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Page 115 of 1731944 · PDF PAGE 127
…is being spun by a hand. Though the wheel fills the whole Aire, yet the hand is much bigger than the wheel. And though this vision is so great and splen‐ did, yet there is no seriousness with it, or solemnity. It seems that the hand is spinning the wheel merely for pleasure‐it would be better to say amusement. “A voice comes: For he is a jocund and ruddy god, and his laughter is the vibration of all that exists, and the earthquakes of the soul. “One is conscious of the whirring of the wheel thrilling one, like an electric discharge passing thro…
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…e usually less cosmic rootle of a gentle-womans split mutton on the loose. But not only in simple androgynation did she excel : she was great at flagellation : had she not been so, I should certainly have said she was, both out of respect for her for what gentleman would care to dwell upon a flaw in an otherwise perfect character ? And because otherwise the English gentry would not buy your book, just as without [63]
1905 · PDF PAGE 64
…CY. man suites. That I may write. I have not long to The gentleman notices the smtle, and sees live, and I must write, write always. how great a sadness underlies tt. FRIEND [asede lo Vaughan). VAUGHAN | I] me semble quwil a faim. [Zurning to the young man.) | PERCY. AND you — what are you doing here? Iam hungry for a little love, a little pity. Excuse my rudeness—you seem so sad. By ‘ pry To-night you have shown me your soul, and 1 See Daniel iii. 25. ‘I am not hungry any more. * Like all plays of this form, it may be read as a delicate idyll …
1911 · PDF PAGE 98
…t to deceive thee. I shall say words that thou wilt take to be the cry of the Aethyr, and thou wilt write them down, thinking them to be great secrets of Magick power, and they will be only my jesting with thee. (Here the Scribe invoked Angels, and the Holy Guardian Angel of the Frater P. . . . The demon replied:) I know the name of the Angel of thee and thy brother P...., and all thy dealings with him are but a cloak for thy filthy sorceries. (Here the Scribe averred that he knew more than the 96
1919 · PDF PAGE 460
…tle book.”— The Morning Leader. “There is promise and some fine lines in these verses.”—The Times. TO BE OBTAINED OF PROBSTHAIN & CO. 41 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C. And all Booksellers
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…hind him. To be sure, this is but a reasonable precaution in a district so favourable to Apache activities. At last he came out into the great open square of the markets; and, crossing obliquely, came to a drinking den of the type which seeks to attract foreigners, preferably Americans. It bore the quite incongruous name "Au Pere Tranquille." Akbar mounted the stairs. It was too early for revellers; even the musicians had not arrived; but an old man sat in one corner of the room, sipping a concoction of gin, whisky and rum which goes in certain…
1944 · PDF PAGE 72
…nd on his left hand is a figure somewhat like the Hindoo Kali, but much more seductive. Yet I know it to be Lilith. And above him is the Great Sigil of the Arrow, downward, but it is struck through the heart of the child. This child also is Abel. And the meaning of this part of the card is obscure, but that is the correct drawing of the Tarot card; and that is the correct magical fable from which the Hebrew scribes, who were not complete Initiates, stole their legend of the Fall and the subsequent events.” It is very significant that almost eve…
1906 · PDF PAGE 158
…fter all, Never attain to heaven and stand (Stephen) or sit (Paul) ® at the hand Of the Most High !—And that alone, That question of the Great White Throne, Is the sole point that we debate.” I answer, Here in India wait 300 305 310 315 320 325 330 335
1909 · PDF PAGE 81
…re dangerous than a mere voluptuary, Doomisday. — An affected archaism for the Day of Judgment. How can the writer dare to speak of this great day, on which he shall be damned for ever? “ For he that believeth not 1s condemned already, Mother. — Nature. How true would be these striking words, if only for “ the love-taught magus, the hermaphrodite ” with all its su- perstition, blasphemy, and obscenity, one were to write “ The Christ-saved sinner, brought into the light”, The arcanum in the adytum. — More classical affectation for “ the secret t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 54
…e crystal. The mountain is a cone, the angle of the apex being sixty degrees. And within the crystal is a pyramid of ruby, like unto the great pyramid of Gizeh. I am entered in by the little door thereof, and I am come into the chamber of the king, which is fashioned like unto the vault of the adepts, or rather it is fitting to say that the vault of the adepts is a vile imitation of it. For there are four sides to the chamber, which with the roof and the floor and the chamber itself makes seven. So also is the pastos seven, for 52
1911 · PDF PAGE 110
…hou bear more joy.” “If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of Art.” And this shall signify unto thee that thou must undergo great discipline; else the Vision were lost or perverted. For these mysteries pertain not unto thy grade. Therefore must thou invoke the Highest before thou unveil the shrines thereof. And this shall be thy rule: A thousand and one times shalt thou affirm the unity, and bow thyself a thousand and one times. And thou shalt recite thrice the call of the Aethyr. And all day and all night, awake or asleep, shall t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 412
…umber was 25 or 26, which argues their own shallowness by the readiness with which they attribute the same quality to others. However, a great deal of mis- chief has been done by the pedant, and the distinctions be- tween the various Jhanas will convey little to the Western mind, even of a man who has some experience of them. The question of mistranslation alone renders the majority of Buddhist documents, if not valueless, at least unreliable. We, however, taking this book as an original work by Bla- vatsky, need not be bothered by any doubts m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 430
…us, and this is what is called Panic fear, which, originally an individual thing, is applied to a mob, because a mob has no Soul. A very great many elementals are to be found in human form to-day; they are nearly al- ways women, or such men as arenot men. Such beings are imitative, irresponsible, always being shocked, without any standard of truth, although often extremely logical; crim- inal without a sense of right and wrong, and as shameless as they are prudish. Truth of any kind frightens them. They are usually Christian Scientists, Spiritu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 433
…se of pride would mar the work. Aye, build it strong, lest the fierce rush of battling waves, that mount and beat its shore from out the great World Maya’s Ocean, swallow up the pilgrim and the isle—yea, even when the victory’s achieved. We now perceive more clearly the meaning of this pas- sage. Just as the man, in order to conquer the woman, used restraint, so also must this true Soul restrain itself, even at this high stage, although it gives itself completely up. Al- though it creates without thought and without desire, let it IItr
1922 · PDF PAGE 229
…ment when his enemies succeed in murdering him and destroying his life’s work, they are obliged to admit that he has ‘‘ Accomplished the Great Work’’—of creating Living Beings! “ Every man and every woman 1s a star.” —B. K. L. I don’t like that room. I said nothing about it to Peter ; but the old man was there walking about as large as life. You have to be specially prepared to see these things. Cockie was never spiritually minded. September 18 An alarm of burglars last night. We roused the house—but no traces could be found, The servants here …
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
…should raise no sympathy in your heart by whimpering over myself. It is true that I am inclined to run riot in self-lamen- tations ; but great men always are. And I shall try henceforth not to give way to that unwholesome tendency. I have much already to be forgiven. In my cage, then, to resume, I was just passing from a state of dreadful mental agony to a more settled and hopeful disposition. For the second time the man-who-had-lost-his- cover left me alone; and I felt more relieved. He will never dare, thought I; and, after all, he does not l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
…should raise no sympathy in your heart by whimpering over myself. It is true that I am inclined to run riot in self-lamen- tations ; but great men always are. And I shall try henceforth not to give way to that unwholesome tendency. I have much already to be forgiven. In my cage, then, to resume, I was just passing from a state of dreadful mental agony to a more settled and hopeful disposition. For the second time the man-who-had-lost-his- cover left me alone; and I felt more relieved. He will never dare, thought I; and, after all, he does not l…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
THE VISION AND THE VOICE Tue Cry OF THE 6TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED MAZ There cometh into the stone the great Angel whose name is Avé, and in him there are symbols which strive for mastery, —Sulphur and the Pentagram, and they are harmonized by the Svastika. These symbols are found both in the name of Avé and in the name of the Aethyr. Thus he is neither Horus nor Osiris. He is called the radiance of Thoth; and this Aethyr is very hard to understand, for the images form and dissolve more rapidly than lightning. These images are the illusions ma…
1911 · PDF PAGE 129
…rom the ashes of the Tarot who shall make the phoenix-wand? Not even he who by his understanding hath made the lotus-wand to grow in the Great Sea. Get thee back, for thou art not an Atheist, and though thou have violated thy mother, thou hast not slain thy father. Get thee back from the Urn; thy ashes are not hidden here. 127
1913 · PDF PAGE 580
…it into an unknown world by stripping it of its protective envelope. Let us study the mystery of birth, and we shall have the key of the great arcanum of death ! Thrown by the laws of Nature into the womb of a woman, the incarnated spirit very slowly wakes, and creates for itself with effort organs which will later be indispensable, but which as they grow increase its discomfort in its present situation. The happiest period of the life of the embryo is that when, like a chrysalis, it spreads around it the membrane which serves it for refuge, an…