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Page 108 of 1281906 · PDF PAGE 104
… armed men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy girth ! But thou, Athena, didst devise Some end beyond our mortal ken, Thy soul impenetrably wise Shines not to us unthinking men. O guard the warrior band of Greece, And win for us the Golden Fleece ! By miracle this happy day The ship is finished for our quest. Bring thou the glory from the gray ! Bring thou our spirits into rest ! O Wisdom, that hast helped so far, ’ Sink never thou thy guiding star! CHORUS OF WORKMEN. Then let us gather one and all, And launch our dragon on the m…
1922 · PDF PAGE 222
… healthy ; she’s just a freak of nature. And while he sketched her he asked her to suggest a title for the picture. ‘ Paint me as a dead soul,’ she answered. He caught up the phrase with fiery enthusiasm, and began to work on an enormous screen, a triptych with the strangest beasts and birds and faces, all arranged to lead up to
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
THE EQUINOX It is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to Brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of God, the net with which the fish of Prana is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the Atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of Brahman.* At the end of the “Shiva Sanhita” there are some twenty verses dealing wi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
THE EQUINOX It is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to Brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of God, the net with which the fish of Prana is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the Atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of Brahman.* At the end of the “Shiva Sanhita” there are some twenty verses dealing wi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
advance to any of them. But an example of such an operation may be studied in Equinox I, VII, “The Temple of Solomon the King”, where an invocation of Horus on this formula is given in full. Note the réverbération of the ideas one against another. The formula of Horus has not yet been so fully worked out in details as to justify a treatise upon its exoteric theory and practice; but one may say that it is, to the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of gr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
With regard to the préparations for such Sacraments, the Catholic Church has maintained well enough the traditions of the true Gnostic Church in whose keeping the secrets are. 1 Chastity 2 is a condition; fastrng for sonie Iiours previons is a condition; an carnest and continuai aspiration is a con¬ dition, Without these antécédents even the Eucharist of the One and Seven is partiaily — though such is its intrinsic virtue that it can never be wholly — baulked of its effect. A Eucharist of some sort sliould most assuredly be cou* summated daily …
1954 · PDF PAGE 108
…possibly mere climate, with its resulting etiolation of the native, its languid, bilious, anaemic, fever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. We accordingly find few true equivalents of this School in Europe. In Greek philosophy there is no trace of any such doctrine. The poison in its foulest and most virulent form only entered with Christianity.1 But even so, few men of any real eminence were found to take the axioms of pessimism seriously. Huxley, for all his harping on the minor key, was an eupeptic Tory. The culmination of the Blac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…re was absolute respect as due to a star. "If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him." The instant Jane realized that she was a sovereign soul, unique and of {866} equal splendour to every other, she was no longer hurt by criticisms of the complexes which blasphemed her simplicity and which she had been silly enough to suppose organic functions of her essence. So passed the summer. With autumn came calamity. I have already told of my own great sorrow. The second sword stroke was that her own inconsolable grief so prostrated the Ape that our hope…
1954 · PDF PAGE 249
…t of my own sophistication? I asked myself. Tell you what! I'll trot round to my masseuse, and put it up to her. She is a simple country soul, by no means over-educated, but intelligent; capable of a firm grasp of the principles of her job; a steady church-goer on what she considers worthwhile occasions; dislikes the rector, but praises his policy of keeping his discourse within bounds. She has done quite a lot of thinking for herself ; distrusts and despises the Press and the Radio , has no use for ready-made opinions. She shares with the floc…
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
… splendid with stars; who have seen—who see—the Body of our Lady Nuit, all-pervading; and therein swallowed up, to have found—to find—no soul that is not wholly of Her. Woman! thou drawest us upward and onward for ever; and every woman is one among women, of Woman; one star of Her stars. 1 See “Liber D” [§206]. I see thee, Woman, thou standest alone, High Priestess art thou unto Love at the Altar of Life. And Man is the Victim therein. Beneath thee, rejoicing, he lies; he exults as he dies, burning up in the breath of thy kiss. Yea, star rushes…
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…power of Dhydna becomes so intensified as to be able to pass beyond the external perception and brood as it were upon the very centre or soul of the object held by the will, it becomes known as Samadhi or Superconsciousness. The three last stages Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are so intimately associated, are classed under the one name of Samydma.* Thus meditation should rise from the object to the object- less. Firstly the external cause of sensations should be per- ceived, then their internal motions, and lastly the reaction of the mind.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…power of Dhydna becomes so intensified as to be able to pass beyond the external perception and brood as it were upon the very centre or soul of the object held by the will, it becomes known as Samadhi or Superconsciousness. The three last stages Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are so intimately associated, are classed under the one name of Samydma.* Thus meditation should rise from the object to the object- less. Firstly the external cause of sensations should be per- ceived, then their internal motions, and lastly the reaction of the mind.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 369
…nt anything to me till the night I met you. At that moment I began to live. It was you, and not Gretel’s beastly cocaine, that filled my soul with that Litany of Fuller’s. I had chanted it often enough, but it had never touched the spot. That night I used it to get you. I had only lived that I might one day find you. And all my life curled itself, from that moment, round
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
… has its essential function in the rhythm of the Heart of the Master. No star can stray from its self-chosen course: for in the infinite soul of space all ways are endless, all-embracing: perfect. LOVE burns in the Heart of the Master: he, seeing only God in every thing, with the white flame of worship purges it of all its fancied imperfection. His boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion. By virtue of his LAW he floods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
médiusy whenever he is not holding the Lance. The PRIEST takes the censer from the childy and makes five crosses as bejore. The chïldren replace their weapons on their respective altars. The PRIEST hisses the hook of the JLaw three ti/mes. He kneels for a space in adoration y with joined handsy knuckles closedy thumb in position as aforesaid. He rises and draws the veil over the whole alta-r. Ail rise and stand to order. The PRIEST takes the lance from the DEACON and holds it as beforey as Osiris or Ththah. He circumambulates the Temple three t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 159
…ng— I found I was simply telling myself ‘I love him so much.” Love is dead. And yet that’s not true. I do love him with all my heart and soul; and yet, somehow, I can’t. I want to be able to love until I get back. Oh, what’s the good of talking about it! I know I love him, and yet I know I can’t love any one. , I took a whole lot of cocaine. It dulled what I felt. I was able to fancy I loved him. We went to the show. It was awfully stupid. I was thinking all the time how I wanted to love, and how I wanted dope, and how I wanted to stop dope so …
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
Once again, there is nothing in this exclusively FnagicaP. Rem¬ brandt Van Ryn used to take a number of ores and other crude objects. From these he banished the impurities, and consecrated them to his work, by the préparation of canvasses, brushes, and colours. This done, he compelled them to take the stamp of his soûl ; from those dull, valueless créatures of earth he created a vital and powerful being of truth and beauty. It would indeed be surprising to anybody who lias corne to a clear compréhension of nature if there were any différence in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 205
… question (hitherto unanswered) in your letter. You raise so vast and razor-edged a question when you write of the supposed antinomy of "soul" and "sense" that it seemed better to withhold comment until this later letter; much meditation was most needful to compress the answer within reasonable limits; even to give it form at all is no easy matter. For this is probably the symptom of the earliest stirring of the mind of the cave-man to reflection, thereunto moved by other symptoms-those of the morning after following upon the night before . It …
1996 · PDF PAGE 43
… babe from its cradle, or drag the dog from its kennel, to prove the old saying: “Natura abhorret a vacuo.”1 For she is the Image of the Soul of Nature, the Great Mother, the Great Whore. 1 [Lat., “nature abhors a vacuum.”] 2 [Ta Chi was the concubine of Chou Hsin, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty (c. 1025 B.C.E.). Her sex drive is credited with its downfall.] 3 [Queen Elizabeth the First, 1533-1603.] 4 [The pen-name of of the French author Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804-1876).] 5 [The pen-name of the English novelist Ma…
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…ride, in the day of your wrath. Commentary: The Christians to the Lions! A hermit is one who dwells isolated in the desert, exactly as a soul, a star, or an electron in the wilderness of space-time. The 11:6 11:24