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Page 51 of 831913 · PDF PAGE 315
…e is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. He is the sphinx without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without truth, the absolute without reality and without light. Man is the son of God because God, manifested, realized, and incarnated upon earth, called Himself the Son of man. It is after having made God in the image of His intelligence and of His love, that humanity has understood the sublime Word who said “ Let there be light!” Man is the form of the divine thought, and God is the idealized synthesis of human thou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
…kable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. Affidavits signed by honourable witnesses, persons who are artists, doctors, priests, all men above re- proach, have been communicated to us; we have questioned eye-witnesses, and, better than that, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…antic monster having the body of a hog, and the head borrowed from the skeleton of a colossal ox. But he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. Eliphas, who is an epicure in magic, was delighted with this find. In the nineteenth century, a real sorcerer of the middle ages, a remarkably innocent and convinced sorcerer, a sorcerer who had seen Satan under the name of Adonai, Satan dressed like a respectable citizen, and A…
1913 · PDF PAGE 315
…e is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. He is the sphinx without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without truth, the absolute without reality and without light. Man is the son of God because God, manifested, realized, and incarnated upon earth, called Himself the Son of man. It is after having made God in the image of His intelligence and of His love, that humanity has understood the sublime Word who said “ Let there be light!” Man is the form of the divine thought, and God is the idealized synthesis of human thou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
…kable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. Affidavits signed by honourable witnesses, persons who are artists, doctors, priests, all men above re- proach, have been communicated to us; we have questioned eye-witnesses, and, better than that, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…antic monster having the body of a hog, and the head borrowed from the skeleton of a colossal ox. But he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. Eliphas, who is an epicure in magic, was delighted with this find. In the nineteenth century, a real sorcerer of the middle ages, a remarkably innocent and convinced sorcerer, a sorcerer who had seen Satan under the name of Adonai, Satan dressed like a respectable citizen, and A…
1913 · PDF PAGE 327
…rs come to moisten the eyes, and sighs escape like incense smoke. One feels oneself in love, ineffably in love, with all that is beauty, truth, and justice; one throbs with a new life, and one fears no more to die. For prayer is the eternal life of intelligence and love; it is the life of God upon earth. Love one another—that is the Law and the Prophets! Meditate, and understand this word. And when you have understood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more—love ! Be no more wise, be no more learned—love! That is the whole doctrine of true r…
1913 · PDF PAGE 327
…rs come to moisten the eyes, and sighs escape like incense smoke. One feels oneself in love, ineffably in love, with all that is beauty, truth, and justice; one throbs with a new life, and one fears no more to die. For prayer is the eternal life of intelligence and love; it is the life of God upon earth. Love one another—that is the Law and the Prophets! Meditate, and understand this word. And when you have understood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more—love ! Be no more wise, be no more learned—love! That is the whole doctrine of true r…
1922 · PDF PAGE 119
…singly certain that Haidée, low-class, common- place, ignorant girl that she was, had somehow been sucked into a stupendous maelstrom of truth. The normal actions and reactions of the mind and the body are simply so many stupid veils upon the face of Isis. What happened to them didn’ t matter. The stunt was to find some trick to make them shut up. I understood the value of words. It depended, not on their rational meaning, but upon their hieratic suggestion. “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-house decree.” The names mean nothing defi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
…orny path before he won his Archais , and so must we , before we can win knowledge , weep many bitter tears . The incessant search after Truth carries us through desert lands of misery , and oases of temptation , as is only too vividly illustrated in Tannhäuser . Aphrodite before she could overcome the wiles of Jove had to seek aid from Priapus ;' thus so have we all to do , we must eat of the “ Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil ” before we can pluck the fruit of the “ Tree of Life .” The mediaeval spiritualism of “ Paracelsus " is curiously m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 78
… other words, he who understands the equilibrium of action and renunciation (of addition and subtraction) is as he who perceives that in truth the circle is the line, the end the beginning. To show how extraordinarily closely allied are the methods of Yoga to those of Magic, we will quote the following three verses from the Bhagavad-Gita, which, with advantage, the reader may compare with the citations already made from the works of Abramelin and Eliphas Levi. When the mind, bewildered by the Scriptures (Shruti), shall stand immov- able, fixed …
1910 · PDF PAGE 78
… other words, he who understands the equilibrium of action and renunciation (of addition and subtraction) is as he who perceives that in truth the circle is the line, the end the beginning. To show how extraordinarily closely allied are the methods of Yoga to those of Magic, we will quote the following three verses from the Bhagavad-Gita, which, with advantage, the reader may compare with the citations already made from the works of Abramelin and Eliphas Levi. When the mind, bewildered by the Scriptures (Shruti), shall stand immov- able, fixed …
1911 · PDF PAGE 49
…e every thought is followed by another thought, or who confuse the higher with the lower, the substance with the shadow. Every Aethyr is truth, though it be but a shadow, for the shadow of a man is not the shadow of an ape. (Note.—All this has come to me without voice, without vision, without thought.) (The shew-stone is pressed upon my forehead and causes intense pain; as I go on from Aethyr to Aethyr, it seems more difficult to open the Aethyr.) The golden cross has become a little narrow door, and an old man like the Hermit of the Taro has o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
… fumiste who had never in his brightest hours hoped to be taken seriously by as much as a rag-picker—people began to wonder what was the truth beneath the stories which West- cott was at such pains to deny. 1 Waite quotes the commonest name in all South India as if it were some- thing too fantastic for belief. 2 Please make paragraph read clearly.—Printer’s Reader. Heaven forgive you!—Ed. Can’t you see that I’m trying to write like Waite ?—A. Q. 213
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…l freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in love, in a maternal Providence which counts all our steps, and will reward all our tears, is to be a perfect dupe, the corrupt world will say; it does not see that it is itself who is the dupe, believing itself strong in depriving itself of all the delights of the soul. To believe in moral good is to possess that good: for this reason the Saviour of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
… fumiste who had never in his brightest hours hoped to be taken seriously by as much as a rag-picker—people began to wonder what was the truth beneath the stories which West- cott was at such pains to deny. 1 Waite quotes the commonest name in all South India as if it were some- thing too fantastic for belief. 2 Please make paragraph read clearly.—Printer’s Reader. Heaven forgive you!—Ed. Can’t you see that I’m trying to write like Waite ?—A. Q. 213
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…l freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in love, in a maternal Providence which counts all our steps, and will reward all our tears, is to be a perfect dupe, the corrupt world will say; it does not see that it is itself who is the dupe, believing itself strong in depriving itself of all the delights of the soul. To believe in moral good is to possess that good: for this reason the Saviour of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 196
…romantic sadness, changing to demoniac glee. | “She was incarnate love In the hours when I first awoke her. Little by little I found The truth of her, stripped of clothing, Bitter beyond all bound, Leprous beyond all loathing.” We shouted with delight, and fell into a fit of hysterical laughter. We came out of it completely exhausted. I must have slept for a while. | When I woke he was sitting at the table under the yellow gas jet, reading the books he had bought. Somehow, the past had been washed out of us. We found ourselves intent on the ide…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…This fact has not been realized by the yogis themselves. Religious doctrines and sentimental or ethical considerations have obscured the truth. I believe I am entitled to the credit of being the first man to understand the true bearings of the question. I was led to this discovery chiefly through studying comparative mysticism. For instance; a Catholic repeats Ave Maria rapidly and continuously; they rhythm inhibits the intellectual process. The result is an ecstatic vision of Mary. The Hindu repeats Aum Hari Aum in the same way and gets a visi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives !34 I fight no ghosts. “But why revile” (You urge me) “in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul ?” Perhaps you know How mystic doctrines melt the snow Of any faith: redeem it to A fountain of reviving dew. So I with Christ: but few receive The Qabalistic Balm,36 believe Nothing—and choose to know instead. But, to that terror vague and dread, External worship; all my life— War to the knife ! War to the knife ! No ! on the other hand t…