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Page 49 of 871909 · 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
1910 · PDF PAGE 205
…not understand; this Atman is silent.” P. had not yet attained to this Silence; indeed it was the goal he had set out to accomplish, and though from the ridge * To which may be added Mantra Yoga and Karma Yoga, which correspond with The Invocation and The Acts of Service and represent Union through Speech and Union through Work. 189
1910 · PDF PAGE 205
…not understand; this Atman is silent.” P. had not yet attained to this Silence; indeed it was the goal he had set out to accomplish, and though from the ridge * To which may be added Mantra Yoga and Karma Yoga, which correspond with The Invocation and The Acts of Service and represent Union through Speech and Union through Work. 189
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…- ture ” and “ against nature.” “ Praise Lacedaemon, and despise Corinth ! God gave me Daphne ; I won Hyacinth.” All our modern devices, though applications of na- ture, are against and above nature ; therefore of God. Nature’s man is the cave-man. We take no paternal pride in the pariah dog, the product of Nature ; in the highly bred setter, the product of man’s genius applied to nature’s very raw material, through centuries and chiliads of struggle, we do. There is no poetry in the panting Puritan prone on his puffing and perspiring Priscilla…
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
…ing the light down and establishing it even in the abyss. Elementary as this is, it is a very satisfactory hieroglyph of the Great Work, though the student is warned that the obvious sentimental interpretation will have to be dis- carded as soon as it has been understood. It is a very noble illusion, and therefore a very dangerous one, to figure one's self as the Redeemer. For, of all the illusions in this Cup —the subtler and purer they are, the more difficult they are to detect.
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
… which hurls itself in on so proud a crest , to capture whole yards of territory , owes its impetus to the moving mass of water behind , though
1929 · PDF PAGE 281
… bred of Octave Mirbeau's Le Jardin des Supplices, combined with fervid actualities born of the feeling that I was (after all) treading, though reverently and afar off, in the footsteps of my boyhood's hero, Richard Francis Burton. The approaches to Rangoon are of the most turbulent kind. The river is always the same violent angry dirty flood. It seems to be desperately annoyed with itself about something, possibly at having to pass through Rangoon, which is a wretchedly provincial and artificial town, saved from utter insignificance by one cro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 112
THE EQUINOX for though by him is form visible, he maketh it visible only to destroy it. And he saith: The light is come to the darkness, and the darkness is made light. Then is light married with light, and the child of their love is that other darkness, wherein they abide that have lost name and form. Therefore did I kindle him that had not understanding, and in the Book of the Law did I write the secrets of truth that are like unto a star and a snake and a sword. And unto him that understandeth at last do I deliver the secrets of truth in suc…
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
…h your teeth clenched, waiting and watching and recording, killing each hope as it was born, yet wishing to God that you dared hope—even though you knew it to be vain. Dr. B. There’s where you are wrong. What’s the use of lying and cheating? I never saw any good come of it. You tell a man he may get well this year—next year—sometime— never—like a silly girl blowing a puff-ball. Pah ! Mrs. B. If you only had sympathy, Bob dear, if you only had imagination ! If you only could realize what these people really feel when you condemn them I Dr. F. An…
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
…h your teeth clenched, waiting and watching and recording, killing each hope as it was born, yet wishing to God that you dared hope—even though you knew it to be vain. Dr. B. There’s where you are wrong. What’s the use of lying and cheating? I never saw any good come of it. You tell a man he may get well this year—next year—sometime— never—like a silly girl blowing a puff-ball. Pah ! Mrs. B. If you only had sympathy, Bob dear, if you only had imagination ! If you only could realize what these people really feel when you condemn them I Dr. F. An…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…ing apartments, I was in a difficulty. I therefore consulted my lawyer and too the first place he suggested. He, of course, never gave a though to my convenience or the appropriateness of the district. He saw and took the chance of obliging a business acquaintance. initiation first. However, I began to busy myself with the preparations. Abra-Melin warns us that our families will object strenuously to our undertaking the Operation. I resolved, therefore, to cut myself off absolutely from mine. So, as I had to live in London, I took the flat unde…
1929 · PDF PAGE 280
…e Standard gave me my meed of publicity. Column three of the main page gave the story of the attempted robbery. The man with the gun was thought to be a sailor from one of the ships in the harbour; the police offered a reward for his apprehension. Column five contained an interview with the hero of the expedition to Kangchenjunga. "They will go round the ships," said Thornton, "and they they'll have a shot at the hotels. Get out and get out quick!" "Darling sweetheart lovey-dovey silly great big she-ass!" I whispered to my wife, "would you rath…
1904 · PDF PAGE 100
AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY 93 being convinced on insufficient grounds.1 This is surely the last refuge of incompetence. But though, always on the original hypo- thesis of the infinity of s pace, &c., the Ad- vaitist position of the Vedantists and the great Germans is unassailable, yet on practical grounds the Dvaitists have all the a dvantage. Fichte and the others exhaust themselves trying to turn the simple and obvious posi- tion that: “If the Ego alone exists, where is any place, not only for m orals and religion, which we can very well do without…
1906 · PDF PAGE 274
…t foot on Indian soil; a rumour is even got about that you have no such women: but political economy is to be thanked, if it be so. Now, though you know that I am aware that India is simply the refuse-heap for your vilest characters and your dullest brains, I see that you so little appreciate the compli- ment I am trying to pay you, that your foot is already itching to assault my person, and to cause me to remember that your cook never forgets to spit into your honour’s soup, were it not that we may find a refuge from difference of caste and ra…
1910 · PDF PAGE 284
…re mightily swayed that frightful bell, and now, tremendously crashing, my head smote against its side. It was not the pain of the blow, though that was inconceivable, but the colossal roar that filled the universe, and rent my brain also, which blotted out in one instant all sense, thought, and being. In an instant I felt my life extinguisned, but knew that it was by annihilation, not by death. When I awoke out of the hasheesh state I was as over- whelmed to find myself still in existence as a dead man of the last century could be were he now …
1910 · PDF PAGE 284
…re mightily swayed that frightful bell, and now, tremendously crashing, my head smote against its side. It was not the pain of the blow, though that was inconceivable, but the colossal roar that filled the universe, and rent my brain also, which blotted out in one instant all sense, thought, and being. In an instant I felt my life extinguisned, but knew that it was by annihilation, not by death. When I awoke out of the hasheesh state I was as over- whelmed to find myself still in existence as a dead man of the last century could be were he now …
1911 · PDF PAGE 22
…the brains of men with blindness; these are heralds before my face of the dissolution and the night. Ye are all blinded by my glory; and though ye treasure in your heart the sacred word that is the last lever of the key to the little door beyond the abyss, yet ye gloss and comment thereupon; for the light itself is but illusion. Truth itself is but illusion. Yea, these be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. Let thy lips blister with my words! Are they not meteors in thy brain? Back, back from the face of the accursed one, who am…
1954 · PDF PAGE 355
…, thus described in my diary: Glory be to Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit in the Highest! A little before midday I was impelled mysteriously (though exhausted by playing fives, billiards, etc. till nearly six this morning) to make a final search for the Elemental Tablets. And lo! when I had at last abandoned the search, I cast mine eyes upon a hole in the loft where were ski, etc., and there, 0 Holy, Holy, Holy! were not only all that I sought, but the manuscript of Liber Legis. The ground was completely cut away from under my feet. I remained for t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 263
…r camp three hours higher; but the weather, after a fine morning, had begun to look bad and the snow was in bad condition. The men, too, though perfectly happy, were most of them very tired, and some of them knocked over by what they supposed to be mountain sickness --- symptoms of exhaustion, headache, pains in the abdomen, dizziness and so forth. I knew what the trouble was and went round to the sufferers and dropped a little atropine into their eyes. Half an hour later they were all perfectly restored. The alarming symptoms were all due to t…