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Page 55 of 831996 · PDF PAGE 123
…s to ordered and purposeful action. Joy and Beauty are the evidence that our func tions are free and fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feas…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…eaks. R. Reet A.C. 23 Nine breaks. Against this particular practice P. wrote: “I think breaks are longer in themselves than of old; forI find myself con- centrating on them and forgetting the primary altogether. But I have no means of telling how long it is before the error is discovered.” Some very much more elaborate and difficult meditations were attempted by P. at this time; in nature they are very similar to many of St. Loyola’s. We give the account in his own words: I tried to imagine the sound of a waterfall. This was very difficult to g…
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…daring thinker ! “Happiness and misery have much to do with welfare.” These burning words may rekindle the fires of Smithfield. “Here we find the need of courage. For, if we are to think on these matters at all, we must accept the belief for which we have evidence, and we must reject the belief for which we have no evidence. . . , And, sometimes, this is not easy.” This unworthy right hand ! We should not think of calling this Martyr to His Convictions, this Revo- lutionary Thinker, an ass in a lion’s skin. For asses can kick. Shall we say ashe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…eaks. R. Reet A.C. 23 Nine breaks. Against this particular practice P. wrote: “I think breaks are longer in themselves than of old; forI find myself con- centrating on them and forgetting the primary altogether. But I have no means of telling how long it is before the error is discovered.” Some very much more elaborate and difficult meditations were attempted by P. at this time; in nature they are very similar to many of St. Loyola’s. We give the account in his own words: I tried to imagine the sound of a waterfall. This was very difficult to g…
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…daring thinker ! “Happiness and misery have much to do with welfare.” These burning words may rekindle the fires of Smithfield. “Here we find the need of courage. For, if we are to think on these matters at all, we must accept the belief for which we have evidence, and we must reject the belief for which we have no evidence. . . , And, sometimes, this is not easy.” This unworthy right hand ! We should not think of calling this Martyr to His Convictions, this Revo- lutionary Thinker, an ass in a lion’s skin. For asses can kick. Shall we say ashe…
1922 · PDF PAGE 349
…s there really such a thing at all? My mathematics tells me that there must be. However many forces there may be at work, one can always find their resultant. But this was all terribly vague. The desire to take heroin was clear-cut. It no longer produced any particular effect to take it. Now that I was getting down to two or three doses a day, at the most, it seemed as though there were no particular object in taking it, even as dulling the craving for it. I found it in- creasingly difficult to fill column two. King Lamus descended on me one mo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 237
…is nothing else there! It is just like all those symbols in The Book of Thoth; as soon as you get to the "end" of anything, you suddenly find it is the "beginning."
1907 · PDF PAGE 247
…sion, ii. 176 How hardly a man, iii. 151 How light and how agreeable, i. 156 How sweet the soft looks shoot, ii. 78 How tedious I always find, ii. 184 How things are changed since Alice was so ill, li, 81 ‘* How very hard it is to be,” ii, 168 ‘* How you bungle!’”’ growled Ganesha, ii, 228 I ALMOST wonder if I ought, iii. 89 Iam a boy in this. Alas! ili. 3 Iamaman. Consider first, iii. 8 I am a pretty advocate, ili, 6 I am so sad, being alone to-night, iii, 66 I behold in a mist of hair involving, ‘ill. 58 I bring ye wine from above, iil. 207 I…
1899 · PDF PAGE 93
…veil, and to put in the mouths of uninitiates words appreciative of those glorious destinies that overrule the cruelties of fate, let me find my excuse in that love for, and faith in, “the holy spirit of man,” which itself may do so much toward the final regeneration of humanity, and the uniting of man once more with that God of whom Porphyry has written, ‘ We are but a little part of Him.”
1910 · PDF PAGE 69
…he substance; from this fall arises the first veil we had occasion to mention, the veil of duality, of words, of belief. This duality we find even in the texts of the oldest Upani- shads, such as in Brihadaranyaka, 3. 4. 1. “It is thy soul, * “There are two persons of the Deity, one in heaven, and one which descended upon earth in the form of man (ze, the Adam Qadmon), and the Holy One, praised be It! unites them (in the union of Samadhi, that is, of Sam (Greek ody, together with), and Adhi, Hebrew Adonai, the Lord). There are three Lights in t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 69
…he substance; from this fall arises the first veil we had occasion to mention, the veil of duality, of words, of belief. This duality we find even in the texts of the oldest Upani- shads, such as in Brihadaranyaka, 3. 4. 1. “It is thy soul, * “There are two persons of the Deity, one in heaven, and one which descended upon earth in the form of man (ze, the Adam Qadmon), and the Holy One, praised be It! unites them (in the union of Samadhi, that is, of Sam (Greek ody, together with), and Adhi, Hebrew Adonai, the Lord). There are three Lights in t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 313
…usiness which they don’t under- stand and never will. Between you, you may have made me miss my chance. Confound you! If I knew where to find Platt, I’d go around and sign the contract this moment. As it is, I can go down to the bank and arrange to get the money.” I pulled out my watch. “T can’t even have my lunch, I suppose,” I went on, working myself up deliberately into a fury. Lou walked a few steps away and then turned back and faced me. “ Accept my apologies, Sir Peter,’’ she said, in icy, deliberate tones. ‘ I have no right whatever to i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 351
…he ruin of bodily health is injurious ; and ‘‘ whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” 23. So-and-so has taken it for years, and is all right. 24. So-and-so has taken it for years, and is still taking it, and he is the most remarkable man of his century. 25. I’m feeling so very, very rotten, and a very, very little would make me feel so very, very good. 26. We can’t stop while we have it—the temptation is too strong. The best way is to finish it. We probably won't be able to get any mo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…o, et hoc genus omne, are loyal emissaries of the Masters, or the gods! Well, why not? An analogy, once more. In the Christian legend we find God (omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent) employing Judas, Pilate and Herod, no less than Jesus, as actors in the Drama which replaced Isis by Osiris in the Great Formula. Perfectly true; but this fact does not in any way exculpate the criminals. It is no excuse for the Commandants of Belsen and Buchenwald that they were acting under orders. The Drama is not mere play-acting, in which the most virtuous ma…
1907 · PDF PAGE 129
…rmed debauchery,? Grins from the image. Let posterity From Rodin’s art guess Mirbeau’s heart, extol The lethal chamber men ere then will find For the pimp’s pen and the corrupted mind. 1 Le jardin des supplices, Octave Mirbeau. 2 Les mémoires d'une femme de chambre, par Octave Mirbeau, par SOCRATE. (L>HOMME AU NEZ CASSE.) CONSUMMATE beauty built of ugliness, O broken-nose philosopher, is thine. Diamonds are deepest in the blue-mud mine ; So is the secret of thy strong success Demonic-glittering through the wear and stress Of tortured feature ; …
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
…a Upanishad that all things, including even the four Vedas, are called “nama eva”—mere name. Now in “The Ques- tions of King Milinda” we find Nagasena stating that all things but “name and form,” the difference between which lies in that “Whatever is gross therein is form:’” whatever is subtle, mental, is “name.” But that both are dependent on each other, and spring up, not separately, but together. “The Questions of King Milinda,” ii. 2. 8, + It must not be forgotten that in its ultimate interpretation the Atman is the Ain, however we use this…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…atness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention to the dogmatic literature of Buddhism only to find that behind its unsworded Cromwellian colossus,* with all his rigid virtues, his stern reasoning, his uncharitableness, judicialism and impartiality, slunk a pack of pig-headed dolts, stubborn, asinine and mulish; slavish, menial and to the top of the hill before Hebron, and saying: “My good boy, if you ever intend becoming strong, the first thing you must do is to buy a pair of my four pound dumb-bells a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
…a Upanishad that all things, including even the four Vedas, are called “nama eva”—mere name. Now in “The Ques- tions of King Milinda” we find Nagasena stating that all things but “name and form,” the difference between which lies in that “Whatever is gross therein is form:’” whatever is subtle, mental, is “name.” But that both are dependent on each other, and spring up, not separately, but together. “The Questions of King Milinda,” ii. 2. 8, + It must not be forgotten that in its ultimate interpretation the Atman is the Ain, however we use this…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…atness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention to the dogmatic literature of Buddhism only to find that behind its unsworded Cromwellian colossus,* with all his rigid virtues, his stern reasoning, his uncharitableness, judicialism and impartiality, slunk a pack of pig-headed dolts, stubborn, asinine and mulish; slavish, menial and to the top of the hill before Hebron, and saying: “My good boy, if you ever intend becoming strong, the first thing you must do is to buy a pair of my four pound dumb-bells a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 148
…tice occurred while trying over new music with the choir of which I am a member, and it is very hard to leave out a word when singing. I find this practice makes one speak much less. The word chosen being a conjunction often results in the second part of a sentence remaining unspoken. I never before noticed how unneces- sary some of our speech is; in fact I have now no doubt that a great many things are better left unsaid. Monday, Jan. oth. Bedtime. Said word to-day for the first time at Lunch. I. at 1.20 P.M. Lunch. 1. at 2.25 P.M. at Office. …