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Page 153 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 196
…333} under any illusions about the value of worldly pleasures; it was simply that I did not possess the energy to live any other kind of life. I cannot understand why people imagine that those who retire from the world are lazy. It is far easier to swim with the stream, to refresh one's mind continually by letting it move from one distraction to another. This is so true that one might almost assert that the idlest monks are in reality more energetic than the busiest business man. This does not apply so much to Catholic monks, for their routine …
1909 · PDF PAGE 284
…uds of Night. From the Father of Waters went forth the Spirit rending asunder the veils of the Darkness. And there was but a vastness of Life. of Silver and of Depth in the place of the Gathering of Waters, 276
1909 · PDF PAGE 284
…uds of Night. From the Father of Waters went forth the Spirit rending asunder the veils of the Darkness. And there was but a vastness of Life. of Silver and of Depth in the place of the Gathering of Waters, 276
1910 · PDF PAGE 20
…iters call Samadhi. (Compare the experiences of Burton in the Bombay Presidency, as hinted by Lady Sisted in her admirable sketch of his Life.) Hindus claim that advanced Yogis can always recognize at sight those who have attained this condition, just as the Freemasonry of Paederasts makes the formality of introduction superfluous among free companions of the Craft. I must say that I attribute nine tenths of Bur- ton’s success with natives of Arabia, Africa, and Hindostan to his mastery of their mystic systems, not only as a theoretician, valua…
1911 · PDF PAGE 136
…the midst the Arrow burns! I see that the crown of the Arrow is the Father of all Light, and the shaft of the Arrow is the Father of all Life, and the barb of the Arrow is the Father of all Love. For that silver wedge is like a lotus flower, and the Eye within the Ateph Crown crieth: I watch. And the Shaft crieth: I work. And the Barb crieth: I wait. And the Voice of the Aethyr echoeth: It beams. It burns. It blooms. And now there cometh a strange thought; this Arrow is 134
1922 · PDF PAGE 136
122 The Diary of a Drug Fiend through the jungle of life like a splash of sulphuric acid flung in a woman’s face. ’ There was no clock in the den, and of course we had left our watches at home. We got a little impatient. We couldn’t remember whether Feccles had or had not told us how long he was likely to be. The air of the room was stifling. The lowest vagabonds of Naples crowded the place. Some were jabbering like apes; some singing drunkenly to themselves ; some shame- lessly caressing ; some sunk in bestial stupor. Among the last was a burl…
1922 · PDF PAGE 150
…ard myself saying,‘ passports, no cash, no clothes—nothing!”’ | I was speaking of myself in the third person. The whole process of human life and action had stopped automatically as far as the hotel was concerned. The knot of babbling gossipers was like a swarm of mosquitoes.
1954 · PDF PAGE 63
… to his own use and to that of the enemy which is part of himself. He soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. In practical life, a man who is doing what his conscience tells him to be wrong will do it very clumsily. At first!) 9. A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. (Illustration: The first principle of success in evolution is that the individual should be true to his own nature, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.) 10. Nature is a continuous phenomenon, though we do no…
1954 · PDF PAGE 69
…upsetting digestion, which disorders respiration, on which cardiac welfare depends.) 27. Every man should make Magick the keynote of his life. He should learn its laws and live by them. (Illustration: The Banker should discover the real meaning of his existence, the real motive which led him to choose that profession . He should understand banking as a necessary factor in the economic existence of mankind, instead of as merely a business whose objects are independent of the general welfare. He should learn to distinguish false values from real,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 109
… intelligence to the determination to escape from the ferule of the Black Schoolmaster to the outstretched arms of the White Mistress of Life. Let us leave the sinister figure of Schopenhauer for the mysteriously radiant shape of Spinoza! This latter philosopher, in respect at least of his Pantheism, represents fairly enough the fundamental thesis of the White Tradition. Almost the first observation that we have to make is that this White tradition is hardly discoverable outside Europe. It 2. N.B. Christianity was in its fust stage a Jewish Com…
1954 · PDF PAGE 261
… effort or argument; it can, consequently, continue indefinitely in its orbit. This is roughly the plan of the Taoist in his attitude to life. Having ascertained the Path which satisfies the equations of his Nature (as we say, "found his True Will") he continues "without lust of result," acting only when it happens to be necessary to adjust himself to any external stress that affects him, and so proceeds happily thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter. And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter. -assuming that his "True Will" is o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…chexia continued. I was quite well, but felt extraordinarily weak. The curious thing about malaria is that one seems to lack strength to life a finger, and yet one can do the day's work with astonishing endurance. One makes up one's mind that one can't be any worse, and one's muscles are freed from the inhibition of fatigue just as they are if one anaesthetizes oneself with cocaine. I have walked thirty-five miles in sweltering heat through the most difficult jungle, carrying a heavy rifle, when I simply had not the strength to swallow my break…
1929 · PDF PAGE 580
…als who have read it to inquire independently into the facts of the case. The strong point of my position is that there is nothing in my life of which I need be ashamed. Inquiry must inevitably result in clearing my character, and any person whose attitude is worth a moment's consideration should experience a reaction of indignation and disgust. The stench of the cesspool of calumny will offend his nostrils and he will insist on restoring equilibrium by long reviving inhalations of the perfume of my personality. The other event was that a seed …
1929 · PDF PAGE 520
520 cooperation but of disciplined union are the same as they were with previous theories of life. Yet there is a certain practical difference which, by the way, is curiously illustrated by the parallel of military discipline. In primitive warfare, the nexus between comrades is practically limited to an agreement to forget their individual quarrels in face of the common enemy. The training of a soldier thus amounted to encouraging his personal prowess. It was gradually seen that some sort of plan for combined action made for victory, so that on…
1913 · PDF PAGE 368
… the same mystery; although names vary, all returns to the same truth. Thou art the knower, and that intelligence which is the source of life emanates from thyself; and beside thy know- ledge all the wisest men are fools. Thou art the knower, and the ancient of the ancient ones, and knowledge has ever fed from thee. Thou art the knower, and thou hast learned thy knowledge from none, nor hast acquired it but from thyself. Thou art the knower, and like a workman and an architect thou hast taken from thy knowledge a divine will, at an appointed ti…
1913 · PDF PAGE 368
… the same mystery; although names vary, all returns to the same truth. Thou art the knower, and that intelligence which is the source of life emanates from thyself; and beside thy know- ledge all the wisest men are fools. Thou art the knower, and the ancient of the ancient ones, and knowledge has ever fed from thee. Thou art the knower, and thou hast learned thy knowledge from none, nor hast acquired it but from thyself. Thou art the knower, and like a workman and an architect thou hast taken from thy knowledge a divine will, at an appointed ti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 197
…ic atmosphere of Paris, I was always subconsciously aware that here I had no continuing city. I( began to pick out the old threads of my life. Despite the evidence of Allan Bennett as to the integrity of Mathers, the premisses of my original syllogism as to his authority were not impaired. His original achievements proved beyond doubt that he had been at one time the representative of the Secret Chiefs; that he had either been temporarily obsessed or had permanently fallen. On leaving for Mexico, I had asked him to take care of a dressingcase, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 302
…a . He taught me Y, he taught me 2 , He made strange noises in my head . He taught me that , he taught me this , He spoke of knowledge , life and bliss. He taught me this , he taught me that , He grew me mangoes in his hat . I brought him corn : he made good grist of it : And here , my Christian friend , 's the gist of it ! " In “ Science and Buddhism ” there is a vivid de scription of Pratyâhâra : The work is comparable to that of an electrician who should sit for hours with his finger on a delicately adjusted resistance - box , and his eye on…
1910 · PDF PAGE 14
…arity, are most particularly noticed at the same time ; the whole interspersed with an occasional pithy allusion to the brevity of human life, and the vanity of sublunary matters in general. The more orthodox among the Musulman are rather scanda- lized at the eulogies bestowed upon the “ juice of the grape ” by their best poets, such as Hafiz for example ; and they endeavour to make out that the text is to be taken in a mystic or spiritual sense, such as we apply to the “ song of Solo- mon.” It appears to me, however, that Hafiz writes upon thi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 58
…nsciousness of the bumpy character of this funny old oblate spheroid. One is really very much more competent to deal with the affairs of life, that is, in a certain sense of the word. M. Coué is perfectly right, just as the Christian Scientists and all those people are perfectly right, in saying that half our troubles come from our conscious- ness of their existence, so that if we forget their exis- tence, they actually cease to exist ! Haven’t we got an old proverb to the effect that “what the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over?” W…