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Page 2 of 1541913 · PDF PAGE 365
…E MYSTERIES revolution, it is the inauguration of the reign of the Holy Ghost upon the earth. XIX THE NUMBER NINETEEN Ir is the numberof light. It is the existence of God proved by the very idea of God. Either one must say that Being is the universal tomb where, by an automatic movement, stirs a form for ever dead and corpse-like, or one must admit the absolute principle of intelligence and of life. Is the universal light dead or alive? Is it vowed fatally to the work of destruction, or providentially directed to an immortal birth ? If there be…
1913 · PDF PAGE 365
…E MYSTERIES revolution, it is the inauguration of the reign of the Holy Ghost upon the earth. XIX THE NUMBER NINETEEN Ir is the numberof light. It is the existence of God proved by the very idea of God. Either one must say that Being is the universal tomb where, by an automatic movement, stirs a form for ever dead and corpse-like, or one must admit the absolute principle of intelligence and of life. Is the universal light dead or alive? Is it vowed fatally to the work of destruction, or providentially directed to an immortal birth ? If there be…
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
LA CASQUE D'OR A NINA OLIVIER OU laughing little light of wickedness, low ripples round you love and coils And twists the Casque of Gold about the child-face with a child-caress. O glory of the tangled net! O subtle vase of scented oils! You laughing little light of wickedness! Through all the misty wind of light that glamours round you, sorceress, Your face shines out with feline grace, exults, a tiger in the toils! They shall not hold your passion in: fling, fling your lips, my murderess, On mine that I may pass away, a vapour that your passi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
… of miracles?” we shall reply— “It is the first matter of the Great Work. “It is MAGNETIZED ELECTRICITY.” Everything has been created by light. It is in light that form is preserved. It is by light that form reproduces itself. The vibrations of light are the principle of universal movement. By light, the suns are attached to each other, and they interlace their rays like chains of electricity. Men and things are magnetized by light like the suns, and, by means of electro-magnetic chains whose tension is caused by sympathies and affinities, are …
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
… of miracles?” we shall reply— “It is the first matter of the Great Work. “It is MAGNETIZED ELECTRICITY.” Everything has been created by light. It is in light that form is preserved. It is by light that form reproduces itself. The vibrations of light are the principle of universal movement. By light, the suns are attached to each other, and they interlace their rays like chains of electricity. Men and things are magnetized by light like the suns, and, by means of electro-magnetic chains whose tension is caused by sympathies and affinities, are …
1913 · PDF PAGE 231
ESME WINGFIELD -STRATFORD . FIRST LIGHT. A HARBOUR light in a storm , m A well in a waste of sand , A beacon light on a hopeless night , A friend in an alien land . A twilight flush in the East, A star in a clouded sky , A loyal blade for a cause betrayed , A breath from an age gone by . Sweet in a loveless world , Pure in a tainted air, Oh, who could see and not worship thee ? Lose thee and not despair ? 212
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
AMBERGRIS 77 Light ! ever light ! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light invades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow The bitter draught of Truth ; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine : the whole seas glades And hills and springs are void of my Apollo The Sea herself my tune and my desire ! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre !
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
…a " of the Magician, that invisible egg or sheath which surrounds him. This " Aura " must be shining, elastic, impenetrable, even by the light, that is, by any partial light that comes from one side. The only light of the Magician is from the Lamp which hangs above his head, as he stands in the centre of the Circle, and the Robe, being open at the neck, opposes no obstacles to the passage of this light. And being open, and very wide open, at the bottom, it permits that light to pass and illumine them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of de…
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
…ike, strike the louder chord ! Draw, draw the flaming sword, Crowned child and conquering Lord : Horus, avenger. VI Dawn-star of flaming light, Five rays in one unite, Light, Life, Love, Mercy, Might, Star of the Magi. VII Lift, lift the Cross of Light, Rose, golden, green, and white, Rise, rise athwart the night ! Mighty Aeshuri ! VIII Flame, flame, thou Blazoned Sun ! Seal-Star of Solomon ! Seven Mysteries in One ! Godhead and Mankind ! IX Beauty and life and love ! Let fly thy darling dove ! Bend to us from above, Lady Ahathor !
1898 · PDF PAGE 86
…like a veil Sleep on the chamber and clings. Heard I a woman-fiend wail ? Heard I the sound of a kiss ? Has man been destroyed in the daylight, Man whom the night could not quell ? What angel fled weeping away ? There in the East there extends a white light devouring the grey light, There the sun rises and brings hope with the dawn of the day, Silence hides certainty—surely voices of angels that pray, Surely the sound of delight, and of praise, and unspeakable glory Rings in the wind like a bell, and wakes the white air of the lea, All the brig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…e How vain is prayer, How nought is great, since all is immanent, The vast content Of all the universe unalterable. We know too well THE light streams stronger through the lamps How no one thing abides awhile at all, of sense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas: its icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed ? | Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands u…
1919 · PDF PAGE 127
… phase, and is even as music. Yet in the attainment of this Life you will already have experienced that the Quintessence thereof is pure Light, an ecstacy formless, and without bound or mark. In this Light naught exists, for It is homogeneous: and therefore have men called it Silence, and Darkness, and Nothing. But in this, as in all other effort to name it, is the root of every fal- sity and misapprehension, since all words imply some dual- ity. Therefore, though I call it Light, it is not Light, nor absence of Light. Many also have sought to …
1919 · PDF PAGE 343
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE 32. This light shines from the jewel of the Great En- snarer (Mara). The senses it bewitches, blinds the mind, and leaves the unwary an abandoned wreck. Iam inclined to believe that most of Blavatsky’s notes are intended as blinds. “Light” such as is described has a tech- nical meaning. It would be too petty to regard Mara as a Christian would regard a man who offered him a cigarette. The supreme and blinding light of this jewel is the great vision of Light. It is the light which streams from the threshold of Nirvana, a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 238
…ou my spirit from the larvæ of the tomb ! I seek them in their dread abodes without affright : On them will I impose my will, the law of light. I bid the night conceive the glittering hemipshere. Arise, O sun, arise ! O moon, shine white and clear ! I seek them in their dread abodes without affright : On them will I impose my will, the law of light. Their faces and their shapes are terrible and strange. These devils by my might to angels I will change. These nameless horrors I address without affright : On them will I impose my will, the law of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
…m of the wheel which alone revolveth not. The object of the Mystic Circumambulation is to attract and make connection between the Divine Light above and the Temple, and therefore the Hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there to attract by his sceptre the Light from beyond the Veils. Each member in passing the Throne of the East gives the sign of the enterer, pro- jecting forwards the light which cometh from the sceptre of the Hierophant. “ But Horus passes only once, for he is the son of Osiris, and inheriteth the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
…m of the wheel which alone revolveth not. The object of the Mystic Circumambulation is to attract and make connection between the Divine Light above and the Temple, and therefore the Hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there to attract by his sceptre the Light from beyond the Veils. Each member in passing the Throne of the East gives the sign of the enterer, pro- jecting forwards the light which cometh from the sceptre of the Hierophant. “ But Horus passes only once, for he is the son of Osiris, and inheriteth the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 425
…TERIES OF HALLUCINATIONS AND OF THE EVOCATION OF SPIRITS An hallucination is an illusion produced by an irregular movement of the astral light. It is, as we said previously, the admixture of the pheno- mena of sleep with those of waking. Our plastic medium breathes in and out the astral light or vital soul of the earth, as our body breathes in and out the terrestrial atmosphere. Now, just as in certain places the air is impure and not fit for breathing, in the same way, certain unusual circumstances may make the astral light unwholesome, and no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 425
…TERIES OF HALLUCINATIONS AND OF THE EVOCATION OF SPIRITS An hallucination is an illusion produced by an irregular movement of the astral light. It is, as we said previously, the admixture of the pheno- mena of sleep with those of waking. Our plastic medium breathes in and out the astral light or vital soul of the earth, as our body breathes in and out the terrestrial atmosphere. Now, just as in certain places the air is impure and not fit for breathing, in the same way, certain unusual circumstances may make the astral light unwholesome, and no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 535
…F THE MYSTERIES Axiom X It is by the will that the intelligence sees. If the will is healthy, the sight is just. God said: “Let there be light!” and light is; the will says, ‘‘ Let the world be as I will to see it!” and the intelligence sees it as the will has willed. This is the meaning of the word, “ So be it,” which confirms acts of faith. Axiom XI When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one’s blood, one’s life, one’s intelligence, and one’s re…
1913 · PDF PAGE 535
…F THE MYSTERIES Axiom X It is by the will that the intelligence sees. If the will is healthy, the sight is just. God said: “Let there be light!” and light is; the will says, ‘‘ Let the world be as I will to see it!” and the intelligence sees it as the will has willed. This is the meaning of the word, “ So be it,” which confirms acts of faith. Axiom XI When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one’s blood, one’s life, one’s intelligence, and one’s re…