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Page 86 of 871929 · PDF PAGE 259
…e who had come in first three times had their pay permanently raised. I made friends with them, too, by sitting with them round the camp fire and exchanging songs and stories. On the other hand, I made it clear that I would tolerate no nonsense. They responded for the most part very well, I never had any trouble in all my wanderings with natives, servants, dogs and women. The secret is that I am really unconscious of superiority and treat all alike with absolute respect and affection; at the same time I maintain the practical relations between …
1929 · PDF PAGE 257
…t of in my wildest nightmares. What follows sounds exaggerated. On getting into a dak baghla and standing stripped in front of a roaring fire, one expects to get dry. But no! the dampness seems to be metaphysical rather than physical. The mere removal of the manifestations of the elements of water do not leave one dry. But one used to obtain a sort of approximation to dryness by dint of fires; and of course we were provided with waterproofs specially constructed for that abominable climate. One morning I timed myself; after taking every precaut…
1929 · PDF PAGE 463
…height the disproportionate increase in the cost of building and the difficulty of renting the loftier suites, on account of the fear of fire, made the higher buildings unprofitable. It is of perculiar interest, by the way, to observe that the artists were so impregnated with with the Buddhist ideal of impermanence that in even the costliest buildings they calculated the life of the plumbing as at no more than twenty years; that is, they expected, from one cause or another, that the building would be superseded within that period. The actual si…
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…183 O kissable Tarshitering! the wild bird calls _ its mate—and I? ili. 87 O Lesbian maiden, ii. 6 O Light in Light! O flashing wings of fire! ili, 199 O light of Apollo! iii. 200 O Lord our God, i. 24 O love! and were I with thee ever! iii. 3 O Love! Pure mystery of life, 1. 247 O lover, I am lonely here, ii. 109 O Man of Sorrows: brother unto Grief, 1. 207 O master of the ring of love, i. 179 O mortal, tossed on life’s unceasing ocean, ll. 107 O Mother of Love, i. 17 One day from landing, ii. 80 One way sets free, ii. 53 On his couch Imperial…
1929 · PDF PAGE 307
…n's guts". They moved like a one-legged man with St. Vitus' Dance and they sounded like tea trays being beaten, chains being rattled and fire irons being thrown about, all at once. We could not even get clear of our moorings without tearing away the port companion. Twenty-four hours later we stopped. The captain freely admitted that he had lost his reckoning, didn't know where he was, didn't know how to find out and didn't see why he should worry about it. He went back to his cards, leaving a junior officer to get entangled with the sextant and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 514
…ad stopped. I felt an indescribable awe, overwhelming in its solemnity. The act of paddling seemed almost a blasphemy. However, I made a fire on a rocky islet and cooked and ate my lunch, returning to the cottage in a curiously exhausted state. It was one of those days when the electrical conditions seem to abstract every particle of energy from one's nerves. The condition is familiar enough to me, and I understood that it foretold an approaching thunderstorm; in fact, an hour later, as I sprawled lazily on the verandah, I saw the imminence of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
…e the truth, when my imagination was impotent to forge the least link with any helper. Yet at that very hour, sitting and smoking by the fire opposite me, or roped to me on a precipice, was the very man I needed, had I but had the intuition to divine his presence! I agreed at once to his proposals and he taught me the principles of concentration. I was to practise visualizing simple objects; and when I had succeeded in keeping these fairly steady, to try moving objects, such as a pendulum. The first difficulty is to overcome the tendency of an …
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…is, hoping to find a town, but night fell, sudden and black; so I tethered my horse and lay down to sleep in my poncho by the light of a fire, to make which I borrowed some loose material left by the engineers. Dawn was just breaking when I was awakened from sleep by that subtle sense of danger which protects sleeping wayfarers. In the dim light I saw three heads peering at me over the embankment. I fired my revolver in the air; the heads disappeared; I turned over and went to sleep again instantly for several hours. My second night was otherwi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 504
… his personality might act as the focus of its energy. Before he could be that pure will whose name is that word, he had to be purged by fire of all competing volitions; and this was done by those who had chosen him during this part of his life, which I am about to record. He had indeed got rid of his sense of the personal self, yet his force was discharging itself dispersedly through all sorts of channels appropriate to the various elements in his nature. It was necessary to constrain every particle of his energy to move in one sole direction.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
… into a "Magic Square". (Two represents the Dyad, the original Error.) I know also that the letter Shin represents a triune essence, the fire of the Spirit, and in particular Ruach Elohim, the Spirit of the Gods, because these two words have the numerical value of 300, which is also that of Shin itself. I thus interpret the word Yeheshuah as the descent of the Holy Spirit into the balanced forces of matter, and the name Yeheshuah is therefore that of a man made divine by the descent of the Holy Spirit into his heart, exactly as the name George …
1907 · PDF PAGE 247
…t horror rages, iii. 194 He did not kiss me with his mouth, i. 100 He’s gone—his belly filled enough, ii. 163 He hath made His face as a fire, i. 89 He is here! He is here! ili. 206 He is the equal of the gods, my queen, i. 250 Hence I account no promise worse, ii. 156 Here goes my arrow to the gold, ii. 154 Here in the evening curl white mists, i, 118 Here in the extreme west of all the earth, ii. 67 Here, in the home of a friend, i. 154 Here in the wild Caucasian night, i. 125 Here is a man! _ For all the world to see, ili, L1O Here most phil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 193
…t in its branches like Absalom, while he went on his cheerful way, neighing merrily. We camped under a huge boulder; and as I sat by the fire after dinner reposing delightfully with a pipe, a very characteristic incident occurred. A shapeless mass was moving down the slopes. It resolved itself into a man who must have been nearer seventy than sixty years old, carrying a sack, much bigger than himself, of what proved to be dried apricots. I greeted him affectionately and offered him some tobacco. He squatted opposite me and began to chat. When h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 388
…cks and built a great circle, inscribed with the words of power; and in the midst we erected an altar and there I sacrificed myself. The fire of the all seeing sun smote down upon the altar, consuming utterly every particle of my personality. I am obliged to write in hieroglyph of this matter, because it concerns things of which it is unlawful to speak openly under penalty of the most dreadful punishment; but I may say that the essence of the matter was that I had hitherto clung to certain conceptions of conduct which, while perfectly proper fr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 552
…ain had been known to cause death. The record of his experiment makes interesting reading. He began by trying to set a piece of glass on fire by the force of his will. The next act was plagiarized from Samson. He hung on to a pillar while the Philistines, some half a dozen husky sailor boys, tried to pull him off. They finally managed to sit on his head and control his frantic punches and kicks. They then got surgeons on the job who pulled him through. In a couple of days he was all right again. His experiment, if intended to escape notice, fai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 298
298 the excited peasants who were trying to keep the fire from spreading seemed to dance in front of the flickering flames gigantically. It was a sort of opium dream of hell. Talking of opium, I purchased the necessary apparatus and began to learn to smoke. I have already described the fiasco with laudanum in Kandy, and somewhere in Burma I had made an equally futile experiment with powered opium, taking thirty grains or so with no greater profit than making myself suddenly and painlessly sick. I found smoking the drug equally unavailing. I smo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 389
…o, knowing that all was over, I wrote the holy name of BABALON in the sand with my magical ring and arose from my trance. We lit a great fire to purify the place and destroyed the Circle and Triangle. The work had lasted over two hours and {623}
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
… was called the direct climb of Mickledoor; and nobody had done it. That seemed to be a shame, so I did it. This time the fat was in the fire. My good faith was openly challenged in the smoking-room. I shrugged my shoulders, but offered to repeat the climb the following day before witnesses --- which I accordingly did. I suppose I am a very innocent ass, but I could not understand why anyone calling himself human should start a series of malicious intrigues on such a cause of quarrel. I must admit that my methods were sometimes calculated to an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 203
…on 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 writing-case, now in the possession of the present editor, in which were found the MSS. which are here published. Mathilde, who knew how he treasured its contents, pre- served it by saying to the officer, ‘‘ But, sir, that is mine.” On opening this it was found to…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…ion 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 writing-case, now in the possession of the present editor, in which were found the MSS. which are here published. Mathilde, who knew how he treasured its contents, pre- served it by saying to the officer, “But, sir, that is mine.” On opening this it was found to c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 498
…dreds of illustrations. Half morocco. . - 78, 6d. Some of the Contents: Critics of the Rosicrucians Criticized—The Hermetic Philosophers—Fire—Theosophy of the Persians—Druidical Stones—The Round Towers of Ireland—Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans—The Rosy Cross in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Mediaeval Monuments—The Great Pyramid—Connexion between the Templars and Gnosticism—Astro-Theosophical System of the Rosicrucians—Robt. Flud« the Holy Greale—The Round Table— Alchemy—The Outline of the Kabbalah, etc., ete. THE KABBALAH UNVEILED…