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Page 111 of 1971912 · PDF PAGE 75
…nt. It suggests that what is really happening is that you are waking up from the sleep which men call waking, the sleep Whose dreams are life. There is another way to test one’s progress in this practice, and that is by the character of the breaks. Breaks are classed as follows: E'rsz‘ly, physical sensations. These should have been overcome by Asana. Secondly, breaks that seem to be dictated by events immediately pre- ceding the meditation. Their activity becomes tremendous. Only by this practice does one understand how much is really observed …
1913 · PDF PAGE 121
…nd of Heart 's Desire Utopia , Atlantis , Tir - nam - Og , Call it what name you will — where one escapes The ugliness and sordidness of life . In mathematics I have found a land Which jealousy and meanness cannot reach ; A land of ample sweep and vast expanse ; Lifeless and cold indeed , but beautiful With the calm beauty of the Buddhist 's heaven ." And then he spoke of strength , Of the keen sense of power in Rodin 's work Which furnished half the greatness of his art . And of the strength the mathematician had ; How with those subtle arms d…
1944 · PDF PAGE 235
…alted. These last three cards seem to prepare the explosion which will renew the whole Cycle. Note that Virgo is Yod, the secret seed of Life, and also the Virgin Earth awaiting the Phallic Plough. The interest of this card is the interest of the common people. The rulership of the Sun in Virgo suggests also birth. The disks are arranged in the form of the geomantic figure Popu‐ lus. These disks may be represented as the flowers or fruits of a great tree, its solid roots in fertile land. In the Yî King, Sol in Virgo is represented by the 33rd H…
1944 · PDF PAGE 253
… every Change is the effect of an Act of Love; all Acts of Love contain Pure Joy. Die daily. Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: be hold all Opposites as necessary complements, and rejoice. Transformation, change, voluntary or involuntary, in either case logical development of existing conditions, yet perhaps sudden and unexpected. Apparent death or destruction, but such interpretation is illusion. XIV Pour thine all freely from the Vase in thy right hand, and lose no drop. Hath not thy left hand a vase? Transmute all wholly into…
1954 · PDF PAGE 34
…is certainly liable to mislead; fellow-student , or, if you like, fellow-sufferer, seems a more appropriate definition. The climax of my life was what is known as the Cairo Working, described in the minutest detail in The Equinox of the Gods. At that time most of The Book of the Law was completely unintelligible to me, and a good deal of it-especially the third chapter-extremely antipathetic. I fought against this book for years; but it proved irresistible. I do not think I am boasting unfairly when I say that my personal researches have been o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…ere dim. I worshipped even; for I envied Him. So, moving upward to the azure throne, I spread my arms unto that ambient mist ; Lifted my life and soul up to be kissed ! A million million voices roared aloud ! A million million sabres flashed between ! Flamed the vast falchion! Fiery Cherubin Flung me astounded to the mist and cloud. A stone, flung downward through eternal space, I dropped. What bitter curses and despair Rang through wide aether! How the trumpet blare Cursed back at me ! Face ! Equal and Spouse? Bring forth the Virgin Dower, Ete…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…No soul still flickering in the lambent light Still shed from all the body’s excellence? No lamp unchidden of the utter night? Cannot my life be molten into thee, Or thy death fall with rosier arms on me, Or soul with soul commingle without sense, As the sun’s rays strike deep into the sea? O beauty of all teauty—central flower Of all the blossoms in the summer’s bower ! Fades not all Nature in thy fall? the sun Not darken in the miserable hour? I hate all Nature’s mockery of life. The laugh is grown a grin; the gentle strife Of birds and waves…
1939 · PDF PAGE 67
…ficial. If I go and put on somebody else's glasses I shall get another kind of blur. As the lenses of my eyes change in the course of my life, what my sight tells me is different. The point is that we are quite unable to judge what is the truth of the vision. Why then do I put on my glasses to read? Only because the particular type of illusion produced by wearing them is one which enables me to interpret a prearranged system of hieroglyphics in a particular sense which I happen to imagine I want. It tells me nothing whatever about the object of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 68
x You close on me; by God, you breed in me! My flesh corrupt is tingling with the kiss Of myriads, like the innumerable sea In waves of life that feeds its boundless bliss On the eroded earth. These are your thoughts, Your living thoughts that throng my stagnant veins! Your jackals howl among the holy courts; Your monster brood of devils in my brains T.aughs; oh! they feast on my decaying blood; They gnaw the last sweet morsel from my bones. — As on the parched-up earth there flames the flood Of the monsoon, black dust and barren stones [.eap i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…s serpent Thrice detested for unnatural breeding— Basilisk, to slay the maddened gazer. Thus the wise man, for no glory-guerdon, Hope of life or joy in earth or heaven, Works, rejecting all the flowers of promise Dew-lit that surround his path; but keepeth Steady all his will to one endeavour, Till the light, the might, the joy, the sorrow, Life and death and love and hate are broken : Work effaces work, avails the worker. Strength, speed, ardour, courage and endur- ance (Needed never more) depart for ever. All dissolves, an unsubstantial phant…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
THE MOTHER 129 And kisses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being , and his life was lost In woman's love at last ! 1 This was the love , or rather lust , of “ that filthy sorceress . We are now rapidly approaching the realms of the abnormal ; for good and evil are the toys of love as well as those of fate . The nymph and the satyr , the fair and the faulty alike are the guests of these amorous shades.2 The virility of lust is vividly illustrated in “ The Blood -Lotus " : Foam whips their reeking lips , and still the flower -witch ne…
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
…re are alternatives. Young man, well parley first. You love the Doges wife ? ALESSANDRO. So thats the thunderburst ! I love her as my life. I need not say that she is cold and virtuous. She scarce supposes me 2ND MASK. You need not lie to us. ALESSANDRO. Sir, I would lie to God. 1ST MASK. Quite right, quite right. The lad Means well. ALESSANDRO. I may be odd, but not devoutly bad. 2ND MASK. More than yourselfs at stake. Listen, my friend ; we know For Monicas sweet sake how would you overthrow The Doge ; we want to know what you propose …
1912 · PDF PAGE 23
EDITORIAL LOVE! Dear Readers, have you ever thought what a wonderful thing love is? What would life be without love? A desertl There would be no true happiness without love. And yet we must admit that love is in some ways a great danger. We must remember that many great teachers have forbidden it. What did the great Buddha say to Ananda? “ Beware of women, Anandal " " But, Lord, they are subtle of speech I " " Don’t speak to them, Anandal” “ But, Lord, suppose they speak to us ? ” “ Keep wide awake, Anandal " Think of Paul’s contemptuous permis…
1912 · PDF PAGE 23
EDITORIAL LOVE! Dear Readers, have you ever thought what a wonderful thing love is? What would life be without love? A desertl There would be no true happiness without love. And yet we must admit that love is in some ways a great danger. We must remember that many great teachers have forbidden it. What did the great Buddha say to Ananda? “ Beware of women, Anandal " " But, Lord, they are subtle of speech I " " Don’t speak to them, Anandal” “ But, Lord, suppose they speak to us ? ” “ Keep wide awake, Anandal " Think of Paul’s contemptuous permis…
1913 · PDF PAGE 122
no it should be aided in every moment of life by endeavouring to estimate occurrences at their true value. Their relativity in particular must be carefully considered. Your toothache does not hurt any one outside a very small circle. Floods in China mean to you nothing but a paragraph in the news- paper. The destruction of the world itself would have no significance in Sirius. One can hardly imagine even that the astronomers of Sirius could perceive so trifling a disturbance. Now considering that Sirius itself is only, as far as you know, but o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 319
…ber of force. It is the ternary completed by its product, the rebellious unity reconciled to the sovereign trinity. In the first fury of life, man, having forgotten his mother, no longer understood God but as an inflexible and jealous father. The sombre Saturn, armed with his parricidal scythe, set himself to devour his children. Jupiter had eyebrows which shook Olympus; Jehovah wielded thunders which deafened the solitudes of Sinai. 21
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…ossesses in a very remarkable degree the secrets of cheiromancy; by merely inspecting my hand, he told me nearly the whole history of my life.” “He is quite capable of that. But did he enter into the smallest details ?” “Sufficiently, sir, to convince me of his extraordinary power.” “Did he tell you that you were once the vicar of 144
1913 · PDF PAGE 535
…toms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one’s blood, one’s life, one’s intelligence, and one’s reason, without ever satisfying them. Axiom XII To affirm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. Axiom XIII Light’ is an electric fire put by Nature at the service of the will; it lights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it. Axiom XIV The empire of the world is the empire of the light.t Axiom XV…
1913 · PDF PAGE 319
…ber of force. It is the ternary completed by its product, the rebellious unity reconciled to the sovereign trinity. In the first fury of life, man, having forgotten his mother, no longer understood God but as an inflexible and jealous father. The sombre Saturn, armed with his parricidal scythe, set himself to devour his children. Jupiter had eyebrows which shook Olympus; Jehovah wielded thunders which deafened the solitudes of Sinai. 21
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…ossesses in a very remarkable degree the secrets of cheiromancy; by merely inspecting my hand, he told me nearly the whole history of my life.” “He is quite capable of that. But did he enter into the smallest details ?” “Sufficiently, sir, to convince me of his extraordinary power.” “Did he tell you that you were once the vicar of 144