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Page 48 of 831913 · PDF PAGE 538
…gories of Apuleius. There are no bad books, except those which are badly conceived and badly executed. Every word of beauty is a word of truth. It is a light crystallized in speech. But in order that the most brilliant light may be produced and made visible, a shadow is necessary; and the creative word, that it may become efficacious, needs contradictions. It must submit to the ordeal of negation, of sarcasm, and then to that more cruel yet, of indifference and forgetfulness. 240
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
…ure once more, bullies and ill-treats the heroic child, so that the curtain falls on her despairing shriek of “ Misérable!” Here then is truth! Notin a well, as lewd fellows have impotently pretended: but here, here on the stage of the Grand Guignol. It was just what happens every time, when anyone is fool enough to sacrifice themselves. It was magnificent ; it was war ! Curtain-lifter No. 2 was a still wittier scene, yet the element of improbability! damped, not indeed the en- thusiasm of the mob, but our own more sober and 1 A débutante with …
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…opened, and my whole position was turned. I saw my life from the dawn of consciousness till now as a gigantic “ pose ” ; my very love of truth assumed for the benefit of my biographer I All these strange things suffered and enjoyed for no better purpose than to seem a great man. One cannot express the horror of this thought; it is The thought that murders the soul—and there is no answer to it. So universal is it that it is impossible to prove the contrary. So one must play the man, and master it and kill it utterly, burying it in that putrid hel…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…ever, can fail to recognize it; that will be the absolute in religion. We shall establish in philosophy the immutable characters of that Truth, which is in science, reality; in judgment, reason; and in ethics, justice. Finally, we shall acquaint you with the laws of Nature, whose equilibrium is stability, and we shall show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. We shall also invite the great poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams …
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…ever, can fail to recognize it; that will be the absolute in religion. We shall establish in philosophy the immutable characters of that Truth, which is in science, reality; in judgment, reason; and in ethics, justice. Finally, we shall acquaint you with the laws of Nature, whose equilibrium is stability, and we shall show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. We shall also invite the great poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams …
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…e , his God was as the God of most religions a veritable He - God , therein lay his fault ; the only philosophy perhaps that grasped the truth was that of the Qabala . The microprosopus was neither masculine nor feminine , but androgynous ; and it was left for William Postel to utter one of the greatest world truths when he said , “ The Word has 1 The Mysteries of Magic , p . 30 . 2 La Kabbale , Frank , p . 217 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
The ruling passion strong in death. 129 And he my tool doth entertain. I speak the truth ; falter, nor feign, Seeing my camel on the plain Girt for the Journey ; spared or slain, My love’s no moon to wax and wane. Allah our love with mercy sain ! Then death’s a splendid window-pane Through which I look the world to explain. Give me the Cup ! it’s wine I’ll drain, Thy podex to my member strain, And thrust, and pull, and writhe amain :— Thrill through each raptured dying vein That El Qahar’s dissolving brain Be of his Destiny the bane ! 1. Can th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
… your feet, and I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
… your feet, and I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1913 · PDF PAGE 490
…igh importance of this great hermetic arcanum. We have just said that alchemy is the daughter of the Qabalah; to convince oneself of the truth of this it is sufficient to look at the symbols of Flamel, of Basil Valen- tine, the pages of the Jew Abraham, and the more or less apocryphal oracles of the Emerald Table of Hermes. Every- where one finds the traces of that decade of Pythagoras, which is so magnificently applied in the Sepher Yetzirah to the complete and absolute notion of divine things, that decade composed of unity and a triple ternar…
1913 · PDF PAGE 495
… and the columns at the entrance of the temples ordinarily contained all its symbols. The intuition of the ecstatics comes nearer to the truth with regard to these primitive signs than even the science of the learned, because, as we have said, the universal vital fluid, the astral light, being the mediating principle between the ideas and the forms, is obedient to the extraordinary leaps of the soul which seeks the unknown, and furnishes it naturally with the signs already found, but forgotten, of the great revelations of occultism. Thus are fo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 490
…igh importance of this great hermetic arcanum. We have just said that alchemy is the daughter of the Qabalah; to convince oneself of the truth of this it is sufficient to look at the symbols of Flamel, of Basil Valen- tine, the pages of the Jew Abraham, and the more or less apocryphal oracles of the Emerald Table of Hermes. Every- where one finds the traces of that decade of Pythagoras, which is so magnificently applied in the Sepher Yetzirah to the complete and absolute notion of divine things, that decade composed of unity and a triple ternar…
1913 · PDF PAGE 495
… and the columns at the entrance of the temples ordinarily contained all its symbols. The intuition of the ecstatics comes nearer to the truth with regard to these primitive signs than even the science of the learned, because, as we have said, the universal vital fluid, the astral light, being the mediating principle between the ideas and the forms, is obedient to the extraordinary leaps of the soul which seeks the unknown, and furnishes it naturally with the signs already found, but forgotten, of the great revelations of occultism. Thus are fo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 243
…ed, whether or no it be extended in any of the categories. But we have already agreed to look to 0 for the Uncaused. Now if there was in truth 0 ‘‘ before the beginning of years,” THAT 0 WAS Ex- TENDED IN NONE OF THE CATE- GORIES, FOR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD EXTEND! If our 0 was the ordinary 0 of mathematics, there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as I have shown, de- pendent on the idea of categories. If these existed, then the whole question is merely thrown back; we must reach a state in which the 0 is absolu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 15
…rds as the other; but only in the philosophical sense. Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish. Practically, 3 x 1 = 3 is the truth; and 3x 1 =1 isa lie; though, sceptically, both statements may be false or unintelli- gible. Practically, Franklin’s method of obtaining fire from heaven is better than that of Prometheus or Elijah. I am now writing by the light that Franklin’s discovery enabled men to use. Practically, “I concentrated my mind upon a white radiant triangle in whose centre was a shining eye, for 22 minutes and 10 seconds,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 126
…at the worldis reek- ing with rottenness—and he is, to a great extent, right... . These daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we liveina hypocritical 118
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…uttress his opinion by incidents which we have no reason to suppose other than authentic, but seem incongruous. So far as we can get any truth out of the matter at all, it is that the character of Napoleon, like that of everybody who ever lived, was extremely complex. And the writers are more or less in the position of the Six Wise Men of Hindustan who were born blind and had to describe an elephant. Spiritually fortified by these simple meditations, we may apply their fruits to the problem of Gilles
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
… Understanding, which leads to Peace of Mind, to the Higher Wisdom, to the Great Awakening, to Nibbana! t Let us now examine these eight truths.} The first is: I. Right Comprehension or Right Views. Right Comprehension is the first practical step in carrying * It will be noticed that this is the third sense in which this hard-working word is employed. + The Sutta of the Foundation of the Kingdom of Truth. ¢ [We respect the following noble attempt to rewrite Buddhism in the Universal Cipher, not unaware that the flatulent Buddhists of to-day wil…
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
… Understanding, which leads to Peace of Mind, to the Higher Wisdom, to the Great Awakening, to Nibbana! t Let us now examine these eight truths.} The first is: I. Right Comprehension or Right Views. Right Comprehension is the first practical step in carrying * It will be noticed that this is the third sense in which this hard-working word is employed. + The Sutta of the Foundation of the Kingdom of Truth. ¢ [We respect the following noble attempt to rewrite Buddhism in the Universal Cipher, not unaware that the flatulent Buddhists of to-day wil…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
Line 2. Lines 3. Lme 4. Line 5. Lme 6. Line 7. Lme 8. “Truth” is the necessary relation of any two things; therefore, although it implies duality, it enables us to conceive of two things as being one thing such that it demands to be defined by com- plementals. Thus, an hyperbola is a simple idea, but its construction exacts two curves. The Angel, as the adept knows him, is a being Tiphereth, which obscures Kether. The Adept is not officially aware of the higher Sephiroth. He cannot perceive, like the Xpsissimus, that ail things soever are equal…