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…llity of mind is maintained under all circum- stances. He who has reached it, accomplishes everything upon which he sets his mind.* VII. Right Thought. So filled with Understanding is he now that he becomes, as it were, the actual mind of the Universe, nothing remains uncomprehended; he comes face to face with his goal, he sees HIMSELF as one who gazes into a mirror. VIII. Right Meditation, or the Right State of a Peaceful Mind. The glass vanishes and with it the reflection, the illusion of Mara or of Maya. He is Reality! He is Truth! He is Atm…
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
THE EQUINOX one stupendous magical exercise to enter that Silence which is beyond all thought. IV. Right Acts or Right Conduct. Having 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 t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…te than that of conversation with his Holy Guardian Angel, his Jechidah, ‘The permanent principle behind the conflicting opinions.” Once Right Comprehension has been attained to, he has discovered a Master who will never desert him until he become one with him. Il. Right Resolutions or Right Aspirations. Having perceived the changing nature of all things, even of men’s minds, and having acquired that glorified vision by which he can distinguish between the permanent and the impermanent, he aspires to the attainment of a perfect knowledge of tha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 160
… the Four Noble Truths (viewed in an elementary manner) represent the four lower Sephiroth—Malkuth, Yesod, Hod and Netzach, the state of Right Views carrying with its attainment a transcend- ency over all wrong views, that is to say all crude and unskilful views, all dogmas, assertions, all doubts, which are as unfertile as the elements are when uncombined, by applying to them what we have termed elsewhere the Pyrrhonic Serpent of Selection. The attainment of Right Views is arrived at in three suc- cessive steps. (1) The Aspirant contemplates t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 165
…low it to a finality and which may be compared to Tiphereth in its Solar Aspect or to the Manipura Chakkra, The sixth and seventh stages—Right Effort and Right Thought, are stages of “definitely directed power” closely related to Geburah and Chesed—Mars and Jupiter. And then finally comes the eighth stage—Right Meditation, again a summary of the three stages below it, which may be compared as the Three Supernals or the Sahasdra Chakkra. [Compare with the essay “ Science and Buddhism ” in the “ Sword of Song” by A. Crowley, and the writings of A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
…Powers (Indriyabalain); The seven Conditions of Arahatship (Bogghanga); The Path, readiness of memory, (Satipatthana); The four kinds of Right Exertion (Sammappadhana); The four Stages of Ecstasy (Ghana); The eight forms of spiritual Emancipation (Vi- mokha); The four modes of Self-Concentration (Samadhi);* The eight states of Intense contemplation (Sam4patti). It would be waste of time to compare the above states with the states of the Hindu Yoga, or enumerate other simi- larities which exist by the score, but one point we must not overlook, a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…ections.§ PHYSICAL WORK. (2) Careful drawings of the Gods in their colours. (6) Figure of Adonai ha Aretz in colour. [See Illustration.] right and left at right angles to the body, in the left hand a gold cup and in right ears of ripe corn. From her shoulders dark spreading wings, »=A deep yellow-green robe, upon the breast of which is a square gold lamen decorated with four scarlet Greek crosses. Round her waist is a broad gold belt upon which in scarlet letters is written the name Yow 77 71 in the letters of the alphabet of Honorius. Her feet…
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
… to pray. He has become a priest unto him- self his own Guardian, he may administer to himself the holy sacrament of God in Truth and in Right, he has become Exempt from the shackles of Earth. He is the Supreme Man, one step more he enters the Sanctuary of God and becomes one with the Brotherhood of Light. Up to this stage progress has meant Work, work terrible and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may be compared to the five methods of Yoga. From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge, Qabalistically the aspirant en…
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… most certainly be performed under the instruction of a Guru. 2. Maha Mudra. Pressing the anus with the left heel and stretching out the right leg, take hold of the toes with your hand. Then practise the Jalandhara Bandhat and draw the breath through the Sushumna. Then the Kundalini becomes straight just as a coiled snake when struck. . . . Then the two other Nadis (the Ida and Pingala) become dead, because the breath goes out of them, Then he should breathe out very slowly and never quickly.} 3. Maha Bandha. Pressing the anus with the left ank…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…uicidal Will called Buddha or Christ:” This perhaps is most easily explained by imagining “ May” to be a circle of particles moving from right to left which after a time through its own intrinsic motion sets up within itself a counter motion, a kind of back-water current which moves in the opposite direction, from left to right, and little by little destroys the Maya circle, marked “B”; and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the world Maya or the Samasd…
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
… to the level of the lowest of mankind, and abandoning as dross the stupendous powers he had acquired, helped his fellows to realize the right path by the most universal of all symbols—the woe of the world, the sorrow of mankind. Like the Vedantist, he saw that the crux of the whole trouble was Ignorance (Avijja). Dispel this ignorance, and illumination would take its place, that insight into the real nature of things, which, little by little, leads the Aspirant out of the world of birth and death, the world of Samsara, into that inscrutable Ni…
1910 · PDF PAGE 214
THE EQUINOX You were mine, O my saint, My maiden, my mate, By the might of the right Of the night of our fate. Though I fall, though I faint, Though I char, though I choke, By the hour of our power I invoke, I invoke! By the mystical union Of fairy and faun, Unspoken, unbroken— The dusk to the dawn!— A secret communion Unmeasured, unsung, The listless, resistless, Tumultuous tongue!— O virgin in armour, Thine arrows unsling, In the brilliant resilient First rays of the spring! No Godhead could charm her, But manhood awoke— O fiery Valkyrie, I i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 363
…es,” so [Here; this will never do.—Ep.] We have had fine weather recently in Mesopotamia—— [I dare say; but I’m getting suspicious; stop right here—Ep.] All right; don’t be huffy; good- bye! S. HOLMEs. SECRET REMEDIES. British Medical Association, 429, Strand, W.C. 1s. Every person who has the welfare of the people at heart should buy this book for free distribution among the poor. The major portion of the Press (which lives corruptly on the advertisements of the scoundrels exposed in this book, knaves who sell ginger at the price of gold) has …
1910 · PDF PAGE 178
…ctices of Pranayama: 30. 15. 60. Concentration on Ajna Chakkra. The effect was as of light gradually glimmering forth and becoming very bright. Tried drinking through nose; * but could not accomplish it properly. Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharana on nose nine minutes. The nose is perhaps my least sensitive organ. Would I do better to try my tongue? Dharana, four minutes…
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
…e Brahma- randhra.t This exercise may also be practised with an additional meditation on the Pranava OM. 3. Close with the thumb of your right hand the right ear, and with that of the left hand the left ear. Close with the two index fingers the two eyes, place the two middle fingers upon the two nostrils, and let the remaining fingers press upon the upper and the lower lips. Draw a deep breath, close both the nostrils at once, and swallow the breath. . . . Keep the breath inside as long as you conveniently can; then expire it slowly.t * “Hatha …
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…on 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 the Lord of Rest ?) There as he basks upon the cliff He yearns toward the Beast ; his eyes Are moist with love; his lips are fain
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…onine 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 thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness! El Arabi! Hiitpa NorFo_k. 38
1910 · PDF PAGE 219
…ooking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assured Him that it was very good. And indeed it must be admitted that He had every right to crow. With no better basis than the Metaphysical Absolute of the Qabalists he had unthinkably but efficiently formulated Infinite Space, filled the said Space with Infinite Light, con- centrated the Light into a Smooth-pointed Whitehead (not the torpedo) and emanated Himself as four hundred successive intelligences all the way from Risha Qadisha in Atziluth down to where intelligence ends, and England…
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…re absurd, and if Kant had once transcended the Reason he would have had direct experience of this fact. On p. 126 Schopenhauer sets him right as follows: “The essence of the world is will... . The only way of salvation is by negation of the will, or by self-denial and renunciation. . . .” And again: “, .. life is the attainment of self-consciousness, in order that the will may acquire a right knowledge of its own nature. . . .” (p. 157). “Evil and pleasure are but different manifestations of the one will to live” (p. 177). “The tormentor and t…
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THE EQUINOX I o. The Unicorn is speech. Man, rule thy Speech! How else shalt thou master the Son, and answer the Magician at the Right Hand Gateway of the Crown? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. a. Avoid using some common word, such as “and” or “the” or “but”; use a paraphrase. &. Avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as “t” or ” or “m”; use a paraphrase. y. Avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betraye…