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…e Second Precept is directed against theft. Theft is the appropriation to one’s own use of that to which another has a right. Let us see therefore whether or no the Buddha was a thief. The answ er is of course in the affirmative. For to issue a command is to attempt to deprive another of his most precious possession—the right to do as he will; that is, unless, with the predestinarians, we hold that action is determined absolutely, in which case, of course, a command is as absurd as it is unavoidable. Excluding this folly, therefore, we may conc…
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…ame (for they were one, and ten, and fifty , thrice, and again) and that was the Beas t, the Living One that is Lifan. Let us be silent, therefore, my brethren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox 4 that was our F ather in his peace that he had won into, and that s o hardly. For of this shall no man speak. Now therefore let it be spoken of our Father’s journeyings in the land of Vo 5 and of his sufferin therein, and of the founding of our holy and illustrious Order. Our Father, Brethren, having attained the mature age of three hundred 1 Kether adds…
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… they all admit, and indeed boast, that it is the result of long periods of worry and anxiety about the safety of their precious souls : therefore their ecstasy is clearly a diseased process. The Yogic ecstasy requires absolute calm and health of mind and body. It is useless and dangerous under other conditions even to begin the most elementary practices. 742. My Eastern Friend.60—Abdul Hamid, of the Fort, Colombo, on whom be peace. 755. Heart.61— Heart is a trifling misquotation : This poem is for publication. 810. Mind the dark dorrway there …
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…that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion is a great Mysterium of our art. Whence a light hidden in a Cross. Now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and sm itten with the Sword, and the Py ramid being builded in just proportion, was that Light fixed even in the Vault of the Caverns. With one stroke he rent asunder the Veil; with one stroke he closed the sam e. And entering the Sarcophagus of that Roy al Tomb he laid him down to sleep. Four guarded him, and One in the four; Seven enwalled him, and One in the seven, y…
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… and they received him therein and bade him be comforted. With that he awoke and saw that he would have all his desi re. In the m orning therefore he arose and went his way into the desert. There he clomb an high rock and called forth the eagles, that th eir shadow floating over the desert should be as a book that men might read it. The shadows wrote and the sun recorded ; and on this wise cometh it to pass, O my Brethren, that by darkness and by sunlight y e will still learn ever these the Arcana of our Science. Lo ! who learneth by moonlight,…
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…e series, has, in all its illusory beauty, been seized upon, generalised from, by philo- sophers, and it is to this basis of partial and therefore deceptive fact that we owe the systems of Vedanta and Idealism, with their grotesque assumptions and muddle- headed “reconcilements” all complete. One fact, O Sri Çankaracharya, does not make a theory ; let us rem ember y our fate, and avoid generalising on insufficient evi- dence. W ith this word of warning, I leave the metaphysician to wallow in his m ire, and look toward better times for the great…
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APPENDIX II 88 his flesh : he turned to his trade : he put forth his strength : he drew all to a point : he delighted. Therefore he is not, having become that which he was not. Mark ye all : it is declared. Now of the last adventure of our Father and of his going into the land of Apes, that is, England, and of what he did there, it is not fitting that I, the poor fool who loved him, shall now dis- course. But it is most necessary that I should speak of his holy death and of his funeral and of the bruit thereof, for that is gone into diverse lan…
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…ids Teutonic discussions concerning the Ego and Non- ego.2 But how does he know this proposi- tion to be true? By sensation. The fact is therefore: “There is a sensation of the lifting of an arm.” But how does he know that? By percep- tion. Therefore he says: “There is a perception of a sensation, &c.” And why this perception? From the in- herent tendency. (Note carefully the determinist standpoint involved in the enunciation of his Fourth Skandha; and that it comes lower than Viññanam.) “There is a tendency to perceive the sensation, &c.” And …
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…you, Hard practice, and yourself may fly— Yes ! I have done it ! you may too ! Thus, in Ascension, you and I Stand as Christ’s peers and therefore fit To judge him—“Stay, friend, wait a bit!” (You cry) “Your Indian Yogis fall Back to the planet after all, Never attain to heaven and stand (Stephen) or sit (Paul)50 at the hand Of the Most High !—And that alone That question of the Great White Throne, Is the sole point that we debate.” I answer, Here in India wait Christian pre- misses ac- cepted. Severe mental strain involved in reading poem. The…
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…) produce unusual brain-changes; hence their summary (6) is of unusual kind. Its projection back into the apparently phenomenal world is therefore unusual. Herein then consists the reality of the operations and effects of ceremonial magic,† and I conceive that the apology is ample, so far as the “effects” refer only to those phenomena which appear to the magician himself, the appearance of the spirit, his conversation, possible shocks from imprudence, and so on, even to ecstasy on the one hand, and death or madness on the other. But can any of …
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…for all the rest; is it not written in our archives? As to his magical weapons, all vanish ed utterly at the moment of his Passing Over. Therefore they carried away our Father’s body piece by piece and that with reverence and in order, so that there was not left of all one hair, nor one nerve, nor one little pore of the skin. Thus was there no funeral pomp; they that say other are liars and blasphemers against a fame untarnished. May the red plague rot their vitals! Thus, O my Brethren, thus and not otherwise was the Passing Over of that Great …
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… ; this Spencer sees; but reason is not even any part of this new consciousness (which I, and many others, have too rarely achieved) and therefore can never touch it: this I see, and this w ill I hope be patent to those ardent and spiritually- minded agnostics of whom Huxley and Tyndall are for all history-time the prototypes. Know or doubt! is the alternative of the highwayman Huxley ; “Believe” is not to be admitted ; this is fundamental; in this agnosticism can never change ; this must ever command our moral as well as our intellectual assen…
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… sea. So she told him she was gathering simples for her daughter t hat had died t o bury her withal. N ow no simples grew in the desert. Therefore our F ather drew with his sword lines of power in the sand, so that a black and terrible demon appeared squeezing up in thin flat plates of flesh along the swor d-lines. So our Father cried : “Simples, O Axcaxrabortharax, for m y mother !” Then the demon was wroth and shrieked : “Thy mother to black hell ! She is mine !” So the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that f…
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…doctrine of Karm a is identical with deter- minism. On this subject much wisdom, with an infinite amount of rubbish, has been written. I therefore dismiss it in these few words, confident that the established identity can never be shaken. VI. THE TEN FETTERS OR SANYOGANAS. 1. Sakkay a-ditthi. Belief in a “soul.” 2. V ikikikkha. Doubt. 3. Silabbata-parâ- Reliance on the effi- mâsa cacy of rites and and ceremonies. 4. Kama. Bodily Desires. 5. Patigha. H atred. 6. Ruparaga. Desire for bodily im mortality. 7. Aruparaga. Desire for spiritual i mmort…
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…of my own conversion. Syllogistically,—all great men ( e.g. Shaw) are agnostics and subverters of morals. Shake- speare was a great man. Therefore Shakespeare was an agnostic and a subverter of morals. À priori this is then certain. But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—so I killed Rousseau! Beware of à priori! Let us find our facts, guided in the search by à priori methods, no doubt; but the result will this time justify us. Where would a man naturally hide his greatest treasure? In his most perf…
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…entral Arcanum alike of Eastern and W estern practical transcendentalism. Needless to observe, if I knew it, I should not disclose it. I therefore affirm the validity of the Qabalistic tradition in its practical part as well as in those exalted regions of thought through which we have to recently , and so hardly, travelled. Eight are the limbs of Yoga: morality and virtue, control of body , thought, and force, leading to concentration, meditation, and rapture. Only when the las t of thes e has been attained, and itself refined upon by removing …
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…the jackal he knew; and the tower he knew not y et. Not two would he conquer—that were easy : to victory over one did he aspire. Made he therefore toward the m oon. Rough was the hillside and the shadows deep and treacherous ; as he advanced the towers seemed to approach one another closer and closer yet. He drew his sword : with a crash they came together; and he fell with wrath upon a single fortress. Three windows had the tower; and against it ten cannons thundered. Eleven bricks had fallen dislodged by lightning : it was no house wherein ou…
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…r great, can s tretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and man, destructive of worship, is of course absurd. We must reject it, unless we want to fall into Positivism, Materialism, or something of the sort. But …
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…t retires up. His attitude undig- nified, his pleasure momentary, the after results quite disproportionate. He contem- plates his end. Therefore poor Crowley lights his pie, Maintains : “The small-shot kills the snip, But spares the tiger ;” goes on joking, And goes on smirking, on invoking, On climbing, meditating,—failing to think of a suitable rhyme at a critical juncture, Ah !—goes on working, goes on smoking, Until he goes right on to Woking. 637. No one supposes me a Saint.54—On in- quiry, however, I find that some do. 686. Amrita.55—Th…
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…o on; but are they not really so even in that of existence ? The third example is to m y mind the b est. 2 sine 60° and 3 are unreal and therefore never conceivable, at leas t to the present constitution of our human intelligences. Worked out, neither has meaning; un- worked, both have meaning, and that a different meaning in one case and the other. We have thus two terms, both unreal, both inconceivable, y et both representing intelligible and diverse ideas to our m inds (and this is the point !) though identical in reality and convertible by …