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…n's blind- ness and fury possess them to the very end. Even as they died, maybe one fervent cry of repentance to the dear Saviour of all men would have been heard, and the gates of
…f. Ε. LE Roux. LVRA NIGERUE: A BOOK OF VERSES ΙιιυετκΑτΙνε OF LIFE IN NIGERIA, By ADAMU (E. C. AD.-ms) FISHER UNWIN. μ. 6d. net. NO sentimental drivel in this little book, but songs sung by a man whose heart beats high and feels the good red blood tingling through his veins—who loves the scorching sun he curses, and the acrid country which gives him his splendid outlook upon life. In Artim/o Marti: is a volume of philosophy in itself, and should be circulated by the Religious Tract Society to all men, married or unmarried, in West Africa. A com…
…f. Ε. LE Roux. LVRA NIGERUE: A BOOK OF VERSES ΙιιυετκΑτΙνε OF LIFE IN NIGERIA, By ADAMU (E. C. AD.-ms) FISHER UNWIN. μ. 6d. net. NO sentimental drivel in this little book, but songs sung by a man whose heart beats high and feels the good red blood tingling through his veins—who loves the scorching sun he curses, and the acrid country which gives him his splendid outlook upon life. In Artim/o Marti: is a volume of philosophy in itself, and should be circulated by the Religious Tract Society to all men, married or unmarried, in West Africa. A com…
…hose mysterious intelligences that watch over the welfare of our beloved country. Thank you, that will conclude the evening’s entertain- ment. I will say this for Feccles. He always understood instinctively when he wasn’t wanted. So immedi- ately the arrangements were made, he excused himself hastily, because he had to go down to the Villa where his victim was staying, and fix a dictaphone in the room where he was going to have dinner. So I had Lou all to myself until he came with the disguises the next day in the afternoon. And I wasn’t going …
…his city? Did not Buddha go begging in rags? Did not Mohammed flee for his life into exile? Was not Bacchus the scandal and the scorn of men? Than Joseph Smith1 had any man less learning? Yet each of these attained to do his Will; each cried his Word, that all the Earth yet echoes it! And each was able to accomplish this by virtue of that very cir cumstance which seems so cruel. Shall I, who am armed with all their weapons at once, complain that I must go into the fight unfurnished? 1 [Joseph Smith (1805-1844), Mormon prophet who produced The …
…ving a transcendent unity. This third is ecstasy and death; as below, so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to this persistent misconception by prurient and degraded minds. When a sculptor sees a block of marble he thinks “ How beautiful a statue is hidden in this! I have only to knock off the ch…
…ving a transcendent unity. This third is ecstasy and death; as below, so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to this persistent misconception by prurient and degraded minds. When a sculptor sees a block of marble he thinks “ How beautiful a statue is hidden in this! I have only to knock off the ch…
…f clues in this manuscript of yours. I note you say that your squad commander, who didn’t become that without some power of dealing with men, told you that you were not a great flyer. How was it exactly that you came to take up flying?” That simple question induced a very surprising reaction. There was no reason why it should produce ’ the intense irritation that it did.- _ Basil noticed it, rubbed his hands together gleefully, and began to hum “ Tipperary.”’” His meaning was evident. He had drawn a bow in a venture; and it had pierced the King…
…happen to fit its own limits. Lou and I had discarded the miserable measures of mankind. That sort of thing is all right for tailors and men of science; but we had sprung in one leap to be conterminous with the Universe. We were as incommensurable as the ratio of a circle to its diameter. We were as imaginary and unreal from their point of view as the square root of minus one. _ We didn’t ask humanity to judge us. It was simply a case of mistaken identity to regard us as featherless bipeds at all. We may have looked like human beings to their e…
“Fairyland”, with a Pagan Pantheism as its keynote, sometimes concealed by Christian nomenclature: the “Alchemical” plane, where the Great Work is often presented under the form of symbolically constructed landscapes occupied by quasi-heraldic animais and human types hieroglyphically distinguished, who carry on the mysterious operations of the Hermetic Art. There are also “planes” of Parable, of Fable, and of Folk-lore; in short, every country, creed, and literature has given its character- istic mode of présentation to some “plane” or other. B…
…within Death’s gate, i. 202 It has often been pointed out, ii. 58 I think, Sir, that I have you still, ii. 157 I think the souls of many men are here, 1. 44 It is a commonplace of scientific men that metaphysics is mostly moonshine, li. 258 It is a lamentable circumstance, ii. 185 It is fitting that I, Ambrose, ii, 212 It is loftily amusing to the student, ii, 203 It is summer and sun on the sea, i. 177 It is the seasonable sun of spring, i. 202 It matters little whether we, ii. 170 It may be that pure Nought will fail, ii. 177 It may possibly …
…ry one agrees with me about the swimming, I am howled down on all sides when I apply the same principles to the use of drugs.” At this moment, Lala claimed me for a waltz, and Lou took Basil under her protection. After the dance, we all four sat down on the wall of the court and I took up the thread of the conversation. — “You're quite right, of course, and I imagine you expected to be shouted at.” ‘““No,” laughed Lamus, ‘‘my love for humanity makes me an incurably optimistic ass on all such points. I can’t see the defects in my inamorata. I ex…
Think of the fate of Hannibal and of Napoleon. Always the same story — too much victory!" Brother Onofrio bounded again in his amazement. "Peace! Luxury!" he cried. "Haven't we got the Great Experiment?" "Have we?" sighed Cyril, languidly. "Isn't the crisis in a month?" "There are twelve months in a year." Brother Onofrio rose in indignation. He hated to be played with in this manner; he could see no point in the jest, if it were one; or excuse for the rudeness, in the alternative. "Sit down, sit down!" said Cyril dreamily. "You say yourself th…
…t business, no doubt, to get any fun out of existence ; but at least it is not impossible. In other words, he implicitly denies the fundamental proposition that existence is sorrow, and he formulates the essential postulate of the White School of Magick, that means exist by which the universal sorrow (apparent indeed to all ordinary observation) may be unmasked, even as at the initiatory rite of Isis in the ancient days of Khem. There, a Neophyte presenting his mouth, under compulsion, to the pouting buttocks of the Goat of Mendez, found himsel…
… cracked basin. We've brought no soap. The towel’s soiled and torn. I must have some H.... I’ve just been to see Lillie Fitzroy. How can men give her money? Her hair is gray, crudely dyed. She has wrinkles and rotten teeth. She was in bed, of course. I shook her roughly to wake her. I’ve lost every feeling for others, and people see it, and it spoils my own game. I must pretend to have the kindness and gentleness which I used to have so much; which used to make people think me an amiable fool. Some one told me once that adjectives spoilt nouns …
…ht, the right of self-préserva¬ tion, to fulfil himself to the utmost. 1 (Illustration: A function imperfectly performed injures, not I. Men of “criminal nature” are simply at issue with their true Wills. The murderer has the Will-to-Live; and his will to murder is a false wilî at variance with his true Will, since he risks death at the hands of Society by obeying his criminal impulse. — XXIV
…arsh. 13. At the end shalt thou rise and stand in the mid-heaven, a globe of glory. And therewith shall arise the mighty Sound that holy men hâve likened unto the roaring of a Lion. 14. Then shalt thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, gathering thyself into the divine form of Osiris upon his throne. 15. Then shalt thou repeat audibly the cry of triumph of the god re-arisen, as it shall hâve been given unto thee by thy Superior. 16. And this being accomplished, thou mayest enter again into the Vision, that thereby shall be perfected in Thee. 17…
Chapter II A Verses 21-22 109 The Artist calls our attention away from Nature, whose immensity bewilders us so that she seems incoherent, and unintel ligible, to his own interpretation of himself and his relations with various phenomena of nature expressed in a language more or less common to us all. The smaller the Artist, the narrower his view, the more vulgar his vocabulary, the more familiar his figures, the more readily is he recognized as a guide. To be accepted and admired, he must say what we all know, but have not told each other till…
178 The Law is for All “Mary inviolate” is to be “torn upon wheels” because tearing is the only treatment for her; and rv, “a wheel,” is the name of the feminine principle.1 It is her own sisters who are to punish her for the crime of denying Her nature, not men who are to redeem her, since, as above remarked, it is man’s own false sense of guilt, his selfishness, and his cowardice, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. Let him attend to his own particular business, to redeem …
…aven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.t And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.{ we obtain the right distance. In the above the Will takes the place of the hand. * See also “ The Yogasar…