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Page 58 of 911913 · PDF PAGE 504
…operations of that bank which we call life. To think nothing, to love nothing, to wish for nothing, to do nothing —that is the real sin. Nature only recognizes and rewards workers. The human will develops itself and increases itself by its own activity. In order to will truly, one must act. Action always dominates inertia and drags it at its chariot wheels, This is the secret of the influence of the alleged wicked over the alleged good. How many poltroons and cowards think themselves virtuous because they are afraid to be otherwise ! 206
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…that he loathed the visitors, and yet would be careful to do every thing that they suggested. Already she had a sort of intuition of the nature of "the way of the Tao." [33]
1954 · PDF PAGE 300
COINCIDENCE 267 flat?" "Her flat! are you crazy? This is a call-box in Shaftesbury Avenue." Collapse of A's confidence in the sanity of Nature. One may note that there was no similarity in the names of the exchanges, or in the numbers . It is the most grotesquely impossible case of "wrong number" that ever came my way. Now for one or two oddities. Recently, needing to relax, I borrowed three "thrillers" from different sources. In every case, the plot turned on two men being so alike that no one could tell them apart. (Rupert of Hentzau , John C…
1910 · PDF PAGE 275
… meaning of the song they sang, although there is no language yet coined which will convey it, and far be it from me even to suggest its nature, lest I should seem to perpetuate in any degree such profanity as beyond the abodes of the lost no lips are capable of uttering. Every note of the music itself accorded with the thought as symbol represents essence, and with its clangour mixed the maddening creak of the for ever oscillating cradle, until I felt driven into a ferocious despair. Suddenly the nearest fiend, snatching up a pitchfork (also o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 275
… meaning of the song they sang, although there is no language yet coined which will convey it, and far be it from me even to suggest its nature, lest I should seem to perpetuate in any degree such profanity as beyond the abodes of the lost no lips are capable of uttering. Every note of the music itself accorded with the thought as symbol represents essence, and with its clangour mixed the maddening creak of the for ever oscillating cradle, until I felt driven into a ferocious despair. Suddenly the nearest fiend, snatching up a pitchfork (also o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 101
…of potatoes. The above digression is perhaps not so inexcusable as it may seem on a first reading. Careful study of it should reveal the nature of the thought-processes which are habitually used by the secret Masters of the human race to determine its destiny. When everyone has done laughing, I will ask you to compare the real effects produced on the course of human affairs by Caesar, Attila, and Napoleon, on the one hand; of Plato, the Encyclopaedists, and Karl Marx3 on the other. The Yellow School of Magick considers, with complete scientific…
1929 · PDF PAGE 182
…have been illuminated, it happened always to be cloudy. My compass observations distressed me extremely. I was trying to reconcile {310} nature with Conway's map; and my difficulties were scarcely less than those which disturbed the peace of Victorian theologians. The natives made it worse; for Conway had named the glaciers on their information, and what they told me was in some respects quite different. At Lhungka I built a shelter for the coolies, a low stone wall behind which they could lie in case of violent wind. It would of course have be…
1954 · PDF PAGE 495
…ncentrate on one particular group , or one part of the world , and to keep this in as good shape as possible until the time has come for Nature to grow a new set. They will be grown on a new Formula, to meet the new needs , just as when our "permanent" (Alas, not much!) set replace our milk-teeth. You ask me if I think this change can be made without bloodshed. No. The obscure autocrats of Diplomacy and Big Business are infinitely stupid and short-sighted; they cannot see an inch beyond their too often stigmatically shapen probosces , except wh…
1904 · PDF PAGE 36
… balls were again thundering on her already weak- ened isthmus, and at the same time I was gather- ing myself, excited by the voluptuous nature of the struggle, for a stupendous effort. My chance came at last : the tow-wow relaxed its agonizing pres- sure, and in one rush of boiling tapioca pudding I emptied my eighty odd pounds into her cloak- room, drowning three innocent old gentlemen, and the maid who looked after their hats and sticks. It was too much for her capacity : the internal pres- sure of so much liquor neutralized that of her now …
1922 · PDF PAGE 127
Vedere Napok e poi—pro patriad—mori 113 of whatever nature operates by destroying temporarily the inhibitions of education. The ordinary drunken man loses the veneer of civilisation. But if you get the right man, the adminis- tration of a drug is quite likely to suppress his mental faculties, with the result that his genius is set free. Coleridge is a case in point. When he happened to get the right quantity of laudanum in him, he dreamed Kubla Khan, one of the supreme treasures of the language. And why is it incomplete ? Because a man called f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…such terrible seclusion ! GLENSTRAE. Ah! I had not thought your sympathy was genuine; but there, there! There is more real good in human nature than— ANGELA. Genuine enough! this ! But what a jest is GLENSTRAE, A most remarkable coincidence—a very pleasant reminder, Shall we sup? ANGELA, Yes; a magnum of Pol Roger, ’84— GLENSTRAE. With a dash of brandy in it— ANGELA. Will clothe our old loves in a halo of romance again. GLENSTRAE. Ha! Ha! We wear well, eh? ‘There, there! (Opens the carriage door.) The Carlton. (/ollows and shuts door.) [Sik PER…
1919 · PDF PAGE 339
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE together form a single word or Trinity, indicating that the Real must ‘be regarded as of this three-fold nature, Birth, Life and Death, not successive, but one. Those who have reached trances in which ‘time’ is no more will understand better than others how this may be. 20. Bestride the Bird of Life if thou wouldst know. The word “know” is specially used here in a technical sense. Avidya, ignorance, the first of the fetters, is more- over one which includes all the others. With regard to this Swan ‘Aum’ compare the foll…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…he was no longer merely his mistress; he had accepted her as a friend. It was no longer a purely sexual relation, which is always in the nature of a duel; he might cease to love her, in the crude savage sense; but he would always be a pal — just as if she were a man. And here was the pang: was he sure to return to the mood that her whole body and soul were even at that moment crying out for? The story of his "Judgment of Paris," as they called it, came into her mind. Some years before, he had had three women in love with him at once. It seemed …
1954 · PDF PAGE 66
…force of the Universe by making himself a fit receptacle for it, establishing a connection with it, and arranging conditions so that its nature compels it to flow toward him. (Illustration: If I want pure water to drink, I dig a well in a place where there is underground water; I prevent it from leaking away; and I arrange to take advantage of water's accordance with the laws of Hydrostatics to fill it.) 19. Man's sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him.
1907 · PDF PAGE 307
…ma gination , and the attention is fixed upon a moral object, such a case of mono -ideism becomes the most noble of hallucinations . The nature of the facts in this case admits a prolonged attention , for the moral object, far from being exhausted like objects of sense in one single intuition , ex tends and increases the longer it is dwelt on . Such an object will express itself in the mind which is generous to give it persistent attention , under symbols which become more and more intense until the soul , all absorbed in them , is sub limely h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…Law of Thelema. Whoso déniés “Do what thou wilt shall be the Whole of the Law” confesses that he still clings to the conflict in his own nature; he is not, and does not want to be, true to himself. A fortiori, he will prove false to you. — 195 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 44
…cut it out. The curse of society has been Procrustean morality, the ethics of the herd-men. One would have thought that a mere glance at Nature would have sufficed to disclose Her scheme of Individuality made possible by Order.
1954 · PDF PAGE 526
…lysing, developing and controlling the mind is the essence of all Yoga practices. Magick explores and learns to control those regions of Nature which lie beyond the objects of sense. Reaching the highest parts of these regions, called the divine, one proceeds
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
…f the Four Noble Truths, who has realised the fact that depends from that understanding, namely that all the constituents of bein are by nature endowed with the Three Character-istics of Sorrow, Transitoriness, and Absence of any immortal principle or Atma—such a one is said to be Sam maditthi, to hold right views, and the term has com e to m ean one of the Buddhist Faith. We may not have taken the other and higher steps on the Noble Eightfold Path; but must have rea- lised those Four Truths and their sequential three Characteristics. He who ha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 284
…he Planets in Mercury. in gloom. Iam the recession of the torrent, the Storm veiled in Terror is my Name. Hail unto the mighty Powers of Nature and the chiefs of the whirling Storm.’” The Hegemon then says : “The priestess with the mask of Isis spake and said: ‘The traveller through the gates of Anubis is my Name. I am the water perfect, and limpid, and pure, ever flowing out towards the silver sea. Iam the ever- passing Present, which stands in the place of the Past ; Iam the fertilised land. Hail unto the dwellers of the wings of the Morning!…