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Page 73 of 1291907 · PDF PAGE 244
…owths of Scientific Agnosticism , Scientific Positivism , Scientific Monism , and the general overwhelming materialization of pre sent - day thought . Yet the self per se remains just as unknowable in a positive degree , as it would have , had all the ages forever held their peace . Neverthe less the arguments which they set forth , ideal or material , have in their frantic efforts to support it, forced the whole gigantic structure to the ground . o
1944 · PDF PAGE 67
…TS implies this in the original, onomatopoetic form of language. It is derived from Sanskrit roots meaning Head and Age, and is found to‐day in words like Cæsar, Tsar, Sirdar, Senate, Senior, Signor, Señor, Seigneur. The card represents a crowned male figure, with imperial vestments and regalia. He is seated upon the throne whose capitals are the heads of the Himalayan wild ram, since Aries means a Ram. At his feet, couchant, is the Lamb and Flag, to confirm this attribution on the lower plane; for the ram, by nature, is a wild and courageous a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 389
…walk through the meadows. He pointed out a bunch of nettles in the corner of the field, close to the gate (I can see it quite clearly to-day!) and told me that if I touched them they would sting. Some word , gesture, or expression of mine 356
1954 · PDF PAGE 404
… which I had had already enough and more than enough. He told me if I went on trying it would happen quite suddenly and unexpectedly one day that I found I could do it. This was particularly decent of him because it was in direct contradiction with his financial interest. But he was an all-round good man. So I cut him out so far as the masse shot was concerned 371
1907 · PDF PAGE 44
…an anapaest , read unmusic ally on account of its presence . Take for instance : Cloistral seclusion of the galleried pines Is mine to - day : these groves are fit for Pan O rich with Bacchic frenzy , and his wine's Atonement for the infinite woe of man !' Here “ cloistral ” is a spondee ; “ eried pines ,” an ( imperfect ) anapaest ; and so on . Again in “ La Fortune " : “ Hail , Tyche ! From the Amalthean horn Pour forth the store of love ! I lowly bend Before thee : I invoke thee at the end When other gods are fallen and put to scorn . Thy fo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…ing!’ he replied, with a strange light in his eyes. ‘Yet, in order to be able to do nothing, thou must first accomplish everything. “One day,’ he smiled, seeing my bewilderment, ‘ thou wilt be angry with the fool who proffers such a platitude.’ “JT asked him to accept me as a pupil. “*T require pay,’ he answered, ‘and an oath.’ 127
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…ing!’ he replied, with a strange light in his eyes. ‘Yet, in order to be able to do nothing, thou must first accomplish everything. “One day,’ he smiled, seeing my bewilderment, ‘ thou wilt be angry with the fool who proffers such a platitude.’ “JT asked him to accept me as a pupil. “*T require pay,’ he answered, ‘and an oath.’ 127
1913 · PDF PAGE 316
…. Expiate now thy glory, O Prometheus ! Thy heart, ceaselessly devoured, cannot die; it is thy vulture, it is Jupiter, who will die! One day we shall awake at last from the painful dreams of a tormented life ; our ordeal will be finished, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. Then we shall live in God with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into His works with the light of His thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of His love. We shall be without doubt the elder brethren of a new r…
1913 · PDF PAGE 316
…. Expiate now thy glory, O Prometheus ! Thy heart, ceaselessly devoured, cannot die; it is thy vulture, it is Jupiter, who will die! One day we shall awake at last from the painful dreams of a tormented life ; our ordeal will be finished, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. Then we shall live in God with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into His works with the light of His thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of His love. We shall be without doubt the elder brethren of a new r…
1916 · PDF PAGE 1
… of the principles of strategy. The real ruler or adviser of a nation should be a man entirely free from the expediencies of the passing day. The mischief wrought by failure to understand these facts is particularly obvious in finance. Politics, in some countries at least, is still looked after by men of broad general education; but finance is entirely in the hands of experts. Its terminology has been deliberately complicated; partly, no doubt, as in the case of law, with the idea of making it easier to hoodwink the layman; but the so-called ex…
1919 · PDF PAGE 64
…ority they could not do this, exalted as their rank was among adepts. They resolved to prepare all things, great and small, against that day when such Authority should be received by them, since they knew not where to seek for higher adepts than themselves, but 58
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
…s, that line would pass through the beginning of that Constellation. Suppose, for instance, that one observes the Full Moon on the first day of Spring, one will be able to see, behind her, the stars of the beginning of Libra, the sign opposite to Aries. It was observed that the Moon took approximately twenty‐eight days to pass from Full to Full; and to each day was assigned what was called a Mansion. Her mysterious influence was supposed to change in each Mansion. This theory does not enter directly into the Tarot, but it must be mentioned to h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…k ! the distant boom of a beetle is carried across the still glowing welkin , it is the signal drum announcing the marriage of Night and Day . The crescent moon rises , diaphanous and fair , and the world wakes to a chant : DIONYSUS I bring ye wine from above , From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of ye love , And life for every one . Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollows and height In the festal mystical revel , The rapturous Bacchanal rite ! The rocks and trees are yours , And the waters under the hill , By t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…, had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride , And on my neck his foot triumphant press'd . So it is to - day . Conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered . Mutinus is worshipped at every street corner , and the goat of Mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend their way home with their Gitons and Messalinas . “ The decay of a people , as well as a family , begins with the preponderance of selfishness , so says Max Nordau ; and similarly Paul Carus writes , “ We know of no decline of any …
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…way , The blood -wrought mystic path of Paradise , That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vault of the undying day . In the last verse of “ A Spring Snow Storm in Wastdale ," there grows a wavering doubt , which leaps out furiously in the “Preliminary Invocation " in “ Jephthah ,” addressed to A. C. S. , breaking the shackles of the “ improving idea " of Christ : Let there be light !-the desecrated tomb Gaped as thy fury smote the Galilean .4 Almost a Shelleyan slur lies in the last of the above words . He is no more t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
… fall . Seeking the Absolute in sense - perceptions , and listening to the chatter of the carnal snake , these wise men , these latter - day philo sophers , not finding eternal knowledge in the deific apple , ceased munching so wry a pippin , declaring the God of Religion , the Matter of Science , Unknowable , a thing in itself , like the jinnee in the vase , or dis persed throughout Space as the jinnee when the vase 1 Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 176 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 84
…squerad- ing as the Almighty. I remember my Uncle Tom telling me that he was sure God would be displeased to see me in a blue coat on Sunday. And to-day he is surprised and grieved that I do not worship his God—or even my own tailor, as would be surely more reasonable!
1910 · PDF PAGE 44
THE EQUINOX Twenty-one minutes past one o’clock—the day was marching towards its first duality. The door opened behind him, and the creaking wood caused him to jump up. The daughter of his host stood in her night-garments, a poem in pale green and white. She said nothing; and he imitated the wisdom of her silence. His heart began a wild, unhealthy fandango; his temples ached; his legs shook under him. He felt himself paling; strange impulses prompted him to a return to ances- tral savagery. Alas, he sadly lacked experience. However, the woman h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 44
THE EQUINOX Twenty-one minutes past one o’clock—the day was marching towards its first duality. The door opened behind him, and the creaking wood caused him to jump up. The daughter of his host stood in her night-garments, a poem in pale green and white. She said nothing; and he imitated the wisdom of her silence. His heart began a wild, unhealthy fandango; his temples ached; his legs shook under him. He felt himself paling; strange impulses prompted him to a return to ances- tral savagery. Alas, he sadly lacked experience. However, the woman h…
1911 · PDF PAGE 40
…Down-going of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra- Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Day! 4. Lastly, at Midnight, let him greet the Sun, facing North, giving the sign of his grade. And let him say in a loud voice : Hail unto Thee who art Khephra in Thy hiding, even unto Thee who art Khephra in Thy silence, who travellest over the Heavens in Thy bark at the Midnight Hour of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra- Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of…