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ORDER FORM Part [fofz‘lzz's BOOK FOUR [“ MAGICK ”] 2's ire Με Press, eme! will 66 paélz's/zea’ as early as possiéle. Ora’ers s/zoa/a’ öe sem‘ in at 07168 2‘0 WIELAND AND Co.
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38 Four hours is a better period, a golden mean; sixteen hours is too much for most peOple. On the Whole, the ambulatory practices are more generally useful to the health than the sedentary; for in this way walking and fresh air are assured. But some of the Sedentary practice should be done, and combined with meditation. Of course when actually “ racing ” to get results, walking is a distraction.
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…It would be very remarkable should we find that these accounts agree. Of the great teachers we have mentioned Christ is silent; the other four tell us something; some more, some less. Buddha goes into details too elaborate to enter upon in this place; but the gist of it is that in one way or another he got hold of the secret force of the World and mastered it. Of St. Paul’s experiences, we have nothing but a casual illusion to his having been “caught up into Heaven, and seen and heard things of which it was not lawful to speak.” Mohammed speaks …
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… solitude, absence of excitement, moderation in diet, and finally a practice which some call prayer and some call meditation. (The former four may turn out on examination to be merely conditions favourable to the last.) On investigating what is meant by these two things, we find that they are only one. For what is the state of either prayer or meditation? It is the restraining of the mind to a single act, state, or thought. If we sit down quietly and investigate the contents of our minds, we shall find that even at the best 05 times the principal …
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…extreme of Asana is practised by those Yogis who remain in one position without moving, except in the case of absolute neces— 1 Here are four: 1. Sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. (“The God.”) 2. Kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. (“ The Dragon.’ ’) _ 3. Stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand, etc.), free forefinger on lips. (“ The Ibis”) 4. Sit; left heel pressing up anus, right foot…
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… science, the other empiricism. One author says (unless memory deceives) that twelve seconds’ steadiness is Dharana, a hundred and forty-four Dhyana, and seven- teen hundred and twenty-eight Samadhi. And Vivekananda, comment- ing on Patanjali, makes Dhyana a mere prolongation of Dharana?,־but says further: “Suppose I were meditating on a book, and I gradually
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…his power, by the way, is what has been described by magicians as the power of invisibility. Somebody or other has an excellent story of four quite reliable men who were on the look-out for a murderer, and had instructions to let no one pass, and who all swore subsequently in presence of the dead body that no one had passed. None of them had seen the postman. The thieves who stole the “ Gioconda ” from the Louvre were ] This lack of restraint is not to be confused with that observed in intoxication and madness. Yet there is a very striking simi…
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… Universe which he can directly perceive through sense, is the minutest fraction of the Universe which he knows indirectly. For example, four-fifths of the air is composed of nitrogen. If anyone were to bring a bottle of nitrogen into this room it would be exceed- ingly difficult to say what it was; nearly all the tests that one could apply to it would be negative. His senses tell him little or nothing. Argon was only discovered at all by comparing the weight of chemic- ally pure nitrogen with that of the nitrogen of the air. This had often been …
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… that it is useless to continue for the time being. In Frater R’s record we find that after daily practice for six months, meditations of four minutes and less are still being recorded. The student is supposed to count the number of times that his thought wanders; this he can do on his fingers or on a string of beads.1 If these breaks seem to become more frequent instead 1 This counting can easily become quite mechanical. With the thought that reminds you of a break associate the notion of counting. The grosser kind of break can be detected by an…
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