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THE AGNOSTIC POSITION Direct experience is the key to Yoga; direct experience of that Soul (Atman) or Essence (Purusha) which acting upon Energy (Prana) and Substance (Akasa) differentiates a plant from a stone, an animal from a plant, a man from an animal, a man from a man, and man from God, yet which ultimately is the underlying Equilibrium of all things; for as the Bhaga- vad-Gita says: ‘“ Equilibrium is called Yoga.” Chemically the various groups in the organic and inorganic worlds are similar in structure and composition. One piece of lime…
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THE EQUINOX rather new-edge his sword for a deeper analysis, and cut away the veil from the face of our Mother. ’Sdeath, man, is there nothing we may love? He is wrong, anyway, to gibe at Scripture. For, like Balaam, I came to curse, and appear to be blessing him! (with scarce a monitory word). And, like Balaam, too, I have been reviewed by G. K. Chesterton. To pass from this painful subject... . Let me rouse myself to a really resolute effort to denounce Shaw as a niddering. Aha! I have it. The man is a journalist after all. We have to thank h…
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… He is sucha silly fellow, poor ‘ cheval hongre!’” “Ah, yes! the new nickname.” “Don’t you think that it fits him?” “Oh yes.” The silent man of the party moved uneasily in his arm- chair. He was slow of cogitation. “ Like the waistcoat of the late Nessus fitted Hercules, eh, what?” he suggested. “A fool!” “ Hercules?” “No, Lionel... and, er... yes, Hercules also. Tabard reminds me of that Bible chap.” “ Potiphar’s Joseph!” the silent man exclaimed triumph- antly. “Wrong again, Bernard. I meant Mary’s Joseph.” The silent man threw his cigar over…
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…nk the happiness Of the one knight we lack ” (quoth he) ; “ For surely in some sore distress May be Sir Palamede.” Then they Rose as one man in glad liesse To honour that great health. ‘“God’s way Is not as man’s” (quoth Lancelot). “Yet, may God send him back this day, His quest achieved, to Camelot!” “ Amen!” they cried, and raised the bow! ; When—the wind rose, a blast as hot 109
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I Sir PaLaMEDE the Saracen Rode by the marge of many a sea: He had slain a thousand evil men And set a thousand ladies free. Armed to the teeth, the glittering knight Galloped along the sounding shore, His silver arms one lake of light, Their clash one symphony of war. How still the blue enamoured sea Lay in the blaze of Syria’s noon! The eternal roll eternally Beat out its monotonic tune. Sir Palamede the Saracen A dreadful vision here espied, A sight abhorred of gods and men, Between the limits of the tide. The dead man’s tongue was torn away…
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…e shall have made a long step towards freedom; before that we are mere machines.* The absorption of the mind in the ever-enlightened Brahman by resolving all objects into Atman, should be known as Pratyahara.t The mind in ordinary men is entirely the slave of their senses. Should there be a noise, man hears it; should there be an odour, man smells it; a taste, man tastes it; by means of his eyes he sees what is passing on around him, whether he likes it or not; and by means of his skin he feels sensations pleasant or painful. But in none of the…
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…SOLOMON THE KING viduality, a self-consciousness—I am! This is explained in Brihadaranyaka, 1. 4. 1. as follows: “In the beginning the Atman alone in the form ofa man * was this universe. He gazed around; he saw nothing there but himself. Thereupon he cried out at the beginning: ‘It is I? Thence originated the name I. Therefore to-day, when anyone is summoned, he answers first ‘It is 1’; and then only he names the other name which he bears.”+ This Consciousness of “I” is the second veil which man meets on his upward journey, and, unless he avoi…
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… 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 touch. Perhaps you are a doctor? I can get nobody to do me any good. [ropp whispers in his ear. The old man brightens up at once. Why, yes! I should think that would relieve me at once. Very good! Very good ! [ropp wheels him out of the room, the old man laugh- ing and chuckling. Enter OSSORY and EUPHEMIA, talking. ossory…
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MY LADY OF THE BREECHES habit. She dressed often as a man; and, one day, riding by Lionel’s cottage, she noticed the thin-armed youth whose eyes were big and haloed. Their eyes met; she smiled, he trembled. Both were pleased. The next day rose'and brought them again together. A formal introduction followed. Mary the male conquered Lionel the female. Thereafter, the “cheval hongre” lost his nick- name. Nor did he give any widow the chance of horse-whip- ping him again. XVIII THE MOON THEY were very happy; he learnt the joy of health and the inef…
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…g become obedient to his Holy Guardian Angel (the aspirant’s Spiritual Guru) or to the Universal Law as the Buddhist prefers to call it, man naturally enters the stage of Right Conduct, which brings with it supernormal or magical powers. Self is now put aside from action as well as from speech, and the striver only progresses by a stupendous courage and endurance. The canonical Buddhists however strenuously deny the value of these magical powers, Iddhis or Siddhis, and attribute the purification of the striver, the attainment of the state of “s…
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…eface. Introduction, How to Awaken Attention and Create Interest as pre- paratory to Developing the Will. Faculties and Powers latent in man. Mesmerism, Hypnotism and Self-Hypnotism. Pomponatius, Gassner, and Paracelsus. Medical Cures and Benefits which may be realised by Auto-Hypnotism. 'Forethought and its Value. Corrupt and Pure Will. Instinct and Suggestion. The Process of Developing Memory. The Artes Memorandi of Old Time. The Action of Will and Hypnotism on the Constructive Faculties. Fascination. The Voice. Telepathy and the Subliminal S…
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…s—and was not death upon us then, No bastard of thy maiden kiss? God’s grace, the all-surpassing gift! E] Arabi! El Arabi! Yea, death is man’s Elixir when Life’s pale wine foams and splashes over his imagination’s rim! El] Arabi! El Arabi! El Arabi! witch-amber and obsidian Thine eyes are, to ensorcell me, and leonine thy male caress. Will not God grant us Paradise to end the music Earth began? We play with loaded dice! He cannot choose but raise right hand to bless. EI Arabi! El Arabi! Great is the love of God and man While I am trembling in t…
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…ver yet had he been disappointed. One day this pious person wished to shave His head; a sly and sacrilegious knave Passed; when the good man would resume his prayer, Alas! his turban was no longer there. In rushed Mohammed, Hassan, and Husein: “See! there he goes, the bastard of a swine. Hasten, and catch him!” But the good man went With melancholy pace and sad intent Unto the burying-ground without the wall; And there he sat, stern and funereal, Wrapped in deep thought from any outward sense, A monument of earnest patience! “Sire!” (a disciple…
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…ymbols of extravagant vastness. All, as with the Qabalists, was based on Zero, all, save one thing, and this one thing saved the mind of man from the fearful palsy of doubt which had shaken to ruin his brave certainties, his audacious hopes and his invincible resolutions. Man, slowly through all his doubts, began to realize that if indeed all were MAyéA, a matter of words, he at least existed. ‘I am,” he cried, no longer, “I am it.” + And with the isA Upanishad he whispered: Into dense darkness he enters Who has conceived becoming to be naught,…
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… not refer to the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham in a paper of this character. Let us deal with Francis Thompson. Had he no friend to burn this manuscript? To save him from blackening his own memory in this way? We were content to give him his appointed niche in the temple, that of a delicate, forceful spirit, if rarely capable of cosmic expan- sion. We did not look for eagle-flights; we thought of him as a wild goose sweeping from Tibet upon the poppy-fields of Yunnan. But the prose of a poet reveals the man in him, as his poetry reveals the god; and…
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…the rotting dead When a wind from a pest-house blows. She clasped the ghost to her skinny dugs,— No other love might she know,— The dead man squirmed at her panting hugs, But she had her passionate will, And a sobbing breeze began to blow From the top of the lonely hill. And then a dim grey streak of dawn Came, and the sad ghost fled, With staring sockets and jaw-bone drawn, Back to the desolate place; The morning breeze grew still and dead As it played around his face. So we fled from the Mother Troll Under the dawning grey; We left the Hill o…
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…r Venus lash Our bodies with the whips of Her desire. Your bed’s the world, your body the world-ash, Adela! Shall I give the word to the man of the gondola? ALEISTER CROWLEY.
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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Who is the naked man that spurs A charger into Camelot, His face like Christ's? What glory stirs The air around him, do ye wot ? Sir Arthur arms him, makes array Of seven times ten thousand men, And bids them follow and obey Sir Palamede the Saracen. 17
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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Us marsh-lights to forget the sun? There is one man of mortal men Worthy to win this benison, Sir Palamede the Saracen.” Then went the applauding murmur round : Sir Lancelot girt him there and then To ride to that enchanted ground Where amid timeless snows the den Of Palamedes might be found. 21
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…ymbolically, as the divine union takes place, the powers of the Ojas rush forth and beget a Universe unimaginable by the normally minded man.+ * “ Bhagavad-Gita,” vi, 34, 35- + The whole of this ancient symbolism is indeed in its very simplicity of great beauty. The highest of physical emotions, namely, love between man and woman, is taken as its foundation. This love, if allowed its natural course, results in the creation of images of ourselves, our children, who are better equipped to fight their way than we on account of the experiences we h…