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…d are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing results external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordinary common-sense acceptation of the term) we are here silent.] 6. There are three important practices connected with all forms of ceremonial (and the two Methods which later we shall describe). These are: 16
…d are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing results external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordinary common-sense acceptation of the term) we are here silent.] 6. There are three important practices connected with all forms of ceremonial (and the two Methods which later we shall describe). These are: 16
…inners. The Adept does what he likes, or rather what he wills, and allows nothing to interfere with it, but because he is ascetic in the sense that he has no appetite for the stale stupidities which 47
…description of this fifth gate, the key to which (it will be remembered) was Virya— that is, energy and will, Manhood in its most secret sense. It seems rather useless to tell the Student to have mastery over his thoughts in this verse, because he has been doing nothing else in all the previous Gates. 49. Have mastery o’er thy Soul, O seeker after truths un- dying, if thou would’st reach the goal. The pupil is also told to have mastery over his Soul, and again there is no indication as to what is meant by “Soul.” Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya once rem…
…d dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,48 and count my beads, Murmer my mantra,49 till recedes The world of sense and thought—I sink 475 480 485 490 495 500 505 510 Fact replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware. For I speak subtly. Results of prac- tice. The poet abandons all to find Truth.
…d strength so necessary in this severe mental struggle , and as Ribot says : “ It is all confined to an alienation , in the etymological sense , of certain states of consciousness which the ego does not consider as its own , but which it objectivates , and finally , by placing it outside itself , ends by attri buting an actual existence independent of its own ." 2 Others attain but a glimpse . Maimonides long ago noticed : Learn that Prophecy is an emanation from God which flows , through the intermediary of the active Intellect , upon the rati…
…waters are excessively foul, and even the most devout make a wry face when drinking them. 2. Jasmine podex — surely a true perversion of sense ! Yet the adjective is as invariable as pius for Aeneas and fidus for Achates. 3. Fatihah, the first chapter of the Q’uran. To recite it 1,000 times nightly causes one to become a great Sheikh. 4. Surely Oriental exaggeration. A. L. (Not at all. I do not think that El Haji necessarily means separate and distinct emissions ; he may mean thrusts. Now even the uneducated Briton, with a little practice, can …
…n house well, it is certain that what reputation he may have made in public affairs is a deserved one. I have never met any man with the sense of order so admirably developed as Mr. Stuart. He can lay his hands on any scrap of paper at a moments notice. Every book in his shelves has its proper place. His house is fitted with every convenience and even luxury, yet entirely without ostentation or extravagance. Nor is the order in which things are kept a visible order. No one would suspect it. It is
…her professional entertainers —some long, sordid, silly story of sexual jealousy, I suppose. The band was deafening. The fine edge of my sense was dulled. It was in a sort of hot nightmare that I saw, through the smoke and the stink of the club, the evil smile of Mrs. Webster. Small as the woman was, she seemed to fill the door- way. She preoccupied the attention in the same way zO
…esn’t any more. It makes one’s mind very full; drags out the details ; but it doesn’t make one think and talk and act with that glorious sense of speed. I think the truth is that we've got tired out. Suppose I suggest to Cockie that we knock off for a week and get our physical strength back and start fresh. I may as well telephone Gretel and arrange for a really big supply. If we're going to live at Barley Grange, we'll have to be cocaine hogs and lay in a big stock. There wouldn’t be any chance of getting it down there ; and besides one must t…
…utical constructions . Because of their unintelligibility words were transposed , numericalisms added , till at last much if not all its sense was lost in a maze of mental legerdemain , and in such exegetical methods as 1 Orpheus , vol . iii , pp . 156 , 157 .
…mplies this matter; but this type of work is, for the younger student, as dangerous as it is superficially attractive. It encourages the sense of guilt, teaches the venomous art of self-exculpation, and extols that very hypocrisy which Freedom notably condemns. "Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries." (AL, II: 52) B. Practice: No one teacher , however gifted, can possibly cover one hundredth part of the groundwork of this Art. The best tuition is that of trained and consecrated experts ; next , that of men and women of natural genius. C…
THE EQUINOX fact; man is a religious animal. The word “religion” has then a necessary and absolute sense. Nature herself sanctifies the idea which this word represents, and exalts it to the height of a principle. The need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish its…
THE EQUINOX fact; man is a religious animal. The word “religion” has then a necessary and absolute sense. Nature herself sanctifies the idea which this word represents, and exalts it to the height of a principle. The need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish its…
…or your lever: you are ready to understand that this pulsation of Unity is itself Duality, and therefore, in the highest and most sacred sense, still Sorrow and Illusion; which having comprehended, aspire yet again, even unto the Fourth of the Gifts of the Law, unto the End of the Path, even unto Light. IV OF LIGHT I pray you, be patient with me in that which I shall write concerning Light: for here is a difficulty, ever increasing, in the use of words. Moreover, I am myself carried away con- 119
… When the Disciple sees and hears, and when he smells and tastes, eyes closed, ears shut, with mouth and nostrils stopped; when the four senses blend and ready are to pass into the fifth, that of the inner touch—then into stage the fourth he hath passed on. The practice indicated in verse 74 is described in most books upon the Tatwas. The orifices of the face being cov- ered with the fingers, the senses take on a new shape. 75. And in the fifth, O slayer of thy thoughts, all these have to be killed beyond re-animation. It is not sufficient to g…
…s bright shrine. It is the mental changes and the invading thoughts which distress us. These are to be understood in a rather ad- vanced sense, for of course thought must have been con- quered earlier than this, that is to say, the self must have been separated from its thoughts, so that they no longer disturb that self. Now, however, the fortress walls must bethrown down, and the mind slain in the open field. 39. If thou would’st not be slain by them, then must thou harmless make thy own creations, the children of thy thoughts unseen, impalpab…
…ring. Their position is radically weak, but at least we may say for them that they have tried to square their religion with their common sense. The Christians, on the other hand, though they saw whither the Manichean Heresy! must lead, and crushed it, have not officially admitted the precisely similar con- clusion with regard to man, and denied the existence of the human soul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblicus, Porphyry, Boehme, and the mystics generally have of course substantially done so, though occa- sionally with rat…
…iety , as scathing as a Beverland , as cynical as a Carlyle , and as satirical as a Butler . Its great theme is the contest “ of age and sense with flatulence and youth .” We have already shaken hands with Percy , Molly , and Lady Baird ( Angela ) ; we have still to be introduced to Lord Glenstrae . The first two form the flatulent element , the latter two the constipated substance of this drama . Angela , the female quantity ; Glenstrae the male : both are outwardly highly moral ; both are ready to lay their 1 Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 2…
…s to whether this form of nutrition is palatable. But, alas ! even in those idyllic Chestertonian times there was a little shrewd common sense knocking about ; the instinctsometimes very