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…escription of the nature of Atma, and Atma is, as elsewhere stated, not a Buddhist, but a Hindu idea. The teaching is here to refer everything to Atma, to regard everything as a corruption of Atma, if you please, but a cor- ruption which is unreal, because Atma is the only real thing. There is a similar instruction in Liber Legis: “Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing”; and you are urged not to “confound the space marks,” saying “they are one,” or “they are many.” 20. Before thou standest on the th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 48
THE EQUINOX absolute to do thy will; but seek to do any other thing what- ever, and instantly obstacles must arise. Every act that is not in definite course of that one orbit is erratic, an hin- drance. Will must not be two, but one. Note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single, as explained above, but also “unassuaged of pur- pose.” This strange phrase must give us pause. It may mean that any purpose in the will would damp it; clearly the “lust of result” is a thing from which it must be delivered. But the phrase may als…
1919 · PDF PAGE 395
… for the world of deluded mortals. This is quite contrary to Buddhist teaching. Buddha cer- tainly had ‘Parinirvana,’ if there be such a thing, though, as Nirvana means ‘Annihilation’ and ‘Parinirvana’ ‘complete Annihilation,’ it requires a mind more metaphysical than mine to distinguish between these. It is quite certain that Buddha did not require any old Kalpas to get there, and to suppose that Buddha is still about, watching over the world, degrades him to a common Deity, and is in flat contradic- tion to the statements in the Mahaparinibba…
1919 · PDF PAGE 425
… not interfere with this intensely intellectual medita- tion; and of course the whole object of it is to refrain from preferring any one thing to any other thing. When it says that “A thought as fleeting as the lightning flash will make thee thy three prizes forfeit—the prizes thou hast won,” this does not mean that if you happen to make a mistake in meditation you have to begin all over again as an absolute beginner, and yet, of course, in any meditation the occur- rence of a single break destroys, for the moment, the effect of what has gone i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 93
…eheld the slow and dark One, the ancient one, the devourer of His children. 46. In the height and the abyss, O my beautiful, there is no thing, verily, there is no thing at all, that is not altogether and perfectly fashioned for Thy delight. 47. Light cleaveth unto Light, and filth to filth; with pride one contemneth another. But not Thou, who art all, and beyond it; who art absolved from the Division of the Shadows. 48. O day of Eternity, let Thy wave break in foamless glory of sapphire upon the laborious coral of our making! 49. We have made …
1919 · PDF PAGE 336
THE EQUINOX thing should be enjoyed to the full, but always with the reservation that the absence of the thing enjoyed shall not cause regret. This is too hard for the beginner, and in many cases it is necessary for him to abandon pleasures in order to prove to himself that he is indifferent to them, and it may be occasionally advisable even for the Adept to do this now and again. Of course during periods of actual concentra- tion there is no time whatever for anything but the work itself; but to make even the mildest asceticism a rule of life …
1919 · PDF PAGE 115
…e thought, he may leap forth upon It with the massed violence of his Self, and destroying both these, become that Unity whose name is No Thing. Seek ye all therefore constantly to unite your- selves in rapture with each and every thing that is, and that by utmost passion and lust of Union. To this end take chiefly all such things as are naturally repulsive. For what is pleasant is assimilated easily and without ecstacy: it is in the transfiguration of the loathsome and abhorred into The Beloved that the Self is shaken to the root in Love. Thus …
1919 · PDF PAGE 108
THE EQUINOX By Light shall ye look upon yourselves, and behold All Things that are in Truth One Thing only, whose name hath been called No Thing for a cause which later shall be de- clared unto you. But the substance of Light is Life, since without Existence and Energy it were naught. By Life therefore are you made yourselves, eternal and incorrup- tible, flaming forth as suns, self-created and self-supported, each the sole centre of the Universe. Now as by Light ye beheld, by Love ye feel. There is an ecstacy of pure Knowledge, and another of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 410
THE EQUINOX alternate the task which you have set out to do with some- thing else, that you should, in fact, somehow or other change your plans. Any attempt to argue with him will assuredly result in defeat. You must be able to reply, “But I am not in the least interested in my spiritual progress; I am doing this because I put it down in my programme to do it. It may hurt my spiritual progress more than anything in the world. That does not matter. I will gladly be damned eternally, but I will not break my obligation in the smallest detail.” By …
1919 · PDF PAGE 377
…She further adds that the Dharmakaya body has to be renounced by anyone who wants to help humanity. Now, helping humanity is a very nice thing for those who like it, and no doubt those who do so deserve well of their fel- lows. But there is no reason whatever for imagining that to help humanity is the only kind of work worth doing in this universe. The feeling of desire to do so is a limitation anda drag just as bad as any other; and it is not at all necessary to make all this fuss about Initiation and all the rest of it. The universe is exceed…
1919 · PDF PAGE 107
… of the Law, as it hath been made known unto me in divers places, upon the mountains and in the deserts, but also in great cities, which thing I speak for your comfort and good courage. And so be it unto all of you! Know first, that from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the centre of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. And these four are Light, Life, Love, and Liberty. Io1r
1919 · PDF PAGE 177
…urself to think that your own point of view is the only one. Read Liber LXV. Cap I 32-40 and 57-61. This is extremely important: for one thing, if you fail to understand, you will go mad when you come to a certain Gate. (2) You are inclined to vagueness. This is evidently partly caused by the fog of emotion. Before you can pass to Zelator, you must know and rule the Astral Plane throughout. Astral journeys, however interesting and even splendid and illuminating, don’t count unless they are willed. If you want to go to your office, and find your…
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
…rap of paper and wrote “Amid all the complications and perplexity there remains, back of all, the Will. The Will to Be. The Will to Be Nothing, which is the only state inconceivable to the mind. The old God willed to be some- thing, and the Universe appeared, The New God wills to be Nothing and be- reflection of which was caught by the body. So joyful it became that it whirled round in a mad dance, and was filled with music. It was stifled by the confines of the room; but “I” was Free, so it couldn’t matter much. (This is the second experience …
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…bsolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.’ Such pronouncements are either platitudes or untrue, they either mean nothing that can’t be taken for granted or a good deal that can’t. The last of these ‘principles’ is that one should ‘compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.’ If this means that ‘My brother John was nine in May; And I’ll be twelve on New Year’s day’ is not fine poetry, let’s shake hands: but if it means that ‘Till the maid, knowing her mother near, Sobs with love, achin…
1919 · PDF PAGE 348
…ust be guarded in all possible ways. Perhaps even to call attention to it is a blind intended to prevent the reader from looking for something else. 46. Before the “mystic Power” can make of thee a God, Lanoo, thou must have gained the faculty to slay thy lunar form at will. It is now evident that by destroying or slaying is not meant a permanent destruction. If you can slay a thing at will it means that you can revive it at will, for the word “faculty” implies repeated action. 47. The Self of Matter and the SELF of Spirit can never meet. One o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 347
…. Beware, Disciple, suffer not, e’en though it be their shadow, to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness 25
1919 · PDF PAGE 333
…, not till then, shall he forsake the region of ASAT, the false, to come unto the realm of SAT, the true. By “SAT, the true,” is meant a thing previous to the ‘REAL’ referred to above. SAT itself is an illusion. Some schools of philosophy have a higher ASAT, Not-Being, which is beyond SAT, and consequently is to Shivadarshana as SAT isto Atmadarshana. Nirvana is beyond both these. 9. Before the Soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion. By the “Harmony within” is meant that state in wh…
1919 · PDF PAGE 137
…n 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 81
…to die; and he heard them not. 48. O my Lord, my beloved! How shall I indite songs, when even the memory of the shadow of thy glory is a thing beyond all music of speech or of silence? 49. Behold! Iamaman. Even a little child might not endure Thee. And lo! 50. I was alone in a great park, and by a certain hillock was a ring of deep enamelled grass wherein green-clad ones, most beautiful, played. 51. In their play I came even unto the land of Fairy Sleep. All my thoughts were clad in green; most beautiful were they. 52. All night they danced and…
1919 · PDF PAGE 420
…ne goes almost as a boy goes to meet his first sweetheart. But there is here another allusion to the beginnings of Meditation, when everything seems so simple and straight- forward, and withal so easy and pleasant. There is some- thing intensely human about this. Men set out upon the most dangerous expeditions in high spirits. 29. And to the second gate the way is verdant too. But it is steep and winds up hill; yea, to its rocky top. Grey Mists will overhang its rough and stony height, and all be dark beyond. As on he goes, the song of hope sou…