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…lowed by the chant of Vinaé (the Hindu lute). The fifth like sound of bamboo-flute shrills in thine ear. It changes next into a trumpet-blast. The last vibrates like the dull rumbling of a thunder-cloud. The seventh swallows all the other sounds. They die, and then are heard no more. The first four are comparatively easy to obtain, and many people can hear them at will. The last three are much rarer, not necessarily because they are more difficult to get, and indicate greater advance, but because the protective en- velope of the Adept is become…
1919 · PDF PAGE 143
…urious entry of September 5th, 7.53 p.m., which I shall quote practically in full: I am calm now, as I commence to write what may be the last entry in this diary. All that I can remember of my life on this planet has, as I look back upon it, been guided by an unseen hand. For so short a life (24 years and six months) it has been filled with an unusual number of incidents, some painful, some joyful and some of a purely spiritual nature. I regret nothing. Again three days have passed since I made entry in this book. I cannot talk of what has happ…
1919 · PDF PAGE 413
…s he is in himself, is a rather similar person. Narjol is the Path-Treader, not a paraffin-purgative. 13. Before thou canst approach the last, O weaver of thy freedom, thou hast to master these Paramités of perfection —the virtues transcendental six and ten in number—along the weary Path. We now get back to the Paramitas, and this treatise is ap- parently silent with regard to them. Does any one regret it? It isn’t the Path that is weary: it is the Sermons on the way. 14. For, O Disciple! before thou wert made fit to meet thy Teacher face to fa…
1919 · PDF PAGE 451
THE SEVEN PORTALS 92. Not so when he hath crossed and won the Aryahata Path. : From here to verse 95 is description of this last Path which leads to the last Gate. 93. There Kleshais destroyed for ever, Tanhd@’s roots torn out. But stay, Disciple . . . Yet one word. Canst thou de- stroy divine COMPASSION? Compassion is no attribute. It is the Law of LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya’s SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of Love eternal. Here again is apparently a serious difficulty. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 164
THE EQUINOX A last note: TRUTH must ever be One. Whatever I expected, I found not. But why should I grieve because of having exposed some of my illusions? I have held to the truth, and the Truth remains, for the Truth is ever One, yea, the Truth is Ever One. Amen. SEcTION V. JANUARY IST, 1913, TO DECEMBER 3IST, I913 We must now pass on to Fra V.1.0.’s diary for the year 1913 E.V. I can find no written records of the period be- tween October 13th, 1912, when he finished the Retirement, and March 2nd, 1913, when he again began to keep a regular s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 402
THE EQUINOX “This was the last word of the Tathagata! “Then the Blessed One entered into the first stage of deep meditation. And rising out of the first stage he passed into the second. And rising out of the second he passed into the third. And rising out of the third stage he passed into the fourth. And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 162
…various practices he performed during this period, but we may mention, for the sake of completeness, a few fragments recorded during the last few days of the Retirement. October 9, 9.6 P.M. (This was the 9th day of Section C, and the 39th day of the complete Operation.) The ‘state’ is getting more and more difficult to describe, in fact I don’t know what to make of it. I might almost say I feel ‘normal’; and yet there is a subtle difference. There is (I think) an entire absence of fear, worry, disgust, joy, sorrow, pain, or any of the old state…
1919 · PDF PAGE 171
…se; & then? (This sounds very good indeed. O.M.) Aug. 27. The most perfect peace I have experienced for a long time. Sep. 1. This is the last day of the six months. Nov. 9. Nearly two months since I made an entry. Will write down a few of the events that I remember during that time. Have done some slight morning and evening practice almost every day. Have occupied a fair amount of time in giving what instructions I can on occult matters to those who have requested in- formation. S. and L. have become sufficiently interested to apply for Student…
1919 · PDF PAGE 157
…11. Tonight I must write an entry. I MUST. And it is time. Why have I not done so before? Because I have experienced a ‘dryness’ for the last month, and have made no definite effort to overcome it, but have just kept a firm hold on the little atom of real Knowledge I have obtained, & setting my face still towards the East, have plodded on with this material ex- istence and the office work I have undertaken. I have experienced an incessant yearning for that “Something” or “Nothing” of which a glimpse had been vouch- safed unto me, and Waited. Ma…
1919 · PDF PAGE 399
…of Tibet—Ep.] Thy servant here is ready for thy guidance.” This fragment again appears to be intended to follow on immediately after the last, and yet the Chela says to the Guru that the choice is made. Obviously it does not refer to the great choice referred to in Fragment II, verse 88. One is inclined further to suspect that Madame Blavatsky sup- poses Mahayana and Hinayana to refer in some way or other to the two Paths previously discussed. They do not. Madame Blavatsky’s method of exegesis, in the absence of original information, was to tak…
1919 · PDF PAGE 368
… revolves for all, the humble and the proud; the “Doctrine of the Heart” for the elect. The first repeat in pride: “Behold, I know”; the last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess: “Thus have I heard.” Continues the subject, but adds a further Word to dis- criminate from Daath (knowledge) in favour of Binah (un- derstanding). 17. “Great Sifter’ is the name of the “Heart Doctrine,” O Disciple. This explains the “Heart Doctrine” as a process of con- tinual elimination which refers both to the aspirants and to the thoughts. 18. The wh…
1919 · PDF PAGE 454
…emain unselfish till the endless end. Thou art enlightened—choose thy way. The anti-climax is now complete. Knowledge is by no means the last step. Knowledge has been finished with even by the Master of the Temple, and all this question of wedding woe, remaining unselfish till the endless end, is but poetic bombast, based upon misconception. It is as puerile as the crude conceptions of many Christian Sects. 100. Behold, the mellow light that floods the Eastern sky. In signs of praise both heaven and earth unite. And from the four-fold manifeste…
1919 · PDF PAGE 137
…ied paths:—Spiritualism, Faithism and other Isms on the one hand, and ‘The Europe,’ ‘The Leicester,’ and ‘The Cosy Corner’ on the other: last, but not least, into Mar- riage, a difficult thing to put on one side and perhaps best left onthe other. Having then plunged wholeheartedly into this 129
1919 · PDF PAGE 440
…ed to write a com- plete commentary on the extremely mystical works of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. Please note the two lines of dots for the last paragraph of this verse. It is that final scene of Parsifal, which words are unfitted to express. 71. Henceforth thy way is clear right through Virya gate, the fifth one of the Seven Portals. Thou art now on the way that leadeth to the Dhyana haven, the sixth, the Bodhi Portal. 72. The Dhyana gate is like an alabaster vase, white and transparent; within there burns a steady golden fire, the flame of Pragn…
1919 · PDF PAGE 66
…children, in order to perform the Great Work, could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself: for this is the last and greatest projection of the al- chemist. 29. Also one V.V.V.V.V. arose, an exalted adept of the rank of Master of the Temple (or this much He disclosed to the Exempt Adepts) and His utterance is enshrined in the Sacred Writings. ‘ 30. Such are Liber Legis, Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, 60
1919 · PDF PAGE 80
…er also laid down his Pan-pipe, and with the human voice sang his infinite tunes. 43. Then the faun was enraptured, and followed far; at last the harper was silent, and the faun became Pan in the midst of the primal forest of Eternity. 44. Thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, O my prophet! 45. Then the adept was rapt away in bliss, and the beyond of bliss, and exceeded the excess of excess. 46. Also his body shook and staggered with the burden of that bliss and that excess and that ultimate nameless. 74
1919 · PDF PAGE 81
…aited at the end of the city and the roads thereof. Awake Thou! wait no more! 56. Nay, Lord! but I am come to Thee. It is I that wait at last. 57. The prophet cried against the mountain; come thou hither, that I may speak with thee! 75
1919 · PDF PAGE 372
…s to mean an Asat which is higher than, and beyond, Sat. 25. The Dharma of the “Heart” is the embodiment of Bodhi, the Permanent and Everlasting. “Bodhi” implies the root “Light” in its highest sense of L.V.X. But, even in Hindu Theory, ravra feu. 26. The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. To make them clean a cleaner is required. The flame feels not the process of the cleaning. “The branches of the tree are shaken by the wind; the trunk remains unmoved.” This verse again refers to the process of selection and elimination already de…
1919 · PDF PAGE 391
THE TWO PATHS 72. And if he falls, e’en then he does not fall in vain; the enemies he slew in the last battle will not return to life in the next birth that will be his. Further encouragement to proceed; for although you do not attain everything, yet the enemies you have conquered will not again attack you. In point of fact this is hardly true. The conquest must be very complete for it to be so; but they certainly recur with very diminished intensity. Similar is the gradual immunization of man to syphilis, which was a rapidly fatal disease when…
1919 · PDF PAGE 23
…duced in the best possible manner, and will be of permanent value for a library. The general appearance will be uniform with that of the last volume, but the binding will be of improved quality. Love is the law, love under will. [All enquiries with regard to the publications of the A..A.. should be addressed to The Cancellarius of the A..A.., care of the publishers of THz Eguinox.] 17