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Page 149 of 1591944 · PDF PAGE 94
…t the disposal of enquiring minds.) A great deal of what people now consider ignorance, being themselves ignorant of what the men of old time thought, comes from this misapprehension. At the bottom of this card, for example, are seen Fire and Water harmoniously mingled. But this is only a crude symbol of the spiritual idea, which is the satisfaction of the desire of the incomplete element of one kind to satisfy its formula by assimilation of its equal and opposite. This state of the great Work therefore consisted in the mingling of the contradi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
…t wrong step! The Ten of Wands is called Oppression. This is what happens when one uses force, force, and nothing else but force all the time. Here looms the dull and heavy planet Saturn weighing down the fiery, ethereal side of Sagittarius; it brings out all the worst in Sagittarius. See the Archer, not shooting forth benign rays, but dealing the sharp rain of death! The Wand has conquered; it has done its work; it has done its work too well; it did not know when to stop; Government has become Tyranny. One thinks of the Hydra when one reflects…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…s no difficulties. Only one point remained for consideration. I had said how almost insanely anxious I had always been about economizing time. My mind is, perhaps, the most infernally active on the globe. I cannot bear to eat a meal except as a deliberate debauch. I like to play a game of chess and read a book "while fortifying my body thereby" and engaging in conversation with the other guests. I was constantly devising dodges for making the most of every moment. I hate to shut a door behind me, on the ground that I might have to open it again…
1906 · PDF PAGE 284
278 TIME Myst. To be secretive is to be blatant. Scept. To be frank is to be mysterious. Adyst. I wish your poet-martyr! (I do not refer to Chatterton) could hear us. Scept. To return, I would have you note the paradox that unconsciousness must be reckoned as a-form of consciousness, since otherwise the last state of consciousness of a dying person is for him eternity. That this is not so is-shown by the phenomena of anzesthesia. Myst. Is it, though? Is the analogy so certain? Is there nothing in the attempt of all religions to secure that a ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
…t important work had been done at Marseilles on the way out, where we had to wait two days for a boat to take us to Algiers. I spent the time in writing the essay on the Cabbala which appears in The Equinox Vol. I, No. v. I had no books of reference at hand and therefore put down only what was in my memory. This is a good plan. It prevents one from overburdening the subject with unimportant details. In one's library one is obsessed by the feeling that one should aim at completeness and this is a grievous error. One wants to include only those e…
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…u already in the toils ? She had only lived eight months. IX. “ ‘How y ou bungle !’ growled Ganesha. ‘Fortunately we are better off this time. Indra has been guillotined for his dastardly murder; so his place is vacant.’ ‘Eurekas !’ yelled the m agus, ‘his very virtue will save him from his predecessor’s fate.’ “Behold Perdu’ R Abu then as Indra ! But oh, dear m e! what a m emory he was getting ! ‘It seems to me,’ he mused, ‘that I’ve been changing a lot lately . W ell, I am virtuous—and I read in Crowley’s new translation of the Dhammapada 2 t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 179
…antaneously and leaves one floundering in a mass of seething crystals. Rocks perched on {304} ice become very hot in an incredibly short time and break loose from the ice on which they are poised in a way which takes men of merely Alpine experience by surprise. My Mexican expedition proved invaluable in enabling me to foresee these phenomena. But the first warning was given on this march when two enormous stones which, anywhere else, would have stayed where they were for years, fell about twenty yards in front of me and the advance guard! When …
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…is not your own compilation?" It is impertinent to answer that the Koran is so sublime, so musical, so true, so full of prophecies which time has fulfilled and confirmed by so many miraculous events that Mohammed could not have written it himself. The author of The Book of the Law foresaw and provided against all such difficulties by inserting in the text discoveries which I did not merely not make for years afterwards, but did not even possess the machinery for making. Some, in fact, depend upon events which I had no part in bringing about. It…
1929 · PDF PAGE 409
…an basin, without assuming catastrophic changes in the earth's crust. We know the glaciers are generally retreating. We know that in the time of Horace snow fell heavily and lay long in the Roman winter.
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
TIME 269 Myst. Oh never! The word “real” im- plies to us subjectivity; a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us; even its Un- knowability is a species of knowledge of it: and, by Savitri! when I say real Zo us, I say real absolutely, since all things lie to me in the radius of my sensorium. ‘‘ To others” is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
453 From early boyhood my imagination had been excited by accounts of the Great Fair at Nijni Novgorod. Finding "the time and the place and the {716} loved one all together", at the cost of a slight effort, I decided to trot off and see "The Fun of the Fair", by which title I called the poem in which I describe my excursion. The way in which I wrote it is, I imagine, unique in literature. I wrote down in heroic couplets every incident of the adventure exactly as it occurred and when it occurred. The only variation is that occasionally I permit …
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…e fort of Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green grass of religion. -That its apologists should have devoted -so much time, thought, scholarship, and in- genuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 Or as the Sunday-school boy said: ‘‘ Faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue.’’ I quote Deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence In all his writings with whi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…er, nerve from nerve and vein from vein, and more intimately—cell from cell, molecule from molecule, and atom from atom, and at the same time all crushed to‐ gether. (Write down forms, often representing the planets, about its central glory) upon the sacred Banners which adorn the shrines of Tibet.
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
…replied that he had been an abstainer for nineteen years, during which he had shares in a brewery. He had now ceased to abstain for some time, but all his money was invested in a waterworks1. Besides Gregor Grant, Alick's only playmates were the sons of local Brethren. Aristocratic feeling was extremely strong. The usual boyish play-acting, {46} in which various personalities of the moment, such as Sir Garnet Wolseley and Arabi Pasha, were represented, was complicated in practice by a united attack on what were called cads. Alick especially rem…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…each one must fill in for himself his personal programme. But the supreme emancipation is the same in essence for all, and for the first time in history it has been possible to present this free from confusion, so that people can concentrate from the very beginning of their training on the one thing that matters. Our life was delightfully simple. Allan taught me the principles of Yoga; fundamentally, there is only one. The problem is how to stop thinking; for the theory is that the mind is a mechanism for dealing symbolically with impressions; …
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
…nd pitiful plaints against the logical results of the Advaitist School. But, on his basal hypothesis of an infinite God, infinite space, time, and so on, no other conclusion is possible. Dean Mansel is found in the im- possible position of one who will neither g ive up his premisses nor dispute the validity of his logical processes, but who shrinks in horror from the inevitable conclusion; he supposes there must be something wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its own inferiority to faith. As Deussen 3 well…
1906 · PDF PAGE 209
… do not understand, and whose nature is beyond them. 782. Christ ascends .8*—And I tell you frankly that if he does not come back by the time I have finished reading these proofs, I shall give him up. 783. Bell.83—The folios have ‘‘ bun.” NOTES TQ PENTECOST 22. With sacred thirst.\—‘' He, soul-hy-! droptic with a sacred thirst.””. A Grammarian’s Funeral. 23. Levi.2—Ceremonial magic is not quite so | silly as it sounds. Witness the following mas- | terly elucidation of its inner quintessence :— THE INITIATED INTERPRETATION OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC.* …
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…ng.” His knowledge is weird and remarkable, his ethics unfettered by the shackles of convention, and his style frequently eccentric, sometimes in doubtful taste, and sometimes, like that of his master, rushin onward in a. torrent of bold and magnificent images. Here, for instance, is a piece 0 “fine writing " which, of its kind, is excellent, though its meaning we presume not to fathom: O, Dweller in the Land of U2, thou also shalt be made drunken; but thy cup shall be hewn from the sapphire of the heavens, and thy wine shall be crushed from the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
…esult is recorded in a subsequent chapter. {225} When I began to develop this power consciously, I obtained considerable success. At the time of this journey I had arranged to visit a sister of the Order who lived in Hong Kong; at prearranged times, so that she might be looking out for me. Several of these visits turned out well. She saw and heard me; and on comparing notes, we found that our reports of the conversation agreed. But I was not able to act on "matter". I used to try to knock things off the mantelpiece, but in vain. On the other ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 387
…ur increased with every vision and every vision became intenser and more intimate. I fortified myself by magical practices. Two or three times I had found it difficult to get into the Aethyr; there were bars which I understood as not to be passed by the profane. The progressive sublimity and solemnity made me tremble lest I should not be worthy to behold the mysteries that lay in the future. So I consecrated myself by reciting this chapter of the Koran: Qol: hua allahu achad: alahu assmad: lam yalid: walam yulad: ya lam yakun lahu kufwan achad …