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Page 103 of 1281909 · PDF PAGE 376
…e utmost importance; and here I touch on the first difficulty which I encountered. The destiny of man being precarious and unsettled, my soul was often wandering at large in its anxiety to provide for the future of the lofty thoughts of my late tormentor. I had banished all hatred and bitterness from my heart and forgiven my enemy. He had done mea great wrong, dragging me pitilessly away from the peaceful occupations of my life, cutting and planing my worthy form in order that I should fit his coffin. He had driven me to his ship, and was the c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 129
…m one side of the equation to the other at will: nay, to comprehend the whole at once, and for ever. This then your time-and-space-bound soul shall travel according to its nature in its orbit, revealing the Law to them that walk in chains, for that this is your particular function. Now here is the Mystery of the Origin of Evil. Firstly, by Evil we mean that which is in opposition to our own wills: it is therefore a relative, and not an absolute, term. For everything which is the greatest evil of some one is the 123
1954 · PDF PAGE 118
…nstration of the sorrow, transitoriness, and cruel futility of the Universe. A vast wave of pessimism has engulfed the fortress of Man's soul. It was indeed a deadly blow to the adepts of the White School when Science, their own familiar friend in whom they trusted, lifted up his heel against them. It was in this conjuncture that the Yellow adepts sent forth into the Western world a messenger, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, with the distinct mission to destroy, on the one hand, the crude schools of Christianity, and, on the other, to eradicate the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
…e Man-Formula! Its freight the wealth of the whole Universe, that splendid Argosy leaps free upon the glittering Ocean, to cast the very Soul of Life upon uncharted and enchanted isles! It is not to these few but well-chosen words that I propose to look to enhance my popularity in the Women's Clubs of the United States. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666 P.S. "Mother-Love" is, of course, a branch of family affection about which I have already written to you in no uncertain terms. Of all its sub-sections this is the worst …
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…might have done much to temper my subsequent trials. Nevertheless, the fragrance of that friendship still lingers in the sanctuary of my soul. That eucharist of the spirit reminds me constantly that the one ingredient necessary to my aesthetic development was supplied by the gods at the one period in my life when it could profitably be introduced into my equipment. {149} 18 During the May term of 1898 I met another man who, in his own way, was interested in many of the same things as I was myself. His name was Gerald Festus Kelly. He is describ…
1954 · PDF PAGE 144
THE LEFT -HAND PATH 111 everything, and what is Knowledge but the very soul of Illusion? Refusing thus the true nourishment of all his faculties, they lose their structural unity, and must be fortified by continuous doses of dope in anguished self-preservation. Thus all its chemical equations become endothermic. To describe the alternative attitude should clarify, by dint of contrast; at least the contemplation should be a pleasant change. Every accretion must modify me. I want it to do so. I want to assimilate it absolutely. I want to make it …
1929 · PDF PAGE 208
…yed secretly to him; and he comforted me, and saved me from having my spirit broken in this house of children's tears. I promised him my soul, and swore an oath that I would stand up for him in this world and stand by him in the next. (Solemnly) That promise and that oath made a man of me. From this day this house is his home; and no child shall cry in it; this hearth is his altar; and no soul shall ever cower over it in the dark evenings and be afraid. (G.B.Shaw, The Devil's Disciple.) I offered to make Kelly an allowance equal to what he was …
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
…ll 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 end I heard a soft sound as of a silver tube being struck very gently with a soft mallet. These sounds are known as the Voice of the Nada, and are a sure sign that progress is being made. They, as already mentioned, are the mystical inner sounds which…
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
…ll 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 end I heard a soft sound as of a silver tube being struck very gently with a soft mallet. These sounds are known as the Voice of the Nada, and are a sure sign that progress is being made. They, as already mentioned, are the mystical inner sounds which…
1911 · PDF PAGE 30
…the exhaustion of everything that was, and the energy of everything that is, for it is only a corpse that is lying on the moss. I am the soul of the Aethyr. 28
1922 · PDF PAGE 152
…practical to the last, brought out our pitifully small supply of heroin and cocaine. “That’s all we've got,” she whispered in anguish of soul, ‘ till God knows when.” We were frightfully afraid, into the bargain, of its being taken from us. We were gnawed by fierce anxiety as to the issue of our affair with the police. We were even doubtful whether the consul wouldn’t turn against us and scout our story as a string of obvious falsehoods. The morning was chill. We were shaking with the reaction. Our sleep had been heavy, yet broken, and haunted …
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…ver. "You can't come now; I'm undressed!" "Then when may I come?" It was terrible, this antinony of persistence with a stifled yawn! Her soul failed her. "When you will," she murmured. The receiver dropped from her hand; but she caught one word - the word "taxi." In the morning, she awoke, almost a corpse. He had come, and he had gone — he had not spoken a single word, not even given a token that he would come again. She told her maid to pack for Paris: but she could not go. Instead, she fell ill. Hysteria became neurasthenia; yet she knew that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…f the boundless scope of his philosophy, independent as it is of all arbitrary assumptions, parochial points of view, sordid appeals and soul-stupefying superstitions. Already there had arisen in me the aspiration to attain to states whose very {227} 1. On the America Manu. There were many ladies on board: the wife of a railway magnate, the consul's daughter, ad so on. In reality, they were all whores destined for various brothels in Japan or Shanghai, where American ladies fetch absurd prices. possibility I did not suspect; already I was aware…
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
…deous to all eyes but his own. L . . . , his eager face like a silver moon starting from a thundercloud, his hair, would pierce the very soul [7]
1922 · PDF PAGE 225
…utches— I’ll put down just those things which will tell you how I hate you—how I have outwitted you—and you shall read them when my Dead Soul has got a Dead Body to match it.” September 14 I expected Peter would be in; impatient to know if I'd wangled McCall. Instead, he turned up after twelve, full of champagne and—SNOW! My aunt, what a lucky day! He was boiling with passion, grabbed me like a hawk. “Well, old girl,” he shouted, “what luck with McCall ? ” I produced my package. ‘“‘ Hurrah, all our troubles are over!” We opened our last three h…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
… Table of wickedness, the 42- fold Table. This Table is connected with the 42 Assessors of the Dead, for they are the Accusers, whom the soul must baffle; and with the 42-fold name of God, for this is the Mystery of Iniquity, that there was ever a beginning at all. And this Magus casteth forth, by the might of his four weapons, veil after veil; a thousand shining colours, ripping and tearing the Aethyr, so that it is like jagged saws, or like broken teeth in the face of a young girl, or like disruption, or * Te. that the circle should be thus p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 534
…t even the truth, soiled by his suspicion, could not quell the whispers of the demons of denial. They persistently persuaded his shaking soul that the weeds of falsehood grew so rank that never a seed of truth might find a space to shoot. Thus, doubting the whole world, he had learnt to doubt himself. His will was sodden with scepticism. He could never make up his mind to do anything definite. The man had many great qualities, but the dollar- snatching charlatans that pullulate in America had driven him to drift and potter. He did not even unde…
1907 · PDF PAGE 292
… , it blinds ordinary sight , and man sees only the shadow . The eagle alone can gaze at the dazzling light , likewise only the prepared soul can bear its lustre . Never theless the great Something which is the inmost of the Holy mysteries has never been hidden from the piercing gaze of him who can bear the light.2 The whole progress of the Adept is to speed out of this changing shadow - land into the full blaze of the sunlight ; in the words of the Qabalist , “ to attain to the Crown ," and those of the Christ , “ To be one with the Father .” …
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…19 Love comes to flit, a spark of steel, ill. 113 Lured by the loud big-breasted courtesan, ii. 36 Lust, impotence,-and knowledge of thy soul, i, 116 MAKE me a roseleaf with your mouth, ili. 4 Man’s days are dim, his deeds are dust, i. 8 Mary, Mary, subtle and softly breathing, iii. 61 May I who know so bitterly the tedium of this truly dreadful poem, ili. 126 Mere terror struck into our souls, ii. 81 Mightiest Self ! Supreme in Self-Contentment, li, 23 Mild glimpses of the quiet moon, ili. 146 Mistress and maiden and mother, il. 29 Mistress, I…
1905 · PDF PAGE 173
…esire ; and only death abides. Imminent over me thy hatred hangs ! * At the publisher’s suggestion, this volume was split up into ‘' The Soul of Osiris" and “ The Mother's Tragedy.” The original design of the poet is now restored. 66