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THE NEW WINE 277 transmute “ I doubt ” into “ I know .” However , Huxley grasped the great and grand truth that the natural philosopher who examines worlds , suns , and stars , is in reality only experimenting on his own “ inner consciousness ," beyond which to him there is Nothing These stars thou seest Are but the figuring of thy brain .' This Nothing , this absolute nihility , is again the Qabalistic Zero . Huxley did not belong to that now rapidly growing school ( sic ) of crapulous scientists who inflate themselves , like the frog in the f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 32
…ol I was taught to admire Plato and Aristotle, who recommend sodomy to youths. I am not so rebellious as to oppose their dictum ; and in truth there seems no bet- ter way to avoid the contamination of woman and the mo- rose pleasures of solitary vice. (Not that women themselves are unclean ; it is the worship of them as ideals that rots the soul). Again we may say that all the great men of antiquity were sodomites : Socrates, Caesar, Alexander, Martial, Catullus, Virgil, Achilles ; Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Goethe, Shakespeare, Bacon, an u…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…es of that Angel. Each phrase must be realized with full concentration of force, so as to make Samadhi as perfectly as possible upon the truth proclaimed. Line i He identifies his Angel with the Ain Soph, and the Kether thereof; one formulation of Hadit in the boundless Body of Nuith. Lines 2, 3, 4 He asserts that His Angel has created (for the purpose of self-realisation through projection in conditioned Form) three pairs of opposites: (a) The Fixed and the Volatile; (b) The Unmani- fested and the Manifest; and (c) the IJnmoved and the Moved. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 195
…Ascendant are so patent, so undeniable, and so inexplicable without the postulate in (1), that I am utterly convinced of the fundamental truth of the basic principles of the science. I said, "I will conclude" ; and I meant it. For now that (or so I hope) you respect sufficiently my conviction that Astrology is a genuine science and not a messy mass of Old Wives' Tales, you will obviously demand instruction as to how to learn it, that you may verify my opinion in the light of your own experiments. This will look much better if I put it in a sepa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
… “Kabbalah Unveiled.” correct deductions.’ ‘Yes, y ou can, if only your logical methods are unsound. That’s the Christian way of getting truth.’ ‘True!’ replied the sage, ‘but precious little they get. Learn, O Mahabrahma (for I penetrate this disguise), that all existin things, even from thee unto this grain of sand, possess Three Characteristics. These are Mutability, Sorrow, and Unsubstantiality.’ “ ‘All right for the sand, but how about Me ? Why , the y define me as unchange- able.’ ‘You can define a quirk as being a two-sided triangle,’ re…
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
…ours of horror ,” and she trusted that “ God hath made smooth the road beneath the hearse ” of her “ forgetful age.” Let me not shrink ! Truth always purifies. One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something , found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer . And I lay A storm of weeping swept across my frame Till the polite, the hateful Manager Led me to face a nation's lunatic Roar of delight ! ? That was the beginning , but she soon got over that “and o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 90
…oresees the end ; such love as theirs is too supernal to be platonic ; she flies in vain ; for she has to console her sad lover with the truth . The storm - clouds gather on the twenty - fifth day : Mouth unto mouth ! O fairest ! mutely lying , Fire lambent laid on water , -0 ! the pain ! Kiss me , O heart , as if we both were dying ! | Alice , an Adultery , vol . ii, p . 73 . 2 lbid .
1909 · PDF PAGE 109
7-35- 7.50. 7.57- 8. 3. 8.12. JOHN ST. JOHN The truth is that the Chittam is excited and racing, the control being impaired; and the Ego is springing up again. This racing of the Chittam is simply shocking. John St. John must stop it somehow. Hours and hours seem to have passed since the last entry. !!! He is in such a deuce of a hurry that (in a lucid moment) he finds himself trying to eat bread, radish, beef and potato at a mouthful. Worse, the beast is pleased and excited at the novelty of the sensation, and takes delight in recording it. Bea…
1912 · PDF PAGE 280
…ator Guardian ofthe Sanctuary, Grand Consetrator Architect ofthe Mystie Cz'ty, Grand Eulogist Guardian ofthe lneflaéle Name, Patriarch of Truth, Knight of the Golden Branch of Eleusis, Patriarch of the Planispheres, Patriarch of the Sacred Vedas, Supreme Master of Wisdom, Doctor ofthe Saered Fire, Sublime Master of the Sloka, and Knight of the Lybic Chain: Patriarch of Isis, Sublime Knight Theosopher, Grand ?0771727 of the Thellaia’, Knight of the Redoubtable Sada, Sublime Elect of the Sanctuary of Mazias, Patriarch of Memphis, Grand Elect of th…
1912 · PDF PAGE 280
…ator Guardian ofthe Sanctuary, Grand Consetrator Architect ofthe Mystie Cz'ty, Grand Eulogist Guardian ofthe lneflaéle Name, Patriarch of Truth, Knight of the Golden Branch of Eleusis, Patriarch of the Planispheres, Patriarch of the Sacred Vedas, Supreme Master of Wisdom, Doctor ofthe Saered Fire, Sublime Master of the Sloka, and Knight of the Lybic Chain: Patriarch of Isis, Sublime Knight Theosopher, Grand ?0771727 of the Thellaia’, Knight of the Redoubtable Sada, Sublime Elect of the Sanctuary of Mazias, Patriarch of Memphis, Grand Elect of th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 182
…and the religious ideas. Sanity consists in the faculty of adjusting ideas in proper proportion. Any one who accepts a moral or reHgious truth without understanding it is only kept out of the asylum because he does not follow it out logically. If one really believed in Christianity,^ if one really thought that the majority of mankind w'as doomed to eternal punishment, one would go raving about the w^orld trying to " save " people. Sleep would not be possible until the horror of the mind left the body exhausted. Otherwise, one must be morally in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…he sun. In his hymn to the king, Helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian has ideas of the Supreme God, that the Christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the Church, who were his contemporaries, and his adversaries. This is how he expresses himself in his defence of Hellenism…
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…he sun. In his hymn to the king, Helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian has ideas of the Supreme God, that the Christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the Church, who were his contemporaries, and his adversaries. This is how he expresses himself in his defence of Hellenism…
1954 · PDF PAGE 428
…haps I could hardly do better than call your attention to the description given in my essay on Man in my small book Little Essays Toward Truth. In some respects indeed this description is not as clear as I could have wished. The fact is that this Essay was written 395
1906 · PDF PAGE 189
…of What spiritual fact you choose, existence. And all such turn to folly—-lose The subtle splendour, and the wise Love and dear bliss of truth. Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference *Twixt spirit and the things of sense. What is the quarrel between us ?- Why do our thoughts so idly clatter? — I do not care one jot for matter, | One jot for spirit, while you say One is pure ether, one pure clay. I’ve talked too long : you’re very good— Practical ad- I only hope you’ve understood ! vice. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…re you make me laugh ! Remember-I have known such . But besides You ask hot snow and leaden feather - flights ! 1 Which contains a great truth , namely , that platonic love is no love at all . An affection it may be , but love it cannot be if it dare not see its form mirrored in the eyes of a loving woman . Its failure in the end is a certainty ; certain ascetics may compel their wills to conquer their natures , but men as a whole cannot . Certain maniacs such as Origen may emasculate themselves for the Kingdom of God , but the great human mass…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
THE VIRGIN 107 And he drives them out . To Rome he goes , symbolic of the world's opinion , and relates truthfully his sojourn in the Venusberg , and for telling the truth he is execrated by the Pope : So he Cried out upon me , “ Till this barren staff Take life , and bud , and blossom , and bear fruit , And shed sweet scent-so long God casteth thee Out from His Glory !”! When lo !-in the very moment of his supreme despair , his Genius mysteriously manifests , and “ darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes ” reaches to the sceptre with his wor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 319
…higher On this our curve : a prize , a power Lies in our grasp : unthinking Fate Shall build a brain to nestle nigher Under the ultimate Truth : I burn To live that later lives may learn . Wisdom and Love , intenser glow ! Beauty and strength , increase and burn Be brothers to the law of life ! Things as they are — their nature know !
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…ch we have followed, on his return will come in unto us as one who has authority; for he alone who has climbed the summit can speak with truth of those things that from there are to be seen, for HE KNOWS. But he who stands afar off, and jests, saying: “It is not a Mountain, it is a cloud; it is not a cloud, it is a shadow; it is not a shadow, it is an illusion; it is not an illusion, it is indeed nothing at all!”—who but a fool will heed him? for not having journeyed one step, HE KNOWS NOT concerning those things of which he speaks. To make our…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…ch we have followed, on his return will come in unto us as one who has authority; for he alone who has climbed the summit can speak with truth of those things that from there are to be seen, for HE KNOWS. But he who stands afar off, and jests, saying: “It is not a Mountain, it is a cloud; it is not a cloud, it is a shadow; it is not a shadow, it is an illusion; it is not an illusion, it is indeed nothing at all!”—who but a fool will heed him? for not having journeyed one step, HE KNOWS NOT concerning those things of which he speaks. To make our…