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Page 56 of 1001912 · PDF PAGE 124
…t hat upon a bushy head garnished with a little beard and moustache, perspiring in a sandy and interminable bridle-path leading from the Long Rocher to nowhere in particular. These walks he would undertake (a) for his health, (b) to absorb the beauties of nature—as he would often demonstrate. Yet the greatest of philosophers are not always logical, and he would have been compelled to discover other reasons for his choice of company. This consisted of a lady whose age was rendered only more uncertain by her efforts to nail conjecture to the numb…
1912 · PDF PAGE 124
…t hat upon a bushy head garnished with a little beard and moustache, perspiring in a sandy and interminable bridle-path leading from the Long Rocher to nowhere in particular. These walks he would undertake (a) for his health, (b) to absorb the beauties of nature—as he would often demonstrate. Yet the greatest of philosophers are not always logical, and he would have been compelled to discover other reasons for his choice of company. This consisted of a lady whose age was rendered only more uncertain by her efforts to nail conjecture to the numb…
1929 · PDF PAGE 297
…re the penalties for various vices are depicted with what is sometimes very startling realism. I was sorry not to have been able to stay longer in this perfumed paradise of beauty and pleasure, where every element of art and nature were harmoniously woven as if endeavouring to echo the melody of the personality of the mandarin. The next day took us over superbly swelling hills upon whose bosom slumbered a lake. Here once more I was mystified as to its outlet. At the end of a delicious day we slept in a temple. It was the first day of the year a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 7
…h self-respect to live the life of their choice. The boy, delicate in his youth, was not able to bear the roughness of public school for long, but he passed with honours through Oxford, respected for his piety and learn- ing by his professors and (I am ashamed to say) adored by a certain unsavoury coterie for the baby- ish beauty of his face, with its unfathomable eyes, its small and scarlet mouth, and the impudent cynicism of his bottomless lust, I would say, but for the peculiar inappropriateness of the epi- thet. In a word he was the forem…
1910 · PDF PAGE 266
…ill in unimpaired remembrance as one of the unutterable sanctities of my being. The years of all my earthly life to come can never be as long as those thirty seconds. Before entering on the record of this new vision I will make a digression for the purpose of introducing two laws of the hasheesh operation, which, as explicatory, deserve a place here. First, after the completion of any one fantasia has arrived, there almost invariably succeeds a shifting of the action to some other stage entirely different in its surround- ings. In this transiti…
1910 · PDF PAGE 266
…ill in unimpaired remembrance as one of the unutterable sanctities of my being. The years of all my earthly life to come can never be as long as those thirty seconds. Before entering on the record of this new vision I will make a digression for the purpose of introducing two laws of the hasheesh operation, which, as explicatory, deserve a place here. First, after the completion of any one fantasia has arrived, there almost invariably succeeds a shifting of the action to some other stage entirely different in its surround- ings. In this transiti…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
… I looked forth and cried, “ It is the day!” The stars are dewdrops on my bosom’s space; The sun and moon are glances through my lashes, Long, tender rays of night ; my subtle face Burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes With solemn joy and laughter οἱlove; the grace Of all my body swaying stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, 0 Spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! Dawn shakes the molten fire of my delight From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
… I looked forth and cried, “ It is the day!” The stars are dewdrops on my bosom’s space; The sun and moon are glances through my lashes, Long, tender rays of night ; my subtle face Burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes With solemn joy and laughter οἱlove; the grace Of all my body swaying stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, 0 Spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! Dawn shakes the molten fire of my delight From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
….” This page needs no commentary, and explains sufficiently the tendencies of what one calls spiritualism, or spevdtism. It is already a long time since this doctrine, or, rather, this antidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
….” This page needs no commentary, and explains sufficiently the tendencies of what one calls spiritualism, or spevdtism. It is already a long time since this doctrine, or, rather, this antidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 465
…six chapters which treat of the subject in the special sense in which your question has involved us. So I shall fling these chapters headlong into this letter. De Voluntate Juvenum Long, 0 my Son, hath been this Digression from the plain Path of my Word concerning Children; but it was most needful that thou shouldst understand the Limits of true Liberty. For that is not the Will of any Man which ultimateth in his own Ruin and that of all his Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume tha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 468
EDUCATION 435 no Cohesion or Individuality possible, so that it is called Dementia. And these Books have lived long and become famous because they are the Fruits of ancient Trees whereof thou art directly the Heir, wherefore (say I) they are more truly germane to thine own Nature than Books of Collateral Offshoots , though such were in themselves better and wiser. Yea, 0 my son, in these Writings thou mayst study to come to the true Comprehension of thine own Nature, and that of the whole Universe, in the dimension of Time, even as the Mathemat…
1904 · PDF PAGE 30
…amids.” At last I met a maniac With mild eyes full of love, and tresses Blanched in those lonely wildernesses Where he found wisdom, and long hands Gentle, pale olive ’gainst the sand’s Amber and gold. At sight, I knew him ; Swifter than light I flashed, ran to him, And at his holy feet prostrated My head ; then, all my being sated With love, cried “Master ! I must know. Already I can love.” E’en so. The sage saluted me ram, ram,9 lmba p'av kI b'I dam , janI yh sb se m zikl kam hE, vah zavaz , t mhar nam istarae< me< sIne se iloa hE , hmare pas…
1905 · PDF PAGE 252
…einrich, wastrel of the Court, Yet hides a heart beneath the foolish face. And lo! The Landgrave! Flushed, undigni- fied ! The chase was long—if he could see himself! Wind, wind the mort! What call will answer me When I step forward? Am I dead, I wonder, Or merely on my hare-brain quest? ‘Three years Since I was seen in Germany ! (He descends the hill and enters the CoM pany. Hail, friends ! Good cousin Landgrave, merry be the meet! LANDGRAVE. Hands off me, fellow! Who are you? TANNHAUSER. My lord, Your cousin. Is my face so changed with care, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 256
…he reverse of the moon studded with tintacks ? ” “ No !” would naturally be the correct answer , and not , “ I cannot tell you ”; for as long as the bastion of our doubt is stronger than the cannon of our enemies ' assertion , we then , temporarily at least , have every right to answer in the negative . To be a student of the mysterious is a very different thing from being a mystic . That the author was the latter must surely be disproved on reading “ Ascension Day " and " Pentecost ," that he belongs to the neo mystics or theosophists is openl…
1911 · PDF PAGE 135
…h a snake; in the right hand a red, in the left hand a blue. And he hath red sandals, but no other garment. And he sayeth: Is not life a long initiation unto sorrow? And is not Isis the Lady of Sorrow? And she is my mother. Nature is her name, and she hath a twin sister Nephthys, whose name is Perfection. And Isis must be known of all, but of how few is Nephthys known! Because she is dark, therefore is she feared. But thou who hast adored her without fear, who hast made thy life an initiation into her Mystery, thou that hast neither mother nor …
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…one dance, the dance without motion. There is dew on all the fire. Every drop is the quintes- sence of the ecstasy of stars. * There are long intervals between many of these paragraphs, the Seer having been lost to Being. The reader will note that “The Great and Terrible Angel” has not been mentioned, but comes in suddenly. This was because the Seer’s speech was inaudible, or never occurred. This angel was the “Higher Genius” of the Seer. 168
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…ncise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the com- plete secret magical correspondences of the Golden Dawn and R.R. et A.C. It forms, in short, a com- plete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism,…
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
…on. (Goon is no Scots, But Greek, Meester Watts.) We’re awa’ tae Burma, Whaur th’ groond be firmer Tae speer th’ Mekong, Chin Chin ! Sae long. [Long sald be lang : She’ll no care a whang.] Ye’re Rautional babe, Audra McAbe.” Note the curious confusion of personality. This shows A bsence of Ego, in Pali A natta, and will seem to my poor spiritually-mind friends an excuse for a course of action they do not understand, and whose nature is beyond them. 782. Christ ascends.82—And I tell you frankly that if he does not come back by the time I have fi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…able to imbibe it without interference from the authorities, but I saw no sense in paying fifteen guineas for the privilege of wearing a long black gown more cumbersome than the short blue one, and paying thirteen and fourpence instead of six and eightpence if I were caught smoking in it. I had no intention of becoming a parson or a schoolmaster; to write B.A. after my name would have been a decided waste of ink. I felt that my career was already marked out for me. Sir Richard Burton was my hero and Eckenstein his modern representative, as far …