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…Also Hermes leading up Eurydice, and Christ raising up Jairus' daughter. Christ is said to have risen on the third day, because it takes three days for the planet Mercury to become visible after separating from the orb of the sun. (It may be noted here that Mercury and Venus are the planets between us and the sun, as if the Mother and the Son were mediators between us and the Father.) Note Christ as the Healer, and also his own expression, "The son of Man cometh as a thief in the night"; and also this scripture (Matt. XXIV, 27), "For as the lig…
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
…nintelligent variety, 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…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
…s to the breach between Judah and Israel, thence to a whole sequence of disasters. 2The earliest accounts relate the distribution of the three active elements as Dis (Pluto) to Fire, Zeus (Jupiter) to Air, and Poseidon (Neptune) to Water, the doctrine that the origin of everything was Air. Yet if this were so, it would upset the whole Tarot as we know it, since the order of origin makes Fire the first father. It is Air as Zero that reconciles the antinomy. Dianus and Diana, it is true, were symbols of the air, and the Sanskrit Vedas say that th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
…of Malta and others in England are definitely Christian, e.g. the point of one degree is the identification of prophet, priest and king, three in one, the Trinity of the Royal Arch, with Christ; and in the Rose Croix degree, Christ is recognized as the "corner stone" of earlier symbolism. But in America, the Christian elements have been removed so that wealthy Jews may reach the summit of masonry. 6. I once attended a Lodge whose Master was one of the two local bankers. He used his influence to get business for his bank. The other banker prompt…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
226 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS II. ‘‘Jehjaour! was a mighty magician; his soul was dark and evil; and his lust was of life and power and of the wreaking of hatred upon the innocent. : And it came ‘to -pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R ‘Abu, who had been his friend: for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him: even to him the Mighty One! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…lated the following proposal for dealing with the refractory "temple". I. The Second Order to be summoned at various times during two or three days. They to find, on being admitted one by one, a masked man in authority and a scribe. These questions, etc. pass, after pledge of secrecy concerning interview. A. Are you convinced of the truth of the doctrines and knowledge received in the grade of 5° = 6ř? Yes or No? If yes (1) Then their origin can spring from a pure source only? If no (2) I degrade you to be a Lord of the Paths in the Portal in t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 487
…le with my lawyer, who was seriously alarmed lest Washington should think the cap fitted and suppress the number. The play being written three years earlier, and there being not the slightest allusion to or analogy with current events, his protest showed how dire a reign of terror had been established by the megalomaniac in the White House and his brutal and thick- headed bravo, Burleson. On October 6th, I left New York for a trip round the coast. I wanted to see the San Francisco exhibition, and I wanted to get first-hand facts about the attit…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…uit gives the extreme of passivity; there is no positive virtue in it below the Abyss. This card is ruled by Saturn. Compare it with the three other Sevens; there is no effort here; not even dream; the stake has been thrown down, and it is lost. That is all. Labour itself is abandoned; everything is sunk in sloth. THE FOUR EIGHTS The four Eights are attributed to Hod. Being in the same plane as the Sevens on the Tree of Life, but on the other side, the same inherent defects as are found in the Sevens will apply. Yet one may perhaps urge this al…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…ons; but for some reason, trapped pigeons were quite beyond me. I dare not boast that I am even second rate. One day I joined a party of three to shoot quail, which I recall on account of a singular accident. I was in the middle of the line. A bird got up and flew between me and the man on my right; but I withheld my fire for hear of hitting him. We swung round again; another bird came in the same
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 229 British Government, when he was a baby Nat. ‘“The Queen of Heaven and the Lord of the Gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops: the affaire Humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 460
…hat is progress, requires that at every point the candidate should be confronted with the free choice between actions dependent upon the three principal virtues, courage, temperance and prudence. The aim of American statecraft is on the contrary to atrophy these virtues by making them unnecessary, and indeed limiting full choice to unimportant matters. A third spiritual danger arises from the dogmatic idealism which determines social and economic conditions. So multiform is the prevailing error that the only course is to oppose to it the true d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
…ages are. The one {385} item of interest is that one of our fellow passengers was Dr. Henry Maudsley. This man, besides being one of the three greatest alienists in England, was a profound philosopher of the school which went rather further than Spencer in the direction of mechanical automatism. He fitted in exactly. He was the very man I wanted. We talked about Dhyana. I was quite sure that the attainment of this state, and a fortiori of Samadhi, meant that they remove the inhibitions which repress the manifestations of genius, or (practically…
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 231 XII. ‘*At the hour of the great Initiation,” continued the Buddha, in the midst of the Five Hundred Thousand Arahats, ‘‘the wicked Jehjaour had joined himself with Mara to prevent the discovery of the truth. And in Mara’s fall he fell. At that moment all the currents of his continued and concen- trated Hate recoiled upon him and he fell into the Abyss of Being. And in the Halls of Birth he was cast out into the Lowest Hell—he became a clergyman of the Church of England, further than he had ever been before from Tru…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…n my inquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered, and the past ceases to’ intrude its problems upon my mind. Here you are! Three shies a penny! Change all bad arguments. | I -ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO. When we say that the Cosmos sprang from 0, what kind of 0 do we mean? By O in the ordinary sense of the term we mean ‘‘ absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say ‘‘ No cat has two tails,” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs, that ‘* Absence-of-cat possesses two tails”; but that ‘‘In the categ…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
…bove and hell beneath one." To clear up this point, we decided to enter the Watch Tower directly, without rising. Our visions, occupying three successive days, showed no abnormal features. But --- and here one cannot help feeling that Semper Paratus's faculty of making connection with forces in close contact with the material plane is involved --- no less than five fires broke out in the studio during that period. On the third night, Semper Paratus decided to walk home to the house of the friends with whom he was staying in Hampstead. It was la…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…ch one another closer and closer yet. He drew his sword: with a crash they came together; and he fell with wrath upon a single fortress. Three windows had the tower; and against it ten cannons thundered. Eleven bricks had fallen dislodged by lightnings: it was no house wherein our Father might abide. But there he must abide. ‘‘ To destroy it I am come,” he said. And though he passed out therewithal, yet ’twas his home until he had attained. So he came to a river, and sailing to its source he found a fair woman all naked, and she filled the rive…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…isted of a Mr. Cameron and his wife and the bedridden mother of one of the two, I forget which. Now as it is written "Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them", it was all very well: but two forms a quorum. Jesus will not come for less. This has never been disputed by any doctor of the Brethren. Wigram is clear on the point; if Darby had ever been clear on any point, it would have been on that. Kelly never denied it; even Stuart was sound in this matter, and Stoney himself (though reluctantly) g…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
215 take up her duties towards the middle of August. I only stayed two or three days in Edinburgh and, having attended to the matter of wine and woman, completed the triad by writing The God-Eater. This sort play is singularly unsatisfactory as a work of art, but extremely significant as a piece of autohagiography. The explanatory note in my Collected Works is itself obscure. The idea of this obscure and fantastic play is a follows: By a glorious act human misery is secured (history of Christianity). Hence, appreciation of the personality of Je…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
…wick week lunatic, or an Evan Roberts revivalist, or even a common maniac, than a smug Evangelical banker’s clerk with a greasy wife and three gifted children—to be bank clerks after him ! Better be a flagellant, or one who dances as David danced before the Lord, than a bishop who is universally respected, even by the boys he used to baste when he was headmaster of a great English public school ! That is, if religion is your aim: if you are spiritually minded: if you interpret every phenomenon that is presented to your sen- sorium as a particul…