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Page 76 of 871929 · PDF PAGE 134
…fidence in myself. We were interested in the same Quest, that was all; it was natural that we should exchange views. Behold then! Allan, though the pupil of a Shaivite guru, was already at heart a Buddhist; and the miracle about Buddha, from the ethnological standpoint, is that an Aryan, by dint of sheer psychological acumen, should have come so near to understanding the Chinese mind. The fundamental weakness of Buddhism is that it fails to attain the indifference of Lao-Tzu. Buddha wails for Nibbana as the sole refuge from sorrow; Lao-Tzu desp…
1905 · PDF PAGE 238
…ed upon His hinder parts,! And I— yes, goddess ! in this passionate Life in our secret mountain, well I know Thy beauty, and Thy love (although they be Infinite, far beyond the mortal mind, Body, or soul to touch, to comprehend, And dwell in), that the utter intimate Knowledge of Thee, if once I ravelled out Thy secret, laid Thee naked to the bone— Nay, to the marrow ! were to come, aware, Face to face full with deity itself. And this I strive at! Therefore is my love Wholly in tune with that concealed desire Bred in each mortal, though he neve…
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…us. And all we waited about him, both by day and night; lest one word should fall, and we not hear the same. But he spake never unto us, though his lips moved and his eyes sought ever that which we could not see. At last, on the day of D., the mother of P.,3 he straightened himself up and spake. This his final discourse was written down then by the dying lions in their own blood, traced willingly on the desert sands about the Grove of the Illustrious. Also here set down : but who will confirm the same, let him seek it on the sands. Children of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
…ms of fire; to this astronomers agree. But this theory certainly implies an identification of air and fire, and it seems as if they were thought of as before Light, that is, the Sun; before creative energy, that is, the phallus; and this idea continually suggests itself, that there is here some doctrine contrary to our own most reasonable doctrine: one in which the original confusion of the elements, the Tohu‐Bohu, is to be put forward as the cause of order, instead of as a plastic mass on which order imposes it‐ self. No system truly Qabalisti…
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
…ot it right after all? S. Pretty right. M. And all things are divisible Three, not into Two? S. Into A, zot-A, and the dividing line. M. Though the Reason of Man _ has boggled often enough at this, the intuition of Woman has always perceived it. 5S. But she has gone too far, placing the importance of that dividing middle above all into other things in earth or heaven. We hold the balance fair and firm. M. (glad). How blessed is this day, Scepticus ! S. (Concedine the point, and catching the glow). Let us make a night of it! M. (Enjoying his tri…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…n which this story was issuedis inscribed. 2 Taphtatharath, the spirit of Mercury. trance’ Mara! appeared to him. ‘*Now hate hath power, though not the power of love. So it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the Never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the abyss of matter. ‘Son,’ ‘cried the Accurséd One,“seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity, these avail to call me forth.2. ‘Slay me my enemy!’ howled the wretch. But. Mara. trembled. ‘Enquire o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
… incarnations, because he knows he will come through unchanged. “Therefore you can have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc., exist. Evil is only an appearance, because (like “Good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are…
1929 · PDF PAGE 487
…and facts about the attitude of the people, outside the Wall Street machine, to the war. With this I combined a honeymoon with Hilarion; though the sky was cloudy and windy, she popped in and out all the time, having decided to spice the romance and adventure by taking her husband in tow. My first stop was Detroit, where Parke Davis were charming and showed me over their wonderful chemical works. They had installed countless and ingenious devices for conduction the processes involved in manufacture by machinery. Many of these produced effects o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…een made; but the host has forgotten to invite the guests; or, the caterers have not delivered the good cheer. There is this difference, though, that it is in some way or other the host’s own fault. The party that he planned was just a little bit above his capacity; perhaps he lost heart at the last moment. The Eight of Swords is called Interference. At first sight, it would seem easy to confuse it with the Eight of Cups; but the idea is, in reality, quite different. The card is attributed to Jupiter and Gemini; accordingly, there is no weighin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…NIBALS Il Of measured pulses quickened with the blood Of that desire which pours its deadly flood Through soul and shaken body; scarce a thought, But sense through spirit most divinely wrought To perfect feeling ; only through the lips Electric ardour kindles, flashes, slips Through all the circle to her lips again, And thence, unwavering, flies to mine, to drain All pleasure in one draught. sigh ; No change of breast; love’s posture perfectly Once gained, we change no more. The fever grows Hotter or cooler, as the night wind blows Fresh gusts …
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…nt. My study companion was actually the favourite "tart" of the house; so much so, that he thereby added considerably to his income. But though I was aware of these facts, I had no conception whatever of what they implied. An anecdote illustrates this fact. It was the custom of our form master to remit twenty per cent of any number of lines that might be given one to write if they were delivered before the time appointed. It happened that I was set a number of lines by some other master and I handed in eighty per cent with the written remark, "…
1904 · PDF PAGE 121
SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 114 pendent thought, of keen ecstasy of love of knowledge, of practical training, that the Buddhasanana Samagama 1 appeals; it is time that Buddhism reformed itself from within; though its truths be held untarnished (and even this is not every where the cas e), its methods, its organisation, are sadly in need of repair; research must be done, men must be perfected, error must be fought. And if in the West a great Buddhist society is built up of m en of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lie s, there is then an …
1906 · PDF PAGE 205
…for good”’ out of its context, and call this verse ‘‘ Chris- tian optimism ?"’ See Caird’s ‘‘ Hegel.”’ Hegel knew how to defend himself, though. As Goethe wrote of him: ‘* They thought the master too Inclined to fuss and finick. The students’ anger grew To frenzy Paganinic.* They vowed to make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic: He had scoffed at God's battue, The flood for mortal’s sin—Ic- thyosaurian Waterloo! They eyed the sage askew ; They searched him through and through With violet rays…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
… All that we are from mind results, ii. 44 All things are branded change, iii. 18 ‘* All things are good” exclaimed the boy, ili. 93 All thought of work is almost cast aside, ii. 66 Al Malik the magnificent, iii, 86 A lonely spirit seeks the midnight hour, i. 53 Although I cannot leave these bitter leas, iii. 65 Amata’s path is Earnestness, ii. 46 Amat janua limen! (Closes book.| Now, my friend, iil. 72 Amid earth’s motley, Gaia’s cap and bells, i. 250 Amid the drowsy dream, ii, 61 A miner laboured in a mine, ili. 90 I., I0., IIT. Among the lil…
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…e accepts the lion as a worthy antagonist; one can enjoy playing with a fine dog; one can sympathise with sincere and honourable labour, though it be in vain ; RODIN FRONTISPIECE RODIN. Here isaman! For all the world to see His work stands, shaming Nature. Clutched, combined In the sole still centre of a master-mind, The Egyptian force, the Greek simplicity, The Celtic subtlety. Through suffering free, The calm great courage of new art, refined In nervous majesty, indwells behind The beauty of each radiant harmony. one ignores laughingly the at…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…the wonderfully suggestive work, misnamed fiction, of our greatest novelist, H. G. Wells. This man, the John Bunyan of modern scientific thought, has repeatedly attacked the problem, or at least indicated the lines on which a successful research might be prosecuted, in many of his wonderful tales. He has (I say it not to rob you of the honour of your discoveries, but in compliment, and I can imagine none higher) put his finger on the very spot whence all research must begin : the illusionary nature of the time-idea. But I will leave you to stud…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…rtain responsibilities. Previously, I had taken the attitude that, while The Book of the Law had been given to the world through me, and though I was ineluctably bound thereby, I could stand aloof to some extent. I could consider myself as a Magician pledged to the Law, accepting it and working by its formula: but not identified with its promulgation to the exclusion of all other aims. My formal attainment of the Grade involved my identifying myself with the word Thelema. My personality must be completely merged in it. On realizing this I reali…
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
… if even we dare to except this—-are undisprovable to the immediate apprehen- sion. Whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as though Berkeley had never lived, and the herculean Kant had been strangled while yet in his cradle by the twin serpents of his own perversity and termi- nology. What criterion shall we apply to the relative realities of normal and dream con- sciousness? Why do I confidently assert that the dream state is transitory and un- real? In that state I am equally confident that my normal consciousness is invalid. But …
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
… ;? Care nought for his mercy or ire $ Reach impious hands to his lyre. Determined to die or control Those strings the immortal at last, though the strings of this heart of me bleed. Come life, or come death ; come disdain Or honour from mutable men, I cry in this passionate pain— My blood be poured out in the pen! Euterpe ! Espouse me ! Inspire My life looking up to Thy lyre! Of thy love, thine alone, am I fain! Be with me, possess me, reveal me the melodies never yet given to men. The starry and heavenly wheels, The earth and her glorious dye…
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…riety. It had hardly occurred to me to inquire why such poetry as that of Keats and myself was not the daily joy of Minnesota farmers. I thought it simply showed their baseness. I now understand that the bonds of brotherhood which make mankind a spiritual unity are everywhere identical, though their appearance varies so as to be unrecognizable to all but very few initiates. I have attained to understanding, I have made my magical model of society, and I await the moment when those who have chosen me to carry out their colossal conception summon…