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…eral divers strands in the loom of my soul which had not yet been woven into a harmonious pattern. I dealt with life empirically, taking things as they came, without basing them on any fundamental principle. Two main events were destined to put me on the road towards myself. The first took place in Stockholm about midnight of December 31st, 1896. I was awakened to the knowledge that I possessed a magical means of becoming conscious of and satisfying a part of my nature which had
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…posites; he is electricity, the very link of life, the Yogic process itself, its means, its end. Yet he is in himself indifferent to all things, as the electric current is indifferent to the meaning of the messages which may be transmitted by its means. The Niyama corresponding to Mercury in its highest forms may readily be divined from what I have already said, but in the technique of Yoga he represents the fineness of the method which is infinitely adaptable to all problems, and only so because he is supremely indifferent. He is the adroitnes…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there is none beside. O brothers mightier than my mightiest word In the least sob that stirred Your lyres, bring me, me also to the end ! B…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…claimed. Is it that night shall kiss to peace The furious carnival that flamed Its ruinous ardour from the sun ! Nay, let all light, all things, but cease ! Sense is the seal of double rule. The million oracles that run Out of the mouth of God the fool Are not myself. To nothing turn ! To nothing look! Then, then !—discern Nothing, that one may one remain. So I am paid the horrible pain That these my brothers ordered me. I look upon their brows—I see Signs many and deep of torture past 3 A star, yon Star, true peace at last. (There approacheth …
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…ct—(who dares to gaze Shall see and die !)—the changeless empyréan Eternity, the concentrated void Of space, for being the centre of all things, Time is to us the Now, and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates, is a part Of our own thoughts and souls ; because we love. Thou shudderest, clinging to me; though the night Jewels her empire with the frosty crown Of thousand-twinkling stars, whose hoary crests Burn where light touches them, with diamond points Of infinite far fire, save where the sea Is ebony with sleep, and though the wind Pi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
…htful geniality helped both the psychology of the party and our relations with the natives. He was our comic relief and did much to make things more tolerable for all of us. For all that, I think we should have done better to take none of the foreigners1. Our numbers made us unwieldy; and the question of international jealousy contributed indirectly to our failure, as will be explained later. We left Pindi for Tret on the twenty-ninth of March. We had had to repack our baggage, which weighted over three tons, for convenience of transport by ekk…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
…dards of value were simply comic. If anything were worth while, it could only be discovered by turning one's back resolutely on temporal things. In accordance with Eckenstein's puritanical ideas of propriety, no communications about the expedition had been made to the newspapers. Ultimately, in the sheer interests of science, a paragraph had been permitted to appear in The Times. It contained thirty-two lines and seventeen misstatements of fact! I myself had been interviewed by a French journalist and the report of my remarks bore no discoverab…
1929 · PDF PAGE 372
… practically penniless. I could not see any possible way of carrying on my work. (It will be related in due course how this condition of things came about and why it was necessary for me to undergo it.) I found myself at Moręt, on the edge of the Forest of Fountainebleau, with nothing to do but wait. I did not throw up the sponge in passionate despair as I had done once before, to my shame --- I had been rapped sufficiently hard on the knuckles to cure me of that --- but I said to the gods: "Observe, I have done my damnedest and here I am at a …
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…heard and believe, I draw the following in- ferences:—Death, if I am right, is in the first place the separation from one another of two things, soul and body ; nothing else. And after they are separated they retain their several natures, as in life; the body keeps the same habit, and the results of treatment or accident are distinctly visible in it: for example, he who by nature or training or both was a tall man while he was alive, will remain as he was, after he is dead; and the fat man will remain fat; and so on; and the dead man who in lif…
1944 · PDF PAGE 140
…h is the watery part of Fire in the Zodiac, and the mildest in influ‐ ence. The reason for this is that in the realm of the Elements all things are mixed and con‐ fused; or, as the apologist might say, counter‐checked and counter‐balanced. The convenience of these arrangements is that these cards are suitable as being descriptive, in a rough and em‐ pirical fashion, of divers types of men and women. One may say briefly that any of these cards is a picture of the person whose Sun, or whose rising Sign at his nativity, falls within the Zo‐ diacal…
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
… there, whither it is going, and what there may or may not be beyond and beside it which our senses are incapable of appreciating. These things are not ‘explained’ by science, and never can be,”’ he gives a curious example of that quaint scientific pride which knows the limits of its powers, and refuses to entertain the hope of transcending them. Unfortunately, he is as one who, a hundred years ago, should have declared any knowledge of the chemistry of the fixed stars impossible. To invent new methads, and to revolutionise the functions of the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…l difference to my environment. In most similar cases it probably would not have done so. Most widows naturally remain in the groove. As things were, I found myself in a totally new environment. My father's religious opinions had tended to alienate him from his family; and the friends whom he had made in his own circle had no interest in visiting my mother. I was thrown into the atmosphere of her family. She moved to London in order to be near her brother, whom till then I had hardly met.
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…he Rose of all Delight, The Rose of Dew, the Rose of Love and Night, The Rose of Silence, covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things 1 This poem was issued under the pseudonym ROSA MUNDI, AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferent to God's gesture, The Rose on moonlight wings That flies to the TTouse of Tire, The Rose of Honey-in-Youth ! Ah! No dim mystery of desire Kathoms this gulf! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future, a dream of the day When athwart the dim glades Of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 48
…ry to acclimatise oneself to this at first sight strange, idea. As soon as one has made up one’s mind to consider the feminine aspect of things, the masculine element should immediately appear in the same flash of thought to counterbalance it. This identifica‐ tion is complete in itself) philosophically speaking; it is only later that one must consider the question of the result of formulating Zero as “plus I plus minus I”. The result of so doing is to formulate the idea of Tetragrammaton. THE FORMULA OF TETRAGRAMMATON It is explained in this e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 440
…more explains the origin of freemasonry than the fact "many Spaniards are Roman Catholics" explains why the priest says and does certain things rather than others in the Mass. Now here is the tremendous question: we can admit all Mr Yarker's contentions, and more, as to the connection of masonic and quasimasonic rites with the old customs of initiating people into the trade guilds; but why should such a matter be hedged about with so severe a wardenship, and why should the Central Sacrament partake of so awful and so unearthly a character?
1906 · PDF PAGE 27
…t thy wide pinions overshadow me ! I am, the Resurrection and the Life! The Reconciler of the Light and Dark. I am the Rescuer of mortal things. Iam the Force in Matter manifest.
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…clearly. In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. Liber O May be. It has not been possible to construct this book on a basis of pure scepticism. This matters less, as the practice leads to scepticism, and it may be through it. Liber Thisharb This work extended over a number of years, but the fundamental principles were laid down at this time. It is just to say that the publication of these instructions completely revolutioni…
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…s to the other end of the line and accepts everything, his mind is equally upset by the burden of the responsibility of dealing with the things he has accepted. However, all these considerations do not apply to the average
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
…thought as standing; he is standing upon the crocodiles of the Nile. (Refer above to the croco‐ dile, the symbol of two exactly opposite things.) There is here an analogy. One is reminded of Hercules‐the infant Hercules‐who spun the wheel in the House of Women; of Hercules, who was a strong man, who was innocent, who was ultimately a madman, who destroyed his wife and children. It is a cognate symbol. Harpocrates is (in one sense) the symbol of the Dawn on the Nile, and of the physio‐ logical phenomenon which accompanies the act of waking. One …
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…ruth.’ ‘True!’ replied the sage, ‘but precious little they get. Learn, O Mahabrahma (for I pene- trate this disguise), that all existing things, even from thee unto this grain of sand, possess Three Characteristics. These are Mutability, Sorrow, and Unsubstantiality.’ ‘All right for the sand, but how about Me? Why, they defixe me as unchange- able.’ ‘You can define a quirk as being a two-sided triangle,’ retorted the Saviour, ‘but that does not prove the actual existence of any such oxymoron.! The truth is that you're a very spiritual sort of b…