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…Self is surpassed by self - annihilation ; The nearer nothing , so much more divine . Who is as though he were not - ne'er had been That man , oh joy ! is made God absolute .
…ready for illumination, if only because I am so perfectly dark. Yet my power to create magical images is still with me. ' I 1.40— Hanged Man posture. Will invoke Adonai once more 12.0. by pure thought Got into a very curious state indeed ; part of me being quite perfectly asleep, and part quite perfectly awake. . Have slept, and that soundly, though with many dreams. Awaking with the utmost horror and loath- ing of the Path of the VVise—it seemed somehow like a vast dragon—demon with bronze green wings irides- cent that rose up startled and ang…
3-45- -3.55 י356 4,10. 4.25. 5.30. 550. JOHN ST. JOHN [The “Akasic Egg” is the sphere of the personality of man. A theosophic term—Eu] N.B.-—Mantras might with advantage be palindromes. I try to construct a magic square from the mantra. No good. But the mantra is going much better, quite mechanically and “without attachment ” (la, without conscious ulterior design. “Art for Art’s sake ” as it were). I drink a “Citron pressé.” Alas! here comes Maryt (with a sad tale of X. It appears that she fainted and spent some hours at the hospital. I should…
…s a third to these He added Holy Love, the venerable Charioteer uniting all things.” “Filling the Soul with profound Love.” “The Soul of man does in a manner clasp God to herself. Having nothing mortal, she is wholly inebriated with God. For she glorieth in the harmony under which the mortal body sub- sisteth.” “ As rays of Light his locks flow forth, ending in acute points. ZOROASTER, ” Vedana.—Pertaining to Sensation we may first notice in the beginner’s concentrating mind the class of distracting thoughts which refer to the emotions. The tak…
…tent door. ‘“ Walk up! Walk up! and see the marvellous mermaid! Only four sous !” It was at the Gingerbread Fair of Neuilly, and the showman was a squat little fellow, ridiculously like the gingerbread figures which his neighbour was selling, and from which the Fair derives its name. I admit I did not expect to see a mermaid, but I was tired of peep-shows and waxworks and fasting men, and there was something so incongruous in the idea of a mermaid, even an imaginary one, being exhibited in this rickety booth, by the light of a naphtha lamp, tha…
…s a third to these He added Holy Love, the venerable Charioteer uniting all things.” “Filling the Soul with profound Love.” “The Soul of man does in a manner clasp God to herself. Having nothing mortal, she is wholly inebriated with God. For she glorieth in the harmony under which the mortal body sub- sisteth.” “ As rays of Light his locks flow forth, ending in acute points. ZOROASTER, ” Vedana.—Pertaining to Sensation we may first notice in the beginner’s concentrating mind the class of distracting thoughts which refer to the emotions. The tak…
…tent door. ‘“ Walk up! Walk up! and see the marvellous mermaid! Only four sous !” It was at the Gingerbread Fair of Neuilly, and the showman was a squat little fellow, ridiculously like the gingerbread figures which his neighbour was selling, and from which the Fair derives its name. I admit I did not expect to see a mermaid, but I was tired of peep-shows and waxworks and fasting men, and there was something so incongruous in the idea of a mermaid, even an imaginary one, being exhibited in this rickety booth, by the light of a naphtha lamp, tha…
THE SCORPION LAYLAH. Sliman is strong and brave — my splendid boy. FATMA. Ay, there are hairs on his chin. But the strongest and the bravest fall first, LAYLAH. Thou ominous owl I Be silent, or I will have thee whipped. FATMA. Oh! Oh ! indeed Ι only say what we all know. If he should die indeed, thou mayst have Sidi Omar left, thy dear lord. And Othman, and Akbar, and Mohammedl LAYLAH. Sliman is my first-born. FATMA. Ay, he is not like his brothers. He is square and solid-set. He is more like the cedar than the palm. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar's mother wa…
THE SCORPION LAYLAH. Sliman is strong and brave — my splendid boy. FATMA. Ay, there are hairs on his chin. But the strongest and the bravest fall first, LAYLAH. Thou ominous owl I Be silent, or I will have thee whipped. FATMA. Oh! Oh ! indeed Ι only say what we all know. If he should die indeed, thou mayst have Sidi Omar left, thy dear lord. And Othman, and Akbar, and Mohammedl LAYLAH. Sliman is my first-born. FATMA. Ay, he is not like his brothers. He is square and solid-set. He is more like the cedar than the palm. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar's mother wa…
18 enabled to persist through the usual persecution, and founded a religion to which even to—day one man in every eight belongs. The history of Christianity shows precisely the same remarkable fact. Jesus Christ was brought up on the fables of the “ Old Testament,” and so was compelled to ascribe his experiences to “Jehovah,” although his gentle spirit could have had nothing in common with the monster who was always commanding the rape of virgins and the murder of little children, and whose rites were then, and still are, celebrated by human sa…
…city is such that the beginner is likely to wonder what all the fuss is about, perhaps to think that he is specially gifted. Similarly a man who has never touched a golf club will take his umbrella and carelessly hole a putt which would frighten the best putter alive. In a few days, however, in all cases, the discomforts will begin. As you go on, they will begin earlier in the course of the hour’s exercise. The disinclination to practise at all may become almost unconquerable. One must warn the student against imagining that some other position…
…ery secret process of Initiation. Lrper II. THe MEssace of THE MASTER THERION. It ex- plains the essence of the New Law in a very simple manner. Lrper DCCCXXXVII. THe Law or Liperty. This isa further explanation of the Book of the Law in reference to certain ethical problems. Lrper DCXXIII. Dre TuHaumaturcia. A statement of certain ethical considerations concerning Magick. Liser LXXIII. Tue Urn. This is the sequel to the Temple of Solomon the King, and is the Diary of a Magus. This book contains a detailed account of all the experiences passed …
…t that time I was a hard-shell Buddhist, sent out a New Year's Card "wishing you a speedy termination of existence!" And this as a young man, with the world at my feet. It only goes to show ... ) Vv. 19,20: Is a God to live in a dog? No; but the highest are of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. This chapter returns over and over again to this theme in one form or another. 1. "Peace": the glow of satisfaction at achievement. It is not "eternal," rather, it whets the appetite for another ad…
… sense isolation is eternally perfect and can never be overcome,! in another sense associates are possible and desirable. One third of humanity are Buddhists ; add men of Science and we form an absolute majority; among Buddhists a very large proportion have deliberately gone out from social life of any kind to tread these paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to come ? Others are work- ing, failing, struggling, crowned here and there with rare garlands of success. Success for ourselves, success for others…
…h Ignis Fatuus that he so readily pursues, reminds me of my own delusions. But, these follies and delusions being the common property of mankind, I have thought them of sufficient interest, dramatic and philosophical, to form the basis of a poem. Let no man dare to reproach me with posing as the hero of my tale. I fall back on the last utterance of Tannhauser himself " I say, then, ' I ' : and yet it is not ' I ' Distinct, but ' I ' incorporate in All." Above all, pray understand that I do not pose as a teacher. I am but an asker of questions, …
…o words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn , whose music knelled The empire of God's universe. And on my haggard face upturned She spat ! Ah God ! how my cheek burned ! Then as a man betrayed , and doomed Already , I arose and went , And wrestled with myself, consumed With passio…
… THE ANGEL OF VENICE 5 LORENZO. She is the one bright star on Adriatic foam. ALESSANDRO. She wrecks the stalwart spar, but floats the seaman home. LORENZO. She is the rainbow shown in Venice cloudy sky. ALESSANDRO. She is the juicy bone for angels to suck dry. LORENZO. She is the compass, she is the loadstone of the State. ALESSANDRO. She is the one-two-three when Hebrews Cal- culate. LORENZO. She is the serene saint whose prayers are pure perfume. The soul without attaint, the bud, the beeless bloom ! LUCREZIA. Indeed, you are too sharp, dear…
…the secret dances of the night, In the mystic windings of the mossy ways Of eld! Oh! let the silence break, break, break At the birth of man from out the universe ! Hail to the Lord of the Sun, and the Sacred Rose! Master of space and time, thou subject god !|— Master of space and time! From the Underworld I speed upon the Way! Ho! Jupiter! Iam Mercury, the little light-heeled god, The summoner of the stars at choiring-time, When they sing thine earth, thine earth, thy sun-child. Yea! From out the deep is sung the song of joy, And the branches …
…o the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants of fear, and those who begrudge that man should hope, and the Pharisees of all the synagogues and of all the churches, are those who receive the reproofs and the curses of the Father. Was not the Christ excommunicated and crucified by the synagogue? Was not Savonarola burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the Christian religion ? Are not the Pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of Caiaphas? If any one speaks to them in the n…
…the secret dances of the night, In the mystic windings of the mossy ways Of eld! Oh! let the silence break, break, break At the birth of man from out the universe ! Hail to the Lord of the Sun, and the Sacred Rose! Master of space and time, thou subject god !|— Master of space and time! From the Underworld I speed upon the Way! Ho! Jupiter! Iam Mercury, the little light-heeled god, The summoner of the stars at choiring-time, When they sing thine earth, thine earth, thy sun-child. Yea! From out the deep is sung the song of joy, And the branches …