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Page 27 of 831939 · PDF PAGE 40
…verse at all we are in philosophical chaos. However, this does not concern us for the moment. 3. When we apply these symbols to Yoga, we find that fire represents the Yogi, and water the object of his meditation. ((You can, if you like, reverse these attributions. It makes no difference except to the metaphysician. And precious little to him!) The Yod and the He combine, the Father and Mother unite, to produce a son, Vau. This son is the exalted state of mind produced by the union of the subject and the object. This state of mind is called Sama…
1910 · PDF PAGE 7
…n as the Living Mushroom from the shape of his hat, in old Ailes’s pig-tub. And then my father died, and the note changes. To explain, I find myself obliged to give a short account of the Plymouth Brethren, their tenets, character, and history. THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN The religious movement which obtained this name through the sudden and enormous success of an evange
1912 · PDF PAGE 67
… a thrill, A quiverso I have seen a stag heart-striken die. MORTADELLO. Well, we must let no effort flag. GABRIELE. My energy Is all to find the Princess. Hid, who knows what spear She may fling suddenly ? MORTADELLO. God forbid ! GABRIELE. Suppose she appear Whence who can tell, with what allies God only knows, The mob, the merchants MORTADELLO. Pah ! GABRIELE. My spies lean to suppose A third of us, by greed sharp spurred, would take the chance To treble their estates. A third could make us dance To a brick tune. MORTADELLO. The Jewsyou s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
…ery crest. There shall rise a sweet song of the soul Far deeper than love or distress ; Beyond mortals and gods shall it roll ; It shall find me, and crave, and caress. Ah! me it shall capture In torrents of rapture ; It shall flood me, and fill, and possess. For brighter from age unto age The weary old world shall renew Its life at the lips of the sage, Its love at the lips of the dew. With kisses and tears The return of the years Is sure as the starlight is true. Yet the drift of the stars is to beauty, To strength, and to infinite pleasure. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 43
…d I can promise you You will awake to more divine delights ‘Than ever in the world you guessed or knew. Stick to it! One fine day you'll find on waking ing! Me in your arms, and — oh! your body aching: — 6 —
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…tely natural. All religions have devised practices for this purpose. If you keep on praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself pray- ing in your heart. The whole question has been threshed out and organized
1913 · PDF PAGE 343
…d and praised as the head of a martyr. For this reason also, the noblest and the holiest of martyrs could inquire of his own conscience, find himself deserving of the penalty that he was about to undergo, and say, saluting the sword that was ready to strike him, “Let justice be done!” Pure victims of the Roman Catacombs, Jews and Protes- tants massacred by unworthy Christians ! Priests of l’Abbaye and les Carmes,’ victims of the Reign of Terror, butchered royalists, revolutionaries sacrificed in your turn, soldiers of our great armies who have …
1913 · PDF PAGE 343
…d and praised as the head of a martyr. For this reason also, the noblest and the holiest of martyrs could inquire of his own conscience, find himself deserving of the penalty that he was about to undergo, and say, saluting the sword that was ready to strike him, “Let justice be done!” Pure victims of the Roman Catacombs, Jews and Protes- tants massacred by unworthy Christians ! Priests of l’Abbaye and les Carmes,’ victims of the Reign of Terror, butchered royalists, revolutionaries sacrificed in your turn, soldiers of our great armies who have …
1928 · PDF PAGE 69
with any sense of charity or with any greed for the visible goods of life was doomed to find himself one day terribly embarrassed by his millions. So, too, a love of beauty and poetic power were given to the son of a dirty rascal, a quar- ryman by trade, who could not in any manner assist the development of the gifts, or supply the needs of his unlucky offspring. I forgot to tell you that the distribution in these solemn cases is without appeal, and that no one may refuse a gift. All the Fairies rose, thinking that their spell of hard labour wa…
1944 · PDF PAGE 251
…leness, dissipation debauchery, friendship, gentleness, delight. IV Pour water on thyself thus shalt thou be a Fountain to the Universe. Find thou thyself in every Star. Achieve thou every possibility. War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition, originality, overweening confidence and mega‐ lomania, quarrelsomeness, energy, vigour, stubbornness, impracticability, rashness, ill‐temper. V Offer thyself Virgin to the Knowledge and Conver sation of thine Holy Guardian Angel. All else is a snare. Be thou athlete with the eight limbs of Yoga: for with…
1913 · PDF PAGE 45
…ime with the literature of those gnostics who were the earliest and only true Christians. In Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, however, we find the following passage : “After the banquet they keep the holy all-night festival. And this is how it is kept. They all stand up in a body, and about the middle of the entertainment they first of all separate into two bands, men in one and women in the other. And a leader is chosen for each, the conductor whose reputation is greatest and the one most suitable for the post. They then chant hymns made in God…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
…shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the sigil of the sun, Gray world, soft light, strong wind, and burning day, L take the arrows cast by Blake away, Andfling them surely at the sacred One. And the barbed arrow on its way shall run More swiftly; my swift heart tt shall ob…
1913 · PDF PAGE 45
…ime with the literature of those gnostics who were the earliest and only true Christians. In Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, however, we find the following passage : “After the banquet they keep the holy all-night festival. And this is how it is kept. They all stand up in a body, and about the middle of the entertainment they first of all separate into two bands, men in one and women in the other. And a leader is chosen for each, the conductor whose reputation is greatest and the one most suitable for the post. They then chant hymns made in God…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
…shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the sigil of the sun, Gray world, soft light, strong wind, and burning day, L take the arrows cast by Blake away, Andfling them surely at the sacred One. And the barbed arrow on its way shall run More swiftly; my swift heart tt shall ob…
1914 · PDF PAGE 24
… eyes! Let us take death by his black throat and die! Let us add murder to our mysteries, ‘And face the devil together, you and I Let us find hope in uttermost despair, Delight in our division, new desire In the black fate that takes us unaware, In death's dark water the eternal fire! Come, Laylah, come, my sister and my spouse, Bedeck yourself with nakedness, prepare To enter the most high, most holy house, Careless what gods or devils may be there. Love me! I love you, Laylah! Laylah! mine ‘Though time and space and force and being discede, M…
1939 · PDF PAGE 38
…gh. I need here only say that its constant use, day and night, without a moment's cessation, is probably as useful a method as one could find of preparing the current of thought for the assumption of a rhythmical form, and rhythm is the great cure for irregularity. Once it is established, no interference will prevent it. Its own natural tendency is to slow down, like a pendulum, until time stops, and the sequence of impressions which constitutes our intellectual apprehensions of the universe is replaced by that form of consciousness (or unconsc…
1939 · PDF PAGE 32
… discovering the most difficult possible way to attain the most undesirable end. 10. When you start tying yourself into a knot, you will find that some positions are much more difficult and inconvenient than others; but that is only the beginning. If you retain any posture long enough, you get cramp. I forget the exact statistics, but I gather that the muscular exertion made by a man sleeping peacefully in bed is sufficient to raise fourteen elephants per hour to the stratosphere. Anyway, I remember that it is something rather difficult to beli…
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
… philosophy of Aleister Crowley . It reads as follows : But—had it not been for the Garter , I might never have seen the Star . In it we find the sublime maxim , almost universal , which has been postulated by all the greatest ethical codes of the world . It is the moral prototype , the Favashi of the Zoroastrian , the Tree of Knowledge of Babylonia and Genesis , the Light and Darkness of Isaiah , the Yakheen and Boaz of Solomon , the Unique Athanor of the Qabalist , the Balance of Hegel ; the polarity of the worlds , the great centripetal and …
1912 · PDF PAGE 75
…y Jews Leave Mortadello in the lurch. What mischief brews In Gabrieles cauldron mind theres none can grasp ; But he stirs viciously. I find he hopes success If he once clenches knobby fist on you. MONICA. May be ! Ive many a turn and many a twist for such as he. Well, you and I will mock his spite. ORLANDO. A week will send The popular fury to its height. The church will lend Secret support, through blame : she hates the pride Of Mortadello, fans our flame, and swells our tide. Really, their hold upon the State slips every hour. Keep but the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 415
…ity, as for example, cats, love to roll themselves upon coal. One day, medicine will make use of this property, and nervous persons will find great relief from it. CHAPTER II LIFE AND DEATH.—SLEEP AND WAKING SLEEP is an incomplete death; death is a complete sleep. Nature subjects us to sleep in order to accustom us to the idea of death, and warns us by dreams of the persistence of another life. The astral light into which sleep plunges us is like an ocean in which innumerable images are afloat, flotsam of wrecked existences, mirages and reflect…