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Page 137 of 1731954 · PDF PAGE 73
…ase of nearly all neuroses, as Freud recently "discovered" -as if this had not been taught, and taught without his massed errors, by the great Teachers of the past! The Taoist doctrine, in particular, is most precise and most emphatic on this point; indeed, it may seem to some of us to overshoot the mark; for nothing is permissible in that scheme but frictionless adjustment and adaptation to circumstance. "Benevolence and righteousness" are actually deprecated! That any such ideas should ever have existed (says Lao-tse) is merely evidence of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
…dations were laid of an exaggerated shyness which has never left me. I was practically debarred from human intercourse, even that of the great men of the past. My only consolation was writing poetry. It is difficult to explain by what means I came to the conclusion that poetry was of paramount importance. There was a sort of family tradition which honoured the poet; but it was as irrational as the rest of their beliefs. I can only imagine it as derived from their having been told at school that the English poets were the glory of humanity, for …
1922 · PDF PAGE 181
Indian Summer 167 and all the trickery of commerce arose from artificial restriction. Last night’s swindle was made possible by the great philanthropist Jabez Platt. His Diabolical Dope Act has created the traffic which he was trying to suppress. It didn’t exist before except in his rotten imagination. .. . I get such sudden spells of utter weariness. Dope would put me right. Nothing else has any effect. Everything that happens makes me want a sniff; and every sniff makes something happen. One can’t get away from the cage, but the complexity ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…d Foyers. By paying twice as much as it was worth, I got it, gave up my flat and settled down at once to get everything in order for the great Operation, which one is told to begin at Easter. The house is a long low building. I set apart the south-western half for my work. The largest room has a bow window and here I made my door and constructed the terrace and lodge. In side the room I set up my oratory proper. This was a wooden structure, lined in part with the big mirrors which I brought from London. On first arriving at Boleskine, I innocen…
1922 · PDF PAGE 322
…a and watch the ever- changing glories of night-fall. And night itself! There stands the Pole Star over the rock. As the months move the Great Bear wheels about its stable splendour, and one’s mind begins to work on a totally different scale of time. Each revolution of the heavens about the Pole is like the second hand of one’s spiritual watch.”’ We listened with enthralled attention. The beauty of the place beat hard upon our brains. It was un- believable. Patches of cancer. like London and Paris were cut ruthlessly out of our consciousness. W…
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
132 The Law is for All It would be easy to elaborate this theme at great length, but I prefer to leave it to be worked out by each reader in the light of his own intelligence. But I wish to call the very particular atten tion of capitalists and labour leaders to the principles here set forth. I conclude by quoting a chapter from Liber Aleph which bears on the subject. Ag—DE FUNDAMENTIS CIVITATIS [39—On the Foundations of the State] Say not, o my Son, that in this Argument I have set Limits to individual Freedom. For each Man in this State whic…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…ieard of it, we know wliat it mu si be. Let us emphasize the fact that the final product is in ail cases a living thing. It has been the great stumbling block to modem research that the statements of alchemists cannot be explained away, From the Chemical standpoint it has seemed not à 'priori impossible that lead should be turned into gold. Our recent discovery of the periodicity of the éléments has made it seem likely, at least in theory, that our apparently immutable éléments should be modi¬ fications of a single one. 1 Organic Chemistry, wit…
1954 · PDF PAGE 36
…l to eat and drink." He: "To what end?" You: "That my body may be fortified thereby." He: "To what end?" You: "That I may accomplish the Great Work." He: "Love is the law, love under will." You, with a single knock: "Fall to." When alone make a monologue of it: thus, Knock 3-5-3. Do what, etc. It is my Will to, etc., that my body, etc., that I may, etc., Love is, etc. Knock; and begin to eat. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 83
…Sepher Sephiroth. By this method, too, you may strike a rich vein of words of your own that I have altogether missed. No doubt, a Really Great Teacher would have said: "Beware! Use my Dictionary, and mine alone! All others are spurious!" But then I'm not a R.G.T. of that kind. For a start, of course, you should put down the words that are bound to come in your way in any case: numbers like II, 13, 31, 37 and their multiples; the names of God and the principal angels; the planetary and geomantic names; and your own private and particular name wi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…ry: Do not be afraid of “going the pace.” It is better to wear out than to rust out. You are unconquerable, and of indefatigable energy. Great men find time for everything, shirk nothing, make reputations in half a dozen different lines, have twenty simultaneous love affairs, and live to a green old age. The milksops and valetudinarians never get anywhere; usually they die early; and even if they lived forever, what’s the use? The body is itself a restriction as well as an instrument. When death is as complete as it should be, the individual ex…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
42 the Great Cliff. I had reached the Grass Traverse when I heard voices in the mist above me, and a few minutes later a powerful man with red whiskers and a rope about his shoulders came towards me from the cliff. It was J. W. Robinson, a local farmer, who had laid the foundation of Cumberland climbing. He offered to show me some of the easier climbs. He had started that morning with a man named Owen Glynne Jones. Jones had insisted on trying to climb Steep Gill, which is for the most part a shallow gully of smooth slabs set at a dangerous ang…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…ber, 18098. JEPHTHAH. ‘*Let my Lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphear The spirit of Plato, to unfold What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Sceptr’d Pall come sweeping by.” It Penseroso. Tdde viv éralpats Tats tua rép…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…e by the normally minded man.+ * “ Bhagavad-Gita,” vi, 34, 35- + The whole of this ancient symbolism is indeed in its very simplicity of great beauty. The highest of physical emotions, namely, love between man and woman, is taken as its foundation. This love, if allowed its natural course, results in the creation of images of ourselves, our children, who are better equipped to fight their way than we on account of the experiences we have gained. But, if this love is turned into a supernatural channel, that is to say, if the joys and pleasures o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…e by the normally minded man.+ * “ Bhagavad-Gita,” vi, 34, 35- + The whole of this ancient symbolism is indeed in its very simplicity of great beauty. The highest of physical emotions, namely, love between man and woman, is taken as its foundation. This love, if allowed its natural course, results in the creation of images of ourselves, our children, who are better equipped to fight their way than we on account of the experiences we have gained. But, if this love is turned into a supernatural channel, that is to say, if the joys and pleasures o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 18
…ent perform certain exercises and prayers at set times during the day, primarily that the whole pattern of life be thus dedicated to the Great Work. He coined a phrase "background-concentration" for this procedure . It implied that by so doing, a tendency would be initiated toward concentration which would stand the student in good stead when, or as, he approached the problem of teaching the mind to center itself. Letter A gives much of this approach, but the concept is scattered throughout the book. His signature appended to all the letters is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 337
… sections of my commentary, of which I had given her a copy at the time of the "Zeugnis."2 Had Hitler been a less abnormal character, no great "mischief," or at least a very different kind of "mischief," might have come of it. I think you have read Hitler Speaks-if not, do so-his private conversation abounds in what sound almost like actual quotations from The Book of the Law. But the public man's private conversation can be repeated on the platform only at the risk of his political life; and he served up to the people only such concoctions as …
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…incipal concern is to invoke Shiva " to destroy the illusion whose thrall is the curse of the Manvantara. The cardinal révélation of the Great Aeon of Horus is that this formula AUM does not represent the facts of nature. 1 he point of view is based upon misapprehension of the character of existence. It soon became obvious to The Master Fherion that AUM was an inadéquate and misleading hieroglyph. It stated only part of the truth, and it implied a fundamental falsehood. He consequently determined to modify the Word in such a manner as to fit it…
1938 · PDF PAGE 7
…thickly in the face. Their impotent malice so exceeds itself that I am moved for a moment to laugh. At that, as at the Master-spell of a great sage, the charm is snapped: I soar into sanity. I must be simple indeed! How did I fail for a moment to understand that Brocken-Spectres must be shadows cast by some Star, a Sun, upon sun-lifted vapoursthat all these diverse shapes of madness are but distortions of one form upon the mountain-crest, a solitary shadowthe shadow of a Man! Lux. I stood erect. I found myself unhurt. I turned. I lifted up mi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 286
…e that of a man on a mountain who should see two other peaks ju tting up from a paten of cloud. Those tips give little indication of the great mass that supports each; both are equally of the one same planet; they are in fact identical save for the minute spire visible. Yet he, reconnoitering with intent to climb them observes closely only that function of each crag and icefall which is relevant to his plan to reach their summits. He also is of that One Quintessence; but he must fit himself adroitly to each successive incident of the respective…
1922 · PDF PAGE 209
…have had more horse-sense than that doctor. I gave Peter the tablet with plenty of water when he began to get restless. It soothed him a great deal. I wished I had one for myself. I felt my irritability returning ; but I didn’t break out because it couldn’t be long till Basil came round. I looked forward to his coming as to a certain end to all our troubles... . What actually happened was quite different. I hardly know how to write it down. The shame and the disappointment are blasting. I feel that the doors of hope have been slammed in my face…