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Page 52 of 1031907 · PDF PAGE 179
172 THE STAR IN THE WEST Now hear another : he has written all the old false hoods . And now hear the reason : He conversed with Angels who are all religious , and conversed not with the Devils who all hate religion Goethe , in Faust , also depicted this same moral idea , and most religions have experienced this unity of Virtue and Vice ; the early Christians applauded it, and even now in Christian Churches is still sung the beautiful hymn : Nearer , my God , to thee , Nearer to thee , E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ! Still all my so…
1913 · PDF PAGE 572
…own fashion, but always in the way best suited to impress him. It is not the hashish intoxication which was useful to the knavery of the Old Man of the Mountain; it is a dream without sleep, an hallucination without madness, a reasoned and willed vision, a real creation of intelligence and faith. Thence- forward, when he preaches, the Jesuit can say: ‘What we have seen with our eyes, what we have heard with our ears, and what our hands have handled, that do we declare unto you.” The Jesuit thus trained is in communion with a circle of wills exe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 572
…own fashion, but always in the way best suited to impress him. It is not the hashish intoxication which was useful to the knavery of the Old Man of the Mountain; it is a dream without sleep, an hallucination without madness, a reasoned and willed vision, a real creation of intelligence and faith. Thence- forward, when he preaches, the Jesuit can say: ‘What we have seen with our eyes, what we have heard with our ears, and what our hands have handled, that do we declare unto you.” The Jesuit thus trained is in communion with a circle of wills exe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 108
…E AEON In this card it has been necessary to depart completely from the tradition of the cards, in order to carry on that tradition. The old card was called The Angel: or, The Last Judgment. It represented an Angel or Messenger blowing a trumpet, attached to which was a flag, bearing the symbol of the Aeon of Osiris. Below him the graves were opening, the dead rising up. There were three of them. The central one had his hands raised with right angles at the elbows and shoulders, so as to form the letter Shin, which refers to Fire. The card ther…
1954 · PDF PAGE 195
…meant it. For now that (or so I hope) you respect sufficiently my conviction that Astrology is a genuine science and not a messy mass of Old Wives' Tales, you will obviously demand instruction as to how to learn it, that you may verify my opinion in the light of your own experiments. This will look much better if I put it in a separate letter. 'Till then- Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
… between one and the other. Hullo, what’s that? Why, there’s a holy man near that Bo-Tree. He’ll tell m e what it all means.’ Poor silly old Lord of the Universe ! Had he carried his memory back one more step he’d have known all about Jehjaour and the con- spiracy, and that he was a Srotapatti and had only one more birth; and might well have put in the 311,040,000,000,000 myriads of æons which would elapse before lunch in rejoicing over his imminent annihilation. “ ‘Venerable Sir!’ said Mahabrahma, who had assumed the guise of a cowherd, ‘I kis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
… the prudes call fallen classes . Cora was scarcely , however , one of these ; living in luxury she tried to bury the recurring past , “ Old hours of horror ,” and she trusted that “ God hath made smooth the road beneath the hearse ” of her “ forgetful age.” Let me not shrink ! Truth always purifies. One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something , found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer . And I lay A storm of weeping swept across my frame Till th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
THE OLD BOTTLE 153 soon eclipsed man's reason , monopolizing worship and exacting prayer : What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer ? 1 Crowley very truly remarks in that battering-ram of religious destruction , “ Pentecost ”-a witty note is appended , quoted from the “ Sydney Bulletin , ” which suggested , that instead of perpetually worrying the Almighty for rain , the people should pray once and for all for a big range of mountains in Central Australia , which would of course supply rain auto matically --that man cannot elude fat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 31
23 Ye were too childlike, too innocent, too hopeful of mankind, that ye did proclaim your pearly gos- pel to the swinish multitude ! The old law, silence, is the master : therefore whoso looketh for my name, let him find it darkling in these lines of power ! R. is the Father, W. the Son, And E. the Holy Spirit, three and one : But if they esoterically are read My equal name shall glitter out instead. Yes ! we must not sing hymns to Pan to- day : we must pretend to be German professors, with a keen scientific interest in these very re- markable …
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…with complete dis- regard of the testimony of other and independent wit- nesses. For instance, a boy named Glascott, with insane taint, told Mr. Champney that he had visited me (12 years old) at my mother’s house during the holidays — true so far, he had — and found me “ lying drunk at the bottom of the stairs ”. My mother was never asked about this ; nor was I told of it. I was put into “ Coventry ” i.e. nor master nor boy might speak to me, or I to them. I was fed on bread and water ; during playhours I worked in the school- room ; during wor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 333
…s received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. He comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is extinguished. He comes to recall Israel to life, and if he cannot galvanize Israel, slain by the Pharisees, into life, he will resurrect the world given over to the dead worship of idols. Christ is the right to do one’s duty. Man has the right to do his duty, and he has no other right. O Man! thou hast the right to resist even unto death any w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 333
…s received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. He comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is extinguished. He comes to recall Israel to life, and if he cannot galvanize Israel, slain by the Pharisees, into life, he will resurrect the world given over to the dead worship of idols. Christ is the right to do one’s duty. Man has the right to do his duty, and he has no other right. O Man! thou hast the right to resist even unto death any w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 395
…ation,’ it requires a mind more metaphysical than mine to distinguish between these. It is quite certain that Buddha did not require any old Kalpas to get there, and to suppose that Buddha is still about, watching over the world, degrades him to a common Deity, and is in flat contradic- tion to the statements in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, where Buddha gravely explains that he is passing away by that kind of passing away which leaves nothing whatever behind, and compares his death to the extinction of alamp. Canoni- cal Buddhism is certainly the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 377
…n between Mother and Child, which has been so dominant a feature of past civilizations. The very social and economic causes which in the old time tended to cement the relationship, have become centrifugal in their effect.
1903 · PDF PAGE 23
…number of means: they need not even be compatible; Karma, rebirth, Providence, prayer, sacrifice, baptism, there is room for all. On the old and, I hope, now finally discredited hypothesis of an infinite being, the sup- porters of these various ideas, while explicitly affirming them, implicitly denied. Similarly, note that the Qaba- listic idea of a supreme God (and innumerable hierarchies) is quite compatible with this theory, provided that the supreme God is not infinite. Now as to our weapons. The more advanced Yogis of the Bast, like the No…
1910 · PDF PAGE 247
… can borrow half a million from him if I want it; but I don’t care to unless—unless things—unless you EUPHEMIA. I’m the goods, am I? You old bear! ossory. I know, Phemie, I know. It’s those damned bulls on Wall Street! How could I foresee—— EUPHEMIA. At least you might have foreseen that I was not a bale of cotton. ossory. But I shall be hammered, my dear child. We shall all have to go to the workhouse! EUPHEMIA. [coldly]. I thought mamma had three thousand a year of her own. ossory. That’s just what I say. The workhouse! EUPHEMIA. My dear fath…
1910 · PDF PAGE 247
… can borrow half a million from him if I want it; but I don’t care to unless—unless things—unless you EUPHEMIA. I’m the goods, am I? You old bear! ossory. I know, Phemie, I know. It’s those damned bulls on Wall Street! How could I foresee—— EUPHEMIA. At least you might have foreseen that I was not a bale of cotton. ossory. But I shall be hammered, my dear child. We shall all have to go to the workhouse! EUPHEMIA. [coldly]. I thought mamma had three thousand a year of her own. ossory. That’s just what I say. The workhouse! EUPHEMIA. My dear fath…
1919 · PDF PAGE 401
…ff in your hour of need with remarks on Virtue. 3. Which wilt thou choose, O thou of dauntless heart? The Samtan of “Eye Doctrine,’ fourfold Dhyana, or thread thy way through Péramités, six in number, noble gates of virtue leading to Bodhi and to Pragny4G, seventh step of Wisdom? It must not be supposed that the Paths here indicated are all. Apparently the writer is still harping on the same old two Paths. It appears that “fourfold Dhyana” is a mere extension of the word Samtan. There are, however, eight, not four, four of these being called Lo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…d Misery ; Love in its coils is hidden, and its nature Is double everyway ; dost wonder why The poet worships every scaléd feature, And holds him lordliest yet of every kingly creature ?? Sir Percival nor moved nor spoke ; awhile There is black silence in the ancient hall. Then cometh subtly with well-trained smile The courteous eld, the agéd seneschal. 1 When an electric current is passed through water, and many other fluids, a decomposition is effected, the component atoms finding their way to one or other pole of the battery. These atoms are…
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
214 GEORGE. What old woman? FENELLA. Her son was a lunatic. They let him out cured, as they thought. His mother came up here with him to lay flowers on his father's grave; and he caught her legs and smashed her brains against the wall. GEORGE. Oh damn it! {358} FENELLA. You baby! So, ever since, she comes from time to time to try and pick her brains off the wall. I certainly used to hear the "rolling of the head", but when I put in a billiard table, the old gentleman preferred it to the corridor and confined his amusements to the gunroom. Even …