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Page 77 of 901906 · PDF PAGE 24
…ves ; When thou didst’ feel the thorns pierce bloody graves Within thy brain where Manhood burnt in- tense ; Vv. When thy bruised broken body’s horrid weight Racked thy stretched arms, that sweat and blood enow Coursed down the marble paleness of thy brow, Lift up on high, a butt for all men’s hate :— Vi. Dreamedst thou then of those triumphant hours When, that the eternal promise might abide, Thy steed a mild she-ass, thou once didst ride On roads o’erstrewn with branches and fresh flowers; Vil. When, thy heart beating high with hope and pride…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…rces pertaining to orders of existence which 2. Prof essor Sigmund Freud and his school hâve, in recent years, discovered a part of this body of Truth, which has been taught for many centuries in the Sanctuaries of Initiation. But failure to grasp the fullness of Truth, especially that implied in my Sixth Theorem (above) and its corollaries, has led him and his followers into the error of admitting that the avowedly suicidai “Censor” is the proper arbiter of conduct. Official psycho-analysis is therefore committed to upholding a fraud, although…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…of support. The moon was now exercising her full influence, totally unchecked and unbalanced; and the woman's nature being wholly of the body, with as little brain in proportion as a rhinoceros, the
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
…iling round the riven rim, Lost beyond hope; and she, her sighs up- swell, And sorrow shakes her: shame’s oblivious hell Burns round her body: in her eyes there swim Tears of deep joy, deep anguish ; love’s first hymn Is choral in her ear’s young miracle. She knows the utmost now; what waters white She held from heaven’s crystal fountains ; flight Of what celestial birds struck down :—Ah me! What god or demigod hath struck remorse Into that close-crouched, cold, and desolate corse, Wailing her violate virginity? LA TENTATION DE SAINT- ANTOINE. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…like dying nightingales that have sorrowed for the fading of the roses, and pressed themselves to death upon the thorns; and one’s whole body became a single eye, 50 that one saw as if the unborn thought of light Qflvngé. brooded over an eternal sea. Then was light as the lightning flaming Zlilrb‘llrsi-bus spe- out of the east, even unto the west, and it was fashioned as the swift ness of a sword. By and by one rose up, then one seemed to be quite, quite dead, and buried in the centre of a pyramid of the most brilliant light it is possible to th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 106
…hat some Soul, having penetrated thus far, should discover in its “Name” that it is a Son truly begotten by the Spirit of Being upon the Body of Form, and that it has power to understand itself and its Father, with all that such heirship implies. Suppose further that it be come to puberty, will it not be impelled to assert itself as its Father’s son? Will it not shake itself free from the Form that bore and nourished and trained it, and turn from its brothers and sis ters and playmates? Will it not glow and ache with the impulse to be utterly …
1905 · PDF PAGE 120
…lutches at my heart, until there stands No fibre yet unshaken, while it wreaks In one sharp song the agony of weeks, And all my soul and body understands. The music changes, and I know that here, In these new melodies, a tongue of fire Leaps at each waving of the silver spear ; And all my sorrow dons delight’s attire Because the gate of Heaven is so near, And I have comprehended my desire. A VALENTINE. (FEB. 14, 1897.) Wuy did you smile when the summer was dying If it were not that the hours Might bring in winter, while sad winds are sighing, S…
1907 · PDF PAGE 45
…roughout the idle, the luxurious night ! [Tow soft she breathes! Elow tender Her eyes beam down on me! How slender [fer pale, her golden body lies! Even asleep the dark long lashes move, And the eyes see. She dreams of me, of love, Of all these bridal ecstasies That have been ours this month, this month of joy. I am a foolish boy ; Did not the golden starred Ambassador Come like a father to me and implore I would look straight on truth? ‘“ This is no love-sick youth !” He cried, ‘she is nigh sixty years of age; Her lovers are a mangied multitud…
1906 · PDF PAGE 203
…things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau guzzled, who sold soul and body to Satan for sheer love of sin, whose mere lust of perversion is so intense that it seems to absorb every other emotion and interest. Never since God woke light from chaos has such a tragedy been un- rolled before men, step after step toward the lake of Fire ! At his house all his writings were seized, and, it is believed, destroyed. The single most fortunate exception is that of a superbly jewelled writi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 44
…e. One can go into a museum and see rows of glass globes and bottles which contain the chemical substances which go to make up the human body; but the collection is very far from being a man. Still less does it explain the difference between Lord Tomnoddy and Bill Sykes. Nineteenth century chemists were at great pains. to analyse opium and isolate its alkaloids, rather like a child pulling a watch to pieces to see what makes it go. They succeeded, but the results were not altogether wholesome. Morphine has much more direct hypnotic effect than …
1929 · PDF PAGE 213
…y lines I can now approve of, remains the one Path possible for me to tread. (By the Blossom and Fruit theory, I mean the existence of a body of initiates pledged to devote themselves to the redemption of mankind.) It sounds as if I had become a bit of a prig. I expect a good deal of my attitude was due to exhausted vitality. Chogo Ri was perhaps still taking his revenge. I had picked out Boleskine for its loneliness. Lord Lovat and Mrs. Fraser-Tyler, my nearest neighbours, were eight miles away, while Grant of Glenmoriston was on the other sid…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
… certainly not the seance that interested him; but what was it? The medium began to moan. She complained of cold; she began to twist her body about; she dropped her head suddenly on the table in collapse. Nobody took any particular notice; it was all part of the performance. "Give me your hands!" she said to Lisa, "I feel you are so sympathetic." As a matter of fact, the girl's natural warmth of heart had stirred her for a moment. She reached her hands out. But Simon Iff rose from the table and caught them. "You may have a hair or a loose threa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…ssence of the horror of not knowing one’s Angel is the utter bewilderment and anguish of the mind, complicated by the persécution of the body, and envenomed by the ache of the soûl. One puts the wrong ques¬ tions, and puts them wrong 3 gets the wrong answers, judges them wrong, and acts wrongly upon them. One must nevertheless persist, aspiring with ardour towards one’s Angel, and comforted I. No intelligence of the type that opérâtes divination is a complété Microscosm as Man is. He knows in perfection what lies within his own Sphere, and litt…
1944 · PDF PAGE 30
… which the foci coincide. centre of the System. In mathematics there are no fixed facts. Bertrand Russell says that in this subject “no‐ body knows what he is talking about, and it matters to nobody whether he is right or wrong”.
1919 · PDF PAGE 176
…s nothing. (Humility, like Pride, implies a self. O.M.) Dec. 26th, 11.3 to 11.20 P.M. Meditation. Gradually separating the Self from the body, mind, life, death, etc., till an entirely impersonal state resulted. (These things don’t mean much, as a rule. They are only what we call ‘reverie,’ a dulcet meandering of the mind. O.M.) Dec. 27th, 11.13 to 11.30 P.M. Meditation. After striving to unite consciousness completely with Adonai, the sphere of Consciousness widened out and became one with the Many; so that, when asking of the Self: “What am I…
1905 · PDF PAGE 167
…e you the sordid soul that most con- trasts With your true, noble, and unselfish self— Were you the synthesis of all I hate, In mind and body leprous and deformed— Did every word and gesture fill my soul With hatred and its parody, disgust— It touches not my question! This one fact O’ermasters all eccentric circumstance : I love you—you, and not your attributes ! CORA. Great noble soul! I hate myself the more That I must wound you further with the truth. A double prong this poisoned poniard Snaps in our hearts. I kept the secret long. Your brea…
1911 · PDF PAGE 175
… the text itself, in which is found the Nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, ιοοο, as applied to the seven principal [ha/era: of the human body, as taught by Greek Yogis, Apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development ofthe Kundalz'nz', and each subject is followed in the text bya commentary in application. Mr Pryse expresses the View that the book is necessarily incomprehensible to the conventional theologian, yet easily comprehended by the esoteric Initiate, i…
1911 · PDF PAGE 175
… the text itself, in which is found the Nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, ιοοο, as applied to the seven principal [ha/era: of the human body, as taught by Greek Yogis, Apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development ofthe Kundalz'nz', and each subject is followed in the text bya commentary in application. Mr Pryse expresses the View that the book is necessarily incomprehensible to the conventional theologian, yet easily comprehended by the esoteric Initiate, i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
… the routine peculiar to the Profess- houses. To rise before dawn; to make a ceremonial ablution with the intention of so purifying both body and mind that they should be as it were new-born; then the joyous outburst of adoration as the sun rose to sight: this was a true Opening of the Day. Insensibly the years slipped from her; she became like a maiden in thought and in activity. About a week was to elapse before the new moon, [140] at the moment of which the operation was timed to commence; but it was a busy week for Cyril Grey. With Brother …
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau guzzled, who sold soul and body to Satan for sheer love of sin, whose mere lust of perversion is so intense that it seems to absorb every other emotion and interest. Never since God woke light from chaos has such a tragedy been un-rolled before men, step after step toward the lake of Fire ! At his house all his writings were seized, and, it is believed, destroyed. The single most fortunate exception is that of a superbly jewelled writin…