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Page 213 of 2251904 · PDF PAGE 114
…som ethin does persist; something changing, though less slowly . What evi- dence have we after all that an anim al does not remember his man-incarnation? Or, as Levi says, “In the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget.” I think it unlikely (may be), but in the total absence of all evidence for or agains t—at leas t with regard to the latter hy pothesis !—I suspend my judgement, leave the question alone, and proceed to m ore practical points that are offered by these interesting but not over- useful metaphysical speculations. V. KAR…
1906 · PDF PAGE 64
…able tales with which Mr. R. Kipling has delighted the world, none is more striking than that of McIntosh Jellaludin? and his mysterious manuscript. And now, only a few years after reading that incredible tale, I myself, at Yoko- Hama, come across a series of circum- stances wonderfully analogous. But I will truthfully set down this history just as it all happened. I went one memorable Wednesday night to No. 29.3 For my advent in this most re- putable quarter of the city, which is, after all, Yama,? and equally handy for the consul, the chaplai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…l the following morning. The interest of this fact depends on a subsequent parallel. During the years that followed, the boy --- and the man --- dreamed repeatedly that his mother was dead; but on the day of her death he --- then three thousand miles away --- had the same dream, save that it differed from the others by possessing this peculiar indescribable but unmistakable quality that he remembered in connection with the death of his father. From the moment of the funeral the boy's life entered on an entirely new phase. The change was radical…
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
…the Temple of the Sangraal. SEQUITUR DE HAC RE I believe generally, on Ground both of Theory and Experience, so little as I have, that a Man must first be Initiate, and established in Our Law, before he may use this Method. For in it is an Implication of our Secret Enlightenment, concerning the Universe, how its Nature is ut‐ terly Perfection. Now every Thought is a Separation, and the Medicine of that is to marry Each One with its Contradiction, as I have shewed formerly in many Writings. And thou shalt clap the one to the other with Vehemence…
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
…by the ordinary passions and yield to such majesty as his own. ‘* But one day there came into the jungle a strange wild figure. He was a man dressed in the weird Tibetan fashion. He had red robes and hat, and thought dark things. He whirled a prayer-wheel in his: hands}; and ever as he went he muttered the mystic words: ‘Aum Mani Padme Hum.’! The parrot, who had never heard human speech, tried to mimic the old Lama, and was amazed at his: success. Pride first seized the bird, but it. was not long before the words had their own effect, and it wa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…now, weknow; let, then, the writing go! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love. Some rosebud in the garden of spices blows, Some offshoot from the Rose Of the World, the Rose of all Delight, The Rose of Dew, the Rose of Love and Night, The Rose of Silence, covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things 1 This poem was issued under the pseudonym ROSA MUNDI, AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferen…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…and vital on the hills. Forth let me fare! I am other than the stuff His dreams are made of! Aye! I shall endure ! I am destined Lord of many magic wills. Another Rosencreutz another order Founds—to a better end than his, be sure! Away ! away, my lad! and o’er the border I shall get myself a buxom bride, And ride—ride—ride ! [He rises. Ride to the blacksmith at Gretna Green, Kiss a fair lady and find her a queen ! O a Queen, for certain! It is I that ride, Ride in my youth and pride 1 The Indian generic term for any good spirit. 2 Rabbi Schimeo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
…d under his admirable government a weaver named Suraj Ju 2 and his wife Chandi. 3 And in the fulness of her time did she give birth to a man child, and they called him Perdu’ R Abu. 4 Now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to the rhy thm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his hands, but as if one told his beads. Where- fore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him . B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 571
…tion of my own nature with that of my dynamic structure. It must surely strike the most sceptical mind as remarkable that an untrained woman, wholly ignorant of Cabbalistic formulae, should obtain words, letters and numbers, so accurately interwoven, so complete an hieroglyph of an idea which defied my skill to analyse. As is my custom I sought in the Holy Books and in the Yi King for an interpretation of the word in terms of the events of the ensuing six months. I will mention one or two signal examples of the trustworthiness of such divinatio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 500
…ould see only a narrow section of the river close to the shore. At 10:07 on the second night this section was traversed by a rowing boat manned by two men and a shapeless heap in the stern, which might have been a third or a cargo -- it was too dark to make sure. They rowed in dead silence with muffled oars. They were clearly about some secret business. The next morning, looking for something under my pillows, I found my revolver was missing. I did not like it. The evening before, both the boys and I thought we saw a strange man on the island j…
1906 · PDF PAGE 206
… beseech you, these sectarian differences, and combine to declare me at least Anathema Maranatha. 602. Panys of Death,”—Dr. Maudsley de- mands a panegyric upon death. It is true that evolution may bring us a moral sense of astonishing delicacy and beauty. But we are not there yet. A talented but debauched Irishman bas composed the following, which I can deplore, but not refute, for this type of man is probably more prone to repro- duce his species than any other. He called it ‘*Summa Spes.”’ I. Existence being sorrow, The cause of it desire, A …
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…eople who ate pork improperly cooked. It was no good telling the savages that fact. Any way, they would only have broken the hygienic command when greed overcame them. The advice had to be made a universal rule, and supported with the authority of a religious sanction. They had not the brains to believe in trichinosis; but they were afraid of Jehovah and Jehannum. Just so, under the grouping of Yama we learn that the aspiring Yogi must become 'fixed in the non-receiving of gifts,' which means that if anyone offers you a cigarette or a drink of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
…here an analogy. One is reminded of Hercules‐the infant Hercules‐who spun the wheel in the House of Women; of Hercules, who was a strong man, who was innocent, who was ultimately a madman, who destroyed his wife and children. It is a cognate symbol. Harpocrates is (in one sense) the symbol of the Dawn on the Nile, and of the physio‐ logical phenomenon which accompanies the act of waking. One sees, at the other end of the octave of thought, the connection of this symbol with the succession to the royal power de‐ scribed above. The symbol of Harp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…The Headmaster of Eton had had a whole page about his advocating Platonic pleasures for boys. My own father-in-law, a charming old gentleman with not even a national reputation, and not an enemy in the world, but a worthless curate he had discharged, had had a whole page (inspired by the aforesaid curate) about the way in which he swindled his servant-girls out of their savings. I knew that if the great Patriot seemed to be not giving me my duty, it was from shortage of paper or writer's cramp, not from lack of kindness of heart. I had indeed a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 133
…Jod; and that Jod is the Hermit, and it is the minute point that is not extended, that is nigh unto the heart of Hadit. And now it is commanded thee that thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, and on the morrow, at the appointed hour, shall it be given thee further, as thou goest upon thy way, meditating this mystery. 1From The Vision and the Voice, 5th Aethyr. And thou shalt summon the Scribe, and that which shall be written shall be written. Therefore I withdraw myself, as I am commanded. The Desert between Benshrur and Tolga. December 12, 19…
1906 · PDF PAGE 26
…e virgin of the Dawn, My Queen of all perfection, come thou forth From thine abode beyond the Silences To me the prisoner, me the mortal man, Shrined in this clay : come forth, I say, to me, Initiate my quickened soul; draw near, And let the glory of thy Godhead shine Through all the luminous aethers of the air Even to earth, thy footstool ; unto me Who by these sacred invocations draw The holy influence within myself, To strengthen and to purify my will And holy aspiration to thy Life. Purge me and consecrate until my heart Burn through the ve…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…eturn at any moment. "Even as the lightning lighteneth out of the East and lighteneth even unto the West, so is the coming of the Son of Man." He would have to give an account of "every idle word". It was a horrifying thought to him that he might be caught by the Second Advent at a moment when he was not actively and intensely engaged on the work which God had sent him into the world to do. This sense of the importance of the lightest act, of the value of every moment, has been a tragically intense factor in my life. I have always grudged the t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
…cal Force within the operator and how to use it to create whatever may be required. LIBER XC. The Book of the Hermetic Fish-Hook summons mankind to undertake the Great Work. It describes the conditions of initiation and its results in language of great poetic power. LIBER CLVI. The Wall of Abiegnus (the Sacred Mountain of the Rosicrucians) gives the formula of Attainment by devotion to our Lady {673} Babalon. It instructs the aspirant how to dissolve his personality in the Universal Life. LIBER CLXXV. Astarte, The Book of the Beryl Stone, gives…
1944 · PDF PAGE 178
The Four of Swords is called Truce. This seems rather on the lines of “the strong man armed, keeping his house in peace”. The masculine nature of air makes it dominant. The card is almost a picture of the formation of the military clan system of society. As to the Disks, the heaviness of the symbol rather outweighs any considerations of its weakness. The card is called Power. It is the power which dominates and stabilizes every‐ thing, but manages its affairs more by negotiation, by pacific methods, than by any assertion of itself. It is Law, t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
… sheriff's door we found the vehicle which was to take us to the wayside station. Rose and I got in, feeling as if we had been through a mangle; but the sense of humour came most opportunely to our rescue. The vehicle chanced to resemble a prison van, and the circumstance tickled our imagination and helped to break down our embarrassment. But it was a frightfully long drive to the wayside station and a frightfully long wait when we got there. I don't know whether it was part of the arrangement or not that we should take tickets to the end of th…