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…RDITA. LIKE leaves that fall before the sullen wind At summers parting kiss and autumns call, Lost thoughts fly half-forgotten from my mind, Like leaves that fall. They shall not come again ; the wintry pall Of consciousness clouds oer them ; they shall find No rest, no hope, no tear, no funeral. Into the night, despairing, bleeding, blind, They pass, nor know their former place at all, Lost to my soul, to God, to all mankind, Like leaves that fall.
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
…s expedient that thou have travelled already in this Path of Antithesis, knowing perfectly the Answer to every Griph or Problem, and thy Mind ready there with. For by the Property of this Grass all passeth with Speed incalculable of Wit, and an Hesitation should confound thee, breaking down thy Ladder, and throwing back thy Mind to receive Im‐ pression from Environment, as at thy first Beginning. Verily, the Nature of this Method is Solu‐ tion, and the Destruction of every Complexity by Explosion of Ecstasy, as every Element thereof is fulfille…
1909 · PDF PAGE 16
…icism intact—and I keep my Samadhi intact. The one balances the other; I care nothing for the vulgar brawling of these two varlets of my mind! . Vil If, however, you would really like to know what might be said on the soldierly side of the question, I shall endeavour to oblige. It is necessary if a question is to be intelligibly put that the querent should be on the same plane as the quesited. Answer is impossible if you ask: Are round squares triangular? or Is butter virtuous? or How many ounces go to the shilling? for the “questions” are not …
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
…od on the part of an atheist ” — and so on. 3. Again Habib represents Allah ; the constant interchange is very confusing, and to Western minds a great blemish on the poem. But the chil- dish subtlety of the Eastern mind regards this as a “ veil ”, preventing the unbeliever from penetrating the allegory. 4. Q’uran CXII. Cf. Browning (Ring and Book, The Pope) for these 3 qualities. 5. Affirms the subjective value of Devotion.
1912 · PDF PAGE 98
…a seems like a trance, an experience so tremendous that one cannot think of anything bigger, while from above it seems merely a state of mind as natural as any other. Frater P., before he had Samadhi, wrote of Dhyana: “ Perhaps as a result of the intense control a nervous storm breaks: this we call Dhyana. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see.” Five years later he would not take this view. He would say perhaps that Dhyana was “ a flowing of the mind in one unbroken current from the ego to the non-ego without consciousnessof e…
1912 · PDF PAGE 89
…son- ing process, one can assume that the premisses are in some way false; but in this case, if one attacks the evidence for Dhyana, the mind is staggered by the fact that all other experience, attacked on the same lines, will fall much more easily. In whatever way we examine it the result Will always be the same. Dhyana may be false; but, if so, so is everything else. Now the mind refuses to rest in a belief of the unreality of its own experiences. It may not be what it seems; but it must be something, and if (on the whole) ordinary life is so…
1904 · PDF PAGE 114
…ld no longer write a smart article on the fiscal question. He used to growl and groan and grunt Because he could not ease a sub-editors mind when the paper was a column short and only an hour to press-time. Force so renewed his vital powers That he could keep it up for hours ; And now he wallows in a bluebook, The people call him Sunny Jim. [116]
1954 · PDF PAGE 234
STRUCTURE OF MIND 201 Accordingly, one finds oneself experiencing the thoughts, the feelings, the desires of a gorilla, a crocodile, a rat, a devil-fish, or what have you! One is no longer capable of human thoughts in the ordinary sense of the word; such would be wholly unintelligible. I leave the rest to your imagination; doesn't it sound to you a little like some of the accounts of "The Dweller on the Threshold?" Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1912 · PDF PAGE 26
…urable. New faces, new scenes will disjturb us ; even the new habits of life which we undertake for this very purpose of controlling the mind will at first tend to upset it. Still, we must give up our habit of eating too much, and follow the natural rule of only eating when we are hungry, listening to the interior voice which tells us that we have had enough. The same rule applies to sleep. We have determined to control our minds, and so our time for meditation must take precedence of other hours. We must fix times for practice, and make our feas…
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
…ionofWill toward Adonai,ashas been mycustom. I hope to-day will be more hard definite magical Work, less discourse, less beatific state of mind—which is the very devil! the real Calypso, none the less temptress because her name happens to be Penelope. Ah Lord Adonai, my Lord! Grant unto me the Perfume and the Vision; let me attain the desirable harbour; for my little ship is tossed by divers tempests, even by Euroclydon, in the Place where Four Winds meet. Therefore I shall go to rest, letting my mind rest ever in the Will toward Adonai. Let my s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 340
…ing, Rajas; Wisdom, Sattvas. Again, Ignorance corresponds to Malkuth and Nephesh (the animal soul), Learning to Tiphareth and Ruach (the mind), and Wisdom to Binah and Neshamah (the aspira- tion or Divine Mind). 24. The name of Hall the second is the Hall of LEARN- ING. Init thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled. This Hall is a very much larger region than that usually understood by the Astral World. It would certainly include all states up to Dhyana. The Student will remember that 18
1961 · PDF PAGE 159
…rds were hidden from his Understanding. For there is a Balance in all Things and the Body hath Charter to fulfil his Nature, even as the Mind hath. So to repress one Function is to destroy that Proportion which is wholesome, and wherein indeed all Health and Sanity have Consistency. Verily, it is the Art of Life to develop each Organ of Body and Mind, or, as I may say, each Weapon of the Will to its Perfection, neither distorting any Use, nor suffering the Will of one Part to tyrannize over that of another. And this Doctrine (be it accursed!) t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 109
… a crude weapon. ' The Oxygen in the air would be too fierce for life ; it must be largely diluted with the inert nitrogen. The rational mind supports life, but about seventy-nine per cent, of it not only refuses itself to enter into combination, but prevents the remaining twenty-one per cent, from doing so. Enthusiasms are checked; the intellect is the great enemy of devotion. One of the tasks of the Magician is to manage somehow to separate the Oxygen and Nitrogen in his mind, to stifle four-fifths so that he may burn up the remainder, a flam…
1919 · PDF PAGE 416
… ask thee first at thy initial step: 22. “Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes? “Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all mankind? For as the sacred River’s roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds are echoed back, so must the heart of him “who in the stream would enter,” thrill in response to every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes.” Here is another absurdity. What is the sense of asking a man at his initial step if he has complied with all the rules? If the disciple were in t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 404
… or other it never came off. Presently he said that he guessed he knew what was the matter. Although I had the whole thing perfect in my mind I had not made the link between my mind, my eye, and my hand, and what I must do was not to go to him for teaching, of which I had had already enough and more than enough. He told me if I went on trying it would happen quite suddenly and unexpectedly one day that I found I could do it. This was particularly decent of him because it was in direct contradiction with his financial interest. But he was an all…
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…ch material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Absolute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute, and of course his personality is destroyed in the process. Yet it is to be feared that such an adept too often starts on the path with the hideous idea of aggrandizing his own personality to the utmost. But his method is so near to the true one that this tendency is soon corrected, as it were automatically. (The mathematical analogue of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 70
…he Images of unapparent Natures,and inscribing the Unapparent in the Apparent frame of the World.” “There are certain Irrational Demons (mindless elementals), which derive their subsistence from the Aerial Rulers; where- fore the Oracle saith, Being the Charioteer of the Aerial, Terres- trial and Aquatic Dogs.” “The Aquatic when applied to Divine Natures signifies a Government inseparable from Water, and hence the Oracle calls the Aquatic Gods, Water Walkers.” “There are certain Water Elementals whom Orpheus calls Nereides, dwelling in the more…
1909 · PDF PAGE 70
…he Images of unapparent Natures,and inscribing the Unapparent in the Apparent frame of the World.” “There are certain Irrational Demons (mindless elementals), which derive their subsistence from the Aerial Rulers; where- fore the Oracle saith, Being the Charioteer of the Aerial, Terres- trial and Aquatic Dogs.” “The Aquatic when applied to Divine Natures signifies a Government inseparable from Water, and hence the Oracle calls the Aquatic Gods, Water Walkers.” “There are certain Water Elementals whom Orpheus calls Nereides, dwelling in the more…
1912 · PDF PAGE 72
56 the mind, so that the object is altogether forgotten, perhaps for whole minutes at a time; and at other times the object itselfwill begin to play all sorts of tricks. Suppose you have chosen a white cross. It will move its bar up and down, elongate the bar, turn the bar oblique, get its arms unequal, turn upside down, grow branches, get a crack around it or a figure upon it, change its shape altogether like an Amoeba,change its size and distance as a whole, change the degree of its illumination, and at the same time change its colour. It will…
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…ulled by the whirr of the stars ; We are fanned by the whisper, the wind ; We are locked in unbreakable bars, The love of the spirit and mind. The infinite powers Of rapture are ours ; We are one, and our kisses are kind.