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Page 109 of 1591929 · PDF PAGE 208
…nalyse this mental attitude at all adequately, but part of it certainly derives from the fact that I have never lost my innocence. I sometimes wonder whether it may not prove a defect in my philosophical system that I am unable to believe in the existence of evil. There is of course the appearance of evil due to ignorance, bad judgment and so on; but my major premiss is "Every man and every woman is a star."; and I always conceive the problem of progress as depending merely on enlightenment. I do not believe in original sin except in this sense…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…my lord. 1 This play has been publicly performed within the United Kingdom. Stationers’ Hall. All rights reserved. ALAIN, It is near the time, in her room? She has remained PRIEST. All the day. ALAIN. Has she attempted no message? eh? PRIEST, Sir, she —— ALAIN. [Jzterrupts.| She has not succeeded, at least? PRIEST, I am still Father Jerome. [ Pause. ALAIN. She is ready dressed as I ordered? And now praying in the Chapel ? [ALAIN gets up and can now see PRIEST. PRIEST, As you ordered, my lord. ALAIN, Content? [PRIEST puts out his hands with the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 296
…en I'm agin it , ' must have travelled many a league along the road to adeptship , and if ten such men be found in any State at the same time , then a period of decadence may be said to have begun ; but it is not every day that ten righteous men can be found in Sodom ; for the inhabitants of that city of 1 Eleusis , vol. iii, p . 225 . 2 Ibid . 3 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 224 . 4 The Sword of Song , vol . ii, p . 206 . U
1910 · PDF PAGE 200
…down the precipitous slope which sweeps away at our feet. In the last two years and a half P. had journeyed far, further than he at this time was aware of; and yet the goal of his journey seemed still so distant that only with difficulty could he bring himself to believe that he had progressed at all. Indeed, it must have been discouraging to him to think that on the 6th of May igor he, in a meditation of thirty-two minutes had only experienced ten breaks, whilst during a meditation of similar length, on the 13th of July 1903, the number of bre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 200
…down the precipitous slope which sweeps away at our feet. In the last two years and a half P. had journeyed far, further than he at this time was aware of; and yet the goal of his journey seemed still so distant that only with difficulty could he bring himself to believe that he had progressed at all. Indeed, it must have been discouraging to him to think that on the 6th of May igor he, in a meditation of thirty-two minutes had only experienced ten breaks, whilst during a meditation of similar length, on the 13th of July 1903, the number of bre…
1911 · PDF PAGE 30
…ain from within me. It sounds like infinite music, and behind the sound is the meaning of the Aethyr. Again there are no words. All this time the whirling sparks of gold go on, and they are like blue sky, with a lot of rather thin white clouds in it, outside. And nowI see mountains round, far blue mountains, purple mountains. And in the midst is a little green dell of moss, which is all sparkling with dew that drips from the rose. And I am lying on that moss with my face upwards, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking of the dew. I ca…
1922 · PDF PAGE 372
…among the olives, and we did not speak. But an electric flame ran through his tiny body from one to the other, and we knew for the first time what huge happiness lay in ambush for our love. The silence of dinner shone with silken lustre. It lasted long—so long—each moment charged with litanies of love. When coffee came, Big Lion himself broke the spell. “T am going to the tower to sleep to-night; so you will be in charge of the Strangers’ House, Sir Peter| The duties are simple ; if any wanderer should ask our hospitality, it is for you-to exte…
1922 · PDF PAGE 382
…ce of the existence of a spiritual energy that worked its wondrous will in ways too strange for the heart of man to understand until the time should be ripe. The pestilence of the past had immunised us against its poison. The devil had defeated himself. We had attained a higher stage of evolution. And this under- standing of the past filled us with absolute faith in the future. The chaos of crumbled civilisations whose monuments were on the rock before us, had left that rock un- marred. Our experience had fortified us. We had reached one more p…
1954 · PDF PAGE 63
…him. (Illustration: The first principle of success in evolution is that the individual should be true to his own nature, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.) 10. Nature is a continuous phenomenon, though we do not know in all cases how things are connected. (Illustration: Human consciousness depends on the properties of protoplasm, the existence of which depends on innumerable physical conditions peculiar to this planet; and this planet is determined by the mechanical balance of the whole universe of matter . We may then say …
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…did not expect to see thee here to-night; I thought you were to meet my friend Isaak, and he's in Baghdad." "It wants an hour yet of the time," says Death briskly; "and he's galloping hither as fast as he can." At least, don't let the Gods have the laugh on you! Hello! Here's the Book of Lies again! What fun. The Smoking Dog Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure in the sport. This is the Comedy of Pan, that man should think he hunteth, w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 580
… Order with the motto Omnia Pro Veritate. It seems strange that he missed finding me. Once again I perceived the design of the gods. The time was not ripe. He wrote me a letter which I answered at once, but I failed to elicit further communication. However, when Sullivan broke down at the first ordeal, I said to myself, "Why, of course, Norman Mudd is the man for the job." I wrote immediately, asking him to work with me on the demonstration indicated above. He did not answer. Thinking my letter might have failed {916} to reach him, I wrote agai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…r the sheer joy of shocking Allan, and even in horrifying him by occasional excursions after big game. I may as well go back a little in time and record my general impressions of Ceylon as a man of the world, in connected sequence. I was as full of romantic folly about the wisdom of the East, and the splendours and luxuries of Asia, as I had been about Jacobites. But already I had learnt to use my eyes; prejudices had somehow lost their power to persuade. My experience of the Order probably counted for a good deal in this. At the same time, I d…
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
… persons ; it was during the severe physical strain which her confinement imposed upon him that he wrote the Nameless Novel. All this time of his marriage, about two years, he had been also performing miracles of pi- ety. Ordained three years before, he rapidly gained the favour of his superiors by his modesty and elo- quence. He obtained a valuable private chaplaincy in Paris, a most suitable post, allowing him plenty of leisure for other work. During this period a deli- cious volume of hymns came from his pen, and his self-sacrificing mini…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
ALI SLOPER; OR, T and the falsehood thereof hath rung its sepulchral summons down the Halls that men call Time. [BONES boils ot/er. MRS. BONES strokes his marble brow. Now it hath occurred that some of the younger Adepts, the light hearted and foolish of the Great White Brotherhood, those who slip back oftenest to normal consciousness of the Universe, so that even their pure wings are soiled in the mire of sense, perception, reason, and their foul kind, some of those boys, I say, forget the Writing on the outer Veil of the Indicible Arcanum, th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 193
…s the Great Name Elohim in the Heart of the Six-fold star! Flaming as the Purifying Fire, purging and ordering the Chaos of the Night of Time! As in the midst of the Letters of the Verse we saw the words on nnx, “Thou in Extension,” so also does the Name Elohim read x, “ Deity,” ovn, in Extension.* And the numeration of Elohim is 86, which by Gematria reads mn, again meaning “spread out, extended.” Write the letters of this Name in any Invoking Penta- gram ; and the Banishing Pentagram thereof will read 3.1415 (by Qabalah of nine Chambers), whi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 193
…s the Great Name Elohim in the Heart of the Six-fold star! Flaming as the Purifying Fire, purging and ordering the Chaos of the Night of Time! As in the midst of the Letters of the Verse we saw the words on nnx, “Thou in Extension,” so also does the Name Elohim read x, “ Deity,” ovn, in Extension.* And the numeration of Elohim is 86, which by Gematria reads mn, again meaning “spread out, extended.” Write the letters of this Name in any Invoking Penta- gram ; and the Banishing Pentagram thereof will read 3.1415 (by Qabalah of nine Chambers), whi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
…e produced spiritual giants, you will always find this intense chastity insisted upon... .* If people practise Raja-Yoga and at the same time lead an impure life, how can they expect to become Yogis? t * Certainly not in the case of the Mahometan Religion and its Sufi Adepts, who drank the vintage of Bacchus as well as the wine of Iacchus. The question of Chastity is again one of those which rest on temperament and not on dogma. It is curious that the astute Vivekananda should have fallen into this man-trap. +t Swami Vivekananda, “ Raja Yoga,” …
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
…e produced spiritual giants, you will always find this intense chastity insisted upon... .* If people practise Raja-Yoga and at the same time lead an impure life, how can they expect to become Yogis? t * Certainly not in the case of the Mahometan Religion and its Sufi Adepts, who drank the vintage of Bacchus as well as the wine of Iacchus. The question of Chastity is again one of those which rest on temperament and not on dogma. It is curious that the astute Vivekananda should have fallen into this man-trap. +t Swami Vivekananda, “ Raja Yoga,” …
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…e sate at meat he said: May it please you to enter the House; for there is prepared for you a goodly bedchamber. But I would not at that time ; {or I was ashamed, being unclothed; not understanding that in the House robes are provided by him that is appointed to provide them. Thus we laboured, and built many fair shallops upon the model of that wherein we sailed. In all these there was not one splinter of wood too much, or too little ; and there was no ornament ; and neither paint nor varnish covered the planks, for they were planks of a tree t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…e sate at meat he said: May it please you to enter the House; for there is prepared for you a goodly bedchamber. But I would not at that time ; {or I was ashamed, being unclothed; not understanding that in the House robes are provided by him that is appointed to provide them. Thus we laboured, and built many fair shallops upon the model of that wherein we sailed. In all these there was not one splinter of wood too much, or too little ; and there was no ornament ; and neither paint nor varnish covered the planks, for they were planks of a tree t…