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Page 35 of 831954 · PDF PAGE 124
… I acquiesce in the policy of concealment in a matter so cardinal? Perhaps the best plan is for me to set down the facts of the case, so far as is possible; from them it may appear that no alternative policy is feasible. The first condition of membership of the A :. A :. is that one is sworn to identify one's own Great Work with that of raising mankind to higher levels, spiritually, and in every other way. Accordingly, it stands to reason that those charged with the conduct of the Order should be at least Masters of the Temple, or their judgmen…
1954 · PDF PAGE 386
…y above thesis is all important; note the fury of denunciation in AL, I: 41-42! As to property in general, the Book lays down no law. So far as one can see, it seems to adhere to "the good old rule, the simple plan that they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can." Now then, as to war. You need hardly have asked the question; the whole Book is alive with it; it thrills, it throbs, 353
1954 · PDF PAGE 532
…t people in general would like to get some idea of my system of training as a whole, in a comprehensive form. In the past there has been far too much of referring them to one quite unprocurable document and then to another which probably has not even been written. No wonder that they go away sorrowful. So I am going to put in as the last of this series of Letters an account, as clear and as succinct as the gods enable me to do, of what they may expect to have to do to get good marks from Grandfather. Of course I shall not be able to avoid altog…
1901 · PDF PAGE 47
THE COURT OF THE PROFANE. 35 Ah turn, my bosom for thy love is cold ; My arms are empty, and my lips can hold No converse with thee far away like this. O for that communing pregnant with a kiss That is reborn when lips are set together To link our souls in one desirous tether, And weld our very bodies into one. Ah fiend Jehovah, what then have we done To earn thy curse ? Is love like ours too strong To dwell before thee, and do thy throne no wrong ? Art thou grown jealous of the fiery band ? Lo ! thou hast spoken, and thy strong command Bade ea…
1912 · PDF PAGE 98
…hyana: “ Perhaps as a result of the intense control a nervous storm breaks: this we call Dhyana. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see.” Five years later he would not take this view. He would say perhaps that Dhyana was “ a flowing of the mind in one unbroken current from the ego to the non-ego without consciousnessof either, accompanied by a crescent wonder and bliss.” He can understand how that is the
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
…ead or somebody wise like that tell me why it is that if I get out of my body and face (say) East, I can turn (in the “ astral body") as far as West-Sou’-West or thereabouts, but no further except with very great difficulty and after long practice? In making the circle, just as I got to West, I would swing right back to West—Nor’-West: turn easily enough, in short, to any point but due West, within perhaps 5", but never pass that point. I have taught myself to do it, but always with an effort. Is this a common experience ? I connect it with my f…
1919 · PDF PAGE 344
…us. But there is a more technical meaning yet—and this whole verse describes a particular method of meditation, a final method, which is far too difficult for the beginner. [See, however, THE Egurnox, on all these points.] 37. Then from the heart that Power shall rise into the sixth, the middle region, the place between thine eyes, when it becomes the breath of the ONE-SOUL, the voice which filleth all, thy Master’s voice. This verse teaches the concentration of the Kundalini in the Ajna Cakra. “Breath” is that which goes to and fro, 22
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…ical, whose terms lack precision, and whose theses cancel each other out. I might claim a good deal of credit for having written out, as far back as 1902, a reasonably complete demonstration of this conclusion whose premisses were not stated by the official leaders of thought till long afterwards. Yet the theory of initiation on which European adepts base their systems (derived, possibly, from the Egyptians and Chaldeans by way of the gnostics, Pythagoras and the neoplatonists), that of Lao tzu in China, and that of the Vedantists in India, ali…
1906 · PDF PAGE 122
… abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice An unseen hand has caught the uplifted knife, A grinning face lurked out from the blank air Between me and that filthy sorceress. SECOND WOMAN. Daily I poison the she-devil’s drink, And nothing harms her ! THIRD WOMAN. I have a toad whose breath Destroys all life CHORUS. Thou dealest in such arts? ‘THIRD WOMAN. Ay ! for this hate’…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…thwart , Live in each tingling gossamer ! Dread eyes ! Each flings its arrow of sharp sacrifice , Eating me up with poison ! I am hurled Far through the vaporous confines of the world With agony of sundering sense , beholding Thy mighty flower , blood - coloured death , unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , Life ! Life ! This Kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! He is lost ! Act II opens w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…y mouth is mine !" The vision of Elizabeth , the loved one of his boy hood - his pure ideal — rises before him . so delicate and frail , Far , white , and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any eye but God's .2 And he tells Venus of her . To which she answers : Thine old desire Was just to touch the mere impalpable , To formulate the formless ... 3 Again Tannhäuser bursts into song , one of those magnificent lyrics , flashing like a ruby , warm and flaming in the glowing gold of this drama . And thus does his song end : Whose long - …
1910 · PDF PAGE 45
…nd self-consciousness. At that time, he met with the adven- ture which I related. A young widow horse-whipped him. Lionel was still very far from his salvation. IX THE HERMIT HE went to seek it in the wilderness. A cottage green as a lizard, surrounded by flowers and trees, well furnished, well kept by a couple of servants, male and female, such was the chosen retreat. It proved very comfortable—and lonely. He pursued his education, often troubled by horrid visions, when he saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, ar…
1910 · PDF PAGE 45
…nd self-consciousness. At that time, he met with the adven- ture which I related. A young widow horse-whipped him. Lionel was still very far from his salvation. IX THE HERMIT HE went to seek it in the wilderness. A cottage green as a lizard, surrounded by flowers and trees, well furnished, well kept by a couple of servants, male and female, such was the chosen retreat. It proved very comfortable—and lonely. He pursued his education, often troubled by horrid visions, when he saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, ar…
1912 · PDF PAGE 123
…t Nature was weary of the procession, for Placide had never married, but lived alone in his hut in the forest of Fontainebleau, just too far from the borders for it ever to be worth his while to go into a village for a drink except on very special occasions. He had even been overlooked for military service; and the Prussians had come and gone without interfering with his chopping. He could not read or write, and his language had many less than half a thousand words. In such conditions he deserved his Christian name. In the forest even an hour c…
1912 · PDF PAGE 123
…t Nature was weary of the procession, for Placide had never married, but lived alone in his hut in the forest of Fontainebleau, just too far from the borders for it ever to be worth his while to go into a village for a drink except on very special occasions. He had even been overlooked for military service; and the Prussians had come and gone without interfering with his chopping. He could not read or write, and his language had many less than half a thousand words. In such conditions he deserved his Christian name. In the forest even an hour c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 445
… running waters, thou should’st not leave it to become a stagnant pond. Here we have the same thesis developed with unexpected force. So far from the Path being repose, the slightest slackening turns it stagnant. 81. Know, if of Amitabha, the “Boundless Age,” thou would’st become co-worker, then must thou shed the light 123
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…he slide is gone, and a world of life discovered, though the real import of that world is not apprehended, until one’s knowledge becomes far greater than a single glance can make it. 21
1910 · PDF PAGE 104
…ld know more I, I am concentrate In the unshakable state Of constant rapture. Who should pour His ravings in the air for winds to whirl, Far from the central pearl Of all the diadem of the universe ? Let God take pen, rehearse Dull nursery tales ; then, not before, O rose, Red rose ! shall the beloved of thee, Infinite rose ! pen puerile poetry That turns in writing to vile prose. 11. Were this the quintessential plume of Keats And Shelley and Swinburne and Verlaine, Could I outsoar them, all their lyric feats, Excel their utterance vain With o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 27
…int where you are nearing success. In your early struggles you may have found it difficult to conquer sleep; and you may have wandered so far from the object of your meditations without noticing it, that the meditation has really been broken; but much later on, when you feel that you are “getting quite good,” you will be shocked to find a complete oblivion of yourself and
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…ibertythe answer to my prayer. In ignorance I asked the crown of martyrdom ; My soul serenely basked in that suns holy home. How finer far the work now given me to do, My service not to shirk, a service all for you ! It were an easy ascent to heaven, to have died. How harder to consent to be your Doges bride ! Praise me not ; still I smart ; half renegade I rank me But no Venetian heart that shall not learn to thank me ! ALESSANDRO. [Without.] Praise to the King of Kings ! we bow before His will. She hath not soiled her wings ; she is out An…