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Page 123 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 511
…holastic research. I could only conclude that his success was almost wholly due to the excellence of the system which I had given to the world. In short, it was the justification of my whole life, the unique and supreme reward of my immeasurable toils. Fortified and rejoiced by this good news, I began at once to devote myself to research in the strict sense of the word. And then the fun began! I found myself unable to do anything of the sort. I am not quite sure how the circumstances responsible for this fit in with my general situation, but th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
…d per cent., perhaps, Of mortals ’scape its woes that knock us, And bilk the wily gonococcus.” So he is but a simple cynic Who takes the world to match his clinic ; And he assuredly may err Who, keeping cats, thinks birds have fur. You say: ‘‘ There's Berridge, Felkin, Mathers, Hysterics, epileptoids, blathers, Guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid, With ceremonial magic that toyed.” Granted. Astronomy’s no myth, But it produced Piazzi Smyth. What crazes actors ? Why do surgeons Go mad and cut up men like sturgeons? (These questions are the late…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…wned and Conquering Child. And again, Egyptology and psychology help us to understand what is implied, and what effect to expect, in the world of thought and action. Horus avenged his father Osiris. We know that the sun (indeed, every element of nature) does not suffer death. {399} The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then expect the New Aeon to release mankind from its pretence of altruism, its obsession of fear and its consciousness of sin. It will possess no consciousness of the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 41
…t means that the proper course of con‐ duct is to contend. But there is a further point about this card. It is governed from the angelic world by two Beings, one during the hours of Light, the other during the hours of Darkness.
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…d per cent., perhaps, Of mortals ’scape its woes that knock us, And bilk the wily gonococcus.” So he is but a simple cynic Who takes the world to match his clinic ; And he assuredly may err Who, keeping cats, think birds have fur. You say : “There’s Berridge, Felkin, Mathers, Hysteries, epileptoids, blathers, Guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid, With ceremonial magic that toyed.” Granted. Astronomy’s no myth, But it produced Piazzi Smyth. What crazes actors ? Why do surgeons Go mad and cut up men like sturgeons ? (The questions are the late Ch…
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…ezing point, even when the air six feet above does not strike one as specially cold. Bou Sada is one of the most beautiful spots in the world. It is frequented {626}
1929 · PDF PAGE 334
…shonesty of my factor. While the cat was away the mice had been extremely busy. Fuller and I had clearly understood the imminence of the world catastrophe. We did not exactly know where civilization would begin to crack, or when; we were content to leave such speculations to the Prophet Baxter, the Rev. Booth Clibborn and such small deer. But we saw the New Zealander sitting on the ruined arch of London Bridge quite clearly. We could also see the Professor of Archaeology in the University of Lhasa excavating the ruins of the British Museum. He …
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
…: This is a considerable advance on those purely naturalistic phenomena above de‐ scribed; in the Great Fool is a definite doctrine. The world is always looking for a saviour, and the doctrine in question is philosophically more than a doctrine; it is a plain fact. Salvation, whatever salvation may mean, is not to be obtained on any reasonable terms. Reason is an im‐ passe, reason is damnation; only madness, divine madness, offers an issue. The law of the Lord Chancellor will not serve; the law‐giver may be an epileptic camel‐driver like Moham‐…
1904 · PDF PAGE 123
…advance of us in the study of the supernormal phenomena of the mind as we are in advance of our fathers in the s ciences of the physical world.1 Note carefully this practical s ense of m y intention. I care nothing for the academic meanings of the steps in the Path; what they meant to the Arahats of old is indifferent to me. “Let the dead pas t bury its dead!” What I require is an advance in the Know- ledge of the Great Problem, derived no longer from hearsay revelation, from exalted fanati- cism, from hy steria and intoxication; but from metho…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…fording a swift stream can d ip his foot twice into the sam e water, so no man can, with exactnes s, affirm of any thing in the sensible world that it is. As he utters t he words, nay, as he thinks them, the predicate ceases to be applicable; the pres ent has become the past; the ‘is’ should be ‘was.’ And the more we learn of the nature of things the more evident is it that what we call rest is only unperceived activity ; that seeming peace is silent but strenuous battle. In e very part, at every moment, the state of the cosmos is the expressio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 274
…wn how subjectivity, real or no, was a mere proof of objectivity. Myst. And vice versé.! Ah! my friend, we shall be tossed about, as the world this 2500 years, if we once enter this vortex. Let us remain where all is smooth in the certainty that the Unknowable is Unreal ! Scept. We agreed it to be real! 1 This is not an ignoratio elenchi, but a criticism, too extended in scope to introduce here.—A. C.
1929 · PDF PAGE 476
…n the third of July to the rejected statue of Commerce for the Suez Canal, which Americans fondly suppose to be Liberty Enlightening The World. There I read my Declaration of Independence. I threw an old envelope into the bay, pretending that it was my British passport. We hoisted the Irish flag. The violinist played the "Wearing of the Green". The crews of the interned German ships cheered us all the way up the Hudson, probably because they estimated the degree of our intoxication with scientific precision. Finally, we went to Jack's for break…
1929 · PDF PAGE 523
…spend months of absolutely sickening solitude, direst poverty and impotence to take any action whatever, so that I might realize how the world feels to the very vast majority of the inhabitants of its civilized sections, to people without resources, prospects, friends or exploitable abilities. I was also to be prepared to take up a public career for the first time in my life; my previous manifestations having been of a semi-private or amateur kind. This period was inexpressibly distressing; apart from other unpleasantnesses, my health broke dow…
1929 · PDF PAGE 468
…cess, I found that my two oldest friends understood me so little that they thought it their duty to urge me to justify my conduct to the world by bringing an action against the most scurrilous blackmailing weekly in London. I was the angrier because at the moment I was practically {740} penniless, and because I hoped by submitting in silence a little longer to calumny, to make myself again useful to England in a similar capacity if certain eventualities, which I then thought not impossible, should materialize. Outraged in my most sensitive spot…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…lers Crown 8vo, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64. This Edition strictly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized wit…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…lers Crown 8vo, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64. This Edition strictly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized wit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…the passage which made me write to him. But it was an oracular obscurity which hinted that he knew of a Hidden Church withdrawn from the world in whose sanctuaries were preserved the true mysteries of initiation. This was one better than the Celtic Church; I immediately asked him for an introduction. He replied kindly and intelligibly, suggesting that I should read The Cloud upon the Sanctuary by Councillor von Eckartshausen. With this book I retired to Wastdale Head for the Easter vacation of 1898. This period proved to be the critical moment …
1929 · PDF PAGE 442
…he rituals were written. I may mention one degree in which the candidate is portentiously informed that there are other religions in the world besides Christianity and that there is some truth in all of them. Their tenets are explained in many cases with egregious error. The description of Buddha as a god is typical. I saw no point in overloading the system with superfluous information. Another essential point was to reduce the unwieldly mass of material to a compact and coherent system. I thought that everything worth preserving could and shou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 301
…e to introduce these drugs instead of the practically harmless and even beneficial YEN. China has been the most civilized country in the world; from the time of Lao Tzu and Confucius, the fringe of its culture has been torn by the claws of commerce, but it will survive the collapse of Europe. And in Yunnan the contamination of the foreign devil had not gone very far; in fact, it had not yet reached the asymptote of its own curve. However, the clearing of the ground had long been complete. There are practically no wild animals in the province. I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 325
… was a mission to mankind; and this must explain why, pari passu with my personal {529} progress, I walked continually in the way of the world. My spiritual life itself was now therefore definitely duplex, and this fact must be kept in mind if my subsequent actions are to be properly understood. Arriving in England on the second of June, I was stunned by the news of my bereavement. I made a point of detaching my mind. In the train from Liverpool to London I continued to chat with my companions on the boat as if nothing had happened. Having got …