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Page 47 of 921913 · PDF PAGE 384
…fined infinite, a more restrained immen- sity, a more doubting faith, those who have quintessentialized the absurd, divided charity, and taken acts of anarchy for the principles of an entirely impossible hierarchy; those men who wish to realize salvation by faith alone, because charity escapes them, and who can no longer realize it, even upon the earth, for their. pretended sacraments are no longer anything but allegorical mummeries; they no longer give grace; they no longer make God seen and touched; they are no longer, in a word, the signs of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 548
…depend on the more or less balanced attractions of the magnetic light, and act on men in the same way as upon animals. One will stupidly take pleasure in the society of a person in whom is nothing lovable, because one is mysteriously attracted and dominated by him. And often enough, these strange sympathies began by lively antipathies; the fluids repelled each other at first, and subsequently became balanced. The equilibrating speciality of the plastic medium of every person is what Paracelsus calls his ascendant, and he gives the name of fagum…
1922 · PDF PAGE 49
… inhospitable,” he said. “ She’s come round all right ; but I ought to drive her home. Make yourselves at home while I’m away, or let me take you where you want to go.” Another interruption occurred. The bell rang. Lamus sprang to the door. A tall old man was standing on the steps. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” said Lamus. “ Love is the law, love under will,” replied the other. It was like a challenge and countersign. “T’ve got to talk to you for an hour.” “Of course, I’m at your service,” replied our host. “The only thing …
1912 · PDF PAGE 283
…nized a procession which, instead of taking so many hours to pass a given point, decided, in flattering imitation of its greatest son, to take several weeks to come to it. The “old family of Lovell," which boasts itself to be his ancestor through his mother, saw the culmination of its own fortunes in this great fortune of its fortune—telling scion, and gave itself the Glad Eye; the “earliest settlers in Connecticut," who were responsible for his father, wriggled with pleasure in their graves, like tickled children: the “orders and fraternities w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 283
…nized a procession which, instead of taking so many hours to pass a given point, decided, in flattering imitation of its greatest son, to take several weeks to come to it. The “old family of Lovell," which boasts itself to be his ancestor through his mother, saw the culmination of its own fortunes in this great fortune of its fortune—telling scion, and gave itself the Glad Eye; the “earliest settlers in Connecticut," who were responsible for his father, wriggled with pleasure in their graves, like tickled children: the “orders and fraternities w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…hip, and in- genuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 Or as the Sunday-school boy said: ‘‘ Faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue.’’ I quote Deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence In all his writings with which I am in accord. revert to the most elementary ideas of canni- bal savages, challenge all the most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin …
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…All that he can or ought to think? No! the strong man‘and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn in pieces By knowledge ; nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my day…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…l that he can or ought to think ? No ! the strong man and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn to pieces By knowledge : nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not ! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my da…
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
…se six letters is obtained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and “cast into the midst thereof the Fire of the Sun "—z.e., y (6), “ the Seal of Creation ”—and we have y12,an Egg. Where we see the whole universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology : and the Formulation of the Sphere 178
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
…se six letters is obtained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and “cast into the midst thereof the Fire of the Sun "—z.e., y (6), “ the Seal of Creation ”—and we have y12,an Egg. Where we see the whole universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology : and the Formulation of the Sphere 178
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
…ure. We had a bad attack of it ourselves with Thomas Haines Bayley and Co. “ Though Custom may frown upon Boyhood and Beauty, And Ethics take counsel with Prudence and Breeding, Morality smiles “ But if Patience be Duty, Should Courage lament, or Repentance lie bleeding ? ” And so though on Conscience’ inviolate altar We strew the sad flowers of Repulsion and Shame, Religion and Justice must bid us not falter Till Purity mingles with Pleasure and Fame.” You go on till your stock of abstract nouns is exhausted. [There is, the Qabalist may (perha…
1922 · PDF PAGE 293
…Lamus said they would leave us to unpack, and went off. She and Lala dropped in from time to time in the course of the next five days to take us motoring, or to dinner, or the theatre, or to parties. I thought they made rather a point of keeping off the subject which was the real reason of their visits. D.D.F. T
1922 · PDF PAGE 6
…e, Mine, if your kisses maddened me or killed, Mine, at the price of my damnation deep, Mine, if you will, as once your glances willed! ‘Take me, or break me, slay or soothe to sleep, If only yours one hour, one perfect hour, Remembrance and despair and hope to steep. [293]
1929 · PDF PAGE 176
…o you mean," said Lord Antony, smiling; "and I don't think you need be [248] very much afraid. I never saw any one much better fitted to take care of himself." "For all that, he's in urgent danger at this very moment. He has incurred the greatest possible risk; he has gained a victory. But it has been only a clash of outposts; the enemy is coming up now, horse, foot, and artillery, with lust of revenge and desperate fear to enflame the original hatred; and, unfortunately, the boy made some fundamental errors in his plan of campaign." "Ah, well,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
…o suppress it. But the combination of the elements will usually be a definite single act of catastrophic energy. This act, too, does not take place in time or space as we know them. I think that for the first time of experiencing a Dhyana it is necessarily single. Certain mystical methods may teach us to retain the image; but the criterion of true Dhyana is the singleness, so totally opposed as it is to the vague and varying phantoms of the “astral plane.” The new consciousness resulting from the combination is, too, always a simple one. Even w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
…o suppress it. But the combination of the elements will usually be a definite single act of catastrophic energy. This act, too, does not take place in time or space as we know them. I think that for the first time of experiencing a Dhyana it is necessarily single. Certain mystical methods may teach us to retain the image; but the criterion of true Dhyana is the singleness, so totally opposed as it is to the vague and varying phantoms of the “astral plane.” The new consciousness resulting from the combination is, too, always a simple one. Even w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 577
…is imminent. Woe, then, to him who does not reflect! When we are ripe for death, we leave life without regret, and nothing would make us take it back; but when death is premature, the soul regrets life, and a clever thaumaturgist would be able to recall it to the body. The sacred books indicate to us the proceeding which must be employed in such a case. The Prophet Elisha and the Apostle St. Paul em- ployed it with success. The deceased must be magnetized 279
1913 · PDF PAGE 577
…is imminent. Woe, then, to him who does not reflect! When we are ripe for death, we leave life without regret, and nothing would make us take it back; but when death is premature, the soul regrets life, and a clever thaumaturgist would be able to recall it to the body. The sacred books indicate to us the proceeding which must be employed in such a case. The Prophet Elisha and the Apostle St. Paul em- ployed it with success. The deceased must be magnetized 279
1919 · PDF PAGE 447
…star in highest heaven, that bright celestial orb must shine from out the spatial depths for all—save for itself; give light to all, but take from none. It is incomparably annoying to see this word “Alas!” at the head of this verse as a pure oxymoron with the rest of the text. Is stupid, unseeing selfishness so firmly fixed in the nature of man that even at this height he still laments? Do not believe it. It is interesting here to note the view taken by Him who has actually attained the Grade of Magus. He says: “Do what thou wilt shall be the w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
…ay dismiss from our minds any alarm in respect of this contingency. On mature consideration, therefore, I con- fidently and deliberately take my refuge in the Triple Gem. Namo Tasso Bhagavato Arahato Samma- sambuddhasa !3 Let there be hereafter no discussion of the classical problems of philosophy and_re- ligion! In the light of this exposition the 1 Wala, one whose business is connected with anything. #.g. Jangli-wala, one who lives in, or has business with, a jungle, z.e. a wild man, or a Forest Conservator. 2 The Hindus see this as well as a…