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POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS MISTAKES OF MYSTICS I. Since truth is supra-rational, it is incommunicable in the language of reason. II. Hence all mystics have written nonsense, and what sense they have written is so far untrue. III. Yet as a still lake yields a truer reflection of the sun than a torrent, he whose mind is best balanced will, if he become a mystic, become the best mystic. THE METHOD OF EQUILIBRIUM I. THE PASSIONS, Etc. I. Since the ultimate truth of teleology is unknown, all codes of morality are arbitrary. II. Therefore the student …
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…he rational man will almost always fail to understand them. Of the Rupa visions he has some experience, if only in analogy; he calls the mystic of Rupa a silly fool; so too of Vedana, whose mystic he calls a besotted ass; but the mystic of Safifia appears to him as a raving lunatic. The hashish correspondences of this stage are the mental analyses which I have gone into so fully above, sections v. and vii. The methods for obtaining success in this matter are far more formidable than those previously sufficient. The whole mind must be intended f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 209
…TIONERS III. So will the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king. The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained. YOGA AND MAGIC I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. It has four methods. Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through Work. These are un…
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…ut intolerable mental agony of the consciousness. This agony, belonging to the lower stage of Vedana, is the drag, ever pulling back the mystic as he endeavours to break down the blackness of his insanity. Yet the unity of its anguish is the proof of its Selfhood, and the earnest of its resurrection from the abyss. Such a mystic state may last through several days, perhaps through weeks. I should not care to assert limitations. The slightest error in the process would almost certainly result in permanent and hopeless melancholia; suicide might …
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
… becomes a cloudless light; a static, no longer a dynamic conception. One has somehow got behind the veil of the universe. Here live the mystic and the true artist. The Buddhist, however, does not stop here; for he alleges that even this consciousness is false; that like all things it has the Three Characteristics of Sorrow, Change, and Unsubstantiality. Now all this analysis is a purely intellectual one, though perhaps it may be admitted that few philosophers have been capable of so profound and acute a resolution of phenomena. It has nothing …
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…hysio-psychological action is determined, I shall then ask their further attention to the special results of combining the drug with the mystic process—always in- voking trained observation—and from that moment the future of Scientific Illuminism will be assured. I must add a paragraph or twoon the nature of the mystic process and the general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. O…
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… .” Then all was Nothingness . . . nothing... nothing... nothing; and madly his horse carried him into the night. Thus he set out on his mystic quest towards that goal which he had seen, and which seemed so near; and yet, as we shall learn, proved to be so far away. In the first volume of the diaries, we find him deep in the study of the Alchemistic philosophers. Poring over Paracelsus, Benedictus Figulus, Eugenius and Eirenzeus Philalethes, he sought the Alchemical Azoth, the Catholicon, the Sperm of the World, that Universal Medicine in which…
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…ysical conditions, but from the practice itself, so that they cannot be shut off, but must needs be faced and conquered directly. In the mystic world, we come to those strange meta- physical ecstasies which (I am convinced) lie behind many philosophical dogmas. St. Athanasius had probably experienced something of this type when he penned his insane creed. So the Hindus with their attempts to affirm Parabrahma by denying him all qualities, their dogma of the “pairs of opposites,” their assertion of Sat-Chit-Ananda as transcending these pairs ; s…
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH reproach against mystics that their symbols are obscure is just as well founded as a similar reproach against the alge- braist or the chemist. A paper at the Chemical Society is often completely intelligible only to some three or four of the odd hundred distinguished chemists in the room. What is gained to “ popular science” is lost to exactitude ; and in a paper of this sort I fear rather the reproach of my mystical masters than that of the bewildered crowd. More important and certain than the mere characteristics of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…serve the fluxible body.” “For three days and no longer need ye sacrifice.” —-ZOROASTER. We are at the end of our little digression upon mystic states, and may cheerfully return to the consideration of Scientific Iluminism. We have had, you may say, a poor half-pennyworth of Science to an intolerable deal of I]luminism. Well, that is what I wanted you to say. Were it not so, I would not have spent these two nights over this paper, when I want to be fresh every morning to go to the Prado and gloat over Velasquez ! Here, gentlemen, are a number o…
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…Visions are real, inspirations are real, revelation is real, and so is genius; but these are from Kether, and the highest climber on the mystic mountain is he who will obtain the finest view, and from its summit all things will be shown unto him. A child learning to play on the violin will not at the outset be mistaken for Sarasate or Paganini; for there will be discord and confusion of sound. So now, as we start upon the first visions of P. we find chaos piled on chaos, much struggling and noise, a roaring of wild waters in the night, and then…
1909 · PDF PAGE 211
…or I am he that doth beget The Rood, and bear the Holy Graal. Yet is my manhood woman-frail, Barren my motherhood. Then how Shall men my mystic mountain scale? These ram’s-horn thumbs jut from my brow To push them to the miry slough Wherein the foes of Set are caught. Come, let us pluck the Golden Bough From the brave Tree of life and thought ! Who heareth naught, he heedeth naught. Come, we are safely housed and shrined Where subtler images are wrought Than boast the treasuries of Mind! 201
1909 · PDF PAGE 269
…ccomplished. And this proclamation is confirmed by the Hierophant, and the three chief officers give the three strokes emblematic of the Mystic Triad, and in the three different languages repeat the three mystic words: “KHABS AM PEKHT!” “KONX OM PAX!” “LIGHT IN EXTENSION!” The Hierophant then finally closes the ceremony by saying : ‘May what we have this day partaken of, sustain us in our search for the Quint- essence ; the Stone of the Philosophers ; the True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness, and the Summum Bonum.” All then disrobe and disperse. U…
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…to formulate the withdrawal of the Light of the Supernal Triad from the Altar. The Adoration then takes place, after which followeth the mystical repast, or communion in the body of Osiris. Its mystic name is ‘‘ The Formula of the Justified One.” * The Hierophant saying : “Nothing now remains but to partake in Silence the Mystic repast composed of the * The “ Formula of Osiris” is given in Z. 1, and is as follows : “For Osiris Onnophris hath said : He who is found perfect before the Gods hath said: These are the elements of my body, perfected t…
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THE EQUINOX Hail, mystic image of the Man! I give the sign of slain Asar. I give the sign of Asi towering. I give the sign of Apep, star Of black Destruction all-devouring. I give thy sign, Asar re-risen :— Break, O my spirit, from thy prison ! I match, &c. GimEL (with the crossing of the path of Teth) Hail, virgin Moon, bright Moon of Her That is God’s thought and minister! Snow-pure, sky-blue, immaculate Hecate, in Thy book of Fate Read thou my name, the soaring soul That seeks the supreme, sunless goal! And thou, great Sekhet, roar! Arise, C…
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…re with the sign of Silence, and affirmed the concealment of that central atom of the wheel which alone revolveth not. The object of the Mystic Circumambulation is to attract and make connection between the Divine Light above and the Temple, and therefore the Hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there to attract by his sceptre the Light from beyond the Veils. Each member in passing the Throne of the East gives the sign of the enterer, pro- jecting forwards the light which cometh from the sceptre of the Hierophant. …
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212 THE EQUINOX I am set apart from the rest By meed of the mystic rune That reads in peril and pest The ambrosial moon—the moon! For under the tawny star That shines in the Bull above I can rein the riotous car Of galloping, galloping Love; And straight to the steady ray Of the Lion-heart Lord I career, Pointing my flaming way With the spasm of night for a spear! O moon! O secret sweet! Chalcedony clouds of caresses About the flame of our feet, The night of our terrible tresses! Is it a wonder, then, If the people are mad with blindness, And n…
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…the Astral Light of the Universe concentrated into a focus by the Planets. .. .” } The Hierophant then resumes: “ Within DIAGRAM 19. the mystic veil which separated the Holy ‘The Altar of Incense. Place from the Holy of Holies stood the Ark of the Covenant. Before the veil stood the altar of Incense, of which this altar is a symbol. It was in the form of a Double Cube, thus representing material form as the reflection and the duplication of that which is spiritual. The sides of the altar, 265,
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…ll-including circle represents the underlying idea of the Number o: the Infinite: Para- brahman: the Ain Soph. In the first is shown the Mystic Trinity before manifestation ; as it were unlimited, unbound, and unbounded, inoperative because of its diffusiveness and dispersion. In the second figure we behold their concentra- tion: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation—4. In the worlds—Assiah: in the Taro, the Princess—the throne of the Spirit : in the Tetragram, the Hé final, and in symbolic language—the Daugh…
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…of the Mysteries.” Then follows the purification of the Hall and the members by water and by fire, after which the Hierophant orders the Mystic Circumambulation to take place in the Path of Light. The procession of officers and members is then formed in the North, in readiness for the Mystic Circumambulation in the Path of Light. It is formed in the North beginning from the station of the Stolistes, the symbol of the waters of creation attracting the Divine Spirit, and therefore alluding to the creation of the world. Whilst the « Reverse Circum…