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Page 60 of 841909 · PDF PAGE 373
…he shore of this island with the box; a small cage out of which two carrier-pigeons, almost dead with hunger, were struggling to escape; three sailors of the crew; the man-whose-nose-sings-at-will, and a dog; while my tormentor and the other souls were drowned, I suppose, or thrown upon some other land. It seems now almost as if I should wish my tormentor to be here. I might cure him ; and at all events he would be compelled by necessity to adopt a more lenient attitude towards me. Besides, now that he has made me to fit his box, the worst is o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 121
…platform at Rome I was brought up with a shock. An impossible thing had happened. “Great Scot,” cried a voice from the window of a coach three ahead of our own. “ Of all the extraordinary coincidences! How are you ?” We looked up, hardly able to believe our ears. Who should it be but our friend Feccles | Well, of course, I’d rather have seen the devil himself. After all, I'd behaved to the man rather shabbily; and, incidentally, made a great fool of myself. But what surprised me on second glance was that he was travelling very much incognito. H…
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
…e 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 feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! Commentary: The feasts of fire and water indicate rejoicings to be made at the puberty of boys and girls respectively. The …
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
… or nerve- centres. These NAdis, which are usually set down as numbering 72,000,* ramify from the heart outwards in the pericardium; the three chief are the Ida, Pingala and Sushumna,7+- the last of which is called “the most highly beloved of the Yogis.” Besides practising Pranayama he should also perform one * Besides the 72,000 nerves or veins there are often 101 others mentioned. These tor chief veins each have 100 branch veins which again each have 72,000 tributary veins. The total (101 + 101 x 100+ IOI X I00 X 72,000) equals 727,210,201, T…
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
… or nerve- centres. These NAdis, which are usually set down as numbering 72,000,* ramify from the heart outwards in the pericardium; the three chief are the Ida, Pingala and Sushumna,7+- the last of which is called “the most highly beloved of the Yogis.” Besides practising Pranayama he should also perform one * Besides the 72,000 nerves or veins there are often 101 others mentioned. These tor chief veins each have 100 branch veins which again each have 72,000 tributary veins. The total (101 + 101 x 100+ IOI X I00 X 72,000) equals 727,210,201, T…
1922 · PDF PAGE 349
…. 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 morning, just after I had taken a dose, and was raking my brain for a reason for my action. I was alternately chewing the end of my pencil and making meaningless marks on the paper. I told him…
1922 · PDF PAGE 365
…e haven't got and you can make a list of them, and we'll telegraph Lala to buy them in London and bring them down here. She is coming in three days’ time. I will also ask her to stop in Paris for one of those nice iron wreaths with enamelled flowers to put on my nameless grave.” The man’s nonchalance made me suddenly furiously ashamed of myself. I had to spit out between my teeth that he was an unutterable scoundrel. “That’s right, Sir Peter,’’ retorted the Big Lion, “reassure yourself, by all means. ‘The unspeakable Lamus’ is the classical exp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 357
…ed the fairest and dearest and purest of God's creatures. Of course he would never speak to me again either. I let him suffer for two or three days, then one afternoon I went across to his hotel and told him that this nonsense had gone on long enough; and it was time for him to learn something of life; I told him the facts. He regarded them as outrageous lies. I pointed out a hundred indications that they were true, but he was absolutely convinced of her purity and my infamy. I realized that I was wasting my breath. "Come across the road", I sa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 69
…d 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 the Upper Holy Divine united in One, and this is the foundation of the doctrine of Every-Thing, this is the beginning of the Faith, and Every- Thing is concentrated therein” (“Zohar III,” beginning of paragraph. She’- meneeh, fol. 36a, + It is fully realized that outside the vastness of the symbol this “Fall of God” is as impertinent as it is unthinkable. 57
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
…strils and pulling it out through the mouth, Trataka in steadying the eyes, Nauli in moving the intestines, and Kapalabhati, which is of three kinds, Vyat-krama, Vama-krama, and Sit-krama, of drawing in wind or water through the nostrils and expelling it by the mouth, and vice versdé. Also see “ Gheranda Sanhita,” pp. 2-10. This little book should be read in conjunction with the “Hatha Yoga Pradipika.” * The “Gheranda Sanhita” gives thirty-two postures. + The “Shiva Sanhita,” pp. 25, 26. { The imaginary “ triangle of flesh” near the perinaeum. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 69
…d 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 the Upper Holy Divine united in One, and this is the foundation of the doctrine of Every-Thing, this is the beginning of the Faith, and Every- Thing is concentrated therein” (“Zohar III,” beginning of paragraph. She’- meneeh, fol. 36a, + It is fully realized that outside the vastness of the symbol this “Fall of God” is as impertinent as it is unthinkable. 57
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
…strils and pulling it out through the mouth, Trataka in steadying the eyes, Nauli in moving the intestines, and Kapalabhati, which is of three kinds, Vyat-krama, Vama-krama, and Sit-krama, of drawing in wind or water through the nostrils and expelling it by the mouth, and vice versdé. Also see “ Gheranda Sanhita,” pp. 2-10. This little book should be read in conjunction with the “Hatha Yoga Pradipika.” * The “Gheranda Sanhita” gives thirty-two postures. + The “Shiva Sanhita,” pp. 25, 26. { The imaginary “ triangle of flesh” near the perinaeum. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…brain had not only grappled with the problem, but solved it to his satisfaction. The plan was perfect; on the night of the eclipse those three guards would be on duty at such and such gates; Dodu would tear his clothes into strips, bind and gag Bertrand, come and release me. Together we should spring on Rolland, take his uniform and rifle, and leave him bound and gagged. We should then dash for the shore, do the same with Monet, and then, dressed in their uniforms, take the boat of an octopus-fisher, row to the harbour, and ask in the name of t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Suffering.” These consist of the above Three Characteristics with the addition of the Noble Eightfold Path, which contains as we shall presently see the whole of Canonical Buddhism. Up to this point, save for the denial of the Ego, the whole of the above doctrine might have been extracted from almost any of the Upanishads. But there is a difference, and the difference is this. Though the Vedantist realized that Ignor- ance (Avidy4) was the foundation of all Sorrow, and that all, possessing the essence of Change, w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Suffering.” These consist of the above Three Characteristics with the addition of the Noble Eightfold Path, which contains as we shall presently see the whole of Canonical Buddhism. Up to this point, save for the denial of the Ego, the whole of the above doctrine might have been extracted from almost any of the Upanishads. But there is a difference, and the difference is this. Though the Vedantist realized that Ignor- ance (Avidy4) was the foundation of all Sorrow, and that all, possessing the essence of Change, w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX This is certainly better. The three times during singing practice 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 th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 54
…sibility of taking it by the nose in such a wind. I pulled out the cork, and thrust my tongue into the neck of the bottle. We were still three thousand feet or more above the sea. I had plenty of time, infinite time, I thought, as the drug took hold, to make my decision. I acted with superb aplomb. I touched the sea within a hundred yards of a fishing smack that had just put out from Deal.
1922 · PDF PAGE 153
The Bubble Bursts — 139 It took three days to telegraph money from England. It was utterly humiliating to walk about Naples. We felt that we were being pointed at as the comic relief in a very low-class type of film. We borrowed enough money to get on with, and, of course, we had only one use for it. We stayed in our room in a little hotel unfrequented by English, and crawled out by night to try to buy drugs. That in itself is a sordid epic of adventure and mis- adventure. The lowest class of so-called guide was our constant companion. Weary in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 28
…Chiefs of the Order / . . . were agreed on measures calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind. The Equinox, in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone. It appears that he recognized that he should have published only the basic yoga and magical instructions known as the Official Instructions of the Order in order to preserve "the Sacred Tradition." Now that the original sets of The Equinox are o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…are : a sceptre, a sword, a mitre, a cap, a long white robe of linen, and other garments for the purpose ;' also a girdle of lion’s skin three inches broad, with all the names written about it which be round the outmost part of the Magical Circle. Also perfumes, and a chafing- dish of charcoal kindled to put the fumes on, to smoke or perfume the place appointed for action; also anointing oil to anoint thy temples and thine eyes with; and fair water to wash thyself in. And in so doing, thou shalt say as David said : THE ADORATION AT THE BATH. “T…