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…t Viveka- nanda, of. cit., or the Hathayoga Pradi- pika. Unfortunately, I am unable to say where (or even whether) a copy of this latter work exists. 331, 332. Stand.—(Stephen) or stt (Paul).5° Acts vil. 36; Heb. xii. 2, . 337. Samadhi-Dak.*\— ‘' Ecstasy-of-medita- tion mail.” 338. Maha-Meru.2—The ‘‘mystic moun- tain” of the Hindus. See Southey’s Curse of Kehama. 339. Gaurtsankar.538— Called also Chomo- kankar, Devadhunga, and Everest. 341. Chogo.*4—The Giant. This is the native name of ‘‘ K2”; or Mount Godwin-Austen, as Col. Godwin-Austen woul…
1929 · PDF PAGE 390
…e, it became more and more difficult to obtain the vision. In the second Aethyr, for example, begun on the morning of December 18th, the work had to be broken off and the invocation repeated. Yet again I found the strain unsupportable, had to break off, and go to the hot baths of Hamman Salahin; and I continued, immersed to the neck in the hot sulphur spring. The water somehow soothed my nerves, enabling me to experience the Aethyr without physical collapse. Even so, I could not get to the end and only did so after over more than two days' conc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 368
…is instructive. His daily hour for practising Asana arrived one day when we were crossing to Europe on the steamer. He refused to do his work; he could not bear to attract the attention of the other people on board and appear ridiculous. (Neuburg! Ridiculous! O all ye gods and little fishes!) I, being responsible for him as his holy guru, performed the practice in his stead. He experienced remorse and shame, which did him good; but several other incidents determined me to impose on him a Vow of Holy Obedience. I must point out the virtue of thi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 428
…ar why it should be necessary at all. Part Two is therefore an wholly admirable treatise only for one who has already mastered the groundwork and gained some experience of the practice of the art. The number 4 being the formula of the book, it was of course to consist of four parts. I carried out this idea by expressing the nature of the Tetrad, not only by the name and plan of the book, but by issuing it in the shape of a square 4 inches by 4, and pricing each part as a function of 4. Part One was published at 4 groats, Part Two at 4 tanners, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 184
…g, and them make a plaited fringe to hand gown over their eyes like a curtain. The device does not sound very effective; but it seems to work. It is at least a fact that we did not have a single case. On Kangchenjunga, where this plan is not known, a number of the men were seriously affected. I was blamed subsequently for my selection of Camp 10 as main camp. Eckenstein thought that I might have chosen a more sheltered position. But there were no such positions in the neighbourhood and it was quite useless to go further away from the foot of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 283
… now with the Gautama. There are two main methods of acquiring the Magical Memory as defined above. One is to train the normal memory to work backwards instead of forwards, so that any past action is presented to the mind after the manner of a cinematograph film set running in the reverse direction. (I never succeeded fully in acquiring the technique of this method.) The other is to deduce from present circumstances those which gave rise to them. Just so, one may deduce from the examination of a position on a chessboard what line of pay brought…
1906 · PDF PAGE 60
…. Fourth, in each noble act of life he taught crystalline vigour of thought, so in each deed he was aright ; well- wrought all the man’s work; and fifth, this hero strife grew one with his whole life, so harmonised to the one after-end his every 1 Compare the Noble Eightfold Path, as described in ‘‘ Science and Buddhism,” zzfra.
1929 · PDF PAGE 400
…y accused him of advocating Platonic love. I was content to await the acquittal of history. Again, as Nehemiah said, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come {639}
1907 · PDF PAGE 229
…lmost to death with a flash of lightning, and so on. When he gets time to think, he thinks just that. In a church all is too clearly the work of man: in the matter of man’s comfort man’s devices are so obviously superior to God’s: so that we compare hats and languidly discuss the preacher. Religion is alive in Wales, because people have to walk miles to chapel. 1 Tet me run wild for once, I beg; I am tired of emulating Mr. Storer Clouston’'s Sir Julian Wallingford, ‘‘ whose reasoning powers were so remarkable that he never committed the slighte…
1929 · PDF PAGE 577
… of Austin Harrison. He printed an article written not by me but by one of the men I had discovered, and he never paid me a penny for my work, which had kept me busy most of the time for a week.) The Fascisti patrolling the railway were delightful. They had all the picturesqueness of opera brigands. They were armed with a most miscellaneous assortment of weapons. They had the irregular discipline of banditti, which of course they, in fact, were. My English friends had anticipated the success of the movement to follow naturally upon the forthcom…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…blished religion. But he certainly had the idea that virtue was incompatible with enjoyment. He refused to admit that writing poetry was work, though he admired and loved it intensely. I think his argument must have been that if a man enjoys what he is doing, he should not expect extra remuneration. Eckenstein share the idiosyncrasies of certain very great men in history. He could not endure kittens. He did not mind grown-up cats. The feeling was quite irrational and conferred mysterious powers! for he could detect the presence of a kitten by m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 419
…ea to make her the heroine of a little play. My mind was swept clean of "Adonis". Then minutes later I was back in my room, furiously at work on "The Ghouls". The Ghouls is possibly the most ghastly death-dance in English literature. If Oscar Wilde had written it (but he could not have) everyone would know it. It is the very pith and marrow of terror. Cynical it may be, but I defy the lord of dreams to send any more plutonian nightmare to haunt our mortal sleep. This criticism (from the Poetry Review) fills me with honest pride. I finished the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 345
…I should myself have raised. It does not admit the need to explain itself to anyone, even to me. I cannot doubt that these books are the work of an intelligence independent of my own. The former describes the relation of the adept with his Holy Guardian Angel; the latter is "The voluntary emancipation of a certain adept from his adeptship ... the birth words of a Master of the Temple." Even this did not exhaust my creative energy. As in Cairo in 1902 I had started the "Lover's Alphabet", on the ground that the most primitive kind of lyrics or o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 560
…s to refuse reality. For the first time in my life, Paris disappointed me. All the old enchantments had somehow vanished. I felt that my work lay elsewhere. London called to me. It was quite unreasonable. I had no motive for going. I had no means to go. Uneasy and undecided I got through the days as best I could. {884} I decided to seek a solitude favourable for concentration at Hardelot, near Boulogne, in a delightful old inn where I had stayed before. The Ape of Thoth was in London. I wired her to meet me at Boulogne. So far there was no hitc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…thematical master wished to devote the whole hour to the three elder boys, who were going up for some scholarship, and set us juniors to work out quadratic equations. There were sixty-three in the chapter set. At the end of forty minutes I stood up and said, "Please, sir, what shall I do now?" he would not believe that I had worked them correctly, but I had. I seem to have an instinct for appreciating the relations of pure numbers and could find factors by intuition. My intellectual activity has always been intense. It was for this very reason …
1929 · PDF PAGE 425
…nce who had a message for me. Let me briefly explain the grounds for this belief. I have already set forth, in connection with the Cairo working, some of the safeguards which I habitually employ. Virakam's vision contained elements perfectly familiar to me. This was clear proof that the man in her vision, whom she called Ab-ul-Diz, was acquainted with my system of hieroglyphics, literal and numerical, and also with some incidents in my magical career. Virakam herself certainly knew nothing of any of these. Ab-ul- Diz told us to call him a week …
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…ned by baulks of falling timber. "Well," said Eckenstein, a they drove home to change their muddy garments, "We've done a good morning's work, anyhow. That wharf is no longer in need of trifling repairs." Both it and the Betsy Anne kept the neighbourhood in matchwood for the next two years. Oh! for a modern Cowper to immortalize the maritime John Gilpin! {162} 19 We had one or two other peoúle with us, in particular a man named Paley Gardner, who had been with Eckenstein at Wastdale at Ester. He was a man of giant strength, but could not be tau…
1929 · PDF PAGE 328
…y health. I was obliged to put myself once more in the doctor's hands and go to Bournemouth. I was now thoroughly prepared to take up my Work of initiating mankind, but I was still determined to do it on the old lines. I had no books of reference at Bournemouth, and it struck me that it would be very convenient if I possessed a volume giving all the correspondences of the Cabbala in a compact form. I spent a week in writing this down from memory and the result is Liber 777. (It is to be noticed that there is no reference to the Cairo working an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 458
…readers to stand apart from their natural gratification at the first and their natural indignation at the second of these sections of my work, and to understand that my spiritual apprehension {725} of truth represents my real self, while my intellectual perceptions are necessarily coloured by my nationality, caste, education and personal predilection. I am not trying to shirk the responsibility for the harsh judgments which I promulgate. I should prefer to keep silent. I speak only in the hope that Americans may learn how shocking much of their…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…d me to the marrow. Adultery being the summit of wickedness, its commission excused everything. I made no intimate friendships. I did my work sufficiently well to avoid serious punishment, but without ambition. I took no interest in the Shakespeare prize, for which everybody had to enter, and had not read a line of the two plays prescribed, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III. But for some reason or other I got scared three days before the examination, got excused from games and worked so hard that I came out sixth in the school. I was able to quo…