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Page 146 of 1541929 · PDF PAGE 487
…est Washington should think the cap fitted and suppress the number. The play being written three years earlier, and there being not the slightest allusion to or analogy with current events, his protest showed how dire a reign of terror had been established by the megalomaniac in the White House and his brutal and thick- headed bravo, Burleson. On October 6th, I left New York for a trip round the coast. I wanted to see the San Francisco exhibition, and I wanted to get first-hand facts about the attitude of the people, outside the Wall Street mac…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…element has come to its full balance of power; and in the other signs the force is fading away. Thus, Aries represents the rush of fire, Lightning; Leo, its power, the Sun; and Sagittarius, the rainbow, its sublimation. Similar considerations apply to the other ele‐ ments. See the Attributions section: The Triplicities of the Zodiac.) In the Eight of Wands, fire is no longer conjoined with the ideas of combustion and de‐ struction. It represents energy in its most exalted and tenuous sense; this suggests such forms thereof as the electric curre…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
… Huxlananda Swami. “Mahabrahma had never been much more than an idea. He had only lived six days. 1 A contradiction in terms. 2 Arnold, “Light of Asia.”
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
…hadowy idealism of Berkeley, or the self- refuted! Monism of Haeckel. All these men got our results, and interpreted them in the partial light of their varied intellect, their diverse surrounding and education. But the result is the same physiological pheno- 1 Haeckel, postulating a unity, is compelled to ascribe to it a tendency to dividuality, thus stultifying his postulate. See the ‘‘ Riddle of the Universe.” menon, from Plato and Christ to Spinoza and Cankaracharya,! from Augustine and Abelard, Boehme and Weigel in their Christian com- muni…
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…l of wine and fire, each unto each, Whose lips are fain convulsively to reach A higher heaven, a deeper hell. Ah! day So soon to dawn, delight to snatch away ! Damned day, whose sunlight finds us as with wine Drunken, with lust made manifest divine Devils of darkness, servants unto hell— Yea, king and queen of Sheol, terrible Above all fiends and furies, hating more The high Jehovah, loving Baal Peor, Our father and our lover and our god ! © Yea, though he lift his adamantine rod __ And pierce us through, how shall his anger tame ~ Fire that gl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…and of one fairest of women there enthroned. So he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden; even the cubical stone and the cross beneath the triangle that were his and un- revealed. And on the third day he left her and came to Her who had initiated him before he was initiated; and with her he abode eight days and twenty days :® and she gave him gifts. 1 Lamed means ox-goad; Aleph, an ox. Lamed Aleph me…
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…Jone and meditate upon his Jotus throne.’ ‘Good, good !’ said the magus, ‘though there seems a reminiscence of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Light of Asia somewhere. Surely you don’t read Edwin Arnold?’ ‘I do,’ said the God disconsolately, ‘we Hindu Gods It’s the only way we can get any clear idea of who we really are.’ ‘*Well, here was Perdw’ R Abu, after his latest fiasco, installed as a Worthy, Respect- able, Perfect, Ancient and Accepted, Just, Regular Mahabrahma. His only business was to meditate, for as long as he did this, the worlds—the who…
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
…he was cast out into the Lowest Hell—he became a clergyman of the Church of England, further than he had ever been before from Truth and Light and Peace and Love; deeper and deeper enmeshed in the net of Circumstance, bogged in the mire of Tanha! and Avigga? and all things base and vile. False Vichi-Kichi® had caught him at last ! XIII. ‘*Aye! The hour was at hand. Perdu’ R Abu was reincarnated as a child of Western parents, ignorant of all his wonder- ful past. But a strange fate has brought him to this village.” The Buddha paused, pro- bably …
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
…tive and passive, each possessing its dual polarity. iler dancing partner is shown as Heru‐Ra‐Ha of Atu XIX. “The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.” This final form of the image of the Magical For‐ mula of the God combines and trans forms so many symbols that description is difficult, and would be nugatory. The proper method of study of this card‐indeed of all, but of this espe‐ cially‐is long‐continued meditation. The Universe, so states the theme, is the Celebration of the Great Work accomplishe…
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…nt his way s. And he was bitterly a-cold, for that was th e great W ater he had passed. But our Father’s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. Wherefore he was comforted. Now cam e the sudden twittering of heart lest the firm ament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. “Woman,” he bade sternly, “ be still. Cleave that with thy sword: or that m ust I well work?” But she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 The sacrifices are the ten Sephir…
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
…d their import and should I succeed in completing my translation and commentary, the long lost secret of Pythagoras should be brought to light and Greek philosophy assume an aspect hitherto hidden which must revolutionize our ideas of the ancient wisdom. The true significance of the Atus of Tahuti, or Tarot Trumps, also awaits full understanding. I have satisfied myself that these twenty-two cards compose a complete system of hieroglyphs representing the total energies of the universe. In the case of some cards, I have succeeded in restoring th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 198
…ent of evil, just as a would-be murderer is sometimes killed with the very weapon with which he has attacked his victim. A blue-greenish light seemed to play round the head of the vampire, and then the flaxen hair turned the colour of muddy snow, and the fir skin wrinkled, and those eyes, that had turned so many happy lives to stone, dulled and became as pewter dappled with the dregs of wine. The girl of twenty had gone; before him stood a hag of sixty, bent, decrept, debauched. With dribbling curses she hobbled from the room. As Frater P. left…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…rguing from the absence of human reason and wit, though some of the creatures have a curious faculty resembling the former, shorn of all light-quality) to these unfortunates any con- scious life worthy of the name, or the capa- city to increase with years in the wisdom or happiness of their more favoured fellow- creatures. Myst. Yet the stars have a regular rate of progression ? Scepft. I see what you would be at. You would say that of two men born on a day, dying on a day, one may be young, the other old. Alyst. Ay! But I would say this tc vit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
…pa Nat. - © Blessed.-indeed::was thé family; ‘Five- and-forty feet }away.stoed:a, wnost ancient.and-| holy dagoba :.and the children: of light would gather round it ‘in the.coal:of.the evening, or in the misty glamour: of dawn, and turn.forth in. love and pity towards all mankind—nay, to the smallest grain of dust tossed on. the utmost storms of the Sahara! ‘¢ Blessed and more blessed! For one day came a holy Bhikkhu from the land of the “Peacock,? and would take up his abode in the hollow of their very tree. And little Perdu’ R Abu used to kee…
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
…apsody, and the ‘Song to Leila’ is delicate and highly wrought.”— The Commentator. “The verse is musical and the ideas profound. . . . "—Light.
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…sted? Suggested, for I admit that our present position is completely ag- nostic in respect to it, since we have no evidence which throws light on the matter ; and study of the subject would appear to be mere waste of time. But the suggestion is valuable as affording us a possibly rational explanation, conform- able to the waking man, which the dreamer would indignantly reject. Suppose, however, a dream so vivid that the whole waking man is abased before its memory, that his consciousness of it appears a thousand times more real than that of the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…on. Now at the end of the darkness a fire glowed: she would have hindered him: clung she to his neck and wept. But the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. But the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. Our Father passed into the fire. Some say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew so mighty a blast that the dead rose all from their tom…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…for the conduct of bhikkhus were intended to help them to free their minds from disturbance; but they were no longer interpreted in that light by the Bhikkhus themselves, except by an infinitesimal minority, who, like Allan, really understood the machinery of the business. Nor did I agree that the Buddha was altogether right. I thought it a great mistake to interfere with physiological processes. I was perfectly aware that greed, lust and hatred were the enemies of peace; but I was also aware that forcing oneself to abstain from food, love and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
… who should go to Lord’s and say he saw the angels of God ascending and descending upon C. B. Fry. It is God who sees the possibility of Light in Chaos ; it is the Churches who blaspheme the superb body of Truth which Adepts of old enshrined in the Cross, by degrading the Story of the Crucifixion to a mere paragraph in the Dazly Afail of the time of Pontius Pilate. Bill Blake took tea with Ezekiel: Tenny- son saw no more in the Arthurian legends than a prophecy of the Prince Consort (though Lancelot has little in common with John Brown), and th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…s former friend. 1 Allan M acGregor Bennett ( whose motto in the “ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” was Iehi Aour, i.e. “Let there be Light”), now Ananda Metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 Taphtatharath [sic., s. b. T aphthartharath — T.S.], the spirit of Mercury. “Now hate hath power, though not the power of love. So it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance Mara1 appeared to him. Never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the aby ss of matte…