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Page 88 of 901929 · PDF PAGE 546
… four little by little to treat each other as equals. I destroyed the idea of possession. When a child needed attention, I insisted on a spirit of comradeship almost manly in tone. If a wound had to be dressed there must be no slopping over of sympathy. The child must not whimper and abdicate his dignity nor the mother disgrace the dignity of her function as healer. At first I feared that habit and convention would be hard to overcome. But I was surprised how soon all four found their feet. This {861} self-respect and respect for others made th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 393
…em to meet in my studio and even to practise forms of Magick congregationally. In the spring, on May 9th, an evocation of Bartzabel, the spirit of Mars, was made, so successfully as to demand description. My assistants were Commander Marston, R.N., one of the highest officials of the Admiralty, and Leila Waddell, an Australian violinist whom I had just met and who appealed to my imagination. I began at once to use her as a principal figure in my work. In the first week of our intimacy I wrote two stories about her: "The Vixen" and "The Violinis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 181
… level passage of a couple of hundred yards which might be worth while making for. Each line of moraine has to be crossed in the serious spirit of a pioneer looking for a pass across a range. The instability of the surface means a constant tendency to slip, so that the journey is morally tedious and physically wearisome beyond belief. The compensation is the majesty of the surrounding mountains. Nowhere else in the world does there exist anything like the same diversity of form. The effect is enhanced by the recognition that practically every p…
1906 · PDF PAGE 212
…h I have just trans- lated from a Cingalese Palm-leaf MS. See Appendix I. 228, You know for me, etc.*®8—See Huxley, Hume, 199, 200. 239. Spirit and matter are the same.*’—See Huxley's reply to Lilly. 273. ‘‘Lam notwhat Isee.” ®—In Memoriam. But see H. Spencer, ‘‘Principles of Psycho- logy,’ General Analysis, ch. vi. 281. ‘'' Tis lotused Buddha.” 39— “ Hark! that sad groan! Proceed no further ! Tis laurelled Martial roaring murther.” —BUuRNS, Epigram. But Buddha cannot really roar, since he has passed away by that kind of passing away which leav…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…. All this reminds us of the ways of little bo s; but surely Mr. Crowley might suppress these symptoms of the extreme youth 0 the virile spirit, and discipline his imagination with a study of the se rate functions of the separate organs of the body. We are quite aware that the old allacy that sex is the source of all the passion of the human race supports Mr. Crowley and his laudatory critic Captain Fuller in their tendency to use sexual imagery in excess; but surely the fallacy has been exploded. We have all read Weininger, who demonstrates th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
65 wafer in such wise that it becomes charged with the divine substance in so active a form that its physical injection gives spiritual nourishment to the communicant. But all our actions fit this equation. A tailor with the toothache takes a portion of the wealth derived from the business to which he has consecrated himself, a symbol of his accumulated and stored energy, in order to have the tooth removed and so to recover the consciousness of physical well-being. Put in this way, the magical theory of existence is self-evident. I did not appr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 310
…e that quintessence, limpid truth, opalescent with lyrical light, which constitutes poetry. Not until sickness and sorrow had sobered my spirit did I once again find myself free to extract {504} the elixir of ecstasy from experience and fulfil my faculties by expressing myself in rhythm. I close this chapter with a sigh. For ten years my life had been a delirious dance to a maddening music with incarnate passion for my partner, and the boundless plain of the possible vibrating with the fervour of my feet. I had come through a thousand crises to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 341
…elf go and perhaps been killed for my pains. At the same time I was seized with a sudden sense of alarm. I felt myself to be outside the spiritual circle. I was sure that someone would discover me and a swift shudder passed through me as I apprehended my danger. Fortunately, I had sufficient presence of mind to resume my mantra and melt away from the multitude as silently as I had descended upon it. This little adventure always stood out as one of the most exciting (in a small way) of my life, that is, of merely material adventures; and it has …
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…on will remember the incident of the Christmas turkey, secretly bought by Mr. Gosse's servants and thrown into the dustbin by him in the spirit of Moses destroying the golden calf. For the Brethren rightly held Christmas to be a pagan festival. They sent no Christmas cards and destroyed any that might be sent to them by thoughtless or blaspheming "goats". Not to disappoint Alick, who liked turkey, the family had that bird for lunch on the 24th and 26th of December. The idea was to "avoid even the appearance of evil"; there was nothing actually …
1929 · PDF PAGE 343
… poet. Her name was Vera; but she called herself "Lola". To her I dedicated Gargoyles with a little prose poem, and the quatrain (in the spirit of Catullus) "Kneel down, dear maiden o'mine." It was after her that my wife called the new baby! Lola was the inspiration of the first four sections of Clouds Without Water. Somehow I lost sight of her, and in the fifth section she gets mixed up with another girl who inspired entirely sections six and seven. But the poem was still incomplete. I wanted a dramatic climax, and for this I had to go to get …
1929 · PDF PAGE 363
…ch of his work struck me as the mechanical masterpieces of the clever court painter. Possibly, moreover, there was no room for him in my spirit, seduced, as it was, by the vivid variety of Velasquez. "Las Meninas" is worshipped in a room consecrated solely to itself, and I spent more of my mornings in that room and let it soak in. I decided then, and might concur still had I not learnt the absurdity of trying to ascribe an order to things which are each unique and absolute, that "Las Meninas" is the greatest picture in the world. It certainly t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 366
…to obtain material manifestations. It was difficult to {589} do, dangerous in the doing, and dubious when done. I had learnt to compel a spirit to carry out my commands or instruct me on any matter of which I was ignorant, without being at the pains to demonstrate his presence to my senses, just as I telegraph instructions to my solicitor or write to some scholar for information, in full faith that the results will be as reliable as if I had taken the trouble to arrange a personal interview. I am inclined to think that my work with Neuburg was …
1929 · PDF PAGE 359
…; but the flavour of the soil is as apparent as that of peat in Irish whiskey, and it has the advantage of being absolutely genuine. The spirit of Logrono was so broad and idle that it was very hard to drag ourselves away from it, but we managed it somehow and walked in the cool of the evening of August 9th to a place that we called "Jack Straw's Castle", at the opening of a magnificent ravine through mighty cliffs of earth. The following day the road led over a high pass, a barren wilderness of bizarre beauty. It was nearly nightfall when we r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 557
… really in torture. It is a fixed idea in my mind that any Englishman of good blood enjoys an adventure, the rougher the better. But the spirit was not in him. Of course, I know that his father's psychology amply accounts for this abject attitude. In him the exhaustion of the stock had reached its climax. I learned later that he had already attempted suicide. He had tried to shoot himself in the heart with a revolver. One would imagine that it would have been safe to bet on his doing some damage. But no! His pistol was spiritually his twin. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 521
…n indubitable token of their existence, of their vigilant guardianship, by communicating their password, so to speak, in this cipher. My spirit leapt with joy to be reassured
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…h I have just trans- lated from a C ingalese Palm-leaf MS. See Appendix I. 228. You know for me, etc.36—See Huxley, Hume, 199, 200. 239. Spirit and matter are the same.37—See Huxley’s reply to Lilly. 273. “ I am not what I see.”38—In Memoriam. But see H. Spencer, “Principles of Psychology,” General Analysis, ch. vi. 281. “Tis lotused Buddha.”39— “Hark ! that sad groan ! Proceed no further ! ’Tis laurelled Martial roaring murther.” —BURNS, Epigram. But Buddha cannot really roar, since he has passed away by that kind of passing away which leaves…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
78 light and love upon all that came within their scope, yet they were free from spiritual pride. They enjoyed intimate communion with the immanent divine soul of nature. Inheritors of innocence and illumination, they were not self-seekers; and their one passion was to bring mankind into the sphere of their own sublimity, dealing with each individual as his circumstances required. To them the members of the Trinity were nearer and more real than anything else in the universe. But they were pure ideas of incorruptible integrity. The incarnation …
1929 · PDF PAGE 448
… I went off in desperation to "change my luck", by doing something entirely contrary to my inclinations. In the midst of my disgust, the spirit came upon me and I scribbled the chapter down by the light of a farthing dip. When I read it over, I was as discontented as before, but I stuck it into the book in a sort of anger at myself as a deliberate act of spite towards my readers. Shortly after publication, the O.H.O. came to me. (At that time I did not realize that there was anything in the O.T.O. beyond a convenient compendium of the more impo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 211
…alth to Lord Ronald Gower ! 86. Swinburne.9— ‘‘ But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.” — Hertha. 104. My big beauty.»°—Pink on Spot ; Player, Green, in Hand. But I have ‘‘ starred” since I went down in ¢hat pocket. 120. My Balti coolies.A—See my ‘‘ The Higher the Fewer.” * 125. ton.22—A school, noted for its breed of cads. ‘The battle of Waterloo (1815) was won on its playing-fields. 128-30. /’ve seen them.—Sir J. Maundevill, ‘‘Voiage and Travill,” ch…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
…mong Mohammedans, one can make friends with the very coolies; they respect themselves and others. They are gentlemen. But in England the spirit of independence is rare. Men of high rank and position nearly always betray consciousness of inferiority to, and dependence upon, others. Snobbishness, in this sense, is so widely spread that I rarely feel at home, unless with a supreme genius like Augustus John. Aubrey Tanqueray is typical. He must not forfeit the esteem of his "little Parish", and avoids mortification by shifting from one parish to an…