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Page 9 of 921922 · PDF PAGE 109
…y reading about all sorts of terrible things in history at school. But the trouble about cocaine is this; that it’s almost impossible to take it in moderation as almost any one, except an American, can take whisky. Every dose makes you better and better. It destroys one’s power of calculation. We had already discovered the fact when we found that the supply we had got from Gretel, with the idea that it would last almost indefinitely, was running very short, when the dressing-gown came to solve the problem. We had only been a few days on the stu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…itanies unchanted, unperfumed? Live in the shuddering marble they remain: Here is the infinite credo of pure pain. Here let life’s agony take hold enough Of all that lives: let partial tears for them Wake knowledge, brain-dissolving diadem Of white-hot woe upon the brows of love! D0
1910 · PDF PAGE 91
…ips, I see Thy sober ecstasy To watch the soft bright stream Bubble and curl, like passion-flowers alight On the seductive malachite, To take with greedy joy This — toy. The jewels all-precious of a man Waste death before thee — Pan !
1954 · PDF PAGE 451
418 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS contempt the theory of "original sin" in the sense which you probably meant me to take: the defect deliberately implanted in man by "Old Nobodaddy" with no better object than to prepare the grotesquely tragic farce of the "Atonement." I will merely remark that no idea at once so base and so contemptible, so bestial and so idiotic, can challenge its ignoble absurdity. Rotten with sex-perversion, it is a noisome blend of sadism and masochism based on the most abject form of fear. The only argument for it is that it ever d…
1922 · PDF PAGE 129
…ritto 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 the easiest way out to nod assent and watch the clouds fighting each other to get hold of the sun. I was betting on that big white elephant on the horizon. There were two black cobras and a purple hippopotamus against him; but I couldn’t help that. With those magnificent tusks he ough…
1912 · PDF PAGE 21
…s about my neck, and swear You love me, and will always keep them there. Then I might dare. Crassus. I swear it. O my sweet! Anica. Then take my kiss. Crassus. Your mouth is like a rose of fire. But what is this? I cannot bear it. Aurcra. Ail Uhu! Uhul It is my heart; this arrow strikes me through. Stir not one muscle for a moment. Death! You beast, you kill me with your urgent breath. Crassus. © how I love you! [He moves violently. 24
1905 · PDF PAGE 175
… us. IIow the dancers toss The frantic limb, the unreluctant udder ! See, how their frenzy peoples all the ground ! Strange demon-shapes take up the unholy measure, Strange beast and worm and crab: couth sound Of the unheard-of kisses: the profound Gasps of the maniac, the devouring pleasure! the un- A curse of God is on them !—ha ! the curse, The curse that locks them in obscene em- braces ! See how love mocks the melancholy hearse Dressed as an altar: is she nun or nurse, The priestess chosen of the half-formed faces ? An abbess, child of the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 306
… as: ‘‘the bent of mind towards self- command” (and evidently practises it). His morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really “take the cake!” ‘There are three kinds of animate creations in the world,” he writes: “They are the creations from (1) the womb; (2) Eggs; (3) Perspiration. ...” Another gem: “how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female?” Answer: “If the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. While, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born” (!). At one of his …
1910 · PDF PAGE 306
… as: ‘‘the bent of mind towards self- command” (and evidently practises it). His morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really “take the cake!” ‘There are three kinds of animate creations in the world,” he writes: “They are the creations from (1) the womb; (2) Eggs; (3) Perspiration. ...” Another gem: “how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female?” Answer: “If the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. While, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born” (!). At one of his …
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…y so appalling ? Heaven, as I understand, Nearer than some folk would make it ! Godshould you stretch out a hand, Who can be quicker to take it ? Then you have pacted an oathjudge you if He will forsake it ! I have had hope in the spring Trust that the God who has given Flowers, and the thrushes that sing Dawnwards all night, and at even Year after year, will be true now we are speaking of heaven.
1909 · PDF PAGE 22
… one moment! How obscure and subtle has our simile become! Can we attach any true meaning to the phrase? I doubt it, seeing what we have taken for the limits of the swing. True, it may be that at the end the swing is always 360° so that the !-point and the ?-point coincide; but that is not the same thing as having no swing at all, unless we make kinematics identical with statics. What is to be done? How shall such mysteries be uttered? Is this how it is that the true Path of the Wise is said to lie in a totally different plane from all his adva…
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
…a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite doesn’t make a scan- dal ; take care of the boys, and the girls will take care of themselves ; strike while the tool is hot ; don’t bugger in haste, or withdraw at lei- sure ; a turd in the hand is worth two in the bush ; a prick in time saves nine ; it’s a wise Wilde that knows his own Q. ; one good turn deserves another ; frig wise and fuck foolish ; there’s better boys in the choir than ever came out of it all of which goes to show t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 61
…nstrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution is thus an act of-MAGICK-by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.l) II. POSTULATE. ANY required Change may be effected by application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object. (Illustration: I wish to prepare an ounce of Chloride of Gold. I must take the right kind of acid , nitro-hydrochloric and no other, in sufficient quantity and of adequate strength, and place it, in…
1905 · PDF PAGE 222
…ead of milk; and made a track Of lives and gold and dust and death on land and sea, She is fallen, is fallen! to me. That which I gave I take, and that she thought to build, I, even I, will break it flat: my curse ful- filled. No stone of London soon shall stand upon another, No son of her throughout the land shall know his brother, I will destroy her who is rotten: from the face Of earth shall fail the misbegotten, root and race } And the fair country unto them again I give, Whom in long exile men contemn: for they shall live.” Yea, they shall…
1906 · PDF PAGE 43
…ER laboured in a mine. (The poet dreamed) By coarse and fine He shovelled dust into a trolley. ‘* But this” (the poet said) ‘‘ is folly! Take up your pick, engage in shock At the foundation of the rock!” The miner swore. ‘* You —— fool! You clever ! go to school And college and be ——-! Strike you! There ain’t no sense in forty like you! If I don’t clear this muck, the pick Will foul and jam, slip, swerve, or stick. Clear off the chips, the blow goes true. Now, mister, off, my to you!” The last oath faded in the air. The poet woke and was aware …
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
… myrtle that you twined ! Dread spies Of Satan that unveil the God in me, And strip it naked with their mockery ! Death ! will you never take away your eyes ?
1909 · PDF PAGE 368
…press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—friend or master—bade him keep silent for a while, and we journeyed in silence. When we came in sight of Brighton the motor-car stopped suddenly in front of a large gate. The moment after we entered a park, and the door being opened, I was taken into the house. The man whom, so unhappily for me, I had met in the street was no…
1909 · PDF PAGE 368
…press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—friend or master—bade him keep silent for a while, and we journeyed in silence. When we came in sight of Brighton the motor-car stopped suddenly in front of a large gate. The moment after we entered a park, and the door being opened, I was taken into the house. The man whom, so unhappily for me, I had met in the street was no…
1911 · PDF PAGE 57
THE VISION AND THE VOICE Then shall he kneel before the holy table, and it shall be given him to partake of the mystery of the Aethyr. And concerning the ink with which he shall write; for the first Aethyr let it be gold, for the second scarlet, for the third violet, for the fourth emerald, for the fifth silver, for the sixth sapphire, for the seventh orange, for the eighth indigo, for the ninth gray, for the tenth black, for the eleventh maroon, for the twelfth russet, for the thirteenth green-gray, for the four- teenth amber, for the fifteent…
1901 · PDF PAGE 41
THE COURT OF THE PROFANE. 29 LOVE AT PEACE. HE valleys, that are splendid With sun ere day is ended And love-lutes take to tune, See joyless and unfriended The perfect bowstring bended, Whose bow is called the moon. They see the waters slacken And all the sky’s blue blacken, While in the yellow bracken Love lies in death or swoon. The stars arise and brighten ; The summer lightnings lighten, Faint and as midnight mute ; And far white snowfields tighten The iron bands that frighten No fairy’s tender foot. Across the stiller river Stray flowers o…