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Page 173 of 2251954 · PDF PAGE 118
…a demonstration of the sorrow, transitoriness, and cruel futility of the Universe. A vast wave of pessimism has engulfed the fortress of Man's soul. It was indeed a deadly blow to the adepts of the White School when Science, their own familiar friend in whom they trusted, lifted up his heel against them. It was in this conjuncture that the Yellow adepts sent forth into the Western world a messenger, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, with the distinct mission to destroy, on the one hand, the crude schools of Christianity, and, on the other, to eradicat…
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
…tinct , extirpating every root and charring it with Fire , cannot take the first step on the Path of the Wise. How nobly opposite is the Man-Formula! Its freight the wealth of the whole Universe, that splendid Argosy leaps free upon the glittering Ocean, to cast the very Soul of Life upon uncharted and enchanted isles! It is not to these few but well-chosen words that I propose to look to enhance my popularity in the Women's Clubs of the United States. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666 P.S. "Mother-Love" is, of course, a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 333
333 in general. He had, of course, a sympathy in his heart for Islam; the manliness of the Mohammedan makes it impossible to despise his belief in Allah. Islam is free from the degrading doctrine of atonement and the glorification of the slave virtues. The Moslem's attitude to Allah only errs in so far as it involves the childish idea of personifying the powers of the universe. It is right that we should reverence the majesty of nature and obey her laws; but he fought with me, hand to hand, week after week, about the question of Magick. He had …
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
The jargonelle of this wonderful man merits a careful description, but I am so tired of dictating this rotten book, so anxious to devote myself as closely to this sweet beast as he is devoted to me, that you will get but a perfunctory one. It had all the qualities of the pseudopodia of the Amoeba. Get out your Marshall and Hurst, and read up Amoeba, and you will know as much as I do. Little by little he advanced this engine into the palpitating cavity of the bona roba both by front and rear. Her uterus soon filled up, but for one and a half hou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 235
…WORK. Why does he do this and that, if he can do that and this? asks the Doubter. Because He chooses to, answers the Be- liever. But the man after God’s own Heart thinks and reasons nothing, he feels there is neither doing nor choosing, and, dimly though it be, he sees that both of these foolish men, who think themselves so wise, possess but various little segments of one great circle, and that each imagines his seg- ment a perfect circumference in itself. Presently the Mystic himself discovers that his circle which contained all their seg- men…
1909 · PDF PAGE 235
…WORK. Why does he do this and that, if he can do that and this? asks the Doubter. Because He chooses to, answers the Be- liever. But the man after God’s own Heart thinks and reasons nothing, he feels there is neither doing nor choosing, and, dimly though it be, he sees that both of these foolish men, who think themselves so wise, possess but various little segments of one great circle, and that each imagines his seg- ment a perfect circumference in itself. Presently the Mystic himself discovers that his circle which contained all their seg- men…
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
…hat Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon slow stream on whose banks I have wandered (many a time since) crying like a lost soul concerning you in the words of Milton lamenting his beauteous- buttocked Lycidas “ Oh ! who hath reft my dearest pledge ? ” Alas ! neither Fate nor God could I ac- cuse : the dread hollow voice of my own stricken soul answered me “ Thine own folly, thou miserable of the fortunate of the sons of men ! ” Ah ! but I beat my breast — in vain — in vain ! Ay ! the joy we ha…
1922 · PDF PAGE 48
…said, ‘‘and so it is. Tl have a dose myself to show there’s no ill-feeling.”’ He suited the action to the words. I had to admit that the man began to intrigue me. What was his game? “ T hear you're one of our best flying men, Sir Peter,” he went on. “T have flown a bit now and then,” I admitted. “Well, an aeroplane’s a pretty good means of travel, but unless you’re an expert, you're likely to make a pretty sticky finish.” “Thank you very much,” I said, nettled at his tone. “As it happens, I’m a medical student.” “Oh, that’s all right, then, of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 11
…ourse of his ex‐ planations went far higher and deeper than any‐thing in any accessible models. She accord‐ ingly forced him—the laziest man in three continents!—to undertake what is to all intent an original work, including the latest discoveries in modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and anthropology; in a word, to reproduce the whole of his Magical Mind pictorially on the skeleton of the ancient Qabalistic tradition. He accepted this colossal burden; it renewed his energy and his enthusiasm. Yet the burden was sore: the anticipated thre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 196
…rd, stooping excitedly to retrieve it collided. One of them snatched the ring; it slipped from his fingers and went overboard. The young man's distress was pitiful to see. "I daren't face her without it," he kept on moaning, with the tears streaming down his face. We did the best we could by drawing up a signed statement explaining how the accident occurred. We forgot all about the matter in the course of the voyage, and when we arrived at Aden even the youth himself had recovered his spirits. To pass the time, we proposed fishing for sharks in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 391
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES God has become man, that is to say, that the Infinite has made itself finite, that the Eternal died, that God punished his innocent Son for the sin of guilty men... . FAITH. Say no more about it. As enunciated by you, these propositions are in fact absurdities. Do you know what is the number of God, you who do not know God? Can you reason about the operations of the unknown? Can you under- stand the mysteries of charity? I must always be absurd for you; for, if you understood them, my affirmations would be absorbed by y…
1913 · PDF PAGE 391
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES God has become man, that is to say, that the Infinite has made itself finite, that the Eternal died, that God punished his innocent Son for the sin of guilty men... . FAITH. Say no more about it. As enunciated by you, these propositions are in fact absurdities. Do you know what is the number of God, you who do not know God? Can you reason about the operations of the unknown? Can you under- stand the mysteries of charity? I must always be absurd for you; for, if you understood them, my affirmations would be absorbed by y…
1922 · PDF PAGE 150
…f the cash. _ She sat down suddenly, collapsed; and began to cry. It developed into violent hysterics, which became so alarming that the manager sent for the nearest doctor. A knot of servants and one or two guests had gathered in the atrium of the hotel. The outside porter had become the man of the moment. “Why, certainly,” he announced triumphantly in broken English. ‘‘ Mr. Laroche, he went off this morning on the seven o'clock boat. I tink you never catch him.” The events of the last few hours had got me down to my second wind, so to speak. …
1922 · PDF PAGE 374
…rmed the only means of access to the upper rooms. Basil seated himself in one of the thrones, Sister Athena in another; while a very old man with a white beard, and a young woman whom we had not yet seen, took their places in the other two. Without formality of any sort beyond a series of knocks, the ceremony began. The impression was overwhelming. On the one hand, the vastness of the amphitheatre, the sublimity of the scene, and the utter naturalness of the celebrants ; on the other, the amazing distinction of the prose, and the sharp clarity …
1922 · PDF PAGE 382
…tained the ineffable assurance of the existence of a spiritual energy that worked its wondrous will in ways too strange for the heart of man to understand until the time should be ripe. The pestilence of the past had immunised us against its poison. The devil had defeated himself. We had attained a higher stage of evolution. And this under- standing of the past filled us with absolute faith in the future. The chaos of crumbled civilisations whose monuments were on the rock before us, had left that rock un- marred. Our experience had fortified u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…l Grey was playing golf at Hoylake; she had a mad impulse to go to find him; another to kill herself. But Lavinia King, perceiving after many days that something was wrong — after many days, for her thoughts rarely strayed beyond the contemplation of her own talents and amusements — carried her off to Paris. She needed her, anyhow, to play hostess. But three days after their arrival Lisa received a postcard. It bore nothing but an address and a question-mark. No signature; she had never seen the handwriting; but she knew. She snatched up her ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…er OF THE MOON OF HONEY, AND ITS EVENTS; WITH SUNDRY REMARKS ON MAGICK; THE WHOLE ADORNED WITH MORAL REFLECTIONS USEFUL TO THE YOUNG THE many-terraced garden of the villa was planted with olive and tamarind, orange and cypress; but in the lowest of them all, a crescent over whose wall one could look down upon one of the paths that threaded the hillside, there was a pavement of white marble. A spring wept from the naked rock, and fell into a circular basin; from this small streamlets issued, and watered the terrace in narrow grooves, between the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 16
… in good standing working under a Grand Lodge of Free and A c c e pte d Masons. The Sanctuary must be purged . ... He is not even a free man, but the hired tool of a woman. ... This woman-pollution to that pure word/-comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S. . .. This is the secret object of the attempt to hold the election of S. G.M. G. without due notice, to drag our holy Rite into the mire, to chain it to the chariot wheels of a Krishnamurti, to make us pandars to the antiq…
1954 · PDF PAGE 109
… the Black tradition in the different stages. We have already mentioned the Evangelical cults with their ferocious devil-god who creates mankind for the pleasure of damning it and forcing it to crawl before him, while he yells with drunken glee over the agony of his only son.2 But in the same class, we must place Christian Science, so grotesquely afraid of pain, suffering, and evil of every sort, that its dupes can think of nothing better than to bleat denials of its actuality, in the hope of hypnotising themselves into anaesthesia. Practically…
1954 · PDF PAGE 131
…re, I'll give you wheat, not tares; it seems terrifyingly easy for sound instruction to degenerate into a 'pi-jaw'. Here goes! To don Nirmanakaya's humble robe is to forego eternal bliss for self, to help on man's salvation. To reach Nirvana's bliss but to renounce it, is the supreme, the final step-the highest on Renunciation's Path. Follows a common-sense comment by Frater O.M. All this about Gautama Buddha having renounced Nirvana is apparently all a pure invention of Mme. Blava tsky, and has no authority in the Buddhist canon. The Buddha is…