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Page 133 of 1971906 · PDF PAGE 103
…CASTOR. I heard, ‘‘ Regret not thy mortality ! Love conquers death !” POLLUX. But I, ‘‘ Regret not thou Thine immortality! Love conquers life !””! ORPHEUS. A partial wisdom to a partial ear. JASON. But what speech came to thee ? ORPHEUS., I heard no voice. ARGUS. What means this? Here’s my labour thrown away, My skill made jest of, all my wage de- stroyed At one fell stroke. JASON. What? Is the Argo burnt? 1 Pollux being immortal, and Castor mortal, at the former’s request Zeus allowed them to pool their fates, and live alternate days in Hades …
1906 · PDF PAGE 161
…identification And nature thus? As man contains of it with ohris- Cells, nerves , grey matter in his brains, to be mystical. Each cell a life, self-centred, free His interpreta- Yet self-subordinate to the whole tion false. For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the truth—-why ! worship then Were not so imbecile for men! But that’s no Christian faith! For where Enters the dogma of despair? Despite his logic’s si…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…se in Tannhäuser : I say , then , “ I; " and yet it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I ” incorporate in All . I am the Resurrection and the Life ! 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . I, pp. 109-112. (The metre though not the cadence is that of “ Laus Veneris .") 2 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 191.
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
… : Stark dead . The queen-I hate the name of her ! So grew the mustard -seed , one moment's lust . Wounded himself, he is nursed back to life by the wife of his adversary . Ah God ! she won that most reluctant breath Out of corruption : love ! ah ! love is strong ! What waters quench it ? King Shalomeh saith .? Thus failed the Quest , as all quest against love must inevitably fail . A man who truly loves a woman loves her so intensely that all else is as naught ; she grows before him gigantic through the mist of his desire , swallowing him up i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…law of polarity , set in motion by the hand of Idealism , pro duced as effect a fanciful spiritualism , which sought in the mysteries of life an answer that lay still on the cold lips of Death . These two powers , the Pantheonic materialism and the Gnostic spiritualism , bore the hybrid - Christianity . As all religions have finally become subservient to an interested priesthood , so have all religions ( how ever spiritual they may have been in their youth ) been materialized and sacrificed on the altar of gain . To this rule Christianity forms…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. The holy-man-of-the-East must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the Three Characteristics (the antithesis of Nibbana) even as one uses one’s normal dualistic consciousness to attack that dualism. But I must observe that this idea is so tremendous that I almost doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my own under- standing of it. Samadhi twelve seconds in duration is a phenomenon to shake the soul of a man, to uproot his Kamma, to destr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. The holy-man-of-the-East must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the Three Characteristics (the antithesis of Nibbana) even as one uses one’s normal dualistic consciousness to attack that dualism. But I must observe that this idea is so tremendous that I almost doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my own under- standing of it. Samadhi twelve seconds in duration is a phenomenon to shake the soul of a man, to uproot his Kamma, to destr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 91
…r works will be given so exalted a flavour that they themselves will pass as great ascetics who have out- soared the bestial passions of life, whilst in fact they are running harems in Boulogne or making indecent proposals to flower-girls in South Audley Street. These latter ones gener- ally trade under the exalted names of Ze Mahatmas; who, * In all the Mysteries the partakers of them were always such as had not committed crimes. It will be remembered that Nero did not dare to present himself at the Eleusinia (Sueton. vzt, Vero, e. 3A). And Po…
1910 · PDF PAGE 91
…r works will be given so exalted a flavour that they themselves will pass as great ascetics who have out- soared the bestial passions of life, whilst in fact they are running harems in Boulogne or making indecent proposals to flower-girls in South Audley Street. These latter ones gener- ally trade under the exalted names of Ze Mahatmas; who, * In all the Mysteries the partakers of them were always such as had not committed crimes. It will be remembered that Nero did not dare to present himself at the Eleusinia (Sueton. vzt, Vero, e. 3A). And Po…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…red solemnly; her eyes sank into his, like a dagger into the belly of a faithless Kabyle woman. “ But beyond that, your secret! You know life, yet you can laugh from a mad heart ! ” " It is easily said. I am going to London to—morrow. There they will make me bankrupt, because I love my neigh- bour better than myself, and prosecute me for blasphemy and indecency, because I uttered a few simple truths that every— body knows." "Why, my friend, you will be famous I " she cried. " Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante 1 ” “Probably,” said he. “…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…red solemnly; her eyes sank into his, like a dagger into the belly of a faithless Kabyle woman. “ But beyond that, your secret! You know life, yet you can laugh from a mad heart ! ” " It is easily said. I am going to London to—morrow. There they will make me bankrupt, because I love my neigh- bour better than myself, and prosecute me for blasphemy and indecency, because I uttered a few simple truths that every— body knows." "Why, my friend, you will be famous I " she cried. " Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante 1 ” “Probably,” said he. “…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that they have only drunk of muddy streams. To enjoy even the animal pleasures of life one must have the moral sense; and those who calumniate existence have certainly abused it. High magic, as we have proved, leads man back to the laws of the purest morality. Either he finds a thing holy or makes it holy, says an adept—Ve/ sanctum invenit, vel sanctum Jacit; because it makes us understand that in order to be happy, even in this world, one must be holy. To be holy! that is easy to say; but how give one’s self faith when…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that they have only drunk of muddy streams. To enjoy even the animal pleasures of life one must have the moral sense; and those who calumniate existence have certainly abused it. High magic, as we have proved, leads man back to the laws of the purest morality. Either he finds a thing holy or makes it holy, says an adept—Ve/ sanctum invenit, vel sanctum Jacit; because it makes us understand that in order to be happy, even in this world, one must be holy. To be holy! that is easy to say; but how give one’s self faith when…
1919 · PDF PAGE 232
THE EQUINOX 40. Every Brother is expected to use all his influence with persons in a superior station of life (so called) to induce them to join the Order. Royal personages, ministers of State, high officials in the Diplomatic, Naval, Military, and Civil Services are particularly to be sought after, for it is intended ultimately that the temporal power of the State be brought into the Law, and led into freedom and prosperity by the application of its principles. 41. Colleges of the Order will presently be established where the children of its m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 442
…poureth forth its first most glorious waves. His mind, like a becalmed and boundless ocean, spreadeth out in shoreless space. He holdeth life and death in his strong hand. It is interesting to notice that he is stillin the West. This is the penultimate stage. He is really now practically iden- tical with Mayan himself. He has met and conquered the maker of illusion, become one with him, and his difficulty will then be so to complete that work, that it shall be centred on itself, and leave no seed that may subsequently germinate and destroy all …
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…Ben struck the half hour. Big Ben is far too big to take any notice of anything terrestrial. A change of dynasty is nothing in his young life! "Come in, for the land's sake!" cried Lavinia King. Her quick ear had caught a light knock upon the door. She had hoped for something exciting, but it was only her private tame pianist, a cadaverous individual with the manners of an undertaker gone mad, the morals of a stool-pigeon, and imagining himself a bishop. [13] "I had to wish you many happy returns," he said to Lisa, when he had greeted
1944 · PDF PAGE 76
…of the colour of Jupiter, but its shape suggests the full moon and the Great Sea of Binah. In the centre is radiant blood; the spiritual life is inferred; light in the darkness. These rays, moreover, revolve, emphasizing the Jupiterian element in the symbol.
1929 · PDF PAGE 277
…s of a few well-marked thoughts, without the usual gradations, sub-thoughts, connections and so forth, that make it hard --- in ordinary life --- to discriminate between conscious and unconscious thought. On this night I was as primitive as an ape. My thoughts stand out stark as stars on a background of utter blackness. I had become, as by an enchanter's spell, the primeval caveman. Perhaps the long strain and horror of the Kangchenjunga tragedy had prepared me for this sudden outcropping of atavism. {454} However that might be, I remember noth…
1906 · PDF PAGE 168
… human food. Nor do I cry the scoffer’s cry, That Christians live and look the lie Their faith has taught them: none of these Inspire my life, disturb my peace. I go beneath the outward faith Find it a devil or a wraith, Just as my mood or temper tends! And thus to-day that “ Christ ascends,” I take the symbol, leave the fact, Decline to make the smallest pact With your creative Deity, And say: The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“ New Birth” you'l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 224
… with such inborn predilection , and such outward assumption , it is easy to understand why it was that he threw the whole energy of his life into an attempt to refute the advancing scepticism latent in the works of Hobbes and Locke . He saw , and seeing fought the many children which had sprung from the fertile womb of the Cartesian doctrine , of abstract general ideas and secondary qualities ; which alone found birth in the powers of language, and in the delusion of words . But behind the didactic Berkeley stands the mystic , that other Berke…