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Page 53 of 911913 · PDF PAGE 162
…he final reception. And after this reception among the Brothers of the Silver Star comes the Vision of the Arrow. In the 4th A&thyr, the nature of the Great Work which the Master of the Temple must accomplish is shown more fully. The Holy Guardian Angel presents his Bride to the Mother, who presents her to the Father. One may remark that it is necessary to be a Master of the Temple before anything like a full understanding of these mysteries can be attained. In the 3rd A2thyr the Guards to the further Grades are exhibited. Now it may be asked, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…he final reception. And after this reception among the Brothers of the Silver Star comes the Vision of the Arrow. In the 4th A&thyr, the nature of the Great Work which the Master of the Temple must accomplish is shown more fully. The Holy Guardian Angel presents his Bride to the Mother, who presents her to the Father. One may remark that it is necessary to be a Master of the Temple before anything like a full understanding of these mysteries can be attained. In the 3rd A2thyr the Guards to the further Grades are exhibited. Now it may be asked, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 487
… MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending 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 th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
…lle and Gougenet Desmousseaux make themselves not a little his accomplices ! The laws of physical life are inexorable, and in his animal nature man is born a slave to fatality; it is by dint of strug- gles against his instincts that he may win moral freedom. Two different existences are then possible for us upon the earth ; one fatal, the other free. The fatal being is the toy or instrument of a force which he does not direct. Now, when the instruments of fatality meet and collide, the stronger breaks or carries away the weaker ; truly emancipa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 487
… MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending 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 th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
…lle and Gougenet Desmousseaux make themselves not a little his accomplices ! The laws of physical life are inexorable, and in his animal nature man is born a slave to fatality; it is by dint of strug- gles against his instincts that he may win moral freedom. Two different existences are then possible for us upon the earth ; one fatal, the other free. The fatal being is the toy or instrument of a force which he does not direct. Now, when the instruments of fatality meet and collide, the stronger breaks or carries away the weaker ; truly emancipa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 15
…al despotism or oppression of any kind Το this secret order every wise and spiritually enlightened person belongs by right of his or her nature; because they all, even if they are personally unknown to each other, are one in their purpose and object, and they all work under the guidance of the one light of truth. Into this sacred society no one can be admitted by another, unless he has the power to enter it him- self by virtue of his own interior illumination; neither can any one, after he has once entered, be expelled, unless he should expel h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 15
…al despotism or oppression of any kind Το this secret order every wise and spiritually enlightened person belongs by right of his or her nature; because they all, even if they are personally unknown to each other, are one in their purpose and object, and they all work under the guidance of the one light of truth. Into this sacred society no one can be admitted by another, unless he has the power to enter it him- self by virtue of his own interior illumination; neither can any one, after he has once entered, be expelled, unless he should expel h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…l despotism or oppression of any kind. To this secret order every wise and spiritually enlightened person belongs by right of his or her nature; because they all, even if they are personally unknown to each other, are one in their purpose and object, and they all work under the guidance of the one light of truth. Into this sacred society no one can be admitted by another, unless he has the power to enter it him- self by virtue of his own interior illumination ; neither can any one, after he has once entered, be expelled, unless he should expel …
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
…ive the name of natural religion; and all which tends to clip the wings of these beliefs is, on the religious plane, in opposi-~ tion to nature. The essence of the object of religion is mystery, since faith begins with the unknown, abandoning the rest to the investigations of science. Doubt is, moreover, the mortal enemy of faith; faith feels that the intervention of B2 3
1913 · PDF PAGE 563
…, because they can love nothing: in order to love one must be good. Consequently for them everything is empty, and it seems to them that Nature is im- potent, because they are so themselves ; they doubt everything because they know nothing; they blaspheme everything because they taste nothing; they caress in order to degrade; they drink in order to get drunk; they sleep in order to forget; they wake in order to endure mortal boredom: thus will live, or rather thus will die, every day he who frees himself from every law and every duty in order t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…l despotism or oppression of any kind. To this secret order every wise and spiritually enlightened person belongs by right of his or her nature; because they all, even if they are personally unknown to each other, are one in their purpose and object, and they all work under the guidance of the one light of truth. Into this sacred society no one can be admitted by another, unless he has the power to enter it him- self by virtue of his own interior illumination ; neither can any one, after he has once entered, be expelled, unless he should expel …
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
…ive the name of natural religion; and all which tends to clip the wings of these beliefs is, on the religious plane, in opposi-~ tion to nature. The essence of the object of religion is mystery, since faith begins with the unknown, abandoning the rest to the investigations of science. Doubt is, moreover, the mortal enemy of faith; faith feels that the intervention of B2 3
1913 · PDF PAGE 563
…, because they can love nothing: in order to love one must be good. Consequently for them everything is empty, and it seems to them that Nature is im- potent, because they are so themselves ; they doubt everything because they know nothing; they blaspheme everything because they taste nothing; they caress in order to degrade; they drink in order to get drunk; they sleep in order to forget; they wake in order to endure mortal boredom: thus will live, or rather thus will die, every day he who frees himself from every law and every duty in order t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 151
…hs he never missed a day in the performance of his appointed task. His results, during this period, were perhaps not of a very startling nature, but, as any true Student learns, it is the long and continued “grind,” the determined effort to carry out the work in hand or task set, in spite of every obstacle that may arise, that really counts when it comes to lasting results. It is the Will that needs training, and the accom- 143
1919 · PDF PAGE 456
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1929 · PDF PAGE 406
…ogical meaning; it is not merely a poetical fancy. Our appreciation of a sonnet and a syllogism is aroused by identical qualities in our nature. The same principle applied to each impression produces reactions whose interrelation is necessary. It is not merely a matter of taste to prefer Rembrandt to Dana Gibson. It implies a corresponding perception of scientific and philosophical problems. When men who agree about Goya disagree about geology, one may deduce confidently that there is somewhere a failure of self-comprehension on one subject or …
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
… be for us to rule them wisely. We must secure their happiness and train them for ultimate freedom by setting them tasks for which their nature fits them. In the past, the mob without will or mind have been treated without sense or scruple; a mistake socially, economically and politically, no less than from the humanitarian point of view. We must remember that each man and woman is a star, it is our duty to maintain the order of nature by seeing to it that his orbit is correctly calculated. The revolutions and catastrophes with which history is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 299
…ting all its powers on itself , and stopping it at every turn from wandering outside of itself . Then the mind , slowly learning its own nature , analyzes itself and discovers the Divinity which is itself . And I have ceased to think ! That is, have conquered and made still Mind's lower powers by utter Will .? 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 177 .
1911 · PDF PAGE 82
… sun and the wind, and of the worm that turneth the earth, and of the stars that roof in the garden. And he must understand the separate nature and property of every flower, or how shall he tend his garden? And I said to him: Concerning the Vision and the Voice, I would know if these things be of the essence of the Aethyr, or of the essence of the seer. And he answers: It is of the essence of him that is called NEMO, combined with the essence of the Aethyr, for from 80