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…ritorious to perform a rosary upon the Rudraksha-beads at least once (at one time) daily; for why? Because 108 is a convenient number of breaks, and the large number will aid determinations of rate progress. If it be true, as I suppose, that fatigue to a great extent determines frequency, it will then be perhaps possible to predict a Geometrical Pro- gression (or Mixed Progression.)] BEGIN, END. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS. 10.58 am, II. am. White tri- 3m. 5 breaks. angle [I am in very bad state—nearly a// breaks!—do a little Pranayama to stead…
1910 · PDF PAGE 196
THE EQUINOX BEGIN. END. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS. 10.21am. 10.23a.m. Red Cross 2m. Ios. Several breaks of the kind, “Oh, how well I’m doing it.” Seem quite to have forgotten what very long times I used to do. White tri- 10 m. 20 breaks. angle [This about harmonic of good; 20 m. 10 breaks is a good per- formance,] Apas-Akasa [Very difficult: slightest noise is utterly disturbing.] 10.55am. Intam. RedCross 6m. 7 breaks. [But it is to be observed that a break may be of varying length. I doubt if this was as good as White Triangle supra.] 11.44a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
July 11th, July 12th, THE EQUINOX BEGIN. END OBJECT. TIME. NO. OF BREAKS. [Difficult to set the sound Hyperaesthesia. Began to forget Mantra.]* 10.12} p.m. 1019p.m. Pranayama 6m. 30s. Very hard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell…
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
…§ (E). ry Burning till extinct. Rather good, but oil level descended very irre- gularly,|| Cross. ry Result fair. Cross. 10m. 15s, Three breaks, Isis1 (E). 18 m. 30s. Five breaks. A very difficult prac- tice, as Isis behaved like a living object.** Winged-Globe. 29 m. Seven breaks. Result would have been much better but for an epi- cene eunuch with an alleged flute. My mind revolved various methods of killing it. Tejas-Akasa. 18 , Seven breaks. R.R. et A. C.tt 19 ,, Seven breaks. Pendulum. roy After 3 m. lost control and gave up. Winged-Globe (…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
….K.on Lotus. 17m. Good, as I employed my identity to resolve problems.t RR. et A.C. 5m. Very bad. Nirvana. 15 m. Calvary Cross. 24m. Ten breaks, Never got settled till after 8 breaks, Rising on planes, Malkuth to Kether; this took thirty-six minutes. The result was not very good. Calvary Cross, 22m. Four breaks. Buddha. 15 m. Calvary Cross, 11m. Five breaks, but had headache. * Meditation upon Nirvana. + Le. no longer through reason or imagination. } Harpocrates being the meditative God. 121
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
…ad. HLP.KAt iom. Better. Pentagram. 16m. Not at all bad. 18th. Calvary Cross. 15m. Bad, but I was very sleepy. H.P.K. on lotus. 16m. Ten breaks; very strictly counted. R.R. et A.C. 8m. One break. Got very sleepy; but this seems surprisingly good. Scarlet Sphere om. Good. One or two breaks only. Operation (Tiphereth). Buddha position. 5m. Hopeless; I was nearly asleep. 19th. Winged-Globe. gm. Five breaks. H.P.K. on Lotus, 9m. Five breaks. The God was not very clear. RR. et A.C. 8m. Bad. Position 1. 13m. Middling. Thoth. ? Hopelessly sleepy. Atte…
1910 · PDF PAGE 201
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING quickly enough the gross breaks, but lets the minor ones dart away from his grasp, like the small fry which with ease swim in and out of the fisherman’s net. Further, though in twelve meditations the number of breaks may be identical, yet the class of the breaks, much more so than the actual number, will tell the meditator, more certainly than anything else, whether he has progressed or has retrograded. Thus at first, should the meditator practise with his eyes open, the number of breaks will in their swift succes…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING OBJECT MEDITATED UPON. TIME, REMARKS. Black egg and white ray 10 , Five breaks. between pillars* (E). Golden Dawn Symbol t(E). ry Very bad. Bad cold, dust, shaking, etc., prevented concentration.{ Golden Dawn Symbol (E). 10 4 Four breaks. R. Reet A.C. 23 Nine breaks. Against this particular practice P. wrote: “I think breaks are longer in themselves than of old; forI find myself con- centrating on them and forgetting the primary altogether. But I have no means of telling how long it is before the error is discover…
1910 · PDF PAGE 132
…ng along a circle in different directions. Concentration on This resulted in many strange dreams, Position 1.+ Concentration on 32m. Ten breaks. Better towards theend; but Position 1. best after tenth break. Concentration must have then lasted quite 6 or 7 minutes. Position 1. 15m. Three breaks, but end very doubtful having become very sleepy. Position 1. 6m. Three breaks, I seemed to collapse sud- denly. Went to Devachan{ on Astral Journey. I found myself sur- * In all cases when the name alone is mentioned a meditation practice is understood.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 200
THE EQUINOX 6. Perhaps as a result of the intense control, a nervous storm breaks. This we call Dhyana. Its character is probably not determined by the antecedents in consciousness. Its essential characteristic being the unity of Subject and Object, a new world is revealed. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see. The slaying of any of these thoughts often leaves their echoes gradually dying away. Now that we have come to the end of this long chapter, let us turn back on the upward slope and survey the road which winds beneath …
1910 · PDF PAGE 291
Iv THE BUDDHIST There no dawn breaks ; no sunlight penetrates Its blackness; no moon shines, nor any star. For its own horror of itself creates Malignant fate from all benignant fates, Of its own spite drives its own angel afar. Nay; this is the great import of the curse That the whole world is sick, and not a part. Conterminous with its own universe The horror of my heart ! ANANDA VUJaA. T 273
1910 · PDF PAGE 442
…multiply; The strong knight’s brain goes all a-swim, Paced by that maddening minstrelsy, Those dog-like demons hunting him. The last bar breaks; the steel will snaps ; The black hordes riot in his brain ; A thousand threatening thunder-claps Smite him—insane—insane—insane |! His muscles roar with senseless rage; The pale knight staggers, deathly sick; Reels to the light that sorry sage, Sir Palamede the Lunatick.
1910 · PDF PAGE 427
…very deed, So that at last a boulder trips The hero, that he bursts a-bleed, And sanguine from his bearded lips The torrent of his being breaks. The Beast is gone: the hero slips Down to the valley: he forsakes The fond idea (every bone In all his body burns and aches) By speed to attain the dear Unknown, By force to achieve the great Beyond. Yet from that brain may spring full-grown Another folly just as fond. 51
1910 · PDF PAGE 418
…PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT As suddenly Hell’s own disgust Eats up the joy he had of lust. The brutal glee his folly took For holy joy breaks down his brain. Off bolts the Beast: the earth is shook As out a questing roars again, As if a thirty couple hounds Are in its belly as it bounds ! The peasants gather to deride The knight: creation joins in mirth. Ashamed and scorned on every side, There gallops, hateful to the earth, The laughing-stock of beasts and men, Sir Palamede the Saracen.
1910 · PDF PAGE 199
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The following analysis of breaks which Frater P. deduced from his practices during this retirement is both of great interest and importance. It is the only analytical table of this character we know of, and must prove of very great use to investigator and aspirant alike. THE CHARACTER OF BREAKS 1. Primary centres, The senses. 2. Secondary. These seem to assume a morbid activity as soon as the primaries are stilled. Their character is that of the shorter kind of memory. Events of the day, etc. 3. Tertiary. Partake …
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…ugh and over me; then one of the strange inhabitants passed through me unconscious of me, and I returned. Golden Dawn symbol. 14m. Three breaks. May 8th. Position 1. 22m. Seven breaks, Calvary Cross. 50m. Did I go to sleep? 11th. Designed Abrahadabra for a pantacle.* 12th. I performed a Magic Ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at Astral Projection. I prefer the Esoteric Theosophist Society’s seven- fold division for these practical purposes. I think Physical Astral Projection should be preceded by a (ceremonial) “loosening of the girders …
1910 · PDF PAGE 429
…ming sun with rose, They hide her from the hero’s sight. Then doth he muse thereat morose, When in one wild cascade of light The pageant breaks, and thunder roars: Down flaps the loathly wing of night. He sees the lonely Breton shores Lapped in the levin: then his eyes See how she shrieking soars and soars Into the starless, stormy skies. Well! well! this lesson will he learn, How music’s mellowing artifice May bid the breast of nature burn And call the gods from star and shrine. So now his sounding courses turn To find an instrument divine Whe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 438
…ein he gazes, keen to view The vast Design therein, to chase The Beast to his last avenue. Then—O thou gosling scant of grace! The dream breaks, and Sir Palamede Wakes to the glass of his fool’s face! “ Ah, ’sdeath!” (quod he), “by thought and deed This brute for ever mocketh me. The lance is made a broken reed, The brain is but a barren tree— For all the beautiful Design Is but mine own geometry!” With that his wrath brake out like wine. He plunged his body in, and shattered The whole delusion asinine. All the false water-nymphs that flattered…
1910 · PDF PAGE 167
…MPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING seeing if it would interrupt P.’s meditation. The result on the first occasion was a bad break; second, two bad breaks; third to sixth, no breaks occurred. At the end of the experiment P. was able to repeat all MAitrananda had said except the last remark.* August gth. Practised Mental Muttering of the Mantra: “Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum.” I found that with Rechaka the voice sounds as if from the Con- fines of the Universe: but with Puraka as if from the third eye. Whilst doing this in the Saivite A’sanat I found the eyes, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 396
…e caught, They bound to four strong stallion steers, To tear asunder, as they thought, The paladin of Arthur's peers. But he, a-bending, breaks the spine Of three, and on the fourth he rears His bulk, and rides away. Divine The wonder when the giant fails To stir the fatuous dwarf, malign Who smiles! But Bors on Arthur rails That never a knight is worth but one. “ By Goddes death ” (quod he), “ what ails