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… in his mood Of the unmasking mythopoeia, Now Profounder science, Spencer’s amplitude, Allen’s too shallow erudition, Frazer’s Research, find men have made—since men made aught— Their Gods, and slain, and eaten. face! I, Criosda of the Mist, see truth in all Rather than truth in none. Below the rite, The sight! Beyond the priest, the power! Above The sense, the soul! their gods Sur- So men who made
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
…on and had begun to train directly he stepped on the boat at Trieste. Foreseeing trouble, I kept part of my diary in a magical cipher. I find an entry dated March 31st, 1902: This is called the Misadventure of Pfannl. Mountain Sigma. On the Finsteraarhorn after traversing Schreckhorn directly from R.R. journey, Pfannl had to be carried down from the Concordia but. Again, on the Géant, he collapsed from food, etc. The whole moral of this is: "If Pfannl collapses, it will be complete. He is sure to overtrain." The Austrians were totally unable to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…he presence of God to the senses Is the passion of God in the mind, As the string of a harp that intenses The note that its fire may not find, For here in the tumult and Jabour And blindness of cowering man, ' This emphatic use of ‘' to be” as a princi- paul verb is very common with Crowley, who thereby wishes to distinguish between the noumenon and the phenomenon, 2 The eyes of Jehovah: they are 700,000 spirits. See Idra Rabba Qadishah, xxxi. 4 “The eves. 1 The gates of Binah—understanding, 5 Binah, the great Sea. The colour of crimson is attr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 191
… But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—so I killed Rousseau! Beware of a priori / Let us find our facts, guided in the search. by a priori methods, no doubt; but the result will this time justify us. Where would a man naturally hide his greatest treasure? In his most perfect treasure-house. Where shall we look for the truest thought of a great poet? In his greatest poem. What is Shakespeare's greatest play? King Lear. In King Lear, then, we may expect the final statement of the poet's mind. The pa…
1939 · PDF PAGE 22
… all I know, you could sleep peacefully through an air-raid. That has nothing to do with it. As soon as you start the practices you will find, if you are doing them properly, that you are hearing sounds which you never heard before in your life. You become hypersensitive. And as you have five external batteries bombarding you, you get little repose. You feel the air on your skin with about the same intensity as you would previously have felt a fist in your face. 5. To some extent, no doubt, this fact will be familiar to all of you. Probably mos…
1939 · PDF PAGE 53
…ice that my excellent chairman is endeavouring to stifle a yawn and to convert it into a smile, and he will forgive me for saying that I find the effect somewhat sinister. But he has every right to be supercilious about it. These are indeed 'old, fond paradoxes to amuse wives in ale-houses.' Since philosophy began, it has always been a favourite game to prove your axioms absurd. You will all naturally be very annoyed with me for indulging in these fatuous pastimes, especially as I started out with a pledge that I would deal with these subjects …
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…l circumstance of life. Test me! 9. There are a great many other injunctions, all of which have to be examined independently in order to find whether they apply to Yoga in general, and to the particular advantage of any given student. We are to exclude especially all those considerations based on fantastic theories of the universe, or on the accidents of race or climate. For instance, in the time of the late Maharajah of Kashmir, mahsir fishing was forbidden throughout his territory; because, when a child, he had been leaning over the parapet o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 114
…servitude. We s ee, then, that in this classification a scientist will concur. W e need not d iscuss the question whether or no he would find others to add. Buddhism may not be com- plete, but, as far as it goes, it is accurate.
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
…n their Sphere of Union no more than one Qual‐ ity that may be predicted of all Things. Furthermore, it is for the most Part not easy to find or to formulate the true Contradiction of any Thought as a positive Idea, but only as a Formal Ne‐ gation in vague Terms, so that the ready Answer is but Antithesis. Thus to “White”, one putteth not the Phrase “All that which is not White”, for this is void, formless; it is neither clear, simple, nor positive in Conception; but one answereth “Black”, for this hath an Image of his Signifi‐ cance. So then t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
…. But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—so I killed Rousseau! Beware of à priori! Let us find our facts, guided in the search by à priori methods, no doubt; but the result will this time justify us. Where would a man naturally hide his greatest treasure? In his most perfect treasure-house. Where shall we look for the truest thought of a great poet? In his greatest poem. What is Shakespeare’s greatest play? King Lear. In King Lear, then, we may expect the final statement of the poet’s mind. The pas…
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…ction, to arrange for its free fulfilment. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 8. We shall not be surprised therefore if we find that the perfectly simple term Yama (or Control) has been bedevilled out of all sense by the mistaken and malignant ingenuity of the pious Hindu. He has interpreted the word 'control' as meaning compliance with certain fixed proscriptions. There are quite a lot of prohibitions grouped under the heading of Yama, which are perhaps quite necessary for the kind of people contemplated by the Teacher, but they …
1906 · PDF PAGE 282
…ivid than any of the normal dualistic states. Scept. I must. I have myself experienced, as I believe, this.or a similar condition, and I find it to be so; intensely so. Myst, | suspected as much. Scept. But pray, lest we talk at cross pur- poses, define me this Dhyana. Myst. The method is to concentrate the attention on any object (though in Hindu estimation some objects may be far more suitable than others, I believe Science would say any object) Scept. That was my method. Myst. Suddenly the object disappears: in its stead arises a great glory…
1919 · PDF PAGE 143
…alone in my lodgings, I have no money, and I cannot use my Will to demand it from others if I can give nothing in return to help them to find what they really seek. I have cried with Christ “Eli, Eli, Lama Sabacthani” I have suffered the Bloody Sweat with Him on the Cross, and now I say with Him “It is finished” Amen. One last note occurs to me before I wrap up this book and seal it and address it to F. . . in whose hands it will be safe. I looked into the eyes of a little child this evening. Does the answer lie there? Sep. 5th 12-26 P.M. It is…
1939 · PDF PAGE 49
…ody. But, as before, it tells us nothing about the solid body as such, because there is no other solid body with which to compare it. We find also that it is not really a solid body at all as it stands, because it is merely an instantaneous kind of illusion. We cannot observe, or even imagine, anything, unless we have time for the purpose. 11. What, then is time? It is a phantasm, exactly as tenuous as space, but the possibilities of differentiation between one thing and another can
1906 · PDF PAGE 26
…suffering, Glorious in trial: by His Holy Name, Jesus, the Godhead passing through the gates Of Hell, that even there the rescuers Might find the darkness, and proclaim the light ; For I invoke thee by the sacred rites And secret words of everlasting power: By the swift symbol of the Golden Dawn And all its promise, by the Cross of Fire, And by the Gleaming Symbol: by. the Rose And Cross of Light and Life: the holy Ankh, The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold. By these I say, Come forth! my _ holy Spouse, And make me one with thine abundant ray
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…of the temple and the vault. I applied to a police magistrate for tit to be handed over. On the hearing of the summons we were amazed to find Mr. Gill, K.C., one of the most famous men at the bar, briefed to appear in a police court to squabble over a few pounds' worth of paraphernalia! The money was furnished by Miss. Horniman, daughter of the Mazawattee tea man, and later of Manchester Theatre fame. She had been expelled by Mathers some time previously. I knew enough of campaigning to decline joining battle against such heavy artillery as Mr.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
…sion than anything we can at present conceive of. It has perhaps its analogies and correspondences on the normal planes, and so shall we find of the steps as well as of the.Goal. Even the simple first step, which every true Buddhist has taken, Sammaditthi, is a very different thing from the point of view of an Arahat. The Buddha stated expressly that none but an Arahat could really com- prehend the Dhamma.
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…me excuse and left Rose to confront a clerk, while I went to look at the sea and wish ti weren't too cold to drown myself. I returned to find that she had booked a double room. I thought it was hardly playing the game; but I couldn't be rude to a lady and, at the worst, it was only a matter of a day or so. I could decently dispatch her from Boleskine to the embraces of Mr. Summers and proceed to Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff. It possibly crosse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
513 I may mention the absurdity of Shaw finding difficulty in the fact that the visit of the three "Kings" is not mentioned in profane history. Shaw did not realize that a "King" may be the equivalent of a very minor chieftain in the Highlands. Again the injunctions to abandon family ties and worldly cares involve no social theories. They are addressed only to would-be disciples, and have been so given --- from the dawn of history to the present day --- by every Eastern teacher that ever balanced himself upon one thumb, used a hip bath instead …
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…ety, popularized by Kipling. I like the old rime: Two skinny Frenchmen, one Portugee, One jolly Englishmen lick 'em all three. But I can find no moral excuse for my attitude. I am an animal with a family and a country. To hell with everybody! This animal is prepared to use its brains and its force as stupidly and unscrupulously as the Duke of Wellington. It is not convinced by its own philosophical opinions, which condemn patriotism as parochialism, regard war as immoral savagery and economic {107} insanity, and consider public opinion and its …