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…here, whither it is going, and what there may or may not be bey ond and beside it which our s enses are incapable of appreciating. These things are not ‘explained’ by science, and never can be,” he gives a curious example of that quaint scientific pride which knows the limits of its powers, and refuses to entertain the hope of transcending them. Unfortunately, he is as one who, a hundred y ears ago, should have declared any knowledge of the c hemistry of the fixed stars impossible. To invent new methods, and to revolutionise the functions of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
23 for me to write on Shakespeare and the musical Glasses without introducing the spiritual and moral principles which are the only things in myself that I can identify with myself. This characteristic is evidently inherited from my father. His integrity was absolute. He lived entirely by his theological convictions. Christ might return at any moment. "Even as the lightning lighteneth out of the East and lighteneth even unto the West, so is the coming of the Son of Man." He would have to give an account of "every idle word". It was a horrifying…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
134 In Colombo this world problem solves itself; for the Indian toils, without ambition or object, from sheer habit; the European bosses things, with selfimportance and brafado; the Australian lumbers in and out, loutishly, hoping not to be seen; and China, silent and absent, conveys majestically patriarchal reproof by simply ignoring the impertinence. Slightly as I had brushed against the yellow silken robes of China in the press of jostling cultures, its virtue had so entered into me that the positive and aggressive aspects of Colombo, tumult…
1905 · PDF PAGE 238
… is my love Wholly in tune with that concealed desire Bred in each mortal, though he never know (Few do know), to transcend the bound of things, And find in Death the purpose of this life. Be- VENUS. Yes, there you tear one veil away from me! Yet, am not I the willing one? Indeed I feel the wonder of that same desire From mine own side of the Impassible. See then how equal God and man are made! For I have clothed me in the veil of flesh, and strive toward thy finite consciousness As thou art reaching to my infinite, Nurturing my Godhead at the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…d of doing what a wise boy would have done: gone straight to the head and accused them of forty-six distinct unmentionable crimes, I let things slide. So, fearing that I might go, they hurried off themselves and told him how that wicked Crowley had tried to lead them away from Jesus. Worse, I had called Page I a pharisee. That was true; I had said it. Dreadful of me! And Page I, who "walked very close to Jesus", of course went and told. Yes, they all walked very close to Jesus --- as close as Judas did. 4. A boy named Barton was sentenced to on…
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
…ree to each Sea‐ son. The Influence of the Sun upon the Earth was observed to change as He passed through the Signs. So did quite simple things like the measure of time between Sunrise and Sunset. When one says that the Sun enters the Sign of Aries, one means that if a straight line were drawn from the Earth to the Sun and pro‐longed to the Stars, that line would pass through the beginning of that Constellation. Suppose, for instance, that one observes the Full Moon on the first day of Spring, one will be able to see, behind her, the stars of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
… imagine as having been lost eternally. The lot of the saved, even on earth, was painted in the brightest colours. It was held that "all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose". Earthly life was regarded as an ordeal; this was a wicked world and the best thing that could happen to anyone was "to go to be with Christ, which is far better". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever. Edward Crowley used to give away tracts to strangers,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
strong, O man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” “Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times gr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…t the right hand of god. Ergo, on the first occasion he was still ready to return at once; on the second, he had made up his mind to let things take their course to the bitter end, as per the Apocalypse. No one saw anything funny, or blasphemous, or even futile, in this doctrine! so fantastic a superstition could be such a hellish obsession in such recent times and such familiar places. One fine summer morning, at Redhill, the boy --- now eight or nine --- got tired of playing by himself in the garden. He came back to the house. It was strangel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
… with many discarnate forces. Especially in the last few years science has been chiefly occupied with the reactions, not {397} merely of things which cannot be directly perceived by sense, but of forces which do not possess being at all in the old sense of the word. Yet the average man of science still denies the existence of the elementals of the Rosicrucian, the angels of the Cabbalist, the Nats, Pisachas and Devas of southern Asia, and the Jinn of Islam, with the same blind misosophy as in Victorian days. It has apparently not occurred to hi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 179
…ewhat dreamy. Change is soon coming upon it; the weight of earth will ultimately drag the current down to a mere eventuation of material things. Yet the Moon, being in Taurus, the sign of her exaltation, the best of the Lunar qualities are inherent. Moreover, being a Six, the solar Energy has fertilized her, creating a bal‐ anced system for the time being. The card is worthy of the name Success. Remember only that all success is temporary; how brief a halt upon the Path of Labour. THE FOUR SEVENS These cards are attributed to Netzach. The posit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…g truth.’ ‘True!’ replied the sage, ‘but precious little they get. Learn, O Mahabrahma (for I penetrate this disguise), that all existin things, even from thee unto this grain of sand, possess Three Characteristics. These are Mutability, Sorrow, and Unsubstantiality.’ “ ‘All right for the sand, but how about Me ? Why , the y define me as unchange- able.’ ‘You can define a quirk as being a two-sided triangle,’ retorted the Saviour, ‘but that does not prove the actual existence of any such oxy moron.1 The truth is that you’re a very spiritual sor…
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
… the Ego, is divine. And this is our old vicious circle ! Myst. Also, since the object may be the Infinite. All Dhyana proves is that ‘‘ things are not what they seem.” Scept. Not content with our poets, you seem to have wandered into Longfellow. Myst. Also Tennyson. , Scept. I can sympathise: there is a blot on my own scutcheon. You are just, though, in your statement that the glorification of one of two factors Myst, At the moment of the disappearance of their dividuality Scept. So? Myst. Surely. They also themselves dis- appear, just as carb…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…ther, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden; even the cubical stone and the cross beneath the triangle that were his and un- revealed. And on the third day he left her and came to Her who had initiated him before he was initiated; and with her he abode eight days and twenty days :® and she gave him gifts. 1 Lamed means ox-goad; Aleph, an ox. Lamed Aleph means No, the denial of Aleph Lamed, El, God. 2 Read reverse, the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 205
…ndra.*6—Anglicé, shot the moon. 380. The subtle devilish omission.5'— But what are we to say of Christian dialecticians who quote ‘‘ All things work together for good”’ out of its context, and call this verse ‘‘ Chris- tian optimism ?"’ See Caird’s ‘‘ Hegel.”’ Hegel knew how to defend himself, though. As Goethe wrote of him: ‘* They thought the master too Inclined to fuss and finick. The students’ anger grew To frenzy Paganinic.* They vowed to make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic: He had s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 460
…simple and self-evident, but in America they have been pushed out of sight by doctrinal propositions based on a priori considerations of things as they ought to be in the mind of the dogmatist. I still hope that experience will eliminate these errors, and in that hope I address myself first of all to the American republic. Having thus affirmed the instinctive attitude to the American people, let me turn to the other extreme and record a number of observations which {729} seem specially significant, the deductions from which appear unmitigatingl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…he slimy thing is no more. Decomposition, already far advanced, may be trusted speedily to resolve the remains into the ultimate dust of things, mere matter for some new and hope- fuller avatar. Such a worm are you, M. D , who once, as above described, voided your noxious nastiness in my presence, trusting to con- ciliate me by the intended compliment that my poems on Rodin were from myself and not from him, and that any other statues would have done as well. I am as little susceptible to flattery as I am to the venomous dicta of spite and envy…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…in abnormal and pathological pheno- mena, whose consideration might lay down the bases for a possible argument. Scept. There are several things that spring instantly into the mind. First and foremost is the wonderfully suggestive work, misnamed fiction, of our greatest novelist, H. G. Wells. This man, the John Bunyan of modern scientific thought, has repeatedly attacked the problem, or at least indicated the lines on which a successful research might be prosecuted, in many of his wonderful tales. He has (I say it not to rob you of the honour of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
… is the poison of will, “For pure will, unassuaged of pur‐ pose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect”. It only makes things worse if one wishes that there were no Ten of Swords in the pack, or that the Five of Wands did not follow and upset the Four. DIAGRAM 6. THE ELEMENTS AND THEIR SYMBOLS This diagram is at first sight very disturbing, for it cannot be attributed in any straight‐ forward way to the Tree of Life. It will be best to state the problems, ab ovo. The Elements are four in number; although they are harmonized an…
1944 · PDF PAGE 26
…of Zero and depends from the triple veil of the Negative. Now the Sephiroth, which are emanations of the number 1, as already shown, are things‐in‐themselves, in almost the Kantian sense. The lines joining them are Forces of Na‐ ture, of a much less complete type; they are less abstruse, less abstract. THE TWENTY‐TWO KEYS, ATU, OR TRUMPS OF THE TAROT Here now is an excellent example of the all‐pervading doctrine of Equilibrium. The equation always reads ax2+bx +x=0. If it does not equal 0, it is not an equation. And so, when‐ ever any symbol lo…