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Page 51 of 1151912 · PDF PAGE 58
…invented by his master to keep him in order. The real point of the Hindu “ Yama ” is that breaking any of these would tend to excite the mind. Subsequent theologians have tried to improve upon the teachings of the Masters, have given a sort of mystical importance to these virtues; they have insisted upon them for their own sake, and turned them into puritanism and formalism. Thus “ non-killing,”which originally meant “do not excite yourself by stalking tigers,” has been interpreted to mean that it is a crime to drink water that has not been str…
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
… I am satisfied : I wait the fatal word. 1ST MASK. What do you mean ? ALESSANDRO. I find your words are coffin-nails. You always bear in mind that dead men tell no tales. So when you tell me tales, and fear no murmur lives, You need not lift your veils. 2ND MASK. [In the central throne.] There are alternatives. Young man, well parley first. You love the Doges wife ? ALESSANDRO. So thats the thunderburst ! I love her as my life. I need not say that she is cold and virtuous. She scarce supposes me 2ND MASK. You need not lie to us. ALESSANDRO…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
… it all out. I shall speak in a sort of rebus, which not even you will be able to understand unless you have all the piecesand the key. Mind you engrave upon your memory every word I say. The following day: Do you remember the taking of the old mill by the Prussians in 70? My difficulty is that I must give you the skeleton of the puzzle, which I cant do in words. But watch the line of my spade and my heelmarks, and take a copy. I did this with the utmost minuteness of accuracy and obtained this figure. At my autopsy, said Dugues- clin,…
1898 · PDF PAGE 34
30 Ct: JEPHTHAH. My open spirit by their influence, And taught mine ears to catch no doubtful sound Of prophecy, but fix it in my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Fat…
1907 · PDF PAGE 266
… real life . Empty space is the postulate of all metaphysics , but all absolute quantities finally must be beyond the finitely reasoning mind . 1 SPACE This assertion of the Absolute Zero may truly at first sight appear to be a somewhat exaggerated statement ; but on due consideration it will be dis closed , that not only do all physics and metaphysics rest on this bed - rock of nothingness ; but , that also both abstract philosopher and scientist alike , have in no way leapt its fiery circumference . When the scientist eternalizes matter and m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 22
…ise on psychology from the mystic and magical standpoint. Its study will help the aspirant to make a detailed scientific analysis of his mind, and so to learn to control it. Lrper CCCLXV. THE PRELIMINARY INVOCATION OF THE Goet1a so-called, with a complete explanation of the barbar- ous names of evocation used therein, and the secret rubrick of the ritual, by the Master Therion. This is the most potent invocation extant, and was used by the Master Himself in his attainment. , Lrper MCCLXIV. Tue Greek QapataH. A complete dictionary of all sacred …
1922 · PDF PAGE 246
…one could experience something new, however abominable. The man that wrote that poem has left out nothing. Everything that comes into my mind is no more than an echo of his groans. *““ Body and soul alike Traitors turned black-hearted, Seeking a place to strike In a victim already attuned To one vast chord of wound.” The rhythm of the poem, apart from the words, suggests this moto perpetuo vibration. Yet the nervous irritability tends to exhaust itself as such. It is so unendurable ; the only escape seems to be if one could transform it into ac…
1909 · PDF PAGE 231
THE PILLAR OF CLOUD OBSESSED by the chimera of his mind, lost in the labyrinth of his imagination, man wanders on through the shadowy dream- land he himself has begotten, slothfully accepting or eagerly rejecting, but ever seeking some unobtainable freedom, some power which will release him from those shackles he has in his studied folly and capricious ignorance welded to his thoughts. Nothing contents him, nothing satisfies him ; if he is not weeping he is laughing, if he is not laughing he is weeping; he grumbles and applauds, despises and re…
1909 · PDF PAGE 231
THE PILLAR OF CLOUD OBSESSED by the chimera of his mind, lost in the labyrinth of his imagination, man wanders on through the shadowy dream- land he himself has begotten, slothfully accepting or eagerly rejecting, but ever seeking some unobtainable freedom, some power which will release him from those shackles he has in his studied folly and capricious ignorance welded to his thoughts. Nothing contents him, nothing satisfies him ; if he is not weeping he is laughing, if he is not laughing he is weeping; he grumbles and applauds, despises and re…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…tic, theological, accidental, climatic and other inessential elements. 7. We require the employment of a strictly scientific method. The mind of the seeker must be unbiased: all prejudice and other sources of error must be perceived as such and extirpated. 8. We have therefore devised a Syncretic-Eclectic Method combining the essentials of all methods, rejecting all their trammels, to attack the Problem, through exact experiments and not by guesses. 9. For each pupil we recommend a different method (in detail) suited to his needs; just as a phy…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…tic, theological, accidental, climatic and other inessential elements. 7. We require the employment of a strictly scientific method. The mind of the seeker must be unbiased: all prejudice and other sources of error must be perceived as such and extirpated. 8. We have therefore devised a Syncretic-Eclectic Method combining the essentials of all methods, rejecting all their trammels, to attack the Problem, through exact experiments and not by guesses. 9. For each pupil we recommend a different method (in detail) suited to his needs; just as a phy…
1912 · PDF PAGE 76
…rfall. But these are only trifling variations from the vigilance itself. Afifl/z class of&reaks seems to have no discoverable source in the mind. Such may even take the form of actual hallucination, usually auditory. Of course, such hallucinations are infrequent, and are recog— nized for what they are; otherwise the student had better see his doctor. The usual kind consists of odd sentences or fragments of sentences, which are heard quite distinctly in a recognizable human voice, not the student’s own voice, or that of any one he knows. A similar …
1899 · PDF PAGE 52
30 Ct: JEPHTHAH. My open spirit by their influence, And taught mine ears to catch no doubtful sound Of prophecy, but fix it in my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Fat…
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…I can find nothing better to add than that the son of Kish was Saul :— Good Gilbert’s forgotten again! The piece of advice he had in his mind was “ Trust Heaven and distrust Baphomet !”
1906 · PDF PAGE 217
…y of their precious souls: therefore their ecstasy is clearly a diseased process. The Yogic ecstasy requires absolute calm and health of mindand body. It is useless and dangerous under other conditions even to begin the most elementary practices. 742. My Eastern friend.—Abdul Hamid, of the Fort, Colombo, on whom be peace. 755. Heart,61— Heart is a trifling misquotation: This poem is for publication. 810. Mind the dark doorway there /®2—This, like so many other (perhaps all) lines in these poems, is pregnant with a host of hidden meanings. Not o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 42
…du Luxembourg. I now sit down to meditate on this new ritual. The following, so it appears, should be the outlines— damn it, I’ve a good mind to write it straight off—no! I’ll be patient and tease the Spirit a little. I will be coquettish as a Spanish catamite. I. Death summons Life and clears away all other forces. 2. The Invocation of the Word. Death consecrates Life, who in her whirling dance invokes that Word. 3. They salute the Word. The Signs and M M must be a Chorus, if anything. 4. The Miraculous appearance of Iacchus, un- invoked.
1910 · PDF PAGE 47
…hat joy of youth Lifted her nostril to respire the wind ? What pride of being ? What triumphal truth Acclaimed her queen to her imperial mind ? I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above ; My body quivered, eager to be torn, Stung by the snake of some convulsive love ! The leopard changed his spots ; for in me leapt The mate, the tiger. Murderous I sprang Across the mellow earth : my senses swept, One torrent flame, one soul-dissolving pang. How queenly bent her body to the grip ! How lithe it slips, her boso…
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
121 nothing is retained which has not some coherence with the general plan of the mind. All Pantacles will contain the ultimate conceptions of the circle and the cross, though some will prefer to replace the cross by a point, or by a Tau, or by a triangle. The Vesica Piscis is sometimes used instead of the circle, or the circle may be glyphed as a serpent. Time and space and the idea of causality are sometimes represented; so also are the three stages in the history of philosophy, in which the three objects of study were successively Nature, Go…
1939 · PDF PAGE 60
…he practices of Yoga. We have David saying in the Psalms: 'I hate thoughts, but Thy law do I love.' We have St. Paul saying: 'The carnal mind is enmity against God.' One might almost say that the essence of St. Paul's Epistles is a struggle against mind: 'We war not against flesh and blood'you know the restI can't be bothered to quote it allEph. vi. 12. 9. It is St. Paul, I think, who describes Satan, which is his name for the enemy, owing to his ignorance of the history of the world, as the Prince of the Power of the Air; that is, of the Ru…
1912 · PDF PAGE 33
I9 perhaps it would be better to say nothing; perhaps only an unbalanced mind would wish to alter anything or believe in the possibilityof altering anything?,־but there are those who think existenceeven in heaven intoler- able so long as there is one single being who does not share that joy. There are some who may wish to travel back from the very threshold of the bridal chamber to assist belated guests. Such at least was the attitude which Gotama Buddha adopted. Nor shall he be alone. Again it may be pointed out that the contemplative life is …