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Page 82 of 1291909 · PDF PAGE 11
…ure and business, I am not really there, but stand behind, preparing the Event. Imagine me, therefore, if you will, in Paris on the last day of September. How surprised was I—though, had I thought, I should have remembered that it was so—to find all my necessary magical apparatus to my hand! Months before, for quite other reasons, I had moved most of my portable property to Paris; now I go to Paris, not thinking of a Retirement, for I now know enough to trust my destiny to bring all things to pass without anxious forethought on my part—and sudd…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…e . A small word of protest will be safer . I note - and may summon almost every page of the book for evidence that the lyrical form nowadays dominates all others ; that even in Mr . Hardy 's Dynasts - yes , and even in Mr . Doughty 's great epic - other forms are perpetually haunted and worried , if not actually tyrannised over , by the lyrical . Indeed a young poet gravely informed me , the other day , that the lyric held the whole future of poesy — every other form being dead ; nor was he abashed on being reminded of the Scottish farmer 's p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…y say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiating always from unity, and multiplying themselves like nu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…e precisely identical with the phenomena of Mr. Home: hands coming out of walls, movements of furniture, phosphorescent apparitions. One day, the rash apprentice-magician had dared to call up Astaroth, and had seen the apparition of a gigantic monster having the body of a hog, and the head borrowed from the skeleton of a colossal ox. But he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. Eliphas, who is an epicure in magic, was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…y say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiating always from unity, and multiplying themselves like nu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…e precisely identical with the phenomena of Mr. Home: hands coming out of walls, movements of furniture, phosphorescent apparitions. One day, the rash apprentice-magician had dared to call up Astaroth, and had seen the apparition of a gigantic monster having the body of a hog, and the head borrowed from the skeleton of a colossal ox. But he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. Eliphas, who is an epicure in magic, was …
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…satire so acute,that we were unwilling to There is an eye that Arab sages say Weeps never enough. There is an eye whose glances make the day The day of Love. There is an eye that is above all eyes, That is no eye. (Stood proud Anatta on the Bridge of Sighs And thundered ‘‘ Why ?”’) Which eyes are mine, which thine, poor ape, discover, And even yet thou hast not lost thy lover. II. Khephra, thou Beetle-headed God ! Who travellest in thy strength above The Heaven of Nu, with splendour shod Of Thoth, and girt about with Love ! O Sun at midnight! i…
1904 · PDF PAGE 16
ASCENSION DAY 9 Are dumb, the drum doth come and make us mute : The Englishman, half huckster and half brute, Raves through his silk hat of the Absolute. The British Don, half pedant and half hermit, Begins: “The Ding an sich*—as Germans term it—” We stop him short ; he readjusts his glasses, Turns to his folio—’twill eclipse all precedent, Reveal God’s nature, every dent a blessed dent ! The Donkey : written by an ass, for asses. So, with permission, let us be Orthodox to our finger-ends; What the bulk hold, High Church or Friends, Or Hard-sha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 204
…an or does exist , and that there is a universal harmony ; then , as that terrific night engulfs all and envelops us , O children of the Day ! Let us rise up with the whole dawn of our understanding , encircle and an nihilate this dismal unity , and conglobe all into a per fect nothingness , an ineffable bliss — attainment is ours . 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 ; With Hegel and — the Christian ? teach That which c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 298
THE NEW WINE 291 scenes . trampled by Bacchic feet , so to-day we find once again the farces of Aristophanes redacted on the grand stage of the world on which the great actors have played their part , and have retired behind the So once more , much to the joy of little children , the little Rationalias , the little Secularias , the harlequinade has again begun . Sinbad has sailed away with all his treasure ; Aladdin has departed , and has not forgotten to take with him his wonderful lamp . No more Jinn are to be unbottled from their sleep of a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 139
…oot in the Rue des Quatre Vents. “Life passed, and for the master ended. ‘ The Veil of the Temple is but a Spider’s web!’ he said, three days before he died. I followed Eliphaz Levi Zahed to the grave. “T could not follow him beyond. “For the next year I applied myself with renewed vigour to the study of the many manuscripts which he had left me. No result could I obtain; Islackened. Followed the folly of my life: I rationalised. “Thus: one day, leaning over the Pont St. Michel, I let the whole strange story flow back through my brain. I re- me…
1909 · PDF PAGE 139
…oot in the Rue des Quatre Vents. “Life passed, and for the master ended. ‘ The Veil of the Temple is but a Spider’s web!’ he said, three days before he died. I followed Eliphaz Levi Zahed to the grave. “T could not follow him beyond. “For the next year I applied myself with renewed vigour to the study of the many manuscripts which he had left me. No result could I obtain; Islackened. Followed the folly of my life: I rationalised. “Thus: one day, leaning over the Pont St. Michel, I let the whole strange story flow back through my brain. I re- me…
1910 · PDF PAGE 280
…stion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make it their business to attend hasheesh-eaters during the fantasia, and profess to be able to lead them constantly in pleasant paths of hallucin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
…wers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensa- tions, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he known of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us!) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great Goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the Vault of our beloved Brethren the Ka D Sh Knights of v P.A..…
1910 · PDF PAGE 280
…stion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make it their business to attend hasheesh-eaters during the fantasia, and profess to be able to lead them constantly in pleasant paths of hallucin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
…wers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensa- tions, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he known of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us!) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great Goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the Vault of our beloved Brethren the Ka D Sh Knights of v P.A..…
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…monies generally, have similarly pagan sources.—O. M. 2 This and many similar phrases employed in the controversies of the period are to-day practically unintelligible. Levi was at one time a kind of Socialist —TRANS. 79
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…monies generally, have similarly pagan sources.—O. M. 2 This and many similar phrases employed in the controversies of the period are to-day practically unintelligible. Levi was at one time a kind of Socialist —TRANS. 79
1919 · PDF PAGE 390
…re it is shown that Nemo has no means of deciding which of his flowers is the really im- portant one, although assured that all will one day bloom. 71. Yea, if he conquers, Nirvana shall be his. Before he casts his shadow off, his mortal coil, that pregnant cause of anguish and illimitable pain—in him will men a great and holy Buddha honour. The words “mortal coil” suggest Stratford-on-Avon rather than Lhassa. The meaning of the verse is a little ob- scure. It is that the conqueror will be recognised as a Buddha sooner or later. This is not tru…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
…ish Review in the autumn of 1914. It was pushed out to make way for my "Appeal to the American Republic", reprinted from boyhood's happy days, with such politically necessary revisions as "the traitor Prussian" instead of "the traitor Russian". It has thus never yet seen the light. {717} 74 As I was sitting at lunch one day in the Hermitage beginning a lyrical ritual intended for the use of an individual in his private work, I found myself, in the middle of a sentence, at a loss for the next word. I have already explained how swiftly and sponta…