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Page 57 of 761910 · PDF PAGE 179
…ntal Muttering. “Aum Shivayavashi” Fifteen minutes, at rate when Ajna throbs. (N.B. Of late my many years’ habit of sleeping only on the right side has vanished. I now sleep always on my left side.) Pranayama. 10. 20. 30. Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. Mantra: “ Aum Shivayavashi” Twenty minutes. I feel on the brink of something every time—Aid me, Lord Self! His Holiness the Guru Swami says: “It is not well, O child, that thou contemplatest the external objects about thee. Let rather thy Chakkras be on-meditated. Aum!” Dharana on Ajna eigh…
1996 · PDF PAGE 52
…ature of his own sov ereign soul, lawful and current coin no less than the gold talent of his neighbour. The derelict Moon has the same right to drift round Earth as Regulus to blaze in the heart of the Lion. Collision is the only crime in the cosmos. The Beast refuses therefore to assent to any argument as to the propriety of any fashion of formulating the soul in symbols of sex. A canon is no less deadly in love than in art or literature; its acceptance stifles style, and its enforcement extinguishes sincerity.
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
… the spirit of Pan; but they are twin phases of laughter. Religion is a joke. Now what is the most absurd thing in the world?" "Woman." "Right again. And therefore she is the only serious island in this ocean of laughter. While we hunt and fish, and fight, and otherwise take our pleasure, she is toiling in the fields and cooking, and bearing children. So, all the serious words are jests, [213] and all the jokes are earnest. This, oh my brother, is the key to my light and sparkling conversation." "But — " "I know what you are going to say. You c…
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…ion of nightshade for Melancholia, or of Indian hemp for Uranus. 11. Concernlng the harmony of the ceremonies: — Let ail these things be rightly considered, and at length, in language of the utmost beauty at the command of the Philosophus, accom- panied, if he has skill, by music, and interwoven, if the particular Deity be jocund, with dancing. And ail being carefully prepared and rehearsed let it be practised daily until it be wholly rhythmical with his aspirations, and as it were, a part of his being. 12. Concernlng the variety of the ceremon…
1961 · PDF PAGE 219
… PARZIVAL, der reine Thor, the True Knight that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole the Wound of Amfortas, and ordered Kundry to right Service, and regained the Lance, and revived the Miracle of the Sangral; yea also upon himself did he accomplish his Work in the End: Hochsten Heiles Wunder! Erlosung dem Erloser! This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship of this Mystery. Understand thou this, o my son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the opening of the Way …
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…back of the eyes to parallel. Everything vanishes. Dharana. Ditto. There are two noses all the time. The delusion is that you think your right eye is seeing your left nose! Pranay4ma 7 minutes 5. 10. 20; 6 minutes 10. 20, 30, Dharana on nose 9 minutes 50 seconds. I actually lost the nose on one occasion, and could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six minutes more at 10, 20.30. Forty minutes in…
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…back of the eyes to parallel. Everything vanishes. Dharana. Ditto. There are two noses all the time. The delusion is that you think your right eye is seeing your left nose! Pranay4ma 7 minutes 5. 10. 20; 6 minutes 10. 20, 30, Dharana on nose 9 minutes 50 seconds. I actually lost the nose on one occasion, and could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six minutes more at 10, 20.30. Forty minutes in…
1922 · PDF PAGE 296
…such an Asiatic cast. They certainly had. From our point of view it was simply perversity. And yet, as a rule, it seemed to work out all right in the end. But it gives one a pain in the neck to try to follow the way. his mind works. And he takes a Satanic pleasure in taking hold of one’s most obviously reasonable ideas and putting up a series of paradoxes which bewilder one with their strangeness, yet to which there seems to be no answer.
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…There is nothing to puzzle him or oppose him; so he spins out his story with careless contempt of criticism. He can always prove himself right; the Qabalah can always be stretched; and Red being so nearly Orange, which is really a shade of Yellow, and Yellow a component of Green which merges into Blue, what harm if a Fiend in Vermilion appears instead of an Angel in Azuré? The true, the final test, of the Truth of one’s visions is their Value. The most glorious expérience on the Astral plane, let it dazzle and thrill as it may, is not necessari…
1930 · PDF PAGE 118
…s” but aesroh a si siht”. To obtain this thoroughly well, practice (c) is very useful. The brain will be found to struggle constantly to right itself, soon accustoming itself to accept “esroh” as merely another glyph for “horse”. This tendency must be constantly combated. 14. In the early stages of this practice, the endeavour should be to meticulous minuteness of detail in remembering actions 3 for the brain’s habit of thinking forward will at first be insuperable. Thinking of large and complex actions, then, will give a sériés which we may sy…
1996 · PDF PAGE 141
…in some senses) to exceed in certain respects, we may be sure that he who exceeds in no respect is a mediocrity. The key of Evolution is Right Variation. Excess is evidence at least of capacity in the quality at issue. The golf teacher growls tirelessly: “Putt for the back of the hole!
1996 · PDF PAGE 26
…stinctively feels that he is the Centre of the Cosmos, and philosophers have jeered at his presumption. But it was he that was precisely right. The yokel is no more “petty” than the King, nor the Earth than the Sun. Each simple elemental Self is supreme, Very God of Very God. Ay, in this Book is Truth almost insufferably splendid, for Man has veiled himself too long from his own glory: he fears the abyss, the ageless Absolute. But Truth shall make him free!4
1996 · PDF PAGE 136
…viously a limit, where “the means” in any case are such that their use blasphemes “the end”: e.g., to murder one’s rich aunt affirms the right of one’s poor nephew to repeat the trick, and so to go against one’s own Will-to-live, which lies deeper in one’s being than the mere Will-to-inherit. The judge in each case is not ideal morality, but inherent logic. 1 [Fr., “impetuosity, ardor.”]
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…a lady of no reputation,” and says, By Gosh, king, why don't we go and give long armed Bhishma and that crowd Johnny up the Orchard? All right, saucy! says Brahmadatta, 'ow are we goin’ to cross the blooming ditch? Keep your hair on, old cock, chirps the darling of India’s teeming but unsaved population. Step aside a mo, and let the Dauntless Daisy of the Deccan Drains perform. See here, boys, I’m a—well, what a flapper grows up to be if she ’5 good l—and I’ve been a real good ’un and always given every son of a —— what ’s—tutl tut! this story i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…Mathers are examples of such victims. Neverthless, every magician must firmly extend his empire to the depth of hell. aMy adepts stand upright, their heads above the heavens, their feet below the hells.” 1 This is the reason why the magician who performs the Operation of the “Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage”, immediately after attaining to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, must evoke the Four Great Princes of the Évil of the World. “Obedience and faith to Him that liveth and triumpheth, that reigneth above yon in you…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…absolute validity in any means of mental appréhension; but unless we make these spirits of the Firmament subject unto us by establishing right relation (within the possible limits) with the Universe, we shall fall into error when we develop our new instrument of direct understanding. It is vital that the Adept should train his inteilectual faculties to tell him the truth, in the measure of their capacity. To despise the mind on account of its limitations is the most disastrous blunder; it is the common cause of the calamities which strew so man…
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
…ath, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach ! Dare I attempt the experiment ? " This sounds familiar, but, if memory serves me right, Mr Dion Clayton Calthorpe’s drama continues in this strain,—“ He carefully surveyed his ashen face in the tiny glass suspended over his washhand stand, then, with hasty, trembling fingers, he dipped his leaky shaving-brush into the icy water, and proceeded, at the ghastly hour of 6 am, To SHAVE ! ” Perhaps the {act that “ My wife was very ill " accounts for the variation Mr Stratford D. Jolly is much too…
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
…ath, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach ! Dare I attempt the experiment ? " This sounds familiar, but, if memory serves me right, Mr Dion Clayton Calthorpe’s drama continues in this strain,—“ He carefully surveyed his ashen face in the tiny glass suspended over his washhand stand, then, with hasty, trembling fingers, he dipped his leaky shaving-brush into the icy water, and proceeded, at the ghastly hour of 6 am, To SHAVE ! ” Perhaps the {act that “ My wife was very ill " accounts for the variation Mr Stratford D. Jolly is much too…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
32 KONX OM PAX Bowley. More coffee, please. I attribute the Baby to Malkuth. Mrs. Bones, may I paint the baby bright yellow all over? Heedless of Mother’s sighs and groans He painted blue the Baby Bones, in the well-known porphyrean of the late john Keats, on whom be peace. At this stage in my career—drop that silly Babu twaddle !——I offer you the following desperate alternative, greatly honoured F rater! We will go on with the Table, or I will read you my latest glorious masterpiece entitled Amath. The Hebrew for Truth, Baby! Reflect, O bat-eye…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
… head of the triangle, placing Cyril Grey and the Mahathera Phang at the other corners. Lord Antony Bowling was at his left, Lisa at his right; Morningside faced him from the base. When all were seated, Sister Cybele rose, struck a bell that stood at her hand, and said: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. O Master of the Temple, what is thy will?" Simon Iff rose in his place. "It is my will to eat and drink," said he. "Why shouldst thou eat and drink?" "To sustain my body in strength." "Why is it thy will that thy body may be sust…