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Page 35 of 911913 · PDF PAGE 319
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The great week of creation has been imitated by human genius, divining the forms of nature. Every day has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of God! Sublime dream which explains the mysteries of India, and justifies all symbolisms! The lofty conception of the man-God corresponds to the creation of Adam, and Christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. We wait for the worship of the brid…
1913 · PDF PAGE 535
…will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. Axiom XIII Light’ is an electric fire put by Nature at the service of the will; it lights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it. Axiom XIV The empire of the world is the empire of the light.t Axiom XV Great intellects whose wills are badly balanced are like comets which are aborted suns. Axiom XVI To do nothing is as fatal as to do evil, but it is more cowardly. The most unpardonable of mortal sins is inertia. 1 Meaning again the spec…
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
… who are without the chains of ignorance, look closely into the heart of the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
… who are without the chains of ignorance, look closely into the heart of the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
I07 spilled in the sunlight is perhaps the most beautiful colour that is to be found in nature. It is a notorious fact that it is practically impossible to get a reliable description of what occurs at a spiritualistic seafice; the emotions cloud the vision. Only in the absolute calm of the laboratory, where the observer is perfectly indifferent to what may happen, only concerned to observe exactly what that happening is, to measure and to weigh it by means of instruments incapable of emotion, can one even begin to hope for a truthful record of …
1912 · PDF PAGE 29
… buckjumper mind begins again. Like every other physiological process, consciousness of it implies disorder or disease. In analysing the nature of this work of controlling the mind, the student will appreciate without trouble the fact that two things are involved—the person seeing and the thing seen—the person knowing and the thing known; and he will come to regard this as the necessary condition of all consciousness. We are too accustomed to assume to be facts things about which we have no real right even to guess. We assume, for example, that…
1913 · PDF PAGE 134
…as others.' These "tendencies" must be combated: distasteful facts should be insisted upon until the Ego is perfectly indifferent to the nature of its food. " Even as the diamond shall glow red for the rose, and green for the rose-leaf, so shalt thou abide apart from the Impressions." This great task of separating the self from the impressions or "vrit- ^ The Motto of the Chief of the A.-. A.'., "the Light of the World Him- self.'' - It does not occur to a newly-hatched chicken to behave in the same way as a new-born child.
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…hunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” (The conception is of Air, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Bird, “the Holy Ghost”, of a Mercurial Nature.) Hear me, and make ail Spirits subject unto Me 5 so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth, on dry land and in the waterj of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me. I. Il he letter F is used to represent the Hebrew Vau and the Greek Digamma; its Sound lies between those of the English long o and long…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…age such as one was likely to encounter while traveling on the Quest. But all these ideals, seriously as I entertained them, were in the nature of reverie. In practical life I was still passionately engaged in cleansing myself from the mire of Christianity by deliberate acts of sin and worldliness. I was so happy to be free from the past tyranny that I found continual joy in affirming my emancipation. There were thus several divers strands in the loom of my soul which had not yet been woven into a harmonious pattern. I dealt with life empirical…
1939 · PDF PAGE 68
…ven when awake, of their reality. Why then do we criticise and dismiss them? Because their contents are incoherent, because the order of nature to which they belong does not properly conform with the kind of experience which does hang together after a fashion. Why do we criticise the reality of waking experience? On precisely similar grounds. Because in certain respects it fails to conform with our deep instinctive consciousness of the structure of the mind. Tendency! We happen to be that kind of animal. 14. The result is that we accept waking…
1907 · PDF PAGE 326
…yles , vol . iii, p . 99 . And yet what bliss , When , dying in the darkness of God's light , The soul can pierce these blinding webs of nature
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
… sometimes represented; so also are the three stages in the history of philosophy, in which the three objects of study were successively Nature, God, and Man. The duality of consciousness is also sometimes represented; and the Tree of Life itself may be figured therein, or the categories. An emblem of the Great Work should be added. But the Pantacle will be im- perfect unless each idea is contrasted in a balanced manner with its opposite, and unless there is a necessary connection between each pair of ideas and every other pair. The Neophyte wi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 255
…ch modified form, and in very special cases; because no course of action (or inaction) is conceivable that would do great violence to my nature. So let me worry along, please, with the accent on the "along"; I will grin and bear it, or, if it gets so bad that I can't do my Work, I will make the necessary effort to abate the nuisance, always most careful to do as little damage as possible to the main current of my total Energy. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1961 · PDF PAGE 55
…earn that thou must establish this Relation of Balance with every Thing soever, not omitting one. For there is nothing so alien from thy Nature that it may not be brought into harmonious Relation therewith; and thy Stature of Manhood waxeth great even as thou comest to the Perfection of this Art. And there is nothing so close Kin to thee it may not be hurtful to thee if this Balance is not truly adjusted. Thou hast need of the whole Force of the Universe to work with thy Will; but this Force must be disposed about the Shaft of that Will so that…
1906 · PDF PAGE 107
…place the separation from one another of two things, soul and body; nothing else. And after they are separated they retain their several natures, as in life; the body keeps the same habit, and the results of treatment or accident are distinctly visible in it: for example, he who by nature or training or both was a tall man while he was alive, will remain as he was, after he is dead; and the fat will remain fat; and soon; and the dead man who in life had a fancy to have flowing hair, will have flowing hair. And if he was marked with the whip and…
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…l, to think of those things, which will consequently be easier to think of than others. That this is the explanation is evident from the nature of the preceding and subsequent classes. You can also meditate on elm/Ming illa! especially appeals loyou. But in all this one feels inclined to suggest that it will be better
1944 · PDF PAGE 154
…the most mysterious of the Signs, and the manifested portion of it symbolized by the eagle is in reality the least important part of his nature. The moral characteristics of the person pictured in this card are subtlety, secret vio‐ lence, and craft. He is intensely secret, an artist in all his ways. On the surface he appears calm
1961 · PDF PAGE 142
…. Therefore thy Safety and Defence is to hold thy Mind to his right Function, a faithful Minister to thine own true Will, by Election of Nature. Heed well this, o my Son, for thy Mind passive is rightly a Mirror to reflect all Things clearly without Prejudice, and to remain unstained by them. o
1939 · PDF PAGE 34
…, by standing on one leg throughout the centuries. If you go to the Dragon he will devour you. 19. It is through the perversity of human nature that the most acute agony seems to occur when you are within a finger's breadth of full success. Remember Gallipoli! I am inclined to think that it may be a sort of symptom that one is near the critical point when the anguish becomes intolerable. You will probably ask what 'intolerable' means. I rudely answer: 'Find out!' But it may give you some idea of what is, after all, not too bad, when I say that …
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…Name of Adonai ; the angel answers him: “I am the Prince of Dark ness and of Evil. The wicked and rebellious man gazeth upon the face of Nature, and findeth therein naught but terror and obscurity; unto him it is but the darkness of the darkness, and he is but as a drunken man groping in the dark. Returnl for thou canst not pass by.” Equally, when the Neophyte enters upon the Path of Good, doth the great angel Metatron arrest him with the words: “I am the angel of the Presence divine. The wise man gazeth upon the material world; and he beholdeth…