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THE EQUINOX so the Karma, released from the body of the dead man, will circle round until it finds the body of a new-born child tuned or syntonized to its particular waves. Now we are not concerned here with stray children who like the receivers of a wireless telegraph pick up either good or evil messages; but it is an interesting fact to learn that at least certain orthodox Buddhists attribute so complex and con- siderable a power to the brain, that by the fact of leaving one body that body perishes, and of entering another that body revives. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 398
…last he cometh to a den Perched high upon the savage scaur, Remote from every haunt of men, From every haunt of life afar. There doth he find Sir Palamede Sitting as steadfast as a star. Scarcely he knew the knight indeed, For he was compassed in a beard White as the streams of snow that feed The lake of Gods and men revered That sitteth upon Caucasus. So muttered he a darkling weird,
1910 · PDF PAGE 74
…t kept their methods to themselves, and simply explained to their followers its greatness and splendour by parable and fable, such as we find in Brihadaranyaka, 2. 1. 19. That is his real form, in which he is exalted above desire, and is free from evil and fear. For just as one who dallies with a beloved wife has no conscious- ness of outer or inner, so the spirit also dallying with the self, whose essence is knowledge, has no consciousness of inner or outer. That is his real form, wherein desire is quenched, and he is himself his own desire, s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 346
…nassus, at least he is always on the ridge. A.C AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KaBaLaH. By W. WyNN WESTCOTT. John M. Watkins. It is difficult to find words in which to praise this little book. It is most essential for the beginner. Lucid and illuminating, it is also illuminated. In particular, we are most pleased to find the correlation of the Qabalah with the philosophical doctrines of other religions; a task attempted by ourselves in 328
1910 · PDF PAGE 462
… That the keen whisper of the wind May bring him that which never men Knew—on the quest, the quest, rides he! So long to seek, so far to find ! So weary was the knight, his limbs Were slack as new-slain dove’s; his knees No longer gripped the charger rude. Listless, he aches ; his purpose swims Exhausted in the oily seas Of laxity and lassitude. The soul subsides; its serious motion Still throbs ; by habit, not by will. And all his lust to win the quest Is but a passive-mild devotion. (Ay! soon the blood shall run right chill —And is not death …
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…minutes 10. 20, 30, Dharana on nose 9 minutes 50 seconds. I actually lost the nose on one occasion, and could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six minutes more at 10, 20.30. Forty minutes in the A’sana. Mentally muttering “Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum” I did Dharana as before on my nose. I understand one Buddhist constipation now; for: I was (a) conscious of external things * We do not know what th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 429
…music’s mellowing artifice May bid the breast of nature burn And call the gods from star and shrine. So now his sounding courses turn To find an instrument divine Whereon he may pursue his quest. How glitter green his gleeful eyne 53
1910 · PDF PAGE 426
…eed they ply Like oars the snowy waves, surpass In one day’s march the galaxy Of Europe’s starry mountain mass. “Now,” quoth he, “let me find the quest!” The Beast sterte up. Sir Knight, alas! Day after day they race, nor rest Till seven days were fairly done. Then doth the Questing Marvel crest The ridge: the knight is well outrun. Now, adding laughter to its din, Like some lewd comet at the sun, Around the panting paladin It runs with all its splendid speed. Yet, knowing that he may not win,
1910 · PDF PAGE 470
… thou, then, That it is ever or hath been, Sir Palamede the Saracen?” Sir Palamede was well awake. “Nay! I deliberate deep and long, Yet find no answer fit to make To thee. The weak beats down the strong; The fool’s cap shames the helm. But thou! I know thee for the shade that haunts My way, sets shame upon my brow, My purpose dims, my courage daunts. Then, since the thinker must be dumb, At least the knight may knightly act: The wisest monk in Christendom May have his skull broke by a fact.” With that, as a snake strikes, his sword Leapt burni…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING therefore find almost every master of note, from Sankaracharya down to Agamya Paramahamsa, insisting on the maintenance to the letter of the rules of Yama and Niyama, that is absolute Chastity in body and mind amongst their pupils.* Now P. proved that the strict letter of the law of Chastity had no more to do with the ultimate success of attainment than refusing to work on a Sabbath had to do with a free pass to the Celestial regions, unless every act of chastity was computed and performed in a magical manner, eac…
1910 · PDF PAGE 495
…imaginings concerning death, as ‘The Dream’ and ‘ The Recall, and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste.” The Daily Telegraph, May 29, 1908. “Here is a poet of promise.”The Dazly Chronicle, May 13, 1908. “It is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book.”—The Morning Leader, July 10, 1908. “There is promise and some fine lines in these verses.” The Times, July 11, 1908. Very few copies remain London: PROBSTHAIN & CO. And all Bookselle…
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…ht a shilling photograph of Queen Victoria and intend to publish it next March as ME When I Was CLEOPATRA. As if this was not enough, we find The Annals of Psychical Research publishing in all good faith as a serious account “The Apparition of Mrs. Veal to Mrs. Bargrave,” which was written by Daniel Defoe as a puff of some ass’s Meditations on Death!
1910 · PDF PAGE 64
THE EQUINOX who denies anything asserts something,” now let me disclose to you this “Something,” so that you may find behind the pairs of opposites what this Something is in itself and not in its appearance. It has been pointed out in a past chapter how that in the West symbol has been added to symbol, and how that in the East symbol has been subtracted from symbol. How in the West the Magician has said: “As all came from God so must all proceed to God,” the motion being a forward one, an acceleration of the one already existing. Now let us ana…
1910 · PDF PAGE 360
…r Island, is many hundred miles away, and the coast of South America is no less than 2,300 miles distant. And yet in this tiny island we find proofs of very high civiliza- tion, and it is curious that Dr. Churchward has not mentioned the numerous hieroglyphics found there concerning which a very full account is given in the Smithsonian Reports of 1889. After these came another exodus, carrying with it the Lunar and Solar Mythos, and Horus became under varying names the supreme world-god, and his four sons, or emanations, the four quarters. It i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 261
…a place.” So do I account for the fact by saying “there is such a fact.” We try to imitate Eastern narrative, but in vain. Our minds can find no clew to its strange untrodden by-ways of speculation; our highest soarings are still in an atmosphere which feels heavy with the reek and damp of ordinary life. We fail to account for those storm-wrapped peaks of sub- limity which hover over the path of Oriental story, or those beauties which, like rivers of Paradise, make music beside it. We are all of us taught to say, “ The children of the East live…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
…a writ on a man with an address in the telephone directory, who was spending hundreds of pounds on letting the whole world know where to find him. It was perhaps unkind of me not to warn Mr. Cran that he was putting his foot in it. But if I had said a word, the case would have been thrown up; and then where would our advertisement have been? So, even now, I restrict my remarks; there may be some more fun coming. But at least there’s a prophet loose! Some anonymous person wrote Cran, Cran, McGregor’s man, Served a writ, and away he ran
1910 · PDF PAGE 233
…ca, mon vieux chameau? Quoi? DELHOMME [very disgusted at ossory’s vulgarity, which mistakes argot for chic]. Well, sir, as soon as I can find a favourable opportunity: ossory. Grief is a good mood to catch them in, my boy. Iknow! I know! I've been a bit of a dog in my time. [Shakes hands as they go out. DELHOMME [vefurning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 245
…has gone out with your mother. He'll come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse! can’t you tell me of a good doctor? For oh! for oh! [Ae looks about him fearfully; his voice sinks to a thrilled whisper] I am so afraid—afraid to die! Is there nobody——. [Enter tovp, and stands by his chair, layinghis hand on the old man’s shoulder. He looks up. I wish you were a doctor, Mr. Todd. You have such a soothing…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…ce; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save that so she would perish, And cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, Utterly immortal in the gods’ eternal darkness.” And the first voice cried: ‘‘ Oh, that we might perish, And become as pearls of blackness on the breast of the silence, Lending the waste places of the world our darkness, That the vision might burst in the brai…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
… work; and usually they are forerunners of a new and higher realization of another un- known land to explore. Thus again and again do we find them rising and dissolving like some strange mist over the realms of the Vedanta. To disperse them we must consume them in that same fire which has consumed all we held dear; we must turn our engines of war about and destroy our sick and wounded, so that those who are strong and whole may press on the faster to victory. As early as the days of the Rig Veda, before the beginning was, there was “neither not…