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Page 42 of 871929 · PDF PAGE 45
…l. This ocean seemed to be limitless. It fell headlong into it, and the splash awak- ened it to a new consciousness of things. This sea, though infinitely cold, was boiling like tu- bercles. Itself a more or less homogeneous slime, the stench of which is beyond all human conception (human language is singularly deficient in words that describe smell and taste; we always refer our sensations to things generally known)2 it constantly budded into greenish boils with angry red craters, whose jagged edges were of a livid white; and from these issued…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
hens would not have been laying and Hougomont and La Haye Sainte would not have been able to nourish the contending forces. But though it is profitable for the soul to contemplate the extent of what we dont know, it is in some ways more satisfying to our baser natures to consider what we do know in a reasonable sense of the word. It is not disputable that the battle of Waterloo was fought and won. It is not disputable that it was the climax, or rather the denouement, of cam- paigns lasting over a number of years. And there is no reason for dou…
1911 · PDF PAGE 20
…ry bright pentagram: and now the stone is gone, and the whole heaven is black, and the blackness is the blackness of a mighty angel. And though he is black (his face and his wings and his robe and his armour are all black), yet is he so bright that I cannot look upon him. And he cries: O ye spears and vials of poison and sharp swords and whirling thunderbolts that are about the corners of the earth, girded with wrath and justice, know ye that His name is Righteous- ness in Beauty? Burnt out are your eyes, for that ye have seen me in my majesty.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
…ake easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra- Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat! 12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. 13. But not now. 14. Ye shall see that ho…
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
…ake easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra- Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat! 12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. 13. But not now. 14. Ye shall see that ho…
1919 · PDF PAGE 331
…. 2. He who would hear the voice of Nada, the “Soundless Sound,” and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature of Dhéarané (concentrated thought). The voice of Nada is very soon heard by the beginner, especially during the practice of Pranayama (control of breath-force). At first it resembles distant surf, though in the adept it is more like the twittering of innumerable night- ingales; but this sound is premonitory, as it were, the veil of more distinct and articulate sounds which come later. It corresponds in hearing to that dark veil which i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 328
…ence between the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ig natius and the practices of Raja Yoga ; space here does not permit me to draw parallels , though I have collected a considerable number . And as with Igna tius , so with other true saints of the Church , and so also with the countless magical ceremonies which have tinted the atmosphere of the West : they are all one . 1 This term must not be confounded with that applied to Theobald's toy - shop , or to such jugglery as performed by Maskelyne and Colley . 2 A good example is that of Hugo de St. Vict…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…nger that any student, however idle or stupid. will fail to get some resuit ; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, even though it be by those which it is necessary that he should attain. Too often, moreover, he mistaketh the first resting-place for the goal, and taketh off his armour as if he were a victor ere the fight is well begun. — 375 —
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
… kicked flying out of her ladyship's bed , and here we must leave him for a time to meet him again and his first love Molly further on , though not under the sun shine of youthful amorosis . A different phase and a much more pleasing one of the impulsiveness of youthful love is given us in that glowing story “ The Tale ofArchais .” There are many mysteries in this poem . Charicles the desire striving after Archais the ideal , failing , and the ideal seeking the lost desire ; but outwardly we have , and visible to all , a true poem of the self -…
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
…or end , was em blematic also of the eternality of love , that circling girdle of the world . In “ Tannhäuser " we have a similar idea , though reversed ; for Tannhäuser enmeshed in the web of the Venusberg , strives against the sensual to gain a spiritual victory ; whilst in “ The Nameless Quest " the knight , fearful of falling in the sensual slough , seeks , and loses his straight way in the spiritual desert . Thus , as in the latter case , the striving against the desire of a pure love leads to an almost certain failure , so in the former ,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…the Sun, the Moon, and Fire; and their appearance marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more common. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…, the result of results indeed. There are higher and lower forms. That called Nirvikalpa-Samadhi, when the trance results from banishing thought altogether, instead of concentrating on one thought, ‘is the highest kind. But, with the Buddhist, Samadhi, though the state of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. The holy-man-of-the-East must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the Three Characteristics (the antithesis of Nibbana) even as one uses one’s normal dualistic consciousnes…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of knowledge— books, manuscripts, papyri—yet all these were lifeless; the currents of living water flowed not through them. Should one say that the master withheld initiation, or that the pupil failed to obtain it? “But at least time abated the monomania—for I know now that my whole adventure was but a very vivid dream, an insanity of adolescence. At this mom…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…the Sun, the Moon, and Fire; and their appearance marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more common. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…, the result of results indeed. There are higher and lower forms. That called Nirvikalpa-Samadhi, when the trance results from banishing thought altogether, instead of concentrating on one thought, ‘is the highest kind. But, with the Buddhist, Samadhi, though the state of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. The holy-man-of-the-East must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the Three Characteristics (the antithesis of Nibbana) even as one uses one’s normal dualistic consciousnes…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of knowledge— books, manuscripts, papyri—yet all these were lifeless; the currents of living water flowed not through them. Should one say that the master withheld initiation, or that the pupil failed to obtain it? “But at least time abated the monomania—for I know now that my whole adventure was but a very vivid dream, an insanity of adolescence. At this mom…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX and therefore over the Universe as z¢ affears, though not as yet as zt as. The first lesson in Pratyahara is to sit still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the mind is doing, when it will be understood how to control it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX and therefore over the Universe as z¢ affears, though not as yet as zt as. The first lesson in Pratyahara is to sit still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the mind is doing, when it will be understood how to control it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
…rds of science: to know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence. One must still one’s dislikes, study duty, and begin by practising it as though one loved it. You are an unbeliever, and you wish to make yourself a Christian ? Perform the exercises of a Christian, pray regularly, using the Christian formule; approach the sacraments as if you had faith, and faith will come. That is the secret of the Jesuits, contained in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. By similar exercises, a fool, if he willed it with perse- verance, would become a wise …
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
…rds of science: to know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence. One must still one’s dislikes, study duty, and begin by practising it as though one loved it. You are an unbeliever, and you wish to make yourself a Christian ? Perform the exercises of a Christian, pray regularly, using the Christian formule; approach the sacraments as if you had faith, and faith will come. That is the secret of the Jesuits, contained in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. By similar exercises, a fool, if he willed it with perse- verance, would become a wise …