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1911 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…d takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll Το make one tear in my superb caresses, When on mysel…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 331

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… thicket. The history of Abraham is, then, a symbol in the ancient manner, and contains a lofty revelation of the destinies of the human soul. Taken literally, it is an absurd and revolting story. Did not St. Augustine take literally the Golden Ass of Apuleius? Poor great men! D 33

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1913 · PDF PAGE 331

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… thicket. The history of Abraham is, then, a symbol in the ancient manner, and contains a lofty revelation of the destinies of the human soul. Taken literally, it is an absurd and revolting story. Did not St. Augustine take literally the Golden Ass of Apuleius? Poor great men! D 33

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1919 · PDF PAGE 439

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ach failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its reward in time. The holy germs that sprout and grow un- seen in the disciple’s soul, their stalks wax strong at each new trial, they bend like reeds but never break, nor can they eer be lost. But when the hour has struck they blossom forth. But if thou cam’st prepared, then have no fear. These verses explain the cumulative effect of which we spoke. It is very hard to persist, because very often we seem to make no progress. There is the water on the fire, and nothing whatever appears to b…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 138

Moonchild

…rth its nurse. Here is the root of every talisman Of the whole world, since the whole world began. Here is the fount and source of every soul. Let it be spilt on earth! its strength is whole. Now gently, subtly, with thine Art conspire To fine the gross, dividing earth and fire. Lo! it ascendeth and descendeth, even And swift, an endless band of earth and heaven; Thus it receiveth might of duplex Love, The powers below conjoined with those above, So shall the glory of the world be thine And darkness flee before thy SOVRAN shrine. This is the st…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 39

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…cannot say that the blasphemy added to the horror; rather it was the essence of the horror. It was the gnashing of the teeth of a damned soul. III The demon-shape, which I now clearly recognized as that which had figured in my last “dream” at Cam- bridge, seemed to gulp. At that instant a convulsion shook the dying man and a coughing eructation took the “demon.” Instantly the whole theory dawned on me, that this “demon” was an imaginary personification of the disease. Now at once I understood demonology, from Bodin and Weirus to the moderns, wi…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 91

The Star in the West

… eyes burned into her mild ones : limbs Twined to each other while fine dew bedims Their quivering skins : lip fastened unto lip : Whole soul and body frenzied meet and clip ; And the breath staggers , and the life - blood swims ! Terrible gods chant black demoniac hymns As the frail cords of honour strain and slip . For in the midst of that tremendous tide The mighty vigour of a god was mine ! Drunk with desire , her lamentations died . The dove gave place a moment to the swine ! Rapturous draughts of madness ! Out she sighed Uttermost life's …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 219

The Star in the West

…nd the limitation of scepticism by direct consciousness of the Absolute . To attain to such an illumination the mind of a Huxley and the soul of a Loyola must be united in one person . And this illu mination must be as definite a phenomenon as orgasm , following which we find the material world , and its foundation the world of thought , as honestly set down to hallucination as a ghost would be . Construct the Temple in the place of the Manger , on the site of the ruins of religion and philosophy , but with the stones of the unfinished and aban…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…udgment on myself—I where the world could gather itself in one, little, humble, focus-point of curiosity and peep into the garden of her soul—I—where seas could be held calm and captive in a little pool of blue—I—who could consume mountains in a flash, and devour the dawn, I who could bid the moon trail her white limbs for my pleasure through the windy bagnios of the sky. “T sit in judgment and condemn, for often I was a sword when Truth was a: little child, and the breasts of my beauty I gave to Worthlessness in the stinking lupanars of Treach…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…udgment on myself—I where the world could gather itself in one, little, humble, focus-point of curiosity and peep into the garden of her soul—I—where seas could be held calm and captive in a little pool of blue—I—who could consume mountains in a flash, and devour the dawn, I who could bid the moon trail her white limbs for my pleasure through the windy bagnios of the sky. “T sit in judgment and condemn, for often I was a sword when Truth was a: little child, and the breasts of my beauty I gave to Worthlessness in the stinking lupanars of Treach…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…innacle of the mind whence the Adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. Μ. Why? Because . . . and so on to th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…innacle of the mind whence the Adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. Μ. Why? Because . . . and so on to th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 373

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… what they promise! Faith animates all, makes all in some sort visible and palpable; even the parables of Jesus Christ take a body and a soul. They show, at Jeru- salem, the house of the wicked rich man!! The thin symbol- isms of the primitive religions overturned by science, and deprived of the life of faith, resemble those whitened bones which covered the field that Ezekiel saw in his vision. The Spirit of the Saviour, the spirit of faith, the spirit of 75

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1913 · PDF PAGE 588

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weak-…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 373

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… what they promise! Faith animates all, makes all in some sort visible and palpable; even the parables of Jesus Christ take a body and a soul. They show, at Jeru- salem, the house of the wicked rich man!! The thin symbol- isms of the primitive religions overturned by science, and deprived of the life of faith, resemble those whitened bones which covered the field that Ezekiel saw in his vision. The Spirit of the Saviour, the spirit of faith, the spirit of 75

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weak-…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 94

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ine as dogs that lap the blood of a beautiful courtesan pierced through by the Spear of a swift rider through the city. 61. I too am the Soul of the desert; thou shalt seek me yet again in the wilderness of sand. 62. At thy right hand a great lord and a comely; at thy left hand a woman clad in gossamer and gold and having the stars in her hair. Ye shall journey far into a land of pesti- lence and evil; ye shall encamp in the river of a foolish city forgotten; there shall ye meet with Me. 88

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1899 · PDF PAGE 92

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… or of action (the material world). The further development of these facts, their connection with the numerical system, the parts of the soul, and many other interesting details may be studied in the seventy-two volumes

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1910 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…lking machines. . . . To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul. “At my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.* “O Keshara,” cries Arjuna, “enjoin in me this terrible action!” This will TO WILL. To turn the mind inwards, as it were, and stop it wander- ing outwardly, and then to concentrate all its powers upon itself, are the methods adopted by the Yogi in opening the closed Eye which sleep…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…lking machines. . . . To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul. “At my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.* “O Keshara,” cries Arjuna, “enjoin in me this terrible action!” This will TO WILL. To turn the mind inwards, as it were, and stop it wander- ing outwardly, and then to concentrate all its powers upon itself, are the methods adopted by the Yogi in opening the closed Eye which sleep…

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