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Page 11 of 1151996 · PDF PAGE 81
82 The Law is for All thought flashed into my mind that after all the bag was in one sense a part of myself. The two ideas came together with a snap, and I understood the machinery of a man’s delusion that he is a teapot. These two examples may give some idea to the reader of the light which mystical attainment throws upon the details of the working of the human mind. Further developments of this vision emphasized the iden tity between the Universe and the mind. The search for simi les deepened. I had a curious impression that the thing I was…
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…ou will perceive in these pages a man with all his im- perfections thick upon him trying blindly, yet with all his force, to control the thoughts of his mind, 50 that he shall be able to say ”I will think this thought and not that thought” at any moment, as easily as (having conquered Nature) we are all able to say “I will drink this wine, and not that wine.” For, as we have now learnt, our happiness does not at all depend upon our possessions or our power. We would all rather be dead than be a millionaire who lives in daily dread of murder or …
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
…of things—and ladies— Engages my attention. Well! You know enough of life in Hell. I was an altruist, my brothers! My life one long kind thought for others: For me six maidens wear the willow :— Poisoning is a peccadillo. Hence I’m disposed to give advice, Simple, if possibly not nice; Shun life! an awkward task and deep. But if you cannot, then—shun sleeep! (Suppose I thus had prophesied, Gone to my wife to bed, and died !) 109
1907 · PDF PAGE 244
THE NEW WINE 237 thought , thinking at appointed hours according to appointed books . FICHTE , SCHELLING , AND HEGEL Close on the heels of Kant came Fichte with his un knowable appulse as the only potency of the not -self, which assuaged the raging thirst of inquiry as would a bottle of wine long since dry. Behind him Schelling , who leaping into the clouds , grasped at object and subject as existing actualities , calling the bastard child ren of his brain manifestations of the Absolute . Then Hegel who , instead of sitting out on the universal…
1913 · PDF PAGE 516
THE EQUINOX should now be able to understand the thought of the Jew Abraham. The secret fire of the masters of alchemy was, then, electricity ; and there is the better half of their grand arcanum ; but they knew how to equilibrate its force by a magnetic influence which they concentrated in their athanor. This is what results from the obscure dogmas of Basil Valentine, of Bernard Trevisan, and of Henry Khunrath, who, all of them, pretend to have worked the transmutation, like Raymond Lully, like Arnaud de Villeneuve, and like Nicholas Flamel. T…
1913 · PDF PAGE 516
THE EQUINOX should now be able to understand the thought of the Jew Abraham. The secret fire of the masters of alchemy was, then, electricity ; and there is the better half of their grand arcanum ; but they knew how to equilibrate its force by a magnetic influence which they concentrated in their athanor. This is what results from the obscure dogmas of Basil Valentine, of Bernard Trevisan, and of Henry Khunrath, who, all of them, pretend to have worked the transmutation, like Raymond Lully, like Arnaud de Villeneuve, and like Nicholas Flamel. T…
1941 · PDF PAGE 12
ANTHEM Gone are the ghosts and gods, Fears strangled emerods, Thoughts spider snares; Dead are the craven creeds; Truth demands noble deeds, All free man dares. Men, be your own recourse! Waste not your fire and force In fatuous prayers! Better, come cannily Down on the enemy, Set them to theirs Free from the bogle faith, False fear and wastrel wraith, From shame and guilt, Rise, in thine own self-awe, Live to the living law: Do what thou wilt!
1941 · PDF PAGE 8
ANTHEM Gone are the ghosts and gods, Fears strangled emerods, Thoughts spider snares; Dead are the craven creeds; Truth demands noble deeds, All free man dares. Men, be your own recourse! Waste not your fire and force In fatuous prayers! Better, come cannily Down on the enemy, Set them to theirs Free from the bogle faith, False fear and wastrel wraith, From shame and guilt, Rise, in thine own self-awe, Live to the living law: Do what thou wilt!
1907 · PDF PAGE 260
…t this ultimate genesis . The ancient Hebrew Qabalah was as closely con nected with Assyriology , as it was with Babylonian and Egyptian thought , Hindu mythology , and the philosophy of the Vedas and Upanishads ; its concep tion of the supreme God was ineffable , for He bore neither name nor attribute , being beyond the power of human conception . Over the face of the whole world we find earnest thought arriving at or towards such a conclusion . In ancient China we hear Lao - Tze declaring : “ What is there superior in Heaven and 1 Songs of th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 39
…travelled on the Bralduh in a Zak. He shrank from the sight of a butcher’s shop ; I followed wounded buffalo into the jungle on foot. He thought Indians were “ mild ” ; I shot two Bengalis. He never had such a galaxy of imbe- cility before him as R. J. Campbell, Winnington-Ingram, Tolstoï, Bernard Vaughan, Torrey, Dowie, Bernard Shaw, Booth, Father Ignatius, and my Uncle Tom. He had not read the Encyclical against Modernism ; the religious essays of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and the preposterous Balfour. He was unfamiliar with the spermat…
1912 · PDF PAGE 47
…d. I was sure indeed you were of the Ten. [To the fourth.] Death, by my sword ! Ist you, most luck- less of all men ? Poor and exiled I thought youand I meet you here I am glad you smiledwhere we strike angels dumb with fear ! [To the fifth.] Why, body o God ! you died ten years ago, we thought. [To the sixth.] And you ? Am I odd ? Do eyes still serve me as they ought ? My sworn foe, vowed to stab meso the fine farce ends. Aw, well I know you now ; so kiss me, best of friends ! [To the seventh.] My intimate ! Have we not played as boys to…
1944 · PDF PAGE 34
Further, the attempt to describe Reality by a single definite term has been abandoned. Modern thought conceives Reality under the image of a ring of ten ideas, such as Potential, Matter, and so on. Each term has no meaning in itself; it can only be understood in terms of the others. This is exactly the conclusion which appears earlier in this essay, with regard to the way in which the planets, elements and signs were all dependent on each other, and composed of each other. But the further attempt to reach Reality led the Qabalists to sum up the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
… is, have conquered and made still Mind’s lower powers by utter Will. It may be that pure Nought will fail Quite to assuage the needs of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail ? Aum ! Let us meditate aright50 On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri ! So may She Illume our minds ! So mote it be ! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet repl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 183
… is, have conquered and made still Mind’s lower powers by utter Will. It may be that pure Nought will fail Quite to assuage the needs of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail? Aum! Let us meditate aright °° On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Tliume our minds! So mote it be! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace …
1912 · PDF PAGE 78
… before Thee, Fasted and prayed, endured a lifes Gethsemane ; Now, scourged and spat upon, mocked before priest and king Thou, gaze on thought, come crowned, come armed, come conquering, Come, save me, save thy maiden ! Strike each barbèd dart Home to the grave convent and cloister of my heart, Where all thine anguish in mine own repeats each phrase. There all loves languish, there all sound of prayer and praise Dies, there one thought alone rules with an iron rod, Flies to the court of our immitigable God Thine, thy great word that thundere…
1904 · PDF PAGE 107
…TIS. Let us make haste! Dear queen, how good you are! MEDEA. One thing remember! While you say the spell— Here is the parchment !—let no thought arise In any of your minds! atcestis. [Zo her Sisters.] Remember that ! MEDEA. Else—Ototototoi ! FIRST DANAID. What woe is this? MEDEA. The charm is broken. SECOND DANAID. And our father-—— MEDEA. Lost! DANAIDES. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Ai Ai! MEDEA. Ai Ai! Ai Ai!
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…dead man, live as they. They hold him sacred from the sun, From death and dissolution. Within the charmédd space is naught Possible unto thought. 94
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…ierce Malays and Pathans and Sikhs, proud Normans, humble Saxons, and many a frail figure of woman. These were too self-assertive, Iliel thought, to be as real as those of the other man. And the figure himself was strained, even in his pride. Now came a marvellous person[10] — almost a god, she thought. For about him were a multitude of bones that built themselves up constantly into the loveliest living forms, that changed from one into another, ever increasing in stature and in glory. And in his broad brow she read the knowledge of the Unity o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…shame, though thy lips utter not the littlest syllable against him. And he that thinketh evil concerning thee shall be confounded in his thought, although in thy mind arise not the least thought of him. And they shall be brought unto subjection unto thee, and serve thee, though thou willest it not. And it shall be unto them a grace and a sacrament, and ye shall all sit down together at the supernal banquet, and ye shall feast upon the honey of the gods, and be drunk upon the dew of immortality—FOR I AM HORUS, THE CROWNED AND CONQUERING CHILD, W…
1912 · PDF PAGE 73
…six months, meditations of four minutes and less are still being recorded. The student is supposed to count the number of times that his thought wanders; this he can do on his fingers or on a string of beads.1 If these breaks seem to become more frequent instead 1 This counting can easily become quite mechanical. With the thought that reminds you of a break associate the notion of counting. The grosser kind of break can be detected by another person. It is accompanied