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Page 44 of 831910 · PDF PAGE 180
…and Dharana hopeless.* Another month of this great work commences, and though the toil has not been wasted the reward indeed seems still far off. On the first of the month P. writes:— “Blessed be thou, O Bhavani, O Isis my Sister, my Bride, my Mother! Blessed be Thou, O Shiva, O Amoun, Concealed of the Concealed. By Thy most secret and Holy Name of Apophis be Thou blessed, Lucifer, Star of the Dawn, Satan- Jeheshua, Light of the World! Blessed be Thou, Buddha, Osiris, by whatever Name I call Thee Thou art nameless to Eternity. Blessed be Thou, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 86
…let thy kisses wanton me unto death, that even I, thy cup-bearer, may understand. Now, through the ruddy glow of the cup, I may perceive far above, and infinitely great, the vision of Babylon. And the Beast whereon she rideth is the Lord of the City of the Pyramids, that I beheld in the fourteenth Aethyr. Now that is gone in the glow of the cup, and the Angel saith: Not as yet mayest thou understand the mystery of the Beast, for it pertaineth not unto the mystery of this Aire, and few that are new-born unto Understanding are capable thereof. Th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 187
…dds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . . * oe . tions. eus in Christ did attain in every deed ; machina. Pon- Yet, being an illiterate man, tius Pilate as a Not his to balance or to scan, Surrey Magis- . : trate, To call God stupid or unjust ! He took the universe on trust ; He reconciled the world below With that above ; rolled eloquence »teel-tired® o’er reason’s “why?” and “whence?” Discarded all prop…
1919 · PDF PAGE 427
…N PORTALS 43. Stern and exacting is the virtue of Vairdga. If thou its Path would’st master, thou must keep thy mind and thy perceptions far freer than before from killing action. The English is getting ambiguous. The word “killing” is, I suppose, an adjective implying ‘fatal to the purpose of the Student’. But even so, the comment appears to me out of place. On this high Path action should already have been made harmless; in fact, the second Path had this as its principal object. It is very difficult to make out what the Authoress really wants…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
… 145 Small coffin-worms that burrow in thy brain, ii. 8 Snow-hills and streams, dew-diamonded, i. 14 So faded all the dream, iii. 169 So far at least. I must concede, li. 181 RAIN, rain in May. The river sadly flows, i, 116 Recall, my soul, the sight we twain have looked upon, il. 17 Red is the angry sunset, ii. 5 Rest, like a star at sea, i. 45 Roll, strong life-current of these very veins, iil, 171 Roll through the caverns of matter, i. 211 Rose of the World! iii. 51 Rose of the world! Ay, love, in that warm hour, ili. oI Rose on the breast o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…quisitely subtle humour, and being one of the best natured people that ever trod this planet. But from the first moment I saw him, I saw far more than this; I read an {562} altogether extraordinary capacity for Magick. We soon drifted into talking about the subject and I found that he already practised a good deal of spiritualism and clairvoyance. The former was his bane. The habit of making himself spiritually passive and inviting the entire spirit world to obsess him proved finally fatal to him. Despite all we could do to protect his aura, we…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…enced things of a nature so exalted that no words ever penned could even adumbrate them faintly. The communication of such knowledge, so far as it is at all possible, must be a personal thing ; and we offer it with both hands. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to him the History of the Order and explain the task of the Probationer. For we give to each inquirer a year’s study; mutual, so that…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…enced things of a nature so exalted that no words ever penned could even adumbrate them faintly. The communication of such knowledge, so far as it is at all possible, must be a personal thing ; and we offer it with both hands. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to him the History of the Order and explain the task of the Probationer. For we give to each inquirer a year’s study; mutual, so that…
1910 · PDF PAGE 266
… sufficient time has elapsed since then for all the Pyramids to have crumbled back to dust.” And now, in another life, I remembered that far back in the cycles I had looked at my watch to measure the time through which I passed. The impulse seized me to look again. The minute-hand stood half-way between fifteen and sixteen minutes past eleven. The watch must have stopped ; T held it to my ear: no, it was still going. I had travelled through all that immeasurable chain of dreams in thirty seconds. “My God!” Icried, “I am in eternity.” In the pre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 266
… sufficient time has elapsed since then for all the Pyramids to have crumbled back to dust.” And now, in another life, I remembered that far back in the cycles I had looked at my watch to measure the time through which I passed. The impulse seized me to look again. The minute-hand stood half-way between fifteen and sixteen minutes past eleven. The watch must have stopped ; T held it to my ear: no, it was still going. I had travelled through all that immeasurable chain of dreams in thirty seconds. “My God!” Icried, “I am in eternity.” In the pre…
1919 · PDF PAGE 103
…the book into their blood were the chosen of Adonai, and the Thought of Adonai was a Word anda Deed; and they abode in the Land that the far-off travellers call Naught. 60. O land beyond honey and spice and all perfection! I will dwell therein with my Lord for ever. 61. And the Lord Adonai delighteth in me, and I bear the Cup of His gladness unto the weary ones of the old grey land. 62. They that drink thereof are smitten of disease; the abomination hath hold upon them, and their torment is like the thick black smoke of the evil abode. 97
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…ll. For so great is the Reward which I (unworthy) have attained that the Ordeals seem but incidents hardly worthy to mention, save in so far as they are the Levers by which I moved the World. Even those dreadful periods of “ dryness " and of despair seem but the necessary lying fallow of the Earth. All those “ false paths ” of Magic and of Medi— tation and of Reason were not false paths, but steps upon the 8
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
…ut her neck, Amen! 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, he the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the End is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is 38
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
…ut her neck, Amen! 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, he the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the End is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is 38
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
…ary of Talifu, received us with great courtesy and hospitality. I hound him a sincere and earnest man; more, even an enlightened man, so far as it is possible for a missionary to be so; but that is not very far. I found him totally ignorant both of canonical Buddhism and of local beliefs. I tried to point out to him that he could hardly hope to show the natives the errors of their way of thinking, unless he knew hat that was. But he declined to see the point. He was so cocksure that his own sect of Christianity held truth in utter purity and en…
1913 · PDF PAGE 18
…he left India for England about the end of March 1911 and returned to India onlyin the beginning of October 191 I, during which time, so far as the plaintiff was aware, the boys were kept away from associating with the said Mr. Leadbeater. 6. In or about November 1911 the defendant told the plaintiff that the boys were making rapid Spiritual progress and were approaching initiation by the Masters (a set of superhuman gurus living on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas) believed in by the Theosophists. She therefore propOsed to keep the boys Wit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…l tastes and great force of physical life; a thumb which is long, especially in its last phalanx, reveals a strong will, which may go as far as despotism ; short thumbs, on the contrary, show characters gentle and easily controlled. The habitual folds of the hand determine its lines. These lines are, then, the traces of habits, and the patient observer will know how to recognize them and how to judge them. The man whose hand folds badly is clumsy or unhappy. The hand has three principal functions: to grasp, to hold, and to p2 211
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…l tastes and great force of physical life; a thumb which is long, especially in its last phalanx, reveals a strong will, which may go as far as despotism ; short thumbs, on the contrary, show characters gentle and easily controlled. The habitual folds of the hand determine its lines. These lines are, then, the traces of habits, and the patient observer will know how to recognize them and how to judge them. The man whose hand folds badly is clumsy or unhappy. The hand has three principal functions: to grasp, to hold, and to p2 211
1919 · PDF PAGE 251
…s and renown for their reward; but not advancement in the Order, unless they exhibit a talent for government, and this will be exhibited far more by nobility of character, firm- ness and suavity, tact and dignity, high honour and good manners, those qualities (in short) which are, in the best minds, natural predicates of the word gentleman. The knowledge of this fact not only inspires confidence in the younger members, but induces them to emulate their seniors. In order to appreciate the actual working of the system, it is necessary to visit ou…
1944 · PDF PAGE 41
…tary, who is, himself, the servant of a completely intangible and incalculable phan‐ tom called The Will of the People. We may doubt how far the personification of these entities was conceived as real by the ancients; but the theory was that while anyone with a pair of eyes could see the pool, he could not see the nymph except by some accident. But they thought that a superior type of person, by dint of searching, study and experiment, might acquire this general power. A per‐ son still more advanced in this science could get into real connectio…