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Page 58 of 1081912 · PDF PAGE 114
…God! but this will break up the mother. Dr. F. Then you mustn’t tell her. W. S. I’m not going to. But she’ll guess. Mothers seem to feel things. Look here, dec., I'm on for a night with the Indians. I‘ll have forgotten about it myself by to-morrow That’s the best way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of them if they said I had to die to—morrow. Dr. F. Quite right. [DR. BOB‘S (Be/L SERVANT 6711665 and flows JANE z'm‘o eoizszz/lz‘ng—roo/IL] Dr.…
1919 · PDF PAGE 335
… verse the Student is exhorted to indifference to everything but his own progress. It does not mean the in- difference of the Man to the things around him, as it has often been so unworthily and wickedly interpreted. The in- difference spoken of is a kind of inner indifference. Every- 13
1919 · PDF PAGE 421
…ips, and Karmic pebbles bruise his feet along the rocky path. The objection to fear is not only the obvious one. Fear is only one of the things which interfere with concentra- tion. The re-action against fear leads to over-boldness. Anything which interferes with the perfect unconscious simplicity of one’s going leads to bruises. Troubles of this kind may be called Karmic, because it is events in the past which give occasion for trouble. 32. Be of sure foot, O Candidate. In Kshanti’s essence bathe thy Soul; for now thou dost approach the Portal…
1922 · PDF PAGE 249
…m loss of blood. I got some water, and washed the wounds, and bound them up as best I could. When the waiter came, I sent him for proper things from the chemist, and some invalid food. For 235
1922 · PDF PAGE 276
…as taking off her furs as I woke. I had been covered with blankets. She came and took them off, and told me it was time to go and get my things from Greek Street and take them to the new rooms which she had engaged for us that morning. Lou, it seemed, was already there; and had fallen asleep again, said Lala, only a few minutes before she left. I could not help feeling a dislike for the way in which everything was being managed for me. I must have shown something of this in my manner. Lala, after bundling me into the automobile which I had driv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…red ear might fall, now and again, vague snatches of some far-off music. Then there were pallid perfumes in the air, like suggestions of things cool, and voluptuous, and chaste and delicate, and lazy, of those soft tropical loves which satisfy themselves with dreams. [215] All these phenomena were of a peculiar quality. It will be well to recite the fact, and to suggest an explanation. These sights and sounds are conveyed clearly enough; but they disappear the moment the full attention is turned upon them. They will not bear
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
… you Scripture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions, God. For, at first, this practice leads To holy thoughts (the holy deeds Precede success) and reverent gaze Upon the Ancient One of Days, Beyond which fancy lies the Truth. To find which I have left my youth, All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-gra…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…quest of life , the salvation of a soul wandering through the mazy depths of existence . At length filled with the experience of worldly things seeking the Sublime , he finds it. The kingdom of Dis , the terrors of Death are vanquished , “ and , like this in substantial pageant faded , leave not a rack behind .” Yet how difficult is all this without the guidance of a master hand , the hand which supports but does not hold , directing but never compelling . Then the Isis of Aceldama is unveiled , and the secret is caught from the age - worn lips…
1907 · PDF PAGE 237
…s body is yellow and a metal " ( p . 13 ). ( But , answers Crowley , what of the proposi tion “ Gold is a trivalent base ? None of these things are analytic . Thus gold must be reducible to the noumenon , and so disappear .) In the second proposition Kant says : That though there are synthetic judgements à posteriori , “ there are also others of an à priori certainty ,” which “ can never have their source solely ... in the principle of contradiction ” ( p . 13 ). “ Judgements of experience are always synthetic . It would be absurd to found an a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing law; but onlya line of least resistance along which all things move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and so its own selfishness proves its destruction. “We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity implies stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.” So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva had started whirl- * Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his Essay ‘Eleusis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing law; but onlya line of least resistance along which all things move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and so its own selfishness proves its destruction. “We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity implies stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.” So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva had started whirl- * Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his Essay ‘Eleusis…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
…nity of spiritual pride. The Magician is not nearly so liable to fall into this fearful mire of pride as the mystic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school- boys, and the football field is a perfect prophylactic of swelled head. When the mystic meets an obstacle, he “ makes believe" about it. He says it is “only illusion.” He has the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
…nity of spiritual pride. The Magician is not nearly so liable to fall into this fearful mire of pride as the mystic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school- boys, and the football field is a perfect prophylactic of swelled head. When the mystic meets an obstacle, he “ makes believe" about it. He says it is “only illusion.” He has the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 441
… by Raphael.” Eliphas Levi, who felt ill at ease in discussing facts with which there was mingled a sort of profanation of the most holy things, then took his leave of the one-time Catholic writer, and went out meditating on the strange influence of this Vintras, who had so overthrown that old belief, and turned the old savant’s head. Some days afterwards, the qabalist Eliphas was awakened very early in the morning by an unknown visitor. It was a man with white hair, entirely clothed in black; his physio- 143
1913 · PDF PAGE 441
… by Raphael.” Eliphas Levi, who felt ill at ease in discussing facts with which there was mingled a sort of profanation of the most holy things, then took his leave of the one-time Catholic writer, and went out meditating on the strange influence of this Vintras, who had so overthrown that old belief, and turned the old savant’s head. Some days afterwards, the qabalist Eliphas was awakened very early in the morning by an unknown visitor. It was a man with white hair, entirely clothed in black; his physio- 143
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…t is called "neighbourhood concentration". Another experience was this: I found myself at one and thee same moment conscious of external things in the background after the object of my concentration had vanished, and also conscious that I was not conscious of these things. To the normal mind this is of course sheer contradiction, but Buddhist psychology mentions this peculiar state. The higher faculties of the intelligence are not subject to the same laws as the lower. I continually increased the number of hours which I devoted to my work. On O…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…othing. In any category, infinity excludes finity, unless that finity be an identical part of that infinity. In the category of existing things, space being infinite, for on that hypothesis we are still working, either matter fills or does not fill it. If the former, matter is infinitely great ; if the latter, infinitely small. Whether the matter ~ 1
1919 · PDF PAGE 378
…a figure of speech. They do not believe in them as actual realities. It is one of the regular Oriental tricks to exaggerate all sorts of things in order to impress other people with one’s knowledge, and then to forget altogether to weld this particular piece of information on to the wheel of the Law. Consequently, all Blavatsky’s talk about the sublimity of the Nirmanakaya body is no more than the speech of a politician who is thank- ing a famous general for having done some of his dirty work for him. 39. The Shangna robe, ’tis true, can purcha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 263
…n another letter, the "Point-Event" (or whatever it is) of which we are aware is a change, or, less inaccurately, the memory of one; the things that change remain relentlessly unknown. It does seem to me, young woman, that you ought to go over these ideas again and again, familiarizing yourself intimately with this process of passing from one to another, so intimately that it becomes automatic and spontaneous for you to run round the circle in perfectly frictionless ease; for otherwise your mind will be forever pestering you all your life, and …
1961 · PDF PAGE 212
…ble is this thy Wisdom, wherein I have resolved every Conflict soever that is or that can be, even in all dimensions, that Antagonism of Things no less than their Limitations. I have said: Evil be thou my Good; for it is the Magical Mirror of Our Astarte and the Caduceus of our Hermes. Now this was the Error of Elder Philosophers, that perceiving Changeful Duality as the Cause of Sorrow, they sought the Recon- cilement in Unity and in Stability. But I shew thee the Universe as the Body of Our Lady Nuith, who is None and Two, with Hadith Her Lor…