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Page 48 of 871909 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX hour, so mentally a less definite but far from indefinite number of thoughts makes an hour’s consciousness. Perhaps powerful and vivid thoughts count for a longer lapse of time than weak ones. Deep sleep passes like an invisible electric discharge. The apparently contrary fact that time seems short when we have been reading an interesting book or performing a pleasant and absorbing task is explained thus; the multitude of impressions is harmonised into one impression. Read an unharmonious and dull book, or an essay like this, and th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX hour, so mentally a less definite but far from indefinite number of thoughts makes an hour’s consciousness. Perhaps powerful and vivid thoughts count for a longer lapse of time than weak ones. Deep sleep passes like an invisible electric discharge. The apparently contrary fact that time seems short when we have been reading an interesting book or performing a pleasant and absorbing task is explained thus; the multitude of impressions is harmonised into one impression. Read an unharmonious and dull book, or an essay like this, and th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…eos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane. Mr. de Mirville, in a book to-day almost forgotten, though it made some noise a few months ago, gives himself a great deal of trouble to compile an account of various sorceries, of the kind which fill the compilations of people like Delancre, Delrio, and Bodin. He might have found better than that in history. And without speaking of the easily attested miracles of the Jansenists of Port Royal, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more marvellous than the great mono…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…eos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane. Mr. de Mirville, in a book to-day almost forgotten, though it made some noise a few months ago, gives himself a great deal of trouble to compile an account of various sorceries, of the kind which fill the compilations of people like Delancre, Delrio, and Bodin. He might have found better than that in history. And without speaking of the easily attested miracles of the Jansenists of Port Royal, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more marvellous than the great mono…
1919 · PDF PAGE 93
… Lord, let us sail upon the sea of blood! 42. There is a deep taint beneath the ineffable bliss; it is the taint of generation. 43. Yea, though the flower wave bright in the sunshine, the root is deep in the darkness of earth. 44. Praise to thee, O beautiful dark earth, thou art the mother of a million myriads of myriads of flowers. 45. Also I beheld my God, and the countenance of Him was a thousandfold brighter than the lightning. Yet in his heart I beheld the slow and dark One, the ancient one, the devourer of His children. 46. In the height …
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…he poetry we here find . No poems are of any great length , no poems here contain a labour on the part of the reader to attain the end , though in some places the labours of Hercules seem insignificant compared with the labours of mental un knotting , but even in such places ( where the sense becomes tangled in the reader's mind ) he loses none of the beauty of rime and rhythm , he never becomes bored , never weary . Set in the pure gold of verse and line , lie lyrics of surpassing beauty : Tannhäuser ( the longest of the poems ) would be a mag…
1909 · PDF PAGE 256
…remonstrator and Imperator. OF AROUERIST His secret place is the last of the invisible stations and he standeth with the Hiero- phant as though representing him unto the Outer Order. For while the Hierophant is 5°=6°, yet he is only shown as a Lord of the Paths in the Portal of the Vault. So that when he moveth from his place on the throne of the East, the seat of Aeshuri, he is no longer Osiris but Arouerist. And the invisible station of Arouerist may therefore be said to be that of the immediate past Hierophant. THE OFFICERS AND THE STATIONS …
1909 · PDF PAGE 256
…remonstrator and Imperator. OF AROUERIST His secret place is the last of the invisible stations and he standeth with the Hiero- phant as though representing him unto the Outer Order. For while the Hierophant is 5°=6°, yet he is only shown as a Lord of the Paths in the Portal of the Vault. So that when he moveth from his place on the throne of the East, the seat of Aeshuri, he is no longer Osiris but Arouerist. And the invisible station of Arouerist may therefore be said to be that of the immediate past Hierophant. THE OFFICERS AND THE STATIONS …
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…ed, one lip cut half away in some old brawl, so that he grinned horribly and askew, rushed out at me, a rapier in his hand. My stiletto, though long beyond the ordinary, was useless against a tool of such superior reach. “A last wrench gave me the ermine cloak, an invaluable parry. Could I entangle his sword, he was at my mercy. He saw it, and fenced warily. Indeed, I had the upper hand throughout. Threatening to throw the cloak, catch his 120
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…ed, one lip cut half away in some old brawl, so that he grinned horribly and askew, rushed out at me, a rapier in his hand. My stiletto, though long beyond the ordinary, was useless against a tool of such superior reach. “A last wrench gave me the ermine cloak, an invaluable parry. Could I entangle his sword, he was at my mercy. He saw it, and fenced warily. Indeed, I had the upper hand throughout. Threatening to throw the cloak, catch his 120
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…the Masters of the Pyramid. And the bee said unto the flower: ‘Give me of thine honey,’ and the flower gave richly thereof; but the bee, though he wit it not, carried the seed of the flower into many fields of sun. So also are they that take unto themselves the Masters of the Pyramid for servants. Now the exceeding light that was behind the Pyramid, and the Rosy Cross that is set thereon, hath fulfilled the whole Aire. The black Pyramid is like the back of a black diamond. Also the Rosy Cross is loosened, and the petals of the Rose are the ming…
1907 · PDF PAGE 299
292 THE STAR IN THE WEST immortality. Our port to reach is that divinity which abides in us , mud -bound though it be in the clay of its surroundings , for as Lamartine said : “ Humanity is as a weaver working on the reverse of the web of Time . One day will come when passing to the other side , she will behold the wonder and beauty she has woven , in the place of the loose threads and knots of the reverse .” That day God will be manifested . The secret theurgy of the ages is neither science , nor ethics , philosophy , nor religion ; for it is …
1911 · PDF PAGE 82
…ve thy wisdom unto the world, and that shall be thy garden. And concerning time and death, thou hast naught to do with these things. For though a precious stone be hidden in the sand of the desert, it shall not heed for the wind of the desert, although it be but sand. For the worker of works hath worked thereupon; and because it is clear, it is invisible; and because it is hard, it moveth not. All these words are heard by everyone that is called NEMO. And with that doth he apply himself to understand- ing. And he must understand the virtue of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…n. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl though dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. 30
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…n. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl though dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. 30
1922 · PDF PAGE 45
…rway, with Lou’s arms round his neck, was the tall, black, sinister figure of King Lamus. “I knew you wouldn't mind our dropping in, al- though it is so late,” she was saying. It would have been perfectly simple for him to acquiesce with a few conventional words. Instead, he was pontifical. “There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold ; lapis-lazuli and jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine and rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in tum or at once the four gates; let him stand on the flo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 65
… render wretched the lives of those who are forced to come in contact with them. Personally, Ihave never felt the bearing-rein of habit, though I have tried all the mental and physical poisons in turn. I smoke tobacco, the strongest tobacco, to excess, as I am told ; yet a dozen times I have abandoned it, in order to see whether it had any hold upon me. It had none; I resigned it as cheerfully as a small boy resigns the tempting second half of his first cigar. After a meal (for the first day or two) my hands would go to my pockets from habit ; …
1909 · PDF PAGE 315
…my skull like an arrow from abended bow. And swerv- ing down, I played around the head of the great image and kissed it on the lips. But though for many minutes did I fly about that immense head, the countenance thereof was ever cloudy as a mountain seen through a storm of snow; yet nevertheless could I distinguish that the head was like an Assyrian clean-shaven, like a bull, a hawk, an Egyptian and myself. “Intoxicated with rapture, I fluttered about the lips and then entered the great mouth. “Up! up! I rise. I am in a chamber with two square …
1909 · PDF PAGE 332
…t both would know when they got to Dover, both would know when they were on the Channel, and both would in some way, different in detail though it might be, recognise Paris as Paris when they arrived at their destination. 324
1909 · PDF PAGE 65
… render wretched the lives of those who are forced to come in contact with them. Personally, Ihave never felt the bearing-rein of habit, though I have tried all the mental and physical poisons in turn. I smoke tobacco, the strongest tobacco, to excess, as I am told ; yet a dozen times I have abandoned it, in order to see whether it had any hold upon me. It had none; I resigned it as cheerfully as a small boy resigns the tempting second half of his first cigar. After a meal (for the first day or two) my hands would go to my pockets from habit ; …