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Page 3 of 1151909 · PDF PAGE 90
…g so elementary a view of physics.) And while there is a particle of matter, it must fill the Universe—there is no place for Spirit. His thought is controlled and smooth; his thought (even!) is stopped: but there the thought is. Immutable it abides, stronger than ever in its silence and vastness; and—O unhappy one! that which can be thought is not true. Thou hast taken thee the lies, those little foxes that spoil the grapes. Lie after lie thou hast suppressed; and what hast thou achieved? Thou hast smitten all the illusions—O miserable slave! A…
1902 · PDF PAGE 7
…ll me that it beams above thee — Nay ! though thou wert, as I am, yearning, I should not tell thee that I love thee ! I know what secret thought once blossomed Into a blush that seemed a kiss, Some swift suppressed extreme of bliss In thy most fearful sigh embosomed. What oracle should prate of this ? I know the secret thought that blossomed ! Extol the truth of love's disdain ! Love, daring by no glance to gladden A heart that waits but that to madden 5
1961 · PDF PAGE 101
…on of my Loins, for I will now discourse unto thee of thine Own Attainment, without which all is but Idleness. Know first that conscious Thought is but phenomenal, the Noise of thy Machine. Now Chemistry, or Al-Chem-y meaneth the Egyptian Science, and the true Magick of Egypt hath this for its Foundation. We have in our House many Substances which act directly upon the Blood, and many Practices of Virtue similar, to simulate, compose, purify, analyse, direct, or concentrate the Thought. Confer CCXX. II, 22. But this Action is subtle and of man …
1902 · PDF PAGE 127
… had culminated else In twice the tempest echoed to the last! The Unknown Minstrel. It was most necessary for yourself To formulate your thought in word. Enough — The thought transmuted in the very act. Tannhauser. You know ? You know ! The new illusion gone ! Bitter, O bitter will it be to say ! The Unknown Minstrel. Due grace and courage will be found for you. Farewell, Tannhauser ! Tannhauser. Shall we meet again .'' & The Unknown Minstrel. There is one glamour you must wreathe in gloom Before you come to the dark hill of dreams. 125
1902 · PDF PAGE 36
' But a moment's thought is passion's passing bell." — Keats, Lamia,
1901 · PDF PAGE 76
…lly is it for two souls to burn With hell’s own fire ! What is this quest of woe ? What is the end ? Consider and discern ! ” Banish the thought ! My working reason still Is the rebellious vassal to my will. Because I will it. That is God’s own mind. I cast all thought and prudence to the wind : On, to the quest ! The cursed parrot hill Mocks on, on, on ! The thought is left behind. Night came upon me thus—a wizard hand Grasping with silence the reluctant land. Through night I clomb—behind me grew the light Reflected in the portal of the night.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 76
KE®AAH NZ THE DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS Dirt is matter in the wrong place. Thought is mind in the wrong place. Matter is mind; so thought is dirt. Thus argued he, the Wise One, not mindful that all place is wrong. For not until the PLACE is perfected by a T saith he PLACET. The Rose uncrucified droppeth its petals; without the Rose the Cross is a dry stick. Worship then the Rosy Cross, and the Mystery of Two-in-One. And worship Him that swore by His holy T that One should not be One except in so far as it is Two. Iam glad that LAYLAH is afar; no dou…
1961 · PDF PAGE 47
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 35 Aq De Libertate Mentis (Of Liberty of the Mind) HERE shall be no Property in Human Thought. Let each think as he will concerning the Universe; but let none seek to impose that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this World or any other World. Look now, though I enkindle thee to Effort in thy Way, yet it is the Way of thy Will, and I say not even that thou dost well to hasten therein, for the whole Matter lieth in thy Will, and to force thyself against thy Nature would be an Obstacle to thy Passage. Bu…
1912 · PDF PAGE 71
…ion. I am in serious trouble. Place, Method, Means, Time, etc. A wakeful night, followed by profound and dreamless sleep (Had spent much thought on A .'.) ,, 15. Thought a deal ofA ,, 16᾿Will think, again, not do the formal invocation. ,, 17. This thinking seems little or no good: but the fault is that the real P. is actually not thinking of A When he is, the invocation is unneces- sary; when he isn‘t, it’s feeble. What am I to do? (Should suggest sticking to it. D. D. S., whom I consulted, agrees.) ,, 18. The new method appears to be a mere du…
1912 · PDF PAGE 71
…ion. I am in serious trouble. Place, Method, Means, Time, etc. A wakeful night, followed by profound and dreamless sleep (Had spent much thought on A .'.) ,, 15. Thought a deal ofA ,, 16᾿Will think, again, not do the formal invocation. ,, 17. This thinking seems little or no good: but the fault is that the real P. is actually not thinking of A When he is, the invocation is unneces- sary; when he isn‘t, it’s feeble. What am I to do? (Should suggest sticking to it. D. D. S., whom I consulted, agrees.) ,, 18. The new method appears to be a mere du…
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
… to Nibbana? come at last, the incom- parable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of |. that concentred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by self- restraint, by suffering long, Let the wise man an island build against the fatal current strong. Fools follow after vanity, those men of evil wisdonr’s sect ; But the wise man doth earnestness, a precious talisman, protect. Follow not vanity, nor seek the transient pleasures of the sense : The e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
LE PENSEUR LIND agony of thought! Who turns his pen Or brush or lyre to Art, shall see in this The symbol of his battle against men For men, the picture of the torturing bliss Of his necessity: sits clutched and closed Into himself the adept of wizard thought. Gripped in his own embrace he sits: keen-nosed The invisible bloodhounds ache upon the slot! Soon, soon they are on him: soon the fangs of hate, The sharp teeth of the infinite are in him! Shall love, or fame, or gold, those pangs abate? What siren with smooth voice and breast shall win h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…is done, A, A trick to cheat a child. NV. Itis the truth that I am nought. Hear what I have gatheredin the wild, Flowers of imperishable thought With glory and with rapture clothed. This being, thinking, loved or loathed, Hath attributes. This sand is gold :— Deem’st thou a gilder lurks within The atom ? What should Nature hold Of aureate save a mind begin Colour-conception? Then we win To think our thought itselfa chance Grafted upon the circumstance Of cerebrin and lethicin. A. Ill fares the rifleman that holds The muzzle to his eye. Yon gold…
1954 · PDF PAGE 238
…r you choose to think of, it changes, it grows, it disappears . You have got to train your mind to canter through those leafy avenues of thought upon the good green turf of Indifference; when you can do it without conscious effort, so that up-down, in-out, far-near, black-white (and so on for everything) appears quite automatically, you are already as near an Initiate as makes no matter. 3. 'Self' . For a full discussion of this see Letter 42. 4. 'God.' This is really too bad of you! Of all the hopelessly mangled words in the language, you sett…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…st thou a gilder lurks within The atom? What should Nature hold Of aureate save a mind begin Colour-conception? Then we win To think our thought itself a chance Grafted upon the circumstance Of cerebrin and lethicin. A. Til fares the rifleman that holds The muzzle to his eye. Yon gold’s Mental: enough! the mind is all. N. No: this is but a slave in thrall To matter’s motion. We deny A causeless cause, an entity Beyond experience, that tricks Our folly with his idle claim To be because we feel it. A. Sticks The reason there? N. We choose a name …
1913 · PDF PAGE 27
…ers wept. Next others laughed. Last came those that wept because they could not see the Joke, and those that laughed lest they should be thought not to see the Joke, and thought it safe to act like FRATER PERDURABO. But though FRATER PERDU RABO laughed openly, He also at the same time wept secretly; and in Himself He neither laughed nor wept. Nor did He mean what He said. 23
1910 · PDF PAGE 25
… over the least action that slippeth from the least of thy fingers. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. III o. The Ox is Thought. Man, rule thou thy Thought! How else shalt thou master the Holy Spirit, and answer the High Priestess in the Middle Gateway of the Crown? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. a Avoid thinking of a definite subject and all things connected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occupies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense-perceptions or the convers…
1910 · PDF PAGE 25
… over the least action that slippeth from the least of thy fingers. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. III o. The Ox is Thought. Man, rule thou thy Thought! How else shalt thou master the Holy Spirit, and answer the High Priestess in the Middle Gateway of the Crown? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. a Avoid thinking of a definite subject and all things connected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occupies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense-perceptions or the convers…
1906 · PDF PAGE 51
…from the tree of sense Head downward, gorged with sweet banana juice, Indifferent to—incapable of—aught Beyond these simple reflexes. Is thought, Even the highest thought, of any use? IV. We are not discussing metaphysics now. I see below the beautiful low brow 1 Rembrandt. 41
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
… extinction final and complete, utter and absolute extinction. For by these words only can we indicate Nirvana: @ state which transcends thought cannot be described in thought’s language. But from the point of view of thought extinction is complete: we have no data for discussing that which is unthinkable, and must decline to do so. This is the answer to those who accuse the Buddha of hurling his Arahats (and himself) from Samma Samadhi to annihilation. Pray observe in the first place that my solution of the Great Problem permits the co-existen…