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Page 123 of 1541922 · PDF PAGE 368
…accustomed to the gloom, but I could see the figure scramble to its feet, curtesy, and advance to me, where I stood in the shaft of sun- light that came through the half-open doorway. It was dressed in a knickerbocker suit of black silk. It wore sandals and black stockings. I recognised Lou. “ Big Lion said you might want to begin work this afternoon, Sir Peter,” she said with dignity, ‘‘so I have been trying to put the place in some sort of order.” I stood absolutely aghast. It was Lou, but a Lou that I had never seen or known. I turned to Kin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 140
…e you freed Sanna (perception) from the taint of Vedana (sensation) but raised it (or demolished it, if you prefer to look at it in that light!) to be merely a member of the Sankhara (tendency) class, thus boosting you vigorously to the fourth stage, the last before the last! of the practice of Mahasatipathana . Just one more word about the element of Vedana. The Intellect is a purely mechanical contrivance, as accurate and as careless of what it turns out as a Cash Register. It receives impressions, calculates, states the result: that is A dou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 461
…ll Truth, Beauty , Purity, Perfection! What is the artistic sense in you? What but the One Channel always open to you through which this Light flows freely to enkindle you (and the world through you) with flowers of inexhaustible fervour and flame?
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
… we must judge it rather by its present state. The Sword of Song. 10s. The “ Sword of Song ” is a masterpiece of learning and satire. In light and quaint or graceful verse all philosophical systems are discussed and dismissed, all religions in turn are condemned or laughed out of court, from Mohammedanism to Christian Science, and the great Agnostic conclusion stated and proved. The second part of the book, written in prose, deals with possible means of research, so that we may progress from the unsatisfactory state of a sceptic to a real knowl…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…n holy bard; Apollonius TyanaeuSy Simon Magus, Mânes, Pythagorasy Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytusy that transmitted the light of the Gnosis to us their succès sors and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen, and these alsoy Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William of Schyren, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger Bacon, Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the Martyr, Christian Rosen- creutZy Ulrich von Hutten, P…
1929 · PDF PAGE 320
…of my sleep. He has followed me ever, wishing me to follow his cult. When P. took wand, he grows brilliant and breaks up into a formless light; yet she feels him as an enemy. He seems entangled in a mesh of light and to be trying to escape. I warn him that if he goes away, he cannot return. (F. in herself is hostile) "Return to Egypt, with different surroundings. (This misheard: he said same.) There I will give thee signs. Go with the S. W. (Ouarda), this is essential: thus you shall get real power, that of God, the only one worth having. Illum…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
… T.A.R.O. Then you remember I.N.R.l. was on the ring too. I.N.R.I. is short for L.V.X., which means the brilliance of the wide wide-wake Light, and that too is the name of my Fairy Prince only spelt short. The Romans said it had sixty-five parts, which is five times thirteen, Gladium, quad omnibus viis custodet portas Otz Chiim Nomen 817111 N omen ADNl
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…ulate before you in white flashing brilliance the eight letters thus: x (5) Attach yourself to your Kether and imagine you see a 7 white light there. YONTIITN (6) Having thus formulated the letters, take a deep breath h and pronounce the name slowly making the letters flash. x (7) Invoke the Telesmatic image. Let it fill the Universe. 5 (8) Then whilst once again vibrating the Name absorb it y into yourself; and then will your aura radiate with whiteness. You should obtain your Divine White Brilliance before formulating the Image. There are two…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…ulate before you in white flashing brilliance the eight letters thus: x (5) Attach yourself to your Kether and imagine you see a 7 white light there. YONTIITN (6) Having thus formulated the letters, take a deep breath h and pronounce the name slowly making the letters flash. x (7) Invoke the Telesmatic image. Let it fill the Universe. 5 (8) Then whilst once again vibrating the Name absorb it y into yourself; and then will your aura radiate with whiteness. You should obtain your Divine White Brilliance before formulating the Image. There are two…
1922 · PDF PAGE 330
…ically shaped and coloured, reached thence to the very hillside on which we were sitting. In front the ocean reached to the horizon. The light played upon its waves like some mysterious melody of Debussy’s. It varied in hue from the most delicate canary yellow and glaucous green through infinite changing shades of peacockry to lilacs and deep purples. Ever-changing patches of colour wandered about the surface in kaleidoscopic fantasy. A little to the right again, the limitless prospect of water was cut off by a precipitous cliff crowned by the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 272
…, from ghosts and witches to mysterious medicines. {447} The next day the maharajah returned. I found him an extremely interesting and delightful companion. One could hardly expect less from the direct descendant of a peacock. I am sorry to say that he did not take his ancestry seriously. He had exchanged his illusions for another set far less fascinating, far less inspiring and equally absurd. He believed in Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill. One of his stories is extremely instructive. If it were graven upon the eye-corners, it would be a …
1922 · PDF PAGE 317
… closed, and then curled itself into a smile of exquisite happiness. The sombre fire of lust died out of her eyes. They kindled with the light of under- standing.
1954 · PDF PAGE 53
…e aim only: yet on no account must you want to achieve it!!! Those chapters of The Book of Lies quoted in my last letter 4 do throw some light onto this Abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the Will with a capital W, and desire, want, or velleity. The main point seems to be that in aspiring to Power one is limited by the True Will. If you use force, violating your own nature either from lack of understanding or from petulant whim, one is merely wasting energy; things go back to normal as soon a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
…t so stupendous, that I was struck into shuddering silence for I know not how long before I could bring myself to switch on the electric light and snatch my notebook. At the first trial the solution sprang like sunlight in my spirit. I remained all that night in an ecstasy of awe and adoration. I had discovered the lost Word! The obvious line of criticism is this: How can you be sure that the Word which you have discovered is really the lost Word after all? This may be made clear by an illustration. On the apron of the 18° I find HB:Heh HB:Resh…
1996 · PDF PAGE 122
…ou cannot mistake it for an Old Maid objecting to Everything. This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity. Observe that we must “rise up” before we “awake!” Aspira tion to the Higher is a dream—a wish-fulfilment which remains a phantasm to wheedle us away from seeking reality—unless we follow it up by action. Only then do we become fully aware of ourselves, and enter into right reaction with the world in which we live. 35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!…
1996 · PDF PAGE 156
…not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! Commentary: An end to the humanitarian mawkishness which is destroying the human race by the deliberate artificial protection of the unfit. What has been the net result of our fine “Christian” phrases? In the good old days there was some sort of natural selection; brai…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… 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 contemplating on this, one obtains the greatest psychic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.{| By contemplating on this the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§ The Sushumna following the spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of B…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… 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 contemplating on this, one obtains the greatest psychic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.{| By contemplating on this the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§ The Sushumna following the spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 312
…imself which pleases him. He knows perfectly well that each colour is in itself imperfect, a partial presentation of the general idea of light. The "Attainment of Unity" would be, theoretically, to mix up all the paints and produce a surface without colour, form or meaning; yet those philosophers who insist on symbolizing God by Unity reduce Him to a nonentity. The more logical of these, indeed, carry their thesis a little further and describe the Deity as "without quantity or quality". Even the Prayer Book describes Him as "without body, parts…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…nd. You open your eyes, and find that it is night . Dark clouds are on the horizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. This light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world . In the midst looms a cluster of blue-black crags. Now there appears from their recesses a gigantic being. His strength, especially in his hands and in his loins, is terrifying. He suggests a combination of lion, mountain goat and serpent; …