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…ple talk, and the effect of all those ghoulish articles in the newspapers had something to do with it. On the other hand, we must make a good deal of allowance, I think, for such an expert as Gretel Webster. No doubt she was worth her wage to the Boche. No - doubt she had picked me out for part of ‘‘ Die Rache.”’ I had downed some pretty famous flyers.
…be considered. I had always thought jewellery vulgar ; a signet ring and a tie pin for a man—for a woman, a few trinkets, very quiet, in good taste—that was the limit. But Lou was absolutely different. She could wear any amount of the stuff and carry it off superbly. I had bought her a pair of ear-rings in Cartier’s yesterday afternoon—three diamonds in a string, the pendant being a wonderful pear-shaped blue-white, and as she ate, and drank, and talked, they waggled behind the angle of her jaw in the most deliciously fascinating way, and it di…
…lucky.’ ” It was perfectly true. I had never been able to do anything of my own abilities, and after all I had tumbled into a reasonably good fortune. ‘ You’ve got the touch, Pen,’ he said, with animation. “* Any time you're out of a job, I'll give you ten thousand a year as a mascot.” Lou and I were both intensely excited. We could hardly find the patience to listen to the details of our friend’s plan. The figures were convincing; but the effect was simply to dazzle us. We had never dreamed of wealth on this scale. I got the vision for the fir…
… confess everything she has felt,’’ I whispered with a deep sigh, ‘‘ especially when she has had to kill it out of her heart. It does no good to talk of these things,’’ I went on. “I ought really not to have come. But how could I guess that you, a great doctor like you, had taken any notice of a silly kid like me? ” He jumped to his feet excitedly. “No, no,” I said sadly, with a gesture which made him sit down again, very uneasily. ‘‘I should never have come. It was absolutely weakness on my part. The heroin was only my excuse. Oh, don’t make m…
…naught, that exorcist would be destroyed by the recoil of his own exorcism. The laws of force take no account of human prejudices about "good" or "evil"; if one is run over by a railway engine, it matters nothing, physically, whether one is trying to commit suicide or to save a child. The difference in the result lies wholly on a superior plane. It is one mark of the short-sightedness of the sorcerer that he is content with his own sorceries; and if he should think that he can escape the operation of that superior law which does take account of…
…d of the name!) Then there are devices: style-rhythm, cadence, rime, ornamentation of a thousand kinds. I think one may take it that the good writer makes use of such artifice to make his meaning clear; the bad writer to obscure it, or to conceal the fact that he has none. I had a marvellous lesson myself some years earlier. I had cut down a certain ritual of initiation to what I thought were the very barest bones, chiefly to make it easy to commit to memory. Then came a candidate who was deaf-not merely "a little hard of hearing"; his tympana …
…and so the Mother of the Alphabet. (Distinguish from N, the letter of the Female.) Look up Magick again; chapter VII (pp. 45-49) gives a good account of M in discussing AUM. Note, too, the root MU "to be silent," from which we have the words Mystic, Mystery and others. As the letter of the Mother it appears to this day in nature everywhere, the first call of the child to "Mamma." In nearly every language, moreover, the word for Mother is based on M. Madar, Mere, Mutter, Umm, AMA or AlMA and [ the rest. The vibrant R suggests light-rays; Ra, the…
…n strictly classical, and admitted only the "Publication in Class A," "A-B," "8" and "0" material. But I had the idea that it would be a good plan to add all sorts of other stuff, so that people who were not in any way interested in the real Work might preserve their copies. This by the way: the essence of this letter is to show that "They," not one person but a number acting in concert, not only foresaw a planet-wide catastrophe, but were agreed on measures calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps th…
…ant with some magnetic form of energy. I cannot describe her clothes-for lack of material. She greeted us all round with a sort of surly good humour . The butler took a pot of very far-gone Roquefort cheese, and smeared her all over. She drank to us, and clumped away downstairs. She came out into the studio from under the gallery, braced herself and shook her mop of hair as if about to wrestle, waved to us and waited. A minute later a small trap at the far end of the studio was smartly pulled up; in rushed a hundred starving rats. There was a m…
…chery, who staggered, her eyes rolling, her hair dishevelled, her mouth loose and wet, laughing with indecent and profane intoxication. "Good morning, Captain Grey; well met, well met indeed!" began Douglas, urbane in his triumph. "I trust you passed a pleasant time in Naples." "Very pleasant," returned Grey. "Dr. Balloch," continued Douglas, "crossed my path. I am glad you should have seen the end of him." "I am glad," said Cyril. "And what end do you think I have reserved for you?" said the sorcerer, with sudden foam of ferocity. "Something c…
…y worldly ambition-as I could quite honestly do? I hope there is no such need-and yet, shall I confess it? -it was only because all the "good things of life" were suddenly seen of me to be worthless, that I took the first steps towards the attainment of that Wisdom which, while enjoying to the full the "Feast of Life," guarantees me against surfeit, poison or interruption by the knowledge that it is all a Dream, and gives me the Power to tum that dream at will into any form that happens to appeal to my Inclination. Let me sum up, very succinctl…
… he didn’t care if I drugged myself to death to-morrow, provided I had paid his price to-day. The callous cynicism on both sides had one good effect from the moral point of view. It prevented me wasting my time in trying to cheat him. He went on with his gambit. He explained that my marriage made a great difference. With reasonable caution, for which we had every facility, there was not the slightest risk of scandal. Only one thing stuck in my conscience, and fought the corrosive attack of the heroin-hunger. After King Lamus had gone this morni…
…ohn Jeremiah Jenkins sees a short cut to his performance of the Great Work. To seize this opportunity, he must give up a steady job with good prospects and as near safety as is possible in the nature of things, for a slim chance of a career in the most insecure of all the professions. He can do it; that is at the mercy of his Will; but he risks something very close to the utter wreck and ruin of his future. Only a miracle can bring him through. Just so! But is he not neglecting one factor in his problem? Who put this romantically insane opportu…
…de that, I’ve got a hunch that you've got the right kind of brain for this business. You're as shrewd as they make ‘em, and you’ve got a good imagination. I don’t
Love under Will 355 my good sense, confirmed by my experience, urged me to surrender. “But how did you find out what your will was?” “How did you find out ?” she flashed back. “Why,” I stammered, ‘ Big Lion showed me how my heredity, my natural inclination, and the solution of my crisis, all pointed to the same thing.” “You said it,”’ she answered softly, and fired another quotation. ‘‘ The Law is for all.” “Tell me about it,” I said. My stupefaction and my annoyance were melting away. I began to perceive dimly that the Big Lion had worked out …
…DEA, Ai Ai! Aji Ai! ALCESTIS, Be brave, dear sisters, pluck your courage up ! Easy this one condition! All is safe. MEDEA. . Haste then! Good luck attend you!) When the hunt Returns, how joyful 1 Tt isa common jest among the Hindus to play this trick on a pupil, 7.e., to promise him magical powers on condition that during a given ceremonial he abstains from thinking of a certain object (e.¢., a horse). He fails, be- cause only the training of years can enable a student so to control his mind as to accomplish this feat of suppressing involuntary…
…of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the fault is the seer’s and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. Never forget Blake’s words: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.” + Do not restrain your desires, but equilibrate them, for:…
…of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the fault is the seer’s and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. Never forget Blake’s words: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.” + Do not restrain your desires, but equilibrate them, for:…
PREFACE AN any good thing come out of Palestine? is the broader anti-Semitic retort to the sneer cast by the Jews themselves against the harmless and natural Nazarene; one more example 01 the poetic justice 01 History. And no doubt such opponents 01 the modern Jew will acclaim this volume as an admirable disproof of that thesis which it purports to uphold, The dissimilarities, amounting in some cases to sheer contradiction, which mark many numbers, will appear proof positive that there is nothing in the numerical Qabalah, especially as we may p…
PREFACE AN any good thing come out of Palestine? is the broader anti-Semitic retort to the sneer cast by the Jews themselves against the harmless and natural Nazarene; one more example 01 the poetic justice 01 History. And no doubt such opponents 01 the modern Jew will acclaim this volume as an admirable disproof of that thesis which it purports to uphold, The dissimilarities, amounting in some cases to sheer contradiction, which mark many numbers, will appear proof positive that there is nothing in the numerical Qabalah, especially as we may p…