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Page 47 of 871930 · PDF PAGE 7
…e Golden Bough, by J. G. Frazer. The Text-Book of Folk Lore. Invalidable to ail students. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable text-book of old Systems of initiation. Tliree Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of sub¬ jective idealism. Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academie Scepticism. First Principles, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnos- ticism. Prolegomena, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics. T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 310
…he mind at such moments reaches heights wherein another light suc ceeds to the light of experience ; there is a mental “ whirl " which , though irrational to pure reason , has an incalculable value , probably depending on certain higher laws unknown to the rational world . When the soul has reached this point , law , in the rational sense of the term , has ceased to have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own law . Thus when we have raised our hearts to the nth power , we become as Gods k…
1911 · PDF PAGE 147
…im {or a trace of inflec- tion in his voice. Edgar Rolles understood his torture, understood the sup- pressed intensity of Ida’s purpose, though he could not guess its nature. Somehow he distrusted the event. “ Take literature I ᾽᾽he went on, in that even vigilant voice of his. “ Take Zola with his million marshalled facts. What 139
1911 · PDF PAGE 147
…im {or a trace of inflec- tion in his voice. Edgar Rolles understood his torture, understood the sup- pressed intensity of Ida’s purpose, though he could not guess its nature. Somehow he distrusted the event. “ Take literature I ᾽᾽he went on, in that even vigilant voice of his. “ Take Zola with his million marshalled facts. What 139
1954 · PDF PAGE 468
…ereof thou art directly the Heir, wherefore (say I) they are more truly germane to thine own Nature than Books of Collateral Offshoots , though such were in themselves better and wiser. Yea, 0 my son, in these Writings thou mayst study to come to the true Comprehension of thine own Nature, and that of the whole Universe, in the dimension of Time, even as the Mathematic declareth it in that of Space: that is, of Extension. Moreover, by this Study shall the Child comprehend the Foundation of Manners: the which, as sayeth one of the Sons of Wisdom…
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…paratus of hari-kari. “On the contrary, my lord, the ridiculous Sa Mon, who would never go to sea because he was afraid of being sick, although his genius for naval strategy had no equal in the Seven Abysses of Water, after a month as stowaway on a fishing boat (by the order of Kwaw) assumed the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, and has inflicted a series of complete and crushing defeats upon the British Admirals, who though they had been on the water all their lives, had incomprehensiny omitted to acquire any truly accurate knowledge of the metaphys…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
… THE WEST "91 greater part of fifteen hundred years an immense power , few can deny ; that it has been a power of good , few will deny , though not a few would like to ; that it has been a dragonading power of harm few will assert , and still fewer are aware of ; for it has ever been the craft of the Christian Church to pass off on her paramours her worn -out old body as that of untasted virginity . The Catholic Church , the harlot of the seven hills , comes in for sparse mercy . In Tannhäuser we find the head of this infallible and august body…
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH In the beginner’s concentration—though he is hardly to be called a beginner at this stage—Sankhara presents a terrible obstacle. For the distraction to his even flow of thought is that very flow itself ; not as in Safifia, the accidents necessarily arising from that flow, as it were the rocks in the bed of the stream, but the law of gravitation itself, its necessary tendency to follow its own course. So that the good young Yogi finds himself thus awkwardly placed ; that having created a mighty engine and removed all co…
1909 · PDF PAGE 240
…at life was not altogether a curse, and that every night dies in the arms of dawn. His freedom, however, was of but short duration; yet, though he was dragged back to the prison from which he had escaped, he had learnt his own strength, a new life had flowed like a great sea dancing with foam upon him, and had intoxi- cated him with the red wine of Freedom and Revolt—his gauntlet of youth had been cast down, henceforth he would battle for his manhood, ay! and for the manhood of the World! Then the trumpet-blast resounded; the battle had indeed …
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH In the beginner’s concentration—though he is hardly to be called a beginner at this stage—Sankhara presents a terrible obstacle. For the distraction to his even flow of thought is that very flow itself ; not as in Safifia, the accidents necessarily arising from that flow, as it were the rocks in the bed of the stream, but the law of gravitation itself, its necessary tendency to follow its own course. So that the good young Yogi finds himself thus awkwardly placed ; that having created a mighty engine and removed all co…
1909 · PDF PAGE 240
…at life was not altogether a curse, and that every night dies in the arms of dawn. His freedom, however, was of but short duration; yet, though he was dragged back to the prison from which he had escaped, he had learnt his own strength, a new life had flowed like a great sea dancing with foam upon him, and had intoxi- cated him with the red wine of Freedom and Revolt—his gauntlet of youth had been cast down, henceforth he would battle for his manhood, ay! and for the manhood of the World! Then the trumpet-blast resounded; the battle had indeed …
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…is desultory Mahasatipatthana, he turned his mind once again to the Great Work and decided upon a fortnight’s strict magical retirement. Though his retirement culminated in no definite state of illumination, it is most interesting from a scientific point of view, as it has been very carefully kept and the “breaks” that occurred in the meditations have been most minutely classified. June 22nd. 10.20 p.m. Mahasatipatthana for half an hour. (1) Breathing gets deeper, rather sleepier. (I am tired.) (2) Notable throbbing in Ajna and front of brain g…
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…is desultory Mahasatipatthana, he turned his mind once again to the Great Work and decided upon a fortnight’s strict magical retirement. Though his retirement culminated in no definite state of illumination, it is most interesting from a scientific point of view, as it has been very carefully kept and the “breaks” that occurred in the meditations have been most minutely classified. June 22nd. 10.20 p.m. Mahasatipatthana for half an hour. (1) Breathing gets deeper, rather sleepier. (I am tired.) (2) Notable throbbing in Ajna and front of brain g…
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
… naked- ness in the bazar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva. 35. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss, and the next link of the Infinite Chain. 36. This chain reaches from Eternity to Eternity, ever in triangles—is not my symbol a triangleP—ever in circles—is not the symbol of the Beloved a circle? Therein is all progress base illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. But the progress is …
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
… naked- ness in the bazar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva. 35. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss, and the next link of the Infinite Chain. 36. This chain reaches from Eternity to Eternity, ever in triangles—is not my symbol a triangleP—ever in circles—is not the symbol of the Beloved a circle? Therein is all progress base illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. But the progress is …
1922 · PDF PAGE 22
…ts or more Glen Livet.” The slight figure of a young-old man with a bulbous nose to detract from his otherwise remarkable beauty, spoilt though it was by years of insane passions, came into the café. His cold blue eyes were shifty and malicious. One got the impression of some filthy creature of the darkness—a raider from another world looking about him for something to despoil. At his heels lumbered his jackal, a huge, bloated, verminous creature like a cockroach, in shabby black clothes, ill-fitting, unbrushed and stained, his linen dirty, his…
1954 · PDF PAGE 177
…ent as a Great Dane differs from a Chihuahua , but as a buffalo differs from either. Of course you are perfectly right about the senses, though I would not agree to confine the meaning to the five which are common to most people. There must , one might suspect, be ways of apprehending directly such phenomena as magnetism, electrical resistance, chemical affinity and the like. Let me direct you once more to The Book of the Law, Chapter 2: 70-72. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 27
…g, one tre- mendous noise, like a mixture of thunder and water-falls and wild beasts and bands and artillery. And yet it was articulate, though I cannot tell you what a single word was. But the meaning of the voice—the second voice—was quite silent, and put the ideas directly into the brain of the Seer, as if by touch. It is not certain whether the mill-stones and the sword-strokes that rained upon him were not these very sounds and ideas.) THE CrY OF THE 24TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED NIA An angel comes forward into the stone like a warrior clad…
1954 · PDF PAGE 221
… do with any Pranayama . It seems a matter of ecstatic concentration, which chose this mode of expression instead of bringing on Samadhi-though that, too, occurred in some of the cases. By the way, here is a fairly full account of the whole business; I have just remembered-it is in my Autohagiography. Pranayama produced, firstly , a peculiar kind of perspiration; secondly, an automatic rigidity of the muscles; and thirdly, the very curious phenomenon of causing the body, while still absolutely rigid, to take little hops in various directions. I…
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
…of being on the right side of the fence| The Buddhist leaves no chances of this kind; in all his categories he is infinitely unextended; though the * The Hindus see this as well as anyone, and call Atman Sat ~chit~ ananda, these being alone the pairs of opposites, rather on the Hegelian, Vines of the reconciliation (rather than the identity) of opposites in a We have dismissed infinity as the figment of a morbid ‘mathematic: but in any case the same disproof applies to it as to'God.