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Page 97 of 1001906 · PDF PAGE 207
…tors of that well-known Eastern work the ‘ Old Testament” I am with him; any modern Biblical critic will tell him what I mean. It took a long time, too, for the missionaries (and Tommy Atkins) to discover that ‘‘ Budd” was not a ‘‘ great Gawd."" But then they did not want to, and in any case sympathy and in- telligence are not precisely the most salient qualities in either soldiers or missionaries. But nothing is more absurd than to compare men like Sir W. Jones, Sir R. Burton, Von Hammer-Purgstall, Sir E. Arnold, Prof. Max Miller, Me, Prof. Rh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…he Montanvers, I had already found that his mechanically perfect "claws" worked miracles. We had shown a young man for Oxford, Dr. T. G. Longstaff, of what they were capable. Eckenstein would walk on a measured slope of over seventy degrees of hard black ice without cutting a step. On slopes up to fifty degrees he could simply stroll about. Nor could Longstaff pull him off by the rope. On the grand scale, too, I had proved their possibilities. One day, Eckenstein being ill, I had arranged to go with Longstaff and his two guides over the Col du …
1911 · PDF PAGE 305
…mancy—Psychometry—Dowsing—Dreams—Sortileges—Alchemy. The need for a concise and practical exposition of the main tenets of Occultism has long been felt. In this manual of Occultism the author has dealt in a lucid manner with both the Occult Sciences and the Occult Arts, and has added some supplementary matter on the subjects of Hypnotism and Alchemy. ‘The book is written from the point of view ofa practical student, and contains many experimental results, which form valuable keys to the study and practice of the subjects dealt with. The text is…
1911 · PDF PAGE 305
…mancy—Psychometry—Dowsing—Dreams—Sortileges—Alchemy. The need for a concise and practical exposition of the main tenets of Occultism has long been felt. In this manual of Occultism the author has dealt in a lucid manner with both the Occult Sciences and the Occult Arts, and has added some supplementary matter on the subjects of Hypnotism and Alchemy. ‘The book is written from the point of view ofa practical student, and contains many experimental results, which form valuable keys to the study and practice of the subjects dealt with. The text is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…l the arts of the courtier, he plucked up courage to request me to kill his aunt. I am ashamed to say that I dissolved in laughter. I no longer remember how I kept my face; how I broke it to him gently that I killed strangers on on such considerations as the uninitiated could not possibly comprehend. I still laugh to remember the shamefaced shyness of his request and the pained humiliation with which he received my refusal. He had the courage (a week or so later) to ask me to soften the hearts of the examiners towards his brother, who was enter…
1929 · PDF PAGE 374
…erve, after a talk with M. Jules Courtier yesterday, that all their S.P.R. work is proof of extra- human forces. We knew about them all along; the universe is full of obscure and subtle manifestations of energy;we are constantly advancing in our knowledge and control of them. Telekinesis is of the same order of nature as the Hertz rays or {600} the radium emanations. But what nobody before me has done is to prove the existence of extra- human intelligence, and my Magical Record does this. I err in the interpretation, of course; but it is imposs…
1929 · PDF PAGE 450
… In a café, I met a young Hungarian girl named Anny Ringler; tall, tense, lean as a starving leopardess, with wild insatiable eyes and a long straight thin mouth, a scarlet scar which seemed to ache with the anguish of hunger for some satisfaction beyond earth's power to supply. We came together with irresistible magnetism. We could not converse in human language. I had forgotten nearly all my Russian; and her German was confined to a few broken cries. But we had not need of speech. The love between us was ineffably intense. It still inflames m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
…Arthur Ellis. I expressed surprise; but he said that he had felt so much better he thought he might as well come down, but it had been a long and terrible day. He had started at dawn. This was absurd, as it was only a couple of hours' easy walking from the hut. Ah yes, he said, but he had come down over the snout of the glacier and he had had to cut steps all the way --- no more glissading for him! This story was again rather incredible. But his axe had been tremendously knocked about. The truth slowly dawned on my benighted brain: he had solem…
1906 · PDF PAGE 254
…etentto formany. .. .” 2 Cf, ‘* Evolution and Ethics,” note 1. from such possibility of misinterpretation in our own bodies. Compare the longevity of a bone with that of a corpuscle. But it is this ‘¢ Substratum ” universe, which must not be confounded with the substratum, the argu- ments for whose existence Berkeley so utterly shattered, which may conserve memory for a period greatly exceeding that of one of its particular avatars. Hence the .‘‘ Jataka.” But the doctrine is not very essential; its chief value is to show what serious difficulti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
…ded humbug of the supernatural. I was back at the old bench exploring the pharmacopoeia for the means of grace, as I had done with Allan long ago; but I had come back to the problem armed in the panopy of the positive natural philosophy of modern science. Huxley had vindicated the alchemists. There was nothing impossible or immoral about the Stone of the Wise and the Elixir of Life. Maudsley --- rather to my surprise --- agreed with all these propositions, but could not suggest any plausible line of research. I have made rather a point of menti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 454
…hange the whole current of my life. Subtly enough, this change came about by diverting me from the public {719} action to which I had so long been bound by the sheer necessity of producing The Equinox on definite dates. I began to pay more attention to my own personal progress. It must here be explained that my innate diffidence forbad me to aspire to the Grade of Magus in any full sense. Such beings appear only in every two thousand years or so. I knew too well my own limitations. It is true that I had been used as a Magus in the Cairo working…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…. We cannot bear having our corners knocked off, and at the same time we are so well aware of the intense suffering of isolation that we long to lose ourselves in a crowd at a football match. I can be perfectly happy as an unknown individual in a revel, from a political meeting to a masked ball; but inevitably one's unique qualities draw attention to one; the cruel consciousness of self is reawakened, one becomes utterly miserable and flees to the ends of the earth to be rid of one's admirers. A certain coarseness is inseparable from popularity…
1929 · PDF PAGE 550
…sorbed in his work, he had no taste in common with Sylvia bar music, and he had begun to find it rather a nuisance to have to trail her along at his heels. He asked me point-blank to take her off his hands for a time. As in the case of Ratan Devi I was glad to oblige. He could have her back when he liked by whistling for her. The dialogue reverted after this short digression to the subject that enthralled us --- The Book of the Law. I astounded his science by setting forth the facts of its origin, and the evidence of its contents that the autho…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
… condition as late a the end of March. On off days at Wastdale Head, it was one of our amusements to throw the boomerang. Eckenstein had long been interested in it and constructed numerous new patterns, each with its own peculiar flight. As luck would have it, Walker of Trinity came to the dale. He had earned a fellowship by an essay on the mathematics of the boomerang. The theoretical man and the practical put their heads together; and we constructed some extraordinary weapons. One of them could be thrown half a mile, even by me, who cannot th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 180
…ft with nothing to wear. He complained to me. I heard the case with grave attention; I had to admit that by native justice the clothes belonged to the marauder, who grinned and triumphed and redoubled his insults to his discomfited dupe. "But wait," said I. "Hassan's coat certainly belongs to you, but the coat you are wearing belongs to me! So I made him take it off and clothed the unfortunate Hassan in its splendours, while the villain of the piece had to go off down the valley (where a nice prison was waiting for him) clad in the wretched rag…
1929 · PDF PAGE 209
…ein insisted on my going back to the station immediately. We saw the station master and got permission to walk up the tracks --- quite a long distance, hardly less than a quarter of a mile --- to the siding where the sleeper had been shunted. The pocket book was found intact under my pillow. Some time in 1913 or '14 Eckenstein referred to this incident and immediately noticed that I did not catch on. He tackled me pointedly; and I denied all knowledge of the affair with the emphasis of St. Peter! Eckenstein repeated the facts given in the above…
1929 · PDF PAGE 548
… had got two or three symbols both intelligible and indicative of initiation. During her first few weeks at the abbey, every day was one long battle. I hacked through her barbed wire of aggressive axioms. I forced her to confess the incongruity of her assertions. I drilled holes in her vanity and self-satisfaction. I dug her critical spirit out of its corner, and made her clean off {864} the rust, sharpen the edge and the point, and polish the steel till it shone. When she saw it, she feared it all the more; but I forced her to grasp it and use…
1929 · PDF PAGE 181
…e twenty tributary glaciers feeding the Baltoro. Each of these contributes at least three moraines. The glacier being about thirty miles long, and rarely more than two wide, it is distinctly a congested district! The competing moraines jostle each other unscrupulously. One would hardly know that one was on ice at all for the first ten miles; there is hardly a bare patch. But the close competition tends to form many steep slopes; and this means that the sides of most of the moraines are covered with rocks which, even when they are of enormous si…
1929 · PDF PAGE 524
…more than the wage of an unskilled stenographer, and it was a Titan task to extract as much as ten dollars or the price of a lunch for a long article or story by a well-known writer. They expected me to get a cover design by a first-rate artist for five dollars and would try to cheat him or her out of it at that. I was horribly ashamed of having to cadge contributions in this way, but very proud to remember that many brilliant people seemed only too glad to give their work. They felt it an honour to support a magazine with such high standards a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…g madness ”; and a final judgment that the young man is a remarkable product of an unremarkable age. The writing is not sane; but we have long ago outworn the illusion that sanity is a symptom of cleverness. Still, the writer has the serious fault common to Browning and Shaw: he is incapable of a clear, straightforward statement. We all have met the old lady who, in trying to recount some personal adventures, wanders off into the biographies of everyone mentioned, and eventually forgets to tell us the point of her sto . We sufier from this in Mr.…