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…CK What is Existence? The question is so fundamental that it finds no answer. The most profound meditation only leads to an exasperating sense of impotence. There is, it seems, no simple rational idea in the mind which corresponds to the word. It is easy of course to drown the question in definitions, leading us to further complexity—but “ Existence is the gift of Divine Providence,” “ Existence is the opposite of Non-Existence,” do not help us much ! The plain Existence is Existence of the Hebrews goes farther. It is the most sceptical of stat…
1919 · PDF PAGE 365
…ith advance in knowledge. By “Head- learning” is meant the contents of the Ruach (mind) or Manas. Chiah is sub-consciousness in its best sense, that subliminal which is sublime. The “Eye” doctrine then means the exoteric, the “Heart” doctrine the esoteric. Of course, in a more secret doctrine still, there is an Eye Doc- trine which transcends the Heart Doctrine as that tran- scends this lesser Eye Doctrine. 9. Yea, ignorance is like unto a closed and airless vessel; the soul a bird shut up within. It warbles not, nor can it stir a feather; but …
1922 · PDF PAGE 199
… to wander. We were whirled on the wings of woe across the flaming skies of anguish. I remember Peter standing at the table, lost to all sense of actuality. He cried in a shrill, cracked voice :— ‘** Her cranial dome is vaulted, Her mad Mongolian eyes Aslant with the ecstasies Of things. immune, exalted . Far beyond stars and skies, Slits of amber and jet——” I heard him across abysses of aching inanity. A thrill of Satanic triumph tingled in my soul, and composed a symphony from its screams. I leapt with lust to recognise myselfin the repulsive…
1954 · PDF PAGE 133
…imself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic lines little by little. The rest is only leather and prunella. There is, however, a sense in which the service of humanity is necessary to the completeness of the Adept . He is not to flyaway too far. Some remarks on this course are given in the note to the nex t verse. The student is also advised to take note of the conditions of membership of the A :. A : . . (The Equinox, Vol. III, Supplement p. 57-59.) We come down to the average popular "teacher," the mere humbug. Read this: One day quit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 217
MANIFESTO OF THE 0.T.O. sense in which that expression is usually understood; and therefore in no way conflicts with, or infringes the just privileges of, the United Grand Lodge of England, or any Grand Lodge in America or elsewhere which is recognized by it. 10. Application for admission to the Order may be made personally at headquarters, between the hours of Ten a.m. and Twelve Noon on week-days, or by letter to the Grand Secretary General. Inthe former case, applicants should be provided with the Twenty Dollars entitling them to the Third D…
1919 · PDF PAGE 337
…cted with the question of the Ego and the non-Ego. The phe- nomenon described is perhaps Atmadarshana, which is still a delusion, in one sense still a delusion of personality; for although the Ego is destroyed in the Universe, and the Uni- verse in it, there is a distinct though exceedingly subtle ten- dency to sum up its experience as Ego. These three verses might be interpreted also as quite ele- mentary; v. 14 as blindness to the First Noble Truth “Everything is Sorrow”; v. 15 as the coward’s attempt to escape Sorrow by Retreat; and v. 16 as…
1996 · PDF PAGE 6
…er of the small English expatriate community in New York during the First World War. Wilkinson was an English man of letters in the best sense; he not only wrote, and wrote well, but lived a literary life 7
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
…hter upon the throne of the Mother”. In the card itself there is consequently a glyph of the completion of the Great Work in its highest sense, exactly as the Atu of the Fool symbolizes its beginning. The Fool is the negative issuing into manifestation; the Universe is that manifestation, its purpose accomplished, ready to re‐ turn. The twenty cards that lie between these two exhibit the Great Work and its agents in various stages. The image of the Universe in this sense is accordingly that of a maiden, the fi‐ nal letter of Tetragrammaton. In …
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
…truth. Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any ! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference ’Twixt spirit and the things of sense. What is the quarrel between us ? Why do our thoughts so idly clatter ? I do not care one jot for matter, One jot for spirit, while you say One is pure ether, one pure clay. I’ve talked too long : you’re very good— I only hope you’ve understood ! Remember that “conversion” lurks Nowhere behind my words and works. Go home and think ! my talk refined To the sheer needs of your own mind. You cannot bring Go…
1913 · PDF PAGE 408
THE EQUINOX always imply a state analogous to somnambulism. But in a contrary sense; somnambulism is slumber borrowing its phenomena from waking; hallucination is waking still partially subjected to the astral intoxication of slumber. Our fluidic bodies attract and repulse each other following laws similar to those of electricity. It is this which produces instinctive sympathies and antipathies. They thus equilibrate each other, and for this reason hallucinations are often con- tagious; abnormal projections change the luminous currents ; the pe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 408
THE EQUINOX always imply a state analogous to somnambulism. But in a contrary sense; somnambulism is slumber borrowing its phenomena from waking; hallucination is waking still partially subjected to the astral intoxication of slumber. Our fluidic bodies attract and repulse each other following laws similar to those of electricity. It is this which produces instinctive sympathies and antipathies. They thus equilibrate each other, and for this reason hallucinations are often con- tagious; abnormal projections change the luminous currents ; the pe…
1919 · PDF PAGE 381
…imself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic lines little by little. The rest is only leather and Prunella. There is, however, a sense in which the service of human- ity is necessary to the completeness of the Adept. He is not to fly away too far. Some remarks on this course are given in the note to the next verse. The student is also advised to take note of the conditions of membership of the A... A. 43. Know, O Disciple, this is the Secret PATH, selected by the Buddhas of Perfection, who sacrificed the SELF to weaker Selves. This is a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…blind, And my own “Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. But then you argue, and with sense; “I have this worthy evidence That things are real, since I cease The painter’s ecstasy of peace, And find them all unchanged.” To-day I cannot brush that doubt away ; It leads to tedious argument Uncertain, in the best event : Unless, indeed, I should invoke The fourth dimension, clear the smoke Psychology still leaves. This question Needs a more adequate digestion. Yet I may answer that the universe Of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 386
…es be planted; they are meant for that purpose.” “ A cover cannot fall in love except with boards and planks. Beware of the fallacies of sense.” As any one may understand, my mind was a pandemonium, but still I could not refuse to submit to so clear an order, and I handed the roses to the maidens. I had not to repent the 378
1909 · PDF PAGE 386
…es be planted; they are meant for that purpose.” “ A cover cannot fall in love except with boards and planks. Beware of the fallacies of sense.” As any one may understand, my mind was a pandemonium, but still I could not refuse to submit to so clear an order, and I handed the roses to the maidens. I had not to repent the 378
1919 · PDF PAGE 355
…vice that it expands and waxes strong, like to the worm that fattens on the blossom’s heart. This verse must not be taken in its literal sense. Hunger is not conquered by starvation. One’s attitude to all the necessities which the traditions of earthly life involve should be to rule them, neither by mortification nor by indulgence. In order to do the work you must keep in proper physical and mental condition. Be sane. Asceticism always excites the mind, and the object of the Disciple is to calm it. However, ascetic originally meant athletic, an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
…eld dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,* and count my beads, Murmur my mantra,” till recedes The world of sense and thought—I sink 475 480 485 490 495 600 505 610
1909 · PDF PAGE 30
3.15. 3.30. 345. 28 THE EQUINOX Yet now—ah now 1—1 am but a dead man. Within me and without still stirs that life of sense that is not life, but is as the worms that {east upon my corpse. . . . Adonail Adonai! my Lord Adonai! indeed, Thou hast forsaken me. Nay! thou liest, O weak soul! Abide in the meditation; unite all thy symbols into the form of a Lion, and be lord of thy jungle, travelling through the servile Universe even as Man the Lion very lordly, the Sun in His strength that travelleth over the heaven of Nu in His bark in the mid-caree…
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
… contest and being told that one may do anything but listen. Only worse! One could form some idea of how they were playing through other senses; in this case every faculty is the enemy of the Work. At first sight the problem seems insoluble. It may be so, for me. At least, I have not solved it. Yet I have come very near it, many a time, of old ; have solved it indeed, though in a less important sense than now I seek. I am not to be content with little or with much; but only with the Ultimate Attainment. Apparently the method is just this; to sto…
1909 · PDF PAGE 404
…like a Sunday-School Teacher at a village treat. In the mouth of this soft-spoken counter-jumper the wildest words take on the smoothest sense. By sheer dint of cadence 396