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Page 42 of 1081909 · PDF PAGE 55
I] Wrapped in the wool of wizardry I sit >" Mantled in mystery; the little things That I have made through weariness of wit, Stars, cells, and whorls, all wonder in their wings! These Gods and men, these laws, these hieroglyphs And sigils of my fancy seem to spire In worship up mine everlasting cliffs I built between my will and my desire. They reach me not ; I made a monstrous crowd, Innumerable monuments of thought, But none is equal; this high head is bowed In vain to the wise God it would have wrought, Had not — Who sitteth on the Holy Thro…
1909 · PDF PAGE 123
…eventh, the real soul, cannot be eaten by the devourer. How’s that for high? r and sign myself with a Possibly a rousing mantra would fix things up; say the Old Favourite: Aum Tat Sat Aum and give the Hindus a chance. We can but try. So I begin at once. This is past all bearing. Another hour wasted chat- ting to Nina and H The mantra hardly remem- 121
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
…t avoid anything like a dogmatic statement. In Their second book of practical instruction, Liber 0, occur these words: “By doing certain things certain results will follow. Students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philo- sophical validity to any of them.” Those golden words! In discussing Dhyana, then, let it be clearly understood that some- thing unexpected is about to be described. We shall consider its nature and estimate its value in a perfectly unbiassed way, without allowing ourselves the usual rhapsodie…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…ss, and must be, as it were, awakened in order to be destroyed, so that the will of the Magician is in a sense trying to do two opposite things at the same time. Consciousness itself is only destroyed by Samadhi. One can now see the logical process which begins in refusing to think of a foot, and ends by destroying the sense of individuality. Of the methods of destroying various deep-rooted ideas there are many. The best is perhaps the method of equilibrium. Get the mind into the habit of calling up the opposite to every thought that may arise.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 327
…Church strongly repudiated the idea of con nection between her Ceremonial practices and those And float up to the nothing , which is all things The ground of being , where self - forgetful silence , To emptiness , -emptiness fulness , -fulness God , Till we touch Him , and , like a snow - flake , melt Upon his light - sphere's keen circumference ! The Saint's Tragedy . i Rosa Mundi , vol . iii, p . 52 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…mmate practical joke on somebodys part. As I see the joke, I take no side in the controversy ! But we should look on the bright side of things ! [Pompously.] Poor Uncle Henry, dead and turned to clay, May feed the Beans that keep the Bile away. Oh that whom all the world did once ignore Should purge a peer or ease an emperor ! EUPHEMIA. But where is the bright side of our love ? CARR. Why, our love ! EUPHEMIA. Cannot you, cannot you understand ? CARR. Not unless you tell me ! EUPHEMIA. I cant tell you. CARR.Anything I dont know.
1911 · PDF PAGE 284
… since all is immanent The vast content Of all the universe unalterabler We know too well How no one thing abides awhile at all, How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. So we, Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fail us on the hideous way. What? Must we pray?
1911 · PDF PAGE 284
… since all is immanent The vast content Of all the universe unalterabler We know too well How no one thing abides awhile at all, How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. So we, Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fail us on the hideous way. What? Must we pray?
1912 · PDF PAGE 86
…rell be more rioting. I wonder what about. ALESSANDRO. I really cant conceive Why, in this weather, too, folks arent content to leave Things quiet. GOVERNOR. Well, they wont. Look, heres a lunatic ! Christ ! with a lamb smeared red to wave on a long stick ! Enter on canal a gondola, with a man on its bow waving a flag. THE GONDOLIER. The martyred maiden ! Men of Venice, mark me well ! The Angel of the Citys murdered in her cell ! [The gondola hastens onward. GOVERNOR. What next ? The fools ! I wish I knew why its allowed. Id string the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 170
…evering worker. He is competent, ingenious, thoughtful, cautious, ‘trustworthy, im‐ perturbable; he constantly seeks new uses for common things, and adapts his circumstances to his purposes in a slow, steady, well‐thought out plan.
1909 · PDF PAGE 16
…we see Our certain joy marred with a doubly certain Soul-shattering anguish. — Bah! To you and me Such loathing, such despair are little things. We are afloat on the flood-tide of lust — A lust more spiritual than life, that stings Till death and hell dissolve i’ the aftergust. So? But the Gods avert their faces, bend Their holy brows, and see — no-happy end.
1912 · PDF PAGE 58
…nt. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, save where politeness calls, and calls loud. ΙΗ take life too easy, the Great Retirement will be harder: on the other hand an asceticism to no instant purpose may exhaust me for the struggle when it comes. One of those rare cases where a “golden mean " looks well. 9. A at night good: considerable strain in ether. (It is here fitting to mention Fra, P.’s idea of performing this “ Preliminary Invocation "…
1912 · PDF PAGE 58
…nt. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, save where politeness calls, and calls loud. ΙΗ take life too easy, the Great Retirement will be harder: on the other hand an asceticism to no instant purpose may exhaust me for the struggle when it comes. One of those rare cases where a “golden mean " looks well. 9. A at night good: considerable strain in ether. (It is here fitting to mention Fra, P.’s idea of performing this “ Preliminary Invocation "…
1913 · PDF PAGE 144
…f trees swept wide and far 1 Upon the breast of the unwakened earth , The silent forest spoke in changeless tongues The mystic speech of things as yet unborn , Wild roared and broke the sea upon the coast Wearing the aging patience of the rocks ; And out upon her never sail was seen To break the flowing pageant of the hours ; The rivers wound unfettered through the plains And told the listless listening forests tales Of far - off mountains , and the pathless sea Where footsteps live only in the dreams of men . At dawn the sun called forth the h…
1961 · PDF PAGE 57
…ermuch, correct it by Devotion to its Opposite until Equilibrium be re- established. But seek not to grow by sudden Determination toward Things that be far from thee; only, if such a Thing come into thy Thought, construct a Bridge thereunto, and take firmly the first Step upon the Bridge. I shall explain this. Dost thou speculate upon the Motives of the Stars, and on their Elements, their Size and Weight? Then thou must first gain Knowledge of Doctrine mathematical, of Laws physical and chemical. So then first, that thou mayst understand clearl…
1961 · PDF PAGE 136
…riveth from the Word helan, to hele or conceal, in the Tongue of the Anglo- Saxons. That is, it is the concealed Place, which, since all things are in thine own Self, is the Unconscious. How then? Because Men were already aware how this Unconscious, or Libido, is opposed, for the most Part, to the conscious Will. In the Slave-Ages this is a Truth Universal, or well night to it; for in such Times are Men compelled to Uniformity by the Constraint of Necessity herself. Yea, of old it was a continual Siege of every Man of every Clan, of every Envir…
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…urance and promise of peace ! Stand fast in the skies above, till the skies are abolished and cease ! And for me, may I never forget how things came well as they are! It was long I had wandered yet ere my eyes found out the star. Be silent, love, and abide; the wanton strings must go To the vain tumultuous tide of the spirit’s overflow. I sing and sing to the world; then silence soon Be about us clasped and furled in the light of the moon. Forget not, never forget the terrible song I have sung ; How the eager fingers fret the lute, and loose th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 82
…s obscure ; books written Not openly for fools, but inwardly Toward the heart of wise men. And myself Studied no little while upon these things, And, seeking ever solitude, I went Nightly upon a rock that stood alone Threatening the sandy wilderness, and prayed Where many visions came before mine eyes So strange—these eyes have started from my head, And every hair, grown fearful, like a steed Reared in its frenzy: see, these lips of mine Have blanched, these nails have bitten through my flesh For sundry things I saw —and these in- formed My ope…
1905 · PDF PAGE 102
…einéd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses. Iam: the greatest and the least : the sole And separate life of things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll To make one tear in my superb caresses, When on myself myself begets a child, A system of a thousand planets piled! Iam: the least, the greatest: the frail life Of some small coral-insect still may tremble With love for me, and call me queen and wife; The shy…
1913 · PDF PAGE 93
…uck Tower. XVII. IA O adds up to 17. XXV. The square of 5, this being a ritual of the Pentagram. XXVIII. The number of permutations of 3 things taken 3 at a time, and (of course) the cube of 3. 53.