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Page 20 of 1591903 · PDF PAGE 37
Her stature waves, as if a flower Forgot the evening breeze, But heard the charioted hour Sweep from the farther seas, And kept sweet time within her bower, And hushed mild melodies. So grave and delicate and tall— Shall laughter never sweep Like a moss-guarded waterfall Across her ivory sleep ? A tender laugh most musical ? A sigh serenely deep ? She laughs in wordless swift desire A soft Thalassian tune ; Her eyelids glimmer with the fire That animates the moon ; Her chaste lips flame, as flames aspire Of poppies in mid-June. 15
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
… person in the whole world who is without the Pale of the Order; and even to Initiates who are not in possession of the Password for the time being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…laugh: “Who believes in Black Magic proves himself to be bewitchedl” I had a horrible case of it once—I shudder yet! I could imagine the time when my poor friend’s disease was epidemic; when the panic madness seized even on the govemment— I hae my dootsl said the scholar. Popular beliefs furnish con venient stalking-horses for political subterfuge. No! said the Doctor. Disease of the mind as well as that of the body attacks all classes. While man is as subject to suggestion as he is, the simulation of belief is almost surrender to the belief it…
1907 · PDF PAGE 314
…particular percep tion or other , of heat or cold , light or shade , love or hatred , pain or pleasure . I never can catch myself at any time without a perception , and never can observe anything but the perception . 3 1 Time , vol . ii, p . 275 . Three Dialogues , p . 106 . : Cited in Huxley's Hume , p . 195 .
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…these useless enormities merely as memorials to the Master. Frankly, I was fed up with marvels. All subjects bore me alike after a short time; they cease to stimulate. I was thoroughly pleased to find myself at last in India. The psychological change from Ceylon is very sudden, startling and complete. What is there about an island which differentiates it so absolutely from the adjoining mainland? No amount of similarity of race, customs and culture gets rid of insularity. The moment one sets foot in India, one becomes aware of the stability of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…yptian Ritual of the Book of Dead,” another paper on the Old Rosicrucian Doctrines and one on Astrology, made their appearance, All this time articles were being written for the Masonic perodicals, and from 1855 up to the present time the best journals considered it an honour to publish his writings. These therefore can be found in the Freemason’s Magazine, Free- mason, Freemason’s Chronicle, Kneph (which he edited from 1885), the Transactions of Quatuor Coronati Research Lodge, and latterly in this maga- zine. Being much interested in Heraldry…
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…yptian Ritual of the Book of Dead,” another paper on the Old Rosicrucian Doctrines and one on Astrology, made their appearance, All this time articles were being written for the Masonic perodicals, and from 1855 up to the present time the best journals considered it an honour to publish his writings. These therefore can be found in the Freemason’s Magazine, Free- mason, Freemason’s Chronicle, Kneph (which he edited from 1885), the Transactions of Quatuor Coronati Research Lodge, and latterly in this maga- zine. Being much interested in Heraldry…
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
…ting by Jane Wolfe is of interest in that it relates to the events of this final chapter: "A villifying report of what took place at the time of the death of Raoul Loveday, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, having come to my attention, leads me to write a brief account of that unhappy event, as I was not only there during Raoul's brief sojourn at the Abbey, but I took care of him on his deathbed. "He arrived in Cefalu from London late in November, or early December, 1922, pale and aenemic, and had just recovered from a rather severe septic thr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…r Christ:” This perhaps is most easily explained by imagining “ May” to be a circle of particles moving from right to left which after a time through its own intrinsic motion sets up within itself a counter motion, a kind of back-water current which moves in the opposite direction, from left to right, and little by little destroys the Maya circle, marked “B”; and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the world Maya or the Samasdra Chak- kra, the inner “A” …
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…r Christ:” This perhaps is most easily explained by imagining “ May” to be a circle of particles moving from right to left which after a time through its own intrinsic motion sets up within itself a counter motion, a kind of back-water current which moves in the opposite direction, from left to right, and little by little destroys the Maya circle, marked “B”; and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the world Maya or the Samasdra Chak- kra, the inner “A” …
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…nks vulgar perceptions “error”. We cannot perceive at ail except within our gamut; as, concentrated perfumes, which seem malodorous, and time-hidden facts, such as the vanes of a revolving fan, which flies can distinguish. Hence: no a friori reason to deny the existence of conscious intelligences with insensible bodies. Indeed we know of other orders of mind (flies, etc., possibly vegetables) thinking by means of non-human brain-structures. But the fundamental problem of Religion is this: Is there any praeter-human Intelligence, of the same ord…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…further into the realms of Biblical vice . The children of what is known as an illicit love-which in most cases is true free love - have time after time proved themselves better and greater than those engendered in the unimpassioned embrace of the marriage - bed . Shakespeare brings this point out forcibly in King Lear , when Edmund speaks as follows : . why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base , base ? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth , within a dull , stale , tired bed …
1912 · PDF PAGE 268
…g/LS“ His gloom 1166256715 Shegoes aflandeartseyx to him, then fats up her fiddle and[5/0375 the " Old Hundredth,” 07 other Saal/isl: hymn time] EEL. Weel, wad ye aye play holy tunes, I wadna say] [She plays a religious 6/01557611/þieee. EEL. That savours ο᾽Popery, Ι doot 1 But i’ the main ye mean wecl I [She plays “ Auld Lang Sync,” and other Scattish halladx, arranged 50 as ta leadfrom grave to gay He 75 hy [his time enthralled hy the music, and hegins to Show animation,following the heat: with his hands. Even !175feet begin fa he uneasy, EEL. …
1912 · PDF PAGE 268
…g/LS“ His gloom 1166256715 Shegoes aflandeartseyx to him, then fats up her fiddle and[5/0375 the " Old Hundredth,” 07 other Saal/isl: hymn time] EEL. Weel, wad ye aye play holy tunes, I wadna say] [She plays a religious 6/01557611/þieee. EEL. That savours ο᾽Popery, Ι doot 1 But i’ the main ye mean wecl I [She plays “ Auld Lang Sync,” and other Scattish halladx, arranged 50 as ta leadfrom grave to gay He 75 hy [his time enthralled hy the music, and hegins to Show animation,following the heat: with his hands. Even !175feet begin fa he uneasy, EEL. …
1916 · PDF PAGE 5
which everybody in Edinborough in his time had to accept, or fail in the examination, but which every other school in Europe regarded as nonsense. Such training can only serve to unbalance and destroy the mind. Mr. Stuart avoided this tragedy. Instead, he read everything, kept his eyes open, and never allowed the specious arguments of the logician to lure him into conclusions opposed to common sense. Almost every writer falls into some trap. Either he omits a premise, or takes a false one, or commits some logical error unperceived. But with suc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…? In that state I am equally confident that my normal consciousness is invalid. But as my dreams occupy a relatively small portion of my time, and as the law of causa- tion seems suspended, and as their vividness is less than that of normal consciousness, and above all, as in the great majority of cases I can show a cause, dating from my waking hours, for the dream, I have four strong reasons (the first explanatory to some extent of my reasons for accepting the others) for concluding that the dream is fictitious. But what of the ‘‘ dreamless” s…
1898 · PDF PAGE 8
…. How have you quarrelled ? PERCY. Because I must write. VAUGHAN, What do you write about that he dislikes ? PERCY. He calls it waste of time. VAUGHAN. He may be right. What do you write about? PERCY. I write about all the horrible things I see, and try to find beauty in them, or to make beauty; and I write about all the beautiful things I only dream of. I love them all ; yes, even that woman yonder.
1919 · PDF PAGE 140
…d deed make this room a temple and a symbol of that greater Temple which is your HIGHER SELF. THE EXERCISES. The First Exercise. Rise to time, and without undue haste, wash and dress, robe yourself and enter the room you have set apart; burn a little incense and turning to the East repeat some simple orison such as: “May the light of Adonai arise within me, may it guide me through this day and be as a lamp to lighten my darkness.” Then make a general confession, as shortly as possible, of your last day’s work and enter it in your diary, after w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 171
…g I would mention. I have an intense longing for more Love, a sort of unsatisfied craving to embrace people, particularly women, and sometimes natural things (this was not meant for sar- casm) such as the earth, the grass, etc. I do not think I expect and ask the love of others so much as I feel the need of entire freedom to love without barrier or restraint; but always there seems a something holding me back, invisible, formless, but of great strength, so that I yearn and open my arms (as it were) but am not satisfied; and so I turn and direct…
1913 · PDF PAGE 268
Be wary, though, and never stir a step from your own ground. You have (for the first time in English) got French slang correct; but you clearly don’t know India, and some terrible old bore has planted the worst and feeblest form THE EQUINOX of a very stale cobra story on your innocence. There are several mistakes in these few pages—climate and natural history in particular. Figure to yourself that this bit of the book reads to me almost as Trléy reads to you !— THE YELLOW Wuat-Ho. A subterfuge in fugues. The Blue Grotto. No publisher. No price.…