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Page 99 of 1141909 · PDF PAGE 261
…Hierophant then gives his permission, ordering the Stolistes and Dadouchos to assist the Kerux in the reception ; but the Kerux bars the way saying: “Child of Earth! unpurified and unconsecrated! Thou canst not enter our Sacred Hall.” Whereupon the Stolistes purifies the Candidate by Water, and the Dadouchos consecrates him by Fire. Then the Hierophant speaks : he does so not as to an assembly of mortals, but as a God before the assembly of the Gods. «And let his voice be so directed that it shall roll through the Universe to the confines of Sp…
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
…Or swallows silver in the grove Where sylph and salamander meet, And gnome and undine swoon for love ! Her feet that flit upon the windy way Twin fawns, the daughters of the rosy day. Behold, the arms of her desire Wave, weave, and wander in the air, Vines life-endued by subtle fire So quick and comely, curving bare. The white diaphanous attire Floats like a spirit pale and fair. The dance is woven of the breeze ; the tune Is like the ocean silvered by the moon. Behold the maidens following ! O every one is like a flower, Or like an ewe lamb of…
1905 · PDF PAGE 112
… cries for light and life and love. But these, begotten of the world above, Withdrew their glory, and the iron world Rolled on its cruel way, and passion furled Its pure wings, and abased itself, and bore Fetters impure, and stooped, and was no more. But resurrection’s ghastly power grew strong, And Lust was born, adulterous with Wrong, The Child of Lies; so man was blinded still, Garnered the harvest of abortive ill, For wheat reaped thistles, and for worship wrought A fouler idol of his meanest thought : A monster, vengeful, cruel, traitor, s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…and, and other portions altered to agree with the Scriptures held to be orthodox. Οι’ course this, if it were so, does not effect in any way the views of Mr Pryse, but rather strengthens them, as I look upon the imagery of the book as essen- tially that of the earlier and pre-Christian Gnostics. Though we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the Gnosis, such as Mr Pryse unveils, yet it is clearly Aryan, dating from the time of Momu—the thinker; then again the development 01 the Kundalini—serpent fire—world’s mother, also termed …
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…and, and other portions altered to agree with the Scriptures held to be orthodox. Οι’ course this, if it were so, does not effect in any way the views of Mr Pryse, but rather strengthens them, as I look upon the imagery of the book as essen- tially that of the earlier and pre-Christian Gnostics. Though we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the Gnosis, such as Mr Pryse unveils, yet it is clearly Aryan, dating from the time of Momu—the thinker; then again the development 01 the Kundalini—serpent fire—world’s mother, also termed …
1919 · PDF PAGE 292
…has the mystery of Pan. ALEXANDER TABASCO. Beyonp Lire. By James Brancu Cazett. Robert M. McBride & Co. For four years I have been cast away upon a desert island, and I am seriously alarmed at beholding a footprint in the sand. As a matter of fact, the goats have acclimatized me to most things, and I take up the task of reviewing this book with all the more confidence, because the publisher begs me to abuse it. I dislike publishers intensely, and I am not going to abuse books merely because they ask me to, and even if I had wanted to abuse this…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…onge, Till nought is left of terrene wine But somewhat deathless and divine ! Not by a faint and fairy tale We shadow forth the immortal way. No symbols exquisitely pale Avail to lure the secrets grey Of his endeavour who proceeds By doing to abolish deeds. Not by the pipings of a bird In skies of blue on fields of gold, But by a fierce and loathly word The abomination must be told. The holy work must twist its spell From hemp of madness, grown in hell, Only by energy and strife May man attain the eternal rest, Dissolve the desperate lust of li…
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
…ly cherished, while in reality that tiny part is but a reflex of the Whole which is really You, but even this state must in the end give way before the Power of Nothing.” April 16th, 8.30 A.M. Finished reading the Life of Buddha, and then, lying down, composed myself for Meditation. Breathed regularly and deeply for a time, afterwards stopping all entries two or three times. (Shanmukhi Mudra.) Presently I passed into a state which was practically desireless. I could feel the Goal, but the wish to help others made it impossible to Become the Sta…
1939 · PDF PAGE 37
… perfectly normal. There is, however, one particuliar point of consciousness, the sensation of almost total loss of weight. This, by the way, may sound a little alarming to the instructed alienist. There is a similar feeling which occurs in certain types of insanity. 27. The fourth state is Levitation. The Hindus claim that 'jumping about like a frog' implies a genuine loss of weight, and that the jumping is mainly lateral because you have not perfected the process. If you were absolutely balanced, they claim that you would rise quietly into th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…y and holy; as one would who dreams In the day-time of deep delights no kin to the day, But a flower new-born of the night’s in Hecate’s way. Love is his name, and he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart ; He is tamed by the art of the sages, the magical art. No longer he burns and blisters, consumes and corrodes ; He hath Muses nine for sisters; the holy abodes Of the maiden are open to him, for his wrath is grown still ; His eyes with weepin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 106
…he other, and we had not kissed. Only the perfume of her lips and hair Love’s angel wafted slowly to me there, And as I went like death away I wist Its savour faded, nor my soul aware. I turned and went away, away, away, Out of the night that was to me the day, And rode to meet the sun to hide in light The sorrow of the day that was the night. So I rode slowly in the morning gray, And all the meadows with the frost were white. And lo! between the mountains there uprose The winter sun; and all the forest glows, And the frost burns hke fire befor…
1939 · PDF PAGE 35
…p. So much for the obstacle of the body considered as static. Let us now turn our attention to the conquest of its dynamics. 22. It is always pleasing to turn to a subject like Pranayama. Pranayama means control of force. It is a generalised term. In the Hindu system there are quite a lot of subtle sub-strata of the various energies of the body which have all got names and properties. I do not propose to deal with the bulk of them. There are only two which have much practical importance in life. One of these is not to be communicated to the pub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 271
… Another new string to my lyre; I had been reproaching myself for my ignorance of the Sufi doctrines, and intended to cross Persia on my way back to England. For this purpose I began to study the language with a munshi. I began to imitate the poets of Iran. "Ali and Hassan" is a paraphrase from Alf Laylah Wa Laylah. "Al Malik" is a ghazal; that is, a series of couplets {446} with a monorime. The first two lines and each successive even line rime with each other. In Darjeeling (on my return) I had had a brief but intense liaison with a Napali gi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 360
…figurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such islands as Madagascar and Easter Island prove. The inhabitants of the former are Polynesian and not African, of the later, seemingly Melanesian, judging by their skulls, and the Solomon Islands, the nearest Melanesian islands to Easter Island, are thousands of miles away. Ducie Island, the nearest island to Easter Island, is many hundred miles away, and the coast of South America is no less than 2…
1910 · PDF PAGE 360
…figurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such islands as Madagascar and Easter Island prove. The inhabitants of the former are Polynesian and not African, of the later, seemingly Melanesian, judging by their skulls, and the Solomon Islands, the nearest Melanesian islands to Easter Island, are thousands of miles away. Ducie Island, the nearest island to Easter Island, is many hundred miles away, and the coast of South America is no less than 2…
1919 · PDF PAGE 304
THE EQUINOX So Padraic Colum has tried to civilize young America in the right way. No more important task has ever been undertaken, for civilization, education, are fundamental. Reformers usually make the mistake of the empiric, and try to re- lieve the symptoms. It is quite useless to try to relieve the symptoms of America. Willy Pogany is not Flaxman, but he is Flaxman enough for children, and now and again, as in the picture facing page 106 (and several others), he is Flaxman enough for nearly everybody. (You cannot expect an illustrator as …
1906 · PDF PAGE 108
…ell upon each other silently | And slew, and slew. As in the middle seas A mirage flashes out and passes, so The phantoms faded, and the way was clear. Thus, stepping ever proud and calm, he went Unto the grove of Ares, where the worm, Huge in his hatred, guarded all. But now Sunk in some stupor, surely sent of Zeus, He stirred not. Stepping delicately past The dragon, then came Jason to the grove And saw what tree umbrageous bore the fruit That he had saddened for so long. And he, Rending the branches of that wizard Oak, With a strong grasp to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
…strength which enabled proceed with the problem: “* Wherewithal , Hwang- sze to force his enemies to build shall a young man cleanse his way?” receive;the Great Wall was the mark of the the answer: ‘‘ By taking heed thereto accord- ‘imminent decay of his dynasty and race— ‘truly a terrible ‘‘ Writing on the Wall.” 1 Such philosophy as does exist is entirely | An end to the days of the Nine Sages; an vicious, taking its axioms no more from ob-!end to the wisdoms of Lao Tan on his dun served fact, but from ‘Scripture’ or from | cow ; an end to th…
1939 · PDF PAGE 44
…he meditation practices, the Yogi is likely to get as a direct experience the consciousness that these laws are not true in any ultimate way. He has reached a world where intellectual conceptions are no longer valid; they remain true for the ordinary affairs of life, but the normal laws of thought are seen to be no more than a mere mechanism. A code of conventions. The students of higher mathematics and metaphysics have often a certain glimmering of these facts. They are compelled to use irrational conceptions for greater convenience in conduct…
1939 · PDF PAGE 55
…ency of physics is towards describing the universe in terms of mathematical relations between unimaginable entities.' We have got a long way from Lord Kelvin's too-often and too-unfairly quoted statement that he could not imagine anything of which he could not construct a mechanical model. The Victorians were really a little inclined to echo Dr. Johnson's gross imbecile stamp on the ground when the ideas of Bishop Berkeley penetrated to the superficial strata of the drink-sodden grey cells of that beef-witted brute. 29. Now, look you, I ask you…