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Page 142 of 1591939 · PDF PAGE 46
…irdly, there is a class of break partaking of the nature of reverie or 'day-dreaming.' These are very insidiousone may go on for a long time without realising that one has wandered at all. Fourthly, we get a very high class of break, which is a sort of abberation of the control itself. You think, 'How well I am doing it!' or perhaps that it would be rather a good idea if you were on a desert island, or if you were in a sound-proof house, or if you were sitting by a waterfall. But these are only trifling variations from the vigilance itself. A …
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
…fe and Death over the natural body : and the Form of the Higher Self advanceth and layeth its hand on the Candidate’s head for the first time, at the words: “So help me the Lord of the Universe and my own Higher Soul.” And this is the first assertion of the connecting-link between them. Then after this connec- tion is established doth the Hierophant in the following words raise the Candidate to his feet: “ Rise, newly obligated Neophyte in the o°= 0° Grade of the Order of the G.+.D.-. in the Outer. Place the Candidate in the Northern part of th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
…fe and Death over the natural body : and the Form of the Higher Self advanceth and layeth its hand on the Candidate’s head for the first time, at the words: “So help me the Lord of the Universe and my own Higher Soul.” And this is the first assertion of the connecting-link between them. Then after this connec- tion is established doth the Hierophant in the following words raise the Candidate to his feet: “ Rise, newly obligated Neophyte in the o°= 0° Grade of the Order of the G.+.D.-. in the Outer. Place the Candidate in the Northern part of th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 301
…ossible to conceive. Looking through the so-called Re- ports on this medium, one is impressed with the idea that it is criminal to waste time, and the Society’s money, obtaining such stuff, and criminal to keep pouring money down such a sink of Nothingness. What is the hold which this medium seems to have over the venerable Secretary of the Society? Is it more than a mere scientific interest? Are there subtler motives which cause the Head of the Psychical Movement in America to bow solemnly before the crude “Teachings” obtained through this evi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 99
Q2 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC As free as summer-time, to sound or cease: God’s utmost peace Lies like a cloud upon the quiet land. O httle hand ! White hand with rose leaves shed about the Lips, As if my lips Had left their bloom upon it when they kissed, As if'a mist Of God’s delicious dawn had overspread Their face, and fled ! O wonderful fresh blossom of the wood ! O purpling blood ! O azure veins as clear as all the skies! QO longing eyes That look upon me fondly to beget Two faces, set ‘ither like flowers upon their laughing blue, Whe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…e that abides in the glooms. Walking he is, and slowly; thoughtful he seems, Pure and happy and holy; as one would who dreams In the day-time of deep delights no kin to the day, But a flower new-born of the night’s in Hecate’s way. Love is his name, and he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart ; He is tamed by the art of the sages, the magical art. No longer he burns and blisters, consumes and corrodes ; He hath Muses nine for sisters; the holy…
1904 · PDF PAGE 90
…r to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to y ou, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. F or alway doth this Arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the Not and the Amen,1 passing, are void either on the one side or the other, and Who shall tell their ways ? So our Father, having won the Serpent Crown, the Uræus of Antient Khem, did bind it upon his head, and rejoiced in that Kingdom for the space of two hundred and thirty and one days2 and n…
1905 · PDF PAGE 106
…thirsty lips to the one perfect spring— My iron soul upon my trembling hands Tad its harsh will ; my bitterness was king. So verily long time I rode afar. My course was lighted by some gloomy star That boded evil, that I would not shun, But rather welcome, as the storm the sun, Lowering and red, a hurtful avatar, Whose fatal forehead like itself is dun It was no wonder when the second day Showed me a city on the desert way, Whose brazen gates were open, where within I saw a statue for a sign of sin, And saw the people come to it and pray, Befor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 311
…re is no such thing as space. I have to keep an appointment at midnight; and not only is my watch stopped, but there is no such thing as time ... But surely I am not a dead man at thirty! From this date till the first week in February, I was intellectually insane. The actual ordeal is described with intense simplicity and passion in "Aha!" I call it "the Order of the Veil, the Second Veil" and the "Veil of the Abyss". The complete destruction of reason left me without other means of apprehension than Neschamah. I have already explained briefly …
1944 · PDF PAGE 83
…f continual change, nothing can remain in any phase where one of these Gunas is predominant; however dense and dull that thing may be, a time will come when it begins to stir. The end and reward of the effort is a state of lucid quietude, which, however, tends ultimately to sink into the original inertia. The Gunas are represented in European philosophy by the three qualities, sulphur, mercury and salt, already pictured in Atu I, III and IV. But in this card the attribution is some‐ what different. The Sphinx is composed of the four Kerubs, sho…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
…epts to God, and thus losing them; yet,, through their aid, while they are still near enough to humanity to attract it, she reaches each time a higher point. Yet this point is never very high; so that Aeschylus, though in fact more ig- norant than our schoolboys, holds his seat besides Ibsen and Newtonin the Republic of the Adepti—a good horse, but not to be run too hard.—A. C.
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…es,” eh? You distrust my door already, eh? Why do you knock so? [Great noise below.) No honester crafts- man ever built a door—you waste time! Why so reluctant to move from the cold night to the ‘‘ blush of an alabaster brow,” and the rest of your accursed troubadour’s jargon, to a bliss you little expect. “‘ Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet ducere nuda choros.” But your choros, Blanche, is but your old uncle, who per- haps loves you better than you think just now. [ad sound of suppressed sobbing from the Chapel.) Ah! you may weep …
1939 · PDF PAGE 55
… reality, it seems strange that science should be able to give a consistent description of phenomena which ignores them. 'At the present time, this difficulty is being met in two ways. On the one hand, it is pointed out that science remains within its own domain by the device of cyclic definition, that is to say, the abstractions with which it
1944 · PDF PAGE 21
…o have meant very much what the late Victorian men of science meant, or thought that they meant, by the Lumi‐ niferous Ether. (The Space‐Time Continuum?) All this is evidently without form and void; these are abstract conditions, not positive ideas. The next step must be the idea of Position. One must formulate this thesis: If there is anything except Nothing, it must exist within this Boundless Light; within this Space; within this inconceivable Nothingness, which cannot exist as Nothingness, but has to be conceived of as a Nothingness compose…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…of Jephthah. Soldiers of Israel. Chorus of Elders of Israel. Maidens of Israel. SCENE :—An Open Place before Mizpeh. the midst an Altar. TIME :— The duration of the play is from noon of the first day to dawn of the third. Ln. JEPHTHAH. Lleazar. Prophet. Chores. CHORUS. Now is our sin requited of the Lord. For, scorning Jephthah for an harlot’s son, We cast him forth from us, and said: Begone, Thou shalt not enter in with us; thy throat
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…? 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 Sphere of Beauty. 2 See Mark xv. 35, 36 for the obscure allu- sions, Let me ride on more hastily than this, That so my body may be tired of me, And fling me to the old forgetful kiss, Sleep’s, when my mind goes, riderless and free, Into some corner of eternity. Alas! that mind returns from its abode With newer problems, fiercer thoughts! But stay ! Supp…
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…es, Mr. Pound is exposed to the besetting sin of the half-true or the maybe-true platitude. ‘The mastery of any art is the work of a lifetime, for example. How about the art of lyric poetry, how about Sappho and Keats and Swinburne’s early work? Again, we must have ‘direct treatment,’ Mr. Pound affirms, and we must ‘use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.’ Such pronouncements are either platitudes or untrue, they either mean nothing that can’t be taken for granted or a good deal that can’t. The last of these ‘princi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 45
…piteous Splendidly flash within the silver sphere Of light, and there I lose them at the last Most wonderfully passed within the veil Of Time ; caught up into the Infinite. Lay them together. And the hollow hill Shall echo me ‘‘ together,” and the sky, And the wide sea, and all the fragrant air, Shall linger in the tumult of the dawn. Lay them together. And thestill small voice Shall whisper ‘‘ Peace,” and in the evening “* Peace.” Hark! the growing THE VIOLET’S LOVE-STORY. Amonc the lilies of the sacred stream There grew a violet, like a maide…
1907 · PDF PAGE 167
…f my mind and heart! How can one hour dissolve a year’s delight ? One arrow striking the full eagle-flight lDrop him so swift, giving no time to die, No dusk to herald and delay the night? «AV serpent stung her sleeping: if the abyss Know any cell more dolorous than this, Were there a sharper tooth to destiny Than this that strikes me in the dead girl’s kiss :— Oh if aught bitterer could be, could know, If ninefold Styx could gather in its flow Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Acheron, All mixed to one full flood of hate and woe: And poisoned by all ve…
1939 · PDF PAGE 40
…. Their union results in the manifestation of these qualities in the child. Their potentialities are expressed and developed in terms of time and space, while also, accompanying the act of union, is the ecstasy which is the natural result of the consciousness of their annihilation, the necessary condition of the production of their offspring. 5. It would be easy to develop this thesis by analogies drawn from ordinary human experiences of the growth of passion, the hunger accompanying it, the intense relief and joy afforded by satisfaction. I li…