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Page 94 of 1301919 · PDF PAGE 196
… this great Ritual of Sacrifice and Death was conceived and perpetuated, we, through the observation of our men of science, have come to know that it is not the Sun which rises and sets, but the earth on which we live which revolves so that its shadow cuts us off from the sunlight during what we call night. The Sun does not die, as the ancients thought; It is always shining, always radiating Light and Life. Stop for a moment and get a clear conception of this Sun, how He is shining in the early morning, shining at mid-day, shining in the evenin…
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
…for the first time working together! All the accidents had disappeared. There was nothing but the unison of two rich racing rhythms. You know how it is when you are flying—vyou see a speck in the air. You can’t tell by your eyes if it is your Brother Boche coming to pot you, or one of our own or one of the allied ‘planes. But you can tell them apart, foe from friend, by the different beat of their engines. So one comes to apprehend a particular rhythm as sympathetic—another as hostile. - So here were Lou and I flying together beyond the bounds …
1922 · PDF PAGE 91
… whole thing wrong. What you have to do is to get snow up your own nose, and then you can catch the bird all right. What did Maeterlinck know about that silly old Blue Bird?
1906 · PDF PAGE 254
…D BUDDHISM consciousness to consciousness by its eternity, while it fixes a great gulf between them by its changelessness. He states the knowable, states it accurately, and leaves it there. But there is a practical application of this analysis which I will treat of later. (See VIII. Maha- satipa¢¢hana.) We are told that the memory is a proof of some real “J.” But how treacherous is this ground! Did a past event in my life not happen because I have forgotten it? O the analogy of the river water given above is most valid! I who write this am not …
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…s luminous by its own light . . . it is the Goddess of speech, and is called the vija (seed). 59. Full of energy, and like burning gold, know this Kundalini to be the power (Shakti) of Vishnu; it is the mother of the three qualities—Satwa (good) Rajas (indifference), and Tamas (bad). 60. There, beautiful like the Bandhuk flower, is placed the seed of love; it is brilliant like burnished gold, and is described in Yoga as eternal. 61. The Sushumna also embraces it, and the beautiful seed is there; there it rests shining brilliantly like the autum…
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…s luminous by its own light . . . it is the Goddess of speech, and is called the vija (seed). 59. Full of energy, and like burning gold, know this Kundalini to be the power (Shakti) of Vishnu; it is the mother of the three qualities—Satwa (good) Rajas (indifference), and Tamas (bad). 60. There, beautiful like the Bandhuk flower, is placed the seed of love; it is brilliant like burnished gold, and is described in Yoga as eternal. 61. The Sushumna also embraces it, and the beautiful seed is there; there it rests shining brilliantly like the autum…
1922 · PDF PAGE 30
…of the savage Mongol with the savage Norseman type. Her strange hair fascinated me. It was that delicate flaxen hue, so fine—no, I don’t know how to tell you about it, I can’t think of it without getting all muddled up. One wondered how she was there. One saw at a glance that she didn’t belong to that set. Refinement, aristocracy almost, were like a radiance about her tiniest gesture. She had no affectation about being an artist. She happened to like these people in exactly the same way as a Methodist old maid in Balham might take an interest i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 173
…og.’ Instead, let me tell you a story.” We tactfully expressed eagerness to hear it. “The greatest mountaineer of his generation, as you know, was the late Oscar Eckenstein.” He went through a rather complicated gesture quite incomprehensible; but it vaguely suggested to me some ceremonial reverence connected with death. “‘T had the great good fortune to be adopted by this man; he taught me how to climb; in particular, how to glissade. He made me start down the slope from all kinds of complicated positions ; head first and so on; and I had to l…
1954 · PDF PAGE 143
…ic" twaddle about "race-pollution." "Now, Master!" (What reproach in the tone of your voice!) All right, all right! Keep your hair on!-I know that is the precise term used in The Vision and the Voice, to describe the Great White Brother or the Babe of the Abyss, but to him it means victory; to the Left-Hander it would mean defeat, ruin devastating, irremediable, final. It is exactly that which he most dreads; and it is that to which he must in the end come, because there is no compensating element in his idea of structure. But then (you ask) ho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 233
…y are) in the order in which these classes of animal appeared in the world's history. Now J want to put forward a thesis-and as far as I know it is personal to myself, based on my work at Cefalu-to the effect that the mind is constructed on precisely the same lines. You will remember from my note on "Breaks" in meditation how one's gradual improvement in the practice results in the barring-out of certain classes of idea, by classes. The ready-to-hand, recent fugitive thoughts come first, and ftrst they go. Then the events of the previous day or…
1954 · PDF PAGE 285
252 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS against it; Hadit, the centrifugal, ever seeking to penetrate the unknown. Nuit is not too dissimilar from the Teh described in Lao-tze. Nor would it be proper to ignore The Book of Lies, p. 12: Peaches Soft and hollow, how thou dost overcome the hard and full! It dies, it gives itself; to Thee is the fruit! Be thou the Bride; thou shalt be the Mother hereafter. To all impressions thus. Let them not overcome thee; yet let them breed within thee. The least of the impressions, come to its perfection , is Pan. Receive a th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 534
EPISTOLA ULTIMA 501 scientific experiment as we know them, are altogether in their way dependent on the existence of our own peculiar natures. If, for example, we had no sense to use in our exploration but that of hearing, we should have worked out a classification of trees entirely different from that which we now possess. We should have taught our students how to distinguish the sounds made by an oak and an elm respectively in a storm; the differences in the rustling of various kinds of grass, and so on. Similarly the results of our magical e…
1922 · PDF PAGE 177
Indian Summer 163 that we didn’t quite know what. And we felt so help- less, almost too weak to move a finger. Oh, couldn’t we find some anywhere! ... My God! what a bit of luck. What a fool I am. There was one packet of H. in the pocket of my travelling dress. We crawled towards each other and shared it. After the long abstention, the effect was miraculous.. Cockie picked himself up almost fiercely. The desperate anguish of our necessity drove him to swift resolute action. He sent for the barber and the waiter. We had the maid pack our things.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 197
…h the daily amount was reduced by a series of jerks. As Peter said, one was to be sentenced to be flogged at irregular intervals without knowing exactly when. One would be living in a state of agonising apprehension which would probably be more morally painful than in either of the other ways. In all cases alike there was no hint of any true com- prehension of the actual situation. There was no attempt to remove the original causes of the habit; and they all admitted that the cure was only temporary, and that the rule was relapse. There was als…
1922 · PDF PAGE 380
366 The Diary of a Drug Fiend drug should act instantaneously and brilliantly. When it fails to do so, you know that you shouldn’t have taken it, and you should then call a halt, and analyse the circumstances of the failure. We learn more from our failures than from our successes, and your magical record will tell you by the end of the year so accurately what precise circumstances indicate the propriety of resorting to any drug, that in your second year you must be a great fool if you make even half a dozen mistakes. But, as the Book of the Law…
1954 · PDF PAGE 100
…e great schools of the Magi, who are also the three Magi that journeyed unto Bethlehem; and because thou hast not wisdom, thou shalt not know which school prevaileth, or if the three schools be not one. We are now ready to study the philosophical bases of these three Schools. We must, however, enter a caveat against too literal an interpretation, even of the parable. It may be suspected, for reasons which should be apparent after further investigation of the doctrines of the Three Schools, that this parable was invented by an Intelligence of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 240
…ase, words like 'hurt' and 'chief' cannot possibly mean anything. The fact is that if we are to get on peaceably in the Club, we have to know when to take any given expression in a Pickwickian sense. In the Ruach all the laws of logic apply: they don't in Neschamah. The real meaning of the passage is simple enough, if you understand that it refers to a specific result of Initiation. You have to be able to reckon up the Universe, as a whole and in every part; and to get rid of all its false or partial realities by discarding everything but the O…
1954 · PDF PAGE 317
… the average student. He does not realise how well and wisely such have conned Wilde's maxim: "To be intelligible is to be found out." I know that I too am at times obscure; I lament the fact. The reason is twofold: (a) my ineradicable belief that my reader knows all about the subject better than I do myself, and (at best) may like to hear it tackled from a novel angle, (b) I am carried away by the exultant exaltation of my theme; I boil over with rapture - not the crystal-clear, the cool solution that I aimed at. On the Path of the Wise there …
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…ain crest ! RHADAMANTHUS. Veil, veil from the awful eyes ! MINOS. Endure thy heart as it may, And steel thine heart, Thou shalt hear and know and obey As I say ‘‘ Depart” ; Lest the arrow find its way And the sternly-shapen dart. AL ACUS. A second our justice waits. RHADAMANTHUS. It falleth anon. MINOS. O fool of hopes and hates Arise and begone ! AL ACUS. O toy of the mirthless fates! Who art thou to con The mysteries of the dead in the black-souled bastion ? MINOs, ASACUS, RHADAMANTHUS. Away ! away! to the light of day! Now as it may: then as…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING of Enjoyment, Religion and Knowledge are expounded at some considerable length. Above all the Yogi “should work like a master and not like a slave.” * HATHA YOGA. Union by Courage. It matters not what attainment the aspirant seeks to gain, or what goal he has in view, the one thing above all others which is necessary is a healthy body, and a body which is under control. It is hopeless to attempt to obtain stability of mind in one whose body is ever leaping from land to water like a frog; with such, any sudden infl…