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Page 76 of 1591912 · PDF PAGE 26
…terior voice which tells us that we have had enough. The same rule applies to sleep. We have determined to control our minds, and so our time for meditation must take precedence of other hours. We must fix times for practice, and make our feasts movable. In order to test our progress, for we shall find that (as in all physio- logical matters) meditation cannot be gauged by the feelings, We shall have a note-book and pencil, and we shall also have a watch. We shall then endeavour to count how often, during the first quarter of an hour, the mind bre…
1912 · PDF PAGE 182
… himself alone, he whispers, Safe ! Safe| dropping into the furtive, gleeful manner. Then suddenly HE seems to listen intently. All this time the others are heard of talking and laughing. HE goes R, shuts door, goes to place where corpse is, listens with ear to floor. With great terror, rising to his knees] JACK. It is—it is—low, slow, and solemn, but it is— again—again! God! Great God! they will hearl [Voiees louder, returning. JACK resumes hisfolly manner and shufiles about, pouring out the ale] [Re—enter OTHERS JACK. Well, did you find it all a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 182
… himself alone, he whispers, Safe ! Safe| dropping into the furtive, gleeful manner. Then suddenly HE seems to listen intently. All this time the others are heard of talking and laughing. HE goes R, shuts door, goes to place where corpse is, listens with ear to floor. With great terror, rising to his knees] JACK. It is—it is—low, slow, and solemn, but it is— again—again! God! Great God! they will hearl [Voiees louder, returning. JACK resumes hisfolly manner and shufiles about, pouring out the ale] [Re—enter OTHERS JACK. Well, did you find it all a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 318
…omena to be , in the limbo of the brain . To that form of desire which is called “ attention , ” the train of thought , held fast, for a time , in the desired direction , seems ever striving to get on to another line (e), and the junctions and sidings are so multitudinous . 1 (e) This is overcome by Yoga . Huxley , like Hume , diagnosed with an almost in credible minuteness all the symptoms of this mental unstability , but could not in all the wonders of their laboratories , and in all the wisdom of their pharma copoeia , discover a single or c…
1909 · PDF PAGE 96
…nstead repeat over and over again the words of the Ritual so that I can do it in the end with perfect fluency and comprehension. And this time may Adonai build the House! Instead I met Dr. R , who kindly offered to teach me how to obtain astral visions! (P.S.—The tone of this entry wrongs me. I sat patiently and reverently, like a Mela with his gum, hoping to hear the Word I needed.) Thence I went my long and lonely walk to my Secret Restaurant, learning the Ritual as I went. Arrived at the Secret Restaurant. Ordered 6 oysters, Rable de Lievre p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 265
…bout cheap production, In this case I must protest emphatically against the employment of a translator who makes a solecism nearly every time he touches Paris. £.g. ‘northern railway station’ for ‘Gare du Nord,’ ‘Lilas brewery’ for *Closerie des Lilas, ‘St. Martin’s Gate’ for ‘Porte St. Martin,’ ‘Rue de Fleurs’ for ‘Rue des Fleurs,’ ‘racecourse’ for some unindicated part of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ‘churchyard’ of Montparnasse for ‘cemetery,’ P2 227
1913 · PDF PAGE 265
…bout cheap production, In this case I must protest emphatically against the employment of a translator who makes a solecism nearly every time he touches Paris. £.g. ‘northern railway station’ for ‘Gare du Nord,’ ‘Lilas brewery’ for *Closerie des Lilas, ‘St. Martin’s Gate’ for ‘Porte St. Martin,’ ‘Rue de Fleurs’ for ‘Rue des Fleurs,’ ‘racecourse’ for some unindicated part of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ‘churchyard’ of Montparnasse for ‘cemetery,’ P2 227
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
… has broken the wind of the poor phrase to this effect: “To grow and not to grow; to grow larger and to grow smaller at one and the same time; yea, even to grow by the simple process of not growing.” In these unpretending and innocent.words lies hid (for the eye of the wise to discover) the germ of the most stupendous and far-reaching system of philosophy that has 1 The Qabalah.
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
9. 50. 11.30. 11.50. 125. JOHN ST. JOHN time. Say three and a half hours! Well, if it doesn’t count as Tapas, and Jap, and Yama, and Niyama, and all the rest of it, allI can say is that Ithink They don’t play fair. Iwill now go and get something to eat, and (God willing) on my return settle down to real work, for I need daylight to copy my Ritual. A sandwich and two coffees at the Versailles and a citron pressé at the Dome, some little chatter with M—e, Β e, H s, and others. In fact, I’m a lazy unconcentrated hound. I started Mantra again, thou…
1911 · PDF PAGE 152
…se. And a voice comes: there shall be no more red roses, for she hath crushed all the blood of all things into her cup. It seemed at one time as if the rose was in the breast of a beautiful woman, high-bosomed, tall, stately, yet who danced like a snake. But there was no subsistence in this vision. And nowI see the white Rose, as if it were in the beak of a swan, in the picture by Michael Angelo in Venice. And that legend too is the legend of BABALON. But all this is before the veil of the Aethyr. Now will I go and make certain preparations, an…
1919 · PDF PAGE 137
…ate Spiritualism, chiefly with the idea of disproving it. From this year his interest in the Occult seems to date, and it was about this time that he first consciously aspired to find, and get into touch with, a True Occult Order. This aspiration was, as we shall see, fulfilled three years later, when he had an oppor- tunity to become a Probationer of the A..A.., and immedi- ately grasped it; but during those three years his researches led him into varied paths:—Spiritualism, Faithism and other Isms on the one hand, and ‘The Europe,’ ‘The Leice…
1954 · PDF PAGE 251
…atters-or words to that effect: as soon as one selects a phrase, one starts to kick holes in it! Yet we both know perfectly well all the time what we do mean. But this is certainly not the sense of the word in your question. It may clear our minds, as has so often happened, if we examine it through the lens of dear old Skeat. Religion, he says, Latin: religio, piety. Collecting or paying attention to: religens as opposed to negligens, neglecting; the attitude of Gallio. But it also implies a binding together, i.e., of ideas; in fact, a "body of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 12
…n occurring in that section of the Commentary where the verse quoted is the subject.] But the writer from this dictation was not, at the time, in sympathy with this “intelligence.” Aiwaz, in fact, was dictating to a hostile scribe; to one who was forced to write against his will. “I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger.”1 2 To the scribe this experience is the surest and the most significant reality in his life. I am myself persuaded that there are intelligences and powers not normally accessible to any of the senses, and that in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 176
…her may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity, But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state. (Ask chemists else!) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same ” Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like: I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own Non-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; | W…
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
…Universe; and to meet him in battle, so that nothing is left either of him or of yourself, you must be exactly equal to him. At the same time let the Magician never forget that every brick must tend to the summit of the pyramid — the sides must be perfectly smooth; there must be no false summits, even in the lowest layers. This is the practical and active form of that obligation of a Master of the Temple in which it is said: " I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul." In Liber CLXXV many practical devices f…
1961 · PDF PAGE 180
…d Fable) in the Belly of the Whale called Laughter, and it seemeth to me at this present Writing that I am like to abide therein for the Time that remaineth to me in this Body. o
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
…espeare was a leader of thought, he saw through the humbug of the star-gazers ; if not, he was a credulous fool ; not the one man of his time, not a “debauched genius” (for Sir R. Burton in this phrase has in a sense antici- pated my discovery) but a mere Elizabethan. This the greatest poet of all time ? T hen we must believe that Gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, “M y lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” —but there is …
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
…ND BUDDHISM pendent thought, of keen ecstasy of love of knowledge, of practical training, that the Buddhasanana Samagama? appeals; it is time that Buddhism reformed itself from within; though its truths be held untarnished (and even this is not everywhere the case), 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 men of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lies, there is then an awakening, a true …
1904 · PDF PAGE 35
…her may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity, But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state. (Ask chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same37 Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like : I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own No-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; Wi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 170
…fair on a sheet of blue air with a hurricane pen. I copy it here for men. First on the ghostly adytum of pale mist that was the abyss of time and space (the stars all blotted out, poor faded nenuphars on the storm-sea of the infinite :) I wist a shapeless figure arise and cover all, its cloak an ancient pall, vaster and older than the skies of night, and blacker than all broken years—aye ! but it grew and held me in its grasp so that I felt its flesh, not clean sweet flesh of man but leprous white, and crawling with innumerable tears like worms…