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Page 48 of 911907 · PDF PAGE 101
…st toad - spotted dew ; The first lewd heaving ecstasy of matter .” 1 The idea grows still more powerfully in the next verse : I see all Nature claw and tear and bite , All hateful love and hideous : and the brood Misshapen , misbegotten out of spite ; Lust after death ; love in decrepitude . Thus , till the monster - birth of serpent - man Linked in corruption with the serpent - woman , Slavering in lust and pain - creation's ban . The horrible beginning of the human .” In Tannhäuser , which is an intensely psychologic drama , we find the Knig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 328
…ve safety and dignity with which the early fathers travelled in the East , and the greatest of her ceremonies were entirely of a magical nature . I defy any one to find any essential difference between the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ig natius and the practices of Raja Yoga ; space here does not permit me to draw parallels , though I have collected a considerable number . And as with Igna tius , so with other true saints of the Church , and so also with the countless magical ceremonies which have tinted the atmosphere of the West : they are all …
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
…e most human life, the most divine ideal. Faith is a divination of intelligence and of love, when these are directed by the pointings of nature and of reason. It is then of the essence of the things of faith to be inac- cessible to science, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims of hope. It is the attach- ment to the visible sign of the things which one does not see. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”…
1913 · PDF PAGE 426
…by vibrations to the nervous apparatus in such a manner that the halluci- nation is complete. The imagination seems then to triumph over Nature itself, and produces truly strange phenomena. The material body, deluged with fluid, seems to participate in the fluidic qualities, it escapes from the operation of the laws of gravity, becomes momentarily invulnerable, and even invisible, in a circle of persons suffering from collective hallucination. The convulsionaries of St. Médard, as one knows, had their flesh torn off with red-hot pincers, had th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
…e most human life, the most divine ideal. Faith is a divination of intelligence and of love, when these are directed by the pointings of nature and of reason. It is then of the essence of the things of faith to be inac- cessible to science, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims of hope. It is the attach- ment to the visible sign of the things which one does not see. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”…
1913 · PDF PAGE 426
…by vibrations to the nervous apparatus in such a manner that the halluci- nation is complete. The imagination seems then to triumph over Nature itself, and produces truly strange phenomena. The material body, deluged with fluid, seems to participate in the fluidic qualities, it escapes from the operation of the laws of gravity, becomes momentarily invulnerable, and even invisible, in a circle of persons suffering from collective hallucination. The convulsionaries of St. Médard, as one knows, had their flesh torn off with red-hot pincers, had th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 451
…orresponding to the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. While dealing with this subject I may as well outline its scope completely. Human nature demands (in the case of most people) the satisfaction of the religious instinct, and, to very many, this may best be done by ceremonial means. I wished therefore to construct a ritual through which people might enter into ecstasy as they have always done under the influence of appropriate ritual. In recent years, there has been an increasing failure to attain this object, because the established cults s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…and fall. But see the Cyclopædia-article On “Metaphysics”; miss no particle 310 315 320 325 330 335 340 345 Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, whose Name is Fat- ality. Futility of all investigations of the Mind into the First Cause. Faith our only alternative to Despair ? So says Mansel.
1907 · PDF PAGE 229
…ts , and the consequent inference from one to the other , we have no notion of any necessity or con nexion . ” 1 “ Their bodies ) secret nature , and consequently all their effects and influence , may change , without any change in their sensible qualities . This happens some times , and with regard to some objects : Why may it happen always , and with regard to all objects ? What logic , what process of argument secures you against this supposition ? My practice , you say , refutes my doubts . But you mistake the purport of my question . As an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more common. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I am afraid that the very great majority of mystics l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more common. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I am afraid that the very great majority of mystics l…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…our overworked Editor, too, has been able to take the longest and happiest holiday of his life. River and forest have given him all that nature can ; and this was the least part of his contentment. Moreover, he has been able to prepare, under sublime guidance, a dozen Official Instructions of A.'.A.'., to conclude the great Qabalistic Dictionary of Gematria, and to begin the almost equally important Greek Dic- tionary on similar lines. He has had leisure to produce more plays, sketches, poems, and stories in this last year than he has done in an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…our overworked Editor, too, has been able to take the longest and happiest holiday of his life. River and forest have given him all that nature can ; and this was the least part of his contentment. Moreover, he has been able to prepare, under sublime guidance, a dozen Official Instructions of A.'.A.'., to conclude the great Qabalistic Dictionary of Gematria, and to begin the almost equally important Greek Dic- tionary on similar lines. He has had leisure to produce more plays, sketches, poems, and stories in this last year than he has done in an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…The lyre of Orpheus civilized savage Greece, and the lyre of Amphion built Thebes the Mysterious, because harmony is truth. The whole of Nature is harmony. But the Gospel is not a lyre: it is the book of the eternal principles which should and will regulate all the lyres and all the living harmonies of the universe. R2 243
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…The lyre of Orpheus civilized savage Greece, and the lyre of Amphion built Thebes the Mysterious, because harmony is truth. The whole of Nature is harmony. But the Gospel is not a lyre: it is the book of the eternal principles which should and will regulate all the lyres and all the living harmonies of the universe. R2 243
1919 · PDF PAGE 232
…ds outside the Order, for the purpose of widening its scope. TWELFTH HOUSE 43. The Brethren are bound to secrecy only with regard to the nature of the rituals of our Order, and to our words, signs, etc. The general principles of the Order may be fully explained, so far as they are understood below the VI’; as it is written, “The ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all.” It is to be observed that punctual performance of these duties, so that the report thereof is noised abroad and the fame of i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 375
…weet peace and rest, Disciple, sow with the seeds of merit the fields of future harvests. Ac- cept the woes of birth. Accept the Laws of Nature and work with them. Do not be always trying to take short cuts. Do not complain, and do not be afraid of the length of the Path. This treatise being for beginners, reward is offered. And—it is really worth while. One may find oneself in the Office of a Buddha. “Yea, cried the Holy One, and from Thy spark will I the Lord kindle a great light; I will burn through the grey city in the old and desolate land…
1919 · PDF PAGE 431
…a is the one pure light spoken of in this verse. It is called “free from affection.” It creates without desire, simply because it is its nature to create. It is this force in one’s self of which one must become conscious in this stage. 109
1954 · PDF PAGE 284
…n. Of course, whatever I say can be no more than a rough approximation, even a suggestion rather than a statement; but I cannot help the nature of the case. Nuit is the centripetal energy, infinitely elastic because it must fit over the hard thrust directed
1954 · PDF PAGE 311
…of it. Though your Supernal Triad is in essence identical with mine, your Tiphareth is quite definitely not mine. It is like mine in its nature and many of its sympathies , but your Ruach is altogether different from mine in (at a guess) 80 percent of its components . We must add Malkuth as the medium which crystallizes the characters of our respective "Selves." This is all horribly, hatefully difficult to put into words; there is bound to be misunderstanding , however cleverly I concoct the potion. But we understand pretty well for all that, a…