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THE YOGAS Direct experience is the end of Yoga. How can this direct experience be gained? And the answer is: by Concentration or Will. Swami Vivekananda on this point writes: Those who really want to be Yogis must give up, once for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual gia…
1910 · PDF PAGE 201
…r, though in twelve meditations the number of breaks may be identical, yet the class of the breaks, much more so than the actual number, will tell the meditator, more certainly than anything else, whether he has progressed or has retrograded. Thus at first, should the meditator practise with his eyes open, the number of breaks will in their swift succession form almost one unbroken interruption. Again, should the eyes be closed, then the ears detecting the slightest sound, the flow of the will will be broken, just as the faintest zephyr, on a s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 497
…g many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Toe TriumpH oF Pan, includes THE RoMANCE or OLivia VANE. The First Edition will be limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies: Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies will be numbered, and signed by the Author. The binding will be half-parchment with crimson sides; the ordinary copies will be bound in crimson cloth. The price of ordinary copies will be Five…
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The six Chakkras are points often used by the Yogi when in contemplation. Thus seated in the Padmasana he will fix his attention in the Ajna lotus, and by contemplating upon this light the “Shiva Sanhita”* informs us “all sins (un- balanced forces) are destroyed, and even the most wicked (unbalanced) person obtains the highest end.” Those who would practise Dharana successfully should live alone, and should take care to distract the mind as little as possible. They should not speak much or work much, and they shou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
…ntrol the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. The one carries the sensations to the brain, whilst the other carries them back from the brain to the tissues of the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
…t as zt as. The first lesson in Pratyahara is to sit still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the mind is doing, when it will be understood how to control it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by means of his will should seize hold of it before it can escape him, endow …
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…is declared by his philosophy to be unknowable. If any one cause be unknowable, be it first or last, then all causes are unknowable. The will to create is denied, the will to annihilate is denied, and finally the will to act is denied. Propositions perhaps true to the Master, but certainly not so to the disciple. Because Titian was a great artist and Rodin is a great sculptor, that is no reason why we should abolish art schools and set an embargo on clay. If the will to act is but a mirage of the mind, then equally so is the will to differentia…
1910 · PDF PAGE 151
…nation of a Sorrow- filled Universe?” The Vedantist would naturally answer to this: “To put it in another way; you say that the Universe will go to Nibbana, and that at one time naught save Nibbana will be. Then in the end Desire dies in it, which was the primal germ of mind. Where will that desire go to, if Nibbana will be the All, and the Unchangeable. . . . Again, if Nibbana will be the All, and will be perfect, then what will be the object of this emanation of a Sorrow-filled Universe?” This is all the merest twaddle of a Hyde Park atheist …
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…nsified as to be able to pass beyond the external perception and brood as it were upon the very centre or soul of the object held by the will, it becomes known as Samadhi or Superconsciousness. The three last stages Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are so intimately associated, are classed under the one name of Samydma.* Thus meditation should rise from the object to the object- less. Firstly the external cause of sensations should be per- ceived, then their internal motions, and lastly the reaction of the mind. By thus doing will the Yogi co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 202
…subdued, the subconscious thoughts slain; it stretches before us like some unspotted canvas upon which we may write or paint whatever we will. We can produce entrancing sounds at will, beautiful sights at will, subtle tastes and delicious perfumes; and after a time actual forms, living creatures, men and women and elementals. We smite the rock, and the waters flow at our blow; we cry unto the heavens, and fire rushes down and consumes our sacrifice; we become Magicians, begetters of illusion, and then, if we allow ourselves to become obsessed b…
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…ightenment but mania; therefore it is that all the great masters have set the task of courage before that of endeavour.{ He who daves to will, will will to know, and knowing will keep silence; { for even to such as have entered the Supreme Order, there is no way found whereby they may break the stillness and communicate to those who have not ceased to hear.§ The guardian of the Temple is Adonai, he alone holds the key of the Portal, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so…
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…ehold, O men: a Tree deep-rooted— A hundred branches from the mighty Trunk, And on each branch a hundred leaves— An Axe—a Child—a Hand—a Will! Tue Mos. Down with the old tree! Simpcex. [Unperturbed.] And Oh, He, Ho, the Will so powerful! (After one million years the tree fell) See the result: Toys, TOys, TOYs, TOYS! Smwpuicissimus. [Dogmatic.] The Spirit of Persistency unborn. THE Mos. Down with the Lords! IV U 281
1910 · PDF PAGE 91
…tration, or the wi// to hold the mind to certain points. 7. Dhydéna: Meditation, or the outpouring of the mind on the object held by the will. 8. Samadhi: Ecstasy, or Superconsciousness. As regards the first two of the above stages we need not deal with them at any length. Strictly speaking, they come under the headings of Karma and Gnana Yoga, and as it were form the Evangelicism of Yoga—the “Thou shalt” and “ Thou shalt not.” They vary according to definition and sect.* However, one point must be explained, and this is, that it must be rememb…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
THE EQUINOX railway platform in the Kingdom, the White Slave Traffic will continue to flourish the more it is persecuted, and become more criminal and degrading than ever. Money is not the basis of this so-called evil,as suggested, and public indigna- tion will not work a cure any more than public indignation against the Metropolitan Water Board will stop people drinking water. We must cease globe-polishing virtue and sand-papering vice. Away with our moral Monkey Brand and our ethical Sapolio, and back to a little genuine common-sense elbow-gr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 313
…at unapeable grin of his, and he stopped his nostrils awhile with his two fore- fingers. Then he blew on the charcoal and began. “Yes, I will tell it to you, intellectual infants, I will. Listen. Two hundred and one years ago—when I was thin and thirty—I chanced upon a couple, living in South Russia. Boy and girl they were still; but, as it were, they unwittingly founded a strange sect of self-mutilated followers, and, being the only man alive who witnessed the beginnings thereof, I will undertake to keep you interested for more than sixteen mi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
…hese small over-eagernesses, this book is a revolutionary volume, a work that should stimulate argument and comment; and we hope that it will induce others to collect and discover the secrets of the past before they are devoured by our Minotaurean Civilization. It is a melancholy fact that though amongst the rudest of rude savages secrets have been kept and great systems maintained for hundreds of thousands of years, the “clever” children of the present with all their arts and crafts are only destroyers of the past. We defame antiquity, annihil…
1910 · PDF PAGE 167
…ilence; 10 minutes by hearing.t 11th. Recited the Mantra for about 1} hour while painting a talisman. * Any who have undergone this test will readily understand how severe it is. The speaker says something with a view to break the meditation of the meditator. Meanwhile the meditator must so strengthen his will, that he wd/s to remain in his meditation uninterrupted; and yet in the end, though his mind has never wandered in contemplating the object meditated upon, he, neverthe- less, has to repeat what the speaker said; which when the will is ve…
1910 · PDF PAGE 242
…a moment on urgent business. [The lovers exchange signals privately. EUPHEMIA. Show him up. THOMAS. Yes, miss. [rHoMAS goes out. carr. I will goand geta snack. Trust me—love me—— EUPHEMIA. I will—I do. [They embrace. CARR goes to the door—turns. CARR. Love me—trust me. {EUPHEMIA files to him, kisses him again, nods. EUPHEMIA. I will—I do—I love you—I trust you. caRR. Sweetheart! [They kiss, furtively, as if hearing Sootsteps.| So.long! [She retreats into the room, and blows him a kiss. CARR [outside, loudly). Good morning, Miss Ossory! EUPHEMIA…
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
… 3s. 6d. net per volume. The NEw THOUGHT Library has been designed to include only the best works in this class of literature. No volume will find a place in this series unless it has already an established position in the popular favour. The first eight volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By Cuartes Goprrey Lexanp. Third and enlarged edition, containing the Celebrated Correspondence between Kant and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 422
…, Having nor lungs nor lights nor hearts, But two in one and one in two. Be he accurséd that disparts Them now, or seemeth so to do! Him will I pile the curses on ; Him will I hang, or saw him through, Or burn with fire, who doubts upon This doctrine, hotototon spells The holy word otototon.” The poor Sir Palamedes quells His rising spleen ; he doubts his ears. “ How may I catch the Beast?” he yells. The smiling sage rebukes his fears: ‘Tis easier than all, Sir Knight! By simple faith the Beast appears.