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Page 48 of 761929 · PDF PAGE 35
…Quick on its heels followed my husband's voice as I had long since known and loved it, clear, strong, resonant, measured: Get this down right; it is very important. I am passing into the power of the subconsciousness. I may not be able to speak to you again. But I am here; I am not to be touched by all that I may suffer; I can always think; you can always read my The voice broke off sharply to inquire, But will it ever end?" as if some one had spoken to it. And then I heard the laugh. The laugh that I had heard by Magda-
1922 · PDF PAGE 95
…ame suddenly serious as he talked on the phone. “Oh, yes,” he said to the caller. “ Very annoying indeed. What’s that? Four o'clock? All right, ul be round.” He hung up. He came back to us radiant, holding out his hands. “My dear friends,” he said. ‘“ This is a special providence—nothing less. The lunch is off. If your invitation holds, I shall be the happiest man in Europe.” Well, of course, there couldn’t be two men like that in Europe. I was infernally bored. But there was nothing to do except to express the wildest joy. It didn’t add to my …
1954 · PDF PAGE 173
…nd eschew the other. I want to insist most earnestly that concentration is not, as we nearly all of us think, a matter of getting things right in the practices; you must make every breath you draw subservient to the True Will, to fertilize the soil for the practices. When you sit down in your Asana to quiet your mind, it is much easier for you if your whole life has tended to relative quietude; when you knock with your Wand to announce the opening of an Invocation, it is better if the purpose of that ceremony has been simmering in the backgroun…
1929 · PDF PAGE 474
…ntic terms of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty. But the facts were less enthralling. The professor had the great German gift of Being Always Right. My task was simplified; I had merely to keep on telling him how very right he was. He soon ceased to gauge the temper of the community correctly, began to lay down the law instead of arguing with moderation and good sense, was hardened in arrogance by opposition, and became as violent and stupid on his side as our own chosen propagandists were on ours. My meat! But I am overrunning myself. My immediate …
1904 · PDF PAGE 118
… sit down quietly and say : “There is an indrawing of the breath.” “There is an expiration,” &c. Or, walking, “There is a raising of the right foot,” and so on, just as it happens. The thought is of course not quick enough to note all the movements or their subtle causes. For example, we cannot describe the c ompli- cated muscular contractions, &c. ; but this is not necessary. Concentrate on some series of simple movements. When this through habit becomes i ntuitive so that the thought is really “T here i s a raising,” as opposed to “I raise” (…
1954 · PDF PAGE 365
… a very long chain. This account of my career will describe many others equally striking. I might, perhaps , deny my inmost instinct the right to testify were anyone case of this kind in question; but
1954 · PDF PAGE 277
…ant on the chance?) "But what about the intervals?" you ask, Shabash! Rem acu tetigisti. It strikes me with immense and poignant power a right shrewd blow-what of the other side? What of the periods between successive incarnations? The theory is that the Supernal Triad constitutes (or, rather, is an image of) the "eternal" Essence of a man; that is, it is the positive expression of that ultimate "Point of View" which is and is not and neither is nor is not etc. Quite indestructible. Now when a man spends his life (a) building up and developing …
1996 · PDF PAGE 45
… 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. Commentary: The general meaning of this verse is that so great is the power of asserting one’s right that it will not long be disputed. For by doing so one appeals to the Law. In practice it is found that people who are ready to fight for their rights are respected, and let alone. The slave-spirit invites oppression. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. Commentary: This verse is best interpreted by defining “pure will” as the true expression …
1996 · PDF PAGE 75
…ragraph is perhaps in answer to some unspoken thought of my own that my work was accomplished. No: though I be “of the princes” with the right to enter into my reward, it is my destiny to continue my Work.1 1 “assuage thee”: satisfy thine aspiration to attainment, “absolve thee”: relieve thee from further duty. 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. Commentary: The subject changes most abruptly, perhaps answering some unspoken comment of the scribe on th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 17
…s who know how to guard : without pandering to any such superstitious beliefs, I may say that as far as results go, I believe them to be right. I should observe that the translation itself, as well as many of the notes, is due in the very great- est degree to the earnest help of my munshi, and of a certain dealer in furs, with whom I travelled through L... h, A... r, and G... t, as well as in the C... s country, during two successive summers. Some two months after the completion of trans- lation, I fell in with the gentleman whose name ap- pear…
1954 · PDF PAGE 70
…ear-headed confidence of an onlooker, with intelligence unclouded by self-interest and power unimpaired by passion.) 28. Every man has a right to fulfill his own will without being afraid that it may interfere with that of others; for if he is in his proper path, it is the fault of others if they interfere with him. (Illustration: If a man like Napoleon were actually appointed by destiny to control Europe, he should not be blamed for exercising his rights. To oppose him would be an error. Anyone so doing would have made a mistake as to his own …
1954 · PDF PAGE 92
…r away from our main thesis instead of toward it. P. What happens when we put a minus sign before the index (that small letter up on the right) instead of a plus? Quite simple. X2 = Xl + 1 = Xl + Xl . With a minus, we divide instead of multiplying. Thus, X3 - 2 = X3 -:- X2 = Xl , just as if you had merely subtracted the'} from the 3 in the index. Now, at last, we come to the point of real importance to our thesis: how shall we interpret XO? We may write it, obviously, as Xl - 1 or xn-n. Good, divide. Then Xl -:- Xl = I. This is the same, clearl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 432
VAMPIRES 399 true." No words have ever impressed me more deeply; they sank right in and were illuminated by daily experience until they had justified themselves a thousand times over. That goes for Vampires! In 1916, I was the first trained scien tific observer to record the appearance commonly called "St. Elmo's fire" indiscreetly revealing this fact in a letter to the New Yark Times. I was pestered for the next six months and more by professors of physics (and the rest) from all over the U.S.A. The existence of the phenomenon had been doubted…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
… of ye and forth of these. I am Orpheus! I will charm ye, bring Eurydice to light— Ah, my lords! Alas the omen! who shall turn me all to right? Who of all our proud Olympus shall avail me or befriend? Ah, my lords! but I am weary. See ye any one the end? Nay! we saw her grape and stumble for the secret sidelong door, Lift the latch with trembling fingers, pass within and be no more. There we stood and worshipped sadly (for the cry had touched us home), Worshipped till the gray was azure as the sun rekindled Rome.
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
…e Angel that was with me lifted me, and I saw that the edge of the altar, as I must call it, was surrounded by holy men. Each has in his right hand a weapon—one a sword, one a spear, one a thunderbolt, and so on, but each with his left hand gives the sign of silence. I wish to see what is within their ring. One of them bends forward so that I may whisper the pass-word. The Angel prompts me to whisper: “There is no god.” So they let me pass, and though there was indeed nothing visible therein, yet there was a very strange atmosphere, which I cou…
1922 · PDF PAGE 359
…und fell sharply away from below our feet. On the left, the great rock towered even more tremendously than on the other side; and on the right, the hills above the coast-line danced away into dim purple. In front was a strange jagged headland crowned with a fantastic cluster of rocks, and beyond this the great sea stretched away, in masses of greens and blues and violets, to where a number of volcanic islands slumbered dimly on the horizon. Basil annoyed me intensely by interpolating remarks about the beauty of the scenery. I couldn’t seem to i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 291
…it afflicts, more than anything else. An appetite should be satisfied in the simplest and easiest way. Once you begin to worry about the right and wrong of it, you disturb the mind unnaturally, and begin to think awry in all sorts of ways that have apparently nothing to do with it. “ Think of the Queen of Spain who was being dragged by her horse, and lost her life because of the absence of the official appointed by etiquette to assist her to dismount |” We all laughed ; the girls frankly, but I with an ill- defined, uncomfortable feeling that L…
1996 · PDF PAGE 50
…, homosexual practices between boys may in certain cases actually rob them of their virility, psychically or even physically. Trying to frighten adolescents about sex by the bogeys of Hell, Disease, and Insanity, may warp the moral nature permanently, and produce hypochondria or other mental maladies, with per versions of the enervated and thwarted instinct. Repression of the natural satisfaction may result in addiction to secret and dangerous vices which destroy their victim because they are artificial and unnatural aberrations. Such moral cr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 364
…instincts, the sense of the fitness of gesture, and so on: and, more important than all, it came natural to him to arouse in himself the right kind of enthusiastic energy in the right way. In addition, he possessed a peculiar faculty which I have only found in anything like the same degree in one other man in my life. He was a materializing medium in the strictest sense; that is, he could condense ideas into sensible forms. He could not do it at all by himself, because he lacked the power to collect at one point all the available material of th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 123
…st there may be shock and conflict, for the old thought persists by force of its habit: it is for you to create by repeated act the true right habit of this consciousness of the Life which abideth in Light. And this is easy, if your will be strong: for the true Life is so much more vivid and quintessential than the false that (as I rudely estimate) one hour of the former makes an impression on the memory equal to one year of the latter. One single experience, in duration it may be but a few seconds of terrestrial time, is sufficient to destroy …