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Page 43 of 791906 · PDF PAGE 263
…ot increase their burden, so we aspire to become pitiful and loving, to cherish ill- will toward none, to retire from those pleasures of sense which are the fruitful cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though we aspire to renounce the pleasures of sense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accomplishment of our aspiration. But if the desire to become pitiful and pure be but honest and earnest, we have gained the Second Step upon the Path-—Sammasankappo, Right Aspiration. He w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 204
… of Light and Loveliness; and, as a worm will detect its approach to the earth surface by the warmth of the mould, so did he detect by a sense, new and unknown to him, a world as different from the world he lived in as the world of awakenment differs from the world of dreams. Further, did he grow to understand, that, though as a sustenance to the tree itself one root might not be as im- portant as another, yet that they all drew their strength from the self-same soil, and ultimately united in the one trunk above. Some were rotten with age, some…
1910 · PDF PAGE 204
… of Light and Loveliness; and, as a worm will detect its approach to the earth surface by the warmth of the mould, so did he detect by a sense, new and unknown to him, a world as different from the world he lived in as the world of awakenment differs from the world of dreams. Further, did he grow to understand, that, though as a sustenance to the tree itself one root might not be as im- portant as another, yet that they all drew their strength from the self-same soil, and ultimately united in the one trunk above. Some were rotten with age, some…
1910 · PDF PAGE 34
26 nearly all forms of coprophilia : and so on. (These latter forms are so symbolic that sense of sex is a minor matter.) A man can afford to a man two pleasures which a woman cannot give him : namely : (1) passive sodomy. (pleasure of the pathic) (2) irrumation. (pleasure of the fellator)7 The latter is a small matter, and we are justified in concluding that as far as gross gratifications go, the advantage, substantial though slight, rests with the woman. The supreme pleasures are common to both, except cunnilingism (especially during the mont…
1922 · PDF PAGE 324
…used to think the same myself before I was educated.” “Do you think Mr. Lamus will be able to educate us ? ’”’ I asked, overpowered by a sense of the comicality of the situation. , “Oh, he isn’t Mr. Lamus here,” retorted Hermes loftily. ‘‘ Here he’s the Big Lion, and of course he can train anybody that isn’t too old or too stupid. I was very stupid myself when I first came here,’ he continued in an apologetic tone. ‘“‘It was the turning point of my career.” The child was certainly not more than five years old, and his conversation was absolutel…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…ld overwhelm the rest of the mind, tyrannize over it, and become an insane despot to the total ruin of the realm. But, ail being dead to sense, who then is able to strive against the Angel ? He shall intensify the stress of His Spirit so that His loyal légions of Lion-Serpents leap from the ambush, awakening the adept to witness their Will and sweep him with them in their enthusiasm, so that he consciously partakes their purpose, and sees in its simplicity the solution of ail his perplexities. Thus then shall the Adept be aware that he is being…
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
…ot harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; …
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…le and monotonous noise? They pray as they sleep, and they sacrifice as they eat. They are machines full of bread, meat and wine, and of senseless words. And when they plume themselves, like the oyster in the sun, on being without thought and without love, one says that they have peace of soul! They have the peace of the brute. For man, that of the tomb is better: these are the priests of folly and ignorance, these are the ministers of Antichrist. The true priest of Christ is a man who lives, suffers, loves and fights for justice. He does not d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
…ot harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; …
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…le and monotonous noise? They pray as they sleep, and they sacrifice as they eat. They are machines full of bread, meat and wine, and of senseless words. And when they plume themselves, like the oyster in the sun, on being without thought and without love, one says that they have peace of soul! They have the peace of the brute. For man, that of the tomb is better: these are the priests of folly and ignorance, these are the ministers of Antichrist. The true priest of Christ is a man who lives, suffers, loves and fights for justice. He does not d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
… by angels’ touch divinely lifted, i. 3x The life to live? The thought to think, ii. 144 The light streams stronger through the lamps of sense, ill. 95 The little money that we had to spend, ii. 83 The magical task and the labour is ended, ill, 200 The Meeting-Hoise of the Brethren Gathered Together To The Name Of The Lord Jesus, ili. 46 The mere result of all this was a dream, ii, 67 The metaphysics of these verses, ii. 170 The mighty sound of forests, i. 51 The mind with visions clouded, i. 50 The moon spans Heaven’s architrave, ii. 63 The ni…
1929 · PDF PAGE 399
…eparing the latter rites and they were not thoroughly rehearsed. It may seem impossible that any creature possessed of a grain of common sense should have failed to foresee failure; but my incorrigible optimism persuaded me that the public were gifted with reverence, intelligence, imagination; and the gift of interpreting the most obscure symbolism. The first rite was, however, on the whole a success. Most of the ceremony takes place in semi- obscurity, so that the audience were not worried by the uncongenial surroundings of Caxton hall; their …
1929 · PDF PAGE 536
…uld I detect a trace of genuine aspiration, of the ambition to attain, either for their own sake or for that of others, in any allowable sense. They wanted more social success. Nobody seemed to have the faintest idea of what is really meant by knowledge and power. Some seemed anxious to help the progress of humanity; but here again, the wish was partly a puff-ball of pride, partly a maudlin sentiment such as one finds in servants' hall novelettes. The ignorance of all, without exception, was simply without limit. It {845} was rare to find a man…
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
…ve and righteousness. Eurydice, Eurydice ! SECOND MA:NAD. Drink wine ! ORPHEUS., Ay, mask the grisly head of things that are By drowning sense. Such horror as is hid In life no man dare look upon. Woe! Woe! AGAVE. Call then reproach upon these maiden rites ! ORPHEUS. Nay ! virtue is the devil’s name for vice, And all your righteousness is filthy rags Wherein ye strut, and hide the one base thought. To mask the truth, to worship, to forget ; These three are one. AGAVE. What art thou then? a man?
1910 · PDF PAGE 273
…er rang close beside my ear. Now I was touched on all sides by the walls of the terrible press; there came a heavy crush, and I felt all sense blotted out in darkness. I awoke at last; the corpse was gone, but I had taken his 255
1910 · PDF PAGE 273
…er rang close beside my ear. Now I was touched on all sides by the walls of the terrible press; there came a heavy crush, and I felt all sense blotted out in darkness. I awoke at last; the corpse was gone, but I had taken his 255
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
…t to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one’s knees before the heroism of his courage. Voltaire would be the Messiah of good sense, the Hercules destructor of fanati- cism. . . . But he laughed too much to understand Him who said: “ Happy are they who weep,” and the philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears. Voltaire parodied the Bible, dogma and worship; and then he mocked and insulted that parody. Only those who recognize religion in Voltaire’s parody can take offence at it. The Voltairea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
…t to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one’s knees before the heroism of his courage. Voltaire would be the Messiah of good sense, the Hercules destructor of fanati- cism. . . . But he laughed too much to understand Him who said: “ Happy are they who weep,” and the philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears. Voltaire parodied the Bible, dogma and worship; and then he mocked and insulted that parody. Only those who recognize religion in Voltaire’s parody can take offence at it. The Voltairea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…me that I had failed and shown myself unfit to accomplish the terrific Tasks, to undertake which must be, as I was warned by some secret sense, the only honour I could accept from the High Gods, that I continued my journey to Ceylon in a mood not only contrite but confused. The calm soft loveliness of the Inland Sea brought no peace to my spirit; indeed, it made scarcely any impression upon my aesthetic sense. The sordid scramble of the foreign settlement of Shanghai stirred my scorn without rousing me from my stupefaction. In spite of the subt…
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
…we can assimilate this face to Realism; but we have no need to take so much trouble. This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions are dependent on changes in the brain,* we must include illusions, which are after all sense-impressions as much as “realities” are, in the class of “phenomena dependent on brain-changes.” Magical phenomna, however, come under a special sub-class, since they are w illed, and their cause is the series of “real” phenomena called the operations of ceremonial Magic. These consist of: (1) Sight. T…