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Page 160 of 2251907 · PDF PAGE 227
…with benefit (such is the revivifying force of our Elixir) by seeking the esserce in the Iirst Matter of the Work; and we could» commend many of them, notably St. Ignatius and even the rationalising Mansel and Newman, if they would only concentrate upon spiritual truth, instead of insisting on the truth of things, material and therefore immaterial, which only need the touch of a scholar’s wand to crumble into the base dust from which their bloodstained towers arose. Whoso has been crucified with Christ can but laugh when it is proved that Chris…
1929 · PDF PAGE 168
…ct them from rough usage and bad weather. Our limit weight was fifty-three pounds. As a beast of burden, a mule is less efficient than a man, and a man that an woman. In Kashmir, however, one does not use women as coolies. The people are Mohammedans governed by a ruling caste of Hindus. This leads to complications; for one thing, though the river is full of mahsir, one is not allowed to fish for them, because one of them had swallowed the soul of the maharajah in his youth! Another inconvenience is that one cannot bet beef to eat, for Kashmir i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 285
…somewhat deathless and divine ! 2 Huxley continues : “ The day - fly has better grounds for calling a thunderstorm supernatural than has man , with his experience of an infinitesimal fraction of dura tion , to say that the most astonishing event that can be imagined is beyond the scope of natural causes .” 3 And that there is no such thing as the violation of the laws of nature , but merely a violation of that under standing which falsely interprets a “ something ” which reason alone cannot grasp . 1 Huxley's Hume , p . 155. “ It will be said t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
… Seem sleepy. 1.35 p.m. Went out for a walk feeling ill. Ill all the week. 28th. During the night began again meditation upon Ajna, and “Mantra Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 30th. Decide to do tests on old principle to see how I really stand. to perceive the (pleasant and unpleasant) sensation of a raising of the right foot” being the final form. The Buddha himself said that if a man practises Mahasatipatthana honestly and intelligently a result is certain. 179
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
… Seem sleepy. 1.35 p.m. Went out for a walk feeling ill. Ill all the week. 28th. During the night began again meditation upon Ajna, and “Mantra Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 30th. Decide to do tests on old principle to see how I really stand. to perceive the (pleasant and unpleasant) sensation of a raising of the right foot” being the final form. The Buddha himself said that if a man practises Mahasatipatthana honestly and intelligently a result is certain. 179
1911 · PDF PAGE 97
THE VISION AND THE VOICE smile, but I smile upon whom I would seduce, O inviolable one, that canst not be tempted. If thou canst command me by the power of the Most High, know that I did indeed tempt thee, and it repenteth me. I bow myself humbly before the great and terrible names whereby thou hast conjured and constrained me. But thy name is mercy, and I cry aloud for pardon. Let me come and put my head beneath thy feet, that I may serve thee. For if thou commandest me to obedience in the Holy names, I cannot swerve therefrom, for their first…
1911 · PDF PAGE 135
…quiver from my shoulders and slay me; for unless thou slay me, thou shalt not unveil the Mystery of the Aethyr. Therefore I did as he commanded; in the quiver were two arrows, one white, one black. I cannot force myself to fit an arrow to the bow. And there came a voice: It must needs be. And I said: No man can do this thing. And the voice answered, as it were an echo: emo hoc Sacere potest. 133
1922 · PDF PAGE 22
…result had been that he had steadily become a heavier and heavier drinker. I learnt at the hospital that seventy-five per cent. of the human bodyis composed of water; butin this case, as in the old song, it must have been that he was a relation of the McPherson who had a son, “That married Noah’s daughter And: nearly spoilt the flood By drinking all the water. And this he would have done, I really do believe it, But had that mixture been Three parts or more Glen Livet.” The slight figure of a young-old man with a bulbous nose to detract from hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…ect, in most cases, the influence of any university training soever, as we understand the idea. But to mistake an Oxford for a Cambridge man is impossible and the converse exceedingly rare. I hope it is not altogether the blindness of filial affection that inclines me to suggest that the essential difference depends upon the greater freedom of the more famous university. Oxford makes a very definite effort to turn out a definite type of man and even his ingrained sense that he
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
…igible analogy is that of the curiously luminous, exquisite and irrational landscapes which were used as backgrounds by such painters as Mantegna, Memling and Leonardo da Vinci. On February 1st we entered a magnificent gorge. The culminating ecstasy is the approach to Hsia- Kuan but means of a natural rock bridge amid rock walls. It is as if one had come suddenly upon the "dark tower" of Childe Roland, a fortress built by titanic gnomes when the planet was a semi-liquit flux of lava. The road to Talifu, the second greatest city of the province …
1909 · PDF PAGE 383
THE MAN-COVER natives. They gathered around me and began singing a strange mdélopée. One of their chiefs passed his hands over my face, and I became at once unconscious. . . . When I awoke I was still covering the coffin, but the surroundings had changed. Over me was a huge canopy of magnificent trees in full bloom of youth. Nature had certainly not been helped in the forming of that beautiful corner of the world; nevertheless a Japanese gardener, master of his art, could not have done better. Two gaps at the foot of the coffin were apparently …
1909 · PDF PAGE 383
THE MAN-COVER natives. They gathered around me and began singing a strange mdélopée. One of their chiefs passed his hands over my face, and I became at once unconscious. . . . When I awoke I was still covering the coffin, but the surroundings had changed. Over me was a huge canopy of magnificent trees in full bloom of youth. Nature had certainly not been helped in the forming of that beautiful corner of the world; nevertheless a Japanese gardener, master of his art, could not have done better. Two gaps at the foot of the coffin were apparently …
1913 · PDF PAGE 559
…berty. They save themselves by a proud unpopularity from the contamina- tion of the vile multitude. If Balzac had been during his life a man of a clique or of a party, he would not have remained after his death the great and universal genius of our epoch. The light illuminates neither things insensible nor closed eyes, or at least it only illuminates them for the profit of those who see. The word of Genesis, “ Let there be light!” 261
1913 · PDF PAGE 559
…berty. They save themselves by a proud unpopularity from the contamina- tion of the vile multitude. If Balzac had been during his life a man of a clique or of a party, he would not have remained after his death the great and universal genius of our epoch. The light illuminates neither things insensible nor closed eyes, or at least it only illuminates them for the profit of those who see. The word of Genesis, “ Let there be light!” 261
1907 · PDF PAGE 263
…and the Holy One , blessed be It ! makes it concur to Its works ; not anything falls into the void , not even the words and the voice of man , but all has its place and its destination ." “ All things of which this world is composed , spirit as well as body , will again enter into the Principle , and into the root from which they went out .” Zohar , Part ii, fol . 218b . The Qabalist Abram ben Dior , says : “ When they ( the Qabalists ) affirm , that All Things have been drawn from No - Thing , they do not wish to speak of nothing properly to s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…rence of a wheel, cheerfully singing “Nearer, my God, to Thee; Nearer to Thee!” while his God is in the centre. He has done the medicine-man trick, and wasted a lot of maidens in the hope of making rain. So—one must suppose, for here I reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This will presumably be very difficult to do because he is probably (for all the “ Grace of the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 321
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “As I neared it I leapt to the shore, and thereI found, as I approached the wonderful building, many beautiful creatures playing about it. But my haste in leaving the blue waters had been ill-advised; for suddenly a great cloud of water enveloped me, and catching me up, carried me to a great height. Then I discovered that I had been changed into a lily, whose white petals were unfolded, and that I was grow- ing in a garden, white with a multitude of the same wonderful flowers. “Not over long had I been there, when…
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…rence of a wheel, cheerfully singing “Nearer, my God, to Thee; Nearer to Thee!” while his God is in the centre. He has done the medicine-man trick, and wasted a lot of maidens in the hope of making rain. So—one must suppose, for here I reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This will presumably be very difficult to do because he is probably (for all the “ Grace of the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 321
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “As I neared it I leapt to the shore, and thereI found, as I approached the wonderful building, many beautiful creatures playing about it. But my haste in leaving the blue waters had been ill-advised; for suddenly a great cloud of water enveloped me, and catching me up, carried me to a great height. Then I discovered that I had been changed into a lily, whose white petals were unfolded, and that I was grow- ing in a garden, white with a multitude of the same wonderful flowers. “Not over long had I been there, when…
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
…instructed, is the first real Samadhi; for even the visions of “ God ” and of the “ Self” are tainted by form. In Atmadarshana the All is manifested as the One: it is the Universe freed from its conditions. Not only are all forms and ideas destroyed,but also those conceptions which are implicit in our ideas of those ideas.2 Each part of 1 Similarly Patanjali tells us that by making Samyama on the strength of an elephant or a tiger, the student acquires that strength. Conquer “ the nerve Udana,” and you can walk on the water; “ Samana,” and you b…