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Page 92 of 1201922 · PDF PAGE 74
…ain of interpretation linked the truth with the obvious commonplace fact that this was a good time to go across to Montmartre and make a night of it. We dressed to go out with, I imagine, the very sort of feeling as a newly made bishop would have the first time he puts on his vestments. But none of this would have been intelligible to, or suspected by, anybody who had seen us. We laughed and sang and interchanged gay nothings while we dressed. When we went downstairs, we felt like gods descending upon earth, immeasurably beyond mortality. With …
1922 · PDF PAGE 184
… took it in good part. Being in good form, he realised, I suppose, that it was a serious business. We might strike a snag. August 23 The night has been a miracle! We went on taking H. pretty steadily. I think the C. spoils it. Our love bloomed afresh as if it was a new creation. We were lapsed in boundless bliss| *‘ Awake, for ever awake ! Awake as one never is | While sleep is a possible end, Awake in the void, the abyss.”
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
…a long story short, the K..g was so de- lighted with the Appendix-fuck of Kluckchoo, that he did absolutely nothing else all day and all night. Affairs of state went by the board, and to the cringing official who dared to remind him of his approaching coronation, he replied : Bugger the Coronation ! This language shocked the prudish English, and damaged the K..gs popularity in Non- conformist circles. His surgeons took a heroic course. While the royal pathic lay in the delirious trance of Kluckchoos emissions, they chloroformed him, and remov…
1922 · PDF PAGE 103
… so many hares, but the disproportion of speed was immensely increased. It was the airman against the wagoner. We went to bed early that night. We had already got a little tired of Paris. The pace was too slow for us. It was rather like sitting at a Wagner opera. There were some thrilling moments, of course, but most of the time we were bored with long and monotonous passages like the dialogue between Wotan and Erde. We.wanted to be by ourselves ; no one else could keep up with the rush. | The difference between sleep and waking, again, was dim…
1907 · PDF PAGE 296
…d three gifted children to be bank clerks after him ! That is , if religion is your aim : if you are spiritually minded . ? . Go out one night to a distant and lonely heath , if no moun tain summit is available : then at midnight repeat the Lord's Prayer , or any invocation with which you happen to be familiar , or one made up by yourself , or one consisting wholly of senseless and barbarous words . Repeat it solemnly and aloud , expectant of some great and mysterious result. I pledge myself , if you have a spark of religion in you , that is , …
1922 · PDF PAGE 46
…Lamus. I rose and bowed. But the girl took no notice. She seemed in utter oblivion of sublunary matters. Her skin was of that deep, rich night-sky blue which only very vulgar eyes imagine to be black. The face was gross and sensual, but the brows wide and com- manding. There is no type of intellect so essentially aristocratic as the Egyptian when it happens to be of the rare right strain. “Don’t be offended,” said Lamus, in a soft voice, “she includes us all in her sublime disdain.” Lou was sitting on the arm of the couch ; her ivory- white, lo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
… he meet but Death! "Peace be with thee!" says Death. "And peace with thee," replied the sage. "But I did not expect to see thee here to-night; I thought you were to meet my friend Isaak, and he's in Baghdad." "It wants an hour yet of the time," says Death briskly; "and he's galloping hither as fast as he can." At least, don't let the Gods have the laugh on you! Hello! Here's the Book of Lies again! What fun. The Smoking Dog Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hound…
1909 · PDF PAGE 193
…leaming as the Great Name Elohim in the Heart of the Six-fold star! Flaming as the Purifying Fire, purging and ordering the Chaos of the Night of Time! As in the midst of the Letters of the Verse we saw the words on nnx, “Thou in Extension,” so also does the Name Elohim read x, “ Deity,” ovn, in Extension.* And the numeration of Elohim is 86, which by Gematria reads mn, again meaning “spread out, extended.” Write the letters of this Name in any Invoking Penta- gram ; and the Banishing Pentagram thereof will read 3.1415 (by Qabalah of nine Chamb…
1909 · PDF PAGE 193
…leaming as the Great Name Elohim in the Heart of the Six-fold star! Flaming as the Purifying Fire, purging and ordering the Chaos of the Night of Time! As in the midst of the Letters of the Verse we saw the words on nnx, “Thou in Extension,” so also does the Name Elohim read x, “ Deity,” ovn, in Extension.* And the numeration of Elohim is 86, which by Gematria reads mn, again meaning “spread out, extended.” Write the letters of this Name in any Invoking Penta- gram ; and the Banishing Pentagram thereof will read 3.1415 (by Qabalah of nine Chamb…
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
…cept astral projection.t On March the 3rd we find P. wandering among the fast- nesses of the Nevado de Colima. Here he lived for a fort- night, returning to Mexico City on the 18th only to leave it again two days later on an expedition to the Nevado de Toluca. On the 16th of April he journeyed to Amecameca, from which place he visited Soror F, by projection, and thence up Popocatapetl, encamped on whose slopes he resolved the w of w into seven Mental Operations: 1. Ray of Divine White Brilliance descending upon the Akasic Egg set between the tw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
…cept astral projection.t On March the 3rd we find P. wandering among the fast- nesses of the Nevado de Colima. Here he lived for a fort- night, returning to Mexico City on the 18th only to leave it again two days later on an expedition to the Nevado de Toluca. On the 16th of April he journeyed to Amecameca, from which place he visited Soror F, by projection, and thence up Popocatapetl, encamped on whose slopes he resolved the w of w into seven Mental Operations: 1. Ray of Divine White Brilliance descending upon the Akasic Egg set between the tw…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…had come to Paris for Pleasure! He had only been able to spare two days, the Sun- day and Monday of Whitsuntide. He had travelled by the night boat on Saturday, arriving in Paris on Sunday morningthe first step downward! The air of Paris in- toxicated him; the Grands Boulevards ate into his moral fibre like a dragon chewing butter; and though he had not actually been in anywhere, he felt the atmosphere of the music-halls as Ulysses heard the Sirens. He was fortunately tied to the mast of his ignorance of French and his fear of asking anybody…
1929 · PDF PAGE 223
…icked up a few crumbs. Our first breathing place was Cairo. It was one of the extravagances of our passion that suggested our spending a night together in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. It was the gesture of the male showing off his plumage. I wanted my wife to see what a great Magician I was. We went, accordingly, after dinner, with candles. More from habit than anything else, as I imagine, I had with me a small notebook of Japanese vellum in which were written my principal invocations, etc. Among these was a copy of the "Preliminary…
1922 · PDF PAGE 226
…etin a flood of delight. It was a bright, fresh autumn morning; everything had recovered its tone. Winter could never come. There was no night except as a background for the moon and the stars, and to furnish the scenery of our heavenly hell. September 17 The Grangeis certainly the finest housein the world. There is only one drawback. We didn’t want callers. County society is all rightin its way; but tigers don't hunt in packs, especially on the honeymoon. So we had to send the word around that the precarious state of my health made it impossib…
1906 · PDF PAGE 37
…Life, Love, Mercy, Might, Star of the Magi. VII. Lift, lift the Cross of Light,_: Rose, golden, green, and white, Rise, rise athwart the night! Mighty Aeshuri ! VIII. Flame, flame, thou Blazoned Sun! Seal-Star of Solomon ! Seven Mysteries in One ! Godhead and Mankind ! IX. Beauty and life and love ! Let fly thy darling dove ! Bend to us from above, Lady Ahathor ! Xx. Where light and darkness meet, There shine thy flaming feet, There is thy splendid seat ; Mighty Anubi! XI. Swift-winged Stability, Lifting the earth and sky, Hold me up utterly, K…
1922 · PDF PAGE 128
…ontented was that he hadn’t got in touch with the people who ran the Gatto Fritto, which was an extremely exciting and dangerous kind of night club which indulged in pleasures of so esoteric a kind that no other place in Europe had anything to compare with it,
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…ew away; he was but the excrement of the demon, and as that ex- crement he was flung filthily further into the abyss of blackness and of night whose name is death. I rose with ashen cheeks. I stammered: He is dead. The male nurse bent over the body. Yes! he echoed, he is dead. And it seemed as if the whole Uni- verse gathered itself into one ghastly laugh of hate and horror, Dead! V I resumed my seat. I felt that I must know that all was well, that death had ended all. Woe to humanity! The consciousness of Arthur was more alive than eve…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…turned my brain, I be- headed others, and plugged their windpipes with my rutilant ramrod, while the rest buggered me in turn. Not until night fell did I desist from the de- lightful sport, when my father exclaimed with a huge guffaw : By Gods bollocks, Galahad, but there is nobody to cook the dinner ! But my sister was as clever as she was beauti- ful and good. The overseers gathered a fire of sticks, and she soon had some capital nigger meat broiling. For soup she gave us some stallion jelly from her chocked-up cuckoos nest ; for fish the s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 173
…Eparpilie en lair, Monstre assassin, c’est ma cervelle, Mon sang et ma chair!” THY brazen forehead, and its lustre gloom, Great angel of Night’s legion chosen chief, Beam on me like the hideous-fronted tomb, Whereon are graven strange words of mis- belief ; Thy brazen forehead, and its lustre gloom ! Sinister eyes, you burn into my breast, Creating an infernal cavern of woe, Where strange sleek leopards lash them in unrest, And furtive serpents crawling to and fro— Sinister eyes, you burn into my breast ! All hell, all destinies of death are wr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 270
…s virginal. 1 The northern portion of Greece. It was renowned for wizard rites. 2 See Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 1st Series. Yet some night-leaves the southern stream | may waft her, ; Some amorous nymph across the wood . may call . | A loud mad chant; love, tears, harsh sombre laughter. No more at all. "Oh, mother, Oh, Demeter, in my burthen ' Let me assume thy sorrow singular ; A branching temple and an altar earthen, A fire of herbs, a clayen water-jar; An olive grove to bind the sacred girth in Lone woods afar. Let life burn gently thenc…