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Page 39 of 781929 · PDF PAGE 201
… allegories, and his trick of presenting them dramatically. "What then?" "This is what really happened last night — only there's no such thing as time. This is what you should have seen, and what you will see one day, if you cling to the highest in you." He drew a note-book of white vellum from his pocket, and began to read. "The whirlwind of the Eagle and the Lion! The Tree upon the Mountain that is Zion! The marriage of the Starbeam and the Clod! The mystic Sabbath of the Saints of God! Bestride the Broomstick that is God-in-man! Spur the rou…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…getting lost in the process, which is good for their souls, the peasant naturally has moments of serious disquietude as to whether some- thing terrible can have happened to little Tommy. Very Good. All we have to do is to play on the alarm. We put into his mind that little Tommy (who turns up all right, if rather muddy, half an hour later) has almost certainly been kidnapped by the Jews for purposes of ritual murder. The main accusation against Gilles de Rais is therefore just this general accusation against anyone in Christendom who exhibited …
1909 · PDF PAGE 92
…bbana-Dhatu and the Samsara-Chakra with the Brahmarandra of the sphere of the 99-year-old-Talipot-palm- like sucking Arahat may have something to do with it. Plainly, we know so very little; so few ever attain this class of experience that one is perhaps hardly justified in maintaining (as I always have maintained and that stoutly) that the reward is according to the work. It may conceivably be that work does not affect the question, as it clearly does in the lower grades, it may be that an outsider may pull off the big thing—Agnosco! Still, I …
1909 · PDF PAGE 92
…bbana-Dhatu and the Samsara-Chakra with the Brahmarandra of the sphere of the 99-year-old-Talipot-palm- like sucking Arahat may have something to do with it. Plainly, we know so very little; so few ever attain this class of experience that one is perhaps hardly justified in maintaining (as I always have maintained and that stoutly) that the reward is according to the work. It may conceivably be that work does not affect the question, as it clearly does in the lower grades, it may be that an outsider may pull off the big thing—Agnosco! Still, I …
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
7.32. 7.50- JOHN ST. JOHN How is it that I expect the reward at once? Surely I am presuming on my magical power, which is an active thing, and therefore my passivity is not perfect. Of course, when IT happens, it happens out of time and space—now or ten years hence it is all the same. All the same to IT; not all the same to me, O.M. So 0.M. (the dog I) persists irrationally in wanting IT, here and now. Surely, indeed, it is a lack of faith, a pandering to the time-illusion . . . and so forth. Yes, no doubt it is all magically wrong, even magica…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
…edit the evidence of my senses). I have consequently done all I can to shock and hurt the enemy. I have painted their God as the obscene thing he is from my knowledge of my Uncle Tom ; I have made his Trinity ridiculous and his scheme disgusting ; I have painted Magdalen as the Syrian strumpet she was from the best models among English society whores (thank you, Ada ; thank you, Kathleen !) ; I have painted Mary as a lascivious flapper from my knowledge of English virgins — thank you, Vera ! thank you, Lydia ! thank you, Millicent ! — the hag i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 116
…ealth and happiness, that we didn’t need any other element to make our poetry perfect. I said this without a hint of hesitation. For one thing, we felt like Christian when the burden of his sins fell off his back, at getting away from Paris and civilisation and convention and all that modern artifici- ality implies. 102
1922 · PDF PAGE 245
…camp fire, but the only words that come are the appropriate ones. That poem has obsessed us. It fills our souls to the exclusion of everything else except the thirst. “Every separate bone Cold, an incarnate groan Distilled from the icy sperm Of Hell’s implacable worm.” We repeated them over and over. ... I don’t know how one thing ever turns into another. We are living in an eternity of damnation. It is a mystery how we ever get from the fire to the table or the two big Chesterfields. Every action is a separate agony rising to a climax which ne…
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
… for Dublin about a month hence,’ he writes to ‘dear Tom,’ ‘ but of this you must not give the least intimation to any one. It is of all things my earnest desire (and for very good reasons) not to have it known I am in Dublin, Speak not, therefore, one syllable of it to any mortal whatsoever. When I formerly desired you to take a place for me near the town, you gave out that you were looking for a retired lodging for a friend of yours; upon which everybody surmised me to be the person. I must beg you not to act in the like manner now—but to tak…
1910 · PDF PAGE 324
…either was her own body steady. They both laboured under great nervous ex- citement.” “T could not,” Elphénor went on, “tell you how the thing happened, unless I used my imagination—and the whole pack of you are unworthy of that exertion—nor will I take the trouble to search the bottom drawers of my reason for any explanation of what I take to be a very scarce phenomenon.” 306
1910 · PDF PAGE 324
…either was her own body steady. They both laboured under great nervous ex- citement.” “T could not,” Elphénor went on, “tell you how the thing happened, unless I used my imagination—and the whole pack of you are unworthy of that exertion—nor will I take the trouble to search the bottom drawers of my reason for any explanation of what I take to be a very scarce phenomenon.” 306
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…stic who causes scandal; but she has not the right to abandon him to the frenzies of despair and the temptations of misery and hunger. Nothing is so terrifying as nothingness, and if one could ever formulate the conception of it, if it were possible to admit it, Hell would be a thing to hope for. This is why Nature itself seeks and imposes expiation as a remedy; that is why chastisement is a chastening, as that Ss 257
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…stic who causes scandal; but she has not the right to abandon him to the frenzies of despair and the temptations of misery and hunger. Nothing is so terrifying as nothingness, and if one could ever formulate the conception of it, if it were possible to admit it, Hell would be a thing to hope for. This is why Nature itself seeks and imposes expiation as a remedy; that is why chastisement is a chastening, as that Ss 257
1922 · PDF PAGE 51
…ses of action. I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, “ Of course I am—sanity is a com- promise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.”’ 37
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
Line 2. Lines 3. Lme 4. Line 5. Lme 6. Line 7. Lme 8. “Truth” is the necessary relation of any two things; therefore, although it implies duality, it enables us to conceive of two things as being one thing such that it demands to be defined by com- plementals. Thus, an hyperbola is a simple idea, but its construction exacts two curves. The Angel, as the adept knows him, is a being Tiphereth, which obscures Kether. The Adept is not officially aware of the higher Sephiroth. He cannot perceive, like the Xpsissimus, that ail things soever are equal…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
… 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 one no longer believes? How re-discover a taste for virtue in a heart faded by vice? One must have recourse to the four words of science: to know, to dare, to will, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
… 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 one no longer believes? How re-discover a taste for virtue in a heart faded by vice? One must have recourse to the four words of science: to know, to dare, to will, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
… two disputants , Scepticus and Mysticus , set out by agreeing that the unknow able is unreal , and as the latter says with Berkeley , a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by ") 2 us. ” When Scepticus asks Mysticus , • How old are you ? ” and receives the answer , “ I am but an ulti mate truth , six world -truths , fourteen grand general izations , eighty generalizations , sixty -two dilemmas , and the usual odd million impressions , " he is receiving a much more correct and scientific answer to his question than if Mysticus , like …
1911 · PDF PAGE 26
…earth, and ye would have me swim. And the voice said: Thy fear is known; thine ignorance is known; thy weakness is known; but thou art nothing in this matter. Shall the grain which is cast into the earth by the hand of the sower debate within itself, saying, am I oats or barley? Bond-slave of the curse, we give nothing, we take all. Be thou content. That which thou art, thou art. Be content. And now the lion passeth over through the Aethyr with the crowned beast upon his back, and the tail of the lion goes on instead of stopping, and on each ha…
1912 · PDF PAGE 53
…tedly escaped from death in manners almost miraculous " Then I am some use after all ! " was his conclusion. “I am indeed SENT to do something.” For whom? For the Universe; no partial good could possibly satisfy his equation. “I am, then, the ‘chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space.’ Very good: and what is the message? What shall I teach men?” And like the lightning from heaven fell upon him these words: “THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSA- TION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL." Just that. No metaphysical stuff about the “higher self ”; a thing that the…