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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Sushumnéa goes to the left side of the Ajna lotus and pro- ceeding to the right nostril is called the Pingala, Jamuna or Asi. The space between these two, the Ida and Pingala, is called Varanasi (Benares), the holy city of Shiva. 111. He who secretly always contemplates on the Ajna lotus, at once destroys all the Karma of his past life, without any opposition. 112, Remaining in the place, when the Yogi meditates deeply, idols appear to him as mere things of imagination, z.¢., he perceives the absurdity of idolatry…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Sushumnéa goes to the left side of the Ajna lotus and pro- ceeding to the right nostril is called the Pingala, Jamuna or Asi. The space between these two, the Ida and Pingala, is called Varanasi (Benares), the holy city of Shiva. 111. He who secretly always contemplates on the Ajna lotus, at once destroys all the Karma of his past life, without any opposition. 112, Remaining in the place, when the Yogi meditates deeply, idols appear to him as mere things of imagination, z.¢., he perceives the absurdity of idolatry…
1922 · PDF PAGE 20
…g fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease —that of thinking. My old commander was right. I think a lot too much ; so did Shakespeare. That’s what worked him up to write those wonderful things about sleep. I’ve forgotten what they were; but they impressed me at the time. I said to myself, ‘‘ This old bird knew how dreadful it is to be conscious.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…ived Bowles and a number of voluntary victims, each member of the party having his face painted with grease paint of divers colours, the right half vermilion and the left sky-blue, or the left bright green and the right orange, and so on. I record, with regret, that I, who had refused to abdicate the dignity of humanity to this extent, was the only person in the party who was not badly burnt. The sun showed no respect to persons in the matter of their camouflage. My freedom was due to the fact that I had spent most of my life in the open air an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 537
…orm an archetype of a new society. The main ethical principle is that each human being has his own definite object in life. He has every right to fulfil this purpose, and none to do anything else. It is the business of the community to help each of its members to achieve this aim; in consequence {848} all rules should be made, and all questions of policy decided, by the application of this principle to the circumstances. We have thus made a clean sweep of all the rough and ready codes of convention which have characterized past civilizations. S…
1919 · PDF PAGE 377
… in which all things unessential to progress are burned up. The plan is much better than that of the Elixir of Life. It is perfectly all right to use this Elixir for energy and youth, but despite all, im- pressions keep on cluttering up the mind, and once in a while it is certainly a splendid thing for everybody to have the Spring Cleaning of death. With regard to one’s purpose in doing anything at all, it depends on the nature of one’s Star. Blavatsky was horribly hampered by the Trance of Sorrow. She could see nothing 55
1954 · PDF PAGE 368
…their lives from their earliest days of wearing the sacred Cord as Brahmacharyi, with these ambitions carefully mapped out; and when the right moment comes for him to disappear into the jungle-the rest is Silence. A sound scheme: that is, provided that one has full confidence in the General Theory. But we Caucasians happen
1910 · PDF PAGE 181
… a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appearance and is open at a constant angle of about 30° to 40°. 3+10-3.45 Pranayama. Thirty minutes 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. 4.10 p.m. Resumed A’sana. The “ invading” thoughts are more and more fragmentary and ridiculous. I cannot mentally pro- nounce the Mantra with correctness, eg.,“ Op tap sapa” or “ shastra ” for “sat,” etc. Now arose, with Music of the Vina the Golden Dawn.*…
1910 · PDF PAGE 181
… a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appearance and is open at a constant angle of about 30° to 40°. 3+10-3.45 Pranayama. Thirty minutes 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. 4.10 p.m. Resumed A’sana. The “ invading” thoughts are more and more fragmentary and ridiculous. I cannot mentally pro- nounce the Mantra with correctness, eg.,“ Op tap sapa” or “ shastra ” for “sat,” etc. Now arose, with Music of the Vina the Golden Dawn.*…
1954 · PDF PAGE 55
…ndom: the results are often surprisingly delightful!) Besides, I didn't ask you to invoke a supersensible (what a word!! Meaning?) Being right away, or
1954 · PDF PAGE 476
… between individuals of hostile classes. I think that perhaps I have already written enough-at least enough to start you thinking on the right lines. And mark well this! The submergence of the individual in his class means the end of all true human relations between men. Socialism means war. When the class moves as a class, there can be no exceptions . This is no original thought of mine ; Stalin and Hitler both saw it crystal-clear ; both , the one adroitly, the other clumsily, but with equally consummate hypocrisy , acted it out. They picked …
1961 · PDF PAGE 163
…faned during the Æon of the Slain God. But now it has been given unto me to understand the Heart of Her Mystery, wherefore, o my Son, by Right of the Great Love that I bear unto thee, I will inform thee thereof. i
1996 · PDF PAGE 122
…o wheedle us away from seeking reality—unless we follow it up by action. Only then do we become fully aware of ourselves, and enter into right reaction with the world in which we live. 35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! Commentary: A ritual is not a melancholy formality; it is a Sacrament, a Dance, a Commemoration of the Universe. The Uni verse is endless rapture, wild and unconfined, a mad passion of speed. Astronomers tell us this of the Great Republic of the Stars; physicists say the same of the Little Republic of M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…of my eyes, the ready ambiguity of my shoulders! Bones. A good exercise, Frater. Bowley. Another point. I am, after all, a Poet. That ’5 right about the lake-reflected sun illuminating the blooming bees. I often hold long conversations with people, and discover long after that I wasn’t there at all. I often dream and am honestly puzzled whether the events of it have or have not happened. Bones. Consciously refuse to admit that your sensorium is not another's—that is all. About my second advantage—Brother, what is a Black Magician?
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the junction of the sutures of the skull, by a modification goes to the right side of the Ajna lotus, whence it proceeds to the left nostril, and is called the Varana, Ganges (northward flowing Ganges) or Ida. By a similar modification in the opposite direction the * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v, 110. t Ibid., chap. v, 49. $~ Though all Hindu works proclaim that the Sahasrara has but one thousand petals, its true number is one thousand and one as depicted in the diagram called the Yog…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the junction of the sutures of the skull, by a modification goes to the right side of the Ajna lotus, whence it proceeds to the left nostril, and is called the Varana, Ganges (northward flowing Ganges) or Ida. By a similar modification in the opposite direction the * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v, 110. t Ibid., chap. v, 49. $~ Though all Hindu works proclaim that the Sahasrara has but one thousand petals, its true number is one thousand and one as depicted in the diagram called the Yog…
1922 · PDF PAGE 121
…or back an hour at the frontier ; and I don’t know to this day whether I came to any correct con- clusion. I had an even chance of being right; but there it stopped. I remember getting out to stretch our legs at Rome, and that we had a mad impulse to try to see the sights during the twenty minutes or so we had to wait. . I might have done it; but on the platform at Rome I was brought up with a shock. An impossible thing had happened. “Great Scot,” cried a voice from the window of a coach three ahead of our own. “ Of all the extraordinary coinci…
1922 · PDF PAGE 126
112 The Diary of a Drug Fiend rotten red-tape, but “of course, they’re right in a way, there are quite a lot of chaps that wouldn't know how to use it, might get a bit above themselves and give something away—you know how it is.” So we left him quietly smoking, and went back to our own little cubby and had the most glorious night, whispering imaginary intrigues which somehow lent stronger wing to the real rapture of our love. We neither of us slept. We simply sailed through the darkness to find the dawn caressing the crest of Posilippo and the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 215
…e, no love for his wife, who didn’t understand him at all. He had married her out of pity; but for all that he was bound by his sense of right feeling, and above all by realising that to give rein to his passion, God-given though it was, would mean social ruin for me, for the woman he loved. He went on to talk about affinities and soul-mates and love at first sight. He reproached himself for having told me the truth, even now, but it had been too strong for him. The irony of fate! The tragic absurdity of social restrictions!
1922 · PDF PAGE 110
…ld. But the point is you could go on a long time on one-eighth of a grain if you have a pound of the stuff. , Well, this will put it all right for you. Fifteen grains is one gramme, and a thousand grammes is a kilogramme, and a kilogramme is two point two pounds. The only thing I’m not sure about is whether it’s a sixteen- ounce pound or a twelve-ounce pound. But I don’t see what it matters anyway, if you’ve got a pound of snow or H. you can go on for a long while, but apparently it’s rather awkward orchestrating them. Quain says that people ac…