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…» commend many of them, notably St. Ignatius and even the rationalising Mansel and Newman, if they would only concentrate upon spiritual truth, instead of insisting on the truth of things, material and therefore immaterial, which only need the touch of a scholar’s wand to crumble into the base dust from which their bloodstained towers arose. Whoso has been crucified with Christ can but laugh when it is proved that Christ was never crucified. The historian understands nothing of what we mean, either by Christ or by crucifixion, and is thus total…
1904 · PDF PAGE 30
…vices The giddy waltz, the tuneful aria, Those fatal foes of Brahma-charya;16 And said, “How very mild and nice is One’s luck to lop out truth in slices, And chance to chop up cosmic crises !” * The correct form of addres s from a pupil to his teacher. See Sab- hapaty Swami’s pamphlet on Yoga. 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 My Mahatma. What price Kut Humi ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Oh, how wise Grampa must have been, Bobbie !
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
…Into the waters that abound and spring ! Back , to your mother filth ! With hope , and youth , Love , light , and power , and mastery of truth Armed , we reject you ; the bright scourge we ply , Your howling spirits stumble to your sty : The worm that was your lie- our heel its head Bruises , that bruised us once ; the snake is dead . So , passionate and pure , the strong chant rolls , Queen of the mystic unity of souls ; So from eternity its glory springs King of the magical brotherhood of kings ; The absolute crown and kingdom of desire , Ear…
1907 · PDF PAGE 216
… , and yet more dim ; till finally it is absorbed in Self . And yet when we with our five senses , search for a pure ideal , an absolute truth , a God outside of ourselves , our failure is certain . To attempt such a course is but to leap into the inane , and he who should set out on the search for God in realms trod alone by reason , is as certain of destruction as he who with mortal foot should attempt to walk the billowy waves of the Galilean sea . Tannhäuser's falsely expressed aspirations begot within him the Venusberg ; seeking for that w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 539
…e, it bringeth forth much fruit.” Affirmation and negation must, then, marry each other, and from their union will be born the practical truth, the real and progressive word. It is necessity which should constrain the workmen to choose for the corner-stone that which they had at first despised and rejected. Let contradiction, then, never discourage men of initiative! arth is necessary for the ploughshare, and the earth resists because it is in labour. It defends itself like all virgins; it conceives and brings forth slowly like all mothers. You…
1913 · PDF PAGE 539
…e, it bringeth forth much fruit.” Affirmation and negation must, then, marry each other, and from their union will be born the practical truth, the real and progressive word. It is necessity which should constrain the workmen to choose for the corner-stone that which they had at first despised and rejected. Let contradiction, then, never discourage men of initiative! arth is necessary for the ploughshare, and the earth resists because it is in labour. It defends itself like all virgins; it conceives and brings forth slowly like all mothers. You…
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
…ay of thinking, unless he knew hat that was. But he declined to see the point. He was so cocksure that his own sect of Christianity held truth in utter purity and entirety that he could not imagine {488} that the Chinese had any way of thinking at all. He regarded their refusal to follow him as a mixture of sheer dullness and sheer wickedness. I forget the figures with regard to the converts at Talifu. In Yunnanfu the staff of six missionaries claimed four converts in four years and I imagine that these four were rice Christians at that. The tr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 166
THE WRITINGS OF TRUTH * The seeker after Wisdom, whose Bliss is non-existence, the Devotee of the Most Excellent Bhavani,t the Wanderer in the Samsara Cakkra, the Insect that crawls on Earth, on Seb beneath Nuit, the Purusha beyond Ishwara: He taketh up the Pen of the Ready Writer, to record those Mysterious Happenings which came unto Him in His search for Himself. And the beginning is of Spells, and of Conjurations and of Evocations of the Evil Ones: Things Unlawful to write of, dangerous even to think of; wherefore they are not here written. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 166
THE WRITINGS OF TRUTH * The seeker after Wisdom, whose Bliss is non-existence, the Devotee of the Most Excellent Bhavani,t the Wanderer in the Samsara Cakkra, the Insect that crawls on Earth, on Seb beneath Nuit, the Purusha beyond Ishwara: He taketh up the Pen of the Ready Writer, to record those Mysterious Happenings which came unto Him in His search for Himself. And the beginning is of Spells, and of Conjurations and of Evocations of the Evil Ones: Things Unlawful to write of, dangerous even to think of; wherefore they are not here written. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 85
…er weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is manifested the glory of my Father, who is truth. (This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the intoxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compassion. I understand by ‘Compassion,’ the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true worshippers of the High- est. And it is an ecstasy in which there is no trace of pain. Its passivity (= passion) is like the giving-up of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 141
…of Destiny; for Cosmos must come, and the balance be set up where there was no need of balance, because there was no injustice, but only truth. But when the balances are equal, scale matched with scale, then will Chaos return. Yea, as in a looking-glass, so in thy mind, that is backed with the false metal of lying, is every symbol read averse. Lo! everything wherein thou hast trusted must confound thee, and that thou didst flee from was thy saviour. So there- fore didst thou shriek in the Black Sabbath when thou didst kiss the hairy buttocks of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 561
…rm of our paradise or of our Hell. Each one of us (in a sense) conceives, bears, and nourishes his good or evil angel. The conception of truth gives birth in us to the good genius; intentional untruth hatches and brings up nightmares and phantoms. Everyone must nourish his children; and our life consumes itself for the sake of our thoughts. Happy are those who find again immortality in the creations of their soul! Woe unto them who wear them- selves out to nourish falsehood and to fatten death! for every one will reap the harvest of his own sow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 561
…rm of our paradise or of our Hell. Each one of us (in a sense) conceives, bears, and nourishes his good or evil angel. The conception of truth gives birth in us to the good genius; intentional untruth hatches and brings up nightmares and phantoms. Everyone must nourish his children; and our life consumes itself for the sake of our thoughts. Happy are those who find again immortality in the creations of their soul! Woe unto them who wear them- selves out to nourish falsehood and to fatten death! for every one will reap the harvest of his own sow…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…ts. It is apart of the game. Liber I vel Magi tells the Magus (here defined as the initiate charged with the duty of communicating a new truth to mankind) of what he may expect. There are many magical teachers but in recorded history we have scarcely had a dozen Magi in the technical sense of the word. They may be recognized by the fact that their message may be formulated as a single word, which word must be such that it overturns all existing beliefs and codes. We may take as instances the Word of Buddha-Anatta (absence of an atman or soul), …
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…s trying to think of Change—Sorrow—Unsubstantiality. At last, as I imagine, probably without foundation, he succeeds in seeing first the truth and then the falsity of the Three Characteristics—and that is Nibbana. 85
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…s trying to think of Change—Sorrow—Unsubstantiality. At last, as I imagine, probably without foundation, he succeeds in seeing first the truth and then the falsity of the Three Characteristics—and that is Nibbana. 85
1910 · PDF PAGE 365
…Socialist Buncombe and—every phase of falsehood. . . . But he has hardly grasped that each such falsehood is but a shadow of some sun of truth. He does not perceive the ineffable glory of the Uni- verse in its whole and in each part. He has smitten at the shadow of a shadow: it falls—the world is filth. Let him 347
1910 · PDF PAGE 365
…Socialist Buncombe and—every phase of falsehood. . . . But he has hardly grasped that each such falsehood is but a shadow of some sun of truth. He does not perceive the ineffable glory of the Uni- verse in its whole and in each part. He has smitten at the shadow of a shadow: it falls—the world is filth. Let him 347
1911 · PDF PAGE 92
…and the only way that I can express it is by saying that the universe was shaken. But the universe was zof shaken. And that is the exact truth; so that the rational mind which is interpreting these spiritual things is offended; but, being trained to obey, it setteth down that which it doth not understand. For the rational mind indeed reasoneth, but never attaineth unto Understanding; but the Seer is of them that understand. And the Angel saith: Behold, He hath established His mercy and His might, and unto His might is added victory, and unto Hi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…to the most revolting mysteries? On this occasion, you will say, the miracles came from God, and one even employs them as a proof of the truth of religion. But, what? heretics, too, let themselves be killed for dogmas, this time quite frankly and really absurd. They then sacrificed both their reason and their life to their belief? Oh, for heretics, it is evident that the devil was responsible. Poor folk, who took the devil for God, and God for the devil! Why have 204