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THE EQUINOX alternate currents, receives and transmits the imprints of the force of imagination which is in men the image and the semblance of the creative word, and thus produces presenti- ments and determines dreams. The science of miracles is then the knowledge of this marvellous force, and the art of doing miracles is simply the art of magnetizing or ¢duminat- ing beings, according to the invariable laws of magnetism or astral light. We prefer the word “light” to the word ‘ magnetism,” because it is more traditional in occultism, and expres…
1913 · PDF PAGE 331
…ERIES Nimrod and Babel are the two primitive allegories of the despot, and of the universal empire which has always filled the dreams of men,—a dream whose fulfilment was sought successively by the Assyrians, the Medes, the Persians, Alexander, Rome, Napoleon, the successors of Peter the Great, and always unfinished because of the dispersion of interests, symbolized by the confusion of tongues. The universal empire could not realize itself by force, but by intelligence and love. Thus, to Nimrod, the man of savage ‘right,’ the Bible opposed Abra…
1913 · PDF PAGE 500
THE EQUINOX alternate currents, receives and transmits the imprints of the force of imagination which is in men the image and the semblance of the creative word, and thus produces presenti- ments and determines dreams. The science of miracles is then the knowledge of this marvellous force, and the art of doing miracles is simply the art of magnetizing or ¢duminat- ing beings, according to the invariable laws of magnetism or astral light. We prefer the word “light” to the word ‘ magnetism,” because it is more traditional in occultism, and expres…
1910 · PDF PAGE 220
…inant. Oh, but it was a most enthralling narrative! Beginning with a comic account of the creation, possibly intended as a satire on our men of science or our men of religion—'twould serve equally well in either case—it went on to a thrilling hospital scene. The love-interest comes in chapter ii.; chapter iii. has an eviction scene, since when there have been no snakes in Ireland ; chapter iv. gives us a first-rate murder, and from that moment the authors never look back. But the Great White Spirit was destined to have his day of repose disturb…
1910 · PDF PAGE 288
…e affected so.” This was said to me quite frequently when, early in the hasheesh life, I enthusiastically related the most singular phenomena of my fantasy. But there is no such thing true of the hasheesh effects. Just as inevitably as two men taking the same direction, and equally favoured by Providence, will arrive at the same place, will two persons of similar temperament come to the same territory in hasheesh, see the same mysteries of their being, and get the same hitherto unconceived facts. It is this characteristic which, beyond all gain…
1910 · PDF PAGE 220
…inant. Oh, but it was a most enthralling narrative! Beginning with a comic account of the creation, possibly intended as a satire on our men of science or our men of religion—'twould serve equally well in either case—it went on to a thrilling hospital scene. The love-interest comes in chapter ii.; chapter iii. has an eviction scene, since when there have been no snakes in Ireland ; chapter iv. gives us a first-rate murder, and from that moment the authors never look back. But the Great White Spirit was destined to have his day of repose disturb…
1910 · PDF PAGE 288
…e affected so.” This was said to me quite frequently when, early in the hasheesh life, I enthusiastically related the most singular phenomena of my fantasy. But there is no such thing true of the hasheesh effects. Just as inevitably as two men taking the same direction, and equally favoured by Providence, will arrive at the same place, will two persons of similar temperament come to the same territory in hasheesh, see the same mysteries of their being, and get the same hitherto unconceived facts. It is this characteristic which, beyond all gain…
1913 · PDF PAGE 373
…et-tempered, it inspires only devotion and sacrifice. It has, in short, all the characteristics of Charity because it is Charity itself. Men, on the contrary, are impatient, persecutors, jealous, cruel, ambitious, unjust, and they show themselves as such, even in the name of that religion which they have succeeded in calumniating, but which they will never cause to lie. Men pass away, but truth is eternal. Daughter of Charity, and creator of Charity in her own turn, true religion is essentially that which realizes; she believes in the miracles …
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
…ion | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weak- ness. Their natural disposition is to love good, and it is through that love…
1913 · PDF PAGE 373
…et-tempered, it inspires only devotion and sacrifice. It has, in short, all the characteristics of Charity because it is Charity itself. Men, on the contrary, are impatient, persecutors, jealous, cruel, ambitious, unjust, and they show themselves as such, even in the name of that religion which they have succeeded in calumniating, but which they will never cause to lie. Men pass away, but truth is eternal. Daughter of Charity, and creator of Charity in her own turn, true religion is essentially that which realizes; she believes in the miracles …
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
…ion | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weak- ness. Their natural disposition is to love good, and it is through that love…
1922 · PDF PAGE 261
…orget- fulness is woven over the mouth of the cave which conceals the raw head and bloody bones of our mis- fortunes. “ But the greatest men,” says King Lamus, “ are those that refuse to be treated like squalling children, who insist on facing reality in every form, and tear off ruthlessly the bandages from their own wounds.” But I have to think very hard to write down the incidents of the dinner at the Wisteria when Lou and I had made up our minds to end our lives. I had got some prussic acid from the chemist’s more than a week before. It took…
1913 · PDF PAGE 71
…leven books wrote I; in each did I expound THE GREAT WORK fully, from The Beginning even unto The End thereof. Then at last came certain men unto me, saying: O Master! Expound thou THE GREAT WORK unto us, O Master! And I held my peace. O generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you from the Wrath that is fallen upon you? O Babblers, Prattlers, Talkers, Loquacious Ones, Tatlers, Chewers of the Red Rag that inflameth Apis the Redeemer to fury, learn firstwhat isWork! and THE GREAT WORK is not so far beyond!
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
… Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your childrenor, can humanity ever solve the great secret ? Is progress a delusion ? Are men mad ? Is the great secret truly transcendental ? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself ? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, being as dust ? Who givest his fame to the poet, his bankruptcy to the rich man ? Who dost distinguish between the just and the unjust ? Thou keeper of all secrets, of this great…
1905 · PDF PAGE 7
…en (at the age of fifteen, and still unsurpassed) in bed with measles at Tonbridge in Kent. FLOATING in the summer air, What is that for men to see ? Anywhere and everywhere, Now a bullet, now a tree— Till we all begin to swear : What the devil can it be ? See its disproportioned head, Tiny trunk and limbs lopped bare, Hydrocephalus the dread With a surgeon chopping there ; Chopping legs and arms all red With the sticky lumps of hair. Like a man in this complaint Floats this creature in the sky, Till the gaping rustics faint And the smirking mi…
1923 · PDF PAGE 3
MIG Some men are lost to every sense of shame : They use to call their country by its name. Abhorred offence ! it was indeed high time For Mussolini to suppress the crime. Perish the wretch whose Tyrolean soul Fails to blot out the accurséd name — Tyrol ! Ah Mussolini ! you have yet to learn What quality of flame is wont to burn In mountain air. ’Twere wiser not to risk Meeting the glacier breed of Basilisk. Tempt not the spirit of the Storm ! Mine eye Sees through the darkness of futurity, The modern Gessler meet a modern Tell — Tyrol ! hunt M…
1928 · PDF PAGE 165
…he love of hor- ror in order to turn my heart to Thee, like the cure which follows the knife; Oh Lord, have pity, have pity upon the mad men and women that we are! Oh Creator, is it possible that monsters should exist in the eyes of Him alone who knoweth why they exist, how they have made themselves, and how they would have made themselves, and could not?
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
…THE SOUL. THE SENSES WILL NOT SOIL ; THE THOUGHT WILL NOT UPSTRESS ; NOR POISONS (GREED, WRATH, DULNESS) BREED THEIR TRIFORM DEADLINESS. MEN EARN NOT EASE OF TAO FOR THEIR DESIRES DISEASE ; BECAUSE THEIR MIND IS NOT REFINED OF THOUGHT BY KILLING THESE IF ONE SHOULD SLAY DESIRES, HIS MIND AND BODY SEEM NO LONGER HIS, BUT PHANTASIES DANCED IN A WANTONS DREAM. SLAY MIND, SLAY BODY, SLAY THE EXTERNAL : MATTER GOES. THEN SPACE REMAINS ; RENEW THY PAINS ! UP ! FRONT THE FINAL FOES !
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…old: All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; and this: The thought of foolishness is sin. Now did I understand that all men live in sin, being baulked of their True Will, that is, of the free function of their essential nature. This restriction cometh much from their ignorance of what their True Will is, and much from external hindrance, but most of all from the interference of ill-controlled parts of their own instruments, the body and mind. For Freedom is not found in looseness and lack of governance, but in the right ruling …
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…ists; there is only one God, and He punishes those who do evil,” said Moses. “God is everywhere; He is in us, and the good that we do to men we do it to God,” said Jesus. “ Fear” is the conclusion of the dogma of Moses. “Love” is the conclusion of the dogma of Jesus. The typical ideal of the life of God in humanity is incarnation. Incarnation necessitates redemption, and operates it in the name of the reversibility of solidarity,? or, in other words, of universal communion, the dogmatic principle of the spirit of charity. To substitute human ar…