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Page 58 of 1191909 · PDF PAGE 68
5.40. 557- 6.30. 7.10. THE EQUINOX But it has done no good as far as energy is concerned. I’m just as bad or worse than I was on the day which I have called the day of Apophis (third day). The only thing to my credit is the way I’ve kept the mantra going. One thing at least is good; if anything does come of this great magical retirement—which I am beginning to doubt—it will not be mixed up with any other enthusiasm, poetic, venereal, or bacchanalian. It will be purely mystici But as it has not happened yet—- and just at present it seems incredi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
THE EQUINOX one stupendous magical exercise to enter that Silence which is beyond all thought. IV. Right Acts or Right Conduct. Having become obedient to his Holy Guardian Angel (the aspirant’s Spiritual Guru) or to the Universal Law as the Buddhist prefers to call it, man naturally enters the stage of Right Conduct, which brings with it supernormal or magical powers. Self is now put aside from action as well as from speech, and the striver only progresses by a stupendous courage and endurance. The canonical Buddhists however strenuously deny t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
THE EQUINOX one stupendous magical exercise to enter that Silence which is beyond all thought. IV. Right Acts or Right Conduct. Having become obedient to his Holy Guardian Angel (the aspirant’s Spiritual Guru) or to the Universal Law as the Buddhist prefers to call it, man naturally enters the stage of Right Conduct, which brings with it supernormal or magical powers. Self is now put aside from action as well as from speech, and the striver only progresses by a stupendous courage and endurance. The canonical Buddhists however strenuously deny t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 376
THE EQUINOX The object of faith is a mathematical problem, whose x escapes the procedures of our algebra. Absolute mathematics prove only the necessity, and, in consequence, the existence of this unknown which we represent by the untranslatable ~. Now science progresses in vain; its progress is indefinite, but always relatively finite; it will never find in the language of the finite the complete expression of the infinite. Mystery is therefore eternal. To bring into the logic of the known the terms of a profession of faith is to withdraw them …
1913 · PDF PAGE 572
THE EQUINOX You are meditating upon a mystery of faith; St. Ignatius wishes, in the first place, that you should create a place, dream of it, see it, touch it. If it is hell, he gives you burning rocks to touch, he makes you swim in shadows thick as pitch, he puts liquid sulphur on your tongue, he fills your nostrils with an abominable stench, he shows you frightful tortures, and makes you hear groans superhuman in their agony; he commands your will to create all that by exercises obstinately persevered in. Every one carries this out in his own…
1913 · PDF PAGE 376
THE EQUINOX The object of faith is a mathematical problem, whose x escapes the procedures of our algebra. Absolute mathematics prove only the necessity, and, in consequence, the existence of this unknown which we represent by the untranslatable ~. Now science progresses in vain; its progress is indefinite, but always relatively finite; it will never find in the language of the finite the complete expression of the infinite. Mystery is therefore eternal. To bring into the logic of the known the terms of a profession of faith is to withdraw them …
1913 · PDF PAGE 572
THE EQUINOX You are meditating upon a mystery of faith; St. Ignatius wishes, in the first place, that you should create a place, dream of it, see it, touch it. If it is hell, he gives you burning rocks to touch, he makes you swim in shadows thick as pitch, he puts liquid sulphur on your tongue, he fills your nostrils with an abominable stench, he shows you frightful tortures, and makes you hear groans superhuman in their agony; he commands your will to create all that by exercises obstinately persevered in. Every one carries this out in his own…
1919 · PDF PAGE 356
THE EQUINOX Compare the remark of ‘Christ,’ “Except ye become as little children ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,” and also, “Ye must be born again.” It also refers to the overcoming of shame and of the sense of sin. If you think the Temple of the Holy Ghost to be a pig-stye, it is cer- tainly improper to perform therein the Mass of the Graal. Therefore purify and consecrate yourselves; and then, Kings and Priests unto God, perform ye the Miracle of the One Substance. Here is written also the Mystery of Harpocrates. One mus…
1919 · PDF PAGE 420
THE EQUINOX of Bodhisattva’s virtues five, the fivefold source of Bodhi power, and of the seven steps in Knowledge. 28. Pass on! For thou hast brought the key; thou art secure. The row of dots in the text (after verse 25) appears to im- ply complete change of subject, though on other occasions it did not doso. Ihave already explained one of the technical meanings of Dana, and undoubtedly the Path seems attrac- tive at this stage. One thinks of the joyous reception into the Company of Adepts. One goes almost as a boy goes to meet his first sweet…
1911 · PDF PAGE 168
THE EQUINOX both Crowned and Conquering, the Lord of the Sword and the Sun, the Babe in the Lotus, pure from his birth, the Child of suffering, the Father of justice, unto whom be the glory throughout all the Aeon! * Come away! For that which was to be accomplished is accomplished, seeing that thou hadst faith unto the end of all. In the letter N the Voice of the Aethyr is ended. BISKRA, ALGERIA. December 20, 1909. 8.35-9.35 p.m. THE CRY OF THE IST AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED LIL First, let praise and worship and honour and glory and great thank be…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
THE EQUINOX art thou, because thou hast attained to look upon my face; not by my favour only, not by thy magick only, may this be won. Yet it is written: “ Unto the persevering mortal the blessed Immortals are swift.” Mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty; yea, thrice and four times mighty art thou. He that riseth up against thee shall be thrown down, though thou raise not so much as thy little finger against him. And he that speaketh evil against thee shall be put to shame, though thy lips utter not the littlest syllable against him. And he that thin…
1912 · PDF PAGE 280
THE EQUINOX Saered Mount, and Sub/ime Sage of the Pyramids; Sublime Philosopher of Samothrace, Sub/ime Titan of Με Caucasus, Sage of the Labyrinth, Knight ofthe Phoenix, Sublime Scald, Sublime Orphic Doctor, Pontiff of Cadmia, Sublime Magus, Prince Brahmin, Grand Pontiff of Ogygia, Sublime Guardian of Με Three Fires, Sublime Unknown Philosopher, Sublime Sage of Eleusis, Sublime Kan/i, Sage of Mythras, Grand Installator Guardian ofthe Sanctuary, Grand Consetrator Architect ofthe Mystie Cz'ty, Grand Eulogist Guardian ofthe lneflaéle Name, Patriarc…
1912 · PDF PAGE 280
THE EQUINOX Saered Mount, and Sub/ime Sage of the Pyramids; Sublime Philosopher of Samothrace, Sub/ime Titan of Με Caucasus, Sage of the Labyrinth, Knight ofthe Phoenix, Sublime Scald, Sublime Orphic Doctor, Pontiff of Cadmia, Sublime Magus, Prince Brahmin, Grand Pontiff of Ogygia, Sublime Guardian of Με Three Fires, Sublime Unknown Philosopher, Sublime Sage of Eleusis, Sublime Kan/i, Sage of Mythras, Grand Installator Guardian ofthe Sanctuary, Grand Consetrator Architect ofthe Mystie Cz'ty, Grand Eulogist Guardian ofthe lneflaéle Name, Patriarc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 164
THE EQUINOX of the being of which it is such a small part could confront even the Guardian of the Threshold of that Ordeal. One would imagine that in order to be suitable for such Initiation, the body and mind must be completely representative of the whole of the Cosmos, a perfect microcosm. The Mind of such an one must perfectly comprehend every phase of the Universe without exception. It must, in the most real intellectual sense, be equally “ The buffet and the ear.” As it is written, “A man of like passions as we are.” It is not possible her…
1913 · PDF PAGE 348
THE EQUINOX reasonably. Their promises are attempts at and imitations of promises; their marriages, attempts at and imitations of marriage; their loves, attempts at and imitations of love. They always wish, and never will; they are always under- taking and never completing. For such people, only the repressive side of law applies. Such beings may have a litter, but they never have a family: marriage and family are the rights of the perfect man, the emancipated man, the man who is intelligent and free. Ask also the annals of the Courts, and read…
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
THE EQUINOX The Emperor Julian, that adept of the spirit who was never understood, that initiate whose paganism was less idolatrous than the faith of certain Christians, the Emperor Julian, we say, understood better than Dupuis and Volney the symbolic worship of the sun. In his hymn to the king, Helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 164
THE EQUINOX of the being of which it is such a small part could confront even the Guardian of the Threshold of that Ordeal. One would imagine that in order to be suitable for such Initiation, the body and mind must be completely representative of the whole of the Cosmos, a perfect microcosm. The Mind of such an one must perfectly comprehend every phase of the Universe without exception. It must, in the most real intellectual sense, be equally “ The buffet and the ear.” As it is written, “A man of like passions as we are.” It is not possible her…
1913 · PDF PAGE 348
THE EQUINOX reasonably. Their promises are attempts at and imitations of promises; their marriages, attempts at and imitations of marriage; their loves, attempts at and imitations of love. They always wish, and never will; they are always under- taking and never completing. For such people, only the repressive side of law applies. Such beings may have a litter, but they never have a family: marriage and family are the rights of the perfect man, the emancipated man, the man who is intelligent and free. Ask also the annals of the Courts, and read…
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
THE EQUINOX The Emperor Julian, that adept of the spirit who was never understood, that initiate whose paganism was less idolatrous than the faith of certain Christians, the Emperor Julian, we say, understood better than Dupuis and Volney the symbolic worship of the sun. In his hymn to the king, Helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian ha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 422
THE EQUINOX “Close not thine eyes” may refer to sleep or to ecstasy, perhaps to both. Dorje is the whirling power which throws off from itself every other influence. Vairaga is a very definite stage in moral strength. The point is that it is one’s intense longing for ecstasy which makes one yield to it. If one does so, one is overwhelmed with the illusion, for even the highest ecstasy is still illusion. The result, in many cases, of obtaining Dhyana is that the workers cease to work. Vairaga is an indifference ap- proaching disgust for everythi…