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…, said the wicked Jehjaour, may live 500 years and never feel it. ‘‘So a grey wonder of wings flitted into the jungle. So joyous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by the ordinary passions and yield to such majesty as his own. ‘* But one day there came into the jungle a strange wild figure. He was a man dressed in the weird Tibetan fashion. He had red robes and hat, and thought dark things. He whirled a prayer-wheel in his: hands}; and ever as he went he muttered the mystic words: ‘Aum Mani Padme Hum.’! The parrot, who had nev…
1909 · PDF PAGE 36
…the Pyramid already duly prepared by DCLXXI. Alas! in vain have I tried even the supreme ritual of Awaiting the Beloved, although once I thought Ah ! give unto Thy beloved in sleep! How ashamed I should be, though! For an earthly lover one would be on tiptoe of excitement, trembling at every sound, eager, afraid . . . I will, however, rise and open (as for a symbol) the door and the window. Oh that the door of my heart were ever open! For He is always there, and always eager to come in. I rise and open unto my Beloved. . . . May it be granted u…
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
…ef secret of the Ancients, and if the keys have never been actually lost, they have certainly been little used.^ Again, the confusion of thought caused by the ignorance of the people who did not understand it has discredited the whole subject. It is now our task to re-establish this science in its perfection. To do this we must criticize the Authorities; some of them have made it too complex, others have completely failed in such simple matters as coherence. Many of the writers are empirics, still more mere scribes, while by far the largest cla…
1919 · PDF PAGE 319
…conscious of dividuality. He does not always make it perfectly clear that evil so-called is part of the game, which he describes as the ‘thought of God.’ We have no doubt that as he progresses, he will attain this clearer conception of the magical doctrine. He has already gone very far. His interpretation, for example, of the statement “God is Love” can hardly be distinguished from our own “Love is the law.” Yet even here there is some taint of a lingering Manichaeanism. He seems to imagine “the All-Loving” as always trying to bring us to a con…
1912 · PDF PAGE 91
75 Another rationalist consideration is this. The student has not been trying to excite the mind but to calm it, not to produce any one thought but to exclude all thoughts; for there is no connection between the object of meditation and the Dhyana. Why must we suppose a breaking down of the whole process, especially as the mind bears no subsequent traces of any interference, such as pain or fatigue? Surely this once, if never again, the Hindu image expressesthe simplest theory! That image is that of a lake into which five glaciers move. These gl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 340
…om- munion with his own ; but do not condemn others. “A religious practice is never contemptible, for it is the sign of a great and holy thought. “To pray together is to communicate in the same hope, the same faith, and the same charity. “The sign by itself is nothing; it is the faith which sanctifies it. “Religion is the most sacred and the strongest bond of human association, and to perform an act of religion is to perform an act of humanity.” When men understand at last that one must not dispute about things about which one is ignorant, When…
1913 · PDF PAGE 340
…om- munion with his own ; but do not condemn others. “A religious practice is never contemptible, for it is the sign of a great and holy thought. “To pray together is to communicate in the same hope, the same faith, and the same charity. “The sign by itself is nothing; it is the faith which sanctifies it. “Religion is the most sacred and the strongest bond of human association, and to perform an act of religion is to perform an act of humanity.” When men understand at last that one must not dispute about things about which one is ignorant, When…
1919 · PDF PAGE 347
… pure waters, clear and crystal, with the monsoon tempest’s muddy torrents cannot mingle. We are now again on the subject of suppressing thought. The pure water is the stilled mind, the torrent the mind in- vaded by thoughts. 44. Heaven’s dew-drop glittering in the morn’s first sun- beam within the bosom of the lotus, when dropped on earth becomes a piece of clay; behold, the pearl is now a speck of mire. This is not a mere poetic image. This dew-drop in the lotus is connected with the mantra “Aum Mani Padmen Hum,” and to what this verse really…
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
3.6. 3.32. 7-7- 8.10. 8.45. 8.50. 54 THE EQUINOX momentary pause which this causes, some old habitual thought (to-night my mantra) rises up. A case of the Closure followed by the Moving of the Previous Question. Oh Lord! when wilt Thou carry a Motion to Adjourn, nay, to Prorogue, nay! to Dissolve this Parliament? I am not sleepy; yet will I again compose myself, devoting myself to Adonai. Again woke and continued mantra. I ought to have made more of it at 7.7; I went off again to sleep ; the result is that I am rather difficult to wake again. Ho…
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
…. Turned is my face to the left, And the Priestess of the Silver Star is my guide. Now am I come forth upon the Path of the Lion, And my thought in the Place of the gathering of the Waters. I am the Established one in Daath! In me is the Knowledge of Good and of Evil! In me is the Knowledge of the Light Supernal! And my face is turned downward unto Malkuth. 332
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
…. Turned is my face to the left, And the Priestess of the Silver Star is my guide. Now am I come forth upon the Path of the Lion, And my thought in the Place of the gathering of the Waters. I am the Established one in Daath! In me is the Knowledge of Good and of Evil! In me is the Knowledge of the Light Supernal! And my face is turned downward unto Malkuth. 332
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
… is not bad; but taken altogether is no good. Thoth. 1om. Rather poor. Cross. 15m. Not very good. Golden Dawn 1om. Not good. Symbol. [My thought seems terribly wandering nowadays.] Isis. 19m. Not so bad. Winged-Globe. 12m. Bad, sleepy. Triangle of Fire 15m. Very wandering. with Cross in centre, Abrahadabra 17m. Pretty good,though perhaps the whole pantacle. was hardly ever absolutely clear. Tried Physical Astral Projection twice. In the first one the person employed to watch—my beloved Soror F.— saw physical arm bent whilst my own was straight.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
… is not bad; but taken altogether is no good. Thoth. 1om. Rather poor. Cross. 15m. Not very good. Golden Dawn 1om. Not good. Symbol. [My thought seems terribly wandering nowadays.] Isis. 19m. Not so bad. Winged-Globe. 12m. Bad, sleepy. Triangle of Fire 15m. Very wandering. with Cross in centre, Abrahadabra 17m. Pretty good,though perhaps the whole pantacle. was hardly ever absolutely clear. Tried Physical Astral Projection twice. In the first one the person employed to watch—my beloved Soror F.— saw physical arm bent whilst my own was straight.…
1912 · PDF PAGE 99
…in,” yet there are all sorts of more or less probable circumstances any one of which would prevent success. Now we do know this, that if thought is kept single and steady, Dhyana results. We do not know whether an intensification of this is sufficient to cause Samadhi, or whether some other circumstances are required. One is science, the other empiricism. One author says (unless memory deceives) that twelve seconds’ steadiness is Dharana, a hundred and forty-four Dhyana, and seven- teen hundred and twenty-eight Samadhi. And Vivekananda, comment- …
1919 · PDF PAGE 333
…hin” is meant that state in which neither objects of sense, nor physiological sensations, nor emotions, can disturb the concentration of thought. II
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
…t for the most essential and continuous acts of life? Why should an. infinite Ego fill a non-existent body with imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? Why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then?” * Encyclopedia Britannica. Art. Metaphysics. + The Principles of Mevaphysics, Macmillan.
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
… I shall rest for a few moments to try and get rid of my headache. A good simile (by the way) for the Yogi is to say that he watches his thought like a cat watching a mouse. The paw ready to strike the instant Mr. Mouse stirsi I have chewed a Gaufrette and drunk a little water, in case the headache is from hunger. (P.S.—It was so; the food cured it at once.) I now lie down as Hanged Man and say mantra in Visuddhi. I must really note the curious confusion in my mind between the Visuddhi Cakkram and that part of the Boulevard Edgar Quinet which o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
י12.45 1.10. 62 THE EQUINOX course this thought acts through the will and the apparatus of nerves and muscles. But might not a sudden fear cause the heart to stop? I think cases are on record. But all this is unknown ground, or, as Frank Harris would say, Unpath'd Waters. We are getting dangerously near “mental arsenic ” and " all—god— good—bones—truth—lights—liver—mind—blessing —heart——-one and not of a series—ante and pass the buck." The common sense of the practical man of the world is good enough {or me! Will G. R. S. Mead or somebody wise …
1909 · PDF PAGE 105
…ed River in China, John St. John saw at every corner of that swift and dangerous stream a heap of wreckage. . . . He, himself in danger, thought ofhis magical career. Alcoholism, insanity, disease, faddism, death, knavery, prison—every earthly hell, reflection of some spiritual blunder, had seized his companions. By dozens had that band been swept away, dashed to pieces on one rock or another. He, alone almost upon that angry stream, still held on, his life each moment the play- thing of giant forces, so enormous as to be (once they were loose) …
1909 · PDF PAGE 120
…eck on all one’s work. The devotion to Adonai might itself fall under suspicion, were it not for the definition of Adonai. Adonai is that thought which informs and strengthens and purifies, supreme sanity in supreme genius. Any- thing that is not that is not Adonai. Hence the refusal of all other Results, however glorious; for they are all relative, partial, impure. Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta: Change, Sorrow, Unsubstan- tiality; these are their characteristics, however much they may appear to be Atman, Sat, Chit, Ananda, Soul, Being, Knowledge, Bliss…