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Page 74 of 1061930 · PDF PAGE 88
… merges into a form of Dharana — concentration — and as such may lead to the very highest ends. The principal use of the practice in the last chapter is to familiarise the student with every kind of obstacle and every kind of delusion, so that he may be perfect master of every idea that may arise in his brain, to dismiss it, to transmute it, to cause it instantly to obey his will. 2. Let him then begin exactly as before, but with the most intense solemnity and détermination. 3. Let him be very careful to cause his imaginary body to rise 388
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
…ind necessary to produce the desired erection on the principle of song music, and then finish as below, as it were at the close of the last verse. The child was then unstrapped, and allowed to bathe her injured seat, while the fashionable schoolmistress and the fast milliner sat on a volup- tuous sofa, and refreshed their flagging energies with wine and cake, talking over their past adven- tures and planning fresh scenes of lust and luxury. But my own experiences were of a more serious sort. To my mind flagellation is a mere mockery if the vi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…m it in, sir — quite unofficially." "Well, sir, I congratulate you — on having talked the most amusing nonsense that I've heard since my last talk with General Buller! And now perhaps you had better report to Colonel Mavor as Intelligence Officer." The general's tone was contemptuous. "Facts are required in this army." "Psychological facts are facts, General."
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
… down as numbering 72,000,* ramify from the heart outwards in the pericardium; the three chief are the Ida, Pingala and Sushumna,7+- the last of which is called “the most highly beloved of the Yogis.” Besides practising Pranayama he should also perform one * Besides the 72,000 nerves or veins there are often 101 others mentioned. These tor chief veins each have 100 branch veins which again each have 72,000 tributary veins. The total (101 + 101 x 100+ IOI X I00 X 72,000) equals 727,210,201, The rorst is the Sushumna. Yoga cuts through all these,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…er not strong enough to shut other physical sounds. I also tried to imagine the “ puff-puff” of an engine. This resulted better than the last, but it caused the skin of my head to commence vibrating. I then tried to imagine the taste of chocolate; this proved extremely difficult; and after this the ticking of a watch. This proved easier, and the result was quite good; but there was a tendency to slow up with the right ear, which however was easy to test by approaching a watch against the ear.”§ During this whole period of rough travel, work is …
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…re are none to beat the undergraduates who wagged their rudimentary tails round the toothless old hound that yelped “Dare to be wise” on last 8th of December. I hate Christianity as Socialists hate soap; but I would rather be saved 239
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
… down as numbering 72,000,* ramify from the heart outwards in the pericardium; the three chief are the Ida, Pingala and Sushumna,7+- the last of which is called “the most highly beloved of the Yogis.” Besides practising Pranayama he should also perform one * Besides the 72,000 nerves or veins there are often 101 others mentioned. These tor chief veins each have 100 branch veins which again each have 72,000 tributary veins. The total (101 + 101 x 100+ IOI X I00 X 72,000) equals 727,210,201, The rorst is the Sushumna. Yoga cuts through all these,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…er not strong enough to shut other physical sounds. I also tried to imagine the “ puff-puff” of an engine. This resulted better than the last, but it caused the skin of my head to commence vibrating. I then tried to imagine the taste of chocolate; this proved extremely difficult; and after this the ticking of a watch. This proved easier, and the result was quite good; but there was a tendency to slow up with the right ear, which however was easy to test by approaching a watch against the ear.”§ During this whole period of rough travel, work is …
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…re are none to beat the undergraduates who wagged their rudimentary tails round the toothless old hound that yelped “Dare to be wise” on last 8th of December. I hate Christianity as Socialists hate soap; but I would rather be saved 239
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…he human organism ; it is the soul itself that is united to its God ; and for this reason the rapture is more overpowering, the joy more lasting, and the resultant energy more pure and splendid, than in aught earthly. In ritual, therefore, we seek continually to unite the mind to some pure idea by an act of will. This we do again and again more and more passionately, with more and more determination, until at last the mind accepts the domination of the Will, and rushes of its own accord toward the desired object. This surrender of the mind to i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
… out? Don't, don't give away your poor old father, Gertie! My little Gertie! There was a silence. Excuse me, father, said the girl at last, but I've just had a glimpse of you for the first time in my life, and it's a bit of a shock. I must think. And she stood motionless until her hapless father at- tracted her attention by backing into his wicker chair. Don't touch holy things, she snapped suddenly, taking the sketch from his nerveless hand, and replacing it rev- erently in the portfolio. The action seemed to decide her.
1954 · PDF PAGE 220
… his eyes were so enlarged that the entire eye seemed black. (I tremble so and have such a quaking feeling inside, simply in thinking of last night, that I can't form letters.) Then quite slowly the entire room filled with a thick yellow light (deep golden, but not brilliant. I mean not dazzling, but soft.) Fra. P. looked like a person I had never seen but seemed to know quite well-his face, clothes and all were of the same yellow . I was so
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
…struction in the practices to be given or received. For all that, I wish I could show you 200 or 300 letters that I have received in the last twenty years or so: they tell me without a shadow of doubt that anything like fraternization leads only to mischief. When you wish instruction from your superior, it should be for definite points and nothing else. Any breach of this convention is almost certain to lead to one kind of trouble or another. It may in fact be regarded as a defect of concentration if communication between any two members of the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 169
…cal flawlessness has not saved its adherents from losing those ruder virtues which are proper to a Fighting Animal, and thus yielding at last a civilization coeval with history itself to the barbarous tribes of Europe. “Din” — “severity” or “judgment”—may refer to the Jewish Law, rather than to the Faith (al-din)1 of Islam. Assuming this, the six1 2 religions whose flesh must be torn out cover the whole globe outside Islam and Christianity. 1 [Din means religion in Arabic, in the sense of the obligation “reason ing” creatures have to God, with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
… obvious conditions of success. I did not solve this completely until my attainment of the Grade of Mater of the Temple in 1909, when at last I realized that every thought, word and act might be pressed into the service of the soul: more, that it must be if the soul were ever to be free. I "mixed up the planes" for many years to some extent, though never as badly as most mystics do. During this retirement I was fortunate in being under the constant vigilant supervision of Allan Bennett, whose experience enabled him to detect the firs onset of d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 302
…ect in view, the first step in the practice of Liber Thisharb and the acquisition of Magical Memory. Why, hang it all; the events of the last hour, even, might have gone just an infinitesimally little bit different, and the interview would not have taken place as it did. Consider then, that factors stretching back into Eternity-all the factors there are!-have each one contributed in its degree to bringing this interview about. What a fantastic improbability! Yet here we are. Chance blindly rules the Universe. But what is Chance? And where does …
1922 · PDF PAGE 211
…grin, such as I’d never seen before, quite out of keeping with his character. ‘‘ You doll yourself up and try the doctors. A man told me last night that there were some who would give you a prescription if you paid them enough. A tenner ought to do the trick.” He pulled some dirty crumpled notes out of his trousers’ pocket. “Here you are. For God’s sake, don’t be long.” I was as keen as he was. All the will to stop had been washed out of me when Basil went. My self-respect was annihilated. | Yet I think it was reluctance to go that kept me hang…
1922 · PDF PAGE 373
…shadows whispered subtle lyrics in our ears ; the scents of spring conveyed superb imaginations to our senses; the sunset squandered its last scarlet on the sea, and the empurpled night began to burst into blossom of starlight. Over the hill-top before us hung the golden scimitar of the moon, and in the stillness the faint heart-beat of the sea was heard, as if the organ in some enchanted cathedral were throbbing under the fingers of Merlin, and transmuting the monotonous sadness of existence into a peaceful pzan of inexpressible jubilance of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 244
…ossamer of his calculations. Well then, all this intricate differentiation and integration and verification and Lord knows what leads at last to a statement which may be called "Certain without Error." But Hermes Trismegistus is not content with any such fugues as the Astronomer, however cunning and colossal his Ortan; his Third Degree demands much more than this. The Astronomer's estimate has puttied every tiniest crack, he concedes it, but then waves it brusquely away: all the time the door is standing wide open! The Astronomer's exquisitely …
1954 · PDF PAGE 416
…se things can't be telped." Mohammed set off sadly for Bassorah. Indeed, as the days 'assed, the incident preyed upon his mind, until at last he esolved to risk the breach of professional confidence and V'arn his friend. He sent accordingly a letter of condolence nd farewell. But Isaak was a man of action. Prompt and stealthy, on he day appointed he saddled his best horse and so passed hrough the silent streets of the city in search of a refuge. That evening Mohammed was returning from prayer No wit