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Page 129 of 1591944 · PDF PAGE 268
…rticular virtue, which is to Go. The essential charac‐ teristic of the godhead is this faculty of Going; the free movements of space and time and all other possible conditions. In the Egyptian hieroglyphic system, this faculty of going was rep‐ resented by a sandal strap, which represents by its hieroglyphic form the crux ansata, the Rose and the Cross, which in its turn gives the formula of Love under Will, the secret of at‐ tainment.
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…till I had cleft me A way in her girth! | I tune the loud lyre once again to the mother of men in her mirth. O mighty and glad In spring-time and summer ! O tearful and sad When the sun is grown dumber, When the season is mad, And the gods overcome her, When the sky is fulfilled of the frost and the fingers of winter numb her ! O marvellous earth Of multiple mood That givest men birth And delicate food, Red wine to make mirth Of thine own red blood, And corn and green grass and sweet flowers and fruits most heavenly-hued ! Borne skyward in swoo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…umbered lives. Each cell of the millions of his brain may be likened to a charged leyden-jar, the nerve-paths radiating from it thrill betimes with its discharges, carrying its meaning through man’s body, and, through the A®ther, even to the infinitude of space. When it is functioning normally, its total discharge is prevented, so that never at any time can more than a fraction of its stored up energy be dissipated. ... And then Death comes; and in the moment of its coming, all that locked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.*…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…umbered lives. Each cell of the millions of his brain may be likened to a charged leyden-jar, the nerve-paths radiating from it thrill betimes with its discharges, carrying its meaning through man’s body, and, through the A®ther, even to the infinitude of space. When it is functioning normally, its total discharge is prevented, so that never at any time can more than a fraction of its stored up energy be dissipated. ... And then Death comes; and in the moment of its coming, all that locked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.*…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…keep himself in hand, however tempted to make a new heaven and a new earth in the next few davs by trumpeting his triumphs. He must give time a chance to redress his balance, sore shaken by the impact of the Infinité. As he becomes adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it informs and fortifies his mental and moral qualifies instead of obscuring and upsetting them. He will by now hâve become able to converse with his Angel, impossible a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 390
…his merely filled me with ambition to be the great exegetist who had explained it. I never thought of doubting the story. Well, all this time, and then through puberty, despite my romantic bent, my absorption in the gramarye of Sir Walter Scott, my imaginative life as one of his heroes, and the rest of it, I never had even a moment's illusion that anything of the sort had ever happened to me. I went through all the motions; I haunted all the places where such things are reputed likely to happen, but nothing did happen. There is one exception, a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 229
TANNHAUSER A STORY OF ALL TIME TANNHAUSER. XVI One is incisive, corrosive ; Two retorts, nettled, curt, crepitant ; Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive; Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant : Five! . . . O Danaides, O Sieve! XVII Now, they ply axes and crowbars ; Now, they prick pins at a tissue Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar’s Worked on the bone of a lie. To what issue ? Where is our gain at the Two-bars? XVIII Est fuga, volvitur rota. On we drift : where looms the dim port? One, Two, Three, Four, Five, contribute t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 237
… the gentle foresters of spring Crush dainty violets in their dalliance, Laughing in chorus with the birds ; and then (Coming at harvest time upon my tracks) See these same lovers in the golden sheaves Under the sun. The same, the fuller fruit, say you? But somehow, nearer to the end. Lost the old sense of mystery, and lost That curious reverence in sacrilege With Wonder—the child’s faculty! Less joy, Less laughter, yes! that symptom [ approve; Vet is that subtle fading-out of smiles 1 Sagittarius, Capricornus, in which is the Sun during Novemb…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…d shake hands," cried Simon Iff. "I have not been inactive, Cyril," added the old man. "I have had my eye on our young friend for a long time. I put my hand on him at the right moment. I showed him that spying was a dog's [334] game, with a dog's death at the end of it. He has renounced his errors, and he is now a Probationer of our Holy Order." The young men greeted each other, the Turk stammering out an appeal for pardon, the other laughing off his embarrassment. "But you are ill, Cyril!" cried Sister Cybele. And in truth the boy could hardly…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…xamination of physical practices, there is a standardised test. In Asana, for instance, the candidate must remain motionless for a given time, his success being gauged by poising on his head a cup filled with water to the brim; if he spill one drop, he is rejected. He is tested in “the Spirit Vision” or “Astral Journeying” by giving him a symbol unknown and unintelligible to him, and he must interpret its nature by means of a vision as exactly as if he had read its name and description in the book when it was chosen. The power to make and “char…
1922 · PDF PAGE 314
…in with his hypocritical piety, that was another matter. That was a matter of honour. I don’t know how long I stood there. I lived a lifetime in a second, and I made up my mind once for all to be done with such dirt. I slipped out and came here. I’m half insane myself at this moment with craving for H.; but I won’t take it till I’ve seen this thing through. The pain of my body helps me to bear up against the mortal anguish of my soul. Oh, I know it’s heroics and hysterics—you can call me what you like—what you say. doesn’t count any more. But I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…hold! I am yesterday, to~day, and the brother of to- morrow.” The magician should imagine that he is hearing this voice, and at the same time that he is echoing it, that it is true also of himself. This thought should so exalt him that he is able at its conclusion to utter the sublime words which open the third part: “Behold! he is in me, and I am in him.” At this moment, he loses con- sciousness of his mortal being; he is that mental image which he previously but saw. This consciousness is only complété as he goes on: “Mine is the radiance whe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…se conjurations year after year, making the Magical gestures of healing the sick, until I compel the visible appearance of the Spirit of Time, and make him acknowledge me his master. I hâve used the appropriate kind of means, in adéquate measure, and applied them in ways pertinent to my purpose by projecting my incorporeal idea of ambition in a course of action such as to induce in others the incorporeal idea of satisfying mine. I made my Will manifest to sense} sense swayed the Wills of my fellow- meii} mind wrought on mind through matter. I d…
1996 · PDF PAGE 15
…. In this vol ume I have allowed certain passages from The Book of the Law to stand by themselves without any comment; for it has some times seemed better to leave the reader to make what interpreta tion he can of his own than to risk confusing and delaying his apprehension of the message of the Book as a whole. The Book of the Law has already been published without a Commentary;1 but, if it is to reach and influence a wider public, a Commentary, which must often be detailed, is indispensable. The values of the Book, its application to our l…
1996 · PDF PAGE 56
…ntleman farmer of consider able wealth: a Plymouth Brother. Called, in Southsea, Hants., where he practiced: “The Honest Lawyer.” Every time that his wife gave birth to a child, or miscarried, she lay for weeks—often months—between life and death, with peri typhlitis or peritonitis set up by the difficulties of parturition. Yet this man, knowing this well, had gone on and on remorselessly. When I knew him he had 18 children living, and two more were born during that period. It was evidently his view that he had an absolute Right to impregnate…
1907 · PDF PAGE 205
…rk night-wings glow With iridescent indigo, Shot with some violet ray ; And all the vision flames across the horizon The millionth of no time—and when we say? Hail !—Thou art gone! The moon is dark beside thy crown; the Sun Seems a pale image of thy body bare ; And for thine hair Flash comets lustrous with the dewfall rare Of tears of that most memorable One, The radiant Queen, the veiléd Paphian. The wings of light divine Beneath thy body shine ; The invisible Rayed with some tangible flame, Seeking to formulate a name, A citadel ; And the win…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
… is hurled ? RHADAMANTHUS. What god beyond these twain Abides or may remain Seated, too strong to quell, exalted over pain ? -Aloof from time and chance, Fate, will and circumstance, Canst Thou not wither Life with one in- dignant glance? Thy name we know not; Thine Is the unbuilded shrine. We doubt us if Thou be among the powers divine ! MINOS. Bound by strict line and law, Fearful with might and awe, We hold the powerless power For many an agéd hour. We move not from our place. We ask nor give not grace, Nor change our lordly looks before a s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
… your teacher can judge how it is best to help you. Your magical teacher has something else to do besides running around .er you ail the time, and.the most important of ail his functions is that of auditor. Now, if you call in an auditor to investigate a business, and when he asks for the books you tell him that you hâve not thought it worth while to keep any, you need not be surprised if he thinks you every kind of an ass. It is at least, it was — perfectly incredible to The Master Th er ion that people who exhibit ordinary common sense in • 1…
1996 · PDF PAGE 101
…ne. But what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? For the third time I answer: The Christians to the Lions!
1906 · PDF PAGE 116
…ck to night; The white and black are woven in gray, Faint sleep of silken light. A strange soft light about me shed Devours the sense of time: Hovers about my sleepy head Some sweet persistent rhyme. Beneath my breast my love may hear Deep murmur of the billows— O gather me to thee, my dear, On soft forgetful pillows ! O gather me in arms of love As maidens plucking posies, Or mists that fold about a dove, Or valleys full of roses ! O let me fade and fall away From waking into sleep, From sleep to death, from gold to gray, Deep as the skies are…