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Page 48 of 921929 · PDF PAGE 188
… all your fat at the exact moment when you have a change to climb a mountain, and jump back out of its reach, so to speak, before it can take its revenge. To talk of acclimatization is to adopt the psychology of the man who trained his horse gradually to live on a single straw a day, and would have revolutionized our system of nutrition, if the balky brute had not been aggravating enough to die on his hands. If you want to acclimatize yourself to mountain conditions, you can go and live a bit higher than the hillmen of Tibet. If you do this for…
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
… of writing rubbish for magazines. He thought that one could do it in the intervals of serious work ; but I do not think that one should take the risk. I have spent these many years training my mind to think cleanly and express beautifully. Am I to prosti- tute myself for a handful of bread? I swear by Thyself, 0 Thou who art myself, that I will not write save to glorify Thee, that I will write only in beauty and melody, that I will give unto the world as Thou givest unto me, whether it be a consuming fire, or a cup of the wine of Iacchus, or a …
1912 · PDF PAGE 267
… wind 0‘ your little affair wi' Bungs? What d'ye mak’ a year oot 0' that? EEL. Ye wicked deevil l AWL. I dinna care. It's your affair to take the King's siller, and the whisky man’s gowd ! But I'm wondering 1100 it gangs wi' sae muckle releegion ! EEL. Ηοο dare ye? AWL. Or have they found your ain private still o‘er the brae? An exciseman wi' a still 0’ his ainl ha! 1131 ha! κει. Ye fausse fiend ! Hae ye gi’en me awa‘? AWL, Nal I’m no sae releegious as ye are. But I doot it's fowk ken 0‘ your dealin’s wi‘ Jeannie Maekay ! EEL. Hoo did ye ken tha…
1912 · PDF PAGE 267
… wind 0‘ your little affair wi' Bungs? What d'ye mak’ a year oot 0' that? EEL. Ye wicked deevil l AWL. I dinna care. It's your affair to take the King's siller, and the whisky man’s gowd ! But I'm wondering 1100 it gangs wi' sae muckle releegion ! EEL. Ηοο dare ye? AWL. Or have they found your ain private still o‘er the brae? An exciseman wi' a still 0’ his ainl ha! 1131 ha! κει. Ye fausse fiend ! Hae ye gi’en me awa‘? AWL, Nal I’m no sae releegious as ye are. But I doot it's fowk ken 0‘ your dealin’s wi‘ Jeannie Maekay ! EEL. Hoo did ye ken tha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 383
…ty sweep of never-erring action, it brings to mortals lives of weal or woe, the Karmic progeny of all our former thoughts and deeds. 46. Take them as much as merit hath in store for thee, O thou of patient heart. Be of good cheer and rest content with fate. Such is thy Karma, the Karma of the cycle of thy births, the destiny of those who, in their pain and sorrow, are born along with thee, rejoice and weep from life to life, chained to thy previous actions. 47. Act thou for them “to-day,” and they will act for thee “to-morrow.” These verses con…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
… (temporarily) independent responsible units, capable of receiving communications from head- quarters at will, but perfectly able (i) to take care of themselves without troubling their chief, and (2) to report to him at the proper time. In a figure, they must be like subordinate officers, expected to display self-reliance, initiative, and integrity in the execution of the Orders of the Day. The Adept should therefore be able to rely on these individual minds of his to control their own conditions without interférence from himself for the time r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
… progress, and everyone knows perfectly well how this remarkable result has been achieved. But at the first hint that anyone proposes to take a step farther on this road, he is universally set down as a lunatic of the most dangerous type. However, the most savage Lolos are content with that diagnosis, whereas the most enlightened English add that the pioneer is not only a lunatic but a pervert, degenerate, anarchist an the rest of it --- whatever terms of abuse chance to be in fashion. The abolition of slavery, humane treatment of the insane, t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…imself as soon as he recognized that he was being attacked; but the spirits became very cunning and were at pains to persuade him not to take the proper measures of protection. I believe, despite all this, that he would have succeeded eventually in mending his aura, but in the principal ordeal of the neophyte he was so seriously damaged that he was never the same man again. During the next few years I saw a great deal of him and his spiritual adventures will serve both as a diversion and warning on many a page to come. Recognizing the possibili…
1913 · PDF PAGE 269
…vian Neuburg. He is always being “ bullied” and treated with “injustice,” however kind people are to him. Here are two cases, accurately taken from the book, but rendered in dialogue. I. In class: MASTER. What do you know of Gustavus Adolphus ? BOY [wzth gloomy pride that he knows all about G. A.], R—r—r—gr! MASTER. Come now, surely you don’t mind telling us something about him. BOY [stung to madness by this senseless torture}. 1 know ail about Gustavus Adolphus. MASTER. Well, that’s splendid. Let’s see now, who was he? BOY [beyond himself] Tyr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 576
…ualities, we shall find good and benevolence everywhere. The most perverse man has a good side to him, and softens when one knows how to take him. If you had nothing in common with the vices of men, you would not even perceive them. Friendship, and the devotions which it inspires, are found even in prisons and in convict stations. The horrible Lacenaire faithfully returned any money which had been lent to him, and frequently acted with generosity and kindness. I have no doubt that in the life of crime which Cartouche and Mandrin led there were …
1913 · PDF PAGE 582
… themselves to vicious men and live upon their lives, as the embryo lives in its mother’s womb. In these circumstances, they are able to take the most horrible forms to represent the frenzied desires of those who nourish them, and it is these which appear under the figures of demons to the wretched operators of the nameless works of black magic. These larvee fear the light, above all the light of the mind. A flash of intelligence is sufficient to destroy them as by a thunderbolt, and hurl them into that Dead Sea which one must not confuse with …
1913 · PDF PAGE 269
…vian Neuburg. He is always being “ bullied” and treated with “injustice,” however kind people are to him. Here are two cases, accurately taken from the book, but rendered in dialogue. I. In class: MASTER. What do you know of Gustavus Adolphus ? BOY [wzth gloomy pride that he knows all about G. A.], R—r—r—gr! MASTER. Come now, surely you don’t mind telling us something about him. BOY [stung to madness by this senseless torture}. 1 know ail about Gustavus Adolphus. MASTER. Well, that’s splendid. Let’s see now, who was he? BOY [beyond himself] Tyr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 576
…ualities, we shall find good and benevolence everywhere. The most perverse man has a good side to him, and softens when one knows how to take him. If you had nothing in common with the vices of men, you would not even perceive them. Friendship, and the devotions which it inspires, are found even in prisons and in convict stations. The horrible Lacenaire faithfully returned any money which had been lent to him, and frequently acted with generosity and kindness. I have no doubt that in the life of crime which Cartouche and Mandrin led there were …
1913 · PDF PAGE 582
… themselves to vicious men and live upon their lives, as the embryo lives in its mother’s womb. In these circumstances, they are able to take the most horrible forms to represent the frenzied desires of those who nourish them, and it is these which appear under the figures of demons to the wretched operators of the nameless works of black magic. These larvee fear the light, above all the light of the mind. A flash of intelligence is sufficient to destroy them as by a thunderbolt, and hurl them into that Dead Sea which one must not confuse with …
1919 · PDF PAGE 415
…meditation. Of course anybody who really ‘bore love,’ etc., as requested would be suffering from softening of the brain. That is, if you take all this in its obvious literal sense. There is a clean way of Love, but it is not this toshy slop treacle-goo. 19. Of teachers there are many; the MASTER-SOUL is one, Alaya, the Universal Soul. Live in that MASTER as ITS ray in thee. Live in thy fellows as they live in IT. Here the killing of the sense of separateness is further ad- vised. It is a description of the nature of Atma, and Atma is, as elsewh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 330
…rd Eye ,” i.e. , in the brain . By assuming higher dimensions of space , we can assimilate this fact to Realism ; but we have no need to take so much trouble . This being true for the ordinary Universe , that all sense i The Bride of Corinth , Goethe . 2 Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 97 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…however, civilisation touches us on the lips and we speak and forget all about them. Directly we commence to chatter, our preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…however, civilisation touches us on the lips and we speak and forget all about them. Directly we commence to chatter, our preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 135
…the Vulture. Thou mayest draw to an head the bow of thy magical will; thou mayest loose the shaft and pierce her to the heart. Iam Eros. Take then the bow and the quiver from my shoulders and slay me; for unless thou slay me, thou shalt not unveil the Mystery of the Aethyr. Therefore I did as he commanded; in the quiver were two arrows, one white, one black. I cannot force myself to fit an arrow to the bow. And there came a voice: It must needs be. And I said: No man can do this thing. And the voice answered, as it were an echo: emo hoc Sacere …
1913 · PDF PAGE 18
…verge of divinity.” The plaintiff stated that he could not accept any such position, and- that unless the separation took place he would take action in the matter. 7. The plaintiff returned from Benares to Adyar, and there, on or about January 19, 1912, the defendant, in presence of certain members of the Theosophical Society, sent for the plaintiff and asked him what he wanted to be done in respect of the boys. The plaintiff only demanded that there should be absolute separation from the said Leadbeater. She agreed to this, and asked the plain…