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1910 · PDF PAGE 101

Ambergris

…fool, saw flowers And loved them, watched the moon rise, took delight In perfumes of the summer night, Caught in the glamour of the sun, Thought all the woe well won. How hours were days, and all the misery Abode, all mine : O thou ! didst thou regret ? Was thou asleep as I ? Didst thou not love me yet ? For, know ! the moon is not the moon until She hath the knowledge to fulfil Her music, till she know herself the moon.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

Book 4 (Part I)

…gs, that of space two non-coincident things, that of causality two connected things; These Dhyanic conditions contradict those of normal thought; but G

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1912 · PDF PAGE 65

Mortadello

… than a suit of clothes. I say, before We lend our monies out to anyone, we ought To see the peace restored. ISSACHAR. You speak my very thought. Not one doubloon of mine shall leave its quiet nest And hiding-place until these wars are laid to rest. ISRAEL. Agreed. I’ll tell the Synagogue of our resolve. That will bring folk to reason. Hinge that won’t resolve Needs oil of peace.

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1928 · PDF PAGE 53

Little Poems in Prose

with fear. In short, thoughts of the beauty with which I was surrounded filling me as it did with enthusiasm, I felt myself at perfect peace with myself and with the Universe. I even believe that, in my perfect happiness and my total for- getfulness of all terrestrial evil, I had arrived at no longer thinking so ridiculous those newspa- pers which pretend that man is naturally good; when, immedicable matter renewing its impor- tunities, I thought I would repair the ravages of fatigue and quench the appetite caused by so lengthy an ascent. I pul…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 260

The Book of Thoth

… a source of continual annoyance; every symbol of the book must be so familiar as to have sunk completely into the unconscious strata of thought. Intellectual knowl‐ edge must be so wrought into the substance of the mind that it becomes instinct.

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1901 · PDF PAGE 98

The Soul of Osiris

…ing darkness, in the gloom That I can touch with trembling sense. There shone Once, in my misty memory, in the womb Of some unformulated thought, the flame And smoke of mighty pillars ; yet my mind Is clouded with the horror of this same Path of the wise men : for my soul is blind Yet : and the foemen I have never feared I could not see (if such should cross the way), And therefore I am strange : my soul is seared With desolation of the blinding day I have come out from : yes, that fearful light Was not the Sun : my life has been the death, Thi…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 80

Konx Om Pax

…y’s sublime desire, but, on the contrary, would earnestly pray your brilliant serenity to spit upon his grovelling “ joro." (8) Profound thought assures your beetle-headed suppliant that your glorious nobility must meet him before the controversy can be decided. (9) True. Would your sublimity condescend to defile himself by entering this muck-sweeper’s miserable hovel? "T

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1910 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…= 3°. (5) It was then to those chiefs that I and other members of the Order were pledged. (6) When the “rebellion” took place in 1900, I thought Mathers a wolf, and Westcott a sheep; but, recog- nizing Truth in the knowledge issued by the Order, maintained my allegiance to the Secret Chiefs 8°= 3°. (7) In 1904 I was ordered directly and definitely by a person who proved himself to be the messenger of a

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1910 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…= 3°. (5) It was then to those chiefs that I and other members of the Order were pledged. (6) When the “rebellion” took place in 1900, I thought Mathers a wolf, and Westcott a sheep; but, recog- nizing Truth in the knowledge issued by the Order, maintained my allegiance to the Secret Chiefs 8°= 3°. (7) In 1904 I was ordered directly and definitely by a person who proved himself to be the messenger of a

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1910 · PDF PAGE 200

The Winged Beetle

…self. Her breast heaves ; swallowing a sob, she runs out of the room. DELHOMME. [Utterly dazed]. I—I—oh, my god ! My father ! My God ! I thought her—oh, I dare not say it— I will not think it. [On his knees, clutching at the chair.] My god, what shall I do ! She was my life, my hope, my flower, my star, my sun ! What shall I do ! Help me ! help me ! Who shall console me ? [He continues in silent prayer, sobbing]. [The door opens ; MR. TODD steals into the room on tiptoe, bends over him and whispers in his ear. The expression of anguish falls fr…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 18

The God-Eater

…ical, I say !—and I will drink, for parenthetical is a poor substitute— [Drinks.] Why, how thou fir’st me! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. It well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the beginning then The vastness of the heavens and the earth Created the idea of God. So Levi once Sarcastic in apostasy ; @ rebourse. So Miller, mythopoeic in his mood Of the unmasking mythopoeia. Now Profounder science, Spencer’s amplitude, Allen’s too shallow erudition, Frazer’s Research, find men …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 60

John St. John

…ware that in one sense all this working and ritual making and copying and illuminating is but a crowd of dog-faced demons, since the One Thought of Unity with Adonai is absent. But I do it on purpose, making each thing I do into that Magic Will. So if you ask me “Are you correcting Liber DCCCCLXIII. ?" I reply, “ No! Iam Adonail " Arrival of the Visconti. Departure of the Visconti. Really a necessary rest: for my head had begun to ache, and her kiss, half given and half taken, much refreshed me. Have done Liber DCCCCLXIII. 'Tis hardly thinkable…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 125

John St. John

… trust my will to keep me awake; so I rise, wash, and will walk about till time to get into my Asana. Thirst! Oh how I thirst! I had not thought that there could be such suffering. The Eleventh Day It seems a poor thing to be proud of, merely to be awake. Yet I was flushed with triumph as a boy that wins his first race. The powers of Asana and Pranayama return. I did 21 Breath-cycles without fatigue. Energy returns, and Keenness to pursue the Path—all fruits of that one little victory over sleep. How delicate are these powers, so simple as they s…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 11

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…of the emptiness of things! Yet, as we go, there grows a sense, an instinct, a premonition—what shall I call it ?—that Being is One, and Thought is One, and Law is One—until we ask What is that One? Then again we spin words—words—words. And we have got no single question answered in any ultimate sense. What is the moon made of? Science replies ‘Green Cheese.” For our one moon we have now two ideas: Greenness, and Cheese. Greenness depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things. Cheese depends on bacteria and fermentation and …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… himself. Her breast heaves ; swallowing a sob, she runs out of the room. DELHOMME [Utterly dazed]. I—I—oh, my God! My father! My God! I thought her—oh, I dare not say it—I will not think it. [Ox his knees, clutching at the chair] My God, what shall I do? She was my life, my hope, my flower, my star, my sun! What shall I do? Help me! help me! Who shall console me? [He continues in silent prayer, sobbing]. [The door opens ; MR. TODD steals into the room on tiptoe, bends over him and whispers in hisear. The expres- ston of anguish fails from his …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… himself. Her breast heaves ; swallowing a sob, she runs out of the room. DELHOMME [Utterly dazed]. I—I—oh, my God! My father! My God! I thought her—oh, I dare not say it—I will not think it. [Ox his knees, clutching at the chair] My God, what shall I do? She was my life, my hope, my flower, my star, my sun! What shall I do? Help me! help me! Who shall console me? [He continues in silent prayer, sobbing]. [The door opens ; MR. TODD steals into the room on tiptoe, bends over him and whispers in hisear. The expres- ston of anguish fails from his …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 276

The Star in the West

…nt's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life's plan . The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought's abyss of tears and woes .

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1909 · PDF PAGE 101

John St. John

…he Violet Lotus of Ajna appeared, flashing like some marvellous comet; the Dawn began to break, as he slew with the Lightning-Flash every thought that arose in him, especially this Vision of Ajna; but fear —dread fear !—gripped his heart. Annihilation stood before him, annihilation of John St. John that he had 99

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1913 · PDF PAGE 210

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…y stream flowed on, Beating some rhythmic music in my ears Until the sea should silence all at last . Overhead my children slept . And I thought “ What when they wake , and , calling for me , Find that there is no longer Mother there ? " Then gathered I my strength and fashioned it To prayer , and took my love and made it wings Wherewith to fly to God 's far - distant throne . I felt that with the gift of that one prayer I surely gave my children all I had . While lower , swifter sped the drowsy stream While yet the angel stood all hooded , by …

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1939 · PDF PAGE 53

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…d deal with these subjects from the hard-headed scientific point of view. Forgive me if I have toyed with these shining gossamers of the thought- web! I have only been trying to break it to you gently. I proceed to brush away with a sweep of my lily-white hand all this tenuous, filmy stuff, 'such stuff as dreams are made of.' We will get down to modern science. 24. For general reading there is no better introduction than The Bases of Modern Science, by my old and valued friend the late J. W. N. Sullivan. I do not want to detain you too long wit…

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