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Page 132 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 490
…the nervous system. In our days this is called Magnetism. 4°. The secret agent of the Great Work, the Azoth of the sages, the living and life-giving gold of the philosophers, the universal metallic productive agent, is MAGNETIZED ELECTRICITY." The alliance of these two words still does not tell us much, and yet, perhaps, they contain a force sufficient to overturn the world. We say “perhaps” on philosophical grounds, for, personally, we have no doubt whatever of the high importance of this great hermetic arcanum. We have just said that alchemy …
1913 · PDF PAGE 462
…er easy- going, but it is a somnolence whose awakenings are perhaps to be dreaded. You are carried away by a passion which your state of life—— But pardon, reverend sir, I fear that I am over-stepping the boundaries of discretion.” “ Say everything, sir; I am willing to hear all, I wish to know everything.” “Oh, well! If, as I do not doubt to be the case, you turn to the profit of charity all the restless activities with which the passions of your heart furnish you, you must often be blessed for your good works.” The Abbé once more smiled that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 490
…the nervous system. In our days this is called Magnetism. 4°. The secret agent of the Great Work, the Azoth of the sages, the living and life-giving gold of the philosophers, the universal metallic productive agent, is MAGNETIZED ELECTRICITY." The alliance of these two words still does not tell us much, and yet, perhaps, they contain a force sufficient to overturn the world. We say “perhaps” on philosophical grounds, for, personally, we have no doubt whatever of the high importance of this great hermetic arcanum. We have just said that alchemy …
1954 · PDF PAGE 320
…e after the middle of next week. If you put half as much enthusiasm into what you quite rightly claim to be the most important factor in life as other old ladies do into Culbertson Contract, you might get somewhere. What you need, in the way of a Guru, is some fat, greasy
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
… of Cause and Effect in the moral and physical worlds. t The four Ashramas are (1) To live as a Brahmacharin—to spend a portion of one’s life with a Brahman teacher. (2) To live as a Grihastha—to rear a family and carry out the obligatory sacrifices. (3) To live as a Vanaprastha— 64
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
… of Cause and Effect in the moral and physical worlds. t The four Ashramas are (1) To live as a Brahmacharin—to spend a portion of one’s life with a Brahman teacher. (2) To live as a Grihastha—to rear a family and carry out the obligatory sacrifices. (3) To live as a Vanaprastha— 64
1906 · PDF PAGE 124
… MEDEA. Ay ! let us leave these folk’s ingratitude, My husband ! in thy love alone I rest. This splendour and this toil alike resume Our life from the long honeymoon of love We wish at heart.
1911 · PDF PAGE 20
…thousands of battle- cries harmonizing to a roar, like the roar of a monstrous river in flood. And all the stone is dull, dull gray. The life is gone from it. There is no more to see. Srpi Alissa, ALGERIA. November 24, 1909, 8-9 p.m. Tue Cry OF THE 26TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED DES There is a very bright pentagram: and now the stone is gone, and the whole heaven is black, and the blackness is the blackness of a mighty angel. And though he is black (his face and his wings and his robe and his armour are all black), yet is he so bright that I cann…
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…ian authors unanimously hold that, like all ‘heretics, he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. What on earth does it matter? Life, not death, reveals the soul— TRANS. 60
1913 · PDF PAGE 493
…uggler, the king, the queen, the tower, the devil or Typhon, death, and so on. The dice-indicated chances of the game represent those of life, and conceal a highly philosophical sense sufficiently profound to make sages meditate, and simple enough to be understood by children. The allegorical personage Palamedes is, however, identical with Enoch, Hermes, and Cadmus, to whom various mytho- logies have attributed the invention of letters. But, in the conception of Homer, Palamedes, the man who exposed the fraud of Ulysses and fell a victim to his…
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…ian authors unanimously hold that, like all ‘heretics, he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. What on earth does it matter? Life, not death, reveals the soul— TRANS. 60
1913 · PDF PAGE 493
…uggler, the king, the queen, the tower, the devil or Typhon, death, and so on. The dice-indicated chances of the game represent those of life, and conceal a highly philosophical sense sufficiently profound to make sages meditate, and simple enough to be understood by children. The allegorical personage Palamedes is, however, identical with Enoch, Hermes, and Cadmus, to whom various mytho- logies have attributed the invention of letters. But, in the conception of Homer, Palamedes, the man who exposed the fraud of Ulysses and fell a victim to his…
1922 · PDF PAGE 51
… and my mental sense had been thrown overboard for the moment; but my attitude was simply: “ Good- bye, Jonah!” For the first time in my life I was being absolutely myself, freed from all the inhibitions of body, intellect, and training which keep us, normally, in what we call sane courses of action. I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, “ Of course I am—sanity is a com- promise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.”’ 37
1922 · PDF PAGE 206
…ng swearing bully with his insane jealousy and his senseless brutality ! I would rather have swept out Basil’s studio for the rest of my life than be Lady Pendragon. 192
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
The left hand, lowered, holds a silver cup, from which also she pours the immortal liq‐ uor of her life. (This liquor is the Amrita of the Indian philosophers, the Nepenthe and Ambro‐ sia of the Greeks, the Alkahest and Universal Medicine of the Alchemists, the Blood of the Grail; or, rather, the nectar which is the mother of that blood. She pours it upon the junction of land and water. This water is the water of the great Sea of Binah; in the manifestation of Nuith on a lower plane, she is the Great Mother. For the Great Sea is upon the shore …
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
… half poetry. This dogma has been, and will always be, the father of all others. What is the Man-God? He who realizes, in the most human life, the most divine ideal. Faith is a divination of intelligence and of love, when these are directed by the pointings of nature and of reason. It is then of the essence of the things of faith to be inac- cessible to science, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims of hope. It is the attach- ment to the visib…
1913 · PDF PAGE 513
…e, because the principle of this medicine is the grand hypothesis of universal analogies, and, attributing all the phenomena of physical life to the universal agent, teaches that one must act upon the astral body in order to react upon the material visible body; it teaches also that the essence of the astral light is a double movement of attraction and repulsion; just as human bodies attract and repel one another, they can also absorb themselves, extend one into another, and make exchanges; the ideas or imaginations of one can influence the for…
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
… half poetry. This dogma has been, and will always be, the father of all others. What is the Man-God? He who realizes, in the most human life, the most divine ideal. Faith is a divination of intelligence and of love, when these are directed by the pointings of nature and of reason. It is then of the essence of the things of faith to be inac- cessible to science, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims of hope. It is the attach- ment to the visib…
1913 · PDF PAGE 513
…e, because the principle of this medicine is the grand hypothesis of universal analogies, and, attributing all the phenomena of physical life to the universal agent, teaches that one must act upon the astral body in order to react upon the material visible body; it teaches also that the essence of the astral light is a double movement of attraction and repulsion; just as human bodies attract and repel one another, they can also absorb themselves, extend one into another, and make exchanges; the ideas or imaginations of one can influence the for…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…he realm of pain, Time, space, to that eternal calm ? Blavatsky’s Himalayan Balm43 Aids us no whit—if to improve Thus the All-light, All-life, All-love, By evolution’s myrrh and gall, It would not then have been the All. Thus all conceptions fail and fall. But see the Cyclopædia-article On “Metaphysics”; miss no particle 310 315 320 325 330 335 340 345 Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, whose Name is Fat- ality. Futility of all investigations of the Mind into the First Cause. Faith our only alternative to Despair ? So says Mansel.