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316 THE EQUINOX Your eyes His stars—come, let our Venus lash Our bodies with the whips of Her desire. Your bed’s the world, your body the world-ash, Adela! Shall I give the word to the man of the gondola? ALEISTER CROWLEY.
I.NSIT N.ATURAE R.EGINA I.SIS And still there was silence, and the voice of the world swept by me, Making in mine ears the noise of tumbling waters; But two voices I heard, and they spake one to the other: “Who stands with downcast eyes in the temple of our Lady?” And the answer: “ A wanderer from the world who hath sought the halls of silence; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save th…
THE EQUINOX ‘You are nearer the world than I, and its weak vanity has stained you. The eye looks at the world, and the world looks at the eye, and though each learns from the other, it is not often an even bargain and exchange. . . .” Then, as the heart-worm ceased to speak, the other two, the eye-worm and the mouth-worm, drew closer to where during all his talking they had been magnetically moved. And all those years which they had passed unconsciously as the lips or the eyes of a woman became suddenly revealed, most vividly different to them.…
…e cannot stir. The child complains—how feebly now! His eyes are blank ; he looks at her; The cold sweat gathers on his brow. To save the world—three days away|! His life in knighthood’s life is furled, And knighthood’s life in his—to-day |— His darling staked against the world | Will he die there, his task undone? Or dare he live, at such a cost? He cries against the impassive sun : The world is dim, is all but lost. Then, with the bitterness of death Cutting his soul, his fingers clench The piteous passage of her breath. The dews of horror ris…
… a worm will detect its approach to the earth surface by the warmth of the mould, so did he detect by a sense, new and unknown to him, a world as different from the world he lived in as the world of awakenment differs from the world of dreams. Further, did he grow to understand, that, though as a sustenance to the tree itself one root might not be as im- portant as another, yet that they all drew their strength from the self-same soil, and ultimately united in the one trunk above. Some were rotten with age, some dying, some again but feeders of…
THE DOCTRINES OF BUDDHISM Having sat for seven long years under the Bédhi tree Gotama opened his eyes and perceiving the world of Sam- sara* exclaimed: “Quod erat demonstrandum!” True, he had attained to the spotless eye of Truth and had become Buddha the Enlightened One; he had entered the Nothing- ness of Nibbdna,j and had become one with the Uncreated and the Indestructible. And now he stood once again on the shore line of existence and watched the waves of life roll landwards, curve, break and hiss up the beach only to surge back into the o…
…, to accomplish no less a task than the mastering of the forces of the Universe, the sur- render of the gross vibrations of the external world to the finer vibrations of the internal, and then to become one with the subtle Vibrator—the Seer Himself. We have mentioned the six chief systems of Yoga, and now before entering upon what for us at present must be the two most important of them,—namely, Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga, we intend, as briefly as possible, to explain the remain- ing four, and also the necessary conditions under which all methods…
… the stupendous powers he had acquired, helped his fellows to realize the right path by the most universal of all symbols—the woe of the world, the sorrow of mankind. Like the Vedantist, he saw that the crux of the whole trouble was Ignorance (Avijja). Dispel this ignorance, and illumination would take its place, that insight into the real nature of things, which, little by little, leads the Aspirant out of the world of birth and death, the world of Samsara, into that inscrutable Nibbana where things in themselves cease to exist and with them t…
…ant 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
…on the snow-clad mountains, Slow as the voice of the great green gliding River. Calmly in Thy silence am I come to rest me, Now from the world the light hath slowly faded ; I have left the groves of Pan that I might gaze upon Thee, Gaze upon the Virgin that before Time was begotten, Mother of Chronos, and the old gods before him, Child of the womb of the Silence, whose father Is the unknown breath of the most secret Goddess, Whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness. “ Now do I come before Thee in Thy temple, With offerings from the oak…
… and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the world Maya or the Samasdra Chak- kra, the inner “A” the Bodhi Satva, the Buddha, the Christ. Thus is fulfilled again and again the great prophecy: Whenever the dhamma decays, and a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest my- self. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm “Tt is a fallacy,” wrote P., ‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing l…
…ilver, so through the error of one’s own karma man mistakes Brahma for the universe. Being too much and deeply engaged in the manifested world, the delusion arises about that which is manifested—the subject. There is no other cause (of this delusion). Verily, verily, I tell you the truth. If the practiser of Yoga wishes to cross the ocean of the world, he should renounce all the fruits of his works, having performed all the duties of his Ashrama.{ “Jnana Kanda” is the application of science to “Karma K4nda,” the works of good and evil, that is …
…I don’t want her. I’m toohappy. How I love him! How proud I an— when another girl would be so shamed! I love him! I love him! Oh, what a world of ecstasy is this! To be his, and he mine! Tobe—oh! oh! I cannot bear the joy of it. I want to sit down and havea good cry. [S¢ts, crying and laughing with the joy of tt.) Oh, loving Father of all, what a world Thou hast made! What a gift is life! How much it holds of love and laughter! Is there anything more, anything better? I cannot believe it. Is there anything, anybody that could make me happier? t…
THE BIG STICK as his own, and so appropriate to himself the pain of the whole world” (p, 184). Here the “true-self” is the Higher Self, Atman or Augoeides, unity with which is what we have called the Great Work of the A... A... When a soldier turns philosopher we always expect good work, and Major Kelly has not failed us; and to all such as would understand Kant as well as Schopenhauer’s great work, “The World as Will and Idea”—of which an excellent English translation is published by Messrs. Paul, Trench, Triibner, we heartily recommend this m…
… all things; for as the Bhaga- vad-Gita says: ‘“ Equilibrium is called Yoga.” Chemically the various groups in the organic and inorganic worlds are similar in structure and composition. One piece of limestone is very much like another, and so also are the actual bodies of any two men, but not so their minds. There- fore, should we wish to discover and understand that Power which differentiates, and yet ultimately balances all appearances, which are derived by the apparently unconscious object and received by the apparently conscious subject, we…
…t great Sacrifice which he made upon the path of Renunciation—to abandon all that he had as yet attained to, to cut himself off from the world, and like an Hermit in a desolate land seek salvation by him- self, through himself and of Himself. Ultimately, as we shall see, he renounced even this disownment, for which he now sacrificed all, and, by an unification of both, welded the East to the West, the two halves of that perfect whole which had been lying apart since that night wherein the breath of God moved upon the face of the waters and the …
… be borne in mind that the configurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such islands as Madagascar and Easter Island prove. The inhabitants of the former are Polynesian and not African, of the later, seemingly Melanesian, judging by their skulls, and the Solomon Islands, the nearest Melanesian islands to Easter Island, are thousands of miles away. Ducie Island, the nearest island to Easter Island, is many hundred miles away, and the coast of S…
…be “known” and not “believed in,” and that which can never be named without begetting a duality (an untruth), and conse- quently a whole world of illusions. It is the crucifixion of every would-be Saviour, this teaching of a truth under the symbol of a lie, this would-be explanation to the multitude of the unexplainable, this passing off on the “canaille” the strumpet of language (the Consciously Known) in the place of the Virgin of the World (the Consciously Unknown). + No philosophy has ever grasped this terrible limitation so firmly as the V…
… say, see it solely, or identify all with it? The necessity of doing this is pointed out in Chandogya, 8. 1. 6. He who departs from this world without having known the soul or those true desires, his part in all worlds is a life of constraint; but he who departs from this world after having known the soul and those true desires, his part in all worlds is a life of freedom. In the Brihadaranyaka,* king Janaka asks YAjiiavalkhya, “what serves man for light?” That sage answers: The sun serves him for light. When however the sun has set?—the moon. …
Vv Sir PALAMEDE the Saracen Hath cast his sword and arms aside. To save the world of goodly men, He sets his teeth to ride—to ride! Three days: the black horse drops and dies. The trappings furnish them a fire, The beast a meal. With dreadful eyes Stare into death the child, the sire. Six days : the gaunt and gallant knight Sees hateful visions in the day. Where are the antient speed and might Were wont to animate that clay? Nine days; they stumble on; no more His strength avails to bear the child. Still hangs the mist, and still before Yawns t…