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…ut a fortnight ago, I received a letter from Frater P.A.t in answer to my previous two. I was pleased to hear from him, but he gave me a good talking to, also some new instructions. He wanted to know, what I meant by making a claim to having attained Samadhi, or something very like it, in August last, and then shortly afterwards started cutting my arm, etc. I have not answered it yet, but this much for reference: (1) I never mentioned Samadhi, 1Frater P.A. was not a Neophyte, but had been appointed to receive other Probationers for administrati…
1939 · PDF PAGE 46
…of break, which is a sort of abberation of the control itself. You think, 'How well I am doing it!' or perhaps that it would be rather a good idea if you were on a desert island, or if you were in a sound-proof house, or if you were sitting by a waterfall. But these are only trifling variations from the vigilance itself. A fifth class of break seems to have no discoverable source in the mindsuch might even take the form of actual hallucination, usually auditory. Of course, such hallucinations are infrequent, and are recognised for what they ar…
1939 · PDF PAGE 37
…nical, and to that extent it is just possible for a man of extraordinary will power, with plenty of leisure and no encumbrances, to do a good deal of the spade-work of Yoga even in England. But I should advise him to stick very strictly to the purely physical preparation, and on no account to attempt the practices of concentration proper, until he is able to acquire suitable surroundings. But do not let him imagine that in making this very exceptional indulgence I am going to advocate any slipshod ways. If he decides to do, let us say, a quarte…
1939 · PDF PAGE 41
…s: there is a single standard to which everything is to be referred. To hell with the Pope! If Lobster Newburg upsets your digestionand good digestion is necessary to your practicethen you do not eat Lobster Newburg. Unless this is clearly understood, the Yogi will constantly be sidetracked by the sophistications of religious and moral fanatics. To hell with the Archbishops! 8. You will readily appreciate that to undertake a course of this kind requires careful planning. You have got to map out your life in advance for a considerable period s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 8
…ound him in my phrenzy, till he became the prey of a real physical fear! How I shrieked out I] know not what strange words! And the poor good old man tried all he could to calm me; he thought I was mad! The fool! I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered—now I have only one doubt left—which of the twain was God? I aspire ! ‘* And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out... . Insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 294
…ature of this emblem. The Scorpion is the emblem of ruthless destruction, the Snake is the mixed and deceptive nature, serving alike for good and evil, and the Eagle is the Higher and Divine nature yet to be found herein, the alchemical Eagle of Distillation, the Renewer of Life. As it is said: “Thy youth shall be renewed like the Eagle’s.” Great indeed and many are the Mysteries of this Terrible Key! After explaining a symbol of Typhon the Associate Adept turns to the 15th Key of the Tarot. The 15th Key of the Tarot represents a goat-headed Sa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 294
…ature of this emblem. The Scorpion is the emblem of ruthless destruction, the Snake is the mixed and deceptive nature, serving alike for good and evil, and the Eagle is the Higher and Divine nature yet to be found herein, the alchemical Eagle of Distillation, the Renewer of Life. As it is said: “Thy youth shall be renewed like the Eagle’s.” Great indeed and many are the Mysteries of this Terrible Key! After explaining a symbol of Typhon the Associate Adept turns to the 15th Key of the Tarot. The 15th Key of the Tarot represents a goat-headed Sa…
1919 · PDF PAGE 304
…is impossible to give too much praise to the prose of Padraic Colum. It is simple enough for a child who has just learned to read. It is good enough for a book-worm-eaten hag like myself, sodden on Sterne and Swift. A book like this revives the drooping flower of hope; so long as there are people willing to try, there is still hope for humanity. AC How To Stnc a Sone. By Yverre Guiigert. The Macmillan Co. Price $2.00. Ir is commonplace that Yvette Guilbert is the greatest artist of her period. It is a tragedy that her art happens to be ephemera…
1939 · PDF PAGE 27
…emote from roads, if you have the services of an attendant already well trained to deal with the emergencies that are likely to arise. A good disciplinarian might carry on fairly well, at a pinch, in a suite in Claridge's. But against this it may be urged that one has to reckon with unseen forces. The most impossible things begin to happen when once you get going. It is not really satisfactory to start serious Yoga unless you are in a country where the climate is reliable, and where the air is not polluted by the stench of civilisation. It is e…
1906 · PDF PAGE 128
…oth, to spare one harmless breath, Sith all my innocents earn death ! By timely mercy peace becomes, And kindly love, and intercourse Of goodly merchandise, that sums Contention in united force. ‘* Praise who, relenting, showeth pity; Not him who captureth a city !” A wild strong life I’ve made of mine. Not till my one good deed is done— Ay! for that very deed divine— Comes the fierce mouth of malison. So grows my doubt again, so swell My ancient fears for Israel. I hurled Jehovah’s altars down ; I slew and I pursued his priests ; I took a wife…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
…at Aeschylus, though in fact more ig- norant than our schoolboys, holds his seat besides Ibsen and Newtonin the Republic of the Adepti—a good horse, but not to be run too hard.—A. C.
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
…ong the immortals sing Is so fast barred behind the iron sky. Speak but thine anger quickly; let me die!” ‘*But I forgive thee, thou art good and kind.” ‘“O love! mind, You love me!” ‘‘ Nay, I was awhile afraid, Being so white and tender ; for a maid I lived alone with flower and brook, nor guessed Another dwelt within the quiet nest That these woods build me; hold my tremb- ling hand, Teach me to love; I do not understand.” He clasped her to him, but no word might say, And led her from the pool a little way, And there he laid her on the flower…
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…to the presentation.’ Such pronouncements are either platitudes or untrue, they either mean nothing that can’t be taken for granted or a good deal that can’t. The last of these ‘principles’ is that one should ‘compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.’ If this means that ‘My brother John was nine in May; And I’ll be twelve on New Year’s day’ is not fine poetry, let’s shake hands: but if it means that ‘Till the maid, knowing her mother near, Sobs with love, aching with sweet fear’ are not poetic lines, it…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…; My bones are ground in some infernal mill ; My blood is as the venom of a snake, Striking each vessel with unwonted pangs, Killing all good within me. I am—Ah! l Wife of Theseus, in love with his son. Hippolytus, by whom she was repulsed,
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…t we know and practice, this Yoga that produced these ecstatic results that we call phenomena, includes among its spiritual emanations a good deal of unpleasantness. The more we study this universe produced by our Yoga, the more we collect and synthesize our experience, the nearer we get to a perception of what the Buddha declared to be characteristic of all component things: Sorrow, Change, and Absence of any permanent principle. We constantly approach his enunciation of the first two 'Noble Truths,' as he called them. 'Everything is Sorrow'; …
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
…inite pleasure. The toil and the worship and duty Shall turn them to laughter and leisure. Were the world understood Ye would see it was good, A dance to a delicate measure. Ye fools, interweaving in passion The lyrical light of the mind ! Go on, in your drivelling fashion ! Ye shall surely seek long and not find. From without ye may see All the beauty of me, And my lips, that their kisses are kind. For Eurydice once I lamented ; For Orpheus I do not lament : Her days were a span, and demented ; His days are for aye, and content. Mere love is a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 131
…nt to the sight. Therefore I pray thee that thou yield Thy heritage for my delight. Wilt thou its better? Or its fee In gold, as seemeth good to thee? ‘* Content thyself!” As by a spell He rears his bulk in surly rage. ‘¢ The Lord forbid that I should sell To thee my father’s heritage !” No other word. Dismissal craves?! Nay, scowls and slinks among his slaves. Hath ever a slave in story dared Thus to beard openly his lord? My chariot men leapt forth and flared Against him with indignant sword. Why wait for king’s word to expunge Life so detest…
1919 · PDF PAGE 296
…d believes in the schoolmaster and his methods as America believes in them, no nation venerates pedagogy so profoundly. ‘But what is the good of style,’ I was asked yesterday, ‘if it cannot be taught?” Mr. Pound of course would not say that a man can be taught to be a poet or a prose-writer, but he is so pathetically at the mercy of ‘artistic principles,’ he is so Puritanically conscious of artistic right and wrong, that he can never give us so 282
1906 · PDF PAGE 62
…to ill! For silence is better than singing Though a Shelley wove songs in the sky, And hovering is sweeter than winging; To live is less good than to die. The secret of secrets is hidden Not in lives nor in loves, but in wills That are free and unchidden, that wander unbidden To home in the hills. A strength that is more than the summer Is firm in that silence and rest, Though stiller the rocks be and dumber That the soul of its slumber oppressed. For stronger control is than urging, And mightier the heart of the sea Than her waves deep-merging…
1939 · PDF PAGE 32
…ng some attitude traditionally appropriate to a deity or holy man; and if you will refrain from the Puritan abomination that anything is good for you if it hurts you enough, you ought to be able to find out for yourself, after a few experiments, some posture which meets these conditions. I should very much rather have you do this than come to me for some mumbo-jumbo kind of authority. I am no pig-sticking pukka sahibnot even from Poonato put my hyphenated haw-haw humbug over on the B. Public.[2] I would rather you did the thing 'wrong' by you…