob- ably emanations from the control, not messages to it. We might call them: “ Aberrations of control.” Of a similar depth are the reflections which discover a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 267
…e re- turning home from an eternity spent in loneliness among the palaces of strangers. Well may I say an eternity, for during the whole day I could not rid myself of the feeling that I was separated from the preceding one by an immeasur- able lapse of time. In fact, I never got wholly rid of it. 249
1910 · PDF PAGE 199
…m to assume a morbid activity as soon as the primaries are stilled. Their character is that of the shorter kind of memory. Events of the day, etc. 3. Tertiary. Partake of the character of “reverie.” Very tempting and insidious. 4. Quaternary. Are closely connected with the control centre itself. Their nature is “How well I’m doing it,” or “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to. ..?” These are prob- ably emanations from the control, not messages to it. We might call them: “ Aberrations of control.” Of a similar depth are the reflections which discover a…