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Page 67 of 1141929 · PDF PAGE 301
…e most of the petitioners were themselves opium growers whose business was damaged by the competition of the Indian product. In the same way, of course, many of the missionaries were employed by the manufacturers of morphia and cocaine to introduce these drugs instead of the practically harmless and even beneficial YEN. China has been the most civilized country in the world; from the time of Lao Tzu and Confucius, the fringe of its culture has been torn by the claws of commerce, but it will survive the collapse of Europe. And in Yunnan the cont…
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
… the handle of some bricked-up door, which will lead him forth from the depths of that same night in which Berkeley has already lost his way . When Hume states : “ he feels events to be con nected in his imagination ”; he is only reiterating the words of Philonous , when he says : “ I have a notion of Spirit , though I have not, strictly speaking , an idea of it . I do not perceive it as an idea , or by means of an idea , but know it by reflexion .” To which Hylas very properly replied : “ Words are not to be used with out a meaning . And , as …
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
…zed as the infoldment of all rational philosophies into one un certain philosophic problem . Berkeley , as we have seen , opened the gateway of scepticism , and was the first to vanish in the Absolute ether of Pyrrhonism , which he outwardly symbolized under the form of a Bishop of the Church of England . Hume following , clutched vaguely in the night of doubt at a “ some thing ” he could not grasp , and whose watery sub stance trickled through his clenched and searching fingers . Kant similarly losing his way in the night of Hume's ignorance ,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…s. 57. The Yogi, worshipper of the lotus-feet of his Guru should, in order to obtain quick success in Yoga, drink milk or nectar in this way. 58. Know semen to be moon-like, and the germ- cells the emblem of sun ; let the Yogi make their union in his own body with great care. 59. I am the semen. Sakti (the goddess) is the germfluid : when they both are combined, then the Yogi reaches the state of success, and his body be- comes brilliant and divine. 60. Ejaculation of semen is death, preserving it within is life ; therefore, let the Yogi preser…
1922 · PDF PAGE 227
…hat stuff. There’s a room in the north tower where he did his stunts. We went up after dinner. Everything had been left more or less the way it was. Uncle Mortimer never troubled to alter anything. There was a legend about this room too. For one thing, grandfather was a friend of Bulwer Lytton’s. We found a first edition of A Strange Story, with an inscription. Lytton had taken him for the model of Sir Philip Derval, the white magician who gets murdered. Lytton said so in this copy. It was all very weird and exciting. The room was full of the s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
…ows India will try to raise false hopes in me that I may live long enough to see it. I would warn scholars that, unless they are in some way definitely mystics and truly acknowl- edged as such, they will do better to hunt for the lost books of Livy than for the Bagh-i- muattar. There is no copy in any public library here or in the East : not surprising, when one hears Platt in 1874 complain that of so famous a classic as the Gulistan there is no genuine Persian MS., but only the garbled Indian copies, in either the India Office Library or the B…
1911 · PDF PAGE 133
… the Aethyr in silence. Now, then, behold how the head of the dragon is but the tail of the Aethyr! Many are they that have fought their way from mansion to mansion of the Everlasting House, and beholding me at last have returned, declaring, “ Fearful is the aspect of the Mighty and Terrible One.” Happy are they that have known me for whom I am. And glory unto him that hath made a gallery of my throat for his arrow of truth, and the moon for his purity. The moon waneth. The moon waneth. The moon waneth. For in that arrow is the Light of Truth t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 114
…pect of species as prevent a man fall- ing in love with an inanimate object, or anidea. For to him that is in any wise advanced upon the Way of Meditation it appears that all objects save the One Object are distasteful, even as appeared formerly in respect of his chance wishes to the Will. So therefore all objects must be grasped by the mind, and heated in the sevenfold furnace of Love, until with explosion of ecstacy they unite, and disappear, for they, being imperfect, are destroyed utterly in the creation of the Perfection of Union, even as …
1954 · PDF PAGE 78
…crid. I taste it-bitter. Now all the information given by these five senses has to be put together, although no two agree in any sort of way. The logic by which we build up our complex idea of a tree has more holes than a sponge. But this is to jump far ahead: we must first analyze the single, simple impression. "I see a tree." This phenomenon is what is called a "point-event." It is the coming together of the two, the seer and the seen. It is single and simple; yet we cannot conceive of either of them as anything but complex. And the Point-Eve…
1954 · PDF PAGE 204
…of one. Or, a long series of quite unreasonable obstacles or silly accidents interfere with your plans: or, the worst difficulty in your way is incomprehensibly removed by some extraordinary "freak of chance." Or . .. In a word, you seem to have strolled into a world where-well, it might be going too far to say that the Law of Cause and Effect is suspended; but at least the Law of Probability seems to be playing practical jokes on you. This means that your manoeuvres have somehow attracted the notice of the Astral Plane: your new neighbours (Ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 321
…peradventure thus I may attain the Light." Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666 P.S. Let me adduce an example of the way in which the serious Aspirant bends to the oar. This is not boasting as if the facts denoted superlative excellence; they speak. The only comment is that if such conduct is not normal and universal, it ought to be. Yet no! I would add this: that I have not yet heard of anyone who has attained to any results
1929 · PDF PAGE 390
390 we were both utterly exhausted, physically and in every other way. I hardly know how we ever got back to Bou Saâda. Not till the evening of the following day did I feel strong enough to invoke the ninth Aethyr. A surprise was waiting for me. The nineteenth Key contains the text of the original curse on creation. Each phrase formulates some calamity. I had always shuddered at its horror as I recited it. But now, the Abyss being crossed, and all its horror faced and mastered, the words of the Key suddenly thrilled with a meaning that I had ne…
1909 · PDF PAGE 328
…ogarithmic short cuts, if he likes, in the solu- tion of his intricate problems, and we shall also find many of these masterly rights of way are quite as baffling, I am afraid, as the curious mistaken byways of the beginner. Further, it must ever be borne in mind that the deeper we dive into the occult sciences, although the simpler our language often becomes, the less we find our ability to express ourselves in mere words and ordinary phrases ; from complex terms we sink to simple paradoxes, and from philosophic and scientific symbols we rise …
1909 · PDF PAGE 328
…ogarithmic short cuts, if he likes, in the solu- tion of his intricate problems, and we shall also find many of these masterly rights of way are quite as baffling, I am afraid, as the curious mistaken byways of the beginner. Further, it must ever be borne in mind that the deeper we dive into the occult sciences, although the simpler our language often becomes, the less we find our ability to express ourselves in mere words and ordinary phrases ; from complex terms we sink to simple paradoxes, and from philosophic and scientific symbols we rise …
1922 · PDF PAGE 137
…ed telling. The spirit of the true Englishwoman in a crisis was aflame in her. Fixing the crowd with my eyes and my barrel, we edged our way to the door. One man took up a glass to throw; but the padrone had slipped out from behind the bar, and knocked his arm down. The glass smashed to the floor. The attack on us degenerated into a volley of oaths and shrieks. We found ourselves in the fresh air—and also in the arms of half a dozen police who had run up from both ends of the street. Two of them strode into the wine-shop. The uproar ceased as i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 193
… gramophone. ‘“‘ She was only ill two days,” the man said. ‘ The doctors called it septic pneumonia.” I suppose I thanked him, and went away automati- cally. I found myself at home without knowing how I got here. Something told me that the real cause of her death was heroin, though, as a matter of fact, septic pheumonia can happen to any one at any moment. I’ve known two or three people go off like that. As my Uncle John used to say, conscience makes cowards of us all. King Lamus was always saying that as long as one has any emotion about any t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 504
…one may suspect that the majority of well-instructed men expect nothing but that History will repeat itself, and our civilization go the way of all the others whose ruins we dig up in every quarter of the earth. Well, if we have to wait for the calamity, and for evolution to begin all over again in a number of centuries-with luck!-one thing is at least quite certain: we can do nothing about it. Any form of activity must be as futile and as fatuous as any other; and the only sensible philosophy must be "Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we die.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 443
…a are infinitely more complex than the wildest philosophers have ever imagined, and that the old proverb "Where there's a will there's a way" needs no caveat. I cannot forebear to quote from Professor A. S. Eddington, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge: Here is a paradox beyond even the imagination of Dean Swift. Gulliver regarded the Lilliputians as a race of dwarfs; and the Lilliputians regarded Gulliver as a giant. That is natural. If the Lilliputians had appeared dwarfs to Gulliver, and Gulliver had appe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 73
…Roland and his peers, who have come to that Dark Tower! One young, one brave, one pure—lost! lost! penned in the hells of matter, swept away in the whirling waters of insane vision, true victims of the hashish of the soul. What poignant agony, what moaning abjectness, what self- disgust! What vain folly (of all true hope forlorn !) to seek in drugs, in drink, in the pistol or the cord, the paradise they have forfeited by a moment’s weakness or a moment’s wavering ! This “two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite” each one of us who ha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 73
…Roland and his peers, who have come to that Dark Tower! One young, one brave, one pure—lost! lost! penned in the hells of matter, swept away in the whirling waters of insane vision, true victims of the hashish of the soul. What poignant agony, what moaning abjectness, what self- disgust! What vain folly (of all true hope forlorn !) to seek in drugs, in drink, in the pistol or the cord, the paradise they have forfeited by a moment’s weakness or a moment’s wavering ! This “two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite” each one of us who ha…