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Page 61 of 1061922 · PDF PAGE 325
…ne must know Roman history,” explained Hermes, in the tone of a head master addressing an educational conference. “And what did you read last week?” said Lou, though she was rocking with laughter as much as I was. “ Shelley was being read to us,” he corrected. ‘“‘ We don’t read ourselves.” “The Tenth don’t dance,’”’ I quoted. “Don’t be an ass, Cockie,” said Lou. “Well, Hermes, but why don’t you read? ” “The Big Lion doesn’t want us to learn,” he said. “We have to learn to use our eyes, and reading spoils them.” “ But why?” asked Lou, in surpris…
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…am not, but all-changing move The worlds evolving in a golden ladder, Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder; All gateways leading far to the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. I am : before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head : In me all skies and seas are shaken and eleven : All life and light and love about me shed, Bego…
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…am not, but all-changing move The worlds evolving in a golden ladder, Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder; All gateways leading far to the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. I am : before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head : In me all skies and seas are shaken and eleven : All life and light and love about me shed, Bego…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…evelop reason.45 After long years, too, in thy season Bloom, Concentration’s midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time—suppose, the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !)46 And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends. Division, Thought, wisdom, drop away. I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. There is a lak…
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
…btained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and “cast into the midst thereof the Fire of the Sun "—z.e., y (6), “ the Seal of Creation ”—and we have y12,an Egg. Where we see the whole universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology : and the Formulation of the Sphere 178
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
…btained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and “cast into the midst thereof the Fire of the Sun "—z.e., y (6), “ the Seal of Creation ”—and we have y12,an Egg. Where we see the whole universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology : and the Formulation of the Sphere 178
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
…week and more ye’ve not been yourself altogether— though this I will say, never a kinder lad breathed than my dear lad, Jack Adams, this last week. Affliction purifies, ay, it purifies; ifye’re out 0’ sorts yourself, why, you're kinder to others, makes ye lean on them, like—there's a blessing to everything, lad, depend on it, a blessing hidden in every mortal thing. JACK, Never fear, Daddy Martin. I’ve slept ill lately, but I know I’ll sleep sound to-night. MARTIN. Ay, Jack. [Exits L. JACK. [Makes quite sure that the door is shut, then comes to fo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
…week and more ye’ve not been yourself altogether— though this I will say, never a kinder lad breathed than my dear lad, Jack Adams, this last week. Affliction purifies, ay, it purifies; ifye’re out 0’ sorts yourself, why, you're kinder to others, makes ye lean on them, like—there's a blessing to everything, lad, depend on it, a blessing hidden in every mortal thing. JACK, Never fear, Daddy Martin. I’ve slept ill lately, but I know I’ll sleep sound to-night. MARTIN. Ay, Jack. [Exits L. JACK. [Makes quite sure that the door is shut, then comes to fo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
…he Woman clothed with the Sun, writing down my experiences. The other is Lou Pendragon, an animal dying in agony from thirst. I said the last word aloud, and Peter caught it up. He crawled away from the grate towards me croaking out :— “Not the thirst benign That calls the worker to wine; Not the bodily thirst (Though that be frenzy accurst) When the mouth is full of sand, And the eyes are gummed up, and the ears Trick the soul till it hears Water, water at hand, When a man will dig his nails In his breast, and drink the blood Already that clot…
1929 · PDF PAGE 176
the price may be his liberty. Ultimately, he may lose life itself in some last desperate effort to retrieve all at a blow. When I was young and had less experience, I had many a fight with sorcerers; and it was always the end of the fight when Mr. Sorcerer broke the law. He was no longer fighting me, but the consolidated will of humanity; and he had no time to attack me when he was busy building breakwaters. "And that reminds me. We have a young friend at bay — with the worst pack of devils in the world at him. I wonder if I have done wrong to …
1910 · PDF PAGE 180
…eons: thou who didst create Darkness and not Light! Mara, vile Mask of Matter! Arise, O Shiva, and destroy! That in destruction these at last be blest. Pranayama. Mantra seventeen minutes. Noise of glass being rubbed persistent. From now I decide to work more seriously, and follow out the following programme: Mantra “ Aum Tat Sat Aum.” Dharana on Ajna Chakkra. Read Bhagavad-Gita. Vegetarian diet. * Probably at this time a period of “dryness” supervened. 164
1910 · PDF PAGE 180
…eons: thou who didst create Darkness and not Light! Mara, vile Mask of Matter! Arise, O Shiva, and destroy! That in destruction these at last be blest. Pranayama. Mantra seventeen minutes. Noise of glass being rubbed persistent. From now I decide to work more seriously, and follow out the following programme: Mantra “ Aum Tat Sat Aum.” Dharana on Ajna Chakkra. Read Bhagavad-Gita. Vegetarian diet. * Probably at this time a period of “dryness” supervened. 164
1913 · PDF PAGE 321
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES prophets and the last of them that stifled the Word are confounded, then will be the reign of the Holy Ghost. Then, Glory to the Father who drowned the host of Pharaoh in the Red Sea! Glory to the Son, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the Czsars, broke the forehead of the Czesars against the earth! Glory to the Holy Ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by His terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of God! Glory to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 321
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES prophets and the last of them that stifled the Word are confounded, then will be the reign of the Holy Ghost. Then, Glory to the Father who drowned the host of Pharaoh in the Red Sea! Glory to the Son, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the Czsars, broke the forehead of the Czesars against the earth! Glory to the Holy Ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by His terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of God! Glory to…
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
….2 For know that the true Formula3 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus : INVOKE OFTEN 4 So may ail men corne at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,) to 93. And EIIH, “Words”, (whence “Epie”) has also that value: EIAE TA EUH might be the phrase here intended: its number is 418.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…in were mirrored all these things of mystery. So the long passage steeply sliding ever up to my feet where I stood in the emptiness ; at last a sure abiding only in absolute ceasing of all sense, and all perceived or understood or knowable ; thus, purple and intense, I beheld the past that leads to peace, from royal heights of mastery to sleep, from self-control imperial to an end, therefore I shaped the seven tiers of the ascending corridor into seven strokes of wisdom, seven harvests fair to reap from seven bitter sowings. Here ascend the arm…
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
…in gentle and easy meditation on my Lord Adonai, without fear or violence, quite directly and naturally. One of the matters that came up last night with Dr. R d was that of writing rubbish for magazines. He thought that one could do it in the intervals of serious work ; but I do not think that one should take the risk. I have spent these many years training my mind to think cleanly and express beautifully. Am I to prosti- tute myself for a handful of bread? I swear by Thyself, 0 Thou who art myself, that I will not write save to glorify Thee, t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 304
…nevertheless seldom have I seen sucha pen full of sheep. A man from Ilfracombe proposed this, and a man from Liverpool seconded that; at last a London plumber arose, and with great solemnity declared: ‘‘Gintlemen, hi taik hit ’is ’oliness his really ’oly, hin fact gintlemen hi taik hit ’e his Gawd; . . . hand so hi proposes the very least we can do for ’im his to subscribe yearly towards ’im foive shillins!” (ear, ear” from a comrade in the corner). However, the sheep wouldn’t have it, and the 286
1910 · PDF PAGE 338
…and when men hear them, they live a lifetime in an instant, mate, rear children, are widowed, or have their eyes closed for them for the last time by these women whose souls they thus secretly and inviolately espouse.” After a little silence the worm which issued from her eyes then spoke: “IT am her eyes, and she was bad, bad as her mouth says. Some of that mouth’s warm tribute came indeed to me, and I was shut from seeing with the close lips of men beating time to the superb madness of their love music with rhythmic kisses. And I saw—O what I …
1910 · PDF PAGE 304
…nevertheless seldom have I seen sucha pen full of sheep. A man from Ilfracombe proposed this, and a man from Liverpool seconded that; at last a London plumber arose, and with great solemnity declared: ‘‘Gintlemen, hi taik hit ’is ’oliness his really ’oly, hin fact gintlemen hi taik hit ’e his Gawd; . . . hand so hi proposes the very least we can do for ’im his to subscribe yearly towards ’im foive shillins!” (ear, ear” from a comrade in the corner). However, the sheep wouldn’t have it, and the 286