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Page 56 of 921913 · PDF PAGE 444
…e Saviour in the Kingdom of His Father. . .” “Overcome with astonishment and fear,” continued the Abbé Charvoz, “I go up to the altar, I take the chalice, I look at the bottom of it: it was entirely empty. I overturned it in the sight of everyone, then I returned to kneel at the foot ot the altar, holding the chalice between my two hands... Suddenly there was a slight noise; the noise of a drop of water, falling into the chalice from the ceiling, was distinctly heard, and a drop of wine appeared at the bottom of the vase. “Every eye was fixed o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 444
…e Saviour in the Kingdom of His Father. . .” “Overcome with astonishment and fear,” continued the Abbé Charvoz, “I go up to the altar, I take the chalice, I look at the bottom of it: it was entirely empty. I overturned it in the sight of everyone, then I returned to kneel at the foot ot the altar, holding the chalice between my two hands... Suddenly there was a slight noise; the noise of a drop of water, falling into the chalice from the ceiling, was distinctly heard, and a drop of wine appeared at the bottom of the vase. “Every eye was fixed o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
de Rivoli. By this means he cannoned into a worthy Frenchman (who refused to take him seriously) and so was shocked into himself. He pulled out his watch. Only an hour and a half to catch his train. Just as he was beginning to enjoy him- self, too. What a shame! He couldn't even send a tele- gram without letting somebody know where he was and at home they supposed him to be visiting a business acquaintance in Shropshire. I'll have a mementum, thought he, if I die for it. IllI dont care. I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb I'll go t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 66
…f I want pure water to drink, I dig a well in a place where there is underground water; I prevent it from leaking away; and I arrange to take advantage of water's accordance with the laws of Hydrostatics to fill it.) 19. Man's sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him.
1909 · PDF PAGE 289
…is, the Path now open to you is the Twenty-seventh, which leads from the 3°=8° degree of Practicus to the 4° = 7° degree of Philosophus. Take in your right hand the Calvary Cross of ten squares and follow your guide through the Path of Mars.” After which the Hierophant explains the Calvary Cross of ten squares: “ The Calvary Cross of ten squares refers to the ten Sephiroth in balanced disposition ; before which the formless and the void rolled back. It is also the opened-out form of the double cube, and of the Altar of Incense.” And the Sixteen…
1909 · PDF PAGE 356
…ve seen, and whose track is like the wash of an ocean steamer, is that not Pharaoh himself? So the stories spread, and the passer-by may take his fill of them, but I, for one, like best of all the tale of Gioga’s son. And if just one passer-by on hearing it is held from firing just one shot, the tale has not been told in vain. 348
1909 · PDF PAGE 289
…is, the Path now open to you is the Twenty-seventh, which leads from the 3°=8° degree of Practicus to the 4° = 7° degree of Philosophus. Take in your right hand the Calvary Cross of ten squares and follow your guide through the Path of Mars.” After which the Hierophant explains the Calvary Cross of ten squares: “ The Calvary Cross of ten squares refers to the ten Sephiroth in balanced disposition ; before which the formless and the void rolled back. It is also the opened-out form of the double cube, and of the Altar of Incense.” And the Sixteen…
1909 · PDF PAGE 356
…ve seen, and whose track is like the wash of an ocean steamer, is that not Pharaoh himself? So the stories spread, and the passer-by may take his fill of them, but I, for one, like best of all the tale of Gioga’s son. And if just one passer-by on hearing it is held from firing just one shot, the tale has not been told in vain. 348
1922 · PDF PAGE 143
The Bubble Bursts 129 I said, with more confidence than before, that our courier had arranged to take us to see some of the shows in Naples that the ordinary tourist knows nothing about, and in order to avoid any possible annoyance, he had advised us to adopt this disguise —and so on for the rest of the story. The vice-consul smiled—indulgently, as I thought. “I admit we have some experience,” he said slowly, “of young people like yourselves getting into various kinds of trouble. One can’t expect every one to know all the tricks; and besides, i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
… good: we are agreed; but the trouble is that you seem to me to rush up to Kether foran attitude, and then bring it down to Malkuth. You take the Virgin of the World and swear she has a Venerable Beard with thirteen Fountains of magnificent oil running down it. All being one, why not brush your hair with a pitchfork? Bones. It is a very difficult matter to deal with in speech; in practice there is never any doubt or hesitation. What I say about Kether is of course not true; I cannot even know the truth unless I am actually in Kether. If I describ…
1922 · PDF PAGE 74
…iend belonged to eternity in some indefinable way ; and that infinite silence blossoms inscrutably into embrace. The heroin had begun to take hold. We felt ourselves crowned with colossal calm. We were masters; we had budded from nothingness into existence! And now, existence slowly compelled us to action. There was a necessity in our own natures which demanded expression and after the first intense inter-penetration of our individualities, we had reached the resultant of all the forces that composed us. In one sense, it was that our happiness …
1922 · PDF PAGE 316
…studio. The effect was to induce a surly mood. “What I say doesn’t seem to matter,” I answered gruffly. “ But since you ask, I say this. Take her and keep her and let me hear no more of her. And I'll say thank you.” My own voice made me wince. Could it really be I who was indulging in this vulgar repartee ? It was an extraordinary thing the way everything that happened seemed to make my position less and less dignified. The thought was interrupted by Lou’s gleaming tones. “ There, Basil, he sets me free. I come to you without a stain. You can k…
1954 · PDF PAGE 118
…gently from time to time to redress the balance. During the last two generations the Masters of the Yellow School have been compelled to take notice of the progressive ruin of the White adepts. Christianity, which possessed at least the semblance of a White formula, is in the agonies of decomposition, even before it is actually dead. Materialistic science has overwhelmed the faith and hope of the Christians (they never possessed any charity to overwhelm) with a demonstration of the sorrow, transitoriness, and cruel futility of the Universe. A v…
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
…not totally and for ever destroyed in himself every vestige of this instinct , extirpating every root and charring it with Fire , cannot take the first step on the Path of the Wise. How nobly opposite is the Man-Formula! Its freight the wealth of the whole Universe, that splendid Argosy leaps free upon the glittering Ocean, to cast the very Soul of Life upon uncharted and enchanted isles! It is not to these few but well-chosen words that I propose to look to enhance my popularity in the Women's Clubs of the United States. Love is the law, love …
1929 · PDF PAGE 411
…m optical hallucination. Delirium often occurs. There seems no reason why one should ever stop once one has got on to this third wind. I take it that one does so exactly as a steam engine stops; when the physical conditions constrain one. Once one has got one's third wind a single night's repose is no longer adequate; it seems as if one had outraged nature1. I have found that whether I walked on third wind one hour, or thirty-six, the reaction was pretty much the same. On this occasion we had to lie up for two days before we {654} 1. WEH Note: …
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…ition is diametrically opposed to the ideas of those modern moralists who reject his supernaturalism and salvationalism. The injunction "Take no thought for the morrow" is incompatible with "Preparedness", insurance and any other practice involving foresight. The command to break off all family and social relationships is similarly unethical. The truth, of course, is that these instructions were given to a select body of men, not to the world at large. Renunciation of the world is the first step toward spiritual illumination, and in the East, f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…n with GERALD KELLY) SCENE I. The SIRE DE MALETROIT sitting before the fire. A chime of bells—eleven. ALAIN, ’Leven o° th’ clock! Plague take these lovers! What? do they make a Malétroit wait? [Picks up letter from table—reads] ‘‘ Mademoiselle ”— um, um — ‘‘ my words might show that love which I cannot declare in writing ”’—very likely—‘‘nor raise a blush on that alabaster brow”—um! um! ah !— ‘‘embrace of the eyes”—is the fellow an octopus ?—‘* Tho’ you do not respond to my letters ’’—ah !—‘‘yet I would not have you leave me” —I daresay not—‘‘ …
1954 · PDF PAGE 63
… He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently. (Illustration: When Civil War rages in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries . A man with cancer employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the enemy which is part of himself. He soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. In practical life, a man who is doing what his conscience tells him to be wrong will do it very clumsily. At first!) 9. A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. (Il…
1954 · PDF PAGE 131
…? But you do not doubt that if you were to learn the meaning of all these unfamiliar terms, you would be able to follow his thought. Now take a paragraph from an "occult teacher." What's more, I'll give you wheat, not tares; it seems terrifyingly easy for sound instruction to degenerate into a 'pi-jaw'. Here goes! To don Nirmanakaya's humble robe is to forego eternal bliss for self, to help on man's salvation. To reach Nirvana's bliss but to renounce it, is the supreme, the final step-the highest on Renunciation's Path. Follows a common-sense c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…oking Dog Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure in the sport. This is the Comedy of Pan, that man should think he hunteth, while those hounds hunt him. This is the Tragedy of Man, when facing Love and Death he turns to bay. He is no more hare, but boar. There are no other comedies or tragedies. Cease then to be the mockery of God; in savagery oj love and death live thou and die! Thus shall His laughter be thrilled through with Ecstasy. V…