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Page 126 of 1591922 · PDF PAGE 187
…s with me about this. He thinks I’m writing rather wonderful things. But as soon as we come down to ordinary affairs, we quarrel all the time. We snap about nothing at all. The reason is evident. Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. It’s hateful to be interrupted; and it interrupts one to be asked to pass a cigarette. I wasn’t going to be bothered to go out again, so I made Mabel give me all she could spare. She promised to get some more and send it round next Sunday. ... We're not very well, either of us. It must be this dark, dirt…
1954 · PDF PAGE 180
… were preoccupied with investigating his credentials . Confidence being thus established, you inquire why he has appeared to you at this time and at this place; and the answer to this question is of course your original idea, that is to say, he is presenting to you in other terms that "mountainous Fugue" which invoked him. You listen to him with attention, make such enquiries as seem good to you, and record the proceedings. The above example is, of course, pure imagination, and
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
…4 years! Since it came out the voices of detraction have been dumb. I really do believe that I've covered the ground at last. Of course, time shewed that Part I, although it did really give the essentials of Yoga in the simplest possible language, was hardly more than an outline. More, it did not correlate Yoga with general philosophy. Eight Lectures have, I believe, remedied this. As to Part IV The Book of the Law section, the idea was that the volume should comply with the instructions given in AL, III: 39. "All this and a book to say how tho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 391
358 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS to the snows. We took off the rope, and I sat down to coil it and light a pipe, while he wandered down. By this time I was as tired as 14 dogs, each one more tired than all the rest put together; what I call "silly tired ." I took a chance (for nightfall was near) on resting 5 or 10 minutes. Restored, I sprang to my feet, threw the coiled rope over my shoulder, and started to run down. But I was too tired to run; I slackened off. Then, to my amazement, I saw on the slopes below me, two little fellows hopping playfully a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 198
… specially interesting, and do not, as in England, instantly suspect you of dishonourable advances, and get them to play up. This is sometimes easier when you are already with that friend which I was so lax as to allow you; and it is, I own, very helpful to discuss strange faces if only to make it quite clear to your own mind why you decide on one as Virgo, another as Taurus. A strange thing happened once; I had explained all this to the girl that I happened to be living with: that is, I taught her the names of the signs; she knew no Astrology,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 225
…from her. The behaviour of her dogs, and of her cat, was very curious and interesting . Strangest of all, there appeared those "kinks in Time" whi<;;h profane science is just beginning to discuss. Example: on one occasion our records of an "interview" agreed with quite extraordinary precision; but, on comparing notes, it was found that owing to some stupid miscalculation of mine, it was all over in Hong Kong some hours before I had started from Honolulu! Again, don't ask me why, or how, or anything! In the summer of 1910 e.v. I was living at 12…
1996 · PDF PAGE 96
…dible aptness, I find myself still only too ready to grumble, nay even to doubt. It seems as if I resented the whole business. There are times when I feel that the amoeba, the bourgeois, and the cow represent the abc of enviable creatures. There may be a melancholic strain in me, as one might expect in a case of venal weakness such as mine. In any event, it is surely a most overwhelming proof that Aiwaz is not myself, but my mas ter, that He could force me to write verse 9, at a time when I was both intellectually and spiritually disgusted wit…
1996 · PDF PAGE 100
…ords of the earth are our kinsfolk. Commentary: This idea is confirmed. Those who sorrow are not real people at all, not “stars”—for the time being. The fact of their being “poor and sad” proves them to be “shadows,” who “pass & are done.” The “lords of the earth” are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coro nets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one’s lordship is to know what one’s true Will is, and to do it. 19. Is a God to li…
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
… whoso will carry them through intelligently need not fear the result. I have all the health, and treasure, and logic, I need; I have no time to waste. ‘‘ There is a lion in the way,” For me these practices are useless ; but for the benefit of others less fortunate I give them to the world, together with this explanation of, and apology for, them. I trust that the explanation will enable many students who have hitherto, by a puerile objectivity in their view of the question, obtained no results, to succeed; that the apology may impress upon our…
1907 · PDF PAGE 142
…d, the mani- fold shape of the storm ! THE TEMPEST. Wide-winged, many-throated, Colossal, sublime, I come and am coated With feathers of Time. I hear the deep note, head My pinions to climb, The roar of devoted Large limbs of the mime That mocks the loud lords of Olympus; we mingle; I wake. I come with the sound of a snake. ORIPHEUS, O storm many-winded, O life of the air, Thou angry and blinded Hast sky for thy share. O mother deep-minded, My lyre to my prayer Responds, and the elements answer or ever| my soul is aware. Ye powers of deep water…
1922 · PDF PAGE 205
…s a sort of sporting proposition that you should see how long you can manage to keep off it. But I trust you to make a note of the exact time when you decide on a sniff, and I trust you to tell me the truth. Get it out of your mind once for all that I disapprove of your taking it. It’s entirely your business, not mine. But it’s every one’s business to be true to himself; and you must regard me as a mere convenience, an old hand at the game whose experience may be of use to you in training for the fight.” I hurried home a different woman. I didn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…going to say. You can reverse it again. That is precisely the idea. You keep on reversing it; and it gets funnier and more serious every time, and it spins faster and faster until you cannot follow it, and your brain begins to whirl, and presently you become That Spiral Force which is of the Quintessence of the Absolute. So it is all a simple and easy method of attaining the summit of perfections, the stone of the Wise, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness." "Listening to you," reflected Brother Onofrio, with a whisk of the rapier, "produces somet…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
… this System admirable, and obtain great satisfaction from its use. Once more, the personal équation must be allowed full weight. At one time the Master Therion employed it exten- sivelyj but He was never wholly at ease with it 5 He found the 1. Nearly ail professional astrologers are ignorant of their own sub- ject, as of ail others. 158 -
1909 · PDF PAGE 281
…mantic figure.§ The Hierophant now confers upon the Theoricus the title of Lord of the Thirteenth Path, who quits the Temple for a short time. By means of the symbol of the Stolistes—the chalice of Lustral Water—the Theoricus 7kg} * See 777, col. clxxvii., p. 35. + See 777, col. xiv., p. 4. T See 777, col. lxxx., p. 18. § See ‘‘ Handbook of Geomancy,” THe Equinox, vol. i., No, II. II s 273
1909 · PDF PAGE 281
…mantic figure.§ The Hierophant now confers upon the Theoricus the title of Lord of the Thirteenth Path, who quits the Temple for a short time. By means of the symbol of the Stolistes—the chalice of Lustral Water—the Theoricus 7kg} * See 777, col. clxxvii., p. 35. + See 777, col. xiv., p. 4. T See 777, col. lxxx., p. 18. § See ‘‘ Handbook of Geomancy,” THe Equinox, vol. i., No, II. II s 273
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
… What would you say? VOL. III. 33 ANGELA. What would I not do? Listen, I am Angela, Lady Baird. I am rich. That wealth now for the first time yields me some pleasure. The moon rises late, after ten o’clock: you shall come with me. We are—neigh- bours, are we not? You shall come to my castle, I say; there I will prepare all for you and your young bride: my chaplain shall marry you at midnight ; my name and power shall shield you from all mischance. SIR PERCY. I am my own master. ANGELA. You think so? They have kept it from you, but you have a gu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…tion of two noses seems to be the falling back of the eyes to parallel. Everything vanishes. Dharana. Ditto. There are two noses all the time. The delusion is that you think your right eye is seeing your left nose! Pranay4ma 7 minutes 5. 10. 20; 6 minutes 10. 20, 30, Dharana on nose 9 minutes 50 seconds. I actually lost the nose on one occasion, and could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…tion of two noses seems to be the falling back of the eyes to parallel. Everything vanishes. Dharana. Ditto. There are two noses all the time. The delusion is that you think your right eye is seeing your left nose! Pranay4ma 7 minutes 5. 10. 20; 6 minutes 10. 20, 30, Dharana on nose 9 minutes 50 seconds. I actually lost the nose on one occasion, and could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
…er ideas until he becomes one with the Universe itself, and even with That which is beyond the Universe. To him there is no more Death ; time and space are annihilated ; nothing is, save the intense rapture that knows no change for ever. Then what of the body ? The body of such an one continues subject to the laws of its own plane. Yet his friends find him calmer, happier, healthier, his eyes bright and his skin clear even when he is old. But he has this, which they have not, the power of slipping instantly out of this changeful consciousness i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 163
…tore the lost Balance. Attempts to suppress it are fatal, to sublime it are false and futile. But, guided wisely from the start , by the time it becomes strong it has learnt how to use its virtues to the best advantage. And what of the parallel instinct in a woman? Except in (rather rare) cases of congenital disease or deformity, the problem is never so acute. For Binah, even while she winks at Chokmah, has the other eye wide-open, swivelled on Tiphareth. Her True Will is thus divided by Nature from the start, and her tragedy is if she fails to…