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Page 56 of 791930 · PDF PAGE 53
…sisting that events shall accommodate themselves to our egoism and vanity. It is comically unscientific to adduce i. The question of the sense in which an answer is true arises. One not mix up the planes. Yet, as Mr. Russell shows, Of Cit. f. 61, the worlds which lie behind phenomena must possess the same structure as our own. Every proposition having a communicable significance must lie in just that essence of individuality which, for that very reason, is irrelevant to science , Just so : but this is to confess the impotence of science to atta…
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
…r? BUTLER. Yes, sir; but he would not take that; begging your pardon, sir, he said it was only an excuse, and he wouldn’t stand any non- sense. VAUGHAN. An excuse! Who is the fellow? BUTLER. I think he is a friend of Mr. Percy's, sir. PERCY [alarmed]. It might be my father. [Asade.] And I could have finished to-night—the very last word. Something has been singing in me all day. VAUGHAN. I will come and speak to him. [Aatt. The votces are heard outside. BRANDON [stout, purple, ‘‘ knobbed,” and tdi-tempered). Either I see my son now, or I fetch i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 75
…s, like dewfall, drawn A veil o’er leaf and lawn— Mix night, and noon, and dawn, Dew, flower, and moon! One kiss, intense, supreme ! The sense of Nature’s dream And scent of Heaven Shown in the glint and gleam Of the pure dawn’s first beam, With earth for leaven ; Moulded of fire and gold, Water and wine to fold Me in its life, and hold !— In all but seven! I would not kiss thee, I! Lest my lip’s charactery Ruin thy flower. Curve thou one maidenly Kiss, stooping from thy sky Of peace and power ! Thine only be the embrace !— I move not from my p…
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…o !6— Machia, what? ho! old extinct Alcibiades? For me, do ut—God true, be mannikin har !—des ! It’s rather hard, isn’t it, sir, to make sense of it? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it?!” Try something easier,!8 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find come in dreams to me. Even as he takes two feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to Jaunch my old barge upon. Analyse, get hints from Newton ! or Faraday,” Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships? Ah me! shall his soul, Far in some gl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 138
…how to integrate your thoughts. Nothing exists in isolation; it is always conditioned by its relations with other things; indeed, in one sense, a thing is no more than the sum of these relations. (For the only "reality," in the long run, is, as we have seen, a Point of View.) Now, this task of organising the mind, of erecting a coherent and intelligible structure, is enormously facilitated by the Qabalah.
1906 · PDF PAGE 289
…the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s utmost flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre; lake, rise up in mist to sun; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Master’s work is done. Nectar perfume gently stealing, masterful and sweet and strong, Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals, and be …
1913 · PDF PAGE 270
…stness and artistic imagery, and brimful of human sentiment. Through these poems runs the palpitating thrill of womanhood in its highest sense, refined, idealistic and restrained, as witness “A Poem to an Unborn Child.” These eighty pages of serious moods have the merit of a lightness and freshness which could never bore, even if one did not agree, The “not so serious” mood will be welcomed by readers blessed, or cursed, with a strain of gentle flippancy in their blood. It would be a misconception to suggest one of these in particular as being …
1913 · PDF PAGE 270
…stness and artistic imagery, and brimful of human sentiment. Through these poems runs the palpitating thrill of womanhood in its highest sense, refined, idealistic and restrained, as witness “A Poem to an Unborn Child.” These eighty pages of serious moods have the merit of a lightness and freshness which could never bore, even if one did not agree, The “not so serious” mood will be welcomed by readers blessed, or cursed, with a strain of gentle flippancy in their blood. It would be a misconception to suggest one of these in particular as being …
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
… the correspondences of the various forces of Nature with drugs, perfumes, etc. 2. Such details, however, may safely be left to the good sense of the Student. Expérience here as elsewhere is the best teacher. In the Sacrifice during Invocation, however, it may be said without fear of contradiction that the death of the victim should coincide with the suprême invocation. 96
1929 · PDF PAGE 545
…ightened. At first he used to begin to cry and look round piteously for his mother. The unexpected difficulty threw him right out of his sense of reality. He lost his head and the old instinct of infancy reappeared. He never showed excitement or eagerness to {860} climb, and after the victory never exulted in the normal fashion of children, but he was suffused with the satisfaction of having demonstrated his ability. Hermes had nothing in common with his companion. To him a rock was almost like a living thing. His first reaction was a passionat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…s passion. In this Sacrament being wholly at one with that Elément, let the Adept utter the Charge “Hear me, and make”, etc. with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of the Universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilège appurtenant thereto. Let the Adept take note of the wording of the Charge. The “Firmament” is the Ruach, the “mental plane” ; it is the realm of Shu, or Zeus, where revolves the Wheel of the Gunas, the Three forms1 of Being. The Aethyr is the I* They correspond to the Sulphur, Mercury, and Sait of Alchemy…
1996 · PDF PAGE 69
… the Great Architect. He will choose the object of his passion at the nod of his Silent Self. He will not allow the prejudice, either of sense, emotion, or rational judgment, to obscure the Sun of his Soul. In the first place, mutual magnetism, despite the masks of mind, should be unmistakable. Unless it exists, a puissant purity of passion, there is no Magical basis for the Sacrament. Yet, such magnetism is only the first condition. Where two people become intimate, each crisis of satisfaction between the terminals leaves them in a prox imity…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…— Machia, what ? ho ! old extinct Alcibiades ? For me, do ut—God true, be mannikin liar !—des ! It’s rather hard, isn’t it, sir, to make sense of it ? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it ?17 Try something easier,18 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find comes in dreams to me. Even as he takes to feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to launch my old barge upon Analyse, get hints from Newton19 or Faraday,20 Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships ? Ah me ! shall his soul, Far in som…
1996 · PDF PAGE 182
…umber. He is air, formless and incapa ble of resistance, carrier of sounds which mean nothing to it, swept up into destructive rages of senseless violence from its idleness, incalculably moved by every pressure or pull. One-fifth is the fuel of fire, the corruption of rust; the rest is inert, the soul of explosives, with a trace of that stifling and suffocating gas which is yet food for vegetable, as it is poison to animal, life. We have here a picture of the average man, of a fool. He has no will of his own, is all things to all men, is void,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 115
…called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason. Commentary: Humanity errs terribly when it gets “educa tion,” in the sense of ability to read newspapers. Reason is rubbish; race-instinct is the true guide.
1996 · PDF PAGE 178
… prepared with all possible care, often fall flat. Now one cannot exactly give rules for producing a “genius” to order, a genius in this sense being one who has the Idea, and is fortified with power to enflame the enthusiasm of the crowd, with wit to know, and initiative to seize, the psychological moment. But one can specify certain conditions incompatible with the manifestation of this spontaneity; and the first of these is evi dently absolute freedom from obstacles, internal or external, to the idea of the “genius.” It is clear that a woman…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…s of apes. Nature affords no parallel to their degradation. There is no open air life, physical or mental, and there is the ever-abiding sense of sin and shame to obsess these slaves. Nowhere, except in English cities, do these conditions exist. Slum life there is elsewhere, and misery enough; pitiful struggle, monstrous greed and triumphant brutality. But only in England are the people poisoned through and through; elsewhere there is a sense of independence even in the most servile. The Russian mujik is in his way an aristocrat. And the cause …
1996 · PDF PAGE 92
…that whole Orb is but the garment of Me. The analogy is precise; therefore when one becomes “the knower”, it involves the “death” of all sense of the Ego. One perceives one’s personal ity precisely as I now do these printed letters; and they are forgot ten, just as, absorbed in my thought, the trained automatism of my mind and body expresses that thought in writing, without attention on my part, still less with identification of the extremes involved in the process. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…ss. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am ail pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: corne unto me! To me! To me! Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me per fumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset. I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. To me! To me! The PRIEST mounts the second ste'p. The PRIEST. O secret of secrets that …
1904 · PDF PAGE 127
…the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s utmost flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre; lake, rise up in mist to sun; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Master’s work is done. Nectar perfume gently stealing, masterful and sweet and strong, Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed! Open wide the my stic portals, and be a…