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Page 10 of 1151914 · PDF PAGE 13
…ave need of none of this at all. ‘You like “what's natural.” Right: for you, in sum, Like Nature's self, abhor a vacuum! Oh, but there's mind! ‘There's folk that have a brain, ‘That need the food of spirit and of heart. There's folk that need love, pity, peace; disdain All that lacks beauty, passion, wit, and art. Yours is a mind that does not hesitate To find a word for such—" degenerate.” Xm It poisons me to think such thoughts: they mar ‘The crystal of my orgasm of hate. How can I fling from facets as they are ‘The unwavering light of it, th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 122
…eathem . Beneath the Tudor roses, those old words , “ Beauty is truth , and truth beauty ,” all at once Came with a fuller meaning to my mind , " Truly ," I thought , “ These dons who follow truth In desolate regions , lifeless , rugged , bare , All follow beauty too — the only prize Worth questing in this sorry world of ours .” 103
1922 · PDF PAGE 356
…grossed in abstruse calculations, loosely knit together, it is true, but very intense, with regard to an idea which - had not entered my mind for months. I was working out in my mind a plan for constructing a helicopter, the invention of which had occupied me deeply when I was out of a job. It had been driven completely out of my mind by my becoming heir to Uncle Mortimer’s estate. As I regained full wakefulness, I found myself extremely puzzled by my surroundings. In fact, I could not remember who I was. The question seemed in some extraordina…
1905 · PDF PAGE 265
…HAUSER, O Lady pure, miracle of true love, I have a bitter word and harsh to say. This is my curse—no sooner do I speak, Or formulate my mind in iron words, Than my mind grows, o’erleaps the limit set, And I perceive the truth that lies beyond— One further step into a new-fallen night. Hear then—I hate to hurt your perfect soul ; I hate myself because I love you still In that strange intermediate consciousness, The reason and the mind! This middle way Ancients called safe’—that damns it in- stantly! Without some danger nothing great is done ! L…
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…ecked and be tired her worn carrion , and how she standeth at the corners by the parting of the ways , beguiling those who are simple in mind and virtuous , and how she feasteth on their innocence and con verteth all she eateth into dung ,
1912 · PDF PAGE 38
…a match ; then never let The opponent see the threat. GABRIELE. I am rebuked ; and yet You will forgive me, for the habit only stains My mind, because before my opponents had no brains. MONICA. Farewell, then, and God have you in his holy keeping. I go to tend a grave where theres a widow weeping. GABRIELE. You have doubled my regard with prudence as with pity. The name all give you, guardian angel of the city. You have thrice earned, be sure !a life both good and great, Protectress of the poor, and saviour of the state. [He retires amid the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 49
… to me quite sufficient. 3. The Ruach contains both the moral and intellectual worlds, which is really all that we mean by the conscious mind; perhaps it even includes certain portions of the su bconscious. 4. In initiation from the grade of Neophyte to that of Zelator, one passes by this way. The main work is to obtain admission to, and control of, the astral plane. Your expressions about "purifying the feelings" and so on are rather vague to enter into a scientific system like ours. The result which you doubtless refer to is attained automati…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
139 Asana, "position", is the art of sitting perfectly still, so that the body can no longer send messages to the mind. Pranayama, "control of breath force", consists in learning to breathe as slowly, deeply and regularly as possible. The slightest mental irritation or excitement always makes one breathe quickly and unevenly; thus one is able to detect any disturbance of calm by observing this system. Also, by forcibly controlling the breath one can banish such ideas. Also one reduces to a minimum the consciousness that one is breathing. One ma…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…n in poetic language of severaJ of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. Equinox III, p. 9. Liber CCLXV. The Structure of the Mind. A Treatise on psychology from the mystic and magical stand- point. Its study will help the aspirant to make a detailed scientific analysis of his mind, and so learn to control it. Uupublished. Liber CGC. Khabs am Tekht. A spécial instruction for the Promulgation of the Law. This is the first and most important duty of every Aspirant of whatever grade. It builds up in him the character and Karma which for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 463
…portant. To extract something, you should first know what is there. Here astrology ought to give useful hints ; its indications give the mind something to work on. Experience makes "confirmation strong as Holy Writ" ; but beware of a priori. Do not be dogmatic; do not insist in the face of disappointment. Astrology in education is useful as geology is to the prospector ; it tells you the sort of thing to look for, and the direction in which to explore . There are, however , two main lines of teaching which are of universal value to normal child…
1903 · PDF PAGE 41
…t mean the picture are Not like it, but dissimilar. How can a nervous current be Like that Velasquez? So I find Dinner a function of the mind, Not like you, but essential to (Even it) my honest love of you. Consider then yon broidered toy In the same aspect! Steals no joy Glittering beneath the sad pale face? 39
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
THE EQUINOX When once Dharana or Concentration has progressed so far as to train the mind to remain fixed on one object then Dhyana or meditation may be practised: And when this power of Dhydna becomes so intensified 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 …
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
THE EQUINOX When once Dharana or Concentration has progressed so far as to train the mind to remain fixed on one object then Dhyana or meditation may be practised: And when this power of Dhydna becomes so intensified 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 …
1913 · PDF PAGE 116
…ely pictured in the Tarot Trump called " The Angel," which corresponds to the letter Shin, the letter of Spirit and of Breath. The whole mind of man is rent by the advent of Adonai, and is at once caught up into union with Him. " In the air," the Ruach. Note that etymologically the word crvy, "together with," is the San- skrit Sam; and the Hebrew ADNI is the Sanskrit ADHI. The phrase "together with the Lord," is then literally identical with the word Samadhi, which is the Sanskrit name of the phenomenon de- scribed by Saint Paul, this union of …
1902 · PDF PAGE 96
…n the vivid horse Whose neck God clothed with thunder, not the steer Sluggish and safe ! Yoke Hatred, Crime, Remorse, Despair : but ever mind the whirling fear. Let, through the tumult, break the poet's face Radiant, assured his wild slaves win the race ! " Two Poets of Croisic.
1930 · PDF PAGE 114
…rough the intervening structures, but goes direct. After continuai practice even severe pain may be transferred to the Ajna. (6) Fix the mind on the base of the spine and then gradually move the thoughts upwards to the Ajna. (In this méditation Ajna is the Holy of Holies, but it is dark and empty.) Finally, strive hard to drive anger and other obsessing thoughts into the Ajna. Try to develop a tendency to think hard of Ajna when these thoughts attack the mind, and let Ajna conquer them. Beware of thinking of aMy Ajna”. In these méditations and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
The Results of Sin. 59 by producing a camel from a stone (Q’uran Cap. VII). But even so the joke is not obvious to my mind. 9. Very like Cromwell’s famous retort to the of- ficer who asked if his puritans should engage in prayer, as the enemy might attack at any mo- ment. “ Of a surety ; and bid them keep well dry their powder.”
1898 · PDF PAGE 14
…was born on the 23rd of that month. The father and mother of George were, at least on the surface, of an extraordinary religious turn of mind. Mathilde’s version of the story, which has its source in our friend himself, agrees almost word for word with a letter of the Rev. Edw. Turle to Mrs. Cope, recommending the child to her care. The substance of the story is as follows. The parents of George carried their religious ideas to the point of never consummating their marriage ! This arrangement does not seem to have been greatly appreciated by th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
…the time when he would normally do the forbidden thing, to warn him against its repetition. There will thus be a clear connection in his mind of cause and effect, until he will be just as careful in avoiding this particular act which he has consciously determined, as in those other things which in childhood he has been trained to avoid. Just as the eyelid unconsciously closes when the eye is threatened,^ so must he build up in consciousness this power of inhibition until it sinks below consciousness, adding to his store of automatic force, so t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…guine vase, And lose my purpose in its silent sea, And lose my life, and find my life, and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him: he bade me not despair. An holy ‘* The Blouu of the Osiris !”” was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) ‘‘The life, the tears, the tomb ! ‘¢The Love of Isis is its name!” (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses…