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Page 48 of 831911 · PDF PAGE 136
…that you have given into my charge? Am not I too young among you to bear so wonderful a burden? It is the first time that I have dared so far. The Abyssl The Razor- Edgel Frail bridge and sharp! Yet is it not a ray of the Evening Star, a ray of Venus, of the Love Supernal? . . Can I tell black from white? It seems I can—and then the certainty flickers, and I doubt. I doubt. I am always doubting. Perhaps a wise man grows angry, and declares his will. ‘It shall be what o’clock I say it is,’ or . . . seel I lay the threads on her white breast. No do…
1919 · PDF PAGE 120
…ng with each breath? This: the consciousness of continu- ity given by memory, the conception of his Self as some- thing whose existence, far from being threatened by these changes, is in verity assured by them. Let then the aspirant to the sacred Wisdom consider his Self no more as one seg- ment of the Serpent, but as the whole. Let him extend his consciousness to regard both birth and death as incidents trivial as systole and diastole of the heart itself, and neces- sary as they to its function. To fix the mind in this apprehension of Life, tw…
1913 · PDF PAGE 134
…its author’s words, it represents ‘an attempt to systematisealike the data of mysticism and the results of comparative religion,’ and so far as any book can succeed in such an attempt, this book does succeed ; that is to say, it condenses in some sixty pages as much information as many an intelligent reader at the Museum has been able to collect in years. The book proper consists of a table of ‘Correspondences,’ and is, in fact, an attempt to reduce to a common denominator the symbolism of as many religious and magical systems as the author is …
1905 · PDF PAGE 147
…nd blue unbroken days, And where the cold ice breaks in pallid bays, And where dim dawns in frosty forest shiver ; Where India burns and far Australia glows ; Where cactus blooms, where rose, Let our hearts’ beat be heard, to lighten many woes. Sister and daughter of our loyal isle, Gur hands reach out to you, our lips are fain To wreathe with yours in one delicious smile Of budding love, to grow a kiss awhile, And laugh like bride and groom, and kiss again ! Let our alliance like a marriage stand, Supreme from strand to strand, The likeness of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 126
…om, thou shalt not know which school prevaileth, or if the three schools be not one. For the Black Brothers lift not up their heads thus far into the Holy Chokmah, for they were all drowned in the great flood, which is Binah, 124
1929 · PDF PAGE 492
…to kill the vanity which prevented her from being true to herself, and giving her whole heart. Before I left for New Hampshire, we had a farewell meeting. She was now too far advanced in gestation to appear in public, so her husband had persuaded her to go to England for the confinement, and also to make various necessary arrangements with regard to the future. He had now cunningly pretended to give way about the divorce, admitting my right to my child and its mother. His real motive was very different. She was a particularly bad sailor. During…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
… perceptions he has obtained from Nature's code as it now is reflected , but on that re flection which was obtained by his ancestors , a far less worthy appreciation . And in this inherent con servativeness and horror of change lie most of the tragedies of love ; for man trying to quench the natural flame of his desires in a torrent of chilly and criminal atavism , merely floods the virtuous path ,
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
…teadfastness.§ Though Frater P. had not attained to this Steadfastness, he had won a decisive victory over the lower states of Dhyana as far back as October 1901, which shows that though he was still distant he was by degrees nearing a state in which he would find no more Worlds to Conquer. However, up to this point, there are several results to record, which are of extreme importance to the beginner, in so much that some of them are arrived at by methods diametric- ally opposed to those held by the dogmatic Yogins. At the very commencement of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
…teadfastness.§ Though Frater P. had not attained to this Steadfastness, he had won a decisive victory over the lower states of Dhyana as far back as October 1901, which shows that though he was still distant he was by degrees nearing a state in which he would find no more Worlds to Conquer. However, up to this point, there are several results to record, which are of extreme importance to the beginner, in so much that some of them are arrived at by methods diametric- ally opposed to those held by the dogmatic Yogins. At the very commencement of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 146
… to demand the right to know and spread Their teachings. He determines in any case to reduce the wants of the Ego as a separate being as far as possible, by forgetting self in his efforts to do all he can for others according to the Light he has obtained. He found however that the destruction of the Ego was not thus easily accomplished at the first assault. Nevertheless he learned, not from books but from experience, that the Goal was to be found within himself, and that the nearer he could approach to the Consciousness of Nothingness the neare…
1919 · PDF PAGE 444
…ves an entirely false picture of the Adept, who does not whine, who does not play Pecksniff. All this business about protecting man from far greater misery and sorrow is absurd. For example, in one passage H. P. B. explains that the lowest hell is a man-bearing Planet. There is a certain amount of melancholia with delusions of persecution about this verse. Natural, perhaps, to one who was betrayed and robbed by Vittoria Cremers? 79. Would’st thou thus dam the waters born on Sumeru? Shalt thou divert the stream for thine own sake, or send it bac…
1909 · PDF PAGE 326
…nd, nor the substance of which they are built ; and to one who had not travelled in a train before, say a bushman who had never wandered far from his native kraal, wonder and astonishment would be his as he watched the extraordinary disorder of the fast-flying view. At first he might be excused if he actually doubted his senses, so sud- denly do the apparently moving buildings come, change and vanish—now a roof, some chimneys—then a gap—a tree—a spire—a glimpse down a long street—it is gone; now a high bank—a cutting—a tunnel and darkness; and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 326
…nd, nor the substance of which they are built ; and to one who had not travelled in a train before, say a bushman who had never wandered far from his native kraal, wonder and astonishment would be his as he watched the extraordinary disorder of the fast-flying view. At first he might be excused if he actually doubted his senses, so sud- denly do the apparently moving buildings come, change and vanish—now a roof, some chimneys—then a gap—a tree—a spire—a glimpse down a long street—it is gone; now a high bank—a cutting—a tunnel and darkness; and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 79
…n the door of Renunciation and close that of Action, and to abandon the Western methods by the means of which he had already advanced so far rather than to continue in them. This in itself was the first great Sacrifice which he made upon the path of Renunciation—to abandon all that he had as yet attained to, to cut himself off from the world, and like an Hermit in a desolate land seek salvation by him- self, through himself and of Himself. Ultimately, as we shall see, he renounced even this disownment, for which he now sacrificed all, and, by a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 275
…ly by hearing it. I still remember the meaning of the song they sang, although there is no language yet coined which will convey it, and far be it from me even to suggest its nature, lest I should seem to perpetuate in any degree such profanity as beyond the abodes of the lost no lips are capable of uttering. Every note of the music itself accorded with the thought as symbol represents essence, and with its clangour mixed the maddening creak of the for ever oscillating cradle, until I felt driven into a ferocious despair. Suddenly the nearest f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 79
…n the door of Renunciation and close that of Action, and to abandon the Western methods by the means of which he had already advanced so far rather than to continue in them. This in itself was the first great Sacrifice which he made upon the path of Renunciation—to abandon all that he had as yet attained to, to cut himself off from the world, and like an Hermit in a desolate land seek salvation by him- self, through himself and of Himself. Ultimately, as we shall see, he renounced even this disownment, for which he now sacrificed all, and, by a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 275
…ly by hearing it. I still remember the meaning of the song they sang, although there is no language yet coined which will convey it, and far be it from me even to suggest its nature, lest I should seem to perpetuate in any degree such profanity as beyond the abodes of the lost no lips are capable of uttering. Every note of the music itself accorded with the thought as symbol represents essence, and with its clangour mixed the maddening creak of the for ever oscillating cradle, until I felt driven into a ferocious despair. Suddenly the nearest f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
… such mean vile knowledgeshould so puff one up with hideous pride. No wonder Satan fell! I began to understand all the old legends, and far more I told Doctor Kershaw that I was carrying out Ar- thur's last wishes. He raised no further opposition; but I saw him sign to the male nurse to keep an eye on me. The sick mans finger beckoned us. He could not speak; he traced circles on the counterpane. The doctor (with characteristic intelligence) having counted the cir- cles, nodded; and said: Yes, it is nearly seven oclock.
1954 · PDF PAGE 101
…rom the ground by pulling at its socks. It therefore opposes to the current of phenomena no reaction either of hatred or of sympathy. So far as it attempts to influence the course of events at all, it does so in the only intelligent way conceivable: it seeks to diminish internal friction. It remains, therefore, in a contemplative attitude. To use the terms of Western philosophy, there is in its attitude something of the stoicism of Zeno; or of the Pickwickianism, if I may use the term, of Epicurus. The ideal reaction to phenomena is that of per…
1954 · PDF PAGE 466
…prepare it for him perfectly ; for no man can keep all Roads open for ever. And to him making his Choice, explain how one may not travel far on anyone Road without a general Knowledge of Things apparently irrelevant. And with that he will understand , and bend him wisely to his Work.