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Page 1 of 21910 · PDF PAGE 177
…ccess in Pranayama possesses the odour, September taste, colour, and almost the consistency of semen. 11th. 6.25-6.45 Pranayama. Fifteen minutes. 10. 20. 30. No perspira- am.am. tion. 10.30-10.45 Pranayama. Twelve minutes: 10. 20, 30. am. am. Pranayama. Eight minutes: 10, 20. 30. 6.0-6.30 With great effort. p.m. p.m. Cannot do Pranayama 30. 60. 15. more than once through, I tried twice, Dhéarana on nose ten minutes, ILI5 pm. Dharana on nose. 12th. 7.35-7.55 Pranayama. Six minutes 10. 20, 30. am, a.m. Dharana. Six minutes. (P. was called away fo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 178
…Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharana on nose nine minutes. The nose is perhaps my least sensitive organ. Would I do better to try my tongue? Dharana, four minutes on tip of tongue. Burning feeling as usual. Can feel every tooth as if each had become a con- scious being. Pranayama. Broke down badly on second Rechaka of 30. 15.60. I wll do this, and often. Pranayama. Ten min…
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…ltaneous. This seems absurdand inexplicable, it is noted in Buddhist Psychology, yet J know it. September gth. 9.50-10.20 Pranayama. Ten minutes 5. 10. 20; 4 minutes 10. 25. 30; am. am. 6 minutes 10. 25. 30. Looking at the light at the top of my head. It was of a misty blue colour, its shape was that of an ordinary cone of flame, long and homogeneous. At intervals it dropped and opened out like a flower, its texture was that of fine hair, Méitrananda told me that this result was very good, and that these petals are of the Ajna Chakkra.* 2.10-2.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
… out of Mental Muttering back to audible, or rather at one loud slow Mantra, ze. when no Kumbhaka was possible. Mental Muttering for ten minutes “Aum Shivayavashi.” Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained. Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Result better than usual. Pranayama. Seven minutes after 10 seconds of Kumbhaka. This seventh time I forgot all about everything and breathed out of both nostrils. Quite quietly—pure mental abstraction. Mental Muttering of “ Aum Shivayavashi,” for seventy-five minutes. Several tim…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
… short time I distinctly saw the head of a nun in the centre of the Chakkra.) Fifty-two Suddhi-Kumbhakas or Pranayamas. 5. ro. 20 for 30 minutes. 10, 15. 30 for 6 minutes. Pranayama. 5. 10. 20 for 31 minutes without any breaks. Dharana on the Shiva Pantacle given me by Maitrananda Swami, mentally muttering “Aum Shivaya Vashi.” * Nothing particular occurred, though (were I not fixed in the know- ledge of the vanity of physiological tests) I should judge my weight had diminishedt The A’sana gave no pain till I moved. I had my eyes turned up to th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
… my nose, abolishes, annihilates and expunges my nose. Dharana on end of Verendum.t Pranayama. §. 10. 20, Pranay4ma. 5. 10. 20, and five minutes of 10. 20. 30. Tried external Kumbhaka with poorest of results, Dharana on nose. Dharana, covering face with a sheet of thick white paper. Very complex phenomena occur. But this production of two noses seems to be the falling back of the eyes to parallel. Everything vanishes. Dharana. Ditto. There are two noses all the time. The delusion is that you think your right eye is seeing your left nose! Pranay…
1910 · PDF PAGE 167
…nd the eyes, without conscious volition, are drawn up and behold the third eye. (Ajna Chakkra.) roth, A day of revelation of Arcana. Ten minutes A’sana and breathing exer- cise. Latter unexpectedly trying. Also practised Mental Muttering whilst in A’sana. Repeating “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum,” which takes, roughly, 86 seconds for 50 repetitions, ze. about 1,000 in half an hour. I practised this Mantra for thirty minutes: 10 minutes aloud; 10 minutes in silence; 10 minutes by hearing.t 11th. Recited the Mantra for about 1} hour while painting a t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
THE EQUINOX May 19th. 1. Assumption of the god-form of Harpocrates: it lasted nine minutes: the result was good, for I got a distinct aura around me. 2. Physical Astral Projection. I formed a sphere which took a human shape but rather corpse-like. I then projected a gray* ray from the left side of my head; this was very tiring and there was no result physically. 3. Concentrated on imaginary self for ten minutes, and then pro- jected self into it with fearful force. Chiah nearly passed.t 4. Red sphere darkened and glorified and returned to light…
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
…is heard. The Soundless is called Parabramha or Paramatma.} August 14th. Bought a meditation-mat and also a bronze Buddha, Nadi-Yama§ 10 minutes in the Saivite posture, in which my body-seat fits exactly into a square of about 18 inches forming the letter Aleph. Mantra (N.S.N.A.). At the 28th minute got faint sounds like a musical box worked by a mallet on metal bars. As I stopped I heard a piano very distant, The intense attention requisite to try to catch the subtle sounds of the Universe when in Rechaka prevents Mantra, as my mental mutter- …
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
THE EQUINOX October Pranayama. Thirty-five minutes. 10. 20, 30, A’sana 3rd. 12.20.a.m. terrible. 10-11.30 Walk with Mantra, am, a.m. 11.30-12-41 A’sana. Always with Mantra and Ajna. am. am. Pranayama. Eighteen minutes. 10. 20. 30. 1.50-2.30 Dharana. Got very tired and lay down till 3.35 (not sleep- p.m.p.m. ing) then resumed A’sana till 5.5 p.m. Now again at last the Golden Dawn. This, as my intuition had already taught me, had the effect of slowing the Dhyana and also keeping me fixed therein. Yet, I fear, of partially destroying its perfec- t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 316
…nts. Then he placed over his own eyes two empty shells of walnut, and pretended to play some childish game of hide-and-seek. After a few minutes, it was her turn to don the blinding apparel. But they were different from his, the empty shells he fixed under her eyebrows! Ljubov felt no pain, rather an exquisite sensation of physical dcen-étve, of wondrous languor. Ay, but a few minutes later, the sun and moon and stars had lost their beauty for her. There were two large cavities under her eye- lids. The force within the nutshells had drawn the e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
…an any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes and goes in gasps, when we are at rest it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends (restrains) the breath, restrains also the working of the mind. He who has controlled the mind,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 180
….0 mn. IL15-11.41 am. a.m. 30th. 10.5 am. October. Ist. 5.30 p.m. 9.30 p.m. THE EQUINOX Dharana on Ajna and “Aum Tat Sat Aum” thirty-one minutes. At one time Ajna seemed enormously, perhaps infinitely, elongated. Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum” with usual throbbing. Took 210 drops of Laudanum as an experiment under MAitrananda’s guidance. (Absolutely no mental result, and hardly any physical result. I must be most resistant to this drug, which I had never previously taken). Recovering from the Laudanum. Pranayama and Dharana hopeless.* Another month o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
…UINOX It was on this day I got a broken-bell-sound * in my head when not doing anything particular. August 12th, A’sana and Breathing 10 minutes. One fears to do Rechaka, so tremendous and terrible is the Voice of the Universe. But with Puraka is a still small Voice. Concerning which Maitrananda said to me: “Listen not to that Great and terrible Voice: but penetrate and hear the subtle soul thereof.” 13th, Pranayama: Five cycles § minutes 15 seconds. Mantra (N.S.N.A.) t Half an hour. Ears begin to sing at about the twentieth minute. Towards the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 313
…owers, and, being the only man alive who witnessed the beginnings thereof, I will undertake to keep you interested for more than sixteen minutes with their history.” The room was now darkened, and three large globes of crystal, set under the rays of a lamp, stood alone, attracting the eyes. The first globe was limpid and colourless, the second was of the palest amethyst, the third of a rich yellow. Worlds were revolving within. Then Elphénor broke the silence again. “She was a little girl and he was a little boy . . .’ 295
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
…. 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 44
THE EQUINOX Twenty-one minutes past one o’clock—the day was marching towards its first duality. The door opened behind him, and the creaking wood caused him to jump up. The daughter of his host stood in her night-garments, a poem in pale green and white. She said nothing; and he imitated the wisdom of her silence. His heart began a wild, unhealthy fandango; his temples ached; his legs shook under him. He felt himself paling; strange impulses prompted him to a return to ances- tral savagery. Alas, he sadly lacked experience. However, the woman h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 303
…t... get English! . . . no more!!” The three then departed, and I was left alone with the Blessed One. Neither of us spoke for about ten minutes, then at length, after a go or two at his snuff-box, he gave a loud grunt, to which I replied in a solemn voice: “O Mahatma, what is Truth?” “No Truth! All illusion,” he answered, “ I am the Master, you become my disciple; I show you all things; I lead you to the ultimate reality . . . the supreme stage of the Highest ... the infinite Ultimatum .. . the unlimited omniscience of eternal Wisdom—All this …
1910 · PDF PAGE 246
THE EQUINOX homme. Er—well, we all grow older, you know—one day— er—ah! Nice young fellow, Delhomme! EUPHEMIA. I refused him twenty minutes ago, father. ossory. What? How the deuce did you know what I was going to say? Bless me, I believe there may be some- thing in this psychic business after all! EUPHEMIA. Yes, father, I feel I have strange powers! ossory. But look here, girlie, why did you refuse him? Reculer pour mieux sauter is all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. That's the point, father. If you a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
… misconception takes place in such a microscopic portion of time that detection is impossible. In the hasheesh expansion of seconds into minutes, or even according to a much mightier ratio, there is an opportunity thoroughly to scrutinise the hitherto evanescent phenomena, and the truth comes out. How many more such prophecies as these may have been rejected through the gross habit of the body we may never know until spirit vindicates her claim in a court where she must have audience. In this world we are but half spirit; we are thus able to ho…