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…letto. Silver-gilt; blades of exquisite fineness; the cipher of a princely house of France shone in tiny diamonds upon the pommels. “The thought sent new courage and determination thrill- ing through me. I had saved a princess from shame and torture; I loved her! She loved me, for I had saved her— ah! but I had not yet saved her. That was to do. “But how to act? I had plenty of time. Jean would not return to the house, in all probability. But the markets were stirring; the weapons and my blood would arouse curiosity. Well, how to act? “The posi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 366
THE EQUINOX Thought alone, then, reveals light, and creates it in using it for its own purposes. The affirmation of atheism is the dogma of eternal night: the affirmation of God is the dogma of light! We stop here at the number Nineteen, although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters ; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. The others are the keys of Nature ; we shall return to them in the third part of this work. Let us resume what we have said concerning God, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the Jewish liturgy.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 417
…eality. Dr. Briére de Boismont in his remarkable work on “ Hal- lucinations,” tells the story of an Englishman otherwise quite sane, who thought that he had met a stranger and made his acquaintance, who took him to lunch at his tavern, and then having asked him to visit St. Paul’s in his company, had tried to throw him from the top of the tower which they had climbed together. From that moment the Englishman was obsessed by this stranger, whom he alone could see, and whom he always met when he was alone, and had dined well. Precipices attract; …
1913 · PDF PAGE 549
…his fatal writing without instantaneously losing its liberty. One does not pass from dumb and vegetative contemplation to free vibrating thought without changing one’s surroundings and one’s organs. Thence comes the forgetfulness which accompanies birth, and the vague reminiscences of our sickly intuitions, always analogous to the visions of our ecstasies and of our dreams.” This revelation of that great master of occult medicine throws a fierce light on all the phenomena of somnambulism and of divination. There also, for whoever knows how to f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 366
THE EQUINOX Thought alone, then, reveals light, and creates it in using it for its own purposes. The affirmation of atheism is the dogma of eternal night: the affirmation of God is the dogma of light! We stop here at the number Nineteen, although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters ; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. The others are the keys of Nature ; we shall return to them in the third part of this work. Let us resume what we have said concerning God, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the Jewish liturgy.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 417
…eality. Dr. Briére de Boismont in his remarkable work on “ Hal- lucinations,” tells the story of an Englishman otherwise quite sane, who thought that he had met a stranger and made his acquaintance, who took him to lunch at his tavern, and then having asked him to visit St. Paul’s in his company, had tried to throw him from the top of the tower which they had climbed together. From that moment the Englishman was obsessed by this stranger, whom he alone could see, and whom he always met when he was alone, and had dined well. Precipices attract; …
1913 · PDF PAGE 549
…his fatal writing without instantaneously losing its liberty. One does not pass from dumb and vegetative contemplation to free vibrating thought without changing one’s surroundings and one’s organs. Thence comes the forgetfulness which accompanies birth, and the vague reminiscences of our sickly intuitions, always analogous to the visions of our ecstasies and of our dreams.” This revelation of that great master of occult medicine throws a fierce light on all the phenomena of somnambulism and of divination. There also, for whoever knows how to f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
…, of Inmost Enlightenment, of the soul’s deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itself{—fear not; you are not ‘replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill.” “You who hold more skill and more power than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal ‘the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God- nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many @ universe.” …
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
…, of Inmost Enlightenment, of the soul’s deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itself{—fear not; you are not ‘replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill.” “You who hold more skill and more power than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal ‘the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God- nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many @ universe.” …
1912 · PDF PAGE 430
…ry, of Inmost Enlightenment, of the soul’s deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itselffear not; you are not ‘replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill.” “You who hold more skill and more power than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal ‘the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” J…
1912 · PDF PAGE 430
…ry, of Inmost Enlightenment, of the soul’s deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itselffear not; you are not ‘replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill.” “You who hold more skill and more power than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal ‘the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” J…
1909 · PDF PAGE 123
…d, where, hailing a fiacre, they jumped in and clattered down towards the Seine. Roderic sat well back in the carriage, a little lost in thought. But the old man sat upright, and peered eagerly about him. Once he stopped the cab suddenly at a house with a low railing in front of it, well set back from the street, jumped out, examined it minutely, and then, with a sigh and a shake of the head, came back, a little wearier, a little older. They crossed the Seine, rattled up the Rue Bonaparte, and stopped at the door of Roderic’s studio. II LA RUE …
1909 · PDF PAGE 123
…d, where, hailing a fiacre, they jumped in and clattered down towards the Seine. Roderic sat well back in the carriage, a little lost in thought. But the old man sat upright, and peered eagerly about him. Once he stopped the cab suddenly at a house with a low railing in front of it, well set back from the street, jumped out, examined it minutely, and then, with a sigh and a shake of the head, came back, a little wearier, a little older. They crossed the Seine, rattled up the Rue Bonaparte, and stopped at the door of Roderic’s studio. II LA RUE …
1910 · PDF PAGE 368
…sers of thee, O St. Pancras Pulchinello—this little red-coated person that doth mouth and dance upon the kakophonous barrel-organ of New Thought fakirs and Modernity mountebanks. Speak to this parasite—itself unspeakably verminous— of the long-haired brigade, who has “got on” for that it had neither sufficient talent to excite envy, nor manhood enough to excite apprehension, but wit well to comprehend the sycophancy of the self-styled court and the tittle-tattle of the servants’ hall. It is an Editor—dear Lord my God! it is an Editor; but he wh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 368
…sers of thee, O St. Pancras Pulchinello—this little red-coated person that doth mouth and dance upon the kakophonous barrel-organ of New Thought fakirs and Modernity mountebanks. Speak to this parasite—itself unspeakably verminous— of the long-haired brigade, who has “got on” for that it had neither sufficient talent to excite envy, nor manhood enough to excite apprehension, but wit well to comprehend the sycophancy of the self-styled court and the tittle-tattle of the servants’ hall. It is an Editor—dear Lord my God! it is an Editor; but he wh…
1912 · PDF PAGE 30
… be near, bestow thy peace within ! If I have sought the hurt of any man, forgive ! If I have soiled my skirt with even a fugitive Faint thought of evil, cleanse my heart and soul thereof, As thou dost heal all mens misdeeds with eager love. Our Lady of Vigilance, behold me ! I am weak. My lifes inheritance to take there are those that seek. There are evil men that hunt me to destroy meThou When they arise, confront them, hear thy virgins vow. Forgive them, even as I through thee am wholly shriven ; Let that absolve whereby all men may be f…
1912 · PDF PAGE 291
…es of an inscrutable Providence as Coote and Torrey, he surpassed the one in sanctimonious- ness, the other in bigotry, though he always thought blackmail too risky, and slander a tactical error. Without heart or conscience, either in his family relations or his public functions, he goes to a grave covered by the flowers of those who think it politic to pretend to honour him; and it is his tragedy that of all the obituaries penned by servile or venal dupes or accomplices of his misdeeds, none will survive the century. This article remains his so…
1912 · PDF PAGE 291
…es of an inscrutable Providence as Coote and Torrey, he surpassed the one in sanctimonious- ness, the other in bigotry, though he always thought blackmail too risky, and slander a tactical error. Without heart or conscience, either in his family relations or his public functions, he goes to a grave covered by the flowers of those who think it politic to pretend to honour him; and it is his tragedy that of all the obituaries penned by servile or venal dupes or accomplices of his misdeeds, none will survive the century. This article remains his so…
1913 · PDF PAGE 434
…oglyphs, it represents the graduated extent of idea, and the progressive extension of form. “Tt is a triple tau upside down; it is human thought affirming the absolute in the three worlds; and that absolute ends here by a fork, that is to say, by the sign of doubt and antagonism. So that, if the first character means: ‘ There is no God,’ the rigorous signification of this one is : ‘ Hierarchical truth does not exist.’ 136
1913 · PDF PAGE 461
…d you now spend your time, I understand, in curious researches in occult science.” “Not precisely, but I am seeking the realization of a thought. . . . I have something to do.” “J do not suppose that this something can be an opera- tion of Black Magic. You know as well as I do, reverend sir, that the Church has always condemned, and still con- demns, severely, everything which relates to these forbidden practices.” A pale smile, imprinted with a sort of sarcastic irony, was all the answer that the Abbé gave, and the conversation fell to the gro…