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… been placed upon the simplest words by those whose interest it is to deceive us, that when those words are used in their proper, simple sense, we hardly recognize them. For this reason we have deemed it necessary to
… space disappear with the creation of the Life by its virtue, as also doth personality itself. For the third time, then, in even subtler sense, “The word of Sin is Restriction.” Lastly, in the Way of Light this same versicle is the key to the conception of Evil. But here Restriction is in the failure to solve the Great Equation, and, later, to prefer one expression or phase of the Universe to the other. Against this we are warned in the Book of the Law by the Word of Nuit, saying: “None .. . and two. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the ch…
… is the kind of sentimental balderdash that assures one that this book was intended to reach the English and not the Tibetan public. The sense of separateness from others has been weeded out from the consciousness long, long ago. The Buddha who accomplishes the greater Renunciation is a Saviour of the World—it is the dogginess of a dog that makes it doggy. It is not the virtue of a dog to be doggy. A dog does not be- come doggy by the renunciation of non-dogginess. It is quite true that you and I value one kind of a Buddha more than another kin…
…id gorge, precipice-walled. The camel driver wanted to pitch camp about three o'clock and we had trouble with him. Camel drivers have no sense at all; in England they would get either the Embankment or the Home Office. This imbecile had been all his life in the desert and had not yet learnt that he and his camel needed food. He never took any with him, an having reached a suitable spot thirty miles from the nearest blade of grass, complained of hunger. I had hoped he would have found some thistles. This by parenthesis. We wandered on and presen…
…much more than was good for him. He stared, fascinated as bya basilisk, his eyes starting further and further from his head as his moral sense dragged his body backwards along the Rue de Rivoli. By this means he cannoned into a worthy Frenchman (who refused to take him seriously) and so was shocked into himself. He pulled out his watch. Only an hour and a half to catch his train. justas he was beginning to enjoy himself, too. What a shame! He couldn’t even send a telegram without letting somebody know where he was—and at home they supposed him …
…much more than was good for him. He stared, fascinated as bya basilisk, his eyes starting further and further from his head as his moral sense dragged his body backwards along the Rue de Rivoli. By this means he cannoned into a worthy Frenchman (who refused to take him seriously) and so was shocked into himself. He pulled out his watch. Only an hour and a half to catch his train. justas he was beginning to enjoy himself, too. What a shame! He couldn’t even send a telegram without letting somebody know where he was—and at home they supposed him …
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that they have only drunk of muddy streams. To enjoy even the animal pleasures of life one must have the moral sense; and those who calumniate existence have certainly abused it. High magic, as we have proved, leads man back to the laws of the purest morality. Either he finds a thing holy or makes it holy, says an adept—Ve/ sanctum invenit, vel sanctum Jacit; because it makes us understand that in order to be happy, even in this world, one must be holy. To be holy! that is easy to say; but how give one’s self faith when…
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that they have only drunk of muddy streams. To enjoy even the animal pleasures of life one must have the moral sense; and those who calumniate existence have certainly abused it. High magic, as we have proved, leads man back to the laws of the purest morality. Either he finds a thing holy or makes it holy, says an adept—Ve/ sanctum invenit, vel sanctum Jacit; because it makes us understand that in order to be happy, even in this world, one must be holy. To be holy! that is easy to say; but how give one’s self faith when…
…an (or any other) religion literally, we are at once over- whelmed by its inherent im possibility. Our credulity is outraged, our m oral sense shocked, the holiest foundations of our in- most selves assailed by no ardent warrior in triple steel, but by a loathy and disgusting worm. That this is so, the apologists for the religion in question, whichever it m ay be, sufficiently indicate (as a rule) by the very method of their apology . The alter- native is to take the religion symbolically, esoterically; but to m ove one step in this direction i…
THE NEEDS OF THE NAVY The air of the room was quite sweet and heavy with the savour of forbidden kisses ; a faint moist sense of sweat steamed up in the twilight, and there was a sound of breath that did not dare to breathe, of sighs choked by fear. The midship- mans head silently turned round and his tongue pushed languidly forward to touch the lips of the lieutenant. A sound in the next room ; both trem- bled violently, sprang from the sofa where they had been lying and hastily arranged the disorder their passion had made necessary. The midd…
…dower ; But ah ! they used that fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act. This may be fancy or a fact ; At least it squares with super-sense Or “spiritual experience.” You do not well to swell the list Of horrid things to me imputed By calling me “materialist.” At least this thought is better suited To Western minds than is embalmed Among the doctrines of Mohammed, The dogma parthenogenetic * As told me by a fat ascetic. He said : “Your worthy friends may lack you late, But learn how Mary was immaculate !” I sat in vague expectant bliss. The …
…save that the Universe, as previously known through Atmadarshana, is annihilated? Yet the negation of this phrase is only apparent ; the sense is that all that negative Atmadarshana is destroyed ; it is only an illusion that goes. Yet there is indeed Nothing in its place—and the only way to express the matter is to spell that Nothing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to belie…
…save that the Universe, as previously known through Atmadarshana, is annihilated? Yet the negation of this phrase is only apparent ; the sense is that all that negative Atmadarshana is destroyed ; it is only an illusion that goes. Yet there is indeed Nothing in its place—and the only way to express the matter is to spell that Nothing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to belie…
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE 32. This light shines from the jewel of the Great En- snarer (Mara). The senses it bewitches, blinds the mind, and leaves the unwary an abandoned wreck. Iam inclined to believe that most of Blavatsky’s notes are intended as blinds. “Light” such as is described has a tech- nical meaning. It would be too petty to regard Mara as a Christian would regard a man who offered him a cigarette. The supreme and blinding light of this jewel is the great vision of Light. It is the light which streams from the threshold of Nirvana, a…
…, shunned by the Bodhisattvas of the “Secret Heart,” the Buddhas of Compassion. The words “selfish bliss” must not be taken in a literal sense. It is exceedingly difficult to discuss this question. The Occidental mind finds it difficult even to attach any meaning to the conditions of Nirvana. Partly it is the fault of language, partly it is due to the fact that the condition of Arhat is quite beyond thought. He is beyond the Abyss, and there a thing is only true in so far as it is self-contradictory. The Arhat has no self to be blissful. It is …
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 182 #w Conclusio de hac Modo Sanctitatis (Conclusion concerning this Method of Holiness) EARN now that Impression of Sense have Oppo- sites readily conceived, as long to short, or light to dark; and so with Emotions and Perceptions, as Love to Hate, or false to true; but the more violent is the Antagonism, the more is it bound in Illusion, determined by Relation. Thus the Word Long hath no Meaning save it be referred to a Standard; but Love is not thus obscure, because Hate is its Twin, partaking bountifully of a Common Na…
PENTECOST 165 I lived, Elijah-like, Mt. Carmel in : 35 All gave me nothing. I slid back To common sense, as reason bids, And “hence,” my friend, “the Pyramids.” At last I met a maniac My Mahatma. With mild eyes full of love, and tresses What price . ‘, Kut Humi? 40 Blanched in those lonely wildernesses Where he found wisdom, and long hands Gentle, pale olive ‘gainst the sand’s Amber and gold. At sight, I knew him ; Swifter than light I flashed, ran to him, 46 And at his holy feet prostrated My head ; then, all my being sated With love, cried “ …
…. The name of illuminati which one ordinarily gives to adepts, has then been generally very badly interpreted by giving to it a mystical sense, as if it signified men whose intelligence believes itself to be lighted by a miraculous day. ‘ Illuminati’ means simply, knowers and possessors of the light, either by the knowledge of the great magical agent, or by the rational and ontological notion of the absolute. The universal agent is a force tractable and subordinate to intelligence. Abandonedto itself, it, like Moloch, devours rapidly all that t…
…. The name of illuminati which one ordinarily gives to adepts, has then been generally very badly interpreted by giving to it a mystical sense, as if it signified men whose intelligence believes itself to be lighted by a miraculous day. ‘ Illuminati’ means simply, knowers and possessors of the light, either by the knowledge of the great magical agent, or by the rational and ontological notion of the absolute. The universal agent is a force tractable and subordinate to intelligence. Abandonedto itself, it, like Moloch, devours rapidly all that t…
…g by doing nothing. The only way in which we can bring this idea at all near to western minds is by speaking of perfect balance, in the sense in which the fencer or the chess player might use the term. In a perfectly played game of chess the pieces are not arranged so that there is any obvious line of attack or defense. They are arranged so as to be ready to attack or defend in any position of the board. A definite attack upon the kings side or the queens side, or upon a pawn or a piece, compromises the position. The player is bound, to a ce…