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…estial war: Mine angel sheathes again his sword At the Interdiction of the Lord. Even hell is shut, lest spite and strife Should show my soul a way to life. Hope dies; faith flickers and is gone. Love weeps, then turns its soul to stone. All nearest, highest, holiest things Drop off; the soul must lose her wings, And, crippled, find, with no one clue The infinite maze to travel through, The goal unguessed, the path untrod, And stand unhelmed, unarmed, unshod, Naked before the Unknown God. Oh! stertorous, oh! strangling strife That cleaves to lo…
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…VEN PORTALS posed to shifting breeze, the jet will flicker and the quivering flame cast shades deceptive, dark and ever-changing, on the Soul’s white shrine. This familiar phrase is usually interpreted to mean the mere keeping of the mind free from invading thoughts. It has also that secret significance at which we have several times already hinted. These unfortunate poetic images again bewilder us. Blavatsky’s constant use of the word “Soul” without defini- tion is very annoying. These verses 63 and 64 must be taken as dealing with a state pre…
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… the “Voice of the Silence” cannot be interpreted in words. What follows is only its utterance in respect of the Path itself. 14. If thy Soul smiles while bathing in the Sunlight of thy Life; if thy Soul sings within her chrysalis of flesh and mat- ter; if thy Soul weeps inside her castle of illusion; if thy Soul struggles to break the silver thread that binds her to the MASTER; know, O Disciple, thy Soul is of the earth. In this verse the Student is exhorted to indifference to everything but his own progress. It does not mean the in- differenc…
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…t and grow in air- less space. To live and reap experience, the mind needs breadth and depth and points to draw it towards the Dia- mond Soul. Seek not those points in Maya's realm; but soar beyond illusions, search the eternal and the changeless SAT, mistrusting fancy’s false suggestions. Compare what is said in Book 4, Part II, about the Sword. In the last part of the verse the adjuration is somewhat obvi- ous, and it must be remembered that with progress the realm of Maya constantly expands as that of Sat diminishes. In orthodox Buddhism thi…
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… the lower surface. That beam is thy life-guide and thy true Self, the Watcher and the silent Thinker, the victim of thy lower Self. Thy Soul cannot be hurt but through thy erring body; con- trol and master both, and thou art safe when crossing to the nearing “Gate of Balance.” Here we have Alaya identified with Atma. The rest of the verse is mostly poetic nothing, and there is no guide to the meaning of the word “Soul.” It is a perfectly absurd theory to regard the body as capable of inflicting wounds upon the Soul, which is apparently the mea…
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THE EQUINOX 10. Before the Soul can hear, the image (man) has to be- come as deaf to roarings as to whispers, to cries of bellowing elephants as to the silvery buzzing of the golden firefly. In the text the image is explained as ‘Man,’ but it more properly refers to the consciousness of man, which con- sciousness is considered as being a reflection of the Non- Ego, or a creation of the Ego, according to the school of philosophy to which the Student may belong. 11. Before the Soul can comprehend and may remember, she must unto the Silent Speaker…
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…ave mastery over his thoughts in this verse, because he has been doing nothing else in all the previous Gates. 49. Have mastery o’er thy Soul, O seeker after truths un- dying, if thou would’st reach the goal. The pupil is also told to have mastery over his Soul, and again there is no indication as to what is meant by “Soul.” Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya once remarked that Theos- ophists were rather absurd to call themselves Buddhists, as the Buddhist had no Soul, and the Theosophist, not even content with having one, insisted on possessing seven dif-…
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…er than he who shuts himself in his black tower of illusion, the Brother of the Left Hand, the Klingsor of “Parsifal.” 58. Make hard thy Soul against the snares of Self; de- serve for it the name of “Diamond-Soul.” Here is another muddle, for the words “Soul” and “Self” have previously been used in exactly the opposite meaning. If any meaning at all is to be attached to this verse and to verse 59, it is that the progress downwards, the progress of the Redeemer of the Sun as he descends from the Zenith, or passes from the Summer Solstice to his …
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… to make out what the Authoress really wants you to do. 44. Thou hast to saturate thyself with pure Alaya, be- come as one with Nature’s Soul-Thought. At one with it thou art invincible; in separation, thou becomest the play- ground of Samvritti, origin of all the world’s delusions. This means, acquire sympathy with the universal Soul of Nature. This Soul of Nature here spoken of is of course imagined as something entirely contrary to anything we really know of Nature. In fact, it would be difficult to dis- tinguish it from a pious fiction. The…
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…- man, is therefore the best translation. The word has degen- erated under Puritan foulness. 15. When to the World’s turmoil thy budding Soul lends ear; when to the roaring voice of the Great Illusion thy Soul responds; when frightened at the sight of the hot tears of pain; when deafened by the cries of distress, thy Soul with- draws like the shy turtle within the carapace of SELF- HOOD, learn, O Disciple, of her Silent “God” thy Soul is an unworthy shrine. This verse deals with an obstacle at a more advanced stage. It is again a warning not to…
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THE EQUINOX ing the Soul with human life, from the failure of its aspira- tions. 35. If through the Hall of Wisdom, thou would’st reach the Vale of Bliss, Disciple, close fast thy senses against the great dire heresy of Separateness that weans thee from the rest. This verse reads at first as if the heresy were still possible in the Hall of Wisdom, but this is not as it seems. The Dis- ciple is urged to find out his Ego and slay it even in the beginning. 36. Let not that “Heaven-Born,’ merged in the sea of Maya, break from the Universal Parent (…
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THE TWO PATHS England. Soul-wisdom here means the Will. You should eliminate from your mind anything which does not subserve your real purpose. It was, however, said in verse 11 that the “mind needs breadth,” and this also is true, but if all the facts known to the Thinker are properly co-ordinated and connected causally, and by necessity, the ideal mind will be attained, for although complex it will be unified. And if the summit of its pyramid be the Soul, the injunction in this verse 12 to the Beginner will be properly observed. 13. Shun igno…
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…ecstasy of the stars. They did laugh and rejoice exceed- ingly, being clad in purple robes and drunken with purple wine, and their whole soul was one purple flower-flame of holiness. 35. They beheld not God; they beheld not the Image of God; therefore were they arisen to the Palace of the Splen- dour Ineffable. A sharp sword smote out before them, and the worm Hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet. 36. Even as their rapture shore asunder the visible Hope, so also the Fear Invisible fled away and was no more. 37. O ye that are beyond …
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…scends the Heart Doctrine as that tran- scends this lesser Eye Doctrine. 9. Yea, ignorance is like unto a closed and airless vessel; the soul a bird shut up within. It warbles not, nor can it stir a feather; but the songster mute and torpid sits, and of exhaustion dies. The Soul, Atma, despite its possession of the attributes omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, etc., is entirely bound and blindfolded by ignorance. The metaphysical puzzle to which this gives rise cannot be discussed here—it is insoluble by reason, though one may call attenti…
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…nt of the Ruach, and the marriage between these is the first regeneration. Nephesh is Syrinx, and Yesod is Pan. Nephesh is the elemental Soul which seeks redemption and immortality. In order to obtain it, it must acquire a Soul such as is possessed by men. Now the elemental is said to be afraid of the sword with its cross hilt, of the Cross, that is to say of the Phallus, and this is what is called Panic fear, which, originally an individual thing, is applied to a mob, because a mob has no Soul. A very great many elementals are to be found in h…
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…lls and charms Melted to one lure divine Of her red mouth pressed to mine, T had neither heard nor seen Nor felt the Idalian. Between My soul and all its knowledge of The universe of light and love, Thought, being, nature, time and space, The Mother’s heart, the Father’s face, All that was agony or bliss, Stretched an infinite abyss. All that behind me! but my soul, With no star left to point the pole, Witless and banned of grace or goal, Beggared of all its wealth, bereft Of all its images, unweft Its magic web, its tools all broken, Its Name …
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… She returns to the West. *K on PRIEST with open hand doth she make, over his forehead, breast, and body. Be the PRIEST pure of body and soul! The Priestess takes the censer from the child, and places it on the small altar. She puts incense therein. Let the Fire and the Air make sweet the world! (Genu- flects.) Father, be thou adored. She returns West, and makes * with the censer be- fore the PRIEST, thrice as before. Be the PRIEST fervent of body and soul! (The children resume their weapons as they are done with.) The DEacon now takes the cons…
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… the sea; the ships tremble and shudder; the shipmaster is afraid. 61. That is thy drunkenness, O holy one, and the winds whirl away the soul of the scribe into the happy haven. 62. O Lord God! let the haven be cast down by the fury of the storm! Let the foam of the grape tincture my soul with Thy light! 63. Bacchus grew old, and was Silenus; Pan was ever Pan for ever and ever more throughout the eons. 64. Intoxicate the inmost, O my lover, not the outermost! 65. So was it—ever the same! I have aimed at the peeled wand of my God, and I have hit…
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…ning than isapparent. The key should again be sought in Alchemy. 5. Alas, alas, that all men should possess Alaya, be one with the Great Soul, and that, possessing it, Alaya should so little avail them! 6. Behold how like the moon, reflected in the tranquil waves, Alaya is reflected by the small and by the great, is mirrored in the tiniest atoms, yet fails to reach the heart of all. Alas, that so few men should profit by the gift, the price- less boon of learning truth, the right perception of existing things, the knowledge of the non-existent!…
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…espond to the Gunas: Ignorance, Tamas; Learning, Rajas; Wisdom, Sattvas. Again, Ignorance corresponds to Malkuth and Nephesh (the animal soul), Learning to Tiphareth and Ruach (the mind), and Wisdom to Binah and Neshamah (the aspira- tion or Divine Mind). 24. The name of Hall the second is the Hall of LEARN- ING. Init thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled. This Hall is a very much larger region than that usually understood by the Astral World. It would certainly include all states up to Dhyana. The Stu…