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Page 141 of 1591906 · PDF PAGE 144
…hem. RuPHA. Criosda! Of one act the ultima- tion Rings through eternity past the poles of space. Choose then what spangle on the robe of time Shall glitter in thine eyes: for the hour strikes. CRIOSDA. Mother! I would see the Luck of Maurya stand Two thousand years from now. RupPHA. Good priest, bring forth The globe of crystal. Ist PRIEST. Hearing is enough. [Zhe priest takes a crystal from out the altar, and places it thereupon. RUPHA and CRIOSDA advance. RupPHA. Look ! I uplift the veil. [She unvetls the crystal,
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…hensive knowledge of the ways of the world. The result is to hinder his development, by withholding experience from him, and at the same time to punish his inexperience by making a mere mistake ruinous. The system tends to atrophy his ethical develoúment by insisting on a narrow and inelastic code, while encouraging moral cowardice and unfitting him to face the facts which so presumptuously force themselves into notice as soon as the college conventions are done with. Cambridge realizes that (within very wide limits) the more experience a man h…
1939 · PDF PAGE 45
…he apparatus which you are using; the mind must be trained very slowly. In my early days I was often satisfied with a minute or two at a time; three or four such periods twice or three times a day. In the earliest stages of all it is not necessary to have got very far with Asana, because all you can get out of the early practices is really a foreshadowing of the difficulties of doing it. 18. I began by taking a simple geometrical object in one colour, such as a yellow square. I will quote the official instructions in The Equinox. "DharanaContr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
…nse, Caught in the meshes of the cruel sense, Two kissing breaths of agony and pleasure, Mixed, crowned, divided. beyond age or measure, Time, thought, or being! Now thine eyes awake, Droop at my kisses ; the Jong lashes slake Their sleek and silky thirst in tears of light! Thine eyes! They burn me, even me! They smite Me who am scatheless, and a flame of fire. See, in our sorrow and intense desire All worlds are caught and sealed! The stars are taken In love’s weak web, and gathered up, and shaken ! Our word is mighty on the magic moon! The su…
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
…er to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. For alway doth this Arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the Not and the Arcanum. Amen,! passing, are void either on the one side or the other, and Who shall tell their ways? So our Father, having won the Serpent Crown, the Uraeus of Antient Khem, did bind it upon his head, and rejoiced in that Kingdom for the space of two hundred and thirty and one day…
1929 · PDF PAGE 431
…at the adhesion of so many prominent men of science to spiritism must be explained by psychological facts. This saved me a great deal of time. The first key that I tried fitted the lock. I noted immediately that the scientific men concerned were in some cases, though not in all, indisputably trustworthy as observers. They were capable of detecting fraud and of devising methods to exclude it. I was faced with the alternative of accepting the hypothesis of spiritism, which revolts my scientific spirit and is repudiated, by my instinct as an initi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 130
…nrest Between that knowledge self bestows And leaves of palm, and palimpsest, Scrawled sacred scrolls, whose legend goes Beyond recorded time, and founds Its age beyond all history’s bounds ; Therefore: all search for truth beyond The doubtful canon of the law, The bitter letter of the bond Given when Sinai shook with awe, They swear ; all wit that looks aslant Shamed at the shameful covenant ;! ‘Vherefore: this brooding over truth She much avers cuts short my day, Steals love and laughter from my youth, Will dye my beard in early grey. **Go fo…
1935 · PDF PAGE 15
…xamination of physical practices, there is a standardised test. In Asana, for instance, the candidate must remain motionless for a given time, his success being gauged by poising on his head a cup filled with water to the brim; if he spill one drop, he is rejected. He is tested in “the Spirit Vision” or “Astral Journeying” by giving him a symbol unknown and unintelligible to him, and he must interpret its nature by means of a vision as exactly as if he had read its name and description in the book when it was chosen. The power to make and “char…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
… the will. It is no figure of boy’s speech, Lover’s enthusiasm, rhyme Magniloquent of bard, to reach Truth through the husk of space and time: No truth is more devout than this: ‘€In you I live: I live in you.” Had Latmos not known Artemis, Where were the faint lights of that dew Of Keats? O maiden moon of mine, Imperial crescent, rise and shine ! XVI. I was a fool to hide it. Here Phantoms arise and disappear, Obedient to the master’s wand. The incense curls like a pale frond Of some grey garden glory about This room ; I take my sceptre out, M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
…tical From bearded lips must fall, Old eyes behold what young eyes ne’er beheld : Namely, the things beyond the triple veil Of space and time and cause, eternal woof Of misery overproof : And aged thoughts assail The younger hopes, and passion stands aloof, And silence takes possession, and the tale Of earth is told and done. Then from the Sire of all the Gods, from War And Love and Wisdom and the eternal Sun Worship is torn afar : While unto Thee, O Hades, turn we now, Awful of breast and brow, And hear thee in the sea, behold thee in the Star…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
…d show Eurydice again amid her bowers, Forgetting, and myself again be born, Clasp her grave beauty in the middle corn, Forgetting also: Time as fallen snow Blotting the mind and memory that adorn At least our present littleness: nor hope Of larger excellence, extended scope, Shall help me here, forgetting : nothing skills Of this poor truth—to flatter with the trope ! Wooing in mockery !--nothing skills but this To raise her now, and resuspire the kiss, United by the splendour of the will’s Success—to marry, to be made of bliss, I care not whe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
… we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the Gnosis, such as Mr Pryse unveils, yet it is clearly Aryan, dating from the time of Momu—the thinker; then again the development 01 the Kundalini—serpent fire—world’s mother, also termed rousing the Brahm—is said to be shown as issuing from the foreheads of early 165
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
… we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the Gnosis, such as Mr Pryse unveils, yet it is clearly Aryan, dating from the time of Momu—the thinker; then again the development 01 the Kundalini—serpent fire—world’s mother, also termed rousing the Brahm—is said to be shown as issuing from the foreheads of early 165
1939 · PDF PAGE 30
… that thought cannot exist without continual change; all that we have to do is to prevent change occurring. All change is conditioned by time and space and other categories; any existing object must be susceptible of description by means of a system of coordinate axes. On the terrasse of the Cafe des Deux Magots it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words 'with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.' St. Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians, the Fourth Chapter…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
… rise, but before the birth Of a new system on the unfolded lawn Of space beyond the sceptre of the Gods! I, seeing all this, would foil Time’s periods — For one small woman on this-one mear earth, Would spoil the plan of the inane Abodes, Throw out of gear all Nature’s enginery For such a grain of tinsel dust as I, Reluctant to be mangled in the wheel-— Looks other meanness so contemptibly? Yet I persist. Zeus, When Hera to thine Io did refuse Peace, and the gadfly bit like barbéd steel Those limbs with dews of love once lying loose, Thou know…
1905 · PDF PAGE 44
…the slight spray tossed from that funnel deep Which dips, one wide black shaft, most horrible, Down to the nether ITell. Yet there seems time. God’s grief has not forgotten Ilis mighty arm, and with [lis pitying breath A strong wind woke me ere my boat grew rotten With venom of the stream, that quivereth Now as He blew upon it—fish and bird Live at that silent word! And I arose to seek the oars of Lying Wherewith I had embarked—the wind had torn Their wood to splinters—‘‘ Jesus! I dying ! Send me Thy cross to fashion some un- born Oarage of Tru…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
… SONGS OF THE SPIRIT I will not turn toward Sodom any more, Lest its ripe glades of fruit waft up their scent, And draw me to them, what time heavens pour Brimstone and fire from out the firma- ment, And all my substance in its fall be spent ; Lest I lie there beneath a barren sea Forgotten of high God, until there went The final trumpet of the dead, who flee Vainly that fearful blast of judgment. is me! Woe My feet, in spite of me, in circles bend ; I meet my own tracks often, all in vain I seek some tower or cliff to make an end,! I find no o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 150
…Worship me, and praise The goodliest ruler of the world, the queen Of all the white immeasurable seas, And that vast river of our sowing-time, And of your Sun. Behold me made a god Of my own godhead, and adore the sun Of my quecn’s face, and worship ye the fount And fertile river of my life. Bow down, Ye people and ye priests, and worship me, And him co-equal. Iam very god !” So spake the Queen; but I arose and said : ‘Queen and our lord, we worship! Let the smoke Of this divinest incense be a smell Sweet to thy nostrils! For three times I cast…
1905 · PDF PAGE 165
…d whom Ihave lovea With love more tender than a mother’s love Being thy friend ; this moment have I sough Awaiting always the propitious time, To speak some purpose grown more definite Than is our wont. We spend the honey days In gentle intercourse: high souls have stood Watching us drink from their crystalline stream Meandering through language : mighty kings Have listened as we read of their dead pomp ; Fair women blushed as their imagined shapes Flitted before us in the tender page. We too have followed every curve and line In fairy fancies …
1906 · PDF PAGE 28
…the Darkness fall as lightning falls ! I watch the Ages like a torrent roll Past Me: and as a garment I shake off The clinging skirts of Time. My place is fixed In the abyss beyond all Stars and Suns. I AM, the Resurrection and the Life ! Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, the Vast and Mighty One! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light ! ORACLES HYMN TO APOLLO. Written in the Temple of Apollo. Gop of the golden face and fiery forehead ! Lord of the Lion’s house of strength, exalted …