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Page 96 of 1051929 · PDF PAGE 500
… size and shape of a football surmounting a stick about two feet out of the water, and moving against the current at a regular rate. The word "submarine" was whispered by the pallid lips of patriots. Every day the new type of submarine chaser might be seen steaming downstream, to be fitted with its armament, five or six a day. No one knew the limits of German genius. The Deutschland had crossed safely with her supplies of 606, America's most urgent need. It was perfectly possibly that they had built a new type of submarine capable of raising he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
…strife, and all its tiny being crumble Under my rough and warrior husband-kiss, Whose pain shall burn, and alter, and be bliss! I am: no word beside that solemn one Reigns in sound’s kingdom to express my station, Who, clothed and crowned with suns beyond the sun, Bear on the mighty breast of foam Tha- _ lassian, Bear on my bosom, jutting plenilune, Maiden, the fadeless Rose of the Creation ! The whole flower-life of earth and sky and sea From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and beings passionate, For mine own self calm as th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…he difference is vital. For instance, there is a book, "Liber Jugorum", in which the student takes an oath to exclude a certain thought, word or act, for a given period, and on every occasion of forgetfulness to cut himself on the wrist with a razor. {568} 63
1906 · PDF PAGE 206
200 THE SWORD OF SONG ‘Science and Buddhism,” zzfra, for a full discussion of this point. 518. And.*’—Note the correct stress upon this word. Previously, Mr. W. S. Gilbert has done this in his superb lines: ‘* Except the plot of freehold land That held the cot, and Mary, and—” - But his demonstration is vitiated by the bad iambic ‘‘and Ma-”; unless indeed the juxta- position is intentional, as exposing the sophis- tries of our official prosodists. 548. The heathen.8—‘' The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” …
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…ama (or Control) has been bedevilled out of all sense by the mistaken and malignant ingenuity of the pious Hindu. He has interpreted the word 'control' as meaning compliance with certain fixed proscriptions. There are quite a lot of prohibitions grouped under the heading of Yama, which are perhaps quite necessary for the kind of people contemplated by the Teacher, but they have been senselessly elevated into universal rules. Everyone is familiar with the prohibition of pork as an article of diet by Jews and Mohammedans. This has nothing to do w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
… In Greek mythology, the god Pan is addressed “Pamphage, Pangene tor”, all‐devourer, all‐begetter. (Note that the numerical value of the word Pan is 131, as is that of Samael, the Hebrew destroying angel.) So also, in the initiated symbolism, the act of devouring is the 1The Black Egg of the element of Spirit in some Hindu schools of thought. From it the other elements Air, Water, Earth, Fire (in that order) proceed.
1919 · PDF PAGE 143
… All to become Nothing, I who have seen the need of the World, have found that books (hitherto my dearest companions) have no longer any word to say to me—have found that knowledge (relative) or what I thought was knowledge, is of no avail to supply the need of all that other part of my Being that my great God-love would give it. I who have conquered Fear and Death, am now confronted with the fact that without Absolute Knowledge all is vain. I am going to ask the One Last Question. WHY? I have written it. An awful stillness falls. I am alone in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
… the voice of Ages unheard of save in the concentrated unity of the thought-formulated Abstract; and eternally that voice formu- lates a word which is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.2 Do I make myself clear?’ ‘Perfectly. “Who would have thought it was all so simple?’ The God cleared his throat, and rather diffidently, even shamefacedly, went on: ‘¢* But what I really wished to know was about my incarnation. How is it I have so suddenly risen from change and death to the unchangeable ?’” . ‘“‘ ‘Child !’ answered Gautama, ‘ your fact…
1929 · PDF PAGE 398
398 Man, unable to solve the Riddle of Existence, takes counsel of Saturn, extreme old age. Such answer as he can get is the one word "Despair". Is there more hope in the dignity and wisdom of Jupiter? No; for the noble senior lacks the vigour of Mars the warrior. Counsel is in vain without determination to carry it out. Mars, invoked, is indeed capable of victory: but he has already lost the controlled wisdom of age; in a moment of conquest he wastes the fruits of it, in the arms of luxury. {635} It is through this weakness that the perfected …
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
… out of the East and lighteneth even unto the West, so is the coming of the Son of Man." He would have to give an account of "every idle word". It was a horrifying thought to him that he might be caught by the Second Advent at a moment when he was not actively and intensely engaged on the work which God had sent him into the world to do. This sense of the importance of the lightest act, of the value of every moment, has been a tragically intense factor in my life. I have always grudged the time necessary for eating, sleeping and dressing. I hav…
1905 · PDF PAGE 69
…ice that I understood so well as I never understood, a voice like his poem, only more beautiful even than that, and T can’t remember one word, only that he kissed me all the night; and there was as it were a vapour, an incense-cloud, about me, and I could not see--and I am so happy.
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
THE SWORD OF SONG 58 “Science and Buddhism,” infra, for a full discussion of this point. 518. And.67—Note the correct stress upon this word. Previously, Mr. W. S. Gilbert has done this in his superb lines : “ Except the plot of freehold land That held the cot, and Mary, and—” But his demonstration is vitiated by the bad iambic “and Ma-” ; unless indeed the juxta- position is intentional, as exposing the sophis- tries of our official prosodists. 548. The heathen.68—“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” 580.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 18
throned, with sword and balances, thus obviously referring to tile zodiacal sign of Libra, the Balance. Frater Perdurabo had made a very profound study of the Tarot since his initiation to the Order on 18th November, 1898; for, three months later, he had attained the grade of Prac‐ ticus; as such, he became entitled to know the Secret Attribution. He constantly studied this and the accompanying explanatory manuscripts. He checked up on all these attributes of the numbers to the forms of nature, and found nothing incongruous. But when (8th April…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…ersonally, I don’t object to people dis- cussing the properties of four-sided triangles ; but I draw the line when they use a well-known word, such as pig, or mental healer, or dung-heap, to denote the object of their paranoiac fetishism. | Even among serious philosophers the confusion is very great. Such terms as God, the Absolute, Spirit, have dozens and dozens of connotations, according to the time and place of the dispute and the beliefs of the disputants. Time enough that these definitions and their inter-relation should be crystal- lised,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 432
…f testing the genuineness of phenomena, the mediums have become familiar with their methods and found out how to circumvent them. In the words of Browning: "So off we push." So much for the so-called scientific contingent. Browning's "Mr Sludge, 'The Medium'" is to me the deepest and completest psychological study ever written. I only wish it could be matched by a parallel exposure of the half-hidden perversities and trickeries of the scientific mind. {686} 71 The spring of 1912 found me once more hovering between London and Paris. I wrote a fe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 455
455 In the beginning was the Word, the Logos, who is Mercury, and is therefore to be identified with Christ. Both are messengers; their birth mysteries are similar; the pranks of their childhood are similar. In the Vision of the Universal Mercury, Hermes is seen descending upon the sea, which refers to Maria. The Crucifixion represents the caduceus; the two thieves, the two serpents; the cliff in the Vision of the Universal Mercury is Golgotha; Maria is simply Maia with the solar R in her womb. The controversy about Christ between the synoptics…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
214 AMBROSIT MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM Adest Rosa Secreta Eros. Hemaphrodi- tus. Mors Janua Vitae. Adeptus. Terrae Ultor Anima ‘Terrae. that word, and wiping his blade he kissed it and went on, knowing that his luck should now he ill. And ill it was, for a temple was set up in his way, and there he saw the grisly Goat enthroned. But he knew better than to judge a goat from a goats head and hoofs. And he abode in that temple awhile therefore, and worshipped ten weeks. And the first week he sacrificed to that goat! a crown every day. The second a phall…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…t I will not. I hope there are some people in the world happy enough to think that I am lying, or at least exaggerating. But I pledge my word to the literal truth of all I have said, and there are plenty of witnesses alive to confirm me, or to refute me. I have given throughout the actual names, addresses and other details.
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
…asp the whole spirit of modern Science‐Philosophy. It does not aim at Truth; it does not conceive of Truth (in any ordinary sense of the word) as possible; it aims at maximum convenience. 2. To return to the picture of the Solar System. The Sun is the Hub of the Wheel; the outermost Planet is on its rim; and beyond, but laterally within that rim, are the Twelve Con‐ stellations of the Zodiac. Why twelve? The first rough division of the circle is into four, accord‐ ing to the observed seasons. This choice may also have been influenced by the div…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…7} merely of things which cannot be directly perceived by sense, but of forces which do not possess being at all in the old sense of the word. Yet the average man of science still denies the existence of the elementals of the Rosicrucian, the angels of the Cabbalist, the Nats, Pisachas and Devas of southern Asia, and the Jinn of Islam, with the same blind misosophy as in Victorian days. It has apparently not occurred to him that his position in doubting the existence of consciousness except in connection with certain types of anatomical structu…