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Page 43 of 831910 · PDF PAGE 11
…e what they had done was not to form a new sect, but to “ come out of sect ”, — this they maintained in spite of the fact that they were far more exclusive than any other religious body in Europe) was composed of a few of the old guard, my father the last of them all, and the meanest crew of canaille that ever wriggled. With my father’s death the small schisms which had hitherto lopped off a few members every year or two were altogether surpassed by the great Raven heresy which split the body into two equal halves, and extinguished the last spa…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…ore I had come within the sphere of attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. Infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the Saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. And then I perceived that upon the river there floated, within that small circle of light, an ark, or as it might be, a coffin. Then looking up into that pierced cloud I saw within the light a certain house surrounded by a grove. Within, all was dark; yet from it proceeded a ray as silvery as…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…ore I had come within the sphere of attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. Infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the Saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. And then I perceived that upon the river there floated, within that small circle of light, an ark, or as it might be, a coffin. Then looking up into that pierced cloud I saw within the light a certain house surrounded by a grove. Within, all was dark; yet from it proceeded a ray as silvery as…
1911 · PDF PAGE 123
…liance of the lady of the Aethyr; but they will not. And yet again there is another cause wherefore He hath permitted them to enter thus far within the frontiers of Eden, so that His thought should never swerve from compassion. But do thou behold the brilliance of Love, that casteth forth seven stars upon thine head from her right hand, and crowneth thee with a crown of seven roses. Behold! She is seated upon the throne of turquoise and lapis lazuli, and she is like a flawless emerald, and upon the pillars that support the canopy 121
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…f fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony To make the rest look light. Abides The thick sepulchral changeless shape Shapeless, continuous misery Whereof no smoke-wreaths might escape To show me whither lay the end, Wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…hielding the sun , as a purple ring : Then in the uttermost profound I saw The veil of Love's unalterable law Lifted , and in the shadow far behind Dim and divine , within the shadow blind My own love's face most amorously draw Out of the deep toward my cloudy mind . O suddenly I felt a kiss enclose My whole live body , as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey - bee ! I felt a perfect soul embracing me , And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea .* So ends the first part of this mystical and symbo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…g in a golden ladder, Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder; All gateways leading far to the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. I am : before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head : In me all skies and seas are shaken and eleven : All life and light and love about me shed, Begotten in me, in my moving moven, Are as my tears …
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…g in a golden ladder, Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder; All gateways leading far to the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. I am : before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head : In me all skies and seas are shaken and eleven : All life and light and love about me shed, Begotten in me, in my moving moven, Are as my tears …
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…f fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony To make the rest look light. Abides The thick sepulchral changeless shape Shapeless, continuous misery Whereof no smoke-wreaths might escape To show me whither lay the end, Wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 211
…hisms , they nevertheless re mained unanswerable . . . Idealism may not be correct , neither may its intenser form Spiritualism ; but so far as this argument is of value , neither may Realism nor Materialism ; for both these philosophies have , as we have just seen , resolved themselves into an infinite
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
… the result of the em pirical laws of nature , and of an inherited wealth of experience ; “ Omnia exeunt in O. ” And it is certainly not far from this to the Ego positing the non - Ego .] At length , thoroughly entrapped in his own meta physics , caught by that very same net wherewithal he set out to drag the infinite depths of eternity ; he defines the noumenon as the final term of an infinite series , and asserts that the permanence of the soul can only be proved in the life of man , “ the proof of which will not be required by us .” Then sta…
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…eceive the Magical Power as I should not abuse it. I must needs accomplish the Finished Work. Buddha. 33m. The best Meditation I have so far done. I regard this as a veal medi- tation; for 13 minutes quite forgot time. Rose on planes of n''b-n‘3"3 * from Malkuth to Kether. August 5th. Meditated on Thoth concerning Frater I.A. 6th. Arrived at Colombo. We now arrive at another turning-point in the progress of P. Up to the first of this year 1901 he had studied Western methods of Magic alone, from this date, at first under the tuition of D. A., an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…eceive the Magical Power as I should not abuse it. I must needs accomplish the Finished Work. Buddha. 33m. The best Meditation I have so far done. I regard this as a veal medi- tation; for 13 minutes quite forgot time. Rose on planes of n''b-n‘3"3 * from Malkuth to Kether. August 5th. Meditated on Thoth concerning Frater I.A. 6th. Arrived at Colombo. We now arrive at another turning-point in the progress of P. Up to the first of this year 1901 he had studied Western methods of Magic alone, from this date, at first under the tuition of D. A., an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…d made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations of perversity do not constitute an insanity; the execution of this wretch proved it. 1 The great painter, dipping his brush in earthquake and eclipse, employs an excess of yellow.—O. M. N 17…
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…d made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations of perversity do not constitute an insanity; the execution of this wretch proved it. 1 The great painter, dipping his brush in earthquake and eclipse, employs an excess of yellow.—O. M. N 17…
1915 · PDF PAGE 3
…onfession! Human nature is never so bad when it is not shack- led by the morality of emasculate idealists. Does any person who knows the Far East believe even in an opium dream that Japan had any quarrel with Germany, or any care for her alliance with England? Kaio-Chau was an easy enough prey; well, then, snatch it, and chance the wrath of schoolmarmed America and the egregious Wilson. But for God's sake, and by the navel of Daibutsu, and the twelve banners of the twelve sects of Buddha, let us spew out the twaddle about honor, and justice, an…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…was in this fashion. I had been left alone in the house one day ; and, weary of confinement, I determined to stroll into the street. Not far had I gone before my attention was attracted by a small galvanized iron mission room. To my surprise, the door was ajar, and from the pulpit I heard the well known tones of a Salvation Army preacher crying Whoso- ever will may come ! In the centre of the hall I saw that the forms had been removed and replaced my mat- tresses ; upon these lay my many friends in the village. I noticed Alec and Ada, Ber…
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…are the mental analyses which I have gone into so fully above, sections v. and vii. The methods for obtaining success in this matter are far more formidable than those previously sufficient. The whole mind must be intended for long unbroken periods, concen- trated absolutely upon its own working until this becomes normal to it, when the state called Pratyahara is attained. The first result will be its resolution into disconnected impressions. Following this may occur a terrible experience; the consciousness of the disconnectedness of all phenom…
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…are the mental analyses which I have gone into so fully above, sections v. and vii. The methods for obtaining success in this matter are far more formidable than those previously sufficient. The whole mind must be intended for long unbroken periods, concen- trated absolutely upon its own working until this becomes normal to it, when the state called Pratyahara is attained. The first result will be its resolution into disconnected impressions. Following this may occur a terrible experience; the consciousness of the disconnectedness of all phenom…
1910 · PDF PAGE 180
…and Dharana hopeless.* Another month of this great work commences, and though the toil has not been wasted the reward indeed seems still far off. On the first of the month P. writes:— “Blessed be thou, O Bhavani, O Isis my Sister, my Bride, my Mother! Blessed be Thou, O Shiva, O Amoun, Concealed of the Concealed. By Thy most secret and Holy Name of Apophis be Thou blessed, Lucifer, Star of the Dawn, Satan- Jeheshua, Light of the World! Blessed be Thou, Buddha, Osiris, by whatever Name I call Thee Thou art nameless to Eternity. Blessed be Thou, …