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… and black upon beau- tiful paper made by hand;” i.e. explain the text ‘lest there be folly’ as it says above, CCXX. I. 36. “And to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it isnoodds. Do this quickly!” From this it is evident that a volume must be prepared as signified—Part IV of Book 4 was intended to fulfil this pur- pose—and that this book must be distributed widely, in fact to every one with whom one comes into social relation…
1919 · PDF PAGE 450
…ion of the condition of Srotapatti. I think the tragic note is struck for effect. Damn all these tortures and rewards! Has the Narjol no manhood at all? 90. Calm and unmoved the Pilgrim glideth up the stream that to Nirvana leads. He knoweth that the more his feet will bleed, the whiter will himself be washed. He knoweth well that after seven short and fleeting births Nirvana will be his. Here is again a totally un-Buddhistic description. It appears to me rather a paraphrase of the well-known “Sweeping through the gates of the New Jerusalem, Wa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
AD-ON-A-I1 EDE EDU “My Lord! My secret self beyond self, Hadith, Ail Father! Hail, ON, thou Sun, thou Life of Man, thou Fivefold Sword of Flame! Thou Goat exalted upon Earth in Lust, thou Snake ex- tended upon Earth in Life! Spirit most hoiy! Seed most Wise! Inno¬ cent Babe. Inviolate Maid! Begetter of Being! Soûl of ail Soûls! Word of ail Words, Corne forth, most hidden Light!” “Devour thou me!” “Thou dost devour Me!” ANGELOS TON ThEON “Thou Angel of the Gods!” ANLALA “Arise thou in Me, free flowing, Thou who art Naught, who art Naught, and ut…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…er his Queen. He is “Ruler”, the “unconscious Will”; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the cons¬ cious man. And He is “Helper”, the author of the infallible impulse that sends the Soûl sweeping along the skies on its proper path with such impetus that the attraction of alien. orbs is no longer sufficient to swerve it. The “Hear me” clause is now uttered by the normal human consciousness, withdrawn to the physical bodyj the Adept must deliberately abandon his attainment, because it is not yet his whole being whi…
1961 · PDF PAGE 218
…ure, seeing that he was able to comprehend the whole Mystery of Nuith and of Hadith, and yet to declare Their Message in the Language of Man. t
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…should later on be called upon to settle, it was necessary to bring me into intimate personal contact with the very varied conditions of mankind. Before this journey I had not even begun to understand what America meant. I ignored it, disliked it; my only idea of dealing with it was that of an ignorant nurse to smack it into propriety. It had hardly occurred to me to inquire why such poetry as that of Keats and myself was not the daily joy of Minnesota farmers. I thought it simply showed their baseness. I now understand that the bonds of brothe…
1902 · PDF PAGE 16
…is true Self, —the "Only Being in an Abyss of Light!" The Tannhauser who talks is the " Only Being in an Abyss of Darkness," the natural man ignorant of his identity with the Supreme Being. The various other characters are all little parts of Tannhauser's own consciousness and not real persons at all : whether good or bad, all alike hinder and help (and there is not one whose function is not thus double) the realisa- tion of his true unity with all life. This circumstance serves to explain, though perhaps not to excuse, the lack of dramatic act…
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…7 we include here ; for such a one at any rate is not a true prostitute , rather a poor deluded girl , yearning to love and be loved , romantic and foolish , yet kind hearted and charitable to a fault : often the plaything of man , and oftener the means of livelihood of some bad woman . As Jenny wrapped in “ the homage of the dim boudoir , ” was Nina ; one of that large flotsam of fragile girlhood which forms the better drift of vice , the first to be swallowed in the social Maelstrom . Yes : Nina was a thing of nought , A little laughing lewd …
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…ive than the highly polished ones of other people. The general purpose of all this preparation is as follows : 5. Since the student is a man surrounded by material objects, if it be his wish to master one particular idea, he must make every material object about him directly suggest that idea. Thus in the ritual quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number suggests Mercury; he smells the per- fumes, and again Mercury is brought to his mind. In other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics. [The…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…ive than the highly polished ones of other people. The general purpose of all this preparation is as follows : 5. Since the student is a man surrounded by material objects, if it be his wish to master one particular idea, he must make every material object about him directly suggest that idea. Thus in the ritual quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number suggests Mercury; he smells the per- fumes, and again Mercury is brought to his mind. In other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics. [The…
1919 · PDF PAGE 376
…ears that water the parched soil of pain and sorrow bring forth the blossoms and the fruits of Karmic retribution. Out of the furnace of man’s life and its black smoke, winged flames arise, flames purified, that soaring onward, ’neath the Karmic eye, weave in the end the fabric glorified of the three vestures of the Path: Now the discourse turns to the question of the origin of Evil. The alchemical theory is here set forth. The first matter of the work is not so worthy as the elixir, and it must pass through the state of the Black Dragon to att…
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 187 Ze De Mente Inimica Animo (Of the Mind, Enemy to the Soul) OW shall a Man attain to the Trance where All is One, if he yet debate within his Mind concerning Virtue as a Thing Absolute? Thus, o my Son, there be those that are fuddled with Doubt whether Meat is to be eaten (I choose this as a Reference), which Habit is proper to the Lion, as Grass to the Horse, so that his right Problem is solely thus, what is fitting to his own Nature. Or again, I suppose that he is in Vision, and an Angel, visiting him, imparteth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…p her duties towards the middle of August. I only stayed two or three days in Edinburgh and, having attended to the matter of wine and woman, completed the triad by writing The God-Eater. This sort play is singularly unsatisfactory as a work of art, but extremely significant as a piece of autohagiography. The explanatory note in my Collected Works is itself obscure. The idea of this obscure and fantastic play is a follows: By a glorious act human misery is secured (history of Christianity). Hence, appreciation of the personality of Jesus is no …
1904 · PDF PAGE 15
…cite the “Fall” “But those are legends after all.” He has a hundred hills45 to lie in, But finds no final ditch46 to die in. “Samuel was man ; the Holy Spook Did not dictate the Pentateuch.” With cunning feint he lures me on To loose my pompoms on Saint John ; And, that hill being shelled, doth swear His forces never had been there. I got disgusted, called a parley, (Here comes a white-flag treachery !) Asked : “Is there anything you value, Will hold to ?” He laughed, “Chase me, Charlie !” But seeing in his mind that I Would no be so converted,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 12
…ened by responsibility, and the first part of Book IV. is flatly contradicted by its climax. This is a pitiable sort of confession for a man to make ! What was I todo? I could not rewrite the whole in order to give it a philosophic unity. Gerald Kelly forcibly prevented me from throwing it into the river at Marlotte, though he admitted quite frankly that he could not read even through Book I. and did not see how any one could. Tell me, he said, conjuring the friendship of years, can you read it? Even a poet should be honest; I confessed that I …
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…oul on fire !? . . Still , I stepped onward . Credit me so far ! The harlot had my soul : my will , the star ! Thus I went onward , as a man goes blind , Into a torrent crowd of mine own kind ; Jostlers and hurried folk , and mad they are , A million actions and a single mind .? As he proceeds along his weary path , he feels a strengthening within him of the higher self , struggling against his desire , again and again every nerve in him cries , “ halt ” : at last he reaches the land of lost ideals : The plain is covered with a many dead . Glis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 259
… I move for ever to my mystic goal Where I may drain a fountain never dry , And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole , And on celestial manna satisfy my soul.3 All the “ Unholy phantom faces ” . of self, and of sin , will be lost , and all the misty distortions that crowd the brain will fade and wither : So shalt thou conquer Space , and lastly climb The walls of Time , And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God !6 And then : ... there gleams from Heaven The likeness of a Man in glory set ; The sun is blotted , and the skies ar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 313
…g an actual existence independent of its own ." 2 Others attain but a glimpse . Maimonides long ago noticed : Learn that Prophecy is an emanation from God which flows , through the intermediary of the active Intellect , upon the rational Faculty first , and then upon the imaginative Faculty ; it is the highest degree of a man , and the term of perfection to which the species may aspire ; and this state is the highest perfection of the imaginative Faculty . . . If the emanation flows into the imaginative Faculty only , and if the rational Facult…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING permanent principles which constitute the eternal Reality in the Cosmic Order.”* In Tiphareth the aspirant attains to no less a state than that of conversation with his Holy Guardian Angel, his Jechidah, ‘The permanent principle behind the conflicting opinions.” Once Right Comprehension has been attained to, he has discovered a Master who will never desert him until he become one with him. Il. Right Resolutions or Right Aspirations. Having perceived the changing nature of all things, even of men’s minds, and havin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 272
…f assassination. The traces of a great agony were frozen into fixedness in the tense position of every muscle, and the nails of the dead man’s fingers pierced 254