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Page 158 of 2251909 · PDF PAGE 83
…abalah, and the discovery of the relations between symbols. So exalted in truth are the states upon this Safifia grade that the rational man will almost always fail to understand them. Of the Rupa visions he has some experience, if only in analogy; he calls the mystic of Rupa a silly fool; so too of Vedana, whose mystic he calls a besotted ass; but the mystic of Safifia appears to him as a raving lunatic. The hashish correspondences of this stage are the mental analyses which I have gone into so fully above, sections v. and vii. The methods for…
1909 · PDF PAGE 310
…file- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermost darkness. And out of the darkness there came a man clothed in blue, whose skin was of the colour of sapphire, and around him glowed a phosphor light, and in his hand he held a sword. “And on seeing him approach I fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. * Many of these visions were carried out with Frater C. S. t+ A circle was first drawn, as in many invocations, in the centre of which the seer stood. 302
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…abalah, and the discovery of the relations between symbols. So exalted in truth are the states upon this Safifia grade that the rational man will almost always fail to understand them. Of the Rupa visions he has some experience, if only in analogy; he calls the mystic of Rupa a silly fool; so too of Vedana, whose mystic he calls a besotted ass; but the mystic of Safifia appears to him as a raving lunatic. The hashish correspondences of this stage are the mental analyses which I have gone into so fully above, sections v. and vii. The methods for…
1909 · PDF PAGE 310
…file- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermost darkness. And out of the darkness there came a man clothed in blue, whose skin was of the colour of sapphire, and around him glowed a phosphor light, and in his hand he held a sword. “And on seeing him approach I fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. * Many of these visions were carried out with Frater C. S. t+ A circle was first drawn, as in many invocations, in the centre of which the seer stood. 302
1910 · PDF PAGE 154
THE EQUINOX so the Karma, released from the body of the dead man, will circle round until it finds the body of a new-born child tuned or syntonized to its particular waves. Now we are not concerned here with stray children who like the receivers of a wireless telegraph pick up either good or evil messages; but it is an interesting fact to learn that at least certain orthodox Buddhists attribute so complex and con- siderable a power to the brain, that by the fact of leaving one body that body perishes, and of entering another that body revives. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 154
THE EQUINOX so the Karma, released from the body of the dead man, will circle round until it finds the body of a new-born child tuned or syntonized to its particular waves. Now we are not concerned here with stray children who like the receivers of a wireless telegraph pick up either good or evil messages; but it is an interesting fact to learn that at least certain orthodox Buddhists attribute so complex and con- siderable a power to the brain, that by the fact of leaving one body that body perishes, and of entering another that body revives. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…ob- bies. Now this question of Bimetallism leads us to the subject of the reasons for our indulgence, since we are not (as some silly Germans would pretend) equally with the Urning the slaves of an uncontrol- lable paranoia, to use a somewhat discredited but useful term. Why, in short, (quoth Mr. Moses Monometallist) loving women as you do, sir, do you go to boys and men ? Is it only for variety ? If not, in what does the charm consist ? I will enumerate the conditions, and that cheer- fully, since it will incidentally enable me to justify that…
1910 · PDF PAGE 39
…course not the most shadowy rea- son in ethics for the attitude of the law. The most confirmed sodomite (bimetallist) may beget quite as many children as another, while monogamy is the fashion. If man were expected to fertilize some do- zens of women every night, like a stud ram, I don’t say : but he is not. But on the positive side, a strict adherence to sodomy, except for the practical purpose of begetting children, or for pacifying women, an object which a parallel development of Sapphism would more rationally fulfil, would avoid the numberl…
1912 · PDF PAGE 117
….. My God ! [He draws himself 7719 with a gesture ofutter ergo/1y)“ Dr. Β. What's the matter? Dr. F. My God! Pull yourself together, old man. I've bad news for you. Dr. B. (gone while) It’s you that need to pull yourself together. Come, out with it! It isn’t...... it isn't ...... Dr. F. Yes, it is. Dr. B. Cancer? Dr. F. Cancer. Oesophagus involved, too; it’s no use operating even. You haven’t a month. * This is genuine, Dr. Bob has really cancer ; this is the tragedy of the joke. or. i: must indicate this by his”י1121111191!? But he daren’t bre…
1912 · PDF PAGE 117
….. My God ! [He draws himself 7719 with a gesture ofutter ergo/1y)“ Dr. Β. What's the matter? Dr. F. My God! Pull yourself together, old man. I've bad news for you. Dr. B. (gone while) It’s you that need to pull yourself together. Come, out with it! It isn’t...... it isn't ...... Dr. F. Yes, it is. Dr. B. Cancer? Dr. F. Cancer. Oesophagus involved, too; it’s no use operating even. You haven’t a month. * This is genuine, Dr. Bob has really cancer ; this is the tragedy of the joke. or. i: must indicate this by his”י1121111191!? But he daren’t bre…
1913 · PDF PAGE 303
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES qué priest, is always the representative of God. Of little account are the faults or even the crimes of man. When Alexander VI consecrated his bishops, it was not the poisoner who laid his hands upon them, it was the pope. Pope Alexander VI never corrupted or falsified the dogmas which condemned him, or the sacraments which in his hands saved others, and did not justify him. At all times and in all places there have been liars and criminals, but in the hierarchical and divinely authorized Church there have never been, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 303
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES qué priest, is always the representative of God. Of little account are the faults or even the crimes of man. When Alexander VI consecrated his bishops, it was not the poisoner who laid his hands upon them, it was the pope. Pope Alexander VI never corrupted or falsified the dogmas which condemned him, or the sacraments which in his hands saved others, and did not justify him. At all times and in all places there have been liars and criminals, but in the hierarchical and divinely authorized Church there have never been, a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 447
…at the head of this verse as a pure oxymoron with the rest of the text. Is stupid, unseeing selfishness so firmly fixed in the nature of man that even at this height he still laments? Do not believe it. It is interesting here to note the view taken by Him who has actually attained the Grade of Magus. He says: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It may be those three perfections of my Sambhogakaya Robe, but the fact is that one has reached a stage when the Path becomes almost meaningless. The illusion of Sorrow has been exposed so …
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…ir to reap from seven bitter sowings. Here ascend the armies of life’s universal war chasing the pious pilgrim. First, his sight grew adamant, sun-bright, so that he saw aright. Second, his heart was noble, that he would live ever unto good. Third, in his speech stood tokens of this will, so pitiful and pure he spake, nor ever from him brake woe-wingèd words, nor slaver of the snake. Fourth, in each noble act of life he taught crystalline vigour of thought, so in each deed he was aright ; well-wrought all the man’s work ; and fifth, this hero s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
… of morality, though ; you’re a devilish deep Johnny, but the atavism comes through. As long as you wear a tie that the Neanderthal cave man would have discarded as out of date I can never quite class you with this century. Bones. Before Abraham was, I am. Bowie]. [Taking no notice] I call it a Christian tie. Faith in your wife’s afi'ection surviving it; charity, which is not ashamed; hope—no, only Hope Brothers. Bones. This is in some ways a digression— Bowley. I can prove—— Bones. I know you can. Don’t. Bowley. Well, about truth. Surely I am r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…ut Hume in his turn becomes perfectly futile, pitted against the Hindu mystic, who is in constant intense enjoy- ment of his new-found Atman. It takes a Buddha-gun to knock 47s castle down. Now the ideas of McCabbage are banal and dull; those of Hume are live and virile; there is ajoy in them greater than the joy of the Man in the Street. So too the Buddha-thought, Anatta, is a more splendid conception than the philosopher’s Dutch-doll-like Ego, or the rational artillery of Hume. This weapon, too, that has destroyed our lesser, our illusionary …
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…ill is admittedly good exercise. True, the question, “Why become an Arahat?” should precede, “‘ How become an Arahat ?” but an unbiassed man will easily cancel the first question with “ Why not?”—the How is not so easy to get rid of. Then, from the standpoint of the Arahat himself, perhaps this “Why did I become an Arahat ?” and “ How did I become an Arahat?” have but a single solution! In any case, we are wasting our time—we are as ridiculous with our Arahats as Herod the Tetrarch with his peacocks! We pose Life with the question Why? and the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 338
…ngry and afraid. Her voice that purled and rippled and sang through me—ah! it was like a kiss caged in her throat, and to hear it made a man a father in longing. There are voices like that, and when men hear them, they live a lifetime in an instant, mate, rear children, are widowed, or have their eyes closed for them for the last time by these women whose souls they thus secretly and inviolately espouse.” After a little silence the worm which issued from her eyes then spoke: “IT am her eyes, and she was bad, bad as her mouth says. Some of that …
1910 · PDF PAGE 338
…ngry and afraid. Her voice that purled and rippled and sang through me—ah! it was like a kiss caged in her throat, and to hear it made a man a father in longing. There are voices like that, and when men hear them, they live a lifetime in an instant, mate, rear children, are widowed, or have their eyes closed for them for the last time by these women whose souls they thus secretly and inviolately espouse.” After a little silence the worm which issued from her eyes then spoke: “IT am her eyes, and she was bad, bad as her mouth says. Some of that …
1912 · PDF PAGE 124
… that he was only known as a theorist in the cafe which supplied his creme de menthe. There he would hold forth interininably on God and man. Blessed with such means as a mediocre father's devotion to cutlery and an only son had supplied, it was his habit on occasion to descend into the country. Picture him, if you please, as very short and moderately fat, middle-aged at thirty- t\\‘o, clad in a bourgeois suit and an artist's tie, a red handker— chief under a black felt hat upon a bushy head garnished with a little beard and moustache, perspiri…