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…illing. . (Arrived New York) A . '. better but sleepy. I must really buck up, A better, but “ business ” is a nuisance, and prevents the mind concentrating. 18. A The usual thing. I forget about it till late, 19 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. or at least put it off. A man cannot serve two masters. I began A ; then deliberately stopped, as it was a farce. I appoint Sunday from waking to sleeping as a day of fast and penance. Unable, or unwilling, to sleep, recommenced A . '. Elaborate and really not bad. . Α most oppressive day—96°-—heat-exhaustion, ne…
1912 · PDF PAGE 287
…d the increasing risk of earning a dishonest one, he saw a fond mother give her little boy a penny to buy sweets. In a single second his mind was made up; his career was determined. How, thrilled the Master— Thought—how can I get that penny? A rapid calculation assured him of the soundness of his instinct. Probably at least a hundred thousand mothers— of the world‘s six hundred million—give a penny to some child every day. A hundred thousand pence a day is over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year; if he could only get ten per cent. of tha…
1905 · PDF PAGE 16
…ame like winter wine To understand my amorous tale, For words and looks of Love must fail To touch thee, since a snowy veil Ts "twixt my mind and thine. Dear goddess, al whose carly breast I drank in all desires and woes3 Most reverend god, who oft caressed Her pale chaste wifehood, and who pressed Upon my forehead kisses blest ; Bid blossom out this rose, This fair white bud whose heart is pure, Whose bosom fears not, neither knows The long vague mysteries that endure Of life uncertain, of love sure. Teach her the mystic overture To Love’s tra…
1939 · PDF PAGE 71
… will surely be the acquisition of a certain technique. And this will become much easier as we advance, especially if we bear it well in mind not to attempt to discriminate between the two methods as if they were opposing schools, but to use the one to help out the other in an emergency. 23. Of course, nobody understands better than I do that, although nobody can do your work for you, it is possible to make useto a certain very limited extentof other people's experience, and the Great Order which I have the honour to serve has appointed what …
1901 · PDF PAGE 76
…r and discern ! ” Banish the thought ! My working reason still Is the rebellious vassal to my will. Because I will it. That is God’s own mind. I cast all thought and prudence to the wind : On, to the quest ! The cursed parrot hill Mocks on, on, on ! The thought is left behind. Night came upon me thus—a wizard hand Grasping with silence the reluctant land. Through night I clomb—behind me grew the light Reflected in the portal of the night. I reached the crest at dawn—pallid I stand Uncomprehending of the sudden sight. The river and the bridge ! …
1912 · PDF PAGE 97
…Magdalene ? cold too ! MONICA. I envied her the bliss. Of her black loveand you ! Now, am I worth a kiss ? MORTADELLO. I have it in my mind to end with you outright. MONICA. And you yourself might find an end before to- night. MORTADELLO. Oh ! you are cunning ! MONICA. Love is given wit, you know. Begotten from above, and nourished from below ! MORTADELLO. Why did you spare my life just now ? MONICA. Why, first of all, I want to be your wife. MORTADELLO. Dear God forbid ! MONICA. To enthrall You, body and soul, to win the prize my rival won. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 77
…d (at least roughly) the figures of the science. 1. Now, since these figures will leave no direct impression with any precision upon his mind, let him adopt this practice A. A. Let the Practicus be seated before a bare square table, and let an unknown number of small similar objects be thrown by his chela from time to time upon the table, and by that chela be hastily gathered up. Let the Practicus declare at the glance, and the chela confirm by his count, the number of such objects. The practice should be for a quarter of an hour thrice daily. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 77
…d (at least roughly) the figures of the science. 1. Now, since these figures will leave no direct impression with any precision upon his mind, let him adopt this practice A. A. Let the Practicus be seated before a bare square table, and let an unknown number of small similar objects be thrown by his chela from time to time upon the table, and by that chela be hastily gathered up. Let the Practicus declare at the glance, and the chela confirm by his count, the number of such objects. The practice should be for a quarter of an hour thrice daily. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
… may not lack what painters call " com- position." He will find that, however good his memory may be, ten thousand impressions enter his mind for every one that it is able to retain even for a day. And the excellence of a memory lies in the wisdom of its selection. The best memories so select and judge that practically
1961 · PDF PAGE 58
… thee with my Might: Live Danger- ously. Was not this the Word of thine Uncle Friedrich Nietzsche? Thy meanest Foe is the Inertia of the Mind. Men do hate most those things which touch them closely, and they fear Light, and persecute the Torchbearers. Do thou therefore analyse most fully all those Ideas which Men avoid; for the Truth shall dissolve Fear. Rightly indeed Men say that the Unknown is terrible; but wrongly do they fear lest it become the Known. Moreover, do thou all Acts of which the common Sort beware, save where thou hast already …
1905 · PDF PAGE 83
…on, Heshbon’s king, The lord of Amorites, and said to him: [ prithee, let us pass to our own place Through thy dominions: but his crafty mind, Fearing some treachery, that was not. save In his ill mind that thought it, did determine To gather all his people, and to pitch Tents hostile in the plains before Jahaz. And there he fought with Israel; but God Delivered Sihon to our hands, and all That followed him: whom therefore we destroyed With many slaughters : so we dispossessed The envious Amorites, and had their land, A land whose borders were …
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…y fingers to the task. Cease: Iam broken: nought remains. The brain’s electric waves are still ; No blood beats eager in the veins ; The mind sinks deathward, and the will. It is no figure of boy’s speech, Lover’s enthusiasm, rhyme Magniloquent of bard, to reach Truth through the husk of space and time: No truth is more devout than this: ‘€In you I live: I live in you.” Had Latmos not known Artemis, Where were the faint lights of that dew Of Keats? O maiden moon of mine, Imperial crescent, rise and shine ! XVI. I was a fool to hide it. Here Pha…
1939 · PDF PAGE 30
…ave checked the body. 3. Let me digress for a moment, and brush away one misunderstanding which is certain to occur to every Anglo-Saxon mind. About the worst inheritance of the emasculate school of mystics is the abominable confusion of thought which arises from the idea that bodily functions and appetites have some moral implications. This is a confusion of the planes. There is no true discrimination between good and evil. The only question that arises is that of convenience in respect of any proposed operation. The whole of the moral and rel…
1904 · PDF PAGE 106
… on, Im coming : Ill withdraw, my lord. [Enter Hamlet.] HAMLET. To pe or not to pe : that is the question : Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous stricture Or to take arms against a closed urethra And by abscission, end it ? To fuck : to come : No more ; and, by a come to say we end The cockstand and the thousand natural lusts That flesh is heir to. Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To fuck : to come : To come, perchance to clap ! Ay, theres the rub. For from that come of fuck what clap may ca…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…a. Mantra-march. Pranayama; quick time. Very brac- ing and fatiguing, both. At Döme to drink a Citron pressé. Reflections have been in my mind upon the grossness of the Theistic conception, as shewn even in such pictures as Raphael’s and Fra Angelico’s. 2 B 129
1961 · PDF PAGE 47
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 35 Aq De Libertate Mentis (Of Liberty of the Mind) HERE shall be no Property in Human Thought. Let each think as he will concerning the Universe; but let none seek to impose that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this World or any other World. Look now, though I enkindle thee to Effort in thy Way, yet it is the Way of thy Will, and I say not even that thou dost well to hasten therein, for the whole Matter lieth in thy Will, and to force thyself against thy Nature would be an Obstacle to thy Passage. Bu…
1961 · PDF PAGE 51
… secured, thou mayst afterward lead them into the Heavens of Poesy and Tale, of Music, Painting, and Sculpture, and into the Lore of the Mind itself, with its insatiable Joy of all knowledge. Thence let them soar! s
1961 · PDF PAGE 65
…ne, how canst thou do this unless thou be connected with all Planes? For this Reason must thou know thoroughly not only thy Body and thy Mind, but thy Body of Light and all its subtler Principles soever. But I will have thee consider most especially what powers thou hast within thee which are certainly capable of great Effects, yet which are constantly wasted. Think then whether, if these Powers, frustrate of their End upon one Plane, might not be turned to high Purpose and assured Success upon another. For an hundred Acorns, rightly set in Con…
1904 · PDF PAGE 20
… loops, But — Bacon — grapples them to’s soul, with steely hoops ! You, lass, may see here for this Boy’s companions Virtue and Peace of Mind, Prudence, Respect,
1905 · PDF PAGE 98
ASSUMPTA CANIDIA 93 No shadow in my mind to prove a sun ; No sorrow to declare that joy exists ; A cycle of dim spectres in the mists Moves just a little ; lastly there is One, One central Being, one elusive shape, Not to aspire to, not to love ; alas ! Only a memory in the agèd mass Of chained ones bound to me without escape ! Oh, doom of God ! Oh, brand how worse than Cain’s ! Divided being, undivided pains ! What is this life ? (To call it life that grows No inch throughout all time.) This bitterness Too weak and hateful to be called distres…