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Page 49 of 911907 · PDF PAGE 224
THE NEW WINE 217 storm arose , scarce dare open our eyes for fear of being blinded . A mystic by nature and a priest by profession , we must , in reviewing his bequests to knowledge , always remember how much of the one side to deduct from the other , should we wish to prove him either an Adept or a Bishop . But with such inborn predilection , and such outward assumption , it is easy to understand why it was that he threw the whole energy of his life into an attempt to refute the advancing scepticism latent in the works of Hobbes and Locke . He…
1913 · PDF PAGE 432
…ood. Mr. Home (alone) appeared, on seeing them, to be very much upset, and even frightened ; but he refused to explain himself as to the nature and significance of these characters. The investigators accord- ingly kept them, and took them to that Professor of High 134
1913 · PDF PAGE 521
…universal fluid, which we call astral light, to deny its possi- bility would be to take little account of the most ordinary phenomena of Nature. The mirage in the steppes of Russia, the palace of Morgan le Fay, the figures printed naturally in the heart of stones which Gaffarel calls gamahés, the monstrous deformities of certain children caused by impressions of the nightmares of their mothers, all these phenomena and many others prove that the light is full of reflections and images which it projects and reproduces according to the evocations …
1913 · PDF PAGE 432
…ood. Mr. Home (alone) appeared, on seeing them, to be very much upset, and even frightened ; but he refused to explain himself as to the nature and significance of these characters. The investigators accord- ingly kept them, and took them to that Professor of High 134
1913 · PDF PAGE 521
…universal fluid, which we call astral light, to deny its possi- bility would be to take little account of the most ordinary phenomena of Nature. The mirage in the steppes of Russia, the palace of Morgan le Fay, the figures printed naturally in the heart of stones which Gaffarel calls gamahés, the monstrous deformities of certain children caused by impressions of the nightmares of their mothers, all these phenomena and many others prove that the light is full of reflections and images which it projects and reproduces according to the evocations …
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…ate knowledge which usually the lecturer does not possess. I am sure that we all recognize that an attempt of this kind is impossible in nature. No ! I am not proposing to inflict upon you my celebrated discourse on Scepticism of the Instrument of Mind. I am not even going to refer to the first and last lecture which I suffered at a dud university some- where near Newmarket, in which the specimen of old red sandstone in the rostrum began by remarking that political economy was a very difficult subject to theorize upon because there were no reli…
1961 · PDF PAGE 194
… no Meaning save it be referred to a Standard; but Love is not thus obscure, because Hate is its Twin, partaking bountifully of a Common Nature therewith. Now, hear this; it was given unto me in my Visions of the Æthyrs, when I was in he Wilderness of Sahara, by Tolga, that above the Abyss, contradiction is Unity, and that Nothing could be true save by Virtue of the Contradiction that is contained in itself. Behold, therefore, in this method thou shalt come presently to Ideas of this Order, that include in themselves their own Contradiction, an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 235
…(material) brick, and that again into her (spiritual) reformation ?”’ Similarly, we have Kant’s clear proof that in studying the laws of nature we’ only study the laws of our own minds: since, for one thing, the language in which we announce a law is entirely the product of our mental conceptions. While, on the other hand, it is clear enough that our minds depend upon the laws of nature, since, for one thing, the appre- hension that six savages will rob and murder you is immediately allayed by the passage of a leaden bullet weighing 230 grains,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…, I "magically affirm” that ash is almond and that seven o’clock is twelve. It seems a pity to have become a magician, capable of forcing Nature to accommodate herself to your statements, for no better use to be made of the power than this ! Miracles are only legitimate when there is no other issue possible. It is waste of power (the most expensive kind of power) to “make the spirits bring us all kinds of food ” when we live next door to the Savoy ; that Yogi was a fool who spent forty years learning to walk across the Ganges when all his friend…
1909 · PDF PAGE 59
…which we call in its highest forms meditation and magic. The existence of the disease, it will be noticed, indeed perfectly explains the nature of thought- wandering as observed by me in simple meditation without drugs. It should be taken, I think, as the normal action of the untrained mind. So long as the thoughts are strongly thrown out, rational, the critical glyphs approve, and the thought-current moves harmoniously to its end. Such are the trained thought-currents of educated men. The irrespon- sible and aimless chatter of women and clergy…
1909 · PDF PAGE 59
…which we call in its highest forms meditation and magic. The existence of the disease, it will be noticed, indeed perfectly explains the nature of thought- wandering as observed by me in simple meditation without drugs. It should be taken, I think, as the normal action of the untrained mind. So long as the thoughts are strongly thrown out, rational, the critical glyphs approve, and the thought-current moves harmoniously to its end. Such are the trained thought-currents of educated men. The irrespon- sible and aimless chatter of women and clergy…
1913 · PDF PAGE 500
…d “light” to the word ‘ magnetism,” because it is more traditional in occultism, and expresses in a more complete and perfect manner the nature of the secret agent. There is, in truth, the liquid and drinkable gold of the masters in alchemy; the word ‘‘or” (the French word for “gold”) comes from the Hebrew “aour” which signifies “light.” “What do you wish?” they asked the candidate in every initiation: ‘To see the light,” should be their answer. The name of illuminati which one ordinarily gives to adepts, has then been generally very badly inte…
1913 · PDF PAGE 500
…d “light” to the word ‘ magnetism,” because it is more traditional in occultism, and expresses in a more complete and perfect manner the nature of the secret agent. There is, in truth, the liquid and drinkable gold of the masters in alchemy; the word ‘‘or” (the French word for “gold”) comes from the Hebrew “aour” which signifies “light.” “What do you wish?” they asked the candidate in every initiation: ‘To see the light,” should be their answer. The name of illuminati which one ordinarily gives to adepts, has then been generally very badly inte…
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
…ion and Science have for many years seemingly run antagonistic to each other , but in reality their antagonism has been of a superficial nature , and | Vide Prolegomena . Bohn's ed ., p . xxi .
1922 · PDF PAGE 261
…th ago, I couldn’t have recalled anything at all with regard to certain periods. My friend tells me that memory fails me in part because nature mercifully wishes to hide from us things which are painful. The spider-web of protective forget- fulness is woven over the mouth of the cave which conceals the raw head and bloody bones of our mis- fortunes. “ But the greatest men,” says King Lamus, “ are those that refuse to be treated like squalling children, who insist on facing reality in every form, and tear off ruthlessly the bandages from their o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…one, by virtue of that spell Of thy sweet will toward him : thou, unknown, Untouched, grave mistress of the sunlight throne Of thine own nature ; known not even of me, But of some spark of woven eternity Immortal in this bosom. Phosphor paled And in the grey upstarted the dread veiled Rose light of dawn. Sun-shaped shone thy spears Of love forth darting into myriad spheres, Which I the poet called this light, that flower, This knowledge, that illumination, power This and love that, in vain, in vain, until Thy beauty dawned, all beauty to distil…
1919 · PDF PAGE 441
…again; a dip into the Tao, and then —off we go again! 74. Know, Conqueror of Sins, once that a Sowani hath cross’d the seventh Path, all Nature thrills with joyous awe and feels subdued. The silver star now twinkles out the news to the night-blossoms, the streamlet to the pebbles ripples out the tale; dark ocean waves will roar it to the rocks surf-bound, scent-laden breezes sing it to the vales, and stately pines mysteriously whisper: “A Master has arisen, A MASTER OF THE DAY.” 119
1922 · PDF PAGE 250
… ever afterwards.” He smiled very faintly and sweetly and dozed off... . Wednesday I count the days now. We are having an Indian summer. Nature is lovely. I go out for little walks when Peter is asleep. Friday There have been no complications, or I should have had to get a doctorin at whatever risk. What troubles me is that as he gets stronger, the delusions of perse- cution have begun to return. J know now how deeply I was myself obsessed by ideas of grandeur, and how my need to be a mother determined their form. But is it a delusion that I sh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…he cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiating always from unity, and multiplying themselves like numbers with proportions so exact, that the known demonstrates and reveals the unknown. To under- stand this science, is to see God. The author of this book, as he finishes his work, will think that he has demonstrated it. Then, when you have seen God, the hierophant will say to you:—“ Turn round!” and, in the shadow which you throw in the pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
THE EQUINOX become a father in order that he may have more children to devour. To conquer love is to triumph over the whole of Nature. To submit it to justice is to rehabilitate life by devoting it to immortality; thus the greatest works of the Christian revelation are the creation of voluntary virginity and the sanctification of marriage. While love is nothing but a desire and an enjoyment, it is mortal. In order to make itself eternal it must become a sacrifice, for then it becomes a power and a virtue. It is the struggle of Eros and Anteros …