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Page 122 of 1971911 · PDF PAGE 10
THE EQUINOX He spake: It is finished! My mother hath unveiled herself! My sister hath violated herself! The life of things hath disclosed its Mystery. The work of the Moon is done! Motion is ended for ever! Clipped are the eagle’s wings: but my Shoulders have not lost their strength. I heard a Great Voice from above crying: Thou liest! For the Volatile hath indeed fixed itself; but it hath arisen above thy sight. The World is desert: but the Abodes of the House of my Father are peopled; and His Throne is crusted over with white Brilliant Stars,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 82
…are all situated in the spinal column, which has three channels, Sushumna in the middle, Ida and Pingala on either side {cf. the Tree of Life). The central channel is compressed at the base by Kundalini, the magical power, a sleeping serpent. Awake her: she darts up the spine, and the Prana flows through the Sushumna. See "Raja- Yoga" for more details.
1913 · PDF PAGE 326
…nknown Father a look of confidence and of love; let us accept with faith and resignation the part which He assigns to us in the toils of life, and every throb of our hearts will be a word of prayer! Have we need to inform God of what we ask from Him? Does not He know what is necessary for us? If we weep, let us offer Him our tears; if we rejoice, let us turn towards Him our smile; if He smite us, let us bow the head; if He caress us, let us sleep within His arms! Our prayer will be perfect, when we pray without knowing whom we pray. Prayer is n…
1913 · PDF PAGE 326
…nknown Father a look of confidence and of love; let us accept with faith and resignation the part which He assigns to us in the toils of life, and every throb of our hearts will be a word of prayer! Have we need to inform God of what we ask from Him? Does not He know what is necessary for us? If we weep, let us offer Him our tears; if we rejoice, let us turn towards Him our smile; if He smite us, let us bow the head; if He caress us, let us sleep within His arms! Our prayer will be perfect, when we pray without knowing whom we pray. Prayer is n…
1922 · PDF PAGE 362
…lly a bit queer, and half the time I don’t know what you are driving at. Can’t you put it in plain English?” — “With all the pleasure in life,” he returned. ‘‘ Just look at the facts for a moment. Fact one: Your 348
1929 · PDF PAGE 572
…e of which, escaping from the proctors, he had taken a leap in the dark and landed on a spike which transfixed his thigh. He lay between life and death for some months and was still weak from the effects of the loss of blood. Even worse, perceiving the splendour of his soul, he refused to be daunted by its sheath, which led him to commit the fatal folly of marrying a girl whom he had met in a sordid and filthy drinking den in Soho, called the Harlequin, which was frequented by self-styled artists and their female parasites. One of these went by…
1909 · PDF PAGE 129
…poire, £2- Evian, and the three Cs. Was meditating on asceticism. John Tweed once told me that Swami Vivekananda, towards the end of his life, wrote a most pathetic letter deploring that his sanctity forbade his “ going on the bust.” What a farce is such sanctity! How much wiser for the man to behave as a man, the God as a God ! This is my real bed-rock objection to the Eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous , and wicked; and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai ; for all stain i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
…th Fate. Man answers : Love is stronger, work more sure, Glory more fadeless than her shafts abate. Though all worlds fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darken, she hath not her will Of deeds beyond recall, that shall endure : For us, these three divinest glasses fill, Fill to the brim with lustrous dew, nor fail To leave the blossom and the nightingale, Loves earlier kiss, and manhoods glowing prime ! Let these suffice. Shall man or Fate prevail ? Low, we are blind, and dubious fingers grope In Despairs dungeon for the key of Ho…
1913 · PDF PAGE 23
…ost Illustrious Bro. John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite, departed this earthly life and was called to the Grand East on March 2oth, 1913, E.V., and that a Convocation of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the said Rite on June goth, 1913, E.V. held in London, unanimously elected the Very Illustrious Bro. Henry Meyer, 33°, 90°, 96°, henceforth to be Sovereign Grand Master General in and for Great Britain and Ireland. With fraternal greetings, Yours in the Bonds of the Order, Leon Enge…
1913 · PDF PAGE 346
…awn from free exchange, turned from common use. If such were his thought, he might go further, and say that such a suppression of public life is indeed assassination. It is the crime of monopoly, which public instinct has always looked upon as treason to the human race. The family is a natural society which results from marriage. Marriage is the union of two beings joined by love, who promise each other mutual devotion in the interest of the children who may be born. Married persons who have a child, and who separate, are impious. Do they then …
1913 · PDF PAGE 23
…ost Illustrious Bro. John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite, departed this earthly life and was called to the Grand East on March 2oth, 1913, E.V., and that a Convocation of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the said Rite on June goth, 1913, E.V. held in London, unanimously elected the Very Illustrious Bro. Henry Meyer, 33°, 90°, 96°, henceforth to be Sovereign Grand Master General in and for Great Britain and Ireland. With fraternal greetings, Yours in the Bonds of the Order, Leon Enge…
1913 · PDF PAGE 346
…awn from free exchange, turned from common use. If such were his thought, he might go further, and say that such a suppression of public life is indeed assassination. It is the crime of monopoly, which public instinct has always looked upon as treason to the human race. The family is a natural society which results from marriage. Marriage is the union of two beings joined by love, who promise each other mutual devotion in the interest of the children who may be born. Married persons who have a child, and who separate, are impious. Do they then …
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
… that all painful or depressing emotions seem to lengthen time; pleasant thoughts and exalted moods make time fly. Thus, in summing up a life from an outside standpoint, it would seem that, supposing pleasure and pain to have occupied equal periods, the impression would be that pain was enormously greater than pleasure. This may be controverted. Virgil writes: Fortisan haec olim memi- nisse juvabit, and there is at least one modern writer thoroughly conversant with pessimism who is very opti- mistic. But the new facts which I here submit over…
1929 · PDF PAGE 455
…hom alone we can approach Kether. The caduceus contains a complete symbol of the Gnosis; the winged sun or phallus represents the joy of life on all planes from the lowest to the highest. The Serpents, besides being active and passive, Horus and Osiris, and all their other well-known attributions are those qualities of Eagle and Lion respectively, of which we know but do not speak. It is the symbol which unites the Microcosm and the Macrocosm, the symbol of the Magical Operation which accomplishes this. The caduceus is the universal solvent. It…
1907 · PDF PAGE 244
…al Absolute , which , whether object or sub ject , was in no case existence , merely the skeleton of some phantom appearance , having no life in itself , but solely in the absolute mirror of its reflection . Each of these Titans , in his own manner , threw fresh fuel on to the Berkeleyan conflagration , so hoping that , by piling up the blazing mass , they might illumine the entire universe . And how they failed the last five decades have only too directly shown , by their stag nation in the realms of a certain and unknowable Absolute ; and in …
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…er there is but one light. Hail unto thee who knowest not thy right nostril from thy left; for in the aeon of my Father there is neither life nor death. Hail unto thee who knowest not thy right ear from thy left; for in the aeon of my Father there is neither sound nor silence. Whoso hath power to break open this sapphire stone shall find therein four elephants having tusks of mother-of-pearl, and upon whose backs are castles, those castles which ye call the watch-towers of the Universe. Let me dwell in peace within the breast of the Angel that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 516
…it magnetizes the worlds, is called astral light; when it forms the metals, one calls it azoth, or philosophical mercury ; when it gives life to animals, it should be called animal magnetism. The brute is subject to the fatalities of this light; man is able to direct it. It is the intelligence which, by adapting the sign to the thought, creates forms and images. The universal light is like the divine imagination, and this world, which changes ceaselessly, yet ever remaining the same with regard to the laws of its configuration, is the vast drea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 516
…it magnetizes the worlds, is called astral light; when it forms the metals, one calls it azoth, or philosophical mercury ; when it gives life to animals, it should be called animal magnetism. The brute is subject to the fatalities of this light; man is able to direct it. It is the intelligence which, by adapting the sign to the thought, creates forms and images. The universal light is like the divine imagination, and this world, which changes ceaselessly, yet ever remaining the same with regard to the laws of its configuration, is the vast drea…
1919 · PDF PAGE 234
…ion, and in all ways fit themselves for advancement. 50. Brethren of advanced years and known merit who de- sire to follow the religious life may be asked to reside per- manently in such houses. 51. In the higher degrees Brethren have the right to reside in our Profess-Houses for a portion of every year, as shown:— VI°. Two weeks. VII°. Two months. G.T. One month. S.G.C. Three months. P.R.S. Six weeks. VIII’. Six months. 52. Members of the IX°, who share among themselves the whole property of the Order according to the rules of that degree, may…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…stiny is thus to abdicate our sovereignty, and to invoke death. Indeed, we hâve decreed the doom of death for every breach of the law of life. And every failure to incorporate any impression starves the particular faculty which stood in need of it. This Section B invokes Air in the East, with a shaft of golden glory. The adept now invokes Fire in the South; flamc red are the rays that burst from his Verendum. He invokes Water in the West, his Wand billowing forth blue radiance. He goes to the North to invoke Earth; flowers of green flame flash …