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Page 75 of 841939 · PDF PAGE 60
…ion of St. Paul was the Vision on the road to Damascus. It is particularly significant that he disappeared into the Desert of Arabia for three years before coming forward as the Apostle to the Gentiles. St. Paul was a learned Rabbi; he was the favourite pupil of the best expositor of the Hebrew Law, and in the single moment of his Vision all his arguments were shattered at a single stroke! 10. We are not told that St. Paul said anything at the time, but went quietly on his journey. That is the great lesson: not to discuss the results. Those of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 92
…periments, the purest (i.e., most tenuous) elements present were given off as gas or vapour. There are thus represented in this card the three essential types of putrefaction. The card itself represents the dance of death; the figure is a skeleton bearing a scythe, and both the skeleton and the scythe are importantly Saturnian symbols. This appears strange, as Saturn has no overt connection with Scorpio; but Saturn represents the essential structure of existing things. He is that elemental nature of things which is not destroyed by the ordinary…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
…his at Allan's suggestion and one of my main objects in going to stay with him at the choung was to do it. I thought it could be done in three days! There must be a lot of silly young asses knocking about the world, but I think I can give most of them a couple of strokes a hole. The method of the meditation is described (1911) in Liber Thisharb, and I have outlined it in an earlier chapter. I quote from The Temple of Solomon the King (The Equinox, vol. I, No. VIII). ... he found his old comrade, I.A, now a member of the Buddhist Sangha, under t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 66
…But I feel absolutely certain that I should never have obtained success in Yoga in so short a time as I did had I not spent the previous three years in the daily practice of magical methods. 9. I may go so far as to say that just before I began Yoga seriously, I had almost invented a Yogic method of practising Magick in the stress of circumstances. I had been accustomed to work with full magical apparatus in an admirably devised temple of my own. Now I found myself on shipboard, or in some obscure bedroom of Mexico City, or camped beside my hor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
…, as will be explained later. We left Pindi for Tret on the twenty-ninth of March. We had had to repack our baggage, which weighted over three tons, for convenience of transport by ekkas. These are contraptions which suggest a hansom cab with the back knocked out and the driver on the floor, as it might have been conceived by the man who invented the coracle. Even one European finds it impossible to get a comfortable seat or stretch his legs, and a second constitutes outrageous overcrowding. A party of eight to ten natives, on the other hand, f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
JEPHTHAH 77 Fought he against us, while three hundred years © We dwelt in Hl[eshbon and her towns, and Aroer And her white cities, and by Ammon’s coast? Why therefore did ye not recover them Then and not now? I have not sinned against thee ; But thou dost me foul wrong to bring thy sword And torch of rapine in my pleasant land. Between the folk of Ammon and the folk Of Israel this day be God the judge. [Exzt Second Herald. ELEAZAR. Well spoken: but the ear that will not hear Is deafer than the adder none may charm. JEPHTHAH. IT know it, and wil…
1919 · PDF PAGE 307
…lover. I forget the disposition of the children, whether it was odd man out, or the first Jack, who had to look after the business. But, three months later, the tragedy begins. The ‘worm’ is struck by the ap- palling thought that perhaps Alice’s new lover may not fall in so simply with the scheme. He manifests reluctance to pay the expenses of the divorce, arguing with some show of good sense that he does not see why he should pay for relieving another man of his rubbish. The situation is complicated by the fact that Alice has again become preg…
1939 · PDF PAGE 53
…, which is one of the curved geometries. (There are, of course, as many systems of geometry as there are absurd axioms to build them on. Three lines make one ellipse: any nonsense you like: you can proceed to construct a geometry which is correct so long as it is coherent. And there is nothing right or wrong about the result: the only question is: which is the most convenient system for the purpose of describing phenomena? We found the idea of Gravitation awkward: we went to Riemann.) This means that the phenomena are not taking place against a…
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…ressure-resisting suit electrically heated, with an oxygen supply, whereas it would be 'wrong' for him to wear it if he were running the three miles in the summer sports in the Tanezrouft. This is the pit into which all the great religious teachers have hitherto fallen, and I am sure you are all looking hungrily at me in the hope of seeing me do likewise. But no! There is one principle which carries us through all conflicts concerning conduct, because it is perfectly rigid and perfectly elastic:'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 64
…; in which inspiring preface my friend was soon deeply immersed. . .. Golden-haired, a profound linguist, swear- ing in five Western and three Oriental lan- guages, and comparable rather to the accomplished courtesans of old-time Athens than to the Imperial Peripatetics of the Daily Telegraph and Mr. Raven-Hill,! her looks of fire turned my friend’s silky and insipid moustache into a veritable Burning Bush. But puppy endearments are of little interest to one who has just done his duty by No. 9? in distant Yoshiwara; so turned to the conversatio…
1944 · PDF PAGE 140
… of the powers of the four letters of the Name and the four Elements. They are also referred to the Zodiac; but instead of assigning the three decans of each sign to one card, the influence begins with the last decan of one Sign and con‐ tinues to the second decan of the next. There is a further difficulty. It might well be expected that the elemental attribution would harmonize with the Zodiacal attribution; but it is not so. For instance, one might anticipate that the fiery part of Fire would refer to the most active of the fiery signs, namel…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…s Dark eno’ to look love or sin, and large (O Atropine !?) to beam forth innocence ! Innocence, a grim jest for sixty years ! Nay, sixty-three ; I lie not to myself ; Else one sins lying ; thus is virtue mixed, A bubbling draught that soon lies still and flat ; While my great lust runs deep and dark, nor changes For all that time can do. What of this boy ? I knew his father ; the man feared me well For all his open laughter; would he were. x Alive! I dream one torture writhed about His heait he’ll miss in hell. I hated him. This boy of his I sa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 265
…y no Hegelian word-juggle ; but by direct apperception as clear as the sun at noon. Therefore ; no word more, but—to the work ! XII. THE THREE REFUGES, Buddham Saranangachami. Dhammam Saranangachami. Sangham Saranangachami. I take my refuge in the Buddha. I take my refuge in the Dhamma. I take my refuge in the Sangha. This formula of adhesion to Buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? It is no vain profession of reliance on others ; no cowardly shirking of burdens—burdens which cannot be shirked. It is a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 282
…e virtue is a necessary condition for one who is desirous of atfaining this state of bliss. Scept. There, my friend, you generalise from three. Let me _ stand fourth (like Ananias) and tell you that after many vain attempts while virtuous, I achieved my first great result only a week after a serious lapse from the condition of a Brahmacharyi.? Myst. You? Scept. The result of despair. Myst. This may serve you as excuse before Shiva. 1 Cf..Plato, Sympostum: Diotima’s descrip- tion of the Vision of absolute Beauty, identical with Hindu doctrine; a…
1939 · PDF PAGE 49
…st or west, so far north or south, so far up or down, from a standard point, and it must be after or before a standard moment. There are three dimensions of space and one of time. 6. Now what do we mean by space? Henri Poincaré, one of the greatest mathematicians of the last generation, thought that the idea of space was invented by a lunatic, in a fantastic (and evidently senseless and aimless) endeavour to explain to himself his experience of his muscular movements. Long before that, Kant had told us that space was subjective, a necessary con…
1929 · PDF PAGE 276
…tival --- the Durga-Puja --- which was in {453} course, and all semblance of honesty or decency quitted the houses before I had advanced three minutes into the bowels of Calcutta. As I did so, my savage instincts surged to my brain. I "smelt" the direction almost at once; and as I got into this state, I became aware of impending trouble of some sort, as savages are. That "eerie feeling", alone in a desperate section of a foreign city at night? Nine to one it is plain funk. But as I had already admitted, I am the biggest coward alive; and I have…
1929 · PDF PAGE 286
… were merely varieties of malarial fever. I said scornfully, "Next time you get cholera, I hope they'll give you quinine." The joke came three days later, when he died of cholera. I do not know whether they gave him quinine or not. Bhamo is a delightful outpost. One is outside the malarial stewing of the jungle. But I got to hate it, as I wanted to proceed to China, and was held up for seventeen days by the non-arrival of my passport. The delay was partly deliberate. The deputy commissioner was absent; and his assistant was an Eurasian, who too…
1944 · PDF PAGE 18
…the Balance. Frater Perdurabo had made a very profound study of the Tarot since his initiation to the Order on 18th November, 1898; for, three months later, he had attained the grade of Prac‐ ticus; as such, he became entitled to know the Secret Attribution. He constantly studied this and the accompanying explanatory manuscripts. He checked up on all these attributes of the numbers to the forms of nature, and found nothing incongruous. But when (8th April, 1904 e.v.) he was writing down the Book of the Law from the dictation of the messenger of…
1904 · PDF PAGE 124
…by no Hegelian word-juggle ; but by direct apperception as clear as the sun at noon. Therefore; no work more, but—to the work ! XII. THE THREE REFUGES. Buddham Saranangachami. Dhammam Saranangachami. Sangham Saranangachami. I take my refuge in the Buddha. I take my refuge in the Dhamma. I take my refuge in the Sangha. This formula of adhesion to Buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? It is no vain profession of reliance on others; no c owardly shirking of burdens—burdens which cannot be shirked. It is a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 432
…I must consider it, although it is composed of more or less disconnected elements. I refer to The Book of Lies. In this there are ninety-three chapters: we count as a chapter the two pages filled respectively with a note of interrogation and a mark of exclamation. The other chapters contain sometimes a single word, more frequently from half a dozen to twenty phrases, occasionally anything up to a dozen paragraphs. The subject of each chapter is determined more or less definitely by the Cabbalistic import of its number. Thus, Chapter 25 gives a …