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Page 40 of 781912 · PDF PAGE 53
…tedly escaped from death in manners almost miraculous " Then I am some use after all ! " was his conclusion. “I am indeed SENT to do something.” For whom? For the Universe; no partial good could possibly satisfy his equation. “I am, then, the ‘chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space.’ Very good: and what is the message? What shall I teach men?” And like the lightning from heaven fell upon him these words: “THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSA- TION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL." Just that. No metaphysical stuff about the “higher self ”; a thing that the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 379
…fault of language, partly it is due to the fact that the condition of Arhat is quite beyond thought. He is beyond the Abyss, and there a thing is only true in so far as it is self-contradictory. The Arhat has no self to be blissful. It is much simpler to consider it on the lines given in my commentary to the last verse. 41. To live to benefit mankind is the first step. To prac- tise the six glorious virtues is the second. 42. To don Nirmanakéya’s humble robe is to forego eter- nal bliss for Self, to help on man’s salvation. To reach Nir- vana’s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…- sciousness and independent of it; that, in other words, the sum total of external and internal experience always and only tells us how things are constituted for us, and for our intellectual capacities, not how they are in themselves and apart from intelligences such as ours.* Here is the whole of the World’s philosophy in a hundred words; the undying question which has perplexed the mind of man from the dim twilight of the Vedas to the sweltering noon-tide of present-day Scepticism, what is the “ Ding an sich”; what is the aro xa6’ avré; wha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 281
…in it, may not this be the solu- tion of the enigma? At the moment of the soul’s reception ofa new impression, she first accepts it as a thing entirely of the sense ; she tells us how large it is, and of what quality. To this definition of its boundaries and likeness succeeds, at times 263
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…- sciousness and independent of it; that, in other words, the sum total of external and internal experience always and only tells us how things are constituted for us, and for our intellectual capacities, not how they are in themselves and apart from intelligences such as ours.* Here is the whole of the World’s philosophy in a hundred words; the undying question which has perplexed the mind of man from the dim twilight of the Vedas to the sweltering noon-tide of present-day Scepticism, what is the “ Ding an sich”; what is the aro xa6’ avré; wha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 281
…in it, may not this be the solu- tion of the enigma? At the moment of the soul’s reception ofa new impression, she first accepts it as a thing entirely of the sense ; she tells us how large it is, and of what quality. To this definition of its boundaries and likeness succeeds, at times 263
1913 · PDF PAGE 449
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES it not a really wonderful thing, this intuition of the signs of a lost science? For it is transcendental magic which, basing the universe upon the two columns of Hermes and of Solomon, has divided the metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of God, and to that of the other, the name of the devil or of Satan. The sign of the lingam borne upon the for…
1913 · PDF PAGE 457
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES put together ; it only lacks one thing—it will not work : there is a hidden defect in the machinery. What was that defect? The evil spirit alone could tell him. It is then absolutely necessary to evoke him! .. . “Take care you do not!” said Eliphas. ‘You had much better say for nine days this qabalistic evocation.” He gave him a leaf covered with manuscript. ‘‘ Begin this evening, and return to-morrow to tell me what you have seen, for to night you will have a manifestation.” The next day, our good man did not miss the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 449
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES it not a really wonderful thing, this intuition of the signs of a lost science? For it is transcendental magic which, basing the universe upon the two columns of Hermes and of Solomon, has divided the metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of God, and to that of the other, the name of the devil or of Satan. The sign of the lingam borne upon the for…
1913 · PDF PAGE 457
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES put together ; it only lacks one thing—it will not work : there is a hidden defect in the machinery. What was that defect? The evil spirit alone could tell him. It is then absolutely necessary to evoke him! .. . “Take care you do not!” said Eliphas. ‘You had much better say for nine days this qabalistic evocation.” He gave him a leaf covered with manuscript. ‘‘ Begin this evening, and return to-morrow to tell me what you have seen, for to night you will have a manifestation.” The next day, our good man did not miss the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…riginal. "Utter the Word of Majesty and Terror! True without lie, and certain without error, And of the essence of The Truth. I know The things above are as the things below, The things below are as the things above, To wield the One Thing's Thaumaturgy — Love. As all from one sprang, by one contemplation, So all from one were born, by permutation. Sun sired, Moon bore, this unique Universe; Air was its chariot, and Earth its nurse. Here is the root of every talisman Of the whole world, since the whole world began. Here is the fount and source …
1910 · PDF PAGE 288
… frequently when, early in the hasheesh life, I enthusiastically related the most singular phenomena of my fantasy. But there is no such thing true of the hasheesh effects. Just as inevitably as two men taking the same direction, and equally favoured by Providence, will arrive at the same place, will two persons of similar temperament come to the same territory in hasheesh, see the same mysteries of their being, and get the same hitherto unconceived facts. It is this characteristic which, beyond all gainsaying, proves the definite existence of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 288
… frequently when, early in the hasheesh life, I enthusiastically related the most singular phenomena of my fantasy. But there is no such thing true of the hasheesh effects. Just as inevitably as two men taking the same direction, and equally favoured by Providence, will arrive at the same place, will two persons of similar temperament come to the same territory in hasheesh, see the same mysteries of their being, and get the same hitherto unconceived facts. It is this characteristic which, beyond all gainsaying, proves the definite existence of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 235
…ter, but I can’t remember any details. I think he does, though, but he won't tell me. I don’t know why he should act like that. The only thing I can think is that Gretel Webster may have come down to see him perhaps in her astral body, and put him against me somehow. .. . He was lying on the sofa in his pyjamas. I wanted to be kissed, and went over to him with some cocaine. But he didn’t move. He looked at me with wide open eyes. There was some dreadful fear in them, and he said,— “‘ Black, the plague of the pit, Her pustules visibly fester.”’ …
1910 · PDF PAGE 191
MR TODD 181 as far as we can see at present. But I assure you that I share your sentiments. I have heard very ill things said of him, I can tell you. MRS. OSSORY. Who is he ? Does any one know ? A man of family, I hope. How dreadful for poor Henry if he had been run over by a plebeian ! OSSORY. Well, we hardly knowI wonder if his credit is good. [His voice sinks to a whisper as the awful suspicion that he may be financially unsound strikes him.] CARR. [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh ! Dont suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It…
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…ull animal lust. Two strangers had come to his soul's Inn. There being only one room, he put them to bed together, in this form or some- thing like it: “ Chop—chop—chop—chop; I’m sick of it. Even in had a fine girl from Paris like that, what could I do but chop—chop—chop—chop? " For the first time in his life he went home half an hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell like night upon the forest, like a dark winter's night that afternoon of May. He was wet t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…ull animal lust. Two strangers had come to his soul's Inn. There being only one room, he put them to bed together, in this form or some- thing like it: “ Chop—chop—chop—chop; I’m sick of it. Even in had a fine girl from Paris like that, what could I do but chop—chop—chop—chop? " For the first time in his life he went home half an hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell like night upon the forest, like a dark winter's night that afternoon of May. He was wet t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 385
…thy mind to pleas- ures as to pain. Exhaust the law of Karmic retribution. Gain Siddhis for thy future birth. This again states the same thing, urges the aspirant to live his life fully on every plane, preserving, it is true, an in- difference to all that he does, but only the inner indifference of contempt, not the outer indifference of atrophy. Madame Blavatsky herself smoked like a volcano, drank like a fish, swore like a trooper, loved like a Cleopatra. She was right. Read the Taoist instructions to this effect. 52. If Sun thou canst not be…
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…lves, r eserves all gr ound within 50 feet of a dagoba. The incident described in this section actually occurred in 1901. 2 Siam. know a thing or two about Indra, for example——’ “It was done. Beautiful was the young girl’s face as s he s prang mature from the womb of Matter, on her life-journey of an hundred thousand y ears. Of all Indra’s flute-girls she played and sang the sweetest. Yet ever some remembrance, dim as a pallid ghost that fleets down the long avenues of deodar and moonlight, stole in her brain; and her song was ever of love and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
…e, had entirely gone out, and were now only worn for eve- ning dress), and meditating on the curious events of the past evening. Silly thing that of Adams, she soliloquized, just when I was feeling nice, it turned sick and collapsed, and took ten minutes to get well again. Why, I could have gone on all night without those silly intervals ! And the old fool says it tires him and he cant dig today because his back aches, so hes gone fishing. Fishing ! Ill fish him when he comes home. I believe hes gone to see that lioness he was so fond…