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Page 96 of 1291929 · PDF PAGE 5
…into a raging sea of irritation to which the very stings of the mosquitoes and centipedes came as a relief, the interminable task of the day be- neath the broiling sun, the lash on every slightest infrac- tion of the harsh prison rules, or even of the laws of po- liteness toward our warders, men only one degree less damned than we ourselvesall this was nothing. The only amusement of the governors of such a place is cru- elty; and their own discomfort makes them more ingen- ious than all the inquisitors of Spain, than Arabs in their religious f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 317
…g, the solemnity of self-importance, all manners that do not disclose the real man, are abominations, "Anathema Maranatha" -or any other day of the week. These painted masks are devised to conceal chicanery or emptiness. The easy-going humorous style of Vivekananda is intelligible and instructive; the platitudinous hot potatoes of Waite are neither. The dreadful thing is that this assumption of learning, of holiness, of mysterious avenging powers, somehow deceives the average student. He does not realise how well and wisely such have conned Wil…
1905 · PDF PAGE 240
… TANNHAUSER. What is that? VENUS. Mere thunder on the mountain top. Do this, And I will come in sleep, in sleep renew The carnal joys of day. TANNHAUSER. Hast Thou forgot? It is the fleshly I would flee ! VENUS. Forget ? But I strive fleshwards. Let our sleep renew The endless struggle—-and perhaps, for thee, For thee !—the veil may lift another fold. TANNHAUSER. Why dost Thou hate this vision? VENUS. She would take Thee from these arms ! TANNHAUSER. But she is beautiful With Thine own beauty: yet as if the God Cancelled its mortal comeliness, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…s! Who art thou to con The mysteries of the dead in the black-souled bastion ? MINOs, ASACUS, RHADAMANTHUS. Away ! away! to the light of day! Now as it may: then as it must. We are loath to pardon, and loath to slay, Void of greed and anger and lust,— But we are iron and thou art clay ; We are marble and thou but dust. ORPHEUS. O iron, bow to silver’s piercing note |! O marble, see the shape of ivory! My justice fountains from a sweeter throat; My death is bound beyond eternity. O wise and just, hear ye the voice of man, Not seeking to involve …
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…ntrol, and he is happy. For my part, I prefer the Way of the Tao, and to do everything by doing nothing. I know it sounds difficult; one day I will explain. But the practical result is that I lead a placid and contented life, and nothing ever happens; he, on the contrary, makes trouble everywhere, excites the wrath of Turks, and worse, if I am right; he thereby brings about a situation where perfectly competent ladies' maids have epileptic fits, mediums endeavour to procure blood from bewitching damozels — and now there's a Thing in the Garden.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 272
…as far from it morally as it is from London. The people were unspoilt. For the first time I liked Hindus. The maharajah was away for the day. He had sent his Minister of Public works to meet me and entertain me until his return. This gentleman, whose name was Martin, had taken a high degree at Oxford, and had studied science and engineering very thoroughly. No one could have suspected that he had a Bengali grandmother. But in the first twenty-four hours I had discovered the truth of the aphorism "Blood will tell". For all his European education…
1904 · PDF PAGE 40
…ck-scouring as if the last trump were going to sound in a minute, and I were afraid to be caught with my work half done on Judge- ment Day, as Browning says. So I leather-stretched wearily on. During all this time the Empress had kept up her strength by copious libations of whisky, (which stood in casks at a great height above her head, and trickled down in tubes into her royal mouth, on the same principles as saline injections). But I suppose the violence of her paroxysms or the me- [38]
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…terprise, and that at a moment when it might have been thought (go on, Hassan !) that Heaven itself had no more to offer him. It was one day of spring at W.nds.r. Mrs Ar- thur P...t lay in a bath of sticky sperm, not P...ts, not the K...gs ! Whose, then, you ask ? The sticky sperm of Kluckchoo, the Human Corkscrew. Fresh from his laurels at the Empire, the Hu- man Corkscrew had been commanded to appear before the K..g. If he can do that with his body, what will he not be able to do with his prick ? Thought the witty little woman, the worthy p…
1912 · PDF PAGE 304
iv PREFACE Human sacrifices are to-day still practised by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length by the late Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have compassed heaven and earth to suppress, and evidenced by the ever-recurring Pogroms against which so senseless an outcry is made by those who live among those degenerate Jews who are at least not Cannibals. Is it to such people, indeed, that we are to look for the highest and subtlest spiritual knowledge? Το this criticism there are but two answers. The fir…
1912 · PDF PAGE 304
iv PREFACE Human sacrifices are to-day still practised by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length by the late Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have compassed heaven and earth to suppress, and evidenced by the ever-recurring Pogroms against which so senseless an outcry is made by those who live among those degenerate Jews who are at least not Cannibals. Is it to such people, indeed, that we are to look for the highest and subtlest spiritual knowledge? Το this criticism there are but two answers. The fir…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
… from the train, had become animated, sparkling, fiery; he was carried away by the excitement of his passionate memories. On the second day Dodu was able to explain his mind. If we escape, it must be by a stratagem, he sig- nalled. It was an obvious remark; but Dodu had no rea-
1929 · PDF PAGE 181
…; and one wonders how they manage to stay there at all, especially in view of the rapidly disintegrating action of the weather. The next day I went on to Rhobutse; a very short march, but I did not want to tire the men, and this was the only good camping place for some distance. There was a great deal of snow and rain in the early part of the day, though it cleared up in the afternoon. Just after sunset, however, a very violent wind sprang up. On the eleventh, I went on to Rdokass, a much longer march in distance. But the going on the glacier h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 524
…d my name absent they would not buy it. Its sudden destruction was the greatest compliment I had ever received. During the three Chokmah days of my control of the paper I devoted every energy to proclaiming the Law of Thelma in its pages both directly and indirectly. My first important step in this direction, the thin end of the wedge, was an article "The Revival of Magick" which ran serially, ending in November. The last paragraph, a mere coxcombical flourish, though written with the quite serious idea of indicating to some person of adequate …
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…ase it is impossible to follow the usual course, for I have no wish to blast the useful public career of the most talented artist of our day, and there can be no doubt that precision of allu- sion would cause his innumerable friends to rec- [2]
1922 · PDF PAGE 20
…ne cutlet. The night I met Lou, I turned into the Café Wisteria in a sort of dull, angry stupor. Yet the only irritating incident of the day had been a letter from the lawyers which I had found at my club after flying from Norfolk to Barley Grange and motoring up to town. Mr. Wolfe had very sensibly advised me to make a settlement of a part of the estate, as against the event of my getting married; and there was some stupid hitch about getting trustees. I loathe law. It seems to me as if it were merely an elaborate series of obstacles to doing …
1922 · PDF PAGE 32
… Scotland Yard.” Owen rose with alacrity. ‘‘T shall be delighted to see any of you others,” continued Lamus. ‘I should deplore it to the day of my death if I were the innocent means of breaking up so perfect a party.” _ The invitation sounded like an insult. I went red behind the ears; I could only just command myself enough to make a formal apology of some sort. As a matter of fact, there was a very curious reaction in the whole party. The German Jew got up at once— nobody else stirred. Rage boiled in my heart. I understood instantly what had …
1996 · PDF PAGE 207
206 The Law is for All 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 212
…Zhe Ibis Head.%—Characteristic of Tahuti. 157. Roland's crest.2°—See ‘‘ Two Poets of Croisic,” xci. 159. A jest.21—See above : Ascension Day. 126, A mysterious way.??— ‘* God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm,” Intentional species ? 171. The old hymn.®—This hymn, quoted I fear with some failure of memory—I have not the documents at hand—is attributed to the late Bishop of Natal, though I doubt this, as the consistent and trustful piety of its sentiment is ill-suited t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 92
…urport? Irresolvable ! MEN. We heard his foolish maundering : But, bred in wiser ways, We have forgotten: do ye sing The rune of ancient days ! To-day his curse cacophonous Shall earn at least a laugh from us! WOMEN. ‘*O! when the arméd hand is nigh, Tolchus shall not see Peace shining from Athena’s sky Until the Fleece be free; Until the God of War shall scorn The sting, and trust him to the horn. ‘Until the Sun of Spring forsake His eastern home, and rise Within our temple-walls and make One glory of the skies— Until the King shall die and li…
1922 · PDF PAGE 264
…rience which are otherwise dormant. And he will interpret what is said or written only in terms of that experience. Lamus said the other day that he had given up trying to communicate the results of his researches to people. They couldn’t even be trusted to read words of one syllable, though they might have taken the best degrees in Humane Letters at Oxford. For example, he would write, ‘Do what thou wilt” to somebody, and would be attacked by return of post for having written “ Do as thou wilt.” Every one interprets everything in terms of his …