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Page 142 of 2251909 · PDF PAGE 68
… or worse than I was on the day which I have called the day of Apophis (third day). The only thing to my credit is the way I’ve kept the mantra going. One thing at least is good; if anything does come of this great magical retirement—which I am beginning to doubt—it will not be mixed up with any other enthusiasm, poetic, venereal, or bacchanalian. It will be purely mystici But as it has not happened yet—- and just at present it seems incredible that it should happen—I think we may change the subject. . . . . What a fool I am, by the way! Isay t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 202
…mieux sauter is all very well, dont you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. Thats the point, father. If you accept a man the first time he asks you its practically bigamy ! OSSORY. Butlittle girl, you ought to accept him at once. He will make you an excellent husbandI wish it. [Pompously.] It has ever been the desire of my heart to see my Phemie happily mated before I lay my old bones in the grave. EUPHEMIA. But I dont love him. Hes a quirk. OSSORY. Tut ! Nonsense ! Appetite comes with eating. EUPHEMIA. But I dont care…
1911 · PDF PAGE 109
…t merciful provision of our just and merciful law that none be condemned without confession. Let the urge you to make peace with God and man. LAYLAH. Peace, peace! when there is no peace, BISHOP. There spoke a lost soul. Confess, my dear daughter. Break the bonds of Satan at the last. LAYI.AH [draining a! her handmfls]. They hold fast. BISHOP. We are not moved by insult from our most merciful purpose, Summon the executioners. [A CLERK goes with the order. ΕΜ!” toi/iurem with their implements. Also a Physician. LAYLAH. Your steel against my will.…
1911 · PDF PAGE 109
…t merciful provision of our just and merciful law that none be condemned without confession. Let the urge you to make peace with God and man. LAYLAH. Peace, peace! when there is no peace, BISHOP. There spoke a lost soul. Confess, my dear daughter. Break the bonds of Satan at the last. LAYI.AH [draining a! her handmfls]. They hold fast. BISHOP. We are not moved by insult from our most merciful purpose, Summon the executioners. [A CLERK goes with the order. ΕΜ!” toi/iurem with their implements. Also a Physician. LAYLAH. Your steel against my will.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 572
…phur on your tongue, he fills your nostrils with an abominable stench, he shows you frightful tortures, and makes you hear groans superhuman in their agony; he commands your will to create all that by exercises obstinately persevered in. Every one carries this out in his own fashion, but always in the way best suited to impress him. It is not the hashish intoxication which was useful to the knavery of the Old Man of the Mountain; it is a dream without sleep, an hallucination without madness, a reasoned and willed vision, a real creation of inte…
1913 · PDF PAGE 572
…phur on your tongue, he fills your nostrils with an abominable stench, he shows you frightful tortures, and makes you hear groans superhuman in their agony; he commands your will to create all that by exercises obstinately persevered in. Every one carries this out in his own fashion, but always in the way best suited to impress him. It is not the hashish intoxication which was useful to the knavery of the Old Man of the Mountain; it is a dream without sleep, an hallucination without madness, a reasoned and willed vision, a real creation of inte…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…back, like a biograph out of order, and there’s no sort of connection between one and the other. Hullo, what’s that? Why, there’s a holy man near that Bo-Tree. He’ll tell m e what it all means.’ Poor silly old Lord of the Universe ! Had he carried his memory back one more step he’d have known all about Jehjaour and the con- spiracy, and that he was a Srotapatti and had only one more birth; and might well have put in the 311,040,000,000,000 myriads of æons which would elapse before lunch in rejoicing over his imminent annihilation. “ ‘Venerable …
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…imself. ... God being eternal, it is of the nature of necessity that His orders should be immutable as He.” So spake that apostate, that man of impiety! Vet, later, a Christian doctor, become the oracle of the theological schools, taking his inspiration perhaps from these splendid words of the misbeliever, found himself obliged to bridle superstition by writing that beautiful and brave maxim which easily resumes the thought of the great Emperor : 188
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…imself. ... God being eternal, it is of the nature of necessity that His orders should be immutable as He.” So spake that apostate, that man of impiety! Vet, later, a Christian doctor, become the oracle of the theological schools, taking his inspiration perhaps from these splendid words of the misbeliever, found himself obliged to bridle superstition by writing that beautiful and brave maxim which easily resumes the thought of the great Emperor : 188
1919 · PDF PAGE 367
…ceptions: mistrust thy senses; they are false. But within thy body—the shrine of thy sensations— seek in the Impersonal for the “Eternal Man’; and having sought him out, look inward: thou art Buddha. “Shun ignorance”: Keep on acquiring facts. “Shun illusion”: Refer every fact to the ultimate reality. “Interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with your Soul.” “Mistrust thy senses”: Avoid superficial judgment of the facts which they present to you. The last paragraph gives too succinct a statement of the facts. The attainment of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 438
…to any change in one’s methods of meditation. You should make up your mind thoroughly to a given scheme of action, and be bound by it. A man is perfectly hopeless if, on finding one Mantra unsuccessful, he tries another. There is cumulative effect in all mystic and magical work; and the Mantra you have been doing, however bad, is the best one to go on with. 68. Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on and to the charge return again, and yet again. Verse 68 confirms ou…
1943 · PDF PAGE 2
… rush from star to star; Your hair as a comet's horrent, Ye shall see things as they are! I lift the mask of matter; I open the heart of man; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth—Pan! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood, Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood I bring you laughter and tears The kisses that foam and bleed, The joys of a million years, The flowers that bear no seed. My life is bitter and sterile, Its flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril A…
1954 · PDF PAGE 328
…"Fall" is clearly constructed . But remember that the serpent Nechesh 11M 1 is equivalent to Messiach, the Messiah. The M is the "Hanged Man," the sinner; and is redeemed by the insertion of the Phallic God. P.P.P.S. An amusing coincidence. Just as I was polishing up this letter the lady whom I had just engaged to help me with some of my work irritated me to the point when my screams became so heartrending that the village will never sleep again as smoothly as its wont. They split the welkin in several places; and although invisible menders wer…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
INTRODUCTION ix When a man comes to me and asks for the Truth, I go away and practise teaching the Differential Calculus toa Bushman ; and I answer the former only when I have succeeded with the latter. But to withhold the Alphabet of Mysticism from the learner is the device of a selfish charlatan. That which can be taught shall be taught, that that which cannot be taught may at last be learnt. ° 3. As a weary but victorious warrior delights to recall his battles—Forsitan haec olim meminisse juvabit—we would linger for a moment upon the difficu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 217
…HE WEST carouse of the night , and ourselves become as Gods , shall we conceive God . Hic labor , hoc opus est : This is my secret —in a man's delight To lose the stubborn ecstasy for God ! To thus clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell — in the profoundest sky ! This knowledge , the true immortality , I came unto through pain and tears , Tigerish hopes , and serpent loves , and dragon fears , Most bitter kisses , salted springs and dry ; In those deep caverns and slow -moving years , When dwelt I , in the Mount of Venus , even …
1919 · PDF PAGE 374
THE EQUINOX quiet wilds. From Aranyéni He became the Teacher of man- kind. After Julai had entered the Nirvana, He preached on mount and plain, and held discourses in the cities, to Devas, men and Gods. Reference is here made to the attainment of the Buddha. It was only after he had abandoned the Ascetic Life that he attained, and so far from manifesting that attainment by non-action, he created a revolution in India by attacking the Caste system, and by preaching his law created a Karma so violent that even to-day its primary force is still ac…
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
…ere was a certain Darwesh whose turban a thief stole. But when they said to him, “ See ! he hath taken the road to Damascus !" that holy man answered, as he went quietly to the cemetery, “I will await him here ! " So, therefore, there is one place, O thou thief of my heart’s love, Adonai, to which Thou must come at last ; and that place is the tomb in which lie buried all my thoughts and emotions, all that which is “ I, and Me, and Mine.” There will I lay myself and await thee, even as our Father Christian Rosenkreutz that laid himself in the P…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
… things of which he speaks. To make ourselves now utterly plain to all such as have misunderstood us, we will formulate our statement in many ways, so that at least there may be found one acceptable to each seeker who is open to conviction. I 1. We perceive in the sensible world, Sorrow. UIlti- mately that is; we admit the Existence of a Problem requiring solution. 2. We accept the proofs of Hume, Kant, Herbert Spencer, Fuller, and others of this thesis : The Ratiocinative Faculty or Reason of Man contains in its essential nature an element of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
… things of which he speaks. To make ourselves now utterly plain to all such as have misunderstood us, we will formulate our statement in many ways, so that at least there may be found one acceptable to each seeker who is open to conviction. I 1. We perceive in the sensible world, Sorrow. UIlti- mately that is; we admit the Existence of a Problem requiring solution. 2. We accept the proofs of Hume, Kant, Herbert Spencer, Fuller, and others of this thesis : The Ratiocinative Faculty or Reason of Man contains in its essential nature an element of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 325
…f little Ljubov’s ear. The jewel he held up to her face touched, instead, one of the empty orbits of his little friend. Our villain, the Man who bought and stole Eyes, must have done his job very properly indeed, for Ljubov, who, in a vain attempt to see that which was shewn her, had opened wide the dark cavities under her eyebrows. Well, I suppose the eye touched a still sensitive nerve. No sooner had it done so than she uttered an exclamation. “T see! Piotr, I sez! I see!” And helping herself now, she rapidly unset the eyes from their golden …