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Page 117 of 1591910 · PDF PAGE 208
…appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking skindlewig. Soon after his arrival in Ceylon, and at the time that he was working with Frater I. A. the greatness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention to the dogmatic literature of Buddhism only to find that behind its unsworded Cromwellian colossus,* with all his rigid virtues, his stern reasoning, his uncharitableness, judicialism and impartiality, slunk a pack of pig-headed dolts, stubborn, asinine and mulish; slavish…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking skindlewig. Soon after his arrival in Ceylon, and at the time that he was working with Frater I. A. the greatness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention to the dogmatic literature of Buddhism only to find that behind its unsworded Cromwellian colossus,* with all his rigid virtues, his stern reasoning, his uncharitableness, judicialism and impartiality, slunk a pack of pig-headed dolts, stubborn, asinine and mulish; slavish…
1919 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX This is certainly better. The three times during singing practice occurred while trying over new music with the choir of which I am a member, and it is very hard to leave out a word when singing. I find this practice makes one speak much less. The word chosen being a conjunction often results in the second part of a sentence remaining unspoken. I never before noticed how unneces- sary some of our speech is; in fact I have now no doubt that a great many things are better left unsaid. Monday, Jan. oth. Bedtime. Said word to-day for th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 262
…shocked at our appearance. The mattre d’hotel bustled over and made some sympathetic remarks about our not having been there for a (long time. I told him that we had both been very ill; |and-then-Eow put in;-in. a “ We shall -be-better-te-night,” der intonation was so sinister that the man almost d. I was afraid for the moment that everything be spoilt, but I saved the situation by some silly
1922 · PDF PAGE 315
…t count. You were a sick man. That was all. Maisie suggested that she should go round and fetch you ;; and thank heaven she got there in time!”
1922 · PDF PAGE 371
… had been deputed to remind us of dinner. Sister Athena (we laughed to think) must have realised that our honeymoon had begun ; and—this time—it was no spasmodic exaltation depending on the transitory excitement of passion, or stimulants, but on the fact of our true spiritual marriage, in which we were essentially united to each other not for the sake of either, but to form one bride whose
1930 · PDF PAGE 111
…, “A foot!... foot! What is this foot? Surely I am not alone in the Hermitage! ” And this practice should be carried out not only at the time of méditation, but during the day’s work. 2. This méditation is to be assisted by reasoning- as, “This foot is not I. If I should lose my foot, I should still be I. This foot is a mass of changing and decaying flesh, bone, skin, blood, I. If armed with wand and lamp let him extinguish the light with his hand. — N. — 411
1954 · PDF PAGE 28
…" [the Secret Chiefs of the Order / . . . were agreed on measures calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind. The Equinox, in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone. It appears that he recognized that he should have published only the basic yoga and magical instructions known as the Official Instructions of the Order in order to preserve "the Sacred Tradition." Now that the original sets of The…
1954 · PDF PAGE 433
…to tell you that in some still undiscovered (or, rather, unpublished) and unmeasured form it is certainly a fact. Haven't I told you one time how we nearly starved on Iztaccihuatl with dozens of tinned foods all round us, they being ancient; of how one can get drunk on half a dozen oysters; of how the best meat I have ever eaten is half-raw Himalayan sheep, cut up and thrown on the glowing ashes before rigor mortis had set in? There is a difference between living and dead protoplasm, whether the chemist and his fellow twilight-gropers admit it …
1954 · PDF PAGE 473
…tement . The rapier-play of two experts, when a word changes from one line of formation to another, and then again, perhaps even a third time, is as exhilarating as a baseball-game or a bull-fight. And what the Tartarus-Tophet-lehanna has all this to do with Education, and the Great Work? This, child! H.G. Wells and others have pointed out with serene justice that a gap in your vocabulary implies a gap in your mind; you lack the corresponding idea. I put this in for you because an American officer, very dear to me, flitted from the Front for a …
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…han that ever necessarily concentrated on the actual business of camp life. The rest, and the final revision, occupied a good deal of my time during the winter of 1902-1903. The MS. was accepted by the S. P. R. T. in May of this year, and after a post- final revision, rendered necessary by my Irish descent, went to press. 618. Each life bound over to the wheel.72— Cf. Whatley, “Revelation of a Future State.” [* These page r eferences have been alter ed to conform to the pagination of this e-text– T.S.] 652. This, that, the other atheists death…
1929 · PDF PAGE 394
… I only rememberd this after reaching New York at the end of 1914. Luckily I had the ritual with question and answer written down at the time, and an account of these predictions, precisely fulfilled, appeared in the New York World. I may here remark that I have always been able to foretell the future by various methods of divination. Some give more satisfactory results than others, some are better suited to one class of inquiry, some to another. In all cases, constant practice, constant checking up of one's results, critical study of the condi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 501
…ssertion disprovable merely by consulting Baedeker. He said that Rockefeller had given him nine hundred thousand dollars and at the same time sent round the hat with an eloquent plea for the smallest contributions. He professed to be a learned Egyptologist and classical scholar on terms of intimacy with the most exalted personages. Yet, as in the case of Peter, his speech betrayed him. He was a good chap at heart, a genuine lover of truth, by no means altogether ignorant of Magick, and a great fool to put up all this bluff instead of relying on…
1922 · PDF PAGE 331
… of their inhabitants. You will sleep here, of course, and con- sidering the reason for which you have come—No, Dionysus, this isn’t the time to say ‘He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason’—I will sleep down here for the present instead of in my lonely little tower, as I usually do.” We noticed that Cypris and the boys had slipped away quietly; but Athena sat engrossed in studying us, ** In the absence of Lala,’ he said, ‘‘ Sister Athena is our chief psychologist. You will find her know…
1922 · PDF PAGE 358
…I had had a sort of workshop of my own. The greatest pleasure of my childhood had been the rare visits to my mother’s father, who in his time had been a great inventor and done an immense amount of work relative to the mechanical perfection of railway travelling. When the war broke out I had gone straight to the engineering shops; and I became a flying man rather against my will, on account of my weight and the dearth of pilots. I broke off in my enthusiastic harangue, because King Lamus had stopped on the crest of the ridge which divided the s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 363
…sh that you let your breakfast get cold, you don’t know your wife when she brings it, and you can talk about nothing else. For the first time in your life your self- consciousness is obliterated, You even start to explain your ideas to me, though I know nothing whatever of the subject. It doesn’t require any particular genius to see that you have discovered your true will. And that accounts for the champagne and applause at lunch.” I scratched my head, still hardly comprehending. But one clause in the Big Lion’s roar had struck me with appallin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 44
…figure of hyperbole, that I admit ; but it really won't do to have a dozen cooks at the broth! If you're working with me, you'll have no time to waste on other people. I fear your "Christianity" is like that of most other folk. You pick out one or two of the figures from which the Alexandrines concocted "Jesus" (too many cooks again, with a vengeance!) and neglect the others . The Zionist Christ of Matthew can have no value for you ; nor can the Asiatic "Dying-God" - compiled from Melcarth, Mithras, Adonis, Bacchus, Osiris, Attis, Krishna, and …
1954 · PDF PAGE 244
…uch more than this. The Astronomer's estimate has puttied every tiniest crack, he concedes it, but then waves it brusquely away: all the time the door is standing wide open! The Astronomer's exquisitely tailored figure stands in abashed isolation, like a gawky young man at his first Ball; he feels that he doesn't belong. For this D.S.T., or Greenwich, or what not, however exact in itself , is so only in reference to some other set of measurements which themselves tum out to be arbitrary; it is not of any ultimate import; nobody can dispute it, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
… the Book is at pains to admit as to love “when” and “where” we will. Few people, surely, have been seriously worried by restrictions of time and place. One can only think of lovers who live with fearsome families or in inhospitable lodgings, on a rainy night, buffeted from one police-bullied hotel to another. Perhaps this permission is intended to indicate the propriety of performing the sexual act without shame or fear, not waiting for darkness or seeking secrecy, but by daylight in public places, as serenely as if it were a natural incident …
1922 · PDF PAGE 123
Vedere Napoli e poi—pro patrid—mori 109 imagine that I’d let an old pal down. Any time you find yourself with a little loose cash, just weigh in. You can have it out of my bit.” “ Well, that’s really too good of you,” I said, “ and I won’t forget it. It’ll be all right, I suppose, now you’ve got the thing through, to wait till I get back to England.” “Why, of course,” he replied. ‘“ Don’t think about business at all. It was really rotten of me to talk shop to a man on his honeymoon.” Lou took up the conversation. ‘“ But do tell us,” she began, …