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Page 68 of 1051913 · PDF PAGE 560
THE EQUINOX is the cry of victory with which intelligence triumphs over darkness. This word is sublime in effect because it expresses simply the greatest and most marvellous thing in the world: the creation of intelligence by itself, when, calling its powers together, balancing its faculties, it says: I wish to immor- talize myself with the sight of the eternal truth. Let there be light! and there is light. Light, eternal as God, begins every day for all eyes that are open to see it. Truth will be eternally the invention and the creation of gen…
1913 · PDF PAGE 560
THE EQUINOX is the cry of victory with which intelligence triumphs over darkness. This word is sublime in effect because it expresses simply the greatest and most marvellous thing in the world: the creation of intelligence by itself, when, calling its powers together, balancing its faculties, it says: I wish to immor- talize myself with the sight of the eternal truth. Let there be light! and there is light. Light, eternal as God, begins every day for all eyes that are open to see it. Truth will be eternally the invention and the creation of gen…
1922 · PDF PAGE 228
…akes me think of Anatole France—La Rotisserie de la Reine Pédauque —old Coignard has been warned by the Rosicrucian not to pronounce the word Agla, and the moment he does so, a wheel comes off his carriage, with the result that he gets murdered by Moses. Then, again, all the Rosicructan’s predictions come true ; and he himself goes up in a flame like the Salamander he has been invoking. He looks upon hts own death as the crown of his career—the climax towards whtch he has been working. Anatole France is, in fact, compelled to write as tf the Ro…
1954 · PDF PAGE 318
…f sanctimoniousness! There, or thereabouts, we must leave it. "Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh"; and I cannot sing he words of an epithalamium to the music of a dirge. Besides, what says the poet? "Love's at its height in pure ove? Nay, but after When the song's light dissolves gently in· aughter." Oh! "One word more" as Browning said, "Actions speak ouder than words." Do you see what is my mark? It is you that I am going to ut in the dock about "being serious"; and that will take a eparate letter-part of the answer to yours …
1929 · PDF PAGE 570
… sixty. A sinister malice lurked in her most causal remarks. Her deceitfulness was overpoweringly evident in her looks, no less than her words. Her eyes gleamed with ghastly glee. It suggested that she imagined herself as a sort of scourge to inflict obscene suffering upon anyone she might meet. I waited some time hoping Betty would return. She did not and it was arranged for me to come to tea the next day. I found her in a curious state. She had lost most of the wholesomeness and health which she had enjoyed when I last saw her. She knew she w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 14
…‡ The nicest man I ever met. We argued of the Cosmic plan. I was Lord Roberts, he De Wet.44 * Scots legal term for defendant. † A Romany word for woman. ‡ The Rev. J. Bowley. The conversation described actually occurred in Mr. Gerald Kelly’s studio in Paris. 185 190 195 200 205 210 215 Ascension Day. Moral aspect of Christianity to be discussed to prejudice of the metaphysical. Orthodoxy to be our doxy.† Gipsies barred. Henrik Ibsen and H. G. Wells. Parson and poet. Fugitive nature of dogma in these latter days. The Higher Criticism.
1906 · PDF PAGE 155
… t The nicest man I ever met. We argued of the Cosmic plan. I was Lord Roberts, he De Wet.* * Scots legal term for defendant. + A Romany word for woman. t The Rev. J. Bowley. The conversation described actually occurred in Mr. Gerald Kelly’s studio in Paris. Ascension Day. Moral aspect of Christianity to be discussed to prejudice of the metaphysi- cal. Orthodoxy to be our doxy.t Gipsies barred. Henrik Ibser. and H,. G. Wells Parson and poet. Fugitive nature of dogma in these latter days. The Higher Criticism.
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…e it on that date? Because I knew that I was the Messiah—pass the baby, please !—and that people would celebrate the day according to my word. Mrs. Bones. But why? [BONES signals wildly to her, but in vain. Bowley. Because children born in summer thrive best. Mrs. Bones. But why? Bowley. Brother, you waste alarm. They have ears and hear not. But I am not talking; I am making my Table of Correspondences. I drink to my Table of Correspondences. [Drinks BONES picks ufia book on Indian Mystialrm. Tlum der. Slow music.
1922 · PDF PAGE 258
…est I can say. What are we to do? (There are three more entries in this diary; but they are illegible, quite beyond conjecture. The only words decipherable are “‘sleep’’ near the beginning of the first; the name “ Basil” in the second ; and the word “ poison” in the third.)
1930 · PDF PAGE 19
…after having sworn obedience. In such a case extreme danger may arise. In the ordinary way, the Magician dismisses the spirit with these words: “And now I say unto thee, départ in peace unto thine habitations and abodes — and may the blessing of the Highest be upon thee in the name of (here mention the divine name suitable to the operation, or a Name appropriate to redeem that spirit) 3 and let there be peace between thee and me 3 and be thou very ready to corne, whensoever thou art invoked and called!”1 2 1. The rock-climber who relaxes on the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 213
…forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & wor ship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall min gle in the globed priest; another sa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
…mocked me, and turned his heart from my song’s excess. The ruler of Hell, The invisible Lord, Hath laughed at my spell, Hath slept at my word. He hath heard me well— Awake, O Sword ! Shall he flout a suppliant thus and no answer of favour accord? If mercy be sundered From splendour and power ; If he answer with thunder The plaint ofa flower ; Shall justice wonder If Furies devour So bitter a heart, set a term to his date that was aye but an hour? Avenge me, ye forces Of horror and wrath ! Clear the dread courses ! Split open the path ! With cru…
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
…ng an object of mere reason ) can be communicated not logically but morally ... I am morally certain ... etc. ” But what he means by the word “ morally ” he does not ex plain , postulating in place of an explanation an “ à priori certainty ." To Hume's scepticism he answers :
1922 · PDF PAGE 134
…ay, and lay lapsed in delight. It seemed hardly a minute later when we found ourselves in Sorrento couched in a huge roadster. Without a word spoken, we were off at top speed. The beauty of the drive is notorious; and yet :— “We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.” The world had been created afresh for our sakes. It was an ever-changing phantasmagoria of rapturous sounds and sights and scents; and it all seemed a mere ornamentation for our love, the setting for the jewel of our sparkling passion. _ Even the last few miles into …
1929 · PDF PAGE 338
…uce that his mother was on the job. He had told his troubles to many people, and trusted them at first quite blindly, and then without a word of warning concluded from some harmless word or act that they had joined the conspiracy against him. Of course, it was a perfectly plain case of persecution mania, accentuated {547} by his old habit of brandy tippling and his newly acquired one of sniffing a solution of cocaine. Apart from his obsession there was nothing wrong with the man. He enjoyed magnificent health; he was one of the best preserved m…
1906 · PDF PAGE 158
… David Douglas Home, Sri Swami Sabapati Vamadeva Bhaskara- nanda Saras- wati and the Christ. Latter com- pared to Madame Hum- bert. THE SWORD OF SONG Et praeter—such as Huxley tells) I’ll pierce your rotten harness-joints, Dissolve your diabolic spells, With the quick truth and nothing else. So not one word derogatory To your own version of the story ! I take your Christ, your God’s creation, Just at their own sweet valuation. For by this culminating scene, Close of that wondrous life of woe Before and after death, we know How to esteem the Naz…
1909 · PDF PAGE 81
…used to cover himself in wool in order to meditate. Fellatrix. —- Only a Latin dictionary can unveil the loathsome horror of this filthy word, — Impossible to comment on this shocking ‘sin against the Holy Ghost’ To compare the very Spirit or Breath of God to — Oh, Lord, how long? Basilisk. — a fabulous creature that slew all that it looked upon. Lingam. — The Hindu God(') — the male organ of generation. Yoni — Its feminine equivalent. That the poor Hindus should worship these shameful things! And we? Qh how poor and inade- quate is all our mis…
1911 · PDF PAGE 54
…ideous things and howlings. And an angel cometh forth, and saith: Be wary, for if thou change so much as the style of a letter, the holy word is blasphemed. But enter into the mountain of the Caverns, for that this (how much more then that Calvary which mocks it, as his ape mocks Thoth?) is but the empty shell of the mystery of ZEN. Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, “our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance.” And with that he gives the sign of the rending of the v…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods ; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa, the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods ; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa, the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must p…