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…pirit opposed to that of Christ. It is the usurpation of right for the sake of right; it is the pride of domination and the despotism of thought. It is the selfishness, self-styled religious, of Protestants, as well as the credulous and imperious ignorance of bad Catholics. The Antichrist is what divides men instead of uniting them; it is a spirit of dispute, the obstinacy of theologians and sectarians, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and excluding others from it, or of forcing the whole world to submit to the narrow y…
1913 · PDF PAGE 336
…pirit opposed to that of Christ. It is the usurpation of right for the sake of right; it is the pride of domination and the despotism of thought. It is the selfishness, self-styled religious, of Protestants, as well as the credulous and imperious ignorance of bad Catholics. The Antichrist is what divides men instead of uniting them; it is a spirit of dispute, the obstinacy of theologians and sectarians, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and excluding others from it, or of forcing the whole world to submit to the narrow y…
1919 · PDF PAGE 392
…turneth whence it came. The Open PATH leads to the changeless change—Nirvéna, the glori- ous state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. 78. Thus, the first Path is LIBERATION. 79. But Path the second is RENUNCIATION, and therefore called the “Path of Woe.” There is far too much emotionalism in this part of the treatise, though perhaps this is the fault of the language; but the attitude of contemplating the sorrow of the Universe eternally is unmanly and unscientific. In the practical at- tempt to aid suffering, the consciousness of th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 175
…re really one, not two, the line vestigate the By which divide they and define fundamental necessities of Being a shadowy sort of test ; thought. A verbal lusus at the best, At worst a wicked lie devised To bind men’s thoughts ; but we must work With our own instruments, nor shirk Discarding what we erstwhile prized ; Should we perceive it disagree With the first-born necessity. I come to tell you why I shun Impermanence The sight of men, the life and fun of the soul. You know I can enjoy so well, The Nature that I love as none (I think) before…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
…sdom and Perfect Happiness ! I hope (by the way) that I have made it quite clear that all this time even a momentary cessation of active thought has been accompanied by the rising-up of the mantra. The rhythm, in short, perpetually dominates the brain ; and becomes active on every opportunity. The liquid Moslem mantra is much easier to get on to than is the usual Hindu type with its 1% and n sounds predominating: but it does not shake the brain up so forcibly. Perhaps ’tis none the worse {or that. I think the unconscious training of the brain t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…e real Devil of the Operation must be sitting with sardonic grin upon his face, enjoying my perplexity For that Dweller-of-the—Threshold-thought was not as dead as I supposed ; as Iwrite he comes again and again, urging me to quit the Path, to abandon the unequal contest. Luckily, friend Dweller, you prove too much 1 Your anxiety shows me that I am not as far from attainment as my own feelings would have me think. At least, though, I am thrown into the active again ; I shall rise and chant the Enochian Calls and invoke the Bornless One, and cle…
1909 · PDF PAGE 68
…immediately evident that if I am to render myself at all intelligible to English readers, a totally new system of classification must be thought out. The classical Eight Jhanas will be useless to us; the Hindu system is almost as bad; the Qabalistic requires a preliminary knowledge of the Tree of Life whose explanation would require a volume to itself; but fortunately we have, in the Buddhist Skandhas and the Three Characteristics which deny them, a scheme easily assimilable to Western psychology. In “Science and Buddhism” I dealt in some detai…
1909 · PDF PAGE 242
…od. ‘Ah! the world, the world ... the failure of the world.” And then an amber light surged round him, the fearful tapestry of torturing thought was rent asunder, the voices of many angels sang to him. ‘Master! Master!” he cried, ‘I have found Thee . . . O silver Christ. . . .” Then all was Nothingness . . . nothing... nothing... nothing; and madly his horse carried him into the night. Thus he set out on his mystic quest towards that goal which he had seen, and which seemed so near; and yet, as we shall learn, proved to be so far away. In the f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 68
…immediately evident that if I am to render myself at all intelligible to English readers, a totally new system of classification must be thought out. The classical Eight Jhanas will be useless to us; the Hindu system is almost as bad; the Qabalistic requires a preliminary knowledge of the Tree of Life whose explanation would require a volume to itself; but fortunately we have, in the Buddhist Skandhas and the Three Characteristics which deny them, a scheme easily assimilable to Western psychology. In “Science and Buddhism” I dealt in some detai…
1909 · PDF PAGE 242
…od. ‘Ah! the world, the world ... the failure of the world.” And then an amber light surged round him, the fearful tapestry of torturing thought was rent asunder, the voices of many angels sang to him. ‘Master! Master!” he cried, ‘I have found Thee . . . O silver Christ. . . .” Then all was Nothingness . . . nothing... nothing... nothing; and madly his horse carried him into the night. Thus he set out on his mystic quest towards that goal which he had seen, and which seemed so near; and yet, as we shall learn, proved to be so far away. In the f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 404
…the bodies submitted to the action of man, and can, by concentrating itself, again draw them to him. It can take all the forms evoked by thought, and, in the transitory coagulations of its radiant particles, appear to the eyes; it can even offer a sort of resistance to the touch. But these manifestations and uses of the plastic medium being abnormal, the luminous instru- ment of precision cannot produce them without being strained, and there is danger of either habitual hallucination, or of insanity. Q. What is animal magnetism ? A. The action …
1913 · PDF PAGE 404
…the bodies submitted to the action of man, and can, by concentrating itself, again draw them to him. It can take all the forms evoked by thought, and, in the transitory coagulations of its radiant particles, appear to the eyes; it can even offer a sort of resistance to the touch. But these manifestations and uses of the plastic medium being abnormal, the luminous instru- ment of precision cannot produce them without being strained, and there is danger of either habitual hallucination, or of insanity. Q. What is animal magnetism ? A. The action …
1919 · PDF PAGE 381
…is wanted is the actual balance of the week. The reader is most strongly urged not to permit himself, to indulge in fantastic flights of thought, which are the poi- son of the mind, because they represent an attempt to run away from reality, a dispersion of energy and a corruption of moral strength. His business is, firstly, to know himself; secondly, to order and control himself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic lines little by little. The rest is only leather and Prunella. There is, however, a sense in which the service of human- …
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
THE SWORD OF SONG 38 Destroying passion, feeling, thought, The very practice you have sought Unconscious, when you work the best, I carry on one step firm-pressed Further than you the path, and you For all my trouble, comment : “True ! “Auto-hypnosis. Very quaint !”53 No one supposes me a Saint—54 Some Saints to wrath would be inclined With such a provocation pecked ! But I remember and reflect That anger makes a person blind, And my own “Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. But then you argue…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
THE EQUINOX disturbing thoughts which analyse the very process itself. Harder to destroy are they than the others, since they come no longer from memory or physical conditions, but from the practice itself, so that they cannot be shut off, but must needs be faced and conquered directly. In the mystic world, we come to those strange meta- physical ecstasies which (I am convinced) lie behind many philosophical dogmas. St. Athanasius had probably experienced something of this type when he penned his insane creed. So the Hindus with their attempts …
1909 · PDF PAGE 386
…vable creatures, so handsome and graceful, so perfect in all their proportions, my pity was set in motion ; and soon love was to follow, thought I. Though of a slightly dark complexion, they were none the less remarkably pretty, and very near the finest type of white womanhood. Alas! their beauty was a trap, their sweet voices were meant to delude me; the sirens had been sent by those who could not but mean persecution against me. I found this out as soon as I understood them. They wanted my flowers. With a supple and harmonious gesture, they s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
THE EQUINOX disturbing thoughts which analyse the very process itself. Harder to destroy are they than the others, since they come no longer from memory or physical conditions, but from the practice itself, so that they cannot be shut off, but must needs be faced and conquered directly. In the mystic world, we come to those strange meta- physical ecstasies which (I am convinced) lie behind many philosophical dogmas. St. Athanasius had probably experienced something of this type when he penned his insane creed. So the Hindus with their attempts …
1909 · PDF PAGE 386
…vable creatures, so handsome and graceful, so perfect in all their proportions, my pity was set in motion ; and soon love was to follow, thought I. Though of a slightly dark complexion, they were none the less remarkably pretty, and very near the finest type of white womanhood. Alas! their beauty was a trap, their sweet voices were meant to delude me; the sirens had been sent by those who could not but mean persecution against me. I found this out as soon as I understood them. They wanted my flowers. With a supple and harmonious gesture, they s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 339
…or all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” And they thought that he blasphemed. No; but the energy of his faith overflowed in inexact and imprudent words. He said again in the madness of his wounded charity: “The liabilities of all men are common, and they expiate each other’s faults, as they make merit for each other by their virtues. “The penalty of sin is death. “Sin itself, moreover, is a penalty, and the greatest of penalties. A great crime is nothing but …
1913 · PDF PAGE 339
…or all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” And they thought that he blasphemed. No; but the energy of his faith overflowed in inexact and imprudent words. He said again in the madness of his wounded charity: “The liabilities of all men are common, and they expiate each other’s faults, as they make merit for each other by their virtues. “The penalty of sin is death. “Sin itself, moreover, is a penalty, and the greatest of penalties. A great crime is nothing but …