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Page 35 of 871929 · PDF PAGE 52
…rit he issues commands. It will be seen that this is a formula rather of évocation than of invocation, and for the latter the procedure, though apparently the same, should be conceived of in a difiFerent manner, which brings it under another formula, that of Tetragrammaton. The essence of the force invoked is one, but the “God” represents the germ or beginning of the force, the “Archangel” its development; and so on, until, with the “Spirit”, we hâve the completion and perfection of that force. I. Beware, O brother, lest thou bend the knee! Lib…
1929 · PDF PAGE 286
286 Though the upper river passes through hilly country, it still signals its sinister message of decay and death. A dramatic incident had stamped the fact on my memory. On the steamer was an old man, a distinguished official who had intended to retire from the service and take his pension a month or two before. He had been personally requested by the lieutenant governor to postpone his return to England that he might facilitate the arrangements for the visit of the Prince of Wales. The conversation of Europeans in these parts {467} of the eart…
1909 · PDF PAGE 34
… will therefore now (11.50) sit down again and invoke reallyhardon these same lines,while the Perfume and the Vision are yet formulated, though insensibly, about me. And thus shall end the Third day of my retirement. The Fourth Day So therefore begins the fourth day of this my great magical retirement; I bleed from the slashes of the
1913 · PDF PAGE 259
…ing saint. Mr. Wilmshurst was reading through the will in which the dying saint had left everything to Lady S——, and could find no flaw, though he had drawn it up himself. Mr. Battiscombe Gunn was rapidly revising the funeral arrange- ments of the dying saint, which he proposed to found on some unedited documents of the Second Dynasty, which showed conclusively that the sacred lotus was in reality a corset, and the Weapon of Men Thu a button-hook. Neuburg was improvising (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a crooning lay to th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 259
…ing saint. Mr. Wilmshurst was reading through the will in which the dying saint had left everything to Lady S——, and could find no flaw, though he had drawn it up himself. Mr. Battiscombe Gunn was rapidly revising the funeral arrange- ments of the dying saint, which he proposed to found on some unedited documents of the Second Dynasty, which showed conclusively that the sacred lotus was in reality a corset, and the Weapon of Men Thu a button-hook. Neuburg was improvising (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a crooning lay to th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…ay good coin for perishable products; like marrying for money, or prostituting poetic genius to political purposes. The converse course, though equally — 190
1954 · PDF PAGE 497
…he Arabs, for example, have "seven heavens" and seven Orders of Angels, also linn? but the classes are by no means identical. This, even though certain Archangels, notably Gabriel , appear in both systems. But then Gabriel is a definite individual , a person-and this fact is the key to your puzzle. For, as I have explained in a previous letter, Gods are people: macrocosms, not mere collocations of the elements , planets and signs as are most of the angels, intelligences and spirits. It is interesting to note that Gabriel in particular seems to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
viii INTRODUCTION Religion is that made by Blavatzky. But though she had an immense genius for acquiring facts, she had none whatever for sorting and selecting the essentials. Grant Allen made a very slipshod experiment in this line; so have some of the polemical rationalists; but the only man worthy of our notice is Frazer of the Golden Bough. Here, again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. This: That when a Japanese thinks of Hachiman, and a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
…operly. I say in vain “ Labbaik! ” [I am here—En] He answers, “ But I ’m not here, old boy—another leg-pull ! ” He little knows His man, though, if He thinks He can insult me with impunity. Andre, un sandwich l [Beyt Allah, the Mosque at Mecca, means " House of God ”—ED.] I shall stop mantra while I eat, so as to concentrate (a) on the chewing, (b) on defiling the House of God. Not so easy! the damned thing runs on like a prairie fire. Important then to stop it absolutely at will : even the Work itself may become an obsession. I 1 hours with no r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 129
… statuary, morals with art. Only Adonai, who is in a sense the True Meaning of everything, cannot defile any idea. This is a hard saying, though true, for nothing of course is dirtier than to try and use Adonai as a fig—leaf for one’s shame. To seduce women under pretence of religion is un- 127
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
…itate The end of mans desireso sayeth Fate. Man answers : Love is stronger, work more sure, Glory more fadeless than her shafts abate. Though all worlds fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darken, she hath not her will Of deeds beyond recall, that shall endure : For us, these three divinest glasses fill, Fill to the brim with lustrous dew, nor fail To leave the blossom and the nightingale, Loves earlier kiss, and manhoods glowing prime ! Let these suffice. Shall man or Fate prevail ? Low, we are blind, and dubious fingers grope I…
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
PREFACE. XI accusations against me, though, as you shall hear, almost equally silly. I learnt at last, through the intervention of my uncle, in a lucid interval, what I was supposed to have done. I was said to have tried “ to corrupt Chamberlain ” — not our great patriotic statesman, shifty Joe — but a boy. (I was 12 years old, and quite ignorant of all sexual matters till long after). Also I had “ held a mock prayer mee- ting ”. This I remembered. I had strolled up to a group of boys in the playground, who were indeed holding one. As they saw …
1919 · PDF PAGE 66
… when P. had thus with bitter toil prepared all things under the guidance of D.D.S. (even as the hand writes, while the conscious brain, though ignorant of the detailed movements, applauds or disapproves the finished work) there was a certain time of repose, as the earth lieth fallow. 26. Meanwhile these adepts busied themselves intently with the Great Work. 27. In the fullness of time, even as a blossoming tree that beareth fruit in its season, all these pains were ended, and these adepts and their companions obtained the re- ward which they h…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
…arland of flowers. The eighth a grass-snake. The ninth a sickle. And the tenth week did he daily offer up his own body. Said the goat: ‘‘Though I be not an ox, yet am la sword.” ‘‘ Masked, O God!” cried the Adept. ‘‘ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—’”’ There was silence. And under the Goat's throne was a rainbow? of seven colours: our Father fitted himself as an arrow to the string (and the string was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and shot through stormy heavens. And they that saw him saw a woman wondrou…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
PENTECOST 31 Of thought ! How ends the brave B.D., Summarising Ontology ? “This talk of ‘Real’ is a wraith. Our minds are lost in war of word ; The whole affair is quite absurd— Behold ! the righteous claims of Faith !” (He does not rhyme you quite so neatly ; But that’s the sense of it, completely.) I do not feel myself inclined In spit of my irrevent mind, So lightly to pass by the schemes Of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (one, Small though the apparent unison), As if they were mere drunken dreams ; For the first word in India here From Koromandl …
1907 · PDF PAGE 44
…e, “ Rosa Mundi " a great love anthem , almost we might say a Wagnerian opera in rime, and comparable in many respects in its continuous though irregular symphony to the “ Lycidas " of Milton . Yet , nevertheless , “ Why Jesus Wept " is the more characteristic of the two , and certainly the most iconoclastic of any . In “ Orpheus , " Books I and II , we find a poetic regularity almost strictly adhered to , not so , how ever , in Book III , and in “ The Argonauts .” But it is not till we get to “ Rodin in Rime ” that we find practically every so…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…ill him silently, and be gone. “But when and how had Jean pulled open the iron gates and retreated into the street? “It mattered little, though certainly it left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi-darkness—the dawn was not fairly lifted— for life and death. “Ten thousand crowns, Monsieur Jean,’ I cried, ‘and my service!’—I gave him my style—‘I see you can be a faithful servant.’ “* Faithful to death!’ he retorted, and I was sorry to have to kill him. “We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…ill him silently, and be gone. “But when and how had Jean pulled open the iron gates and retreated into the street? “It mattered little, though certainly it left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi-darkness—the dawn was not fairly lifted— for life and death. “Ten thousand crowns, Monsieur Jean,’ I cried, ‘and my service!’—I gave him my style—‘I see you can be a faithful servant.’ “* Faithful to death!’ he retorted, and I was sorry to have to kill him. “We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
… maybe ”, while [Persian text] “ happy memory ” justifies “ Sweetit- was.” But what shall I say of [Persian text] and the rest — mangled though suggestive roots ? Possibly the poet knew very little about ships and their name. 5. Jolly Roger — again a coarse expression, best untranslated. The notorious debauchery of pirate ships, and the slang verb “ Roger ” (futuere]) sug- gested the present phrase. 6. The text would justify us in reading “ rounded pearls ” [Persian text] fairy (peri of Moore) and [Per- sian text] fullness. Where there was doub…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…e one, and remember that He is God alone, and that there is none other God than He! Right as usual, said the scholar. It’s a true story, though, in a way. I’ve seen the mask myself, and I believe it. THE GILT MASK IN Florence in the days of old there dwelt a craftsman pale and grim. The Devil entered into him, and fanned his soul with plumes of gold. He offered all he chose to ask. “ O snatch this itching soul away, So that thou animate my clay and finish me this magic mask l ” The Devil brought him graving tools; the first a ravening disease, Th…