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Page 155 of 1731905 · PDF PAGE 82
…e smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpose toward The blood of enemies, in horrid gouts And hideous fountains leaping from great gashes, Rather than that belovéd blood that wells Fervent and red-rose-wise in loving breasts, And little veins of purple in the arms, Or cheeks that are already flushed with it, To crimson them with the intense delight Of eyes that meet and know the spirit dwells Beyond their profound depth in sympathy. Nay, my delight must find some dearest foe, And cleave his body with a lusty stroke That sets the blo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…llow the rest. The perfect master stands confessed. iV. Why! I supposed your wrath would burst ; My name and number stand accurst In the great Order of the West ! A. Nay: Buddha smiles; ’twas Jesus wept ! Arise, O brother and adept! MN. Master ! A. The torture-hqurs are past. 4. The peace of pain is mine at last. A, Ere the moon rise, the brethren meet. Come, let us turn toward the South. N. Lord, I embrace thy holy feet. al. Nay, let me kiss thee on the mouth. Desunt cetera. THE STUMBLING-BLOCK., I ALMOST wonder if I ought To hymn this height …
1939 · PDF PAGE 23
…tal, creative, genial element of the cosmos. He has Ganymede and Hebe to his cupbearers. There is an immense and inaccessible joy in the Great Work; and it is the attainment of the trance, of even the intellectual foreshadowing of that trance, of joy, which reassures the Yogi that his work is worth while. Jupiter digests experiences; Jupiter is the Lord of the Forces of Life; Jupiter takes common matter and transmutes it into celestial nourishment. 10. The next planet is Mars. Mars represents the muscular system; it is the lowest form of energy…
1944 · PDF PAGE 66
…o Initiates of the Fifth degree of the O.T.O. In general terms, the meaning may be suggested by identifying the Pelican herself with the Great Mother and her offspring, with the Daughter in the formula of Tetra‐ grammaton. It is because the daughter is the daughter of her mother that she can be raised to her throne. In other language, there is a continuity of life, an inheritance of blood, which binds all forms of Nature together. There is no break between light and darkness. Natura non facit saltum. If these considerations were fully understoo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 311
…tly of the truth. I wrote in my Magical Diary on November 19th, 1905: I realize in myself the perfect impossibility of reason; suffering great misery. I am as one who should have plumed himself for years upon the speed and strength of a favourite horse, only to find not only that its the speed and strength were illusory, but that it was not a real horse at all, but a clothes-horse. There being no way --- no conceivable way --- out of this awful trouble gives that hideous despair which is only tolerable because in the past it has ever been the D…
1944 · PDF PAGE 37
… adopted by whoever it was that devised the Tarot. What is worse, it seems very confusing, very annoying; it shakes one’s faith in these great sages. But at least there is no doubt that this is so. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are twenty‐two. There are three “ Mother” Letters for the Elements, seven “Double Letters” for the Planets, and twelve “Single” Letters for the Signs of the Zodiac. But there are four Elements, not three. Or, including the element of Spirit (an impor‐ tant matter to initiates), there are five. There are therefore tw…
1905 · PDF PAGE 258
…rine, The seat of Heaven’s archipelagoes; Yet lighted not the glory whence it came, Nor shone upon the surface of the sea. Time, and the Great One, and the Nameless Name, Held in their grip the child, Eternity. Silence and Darkness in their womb with- held That spiritual fire, and brooded still: Nature and Time, their solenesss undispelled. Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten: uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight; Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this The Breath o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 96
… and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about his body ; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, that they might possess it. But our elde st brother V. N. bade all be still ; and thus he apportioned the sacred relics of our Father. To the Angel Agbagal, the fore part of the skull ; To the demon Ozoz, the back left part of the skull ; To the demon Olcot,1 the back right part of the skull ; To ten thousand myriads of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 294
…e found herein, the alchemical Eagle of Distillation, the Renewer of Life. As it is said: “Thy youth shall be renewed like the Eagle’s.” Great indeed and many are the Mysteries of this Terrible Key! After explaining a symbol of Typhon the Associate Adept turns to the 15th Key of the Tarot. The 15th Key of the Tarot represents a goat-headed Satyr-like demon standing upon * See Preface. 286
1909 · PDF PAGE 294
…e found herein, the alchemical Eagle of Distillation, the Renewer of Life. As it is said: “Thy youth shall be renewed like the Eagle’s.” Great indeed and many are the Mysteries of this Terrible Key! After explaining a symbol of Typhon the Associate Adept turns to the 15th Key of the Tarot. The 15th Key of the Tarot represents a goat-headed Satyr-like demon standing upon * See Preface. 286
1939 · PDF PAGE 27
… him it is not wise to speak. . . . Having now given vent to this sibylline, obscure and sinister utterance, it may well be asked by the greatly daring: Why is it not wise to speak of Pluto? The answer is profound. It is because nothing at all is known about him. Anyhow it hardly matters; we have surely had enough of Niyama for one evening! 19. It is now proper to sum up briefly what we have learnt about Yama and Niyama. They are in a sense the moral, logical preliminaries of the technique of Yoga proper. They are the strategical as opposed to …
1905 · PDF PAGE 273
… 18°. This adds up to 17. But first of all it strikes us that I, A, and O are the three Letters associated with the three Letters in the great Name of Six Letters, M17°NS8, which combines AN and 1M’, Macroprosopus and Microprosopus. Now these feminine Letters 1 conceal the ‘‘ Three Mothers” of the Alphabet, &, ©, and &. Replace these, and we get NID°WN, which adds up to 358, the Number alike of YM3, the Serpent of - Genesis, and the Messiah. We thus look for redeeming Power in IAQ, and for the Masculine Aspect of that Power. Now we will see how…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…bearded horseman, pennoned, ride Over the waste of ochre, swept By wind in waves, and sit beside Our tent a little, bring us news Of the great world we have lost for—this ! What fool exclaims—‘‘to lose!”? To lose ? Ay ! earth and heaven for one small kiss ! But he shall sing beside our fire The epic of the world’s desire; How Freedom fares, how Art yet revels Sane in the dance of dogs and devils. His thunder voice shall climb and crash, Scourge liars with tongue’s lightning lash, Through ranks of smitten tyrants drive, Till bosoms heave, and ey…
1939 · PDF PAGE 44
…arelessly mixed; most of it goes off with a bang, but there is some débris of the original components. These discussions are not of very great importance in themselves, because the entire series of the three states of meditation proper is summed up in the word Samyama; you can translate it quite well for yourselves, since you already know that 'sam' means 'together,' and that 'Yama' means 'control.' It represents the merging of minor individual acts of control into a single gesture, very much as all the separate cells, bones, veins, arteries, n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…—we shall very soon have the pleasure of seeing you. ‘ Embrace of the eyes,” 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 …
1939 · PDF PAGE 55
… we press it.' 30. And did not all of you think that my arguments were arguments in a circle? I certainly hope you did, for I was at the greatest pains to tell you so. But it is not a question of argument in Mr. Sullivan's book; it is a question of facts. He was talking about human values. He was asking whether science could possibly be cognizant of them. Here he comes, the great commander! Cheer, my comrades, cheer! 'But although consistent materialists were probably always rare, the humanistically important fact remained that science did not …
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…o my sword lend majesty and might To dominate all tumult and disaster, That even my song may pierce the iron night, Invoking dawn in thy great name, O Master ! Till to the stainless heaven of the soul Even my chariot-wheels on thunder roll. And so, most sacred soul, most reverend head, The silence of deep midnight shall be bound, And with the mighty concourse of the dead That live, that contemplate, my place be found, Even mine, throughall theseasons that areshed Like leaves upon the darkness, where the sound Of all high song through calm etern…
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…omething more than the mere comparison of the regular se- quence of rime to the sequence of a metronome to disparage the genius of those great poets who happened not to write free verse. Mr. Pound himself in the Pavannes tries rime as a ‘diversion.’ L’homme Moyen Sensuel once again confirms the impression of him as a serious school- master, and as an American. For he relaxes consciously, he is as conscious of his diversion as the schoolmaster is of the Norfolk suit donned for a game of golf or a fishing expedition or a trip to Paris; and in his…
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
…e shoes of the tatu. But we pushed on, gasping, up hill, down dale, all through the night. Dawn broke, chill and grey, on the crest of a great mountain. Far in the distance I saw specks. I left my pony, and ran headlong down the slopes. I had got almost to the bottom of the hill when I saw the Consul’s litter. Forrest ran forward. I turned sadly back, for I saw that the Consul’s legs were tied. I knew that he was dead. In that country where a thousand plagues hunt down mankind, it was most urgent that a medical man should certify the cause of d…
1919 · PDF PAGE 308
…this may be life, but it is not art. A Mourner Crap In GREEN. Four Dimensionat Vistas. By CLaupe Bracpon. Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. Ir is a great pleasure to read this book, for although in some points we may find ourselves obliged to disagree with the author, the general effect is that a perusal leaves one with the feeling of having been at home; that is to say, on the planes of pure and exalted thought. We cannot say that Mr. Bragdon is in any sense an original thinker, as Hinton was, but he has done something to extend and pop- ularize Hinton’s…