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…They saluted me in a friendly manner when they saw me leave the box and walk towards them. I must have been a long time lying over it, a whole afternoon and night, maybe, during my unnatural sleep. I bowed gracefully before them; but they seemed amazed 375
… light of gems. But I look upwards, seeing that she is called the footstool of the Holy One, even as Binah is called His throne. And the whole Aethyr is full of the most wonderful bands of light,—a thousand different curves and whorls, even as it was before, when I spake mysteries of the Holy Qabalah, and so could not describe it. Oh, I see vast plains beneath her feet, enormous deserts studded with great rocks; and I see little lonely souls, running helplessly about, minute black creatures like men. And they keep up a very curious howling, tha…
…ction, but it is quite clear that desire of any kind must not interfere with this intensely intellectual medita- tion; and of course the whole object of it is to refrain from preferring any one thing to any other thing. When it says that “A thought as fleeting as the lightning flash will make thee thy three prizes forfeit—the prizes thou hast won,” this does not mean that if you happen to make a mistake in meditation you have to begin all over again as an absolute beginner, and yet, of course, in any meditation the occur- rence of a single brea…
…ou hâve progressed up to the point that a saucer filled to the brim with water and poised upon the head does not spill one drop during a whole hour, and when you can no longer perceive the slightest tremor in any muscle j when, in short, you are perfectly steady and easy, you will be admitted for examination 3 and, should you pass, you will be instructed in more complex and difficult practices. IV Pranayama — Régularisation of the Breathing 1. At rest in one of your positions, close the right nostril with the thumb of the right hand and breathe…
…ression instead of bringing on Samadhi-though that, too, occurred in some of the cases. By the way, here is a fairly full account of the whole business; I have just remembered-it is in my Autohagiography. Pranayama produced, firstly , a peculiar kind of perspiration; secondly, an automatic rigidity of the muscles; and thirdly, the very curious phenomenon of causing the body, while still absolutely rigid, to take little hops in various directions. It seems as if one were somehow raised, possibly an inch from the ground, and deposited very gently…
…nia, in which his oldest and best friends seemed to him to be conspiring against him. Abetted by a dishonest solicitor, he alienated the whole of the property of the Order with extraordinary thoroughness. He actually destroyed a great part of the library; he falsified the figures; and after opposing all sorts of delays to the demand for his account, he actually made away with my {707} very underclothing. My only remaining resources were some twenty thousand pounds' worth of books which he could not touch without paying the sum of three hundred …
… a blaze of a noise, and let them all loose at once. The effect is of impromptu excitement. Poor, serious, single-minded Allan, with his whole soul set on alleviating the sufferings of humanity and helping them to reach a higher plane of existence, was saddened and disillusioned. One incident was somewhat scandalously amusing. He was doing his {250} best to enter into the spirit of the thing and called my attention to the "strains of wild oriental music". I knew better. I had read Herrick's poem abut the young lady who left a glove in the royal…
…dawn, noon, and sunset, is well drawn in Buddhist psychology.+ Often, too, most often, one of the “ cat-echoes” will be so loud that the whole chain is shattered; the cat-echo becomes * More common, judging by the reports of Ludlow and others. I never permitted myself to fall under its dominion. } See Mrs. Rhys David’s book. 46
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH So then he must abandon the whole series of ecstasies ; all this time he has been on the wrong road. For the Three Characteristics are true of Vififianam as they are of Rupa; Change, Sorrow, Unsubstantiality. He has only one asset; the habit of One-pointedness— Ekagrata. He may be all kinds of a black magician ; but at least he has learnt to concentrate his mind. But what is he to aim at? Hashish-analogy is better than ever here; for Nibbana stands to the attainment of the Eight Jhanas, the Four Formless States «.7.A. …
…dawn, noon, and sunset, is well drawn in Buddhist psychology.+ Often, too, most often, one of the “ cat-echoes” will be so loud that the whole chain is shattered; the cat-echo becomes * More common, judging by the reports of Ludlow and others. I never permitted myself to fall under its dominion. } See Mrs. Rhys David’s book. 46
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH So then he must abandon the whole series of ecstasies ; all this time he has been on the wrong road. For the Three Characteristics are true of Vififianam as they are of Rupa; Change, Sorrow, Unsubstantiality. He has only one asset; the habit of One-pointedness— Ekagrata. He may be all kinds of a black magician ; but at least he has learnt to concentrate his mind. But what is he to aim at? Hashish-analogy is better than ever here; for Nibbana stands to the attainment of the Eight Jhanas, the Four Formless States «.7.A. …
…grasped that each such falsehood is but a shadow of some sun of truth. He does not perceive the ineffable glory of the Uni- verse in its whole and in each part. He has smitten at the shadow of a shadow: it falls—the world is filth. Let him 347
…grasped that each such falsehood is but a shadow of some sun of truth. He does not perceive the ineffable glory of the Uni- verse in its whole and in each part. He has smitten at the shadow of a shadow: it falls—the world is filth. Let him 347
…pon their arms, but tense and vigilant. And between them and me is the God Shu, whom before I did not see, because his force filleth the whole Aethyr. And indeed he is not visible in his form. Nor does he come to the seer through any of the senses; he is understood, rather than expressed. I perceive that all this army is defended by fortresses, nine mighty towers of iron upon the frontier of the Aethyr. Each tower is filled with warriors in silver armour. It is impossible to describe the feeling of tension; they are like oarsmen waiting for the…
… we invoke Thee. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous. During this speech the Priestess must have divested herself completely of her robe. See CCXX. I. 62. THE Priestess. But to love me is better than all things; if under the night-stars in the desert…
…his letter. For instance, one single thought of a "second string" -e.g. "if it fails, I had better do so and so" - is enough to kill the whole operation stone dead . Of course, I am totally out of practice; but ; even so . . .
…, it must irritate the soul in some definite manner , or else it ceases to be poetry . For when once poetry exerts a soporific power its whole object is lost , and , as a flash of lightning , it must be vivid , bright , flaming for a moment , awful , eloquent , rush ing from the darkness of night through the flashing elements of day into the silence of eternity . And this is exactly the poetry we here find . No poems are of any great length , no poems here contain a labour on the part of the reader to attain the end , though in some places the …
…m would have deserved its name, or mysticism would have received a blow which would save another young fool like myself from wasting his whole life on so senseless a study and enable him to engage in the nobler career of cheating and duping his fellows in the accredited spheres of commerce and politics, to say nothing of the grosser knaveries of the liberal professions. But I have no doubts. Let the investigator study his own brain on the lines I have laid down, possibly in the first place with the aid of hashish or some better physical expedie…
…m would have deserved its name, or mysticism would have received a blow which would save another young fool like myself from wasting his whole life on so senseless a study and enable him to engage in the nobler career of cheating and duping his fellows in the accredited spheres of commerce and politics, to say nothing of the grosser knaveries of the liberal professions. But I have no doubts. Let the investigator study his own brain on the lines I have laid down, possibly in the first place with the aid of hashish or some better physical expedie…
…ending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hiero- phants the first classification of the whole of natural history. Minerals, vegetables, animals were studied analogically; and they attributed their origin and their properties to the passive or to the active principle, to the darkness or to the light. The sign of their election or of their reprobation, traced in their natural form, became the hieroglyphic character of a vice or a virtue; then, by dint of taking the sign for the thing, and expressin…