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Page 97 of 1231911 · PDF PAGE 173
…ing or by love thou workest, each one shall see my face, a glimmer through a thousand veils. And they shall rise up from love’s sleep or death’s, and gird themselves with a girdle of snake-skin for wisdom, and they shall wear the white tunic of purity, and the apron of flaming orange for will, and over their shoulders shall they cast the panther’s skin of courage. And they shall wear the nemyss of secrecy and the ateph crown of truth. And on their feet shall they put sandals made of the skin of beasts, that they may trample upon all they were, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 437
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the expiation of the greatest crimes, since it was the conse- quence of a sentence of death. The most wicked men, being the most unhappy of all, seemed to him to offer the sublimest of expiations to God. He broke all bounds in his attack on all repression and all damnation. “A religion which damns,” he cried, “is a damned religion!” He further preached the most absolute licence under the pretext of charity, and so far forgot himself as to say, that the most imperfect and the most apparently reprehensible act of love was…
1913 · PDF PAGE 437
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the expiation of the greatest crimes, since it was the conse- quence of a sentence of death. The most wicked men, being the most unhappy of all, seemed to him to offer the sublimest of expiations to God. He broke all bounds in his attack on all repression and all damnation. “A religion which damns,” he cried, “is a damned religion!” He further preached the most absolute licence under the pretext of charity, and so far forgot himself as to say, that the most imperfect and the most apparently reprehensible act of love was…
1922 · PDF PAGE 86
92 The Diary of a Drug Fiend price is that we live by labour, and—‘‘ In his eyes foreknowledge of death. Feccles caught my thought. He quoted .with slow emphasis :— “ He weaves and is clothed with derision, Sows. and he shall not reap. His life is a watch or a vision, Between a sleep and a sleep.” The thought of the great Victorian seemed to chill him. He. threw off his depression, lighting a cigarette and taking a strong pull at his brandy. “‘ Haidée,”’ he said, with assumed lightness, ‘‘ lives in open sin with a person named Baruch de Espinos…
1954 · PDF PAGE 212
…ds, true QIiphoth or "Shells of the Dead" -just those parts of him, in a word, which Apollonius would have deliberately discarded at his death. So what use would they be to Levi? Even if there were among them a few such elements as would serve his purpose, they would have been devitalized and frittered away by the mere lapse of the centuries, since they had lost connection with the reality of the Sage. Alternatively, they might have been caught up and adopted by some wandering Entity, quite probably some malignant demon.
1919 · PDF PAGE 339
…SILENCE together form a single word or Trinity, indicating that the Real must ‘be regarded as of this three-fold nature, Birth, Life and Death, not successive, but one. Those who have reached trances in which ‘time’ is no more will understand better than others how this may be. 20. Bestride the Bird of Life if thou wouldst know. The word “know” is specially used here in a technical sense. Avidya, ignorance, the first of the fetters, is more- over one which includes all the others. With regard to this Swan ‘Aum’ compare the following verses from…
1954 · PDF PAGE 151
…mock when their fear cometh. And therefore hath he exalted them unto the plane of love. And yet again it is written: He desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness. Now, if one of these were to cast off his cloak he should behold the brilliance of the lady of the Aethyr; but they will not. And again: Oh, I see vast plains beneath her feet, enormous deserts studded with great rocks; and I see little lonely souls, running helplessly about, minute black creatures like men. And they keep up a vocy curious …
1907 · PDF PAGE 307
…at if this be the case , it is at least a choice between two evils. Sober reason and solid judge ment offer no prize more desirable than death after a number of years , less or greater , while ecstasy can , if the facts stated in the Dialogue are accepted , give the joys of all these years in a moment . Récéjac says concerning this state : When the will succeeds in gaining admission to the ima gination , and the attention is fixed upon a moral object, such a case of mono -ideism becomes the most noble of hallucinations . The nature of the facts…
1929 · PDF PAGE 293
…until he came with me to do his duty. He ultimately gave in and I drove him down the street to the consulate. But once in the chamber of death, it was still impossible to get him to make a proper examination. He would not approach the body. Forrest and I cut off the clothes. There were some curious wounds caused, in my judgment, by the attempts of some of the coolies to relieve the symptoms. They were none of them serious in themselves. The main visible symptom was large patches of extravasated blood. The doctor refused point blank to make a po…
1909 · PDF PAGE 376
…m no grudge. Hewas right; I feel it more intensely everyday. A box so mighty needed a cover. In consequence, knowing that the hour of my death might strike at any moment, I had to find a man-cover to replace me in that event; one who would never forget to reintegrate the box every night. Proceeding in order, I looked around me; and at once 368
1909 · PDF PAGE 376
…m no grudge. Hewas right; I feel it more intensely everyday. A box so mighty needed a cover. In consequence, knowing that the hour of my death might strike at any moment, I had to find a man-cover to replace me in that event; one who would never forget to reintegrate the box every night. Proceeding in order, I looked around me; and at once 368
1910 · PDF PAGE 185
…ir earthly perfec- tion, become true adepts, not mere men of genius. They disappear, harvested by heaven: and perfect darkness (apparent death) ensues until the youthful forerunners of the next crop begin to shoot in the form of artists.’” 169
1910 · PDF PAGE 185
…ir earthly perfec- tion, become true adepts, not mere men of genius. They disappear, harvested by heaven: and perfect darkness (apparent death) ensues until the youthful forerunners of the next crop begin to shoot in the form of artists.’” 169
1919 · PDF PAGE 101
… Ocean of the West. Is not the Nile a beautiful water? 50. Let not the priest of Isis uncover the nakedness of Nuit, for every step is a death and a birth. The priest of Isis lifted the veil of Isis, and was slain by the kisses of her 95
1909 · PDF PAGE 235
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING winds and to weep through the storms of air. So the wheel of Time runs on through birth, death, and rebirth; and as we realise this we sink down in despair; and through our tears more clouds arise still further to obscure our path. What is the use then of doing anything if we are but as drops of water which are splashed between the wanton hands of the Sun, the Wind, and the Ocean ?—indeed the ways of God are inscrutable and past finding out. Thus the Unobtainable tempts us, and the little segments of God that we s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 235
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING winds and to weep through the storms of air. So the wheel of Time runs on through birth, death, and rebirth; and as we realise this we sink down in despair; and through our tears more clouds arise still further to obscure our path. What is the use then of doing anything if we are but as drops of water which are splashed between the wanton hands of the Sun, the Wind, and the Ocean ?—indeed the ways of God are inscrutable and past finding out. Thus the Unobtainable tempts us, and the little segments of God that we s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 51
… says: Blessed art thou who hast beheld Sebek my Lord in his glory. Many are the champions of life, but all are unhorsed by the lance of death. Many are the children of the light, but their eyes shall all be put out by the Mother Darkness. Many are the servants of love, but love (that is not quenched by aught but love) shall be put out, as the child taketh the wick of a taper between his thumb and finger, by the god that sitteth alone. And on her mouth, like a chrysanthemum of radiant light, is a kiss, and on it is the monogram I.H.S. The lette…
1922 · PDF PAGE 372
…haustible, frictionless enthusiasm. We were par- takers of the eternal sacrament; whatever happened was equally essential to the ritual. Death itself made no difference to anything; our calm continuous candescence burst through the chains of circumstance, and left us free for ever to do our wills, which were one will, the will of Him that sent us. The walk up to the Refectory was one long romp with Dionysus. Oh, wise dear Sister Athena! Was it by chance that you chose that sturdy sunlight imp to lead us up the hill that night ? Did you suspect …
1922 · PDF PAGE 382
…t year in perspective, and we saw that we had been led through that ghoulish ghastliness. We had followed the devil through the dance of death, but there could be no doubt in our minds that the power of evil was permitted for a purpose. We obtained the ineffable assurance of the existence of a spiritual energy that worked its wondrous will in ways too strange for the heart of man to understand until the time should be ripe. The pestilence of the past had immunised us against its poison. The devil had defeated himself. We had attained a higher s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
"I'm going to Paris the first train to-morrow." "Then I'd better come up now." The voice was nonchalant as death — or she would have hung up the receiver. "You can't come now; I'm undressed!" "Then when may I come?" It was terrible, this antinony of persistence with a stifled yawn! Her soul failed her. "When you will," she murmured. The receiver dropped from her hand; but she caught one word - the word "taxi." In the morning, she awoke, almost a corpse. He had come, and he had gone — he had not spoken a single word, not even given a token that …