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Page 119 of 1301944 · PDF PAGE 83
…e four Kerubs, shown in Atu V, the bull, the lion, the eagle and the man. These correspond, furthermore, to the four magical virtues, to Know, to Will, to Dare, and to Keep Silence.1 This Sphinx represents the element of sulphur, and is exalted, temporarily, upon the summit of the wheel. She is armed with a sword of the short Roman pattern, held upright between the paws of the lion. Climbing up the left‐hand side of the wheel is Hermanubis, who represents the al‐ chemical Mercury. He is a composite god; but in him the simian element predominate…
1939 · PDF PAGE 44
…he three states of meditation proper is summed up in the word Samyama; you can translate it quite well for yourselves, since you already know that 'sam' means 'together,' and that 'Yama' means 'control.' It represents the merging of minor individual acts of control into a single gesture, very much as all the separate cells, bones, veins, arteries, nerves, muscles and so forth, of the arm combine in unconscious unanimity to make a single stroke. 16. Now the practice of Pratyahara, properly speaking, is introspection, and the practice of Dharana,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 118
…t.” Such an one wrote that word! as I would meet, Lay my life’s burden at his silver feet, Have him give ear if I say ‘‘ Master.” Yea! I know no heaven, no honour, half so sweet ! Ife passed before me on the wheel of Time, He who knows no Time—the intense sublime Master of all philosophy and play, Lord of all love and music and sweet rhyme. Follow thou him! Work ever, if thy heart Be fervent with one hope, thy brain with art, Thy lips with song, thine arm with strength to smite : Achieve some act ; its name shall not depart. Christ laid Love’s …
1905 · PDF PAGE 39
…ce Mock me with silence. What is Life? The stars Are silent. O ye matchless ministers That daily pass in your appointed ways To reach—we know not what! How mean- ingless Your bright assemblage and your steady task Of doubtful motion. And the soul of man Grapples in death-pangs with your mystery, And fails to wrestle down the hard embrace That grips the thighs of thought. And so he dies To pass beyond ye—whither? To find God? All my life long I have gazed, and dreamed, and thought, Unless my thought itself were but a dream, A little, troubled dr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 213
…f the Highest shall be set On your white heads, O monarchs of the snow ! The blessing of the Highest, lightening yet The burdens that ye know. So, as three golden arrows of the sun Strike, may the threefold sacrament be One ! O visionary valley of my Soul! When shall thy beauty, even thine, be made As pure and mighty as these hills that roll In mist and sun and shade? O thou! the Highest! make my will as thine, My consciousness, the consciousness divine ! 1 See the Prayer of the Undines, given by \"liphaz I.evi and some other writers on occult …
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…Sun”? (Quoth he), ‘‘and seek a winepress to be trod; ‘With Beauty girdled, garlanded, and shod. ‘* Thus,” riddled he, ‘‘ thy heart shall know its Peace !” Let be! I ride upon the sand instead, Look to the Cross, whereon I take mine ease ! Let be! Just so the Roman soldier said. Esaias?2 He is dead—as I am dead ! What was his symbol and his riddle’s key? Go, seek the stars and count them and explore ! Go, sift the sands beyond a starless sea! So, find an answer where the dismal shore Of time beats back eternity! No more! 1 7,e., Tiphereth, the S…
1939 · PDF PAGE 52
…our dimensions, but we must enquire how it stands in all the categories and scales, its values in all 'kinds' of possibility. What do we know about it in respect of its greenness, its hardness, its mobility, and so on? And then we find out that what we imagine to be the description of the object is in reality nothing of the sort. 22. All that we recorded is the behaviour of our instruments. What did our telescopes, spectroscopes, and balances tell us? And these again are dependent upon the behaviour of our senses; for the reality of our instrum…
1905 · PDF PAGE 199
…, But hated me the more. Serene and suave, He fenced with deep contempt. I stumble, slip, Guard wide—and only move his upper lip. ‘* You know I will not strike, Sir pure and brave ! Fight me your best—or I shall finda whip !” That stung me, even me. SO: Therefore some shame and hate informed the blow ; Some coward’s courage pointed me the steel ; Some strength of Hell: we lunge, and leap, and wheel ; Hard breath and laboured hands—the flashes grow Swifter and cruel—this court hath no appeal ! He wronged me, He gladdened then. I would not slip a…
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…cess and the results are familiar to every one of us; so familiar indeed that there is actually nothing else at all of which we have any knowledge. It is knowledge. What is it we are going to study, and why should we study it? (13) The answer is very simple. All this Yoga that we know and practice, this Yoga that produced these ecstatic results that we call phenomena, includes among its spiritual emanations a good deal of unpleasantness. The more we study this universe produced by our Yoga, the more we collect and synthesize our experience, the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…And, if you are woman, even there I do decline: we stand above. I ask not, and will take no share With you in what mankind call love. We know each other: you and I Have nought to do with lesser things. With them—’tis chance or destiny : With us, we should but burn our wings. We love, and keep ourselves apart : Mouth unto mouth, heart unto heart, Thus ever, never otherwise. The soul is out of me, and swings In desperate and strange surmise About the inmost heart of things. This is all strange: but is not life, Death, all, most strange, not to be…
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
…ld set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journey s he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,1 the S tar Suaconch2 being in the sign of the Lion, that our Father set out from his Castle of Ug 3 to attain the Quint- essence or Philosophical Tincture. The way being dark and the Golden Dawn at hand, he did call forth four se rvants to keep him in the m idst of the way, and the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…were vain. The great magician’s soul Is far too weak to risk Elizabeth. All this is past and under me. Above, Around, the magian tree of knowledge waves Its rosy flowers and golden fruit. I know Indeed that he is caught therein who craves ; But I, desiring not, accept the glow And blossom of that Knowledge that is Love. RONDELS (AT MONTE CARLO). Written in the Casino, Monte Cario. I. THERE is no hell but earth: O coil of fate Binding us surely in the Halls of Birth, The unsubstantial, the dissolving state ! There is no hell but earth. Vain are …
1906 · PDF PAGE 138
…d. Maurya. Oh! Oh! Have I done amiss? Am I not—— CRIOSDA. Stop, don’t ! LAsede.] I must be man—tut ! tut !— [Aloud.| Why, little sister, know Those whom we worship as our gods are gods. The power is mine: that art no skill resists. No God dethrones himself; none can. Will he, nill he, God must be God: it is a luckless fate for a girl’s dower, a thank- less way for a maiden’s feet. MAuRYA. Why, then, am I not the Goddess Maurya? Criospa. Yes! yes! of course, but only by my making. MAURYA. Was not my birth miraculous? and strange The death of the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…ht, The moment that she slept. I laughed Thereat : the bow! I idly quaffed Was nectar : she amused me, so. You see, my friend, I did not know. I also slept at morn. Then, then, A low voice whispered in the den: ‘‘Lucky young fellow! Brave and clever! This sort of thing goes on for ever.” IX. On earth I dreaded impotence, Age, death. You see, I had no sense. Best be an old man ere you die ; They wish insensibility, 1 Japanese coin worth a small portion of a penny. 2 The indecent dance of the South Seas.
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
…peakable fascination in watching the waves of maggots. The surface undulated with the peculiar rhythm of the ocean. To Baudelaire, as we know, a similar sight suggested his "Inamorata". I was presumably too blindly in love with Rose to see the resemblance; the main impression on my mind was more impersonally philosophical. I thought of the 13th Key of the Tarot, of the sign of Scorpio, the invincible persistence of life perpetuating itself by means of that very putrefaction which seems to shallow minds the star witness against it. Here were ver…
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
…Low rude the rime! There is no melody; the tune and time Are broken. Thirteen centuries ago They would have said, ‘‘ Alas! the youth! We know : This devil hath from him plucked the im- mortal soul.” / say: you have dulled my centres of control ! V. If you were with me, I were blind to this: Ready to drain my arteries for your kiss, Feel your grasp tighten round my ribs until You crush me in the ecstasies that kill. Being away and breathing icy air I am half lover, caring not to care ; Half-man again—a mere terrestrial ball Thus breaking up a sp…
1939 · PDF PAGE 36
… much better for you to perform the practices, obtain the experience, and come to me yourself with the information. In this way you will know that you have got the right thing, whereas if I were to tell you now, you would very likely imagine it. 2. Automatic rigidity: the body becomes still, as the result of a spasm. This is perfectly normal and predictable. It is customary to do it with a dog. You stick him in a bell-jar, pump in oxygen or carbonic acid or something, and the dog goes stiff. You can take him out and wave him around by a leg as …
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…fect: They trusted to escape the penal smoke By making Truth the trade-mark of their sect. How fortunate that we are Christian Folk, And know these notions to be incorrect ! CALL OF THE SYLPHS)} BEHOLD, I am; a circle on whose hands The twelvefold Kingdom of my Godhead stands. Six are the mighty seats of living breath, The rest sharp sickles, or the horns of death, Which are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they? hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving tim…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…g myself initiated in Lodge Number 343 "Anglo- Saxon" in Paris. What that led to I have recounted elsewhere and now quote: I happened to know that the chaplain of the British Embassy in Z--- was Past Grand Organist of a certain English province. He proposed me, found a seconder, and I was duly initiated, passed and raised. I was warmly welcomed by numerous English and American visitors to our Lodge; for Z--- is a very great city. I returned to England sometime later, after "passing the chair" in my Lodge, and wishing to join the Royal Arch, cal…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…ne Body, and breathe upon it with thy Spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with Lust of thy Manhood, and go in unto it, and know it; so shall ye be One Flesh. Now at last in the Reinforcement and Ecstasy of this Consummation thou shalt wit by what Inspiration thou didst choose thy Name in the Gnosis, I mean PARZIVAL, “der reine Thor”, the True Knight 1From Lieber Aleph: The Booh of Wisdom or Folly. that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole the Wound of Amfortas, and ordered Kun‐ dry to Right Service, and regained the Lance, an…