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Page 46 of 2251906 · PDF PAGE 182
…on’s hosts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll *’ when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny real…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…mortality, and of the Universal Medicine. Moreover, it possesses a Secret capable of realizing the world-old dream of the Brotherhood of Man. It also possesses in every important centre of popula- tion a hidden Retreat (Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum) where members may conceal themselves in order to pursue the Great Work without hindrance. These houses are secret fortresses of Truth, Light, Power, and Love, and their position is only disclosed under an oath of secrecy to those entitled to make use of them. ‘They are also temples of true worship,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
APPENDÏX III Notes on the nature of the “Astral Plane” \ i) What are “Astral” and “Spiritual” Beings? Man is one: it is a case of any consciousness assuming a sensible form. Microcosms and elementals. Maybe an elemental (e.g. a dog) has a cosmic conception in which he is a microcosm and man incomplète. No means of deciding same, as in case of kinds of space. 1 2 Similarly, our gross matter may appear unreal to Beings clad in fine matter. Thus, science thinks vulgar perceptions “error”. We cannot perceive at ail except within our gamut; as, conc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…e head of a goat and the nose of a Jew And the... GOVINDA Would your Pasiphae challenge him lightly ? CHAU Truly, a marvel. Come, little man ! We kiss your hands, and sail back home Over the desert and over the foam. ALEXANDER And I go back to the grove of Pan. GOVINDA What is thy name ? I will proclaim Thy marvellous fame From the Gulf of Kutch to the shores of Orissa. MIRIAM I pray your Majesty, call him Issa.
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…th swept thee away. Shriek, therefore, shriek aloud; mingle the roar of the gored lion and the moan of the torn bull, and the cry of the man that is torn by the claws of the Eagle, and the scream of the Eagle that is strangled by the hands of the Man. Mingle all these in the death‐shriek of the Sphinx, for the blind man hath profaned her mystery. Who is this, Oedipus, Tiresias, Erinyes? Who is this, that is blind and a seer, a fool above wisdom? Whom do the hounds of heaven fol‐ low, and the crocodiles of hell await? Aleph, Vau, Yod, Ayin, Resh…
1916 · PDF PAGE 4
in possessing a Prophet of the first class: Mr. Henry Clifford Stuart. Imagine to yourself a big man, a really big man, six foot three in height, broad and well- proportioned. The entire impression is of bigness. And as should always be the case with homo sapiens, the most important part of the impression is given by the head. Such a brow is only seen in the worlds greatest thinkers. Mr. Stuart was born in 1864 in Brooklyn, N.Y. His father, John Stuart, was a Captain of the 51st and Lieutenant Colonel of the 63rd New York Volunteers. His is th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 283
…e have none at all ; and that our duty therefore is to remain silent , or to express at most , suspended judgment ." 1 This , the mob of mankind are very loath to do , for instead of honestly expressing nine - tenths of their knowledge in terms of doubt , they cast the whole onus of Absolute or Noumenal knowledge on to the back of some aching and asinine deity . By postulating Unknowability , which if treated as an absolute term is also a positive one ( God ), Spencer the Transfigured Realist was hoisted by that very same petard he had himself …
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
134 Ecstasy beyond all price : but to be had by him who casts away all other desires. XXXIX THE BARGAININGS What shall a man give in exchange for the en- joyment of thy podex ? There is nothing in Iran, or upon the1 whole earth, that is worthy to be spoken of in this matter. The treasures of the sun and moon are not to be compared with it ; if the stars also were to be offered, they would not equal the joy of even the first rubbings of the member against its orifice. The desire of the fanatic is to cast away life at the feet of Heaven ; but for…
1930 · PDF PAGE 127
…ou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by One Whip. 2. Now these Beasts run wildly upon the earths and are not easily obedient to the Man. 3. Nothing shall be said here of Cerberus, the great Beast of Hell that is every one of these and ail of these, even as Athanasius hath foreshadowed. For this matter 1 is not of Tiphereth without, but Tiphereth within. I. o. The Unicom is speech. Man, rule thy Speech! How else shalt thou master the Son, and answer the Magician at the right hand gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last f…
1922 · PDF PAGE 248
…it was that I thought was a shot, or a door closing. It was really both of these things in a mystical sense ; for I know now who the old man is, and that he is the father of the Messiah. ...
1939 · PDF PAGE 4
By thy strong soul of manhood firm and free, By thy high deeds of honour not surpassed, By all the valours that are yet to be, England, stand fast! England, stand fast!_ We made the brave man’s choice. We staked our all upon the single cast. Winning or dying, let the heart rejoice England, stand fast! England, one soul of steel, one heart of oak, ‘One voice of silver, sound thy trumpet-blast! Pass round the watchword through the battle-smoke; England, stand fast! WPS, 396, Bek Stet, Ploy, W.1 rated tn Regan
1929 · PDF PAGE 535
535 They have learnt the psychological fact that confidence is a real asset. A man works best when he feels he is sure to succeed. A fear of failure palsies every faculty. The vogue of Christian Science, and countless cults for drawing in dollars by wishing one had them, persuading oneself that somehow or other they will arrive, scorning every success, forgetting every failure, shutting one's eyes to unpleasant facts, and interpreting every bit of good luck as a triumph beyond the power of trumpets to tell --- a token of the intense interest ta…
1919 · PDF PAGE 369
…rds of birth, decay and SOrrow. “Amrita” means not only Immortality, but is the techni- cal name of the Divine force which descends upon man, but which is burnt up by his tendencies, by the forces which make him what he is. It is also a certain Elixir which is the Menstruum of Harpocrates. Amrita here is best interpreted thus, for it is in opposition to “Maya.” To interpret illusion is to make confusion more confused. 20. If thou art told that to become Arhan thou hast to cease to love all beings—tell them they lie. Here begins an instruction a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…sons hosts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind ! Why, fool, I think I am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As your this fabric of mine own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll47 when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise ; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny re…
1906 · PDF PAGE 288
…st the popu- larity of the worthless novel, as shown in Free Library statistics ; or against the uselessness of any form of reading to a man not otherwise educated. austere and single-minded labourers in the fields of Physics and Physiology. Myst. Here, moreover, is the foundation of race harmony ; here the possible basis for a genuine brotherhood of man! * He will never be permanently solidarised-—excuse the neologism !—by grandiose phrase and tran- sitory emotion; but in the Freemasonry of the Adepts of Dhyana what temple may not yet be build…
1913 · PDF PAGE 417
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Monomaniacs are asleep when they perform unreasonable acts. They no longer remember anything on waking. When Papavoine was arrested by the police, he calmly said to them these remarkable words: You ave taking the other for me. It was the somnambulist who was still speaking. Edgar Poe, that unhappy man of genius who used to intoxicate himself, has terribly described the somnambulism of monomaniacs. Sometimes it is an assassin who hears, and who thinks that everybody hears, through the walls of the tomb, the beating of hi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 417
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Monomaniacs are asleep when they perform unreasonable acts. They no longer remember anything on waking. When Papavoine was arrested by the police, he calmly said to them these remarkable words: You ave taking the other for me. It was the somnambulist who was still speaking. Edgar Poe, that unhappy man of genius who used to intoxicate himself, has terribly described the somnambulism of monomaniacs. Sometimes it is an assassin who hears, and who thinks that everybody hears, through the walls of the tomb, the beating of hi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 65
… the use (for example) of the word “spirit” implies the Scholastic Philosophy and the Hindu and Taoist theories concerning the breath of man. So was it difficult to avoid implication of some undesirable bias by using the words “order,” “circle,” “chapter,” “society,” “brotherhood,” or any other to designate the body of ini- tiates. 23. Deliberately, therefore, did he take refuge in vague- ness. Not to veil the truth to the Neophyte, but to warn him against valuing non-essentials. Should therefore the candidate hear the name of any God, let him …
1899 · PDF PAGE 13
…imson cup, And the mountains hoary mass ; Sea and land are filled with song, God, whom we mistrusted long, We perceive to be a friend : Man at last with flower and tree, Bird and butterfly and bee, Earth and fire and air and sea, Will his voice divinely blend In a song, whose holy incense up to Heaven shall ascend And the souls that stand and shiver On the borders of the River, Shall their arms extend Unto Death as to a lover, knowing Death is not the End.
1902 · PDF PAGE 33
Chosen of Me ! Thou heart of hearts, thou mine, Man ! Stamping into dust the Soul Divine By might of that mere Manhood ! Sense and thought Reel for the glory of thee kissed and caught In the eternal circle of my arms ! Woven in vain are the mysterious charms Endymion taught Diana ! For one gaze ; One word of my unutterable praise ; And I was utterly and ever lost, Lost in the whirlwind of thy love, and tossed A wreck on its irremeable sea ! Life ! Life ! This kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! \Tannhauser is lost. 31