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Page 123 of 1281904 · PDF PAGE 64
… accept this statement. She probably knows, and has no obvious reasons for misleading. 487. Sattva.66—The Buddhists, denying an Atman or Soul (an idea of changeless, eternal, knowledge, being and bliss) represent the fictitious Ego of a man (or a dog) as a tem- porary agglomeration of particles. Reincar- nation only knocks off, as it were, some of the corners of the mass, so that for several births the Ego is constant w ithin limits ; hence the possibility of the “magical memory. ” The “Sattva” is this agglomeration. See my * Paganini, a famous…
1929 · PDF PAGE 242
…erly opposed to the principles of the Book on almost every [point of morality. The third chapter seemed to me gratuitously atrocious. My soul, infinitely sad at the universal sorrow, was passionately eager to raise humanity. And lo! the Magical Formula denounced pity as damnable, acclaimed war as admirable and in almost every other way was utterly repugnant to my ideas. I did not understand the fundamental principles of {403} the initiation of mankind; and (in my own case) I did not realize that Aiwass was not necessarily responsible for the ch…
1929 · PDF PAGE 379
…f life as parts of various portentous plans prepared by people "from the other side". On August 22nd the spirit suddenly sprang up in my soul like a serpent and bade me testify to the truth that was in me in poetry. I knew London would stifle me and rushed down to Maidenhead. I spent three days in a canoe, chiefly in the reach under the wier by Boulter's Lock. .............Choose tenderly A place for thine Academy. Let there be an holy wood Of embowered solitude By the still, the rainless river, {608}
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…d,” said the Five Hundred Thousand and One Arahats in a breath, “thou art then guilty of six violent deaths ! Nay, thou hast hounded one soul from death to death through all these incarnations ! What of this First Precept2 of yours ?” “Children,” ans wered the Glorious One, “do not be so foolish as to think that death is necessarily an evil. I have not com e to found a Hundred Years Club, and to i nclude mosquitoes in the m embership. In this case to have kept Perdu’ R Abu alive was to h ave played into the hands of his enemies. My First Precep…
1929 · PDF PAGE 32
…tian premisses, the Inquisition was acting in accordance with the highest humanitarian principles in destroying a man's body to save his soul. The followers of Descartes were right to torture animals, believing them to be automata. Genuine determinists would be justified in committing any crime, since the fact of its occurrence would prove that it was unavoidable. Huxley, in Evolution and Ethics, makes out a very poor case against infanticide and race suicide. We are constantly using our judgment to preserve one section of humanity as against a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…an had the good sense to reply, {230} 1. "Present Company Always Excepted". (WE ARE NOT SO SURE). "You blasted jackass --- God damn your soul to Hell! (or words to that effect). Do anything you like with the book, but leave the title alone!" He cowed them and they complied, with the result that the book sold by hundreds of thousands. {231} 27 I sailed for Ceylon, chiefly because I had said I would go, certainly not in the hope of assistance from Allan. Perhaps because I had found my feet, he was, as will appear, allowed to guide them, in what s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
… What lesser matter its nature, rather than the phrase of a reasoner could so have stirred the placid and angelic exercising his reason. soul of Berkeley? On what he urges upon his brother? less urgent, grounds would he have agreed to the decep-| tions (harmless enough though they are) that This mysterious letter which so puzzles his biographer is in fact the key to his whole char- acter, life, and opinions. This is no place to labour the point; I have That he at one time or another achieved }at hand none of the necessary documents; but . . - .…
1944 · PDF PAGE 25
…r I; and the number 10 corresponds to Earth, which is the physical vehicle of the previous nine numbers. The names of these parts of the soul are: I, Jechidah; 2 and 3, Chiah and Neschamah; 4 to 9, Ruach; and lastly 10; Nephesch. These four planes correspond once more to the so‐called “Four Worlds”, to understand the nature of which one should refer, with all due reservations, to the Platonic system. The number I is Atziluth, the Archetypal World; but the number 2, as being the dynamic aspect of the number I, is the Practical attribution. The n…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…ed. The religion, ceasing to be a tangible thing, an object uniform for all sane eyes, becom es rather that m ist whereon the sun of the soul casts up, like Brocken spectres, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory en-compassing them. The function of the facts is then quite passive: it matters little or nothing whether the cloud be the red m ist of Christianity , or the glim - mering silver-white of Celtic Paganism ; the hard grey dim-gilded of Buddhism, the fleecy opacity of Islam, or the my sterious medi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…es have played highly important parts in his development. This baptism, by the way, though it never worried him, provided a peril to the soul of another. When his wife's conduct compelled him to insist upon her divorcing him --- a formality as meaningless as their marriage --- and she became insane shortly afterward, an eminent masochist named Colonel Gormley, R.A.M.C. (dead previously, then and since) lay in wait for her at the asylum gates to marry her. The trouble was that he included among his intellectual lacunae a devotion to the Romish s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 491
…nd hollow The rocks re-echo me: "Hilarion!" How pure and beautiful the body is Lapped in fatigue's caressing ecstasies! ....For then the soul is free to leap above it, To soar, to dive, to seek and find his mate In the dominion of the uncreate, ....And lastly --- to return to it, and love it! This was my last adventure. I returned to New York by short stages and resumed the anchorless tossing. The one new feature was my affair with Stuart X. The next act was the appearance of Ananda K. Koomaraswamy, the Eurasian critic of religion and art, with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…n Galle, and myself), (4) my unborn child, and (5) Mr. G. K. Chesterton. (He had written a long congratulatory {384} criticism of my The Soul of Osiris.) The idea of the play is to show a romantic boy and girl ambushed and ruined by male and female vampires. It is an allegory of the corrupting influence of society, and the moral is given in the final passage: I much prefer --- that is, mere I --- Solitude to society.
1929 · PDF PAGE 275
…me. I was absolutely convinced of the supreme importance of devoting my life to attaining Samadhi, conscious communion with the Immanent Soul of the Universe. I believed in mysticism. I understood perfectly the essence of its method and the import of its attainment, but I felt compelled to express myself in a satirical and (it might appear to some) almost scandalous form. I testified to the tremendous truth by piling fiction upon fiction. I did not know it. I did not suspect it, but the Bagh-i-Muattar is a symptom of supreme significance. I was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…the mind whence the adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe --- the Babe of the Abyss. {515} "Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, "Whence and in what order you have come." For three days --- the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law --- he remained in the choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon. Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. M. Why? Because --- and so o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 284
…hat a man’s last thoughts should be of triumph, peace, joy, and their like ? Scept. I have been reading that somewhat mawkish book ‘‘The Soul of a People.” Disgusted as I was by its ooze of sentiment- ality, I was yet not unobservant of its cogni- sance of this fact, and I was even pleased— though this is by the way—to see that the author recognises in-the ridiculous First Pre- cept of the Buddhist Faith, or rather in the orthodox travesty of Buddha's meaning, a mere survival of some fetichistic theophagy. Myst, Doesn’t it say somewhere that ‘*…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
… inspiration; and their caresses emancipated me from the thraldom of the body. When I left them I found myself walking upon air, with my soul free to wing its way through endless empyreans and to express its godhead in untrammelled thought of transcendent sublimity, expressed in language which combined the purest aspirations with the most majestic melodies. Poems like "the Philosopher's Progress" illustrate my unconscious, and poems like "De Profundis" my conscious reaction. But, morally and mentally, women were for me beneath contempt. They ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
…thought of Asia, may be considered as based upon and consecrated in that one word, which is his denial of the existence of the Atman or "soul" of Hindu philosophy. Later, Mohammed also partially overturned an age by uttering his word, Allah. But to us, practically, the most important case of the kind is that connected with such "gods" as Dionysus, Osiris, Baldur, Marsyas, Adonis, Jesus, and other deifications of the unknown Magus concerned. The old pagan worship of the Mother-idea was superseded by the word IAO or its equivalents, which asserte…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
…gical music, a pageant of passionate pleasure, became a cold chaos of inanity. The bells no longer sang; the sun and moon were stagnant, soulless spectres in a senseless sky --- like a ghost on the gusts of the gale. I went from miraculous Moscow into a world of inarticulate impressions. St Petersburg failed to rekindle the wonder and worship which it had awakened in me of old. The Nevski Prospekt seemed narrower, meaner; a mere street. St Isaacs no longer enthralled me. I was able to compare the Neva with the Nile, the Ganges, the Rangoon Rive…
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…d‐ ness, the forty‐two‐fold Table. This Table is connected with the forty‐two Assessors of the Dead, for they are the Accusers, whom the soul must baffle; and with the forty‐two‐fold name of God, for this is the Mystery of Inquity, that there was ever a beginning at all. And this Magus casteth forth, by the might of his four weapons, veil after veil; a thousand shining colours, rip‐ ping and tearing the Aethyr; so that it is like jagged saws, or like broken teeth in the face of a young girl, or like disruption, or madness. There is a horrible g…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
… admitted the precisely similar conclusion with regard to man, and denied the exis tence of the hum an s oul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblichus, Porphy ry, Boehme, and the my stics generally have of course substantially done so, though occa- sionally with rather inexplicable reservations, similar to those m ade in som e cases by the Vedantists themselves. Man then being disproved, God the Person disappears for ever, and becom es Atm an, Pleroma, Ain Soph, what nam e y ou will, infinite in all directions and in all c ateg…