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…I use this slug?" And in this course he must persist. Though many things useless, so far as he can see, are sent to him, one day he will find the one thing he needs, while his Understanding will appreciate the fact that none of those other things were useless. So with these early practices of renunciation it will now be clearly understood that they were but of temporary use. They were only of value as training. The adept will laugh over his early absurdities —the disproportions will have been harmonized; and the structure of his soul will be se…
1954 · PDF PAGE 386
…my own thesis "There shall be no property in human flesh." So long as this is observed I see no reason why two or more people should not find it convenient to make a con tract according to the laws of customs of their community . But my above thesis is all important; note the fury of denunciation in AL, I: 41-42! As to property in general, the Book lays down no law. So far as one can see, it seems to adhere to "the good old rule, the simple plan that they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can." Now then, as to war. You ne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 440
…illusioned. He may join the Craft with some idea of fellowship, because it is a tradition in his family to do so, or because he hopes to find in the Secret of the Mysteries something which he does not find in any of the exoteric forms of religion. How is it that the same Order satisfies --- more or less --- aspirations so diverse? We are brought at last face to face with the fundamental problem of the masonic historian --- the origin of the whole business. Without any hesitation at all, one may confess that on this critical question nothing is …
1903 · PDF PAGE 10
…inite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited and his age- long day must end. I find evidence every-where, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest ke should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their trans- gression was discovered, or had the Serpent been awar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…therhood ; very different indeed was the love of Ratoum . But anon . Another picture of maternal affection , this time more musical , we find in “ The Spring after, ” of “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic " : No smallest cloud between me and my bride Came like a little mist ; one tender fear, Too sweet to speak of, closed the dying year 1 The Mother's Tragedy , vol. i, p. 157. ? Ibid . vol. i, p. 161.
1919 · PDF PAGE 344
…verse reads at first as if the heresy were still possible in the Hall of Wisdom, but this is not as it seems. The Dis- ciple is urged to find out his Ego and slay it even in the beginning. 36. Let not that “Heaven-Born,’ merged in the sea of Maya, break from the Universal Parent (SOUL), but let the fiery power retire into the inmost chamber, the chamber of the Heart, and the abode of the World’s Mother. This develops verse 35. The heaven-born is the human consciousness. The chamber of the Heart is the Anahata lotus. The abode of the World’s Mot…
1944 · PDF PAGE 248
… 3. Divine the proper stacks and proceed as before. Fourth Operation PENULTIMATE ASPECTS OF THE QUESTION 1. Shuffle, etc., as before. 2. Find the Significator: set him upon the table; let the thirty‐ six cards following form a ring round him. 3. Count and pair as before. (Note that the Nature of each Decan is shown by the small card attributed to it, and by the symbols given in Liber DCCLXXVII, cols. 149‐151.) Fifth Operation FINAL RESULT 1. Shuffle, ec., as before. 2. Deal into ten packs in the form of the Tree of Life. 3. Make up your mind wh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 8
THE EQUINOX it thought ?” The Buddhist may find it easy to image an act without an agent; I am not so clever. It may be possible for a sane man; but I should like to know more about his mind before I gave a final opinion. But apart from purely formal objections, we may still inquire: Is this Cogétatur true? Yes; reply the sages; for to deny it implies thought; Negatur is only a sub-section of Cogitatur. This involves, however, an axiom that the part is of the same nature as the whole; or (at the very least) an axiom that Ais A. Now, I do not wi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 445
…d variety of the form. “Everything is sorrow,” says the Buddha. Quite so, to begin with. We analyse the things we deem least sorrow, and find that by taking a long enough period, or a short enough period, we can prove them to be the most exquisite agony. Such is the attempt of all Buddhist writers, and their even feebler Western imitators. But once the secret of the universe is found, then everything is joy. The prop- osition is quite as universal. 80. If thou would’st have that stream of hard-earn’d knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain swe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 318
…is within the grasp of all from the most ignorant clodhopper to the most sapient sage . Now turning back from the present day , we shall find that amongst those , whom we may call the divine philosophers , those in the West have in their illumina tion triumphed over those in the East . And as the spontaneous flashing of the heavens is a grander sight than the watching of an artificial thunderstorm pro · Huxley's Hume , p . 107 .
1954 · PDF PAGE 155
…sking you to explain the difference between the A:. A:. and the O.T.O.; and that although your own mind is perfectly clear about it, you find it impossible to induce a similar lucidity in his. You add that he is not (as one might at first suppose) a moron. And will I please do what I can about it? Well, here's the essential difference ab ovo usque ad mala: the A:. A:. concerns the individual, his development, his initiation, his passage from "Student" to "Ipsissimus"; he has no contact of any kind with any other person except the Neophyte who i…
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…s any real value. It will be necessary first to call the attention of the reader to our own system, without some account of which he may find himself embarrassed, even bewildered. Mr George Macdonald in his masterpiece of Hag- gardized Rabbinical tradition, “Lilith” (Off, Lilith !),} has broken the wind of the poor phrase to this effect: “To grow and not to grow; to grow larger and to grow smaller at one and the same time; yea, even to grow by the simple process of not growing.” In these unpretending and innocent.words lies hid (for the eye of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 137
… disproving it. From this year his interest in the Occult seems to date, and it was about this time that he first consciously aspired to find, and get into touch with, a True Occult Order. This aspiration was, as we shall see, fulfilled three years later, when he had an oppor- tunity to become a Probationer of the A..A.., and immedi- ately grasped it; but during those three years his researches led him into varied paths:—Spiritualism, Faithism and other Isms on the one hand, and ‘The Europe,’ ‘The Leicester,’ and ‘The Cosy Corner’ on the other:…
1906 · PDF PAGE 176
…me ” Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like: I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own Non-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; | With Hegel and—the Christian? téach That which completes, includes, absorbs Both mighty unrevolving orbs. In one informing masterless Master-idea of consciousness— All differences as these indeed Are chess play, conjuring. “ Proceed !”…
1913 · PDF PAGE 473
…collection of old books concerning the occult sciences. They were talking of the gvimoive of Honorius. “ Now-a-days, it is impossible to find it,” said the mer- chant. “ The last that I had in my hands I sold to a priest for a hundred francs.” “ A young priest? And do you remember what he looked like 2?” “Oh, perfectly, but you ought to know him well yourself, 175
1913 · PDF PAGE 473
…collection of old books concerning the occult sciences. They were talking of the gvimoive of Honorius. “ Now-a-days, it is impossible to find it,” said the mer- chant. “ The last that I had in my hands I sold to a priest for a hundred francs.” “ A young priest? And do you remember what he looked like 2?” “Oh, perfectly, but you ought to know him well yourself, 175
1919 · PDF PAGE 96
…e darkness of the earth. 6. Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my conqueror, my sword-girt captain, O Hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl’d glittering stone, and they shall worship thee. 7. My prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. Thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with some- what that hath noname. For it is as the abyss of th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 35
…e37 Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like : I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own No-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; With Hegel and the—Christian ? teach That which compels, includes, absorbs Both mighty unrevolving orbs In one informing masterless Master-idea of consciousness— All differences as these indeed Are chess play, conjuring. “Proceed !” Nay !…
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
… these Germans said : “Ekam Advaita!” one, not two! Thus East and West from A to Z Agree—Alas: so do not you? (It matters nothing—you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind.) As far as normal reasoning goes, Mind’ssuperior I must admit my concepts close functions. Exactly where my worthy friend, Great Mansel, says they ought to end. But here’s the whole thing in a word: Olympus in a nutshell! | Jdave a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true } In short, the mind is capable,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 280
…x Oriente Lux . As old as the Vedas is the idea of Agnosticism , though in name it is not yet forty years of age . Everywhere we look we find the 'Ayvborq Oeq of Paul , midst the Greeks , the Egyptians , the Hebrews , the Chaldeans , the Aryans , and the Chinese , and its light is focussed in the greatest of the great : Socrates and Plato , Malebranche and Descartes , Locke and Spinoza , Hume and Berkeley , Swedenborg and Kant , Hegel and Comte , Tyndall , Spencer , and Huxley . Declining the mimetic , seeking the idiosyncratic , and standing b…