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Page 57 of 911913 · PDF PAGE 581
…it aside at the moment of our second birth. Human life compared to heavenly life is veritably an embryo. When our evil passions kill us, Nature miscarries, and we are born before our time for eternity, which exposes us to that terrible dissolution which St. John calls the second death. According to the constant tradition of ecstatics, the abortions of human life remain swimming in the terrestrial atmosphere which they are unable to surmount, and which 283
1919 · PDF PAGE 114
…ick. For see now how all things, being in sorrow caused by dividuality, must of necessity will Oneness as their medi- cine. Here also is Nature monitor to them that seek Wisdom at her breast: for in the uniting of elements of opposite polari- ties is there a glory of heat, of light, and of electricity. Thus also in mankind do we behold the spiritual fruit of poetry and all genius, arising from the seed of what is but an ani- mal gesture, in the estimation of such as are schooled in Philosophy. And it is to be noted strongly that the most violen…
1906 · PDF PAGE 263
… the Four Noble Truths, who has realised the fact that depends from that understanding, namely that all the constituents of being are by nature endowed with the Three Character- istics of Sorrow, Transitoriness, and Absence of any immortal principle or Atma—such a one is said to be Sammaditthi, to hold right views, and the term has come to mean one of the Buddhist Faith. We may not have taken the other and higher steps on the Noble Eightfold Path; but must have rea- lised those Four Truths and their sequential three Characteristics. He who has …
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
…, to use a good old English word , was a “ lusty ” love , that is a healthy love , and not a lustful or perverted desire . The beauty of nature , the beauty of living , and above all the bright beauty of Archais ; intoxicated him ; before him whirled visions of loveli ness , and as her eyes reflected the passion of his own , as they smiled back on him all the love he bore her , yielding , he caught her up as a flame would another , and the “ iron rod of law " grew misty , for they were one , one in body , mind and soul ; alone for that moment ,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…den . Open vice , unscreened and esotericised by religion , would have in the sequence of events led to an open feeling of disgust , for Nature never permits man to borrow without paying back , the general settlement day will always sooner or later arrive , and then a new epoch of time will be heralded in . Secret vice is the very worst form of vice ; like a hidden gin we fall betwixt its jaws unawares . The crass and studied silence that mothers and fathers maintain over their children as regards all subjects of sex is probably responsible for…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
… combines with itself and the others to make 64 Hexagrams, which partake Cor. XLII.—The following table of sub-elemental of the combined nature. is attribution is the perfumes is important :— @ ot @ A ot @ V of@ VW ot@ A o @ @otA AoA V ot A VoA A ot A @ ot V A ot V V ot V V o V A o V Ou V7 Ao VW V ot V7 V ot V Ao A ® otA A otA V ot A VW ot A A ot A Ambergris. The Gall of the Rukh. Onycha. Musk. Civet. Lign-aloes. Galbanum. Mastick. Storax. Olibdnum. Myrrh. Camphor. Siamese Benzoin. Indigo. Opoponax. Dittany of Crete. Assafcetida. Clover. Storax…
1909 · PDF PAGE 233
…upted are merely bestial, and are as rigid as the former are elastic. The savage youth passes through one great ordeal—the struggle with Nature; the civilised through another—the struggle with Reason. The one is taught the hero tales of his forefathers, the other the platitudes of the schools, which luckily are always a few decades behind the ideas current at his birth. Few of us remember anything that happened during the first two years of our existence, and very little during the next two; thus it comes about that from two to four years of ou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 233
…upted are merely bestial, and are as rigid as the former are elastic. The savage youth passes through one great ordeal—the struggle with Nature; the civilised through another—the struggle with Reason. The one is taught the hero tales of his forefathers, the other the platitudes of the schools, which luckily are always a few decades behind the ideas current at his birth. Few of us remember anything that happened during the first two years of our existence, and very little during the next two; thus it comes about that from two to four years of ou…
1919 · PDF PAGE 120
…the Ser- pent as the Hieroglyph of Life. Life then is indestructible as all else is. All destruction and construction are changes in the nature of Love, as I have written to you in the former chapter proximate. Yet even as the blood in one pulse-throb of the wrist is not the same blood as that in the next, so individuality is in part destroyed as each life passeth; nay, even with each thought. What then maketh man, if he dieth and is reborna change- ling with each breath? This: the consciousness of continu- ity given by memory, the conception o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 243
…ng loyalty and devotion have been their reward. The secret has been principally this, that they considered them- selves noble as well in nature as in name, and thought it foul shame to themselves if any retainer met unnecessary mis- fortune. The upstart of to-day lacks this feeling; he must try constantly to prove his superiority by exhibiting his power; and harshness is his only weapon. In any society where each person has his allotted place, and that a place with its own special honour, mutual respect and self-respect 229
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
… Italy itself, in every detail foul. Then I myself, seen as every woman that has ever been, each one with every disease and torture that Nature and man have plotted in their hellish brains, each ended with a death, a death like Arthur's, whose infinite pangs were added to his own, recognized and accepted as his own. The same with our child that never was. All children of all nations, incredibly aborted, deformed, tortured, torn in pieces, abused by every foulness that the imagi- nation of an arch-devil could devise. And so for every thought. I …
1929 · PDF PAGE 459
…were children of circumstance, belief in whose absolute ethical value merely masked the face of truth and prevented them from perceiving nature, they were simply shocked. They had never inquired why any given virtue should be valid. The same of course applied to the question of creed. Even those who wandered from teacher to teacher were fanatically convinced that their momentary cult was perfect at every point. I could not persuade them that their admitted fickleness was evidence that their present creed reflected a mere mood. My real fear for …
1915 · PDF PAGE 6
powers outnumbering her by six to one, sought to keep open a path to raid that universal base of operations? Even the stolid Teuton nature must tire of the per- petual squeeze of Russia, the spurs of the French chan- ticleer struck even and anon in his hide. Agadir was a fresh humiliation; for a few acres of uninhabitable jungle on the Congo he had to surrender all interest in Morocco, a country he had nursed for years. It is still a diplomatic secret, and I must not betray it. But who financed Italy in her Tripolitan adventure, and why? Austri…
1954 · PDF PAGE 183
…the act of brushing one's hair. The point is that one trains oneself to react properly at any moment of surprise. It must become "second nature" for
1929 · PDF PAGE 313
… The arrogance of the proposition was less repugnant to me than its confession of incompetence and its denial of the continuity of {511} nature. I have devoted countless days and nights to forcing myself to formulate the intuitions of trance in intelligible ideas, and conveying those ideas by means of well defined symbols and terms. At the period I am describing, such an effort would have been bricks without straw. My truly mystical experiences were extremely few. I have subsequently developed a complete system, based on the Cabbala, by which a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
… that the stars also have tribes and nations. The letter of a star is but the totem thereof. And the letter repre- senteth not the whole nature of the star, but each star must be known by itself in the wisdom of him that hath the Cyno- cephalus in leash. And this pertaineth unto the grade of a Magus,—and that is beyond thine. (All this is communicated not by voice, or by writing; and there is no form in the stone, but only the brilliance of the Table. And now I am withdrawn from all that, but the Rosy Cross of 49 petals is set upright upon the …
1919 · PDF PAGE 110
…will. Do that, and no other shall say nay.” Write it also in your heart and in your brain: for this is the key of the whole matter. Here Nature herself be your preacher: for in every phe- nomenon of force and motion doth she proclaim aloud this truth. Even in so small a matter as driving a nail into a plank, hear this same sermon. Your nail must be hard, smooth, fine-pointed, or it will not move swiftly in the direc- tion willed. Imagine then a nail of tinder-wood with twenty points—it is verily no longer a nail. Yet nigh all mankind are like u…
1919 · PDF PAGE 130
…n the Book of the Thirty 7Athyrs Evil appears as Choronzon whose number is 333, which in Greek importeth Impotence and Idleness: and the nature of Cho- ronzon is Dispersion and Incoherence. Then in the Way of Love Evil appears as “all that which tends to prevent the Union of any two things.” Thus the Book of the Law sayeth, under the figure of the Voice of Nuit: “take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me.” For every act of Love must be “under Will,” that is, in accordance with the True Wil…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…e has chosen to call — the Moral code ; notwithstanding the fact that it is not based in any way on the perceptions he has obtained from Nature's code as it now is reflected , but on that re flection which was obtained by his ancestors , a far less worthy appreciation . And in this inherent con servativeness and horror of change lie most of the tragedies of love ; for man trying to quench the natural flame of his desires in a torrent of chilly and criminal atavism , merely floods the virtuous path ,
1913 · PDF PAGE 504
…operations of that bank which we call life. To think nothing, to love nothing, to wish for nothing, to do nothing —that is the real sin. Nature only recognizes and rewards workers. The human will develops itself and increases itself by its own activity. In order to will truly, one must act. Action always dominates inertia and drags it at its chariot wheels, This is the secret of the influence of the alleged wicked over the alleged good. How many poltroons and cowards think themselves virtuous because they are afraid to be otherwise ! 206