The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…onely broods Of active gnomes and little red-capped fays, That feasted in the summer under the trees Now dripping with Autumn rains—ah ! take me too, Me too into the silence of the past, x M 177
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…onely broods Of active gnomes and little red-capped fays, That feasted in the summer under the trees Now dripping with Autumn rains—ah ! take me too, Me too into the silence of the past, x M 177
…onely broods Of active gnomes and little red-capped fays, That feasted in the summer under the trees Now dripping with Autumn rains—ah ! take me too, Me too into the silence of the past, x M 177
…n with Venus, and is referred to Scorpio in the Zodiac. This Path is perilous, for it seeketh the Level, and may abase thee, except thou take Heed unto the Going. Of its three Modes, the Scorpio destroyeth himself, as if it were a Type of animal Pleasure. Next, the Serpent is proper to Works of Change, or Magick; yet is he poisonous also unless thou hast Wit to enchant him. Lastly the Eagle is subtlest in this Sort, so that this Path is proper to a Transcendental Labour. Yet all these are in the Way of Death, so that thy Wand is dissolved and c…
…ὀ. Maya, 0, they will read in the local newspaper. There is no getting away from that! Failure! Failure! Failure! Now then let me (7.35) take the position of the Hanged Man and invoke Adonai. Probably sleep returned shortly. Not a good night, though dreamless, so far as memory serves. The rain comes wearily down, not chasing the dryness, but soddening the streets. The rain of autumn, not the rain of spring! So is it in this soul, Lord Adonai. The thought of Thee is heavy and uneasy, flabby and loose, like an old fat woman stupid-drunk in her slu…
…y !2) as having two podices like suns on the horizon in a duststorm ; and four buttocks, shaking in a con- fused manner. Therefore I did take council with Husein-i-Abdal1 as to what it were fitting to do ; and he bade me look upon my member, whether it were one or two. Now then my eyes gave the lie to my hand ; but rushing upon thee like a bull, I did pe- netrate to the core of thy being ; and great joy overcoming me I fell down, assured that there was but one. Thus it is with the unbeliever3 and his three gods ; but whoso knoweth Allah knoweth…
… any given event, if only because those causes are infinite, and each one of them is to a certain extent an efficient determining cause. Take a quite simple matter like the time of year. If it had been winter instead of summer, the
… so egregious a crime. What father of to-day would disin- herit, would hunt down to death, a beloved son, on such evidence? Or are we to take it that the eclipse gave proof unshakable of a phenomenon so portentous ? In Scene ii. we have another taste of Kent’s gentlemanly demeanour ; let our conven- tionalist interpreters defend this unw arrantable bullying if they dare ! Another might be so gross, so cowardly ; but not our greatest poet ! A good portion of this play, as will be shown later, is devoted to a bitter assault upon the essentially E…
…izraim. “A button!" she laughed back. “I was born to undo them. So Ι always wear laced boots." “True enough,” said Edgar Rolles. "I will take you seriously then. If you really understand the sign you gave me, you know that the mano in tica is but a caricature of the answer to it. Why are you painted and perfumed?" “Because I am ambitious, may I not be vicious?” she rimed. "If I see anyone that seems likely to amuse me, I try and amuse him—or her,” she laughed. “ Is not that the Golden Rule?" “Well," said Edgar hesitatingly, “well . . . “ “I am …
…izraim. “A button!" she laughed back. “I was born to undo them. So Ι always wear laced boots." “True enough,” said Edgar Rolles. "I will take you seriously then. If you really understand the sign you gave me, you know that the mano in tica is but a caricature of the answer to it. Why are you painted and perfumed?" “Because I am ambitious, may I not be vicious?” she rimed. "If I see anyone that seems likely to amuse me, I try and amuse him—or her,” she laughed. “ Is not that the Golden Rule?" “Well," said Edgar hesitatingly, “well . . . “ “I am …
…rship, and ingenuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, revert to the most. elementary ideas of cannibal savages, challenge all the Most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my theory, _ I clearly foresee the one difficulty, and will discuss it in advance. If my conclusions on this point are not accepted, we may at once get back to our previous irri- tabl…
…eep, the dog plays upon their fear of wolves. If you are a dog, and you want a pretty little cat to love you, you have only one means to take: to metamorphose yourself into a cat. But how? By observation, imitation and imagination. We think that our figurative language will be understood for once, and we recommend this revelation to all who wish to magnetize : it is the deepest of all the secrets of their art. Here is the formula in technical terms: “To polarize one’s own animal light, in equilibrated antagonism with the contrary pole.” Or: To …
…eep, the dog plays upon their fear of wolves. If you are a dog, and you want a pretty little cat to love you, you have only one means to take: to metamorphose yourself into a cat. But how? By observation, imitation and imagination. We think that our figurative language will be understood for once, and we recommend this revelation to all who wish to magnetize : it is the deepest of all the secrets of their art. Here is the formula in technical terms: “To polarize one’s own animal light, in equilibrated antagonism with the contrary pole.” Or: To …
ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE He rises, takes the Lance, and turns to the PEOPLE. Tue PRIEST. There is no part of me that is not of the Gods. (Those of the PEOPLE who intend to communicate, and none other should be present, having signified their intention, a whole Cake of Light, and a whole goblet of wine, have been prepared for each one. The Deacon marshals them; they advance one by one to the altar. The children take the Elements and offer them. The PEOPLE communicate as did the PRIEST, uttering the same words in an atti- tude of Resurrecti…
…student is the Vow of Holy Obedience; and many will wish that they had the opportunity of putting themselves under a holy Guru. Let them take heart— for any being capable of giving commands is an efficient Guru for the purpose of this Vow, pro- vided that he is not too amiable and lazy.
… O.T.O. 45. Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they over- power thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware, Disciple, suffer not, e’en though it be their shadow, to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness 25
… where there is a breach where one can crawl through very comfortably. Here we rejoined the climbers. “To-morrow,” said Hermes, “I shall take you up the Great Gully,” with the air of a full-fledged alpine guide. Dionysus shook his little head. ‘I don’t know if he tan det through the hole,” he lamented. | King Lamus had taken off the rope and made it into a coil by winding it around his knee and foot. We plodded painfully over very rough ground to the top of the rock. It was both exhilarating and disheartening to see the way the two boys scrambl…
…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 need hardly have asked the question; the whole Book is alive with it; it thrills, it throbs, 353
…tence of your letter separately, so incoherent have you become! You are a "student" of A:. A:. , and become a Probationer as soon as you take and pass the examination. (This is intended mostly to make sure that you have some general idea of the principal branches of the subject, and know the more important correspondences.) The rest: please 425
…ol a nervous storm breaks: this we call Dhyana. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see.” Five years later he would not take this view. He would say perhaps that Dhyana was “ a flowing of the mind in one unbroken current from the ego to the non-ego without consciousnessof either, accompanied by a crescent wonder and bliss.” He can understand how that is the
…ith Samadhi this is unfortunately not the case. He probably can get it at will, but could not say exactly how, or tell how long it might take him?,־and he could not be sure of getting it at all. One feels sure that one can walk a mile along a level road. One knows the conditions, and it would have to be a very extraordinary set of circumstances that would stop one. But though it would be equally fair to say: “I have climbed the Matterhorn and I know I can climb “it again,” yet there are all sorts of more or less probable circumstances any one o…