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Page 152 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 451
451 {713} which many Russians competent to judge have assured me struck surer to the soul of Russia than anything of Dostoyevsky. Their witness fills me with more satisfaction as to the worth of my work than anything else has ever done. Another poem, "Morphia", has no ostensible reference to Russia, but the insight into the psychology of the "addict" was indubitably conferred by my illumination. I had no experience, even at second hand, of the effects of the drug; yet I was assured by a distinguished man of letters who had himself suffered from…
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
…ve 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 in the affinity of her being . The King's sword was of little use ; the pillar of the Higher Self lay in the salt - encrusted plains , saline with the tears and sobs of failure ; the ring emblem atic of surrender , without beginning or end , was em ble…
1907 · PDF PAGE 229
…ion ? We shall , at least , by these means , be sensible of our ignorance , if we do not augment our knowledge . “ I must confess that a man is guilty of unpardon able arrogance who concludes , because an argument has escaped his own investigation , that therefore it does not really exist .” ? And he continues further on : “ And though he should be convinced that his under standing has no part in the operation , he would never theless continue in the same course of thinking . There is some other principle which determines him to form such a con…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…hat its name implies , the system of doctrines as taught by Christ , but diametrically the reverse , the system of desires as wrought by Man . It is no longer “ Sell all ,” but “ Seize all ”; or “ Give all ,” but “ Get all .” Mammon is the God of to - day , and modern Christianity is ab solute and unadulterated materialism . As such it is not necessary to look far for its antithesis . Religions decay through materiality , and whenever religions decay mysticism arises ; for materiality cannot explain
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
THE THREE WORMS “Tam her heart, her ordinary, commonplace woman’s heart. Commonplace! Ah! nothing is so mysterious as the common- place, for it is only Subtlety sleeping and holding its hands a little while. A country clod is more interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
THE THREE WORMS “Tam her heart, her ordinary, commonplace woman’s heart. Commonplace! Ah! nothing is so mysterious as the common- place, for it is only Subtlety sleeping and holding its hands a little while. A country clod is more interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was e…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
… You have flattered me; tu veux me perdre." His English had no equivalent She gave a little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “Your body and soul," she answered 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 mys…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
… You have flattered me; tu veux me perdre." His English had no equivalent She gave a little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “Your body and soul," she answered 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 mys…
1912 · PDF PAGE 94
…rther from his head as his moral sense dragged his body backwards along the Rue de Rivoli. By this means he cannoned into a worthy Frenchman (who refused to take him seriously) and so was shocked into himself. He pulled out his watch. Only an hour and a half to catch his train. justas he was beginning to enjoy himself, too. What a shame! He couldn’t even send a telegram without letting somebody know where he was—and at home they supposed him to be visiting a business acquaintance in Shropshire. I'll have a mementum, thought he, if I die for it.…
1912 · PDF PAGE 94
…rther from his head as his moral sense dragged his body backwards along the Rue de Rivoli. By this means he cannoned into a worthy Frenchman (who refused to take him seriously) and so was shocked into himself. He pulled out his watch. Only an hour and a half to catch his train. justas he was beginning to enjoy himself, too. What a shame! He couldn’t even send a telegram without letting somebody know where he was—and at home they supposed him to be visiting a business acquaintance in Shropshire. I'll have a mementum, thought he, if I die for it.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
THE EQUINOX have made the same observation on a book of St. Martin entitled 4 Natural Picture of the Relations which exist between God, Man and the Universe. The tradition of this secret has, then, never been interrupted from the first ages of the Qabalah to our own times. The table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communica…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the world to work! What battles of giants! How many errors set forth and rebutted! How much deceived and irritated Christianity lies at the bottom of Protestantism, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth! Human egotism, in despair at its defeats, has whipped up all its stupidities in turn. They have re-clothed the Saviour of the world with every rag and with every mocking purple. After Jesus the Inquisitor they have invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
THE EQUINOX have made the same observation on a book of St. Martin entitled 4 Natural Picture of the Relations which exist between God, Man and the Universe. The tradition of this secret has, then, never been interrupted from the first ages of the Qabalah to our own times. The table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communica…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the world to work! What battles of giants! How many errors set forth and rebutted! How much deceived and irritated Christianity lies at the bottom of Protestantism, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth! Human egotism, in despair at its defeats, has whipped up all its stupidities in turn. They have re-clothed the Saviour of the world with every rag and with every mocking purple. After Jesus the Inquisitor they have invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flow…
1919 · PDF PAGE 375
…ve and vanish; that which in thee shall live for ever, that which in thee knows, for it is knowledge, is not of fleeting life: it is the Man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the hour shall never strike. Compare Levi’s aphorism, “The Magician should work as though he had omnipotence at his command and eternity at his disposal.” Do not imagine that it matters whether you finish the task in this life or not. Go on quietly and steadily, unmoved by anything whatever. 36. If thou wouldst reap sweet peace and rest, Disciple, sow with the seeds…
1919 · PDF PAGE 442
THE EQUINOX There is a further terrible confusion between the personal progress of the man, and his progress in relation to his in- carnations. It cannot be too clearly understood that these things are altogether different. Blavatsky’s attempt to mix up Hin- duism and Buddhism is productive of constant friction. The first Path in Dhyana has nothing whatever to do with being a Srotapatti. It is perfectly clear that you could be Master of all the eight Jhanas with no more hope of be- coming a Srotapatti than a Pwe-dancer. However, this is an extr…
1954 · PDF PAGE 311
…tenor of The Book of the Law is to this effect. The very test of worth is that one should be aware of it and not afraid to sock the next man on the jaw if he disputes it! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 P.S. But what do I mean when I say "myself' in normal speech? I mean Tiphareth, the human self as determining the identity of the Supreme Triad plus as much Ruach as I have succeeded in organising as extensions of it. Though your Supernal Triad is in essence identical with mine, your Tiphareth is quite definitely not mine. It …
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…of sweat steamed up in the twilight, and there was a sound of breath that did not dare to breathe, of sighs choked by fear. The midship- mans head silently turned round and his tongue pushed languidly forward to touch the lips of the lieutenant. A sound in the next room ; both trem- bled violently, sprang from the sofa where they had been lying and hastily arranged the disorder their passion had made necessary. The middy took his lovers hand, raised it to his lips, bit it hard with sudden mad desire and whispered, in a voice shuddering with u…
1906 · PDF PAGE 168
… bickerings, Where hate exults and torture springs, A lion on anguished flesh and blood, A vulture on ill-omen wings, A cannibal “* on 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-sou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
… , “ What is a ' year ' ? ” . Scepticus answers something about the earth moving round the sun , and is at once shown by Mysticus that a man stating a fact in refer ence to “ Since the Derby was run ,” would be more intelligible than he who would say , " Since May , such and such a day ” ; . . “ for his memory is of the race , and not of a particular item in the ever changing space -relation of the heavens , a relation which he can never know , and of which he can never perceive the significance ; nay , which he can never recognize , even by la…