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…nd myself on the floor, so like Rodin’s Cruche Cassée Danaide girl as never was . . . As I ought to have been in the beginning] Well, one thing I got (again !), that is, that when all is said and done, I am that I am, and all these thoughts of mine, angels and devils both, are only fleeting moods of me. The one true self of me is Adonai. Simple! Yet I cannot remain in that simplicity. I got this “revelation” through the Egyptian plane, a partial illumination of the reason. It has cleared up the mind; but alas! the mind is still there. This is the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 218
…be freedom when the insistent lover Shall seize thee at length in sleep, and, ravishing thee, Bear thee, unknowing, back to the heart of things, The dim, black centre whence sprang Love and Fire Who made the world, and made all suns and worlds, Tearing the thing I now make manifest From the heart of the silent god? Oh, wherefore strive? Art thou not still content to die, sweetheart? Or wilt thou seek me still through all the lives
1913 · PDF PAGE 218
…be freedom when the insistent lover Shall seize thee at length in sleep, and, ravishing thee, Bear thee, unknowing, back to the heart of things, The dim, black centre whence sprang Love and Fire Who made the world, and made all suns and worlds, Tearing the thing I now make manifest From the heart of the silent god? Oh, wherefore strive? Art thou not still content to die, sweetheart? Or wilt thou seek me still through all the lives
1919 · PDF PAGE 348
…ust be guarded in all possible ways. Perhaps even to call attention to it is a blind intended to prevent the reader from looking for something else. 46. Before the “mystic Power” can make of thee a God, Lanoo, thou must have gained the faculty to slay thy lunar form at will. It is now evident that by destroying or slaying is not meant a permanent destruction. If you can slay a thing at will it means that you can revive it at will, for the word “faculty” implies repeated action. 47. The Self of Matter and the SELF of Spirit can never meet. One o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
…luminating is but a crowd of dog-faced demons, since the One Thought of Unity with Adonai is absent. But I do it on purpose, making each thing I do into that Magic Will. So if you ask me “Are you correcting Liber DCCCCLXIII. ?" I reply, “ No! Iam Adonail " Arrival of the Visconti. Departure of the Visconti. Really a necessary rest: for my head had begun to ache, and her kiss, half given and half taken, much refreshed me. Have done Liber DCCCCLXIII. 'Tis hardly thinkable that one could have read it (merely) in the
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
… devil to whisper in thine ear the doubt: Is there in truth any mystic path at all? Is it all disappointmentand illusion ? And the “Poor Thing " John St. John moves off
1909 · PDF PAGE 125
…me to get into my Asana. Thirst! Oh how I thirst! I had not thought that there could be such suffering. The Eleventh Day It seems a poor thing to be proud of, merely to be awake. Yet I was flushed with triumph as a boy that wins his first race. The powers of Asana and Pranayama return. I did 21 Breath-cycles without fatigue. Energy returns, and Keenness to pursue the Path—all fruits of that one little victory over sleep. How delicate are these powers, so simple as they seem ! Let me be very humble, now and for ever more ! Surely at least that les…
1913 · PDF PAGE 52
40 seem unconnected with the goal. Thus it is not a priori obvious why a billiard player should need a file. Since, then, we may want anything^ let us see to it that our will is strong enough to obtain anything we want without loss of time. It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its high- est point, even though the last task but one is the total sur- render of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick. The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student …
1913 · PDF PAGE 221
…es; still roses ; still the intoxication Of the scent of the world; the virgin still unborn To this riot of life, this sensuous crash of things, This fulsome fever fretting out her life.” So! It is said! No more may I unveil The mystery! The way is hidden from me. I know not; but the aching dream still stays, Burning me up to death; the cool, strong death, Even death I shall slay in the cool, strong colonnades: I shall bear the Rose of life to the heart of death. And death shall lead me back to the shadowy river, The murmuring waters shall mock…
1913 · PDF PAGE 221
…es; still roses ; still the intoxication Of the scent of the world; the virgin still unborn To this riot of life, this sensuous crash of things, This fulsome fever fretting out her life.” So! It is said! No more may I unveil The mystery! The way is hidden from me. I know not; but the aching dream still stays, Burning me up to death; the cool, strong death, Even death I shall slay in the cool, strong colonnades: I shall bear the Rose of life to the heart of death. And death shall lead me back to the shadowy river, The murmuring waters shall mock…
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
… inches taller, and twelve inches longer reach to his credit. And a twenty—four times harder skull.” “ It’s his skin I love." " The only thing a woman ever can love." “ And his activity” " Exactly. You cannot understand Being, which is Peace.” “ Don’t! You are near my secret, now." “ Wait till the grey hours I " She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘ They hailed a fiacre. "By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’. 120
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
… inches taller, and twelve inches longer reach to his credit. And a twenty—four times harder skull.” “ It’s his skin I love." " The only thing a woman ever can love." “ And his activity” " Exactly. You cannot understand Being, which is Peace.” “ Don’t! You are near my secret, now." “ Wait till the grey hours I " She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘ They hailed a fiacre. "By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’. 120
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
6 flees into the land of Midian, and we hear nothing of what he did there, yet immediately on his return he turns the whole place upside down. Later on, too, he absents himself on Mount Sinai for a few days, and comes back with the Tables of the Law in his hand. St. Paul (again), after his adventure on the road to Damascus, goes into the desert of Arabia for many years, and on his return overturns the Roman Empire. Even in the legends of savages we find the same thing universal; somebody who is nobody in particular goes away for a longer or short…
1913 · PDF PAGE 478
… himself. In a meeting of several persons, it may be that all will see the miracles—with the exception of one, who will see absolutely nothing. Among the persons who do see, all do not see the same thing. Thus, for example: One evening, at Mme. de B——’s, the medium made appear a child which that lady had lost. Mme. de B alone saw the child; Count de M—— sawa little whitish vapour, in the shape of a pyramid; the others saw nothing. Everybody knows that certain substances, hashish, for example, intoxicate without taking away the use of reason, an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 478
… himself. In a meeting of several persons, it may be that all will see the miracles—with the exception of one, who will see absolutely nothing. Among the persons who do see, all do not see the same thing. Thus, for example: One evening, at Mme. de B——’s, the medium made appear a child which that lady had lost. Mme. de B alone saw the child; Count de M—— sawa little whitish vapour, in the shape of a pyramid; the others saw nothing. Everybody knows that certain substances, hashish, for example, intoxicate without taking away the use of reason, an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
…ual to Neroda-Samapatti, the trance of Nibbana. I hope I shall be able to live up to this! Have been practising Asana, etc. I forgot one thing in the last entry: I had been reproaching Adonai that for six days I had evoked Him in vain. . . . I got the reply, “ The Seventh Day shall be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” So mote it be! T/æ Seven/ll Day. I began this great day with Eight breath—cycles; was stopped by the indigestion trouble in its other form. (P.S.—Evidently the introduction of the Cascara into my sensitive aura made its action ins…
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…ok at the passages in the Holy Books which speak of the action of the spirit under the figure of a deadly poison. For to each individual thing attainment means first and foremost the destruction of the individuality. Each of our ideas must be made to give up the Self to the Beloved, so that we may eventually give up the Self to the Beloved in our turn. It will be remembered in the History Lection ^how the Adepts "who had with smiling faces abandoned their homes and their possessions — could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Grea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 188
…Well, I think I know pretty well what you mean; so I will try to imitate the style of Aunt Tabitha in "The Flapper's Fireside. " For one thing, you forgot to mention the Lamen. Now what are these things when they are at home? That's easy enough. The Lamen is a sort of Coat of Arms. It expresses the character and powers of the wearer. A talisman is a storehouse of some particular kind of energy, the kind that is needed to accomplish the task for which you have constructed it. The Pantacle is often confused with both the others; accurately, it is…
1904 · PDF PAGE 16
… children (face the Education Act) are taught that the Universe lies in infinite Space ; Hindu children, in the Akasa, which is the same thing. Those Europeans who go a little deeper learn from Fichte, that the phenomenal Universe is the creation of the Ego; Hindus, or Europeans studying under Hindu Gurus, are told, that by Akasa is meant the Chit- akaga. The ChitakaSa is situated in the “‘ Third Eye,” z.¢., in the brain. By assuming higher dimensions of space, we can assimilate this fact to Realism; but we have no need to take so much trouble.…
1902 · PDF PAGE 14
…I have in view in speaking both in Hebrew and Egypto-Christian symbology is that by this means I may familiarise my readers with the one thing of any importance that life, travel, and study have taught me, to wit : the Origin of Religions. I take it that there have always, or nearly always, been on the earth those whom Councillor von Eckartshausen, the Svdmi Vivekdnanda and their like, call " great spiritual giants" (can there be any etymological link between "yogi" and " ogre " ?) and that such persons, themselves per- ceiving Truth, have trie…