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Page 115 of 1591929 · PDF PAGE 10
…e patriarchs lived, they all died in the end. From this he would argue that his hearers would die too; they had therefore better lose no time in making sure of heaven. But the interest of Alick was in the sound of the names themselves --- Enoch, Arphaxad, Mahaleel. He often wonders whether this curious trait was symptomatic of his subsequent attainments in poetry, or whether it indicates the attraction which the Hebrew Cabbala was to have for him later on. With regard to the question of salvation, by the way, the theory of the exclusive Plymout…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…l head. She shrieked for help, crying that she was being raped by a slave. The overseer, who had assisted often enough at a simi- lar pastime, raised his stick, and struck the offend- ing pike-staff a severe blow, causing it to droop. The laughing girl continued her blandishments un- til the offence was repeated, and the punishment. Nearer and nearer she wove her delicious dances ; again and again the cruel cane fell upon the Jack-in-the-Box of the now screaming slave : she came closer yet : with her fairy tongue she tit- illated the sensitive …
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…allay suspicion, he should choose another middy and pretend to make violent love to him. Montys jealousy said no, and only after a long time was he persuaded to agree. Katie Ambrose, the boy selected for this vicari- ous duty, was a dirty little fellow of the most vi- cious type. His favourite fancy, in public, was to [82]
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…bdue until he has annihilated both.{ God, Immortality, Freedom, are appear- ances and not realities, they are Maya and not Atman; Space, Time and Causality§ are appearances and not realities, they also are Maya and not Atman. All that is not Atman is Maya, and Maya is ignorance, and ignorance is sin. Now the philosophical fall of the Atman produces the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, God and not-God—the Uni- verse, or the power which asserts a separateness, an indi- by different names: Liber, Hercules, Mercury, are but different names of the same …
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…bdue until he has annihilated both.{ God, Immortality, Freedom, are appear- ances and not realities, they are Maya and not Atman; Space, Time and Causality§ are appearances and not realities, they also are Maya and not Atman. All that is not Atman is Maya, and Maya is ignorance, and ignorance is sin. Now the philosophical fall of the Atman produces the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, God and not-God—the Uni- verse, or the power which asserts a separateness, an indi- by different names: Liber, Hercules, Mercury, are but different names of the same …
1922 · PDF PAGE 83
…nts| The whole of the woman’s vitality was directed to some secret interior shrine of her own soul. Now she began to speak for the first time. The only subject that interested her in this wide universe was heroin. Her voice was monotonous. Lou told me later that it reminded her of a dirge droned by Tibetan monks far off across implacable snow. “It’s the only thing there is,” she said, in a tone of extraordinary ecstatic detachment. One could divine an infinite unholy joy derived from its own sadness. It was as if she took a morbid pleasure in b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 377
…to big and well produced! I said, "What does it matter? All I ask you to do is to show it and sell it." Quite useless2. I spent my spare time in the summer, for the most part, with frivolous friends in the Thames valley. I sorely needed just that sort of relaxation. My soul was badly bruised by the ruin of my romance, but I had a good time of a sort. At least, one of my friends was the most amusing person in his peculiar way that ever met. I must tell one incident, very instructive, as showing the ravages which can be wrought by strong sexualit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
…sa ! Even Greece Forget ! they are not there! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayer ! Leave the illusions, life and time And death, and seek that star sublime— Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are, And single through eternity Exists alone the Star, And utter Knowledge rise and cease In that which is beyond the Peace ! JASON. Those isles have faded : was this vision true? HERACLES, I know not what hath passed: I seem asleep Still, with the dream yet racing in my brain. THESEUS. There was a sweetness: whether s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… two eyebrows, in the place of the pineal gland. It is the seat of the Mano Tatwa, and consists of two petals. Within this lotus are sometimes placed the three mystical principles of Vindu, Nadi and Shakti.* ‘Its presiding adept is called Sukla-Mahakala (the white great time; also Adhanari— ‘ Adonai’) its presiding goddess is called Hakini.”+ 97. Within that petal, there is the eternal seed, brilliant as the autumnal moon. The wise anchorite by knowing this is never destroyed. 98. This is the great light held secret in all the Tantras; by conte…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… two eyebrows, in the place of the pineal gland. It is the seat of the Mano Tatwa, and consists of two petals. Within this lotus are sometimes placed the three mystical principles of Vindu, Nadi and Shakti.* ‘Its presiding adept is called Sukla-Mahakala (the white great time; also Adhanari— ‘ Adonai’) its presiding goddess is called Hakini.”+ 97. Within that petal, there is the eternal seed, brilliant as the autumnal moon. The wise anchorite by knowing this is never destroyed. 98. This is the great light held secret in all the Tantras; by conte…
1922 · PDF PAGE 210
… posing as an outraged husband. Lofty morality is the last refuge when one feels oneself to be hopelessly in the wrong. It was the first time I had ever known Peter play the hypocrite. His professions of propriety were simply the measure of his indignity. There was nothing for Basil to do but to go. Peter pretended to have scored a triumph. It would not have deceived anybody, but—if there had been a chance—he cut away the pulpit from under his own
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…e glared menacingly at Bevan, seemed to seek to read his soul. Are you a man to be trusted? he barked, and broke off short. At another time Bevan would most certainly have declined to become the confidant of a stranger; but here the solitude, the heat, not a little boredom induced by the previous manner of his companion, and even a cer- tain mistrust of how he might take a refusal, combined to elicit a favourable reply. Stately as an oak, Bevan answered, I was born an English gentleman, and I trust that I have never done anything to derogate…
1996 · PDF PAGE 95
… on his goal, the Sun. 10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. Commentary: As related in Equinox 1(7),1 2 I was, at the time of this revelation, a rationalistic Buddhist, very convinced of the First Noble Truth: “Everything is Sorrow.” I supposed this point of view to be an absolute and final truth—as if Apemantus were the only character in Shakespeare!3
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
…ct to death and decay.} There are two modifications of the Vajroli Mudra; namely, Amarani and Sahajoni. The first teaches how, if at the time of union there takes place a union of the sun and moon, the lunar flux can be re-absorbed by the lingam. And the second how this union may be frustrated by the practice of Yoni Mudra. These practices of Hatha Yoga if zealously maintained bring forth in the aspirant psychic powers known as the Siddhis,§ the most important of which are (1) Anima (the * On the doctrines of this Mudra many popular American se…
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
…ct to death and decay.} There are two modifications of the Vajroli Mudra; namely, Amarani and Sahajoni. The first teaches how, if at the time of union there takes place a union of the sun and moon, the lunar flux can be re-absorbed by the lingam. And the second how this union may be frustrated by the practice of Yoni Mudra. These practices of Hatha Yoga if zealously maintained bring forth in the aspirant psychic powers known as the Siddhis,§ the most important of which are (1) Anima (the * On the doctrines of this Mudra many popular American se…
1922 · PDF PAGE 215
…bottle and played with it aimlessly. In his smooth varnished voice he began to tell me what he called the romance of his life. The first time he saw me he had fallen passionately in love with me ; but he was a married man, and his sense of honour prevented his yielding to his passion. He had, of course, no love for his wife, who didn’t understand him at all. He had married her out of pity; but for all that he was bound by his sense of right feeling, and above all by realising that to give rein to his passion, God-given though it was, would mean…
1922 · PDF PAGE 306
… approach you, because you are a man of the world, and a connoisseur, and—to be frank with you—because I took a liking for you the first time I saw you, so handsome and splendid with your beautiful young ‘bride! But what, oh what, would people say if it became known that Jabez Platt had the majority of the shares in a Cocaine Factory? My dear Sir Peter, we are in England, remember!” I wasn’t deceived by any of the nauseating humbug of the scoundrel, but it was evident that his proposal was a genuine good thing. The Schneezugchemischewerke had b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
… types, but are ail distinguished by a reality and intensitv to be found nowhere else. Their inhabitants are formless, free of space and time, and distinguished by incomparable brilliance. There are also a number of sub-planes, as, for example, the Alchemical. This plane wiil often appear in the practice of uRising on the Planes” ; its images are usually those of gardens curiously kept, mountains furnished with peculiar symbols, hiero- glyphic animais, or such figures as that of the aHermetic Arcanum”, and pictures like the “Goldseekers” and th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 137
…ames (nominalism from Lat. nomen, a name) invented for convenience of grouping. This doctrine is plain commonsense, and I shall waste no time in demolishing the realists. All a priori thinking, the worst kind of thinking, goes with "realism" in this sense.
1929 · PDF PAGE 359
… birds and roast them. It must have taken me a good quarter of an hour to get it into her head that this was a serious order, and by the time the meal was served the entire village had collected to see the eccentric millionaires who spent one and fourpence on food at a stroke. Logrono will always live in my memory. The situation of the town is very impressive, with its large lazy river, almost dry at that season of the year, affording a measure of the landscape. The people were, if anything, lazier still. The entire population seemed to be spra…