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Page 7 of 1151904 · PDF PAGE 78
6 ARGONAUTAE Light, as I swim through rollers green and gleaming, Sheds its most subtle sense to penetrate This heart I thought impervious to Fate. Now the sweet light, the full delight, is beaming Through me and burns me: all my flesh is teeming With the live kisses of the sea, my mate, My mistress, till the fires of life abate And leave me languid, man-forgotten, deeming T see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light. Light! ever light! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light inva…
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
…imned in the luminous patine. Worship, the sculptors, clean forgot in worship of her body lithe And time forgotten with his scythe, and thought, the Witenagemot, Confused in rapture : peace is culled a flower from the arboreal root, The vision dulled, the singer mute, shattered the lute, the song annulled.
1913 · PDF PAGE 122
… Tudor roses, those old words , “ Beauty is truth , and truth beauty ,” all at once Came with a fuller meaning to my mind , " Truly ," I thought , “ These dons who follow truth In desolate regions , lifeless , rugged , bare , All follow beauty too — the only prize Worth questing in this sorry world of ours .” 103
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
… Drawing Power of Mind. Consider the Lilies. Cultivate Repose. Look Forward. The Necessity of Riches. Love Thyself. What is Justice? How Thoughts are born. Positive and Negative Thought. The Art of Forgetting. The Attraction of Aspiration. God’s Commands are Man’s Demands. “This further selection has been prepared in consequence of the great popularity attained by the, first series of Prentice Mulford’s Essays, published under the title of “The Gift of the spirit.” ESSAYS OF PRENTICE MULFORD. Tuirp Serizs. ConTENTS.—The Law of Success. How to K…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
… Drawing Power of Mind. Consider the Lilies. Cultivate Repose. Look Forward. The Necessity of Riches. Love Thyself. What is Justice? How Thoughts are born. Positive and Negative Thought. The Art of Forgetting. The Attraction of Aspiration. God’s Commands are Man’s Demands. “This further selection has been prepared in consequence of the great popularity attained by the, first series of Prentice Mulford’s Essays, published under the title of “The Gift of the spirit.” ESSAYS OF PRENTICE MULFORD. Tuirp Serizs. ConTENTS.—The Law of Success. How to K…
1944 · PDF PAGE 254
… the ruins. Quarrel, combat, danger, ruin, destruction of plans, sudden death, escape from prison. XVII Use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the Phnix. Hope, unexpected help, clearness of vision, realization of possibilities, spiritual insight, with bad aspects, error of judgment, dreaminess, disappointment. XVIII Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, un heeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning. Illusion, deception, bewilderment, hysteria, even madness, dreaminess, falsehood, er‐ ror, crisis, …
1961 · PDF PAGE 53
…at I shall impress upon thee as in Conformity with our holy Experience in the Way of Truth. And it is this, that since that which can be thought is not true, every Statement is in some Sense false. Even on the Sea of pure Reason, we may say that every Statement is in some Sense disputable, therefore in every Case, even the simplest, the Child should be taught not only the Thesis, but also its opposite, leaving the Decision to the Childs own Judgment and good Sense, fortified by Experience. And this Practice will develop its Power of Thought, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 387
…assion of the man exploiting the faith of the believer. In the fable of the ass loaded with relics, La Fontaine tells us that the animal thought that he was being adored; he did not tell us that certain people indeed thought that they were adoring the animal. These people were the superstitious. If any one had laughed at their stupidity, he would very likely have been assassinated, for from superstition to fanaticism is only one step. Superstition is religion interpreted by stupidity; fanaticism is religion serving as a pretext to fury. Those w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 387
…assion of the man exploiting the faith of the believer. In the fable of the ass loaded with relics, La Fontaine tells us that the animal thought that he was being adored; he did not tell us that certain people indeed thought that they were adoring the animal. These people were the superstitious. If any one had laughed at their stupidity, he would very likely have been assassinated, for from superstition to fanaticism is only one step. Superstition is religion interpreted by stupidity; fanaticism is religion serving as a pretext to fury. Those w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 32
…any magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folk- lore and magical rites. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. An admirable study of East- ern thought and life. Many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative. For Mythology, as teaching Correspondences: Books of Fairy Tales generally. Oriental Classics generally. Sufi Poetry generally. Greek and Latin Classics generally. Scandinavian and Teutonic Sagas generally. Celtic Folk-Lore generally. This course is of general value to the beginner. While it is not to be taken, in all ca…
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
THE EQUINOX 8. By some device, such as the changing of thy ring from one finger to another, create in thyself two personalities, the thoughts of one being within entirely different limits from that of the other, the common ground being the necessities of life.* Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into thinking that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. Feareth not the Ox the Goad of the Ploughman? 3. Thine arm…
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
THE EQUINOX 8. By some device, such as the changing of thy ring from one finger to another, create in thyself two personalities, the thoughts of one being within entirely different limits from that of the other, the common ground being the necessities of life.* Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into thinking that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. Feareth not the Ox the Goad of the Ploughman? 3. Thine arm…
1930 · PDF PAGE 129
(b) By some device, such as the changing of thy ring from one finger to another, create in thyself two personalities, the thoughts of one being within entirely different limits from that of the other, the common ground being the necessities of life. 1 Of thine own Ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into thinking that thou art sworn to avoid, eut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor ; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. Feareth not the Ox the Goad of the Floughman ? 3. Thine arm then se…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…ny the nimble acuteness of mine own dialectic was to me, ye would not envy me, O dullardsl For I fear ever, lest I be replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanic skill. Then, seeing the thought as fear, I quench it masterly. Whence rise other evil things; the thought “ Is this too mere trickery of the mind? ” “ Is this too cowardice? ” and others by the score. So answering one by one, and one and all, reason breaks down, and either deep sleep loosens all my limbs, and darkness falls upon my soul, or else—— But you know well what e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 298
… all the time by my faithful sentinel, the well-greaved Hoplite that stands at the postern of my consciousness, ready to challenge every thought-and woe to the intruder who cannot give the countersign! This time the dear old ruffian thought the matter serious enough to report Higher Up. "It is put plainly enough, emphatically enough, incontrovertibly enough" was the gist of his communication "that the first and most irretrievable trick of the enemy is to dupe you into passing Captain Coincidence as 'Friend', whereas he is naturally the most for…
1912 · PDF PAGE 88
THE EQUINOX the consciousness behind thoughts. Thus, when the consciousness realizes that ‘I am apart from my thoughts,‘ that thought itself is pictorially shown as a thought." This seems to mean that he again got Atmadarshana; his complaint was the inability to pass beyond. He adds “to this consciousness all thoughts are alike; it would never trouble to command them.” [a' est, it is the Peace of the Universe, the Impersonal Absolute. He was That. Note that he got this without any Ritual to speak of; an enormous advance in power of meditation. …
1912 · PDF PAGE 88
THE EQUINOX the consciousness behind thoughts. Thus, when the consciousness realizes that ‘I am apart from my thoughts,‘ that thought itself is pictorially shown as a thought." This seems to mean that he again got Atmadarshana; his complaint was the inability to pass beyond. He adds “to this consciousness all thoughts are alike; it would never trouble to command them.” [a' est, it is the Peace of the Universe, the Impersonal Absolute. He was That. Note that he got this without any Ritual to speak of; an enormous advance in power of meditation. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…uch things; “air” their menstruum wherein these feelings are mentally apprehended. It is called “whirling” because of the instability of thought, and the fatuity of reason, on which we are yet dépendent for what we call “life”, “Rush- ing Fire” is the world in which wandering thought burns up to swift-darting Will. These four stages explain how the non-Ego is transmuted intc the instrument of knowledge, independent of the personality of its possessor. One must treat it exactly as one treats one’s electroscope or one’s eyes; one influence of one…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…oneself, since both parties are equally born of necessity.) (25) Every man must do Magick each time that he acts or even thinks, since a thought is an internai act whose influence ultimately affects action, though it may not do so at the time. (Illustration: The least gesture causes a change in a man’s own body and in the air around him; it disturbs the balance of the entire Universe, and its effects continue eternally throughout ail space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on the mind. It stands as one of the causes of …
1912 · PDF PAGE 114
108 “Faugh!” cried the knight. “Thought, word, and act Confirm me. I have proved the quest Impossible. I break the pact. Back to the gilded halls, confessed A recreant! Achieved or not, This task hath earned a foison—rest. In Caerlon and Camelot Let me embrace my fellow-men ! To buss the wenches, pass the pot, Is now the enviable lot Of Palamede the Saracen!”