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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH XX “Tf thou extendest the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body.” “For three days and no longer need ye sacrifice.” —-ZOROASTER. We are at the end of our little digression upon mystic states, and may cheerfully return to the consideration of Scientific Iluminism. We have had, you may say, a poor half-pennyworth of Science to an intolerable deal of I]luminism. Well, that is what I wanted you to say. Were it not so, I would not have spent these two nights over this paper, when I want to be…
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
…o vivid, so intense, so certain, that logic is condemned unflinchingly as puerile. The best escape for the logician is to argue that the three assertions are closely consecutive, so closely that mind thinks them one ; just as the two points of a pair of compasses pressed upon certain parts of the body are felt as one point only. While the mystic will mutter some esoteric darkness about the true interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity. I think one should add that these results of my introspec- tion are almost certainly due to my own traini…
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH XX “Tf thou extendest the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body.” “For three days and no longer need ye sacrifice.” —-ZOROASTER. We are at the end of our little digression upon mystic states, and may cheerfully return to the consideration of Scientific Iluminism. We have had, you may say, a poor half-pennyworth of Science to an intolerable deal of I]luminism. Well, that is what I wanted you to say. Were it not so, I would not have spent these two nights over this paper, when I want to be…
1910 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX his three head bell-wethers who were sitting at a separate table he sneered: “X——’ (my friend present at the previous revelation of his divinity) “send this pig-one.. . eh?” “T don’t know why .. .” I began. “Grutch, butch!” he roared, “you speak to me, you cow- eater! . . . get intellect,” he yelled, “ get English,” he bellowed, and up he sprang from the table. As I did not wish to be murdered, for he had now become a dangerous maniac, I rose, keeping my eyes on him, and taking up my hat and stick, which I had purposely placed just …
1910 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX his three head bell-wethers who were sitting at a separate table he sneered: “X——’ (my friend present at the previous revelation of his divinity) “send this pig-one.. . eh?” “T don’t know why .. .” I began. “Grutch, butch!” he roared, “you speak to me, you cow- eater! . . . get intellect,” he yelled, “ get English,” he bellowed, and up he sprang from the table. As I did not wish to be murdered, for he had now become a dangerous maniac, I rose, keeping my eyes on him, and taking up my hat and stick, which I had purposely placed just …
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
…ed it up. But Choronzon could not think fast and continuously, and so resorted to the device of quotation. The Scribe had written two or three words of “Tom 0’ Bedlam,” when Choronzon sprang within the circle :(that part of the circumference of which that was nearest to him he had been filling up with sand all this time), and leaped upon the Scribe, throwing him to the earth. The conflict took place within the circle. The Scribe called upon Tetragrammaton, and succeeded in compelling Choronzon to return into his triangle. By dint of anger and o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…ace expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distance widened. The whole atmo- sphere seemed ductile, and spun endlessly out into great spaces surrounding me on every side. We were in a vast hall, of which my friends and I occupied opposite extremities. The ceiling and the walls ran upward witha gliding motion as if vivified by a sudden force of resistless…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…ace expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distance widened. The whole atmo- sphere seemed ductile, and spun endlessly out into great spaces surrounding me on every side. We were in a vast hall, of which my friends and I occupied opposite extremities. The ceiling and the walls ran upward witha gliding motion as if vivified by a sudden force of resistless…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
60 THE STAR IN THE WEST It was a pinnacle of ivory Whereon she stood , the loftiest of three fangs Thrust up by magic , in the direst pangs Of Earth , when Earth was yet a whirling cloud Of fire and adamant , a ceaseless crowd Of rushing atoms roaring into space , Driven by demons from before the face . ? So beautiful was she , that “ the sun forgot his chariot , nor would set " ; and in this mystic hour , the marriage of Day and Night , she prayed fervently to Aphrodite , fond goddess of lovers , and there amidst the thunder -smitten stone , b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
…human curiosity and inquiry ” and “ are probably the ultimate causes and principles which we ever discover in > 2 3 2 Ibid . p . 159 . 1 Three Dialogues , p . 95 . 3 Tbid . p . 116 ,
1910 · PDF PAGE 157
The relations between the twins of rapture. 149 they concealed behind Kether three veils of the negative, culminating in Ain, pure negation. But this was rather an effect of the Brahminical (or post-Fichtean) metaphysic, in which an Absolute is reached by denying to it all possible predicates as thinkable and therefore derogatory. Even when one retorted, “ He is then Unthinkable ” the wary Rabbi would reply, “ Neither Thinkable nor Un- thinkable.” You can’t win ; but you don’t want to play any more ! All this is far, far indeed from the true pr…
1911 · PDF PAGE 62
… swear unto thee that the path shall be open henceforth for evermore. There is a clash of a myriad silver cymbals, and silence. And then three times a note is struck upon a bell, which sounds like my holy Tibetan bell, that is made of electrum magicum. I am happily returned unto the earth. Bou-SAapDa. December 2, 1909. 12.15-2 a.m. THE Cry OF THE 16TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED LEA. There are faint and flickering images in a misty landscape, all very transient. But the general impression is of moon- rise at midnight, and a crowned virgin riding up…
1911 · PDF PAGE 130
…a voice: thou knowest not how the Seven was united with the Four; much less then canst thou understand the marriage of the Eight and the Three. Yet there is a word wherein these are made one, and therein is contained the Mystery that thou seekest, concerning the rending asunder of the veil of my Mother. Now there is an avenue of pylons (not one alone), steep after steep, carved from the solid rock of the mountain; and that rock is a substance harder than diamond, and brighter than light, and heavier than lead. In each pylon is seated a god. The…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…ecessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets with regard to the Cosmos; and, in particular, to man.? IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteristics (which we may predicate of all known existing things): (a) Change. Anikka. (6) Sorrow. Dukkha. (c) Absence of an Ego. Anatta. 1 Change is the great enemy, the immediate cause of pain. Unable to arrest it, I slow the process, and render it temporarily painless, by eating. This is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat really in order to check …
1907 · PDF PAGE 328
…ald's toy - shop , or to such jugglery as performed by Maskelyne and Colley . 2 A good example is that of Hugo de St. Victor . He made a three - fold division , the lowest being Cogitatio , the next Medi tatio , and the last and highest , Contemplatio . On a similar basis Richard de St. Victor erected six stages of contemplation : 1. In imaginatione secundum solam imaginationem . 2. In imaginatione secundum rationem . 3. In ratione secundum imaginationem . 4. In ratione secundum rationem . 5. Supra rationem sed non praeter rationem . 6. Supra r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…ily of higher type than this shadowy form-world. Mistake on this point has led many a student astray. Highest among these things are the three visual and seven auditory phenomena of Yoga. (We omit consideration of the other senses; the subject requires a volume.) These are referred to 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.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
… 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 consciousness to attack that dualism. But I must observe that this idea is so tremendous that I almost doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my own under- standing of it. Samadhi twelve seconds in duration is a phenomenon to shake the soul of a man, to uproot his Kamma, to destroy his Identity—and Bhikku Ananda Metteyy…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…ily of higher type than this shadowy form-world. Mistake on this point has led many a student astray. Highest among these things are the three visual and seven auditory phenomena of Yoga. (We omit consideration of the other senses; the subject requires a volume.) These are referred to 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.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
… 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 consciousness to attack that dualism. But I must observe that this idea is so tremendous that I almost doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my own under- standing of it. Samadhi twelve seconds in duration is a phenomenon to shake the soul of a man, to uproot his Kamma, to destroy his Identity—and Bhikku Ananda Metteyy…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
THE THREE WORMS “Tam her heart, her ordinary, commonplace woman’s heart. Commonplace! Ah! nothing is so mysterious as the common- place, for it is only Subtlety sleeping and holding its hands a little while. A country clod is more interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was e…