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Page 50 of 791899 · PDF PAGE 93
…have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. Great captains were always great priests, in the secret Qabalistical sense. The priests themselves, then as to-day, were foolish old men trained to bolster up the externals of religion. The real rulers, then as to-day, were not, officially, priests ; the sceptre was wielded by those who, swathed in thick darkness, and enthroned on their own thunderclouds, looked with the eye of gods upon this earth, and carried out the designs of God with tranquil power. I have depicted such a …
1922 · PDF PAGE 290
…et up by the attempts to regulate the business. And in any case, the state of mind brought about by them is so harmful indirectly to the sense of moral responsibility that I am really not sure whether it would not be wiser in the long run to do away with the Blue laws and the Lizzie laws altogether. Legislative interference with the habits of the people produces the sneak, the spy, the fanatic, and the artful dodger. Take finance! Swindling has become a fine art, and is practised on a gigantic scale in ways which would have been impossible when…
1954 · PDF PAGE 220
…NS 187 angels to raise the saint, so as to avoid the necessity of intervening Himself." Lazy old parishioner! Now for a douche of common sense. Hatha-Yoga is quite clear and simple, even logical, about it. The method is plain Pranayama. Didn't I tell you one time of the Four Stages of Success? Perspiration-of a very special kind. Sukshma-Khumbakam: automatic rigidity . One stiffens like a dog in a bell-jar when you pump in Carbon Dioxide (is it?) The Bhuchari-Siddhi, "jumping about like a frog." One is wafted, without one's Asana being disturbe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 521
…lans? Was not the IXth Atu, the Hermit, also at one time called "Prudence"? Of course . Abstract philosophy rarely coincides with common-sense. We should plan as carefully as we can; but we should always allow a margin for every conceivable accident . Nor should we trust to luck, like England, when she goes to war. Bret Harte has an admirable story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" in which the "bad man," the crooked gambler, gives his life for the safety of the rest of his party , and winds up all with the remark: "Life isn't in having the luck of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
… “I am aspiring to the Great White Brotherhood ”? And if that question puzzle thee, as well it may, seeing that either answer is in some sense or other a lie—then see to it, I say, that thou lie not to the Holy Ghost! Shakespeare is perhaps thought by some (may it be credited?) to have written the lines: To thine own self be true, And it will follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all E…
1922 · PDF PAGE 262
…ustle of humanity. There was a momentary regret about leaving it. Yet we had already left it so long, so long ago, in every intelligible sense of the word. We should, I suppose, have been classed as human beings by statisticians, but surely by nobody else. We could never return to their midst. And even in the midst of our wretchedness, we felt a repulsion of contempt for the ruck of humanity which made us content to widen the gap between them and ourselves. Why preserve the outward semblance of these futile insects? Even their happiness disgust…
1922 · PDF PAGE 315
…y were liable to say and do things entirely foreign to their characters. We all know how abundantly you have shown your courage and your sense of honour. We know your race, and we know your exploits. What happened at the interview with Mr. Platt didn’t count. You were a sick man. That was all. Maisie suggested that she should go round and fetch you ;; and thank heaven she got there in time!”
1922 · PDF PAGE 371
…ted with the un- conscious ecstasy of nature. Articulate human language was an offence to our spiritual rapture. Our union destroyed our sense of separateness from the universe of which we were part ; the sun, the sky, the sea, the earth, partook with us of that ineffable sacrament. There was no discontinuity between that first embrace of our true marriage, and the occupation of the afternoon in taking stock of the effects of the laboratory, and making notes of the things we should ask Lala to bring us from London. The sun sank behind the ridge…
1954 · PDF PAGE 414
…esperate remedy, but it worked. No half measures, either! I used to wander into the jungle alone, looking for tigers, and trusting to my sense of direction to take me back to camp. All my mountain climbing was guideless, and a very great deal of it solitary. Well, this is not an example for you to copy, is it? But it gives an idea of the principle "Take the bull by the horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to un…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…nvocated. In some of the codices there are faint variations in the form of wording of the conjurations, but not sufficient to change the sense, ¢.g., “‘ Tartarean abode ” for ‘‘ Tartarean seat,” etc. 39 G
1917 · PDF PAGE 1
… tidings? Then comes the first call of the Great Goddess Nuit, Lady of the Starry Heaven, who is also Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. Hear her first summons to us men and women: “Come forth, O children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! I am aboye you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.” Later she explains the mystery of sorrow: ‘For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.” “This is the creation of the world, that …
1922 · PDF PAGE 348
…gard to sleep. It suddenly dawned upon me that this painful process of gradually learning to abstain, was not a cure at all in any right sense of the word. Basil was perfectly right.. I must reverse the entire process and reckon my life in positive terms. That’s
1996 · PDF PAGE 87
88 The Law is for All He is “not extended”; that is, without condition of any sort in the metaphysical sense. Only in the highest trances can the nature of these truths be realized. It is indeed a supra-rational experience not dissimilar to those characteristic of the “Star-Sponge” Vision previously described1 that can help us here. The trouble is that the truth itself is unfitted to the dualistic reason of “normal” man kind. Hadit seems to be the principle of Motion which is every where, yet is not extended in any dimension except as it chan…
1996 · PDF PAGE 94
…ue Self, and exalting it to unimaginable heights. So long as one remains “one’s self,” one is overwhelmed by the Uni verse; destroy the sense of self, and every event is equally an expression of one’s Will, since its occurrence is the resultant of the concourse of the forces which one recognizes as one’s own. 9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. Commentary: This verse is very thoroughly explained in Liber Aleph. “All in this kind are but s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…y there is a change—a change of form,* and not only a change, but a distinct birth and a distinct death of form. What creates this form? Sense perception. What will destroy this form, and reveal to us that which lies behind it? times more curious than all the musings of the mystics, works of the Rosi- crucians, or the mechanical contrivances which seem to-day so fine, and which our children will disdain as clumsy” (R. B, Cunninghame Graham in his preface to “ The Canon”). * Form here is synonymous with the Hindu Mayda; it is also the chief powe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…y there is a change—a change of form,* and not only a change, but a distinct birth and a distinct death of form. What creates this form? Sense perception. What will destroy this form, and reveal to us that which lies behind it? times more curious than all the musings of the mystics, works of the Rosi- crucians, or the mechanical contrivances which seem to-day so fine, and which our children will disdain as clumsy” (R. B, Cunninghame Graham in his preface to “ The Canon”). * Form here is synonymous with the Hindu Mayda; it is also the chief powe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…d are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing results external to the mind of the seer (objective in the ordinal y common sense acceptation of the term) we are here silent.) 6. There are three important practices connected with ail forms of cérémonial (and the two Methods which later we shall describe). These are: (1) Assumption of God-forms. (2) Vibration of Divine Names. (3) Rituals of “Banishing” and “Invoking”. These, at least, should be completely mastered before the dangerous Methods of Chapter V and VI are attempted. 377 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
… a more or less happy, healthy, prosperous set of parasites. The paganism of the university had to a great extent redeemed them from the sense of sin. But during vacation I either hid myself in the mountains among the sturdy peasants or went abroad. North- western Europe appealed to me. There was a certain element of romance in the long nights, the cold clear air, the ice. I loved to wander solitary in Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. There was a mystery in the streets and a spontaneous gaiety in the places of amusement, which satisfied my …
1922 · PDF PAGE 180
…ld of good. I am quite myself. I feel it by the way I am writing this entry. I have a quiet impersonal point of view. I have got back my sense of proportion. I can think of things consecutively and I feel physically much stronger, but I’ve got very sleepy again... . Joy! Cockie has just come in full of good news. He looks fine—as fine as he feels. He had a sample from a pediar he met in the Wisteria. It’s absolutely straight stuff. Pulled him round in a second. There are two of them in it; the man with the dope and the sentry. They talk busines…
1922 · PDF PAGE 323
…winging step of the practised mountaineer. Lou’s hand crept into mine. We were alone with nature. A new feeling had been born in us. The sense of personality had somehow faded out. I drew her gently into my arms; and we exchanged a long kiss such as we had never done before. We were not kissing each other. We were parts of the picture, whose natural expression it was to kiss. “‘ Hadn’t we better go on ? ” said Lou after a while, releasing herself. But at this moment we found ourselves confronted by a very extraordinary person indeed. It was a f…