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Page 32 of 1151910 · PDF PAGE 467
…nknowable!” Thus did that knightly Saracen In Cantabrig’s miasmal fen Lecture to many learned men. So clamorous was their applause— “His mind” (said they) “is free of flaws: The Veil of God is thin as gauze! ”— That almost they had dulled or drowned The laughter (in its belly bound) Of that dread Beast he had not found. Nathless—although he would away— They forced the lack-luck knight to stay And lecture many a weary day. Verily, almost he had caught The infection of their costive thought, And brought his loyal quest to naught. It was by night …
1910 · PDF PAGE 467
…nknowable!” Thus did that knightly Saracen In Cantabrig’s miasmal fen Lecture to many learned men. So clamorous was their applause— “His mind” (said they) “is free of flaws: The Veil of God is thin as gauze! ”— That almost they had dulled or drowned The laughter (in its belly bound) Of that dread Beast he had not found. Nathless—although he would away— They forced the lack-luck knight to stay And lecture many a weary day. Verily, almost he had caught The infection of their costive thought, And brought his loyal quest to naught. It was by night …
1912 · PDF PAGE 79
…er form of Samadhi. Others, however, treat it as if it were merely an intensification of Dharana. Patanjali says: “Dharana is holding the mind on to some particular object. An unbroken flow of knowledge in that subject is Dhyana. When that, giving up all forms, reflects only the meaning, it is Samadhi.” He combines these three into Samyama. We shall treat of Dhyana as a result rather than as a method. Up to this point ancient authorities have been fairly reliable guides, except with regard to their crabbed ethics,- but when they get on the subject…
1961 · PDF PAGE 31
…d of Purity. And this is because the Blood hath absorbed, in its Need of Nutriment, all foreign Elements. Such also is the Case with the Mind which hath not fed itself on Thought. Consider the placid and ruminent Existence of such Persons as read little, are removed from worldy Struggle by some sufficient Property of small and unexciting Value, stably invested, and by Age and Environment are free from Passion. They live, according to their own Nature, without Desire, and they oppose no Resistance to the Operations of Time. Such are called Happy…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…consciousness that he is found with atavistic ardour recalling his father’s last instructions ere he left home for school—“ and, Talbot, mind you always tell the truth, what ever comes of it I” the “ Talbot ” itself being a deliberate lie told under the sacred seal of baptism in the silly snobbish hope of persuading strangers that his ancestors were all Talbots, and that it is but by some complication of the 102' Salz'gue that his surname is Stubbs—even though that is notoriously but an honest British corruption of St. Hubert. Once leave Tlu: T…
1898 · PDF PAGE 54
… shaken earth ; Who holds the lightning in His holy hand, And binds the stars in adamantine band, And yearns towards the children of His mind. I left their summer and their dewy strand To pass a life of work, alone, unkind, To fight a way toward heaven, mute, desolate and blind. The dusty desert glimmers in the night, A solitary palm-tree shades the well ; I am alone, a weary eremite Striving the secrets of the stars to tell, And every blade of grass that makes the dell Is counted and divined by me, who stare With eyes half blinded by the fires…
1905 · PDF PAGE 145
… the Law can cite, yet knows and walks therein aright, and shuns the snare Of passion, folly, hate entwined : Right Effort liberates his mind, he doth not care
1909 · PDF PAGE 108
98 THE EQUINOX Blended, in one annihilation blind Were rent into a myriad of suns. Yea! all the mighty fabric ofa Mind Stood in the abyss, Belching a Law for 7a¢ more awful than for is. XVI Vain was the toil. So then I left the wood And came unto the still black sea, That oily monster of beatitude ! (Hath Thee for Me, and Me for Thee /) There as I stood, a mask of solitude Hiding a face Wried as a satyr’s, rolled that ocean into space. XVII Then did I build an altar on the shore Of oyster-shells, and ringed it round With star-fish. Thither a gr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 108
98 THE EQUINOX Blended, in one annihilation blind Were rent into a myriad of suns. Yea! all the mighty fabric ofa Mind Stood in the abyss, Belching a Law for 7a¢ more awful than for is. XVI Vain was the toil. So then I left the wood And came unto the still black sea, That oily monster of beatitude ! (Hath Thee for Me, and Me for Thee /) There as I stood, a mask of solitude Hiding a face Wried as a satyr’s, rolled that ocean into space. XVII Then did I build an altar on the shore Of oyster-shells, and ringed it round With star-fish. Thither a gr…
1961 · PDF PAGE 29
… Meditation let me disclose unto thee more fully the Mystery of the Key of Dreams and Phantasies. Learn first that as the Thought of the Mind standeth before the Soul and hindereth its Manifestation in consciousness, so also the gross physical Will is the Creator of the Dreams of common Men, and as in Meditation thou doest destroy every Thought by mating it with its Opposite, so must thou cleanse thyself by a full and perfect Satisfaction of that bodily will in the Way of Chastity and Holiness which has been revealed unto thee in thy Initiation…
1919 · PDF PAGE 174
…moved through all Eternity. Oh Thou, on Whom man looks through the senses, and sees as the world. Oh Thou, on Whom man looks through the mind and sees as the world of thought. Oh Thou on Whom man looks as Thyself and becomes Infinite Bliss, let there be no thought of separateness, for there is none other. Thou Art That. If I call Thee a Point, Thou laughest, saying: “I am the Infinite Circle.” If I worship the Circle, Thou laughest, saying: “I am concealed in the Point.” Only if I claim Thee Wholly, may I define Thee. Then who cares, Aye or Nay…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…o induce in others the incorporeal idea of satisfying mine. I made my Will manifest to sense} sense swayed the Wills of my fellow- meii} mind wrought on mind through matter. I did not “sit for” a medical baronetcy by wishing I had it, or by an “act of faith”, or by praying to God “to move Pharaoh’s heart”, as our modem mental, or our mediaeval, mystic, miracle- mongers were and are muddlers and maudlin enough to advise us to do. A few general observations on the Magical Link may not be amiss, in default of details} one cannot make a Manual of H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
After tea — another ordeal of small-talk — she had made up her mind. Or, more accurately, she had become conscious of herself. She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. H…
1902 · PDF PAGE 25
…xiine vase, And lose my purpose in its silent sea, And lose my life, and find my life, and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. An holy man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him : he bade me not despair. " The Blood of the Osiris " was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) "The life, the tears, the tomb ! " The Love of I sis is its name ! " (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses…
1902 · PDF PAGE 28
…on staggers. Angels, answer me ! Ye who have watched the far unfolding plan— How is time shorter than eternity ? Prove it and weigh ! By mind it cannot be. All our divisions spring in our own brain. See ! As upsprings on the horizon there A clefted hill contemptuous of the plain. (Why, which is higher ?) I am in despair. Let me essay the Pharaoh and his prayer ! [ Tannh'diiser speaks the Word of Double Power. 26
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…ums- tances the great majority do not rise into con- sciousness at all, for one is occupied with one main current of ideas. But once the mind seeks to check all possible currents of ideas, the simple im- pressions rise into the vacant space, which is fairly bombarded. 4. “ Into one wave all the wavelets ” is the Hindu equivalent for this. El Baab, when the orthodox took him out to be shot, having dug holes in his skin and filled them with lighted bamboo-shoots dipped in wax, is said to have observed : These are many flamelets, and will soon exp…
1902 · PDF PAGE 24
… The Key of all that is not and that is, And that which — climb, imagination ! climb ! — Transcends them both— the mystical abj'ss Where Mind and Being marry, and are Bliss. So have I journeyed —like a fool ! Ah, well ! Let pass self-scorn, as love of self is past ! But—am I further forward ? Who can tell ? God is the Complex as the Protoplast : He is the First (not " was"), and is the Last (Not " will be "). Then why travel ? To what end? What is the symbol I am set to find ? What is that burning heart of blood to spend Caught in a sunset with…
1909 · PDF PAGE 105
… seek him. First my footsteps faint Pressed the starred moss ; but soon I wandered, like some sweet sequestered saint, Into the wood, my mind. The moon Was staggered by the trees ; with fierce constraint Hardly one ray Pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay. VIII I wandered, crying on my Lord. I wandered Eagerly seeking everywhere. The stores of life that on my lips he squandered Grew into shrill cries of despair, Until the dryads frightened and dumfoundered Fled into space— Like to a demon-king’s was grown my maiden face | IX A…
1909 · PDF PAGE 105
… seek him. First my footsteps faint Pressed the starred moss ; but soon I wandered, like some sweet sequestered saint, Into the wood, my mind. The moon Was staggered by the trees ; with fierce constraint Hardly one ray Pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay. VIII I wandered, crying on my Lord. I wandered Eagerly seeking everywhere. The stores of life that on my lips he squandered Grew into shrill cries of despair, Until the dryads frightened and dumfoundered Fled into space— Like to a demon-king’s was grown my maiden face | IX A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
… thoughts invade my heart, Of thee my heart but lightly deems. As he who worships Allah2 knows, His Teacher light the fool esteems Whose mind is occupied with sense — And how the crowd of senses teems !3 But El Qahar doth love ; collects Into one ocean all the streams.4 1. This is the Rabelasian jest — the story of Hans Carvels ring — in Eastern dress. 2. Again a confusion. He refers to the Sufi, not to the Zahid. (Teacher is nominative — fool accu- sative. Ed.) 3. Anyone who has practised even for a short time any of the Eastern systems of med…