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Page 60 of 791907 · PDF PAGE 102
… knees My bearded head is lazily lain, Shows like some stirring of the breeze Fluctuant in the poppied grain, No more at all: the vulgar sense is slain. Of all the world alone abides The faint perfume of Patchouli, That subtle death in love ; it glides Across the opening dream, derides The fetich folly, immortality. Awake, O dream! Let distant bells And vague muezzins haunt the ear, Gaunt camels kneel by dusky wells, Imagination greyly hear : Allahu akbar! Allahu kabir ! Over inhospitable sands Let the simoom its columns spin ! In snowy vales, …
1939 · PDF PAGE 64
…f normal thought. 3. At this point we begin to see an almost insensible drawing together of the path of Yoga which is straight (and in a sense arid) with that of Magick, which may be compared with the Bacchic dance or the orgies of Pan. It suggests that Yoga is ultimately a sublimation of philosophy, even as Magick is a sublimation of science. The way is open for a reconciliation between these lower elements of thought by virtue of their tendency to flower into these higher states beyond thought, in which the two have become one. And that, of c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…. "The lawyer, like what's his name pursuing [88] Priam, was close on the heels of the Poltergeist — 'jam, jam' as used by Vergil in the sense of prolonging the suspense — at last he made one grab in empty air. He overbalanced; must have touched the lamp-shade, I suppose — for a shower of prawns fell upon us like the gentle rain from heaven, blessing both him that gives and him that takes. "And oh! those spirit prawns were beautiful upon the table-cloth; for each had a bunch of blue ribbon, blue ribbon, to tie up its bonny red hair. I had not m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
…ers ; if not, he was a credulous fool ; not the one man of his time, not a “debauched genius” (for Sir R. Burton in this phrase has in a sense antici- pated my discovery) but a mere Elizabethan. This the greatest poet of all time ? T hen we must believe that Gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, “M y lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” —but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX says. He does not understand it, but he is not alone in this. Few understand the Qabalah; and therefore few talk sense about the Pentateuch. We recommend Duff, D.D., to study “A Note on Genesis” in vol. i, No. 2, THE EQUINOX, after which if he still considers it “ fancied” we shall be ready to discuss it with him. B. RASHITH. THE SACRED Sports OF Siva. Printed at the Hindu Mission Press. Annas 8. The editor in his preface does not see the objection to Gods and especially to Siva holding sports, neither do we. But you must play squar…
1910 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX says. He does not understand it, but he is not alone in this. Few understand the Qabalah; and therefore few talk sense about the Pentateuch. We recommend Duff, D.D., to study “A Note on Genesis” in vol. i, No. 2, THE EQUINOX, after which if he still considers it “ fancied” we shall be ready to discuss it with him. B. RASHITH. THE SACRED Sports OF Siva. Printed at the Hindu Mission Press. Annas 8. The editor in his preface does not see the objection to Gods and especially to Siva holding sports, neither do we. But you must play squar…
1954 · PDF PAGE 289
… the Spiritists when Zancig confessed that his music-hall exploits· were accomplished by means of a code. It is quite useless to get any sense whatever into the heads of these bigoted imbeciles. 2. The date of the prophecy must antecede that of its fulfilment. The very greatest care must be taken to ensure this. When both dates are remote, as in the case of "fulfilled" Biblical prophecies, this is often impossible. 3. The prophecy must be precise. This rules out cases where alternative verifications are possible. 4. The prophecy must be more th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 71
…ance, And holy and tuneful like some stately psalm. Her breath was like a grove of myrrh and balm, And all the sight grew dim Lefore the sense Of blind attraction toward; an influence Not incompatible with her own calm. 1.Circe, who dwelt on the island of Aeaea, transformed men into swine. VOL, II. All the red roses of the world were blended To give the lively colour of her face ; All the white lilies of the sea shone splendid Where the blue veins afforded them a space ; Like to the shapely fragrance of dawn’s shrine She gleamed through mist, e…
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
…emonstrated. The nearest I can get to the meaning of Niyama is 'virtue'! God help us all! This means virtue in the original etymological sense of the wordthe quality of manhood; that is, to all intents and purposes, the quality of godhead. But since we are translating Yama 'control,' we find that our two words have not at all the same relationship to each other that the words have in the original Sanskrit; for the prefix 'ni' in Sanskrit gives the meaning of turning everything upside down and backwards forwards,as you would say, Hysteron Prot…
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
…aints who are capable of love for an idea as such without it being otherwise than degraded by idolising it, to use this Word in its true sense. Thus one may be impassioned of beauty, without even the need of so small a concrétion of it as “The beauty of Apollo”, the “beauty of roses”, the “beauty of Attis”. Such persons are rare 5 it may be doubted whether Plato himself attained to any vision of absolute beauty without attaching to it material objects in the first place. A second class is able to contemplate ideals through this veil 5 a third c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…nd of longing ! O the anguish born in a breast unlovered ! Women, wail the face of a God uncovered, Brain dead and breath dumb! Wail the sense of infinite ardours thronging Fast and fast and faster athwart the heaven, Keen as light and cruel as fire, as levin Swift and as death dumb! Freedom, rapture, victory, fill the chorus, Dying, ever dying, among the billows ; Whispered, ever whispered among _ the willows :— Pour the libation ! Now springs up a notable age. Adore us Masters now of music above his magic, Lords of change, leaps pastoral up t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 81
82 The Law is for All thought flashed into my mind that after all the bag was in one sense a part of myself. The two ideas came together with a snap, and I understood the machinery of a man’s delusion that he is a teapot. These two examples may give some idea to the reader of the light which mystical attainment throws upon the details of the working of the human mind. Further developments of this vision emphasized the iden tity between the Universe and the mind. The search for simi les deepened. I had a curious impression that the thing I was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…never be able to command perfect service unless he has expérience of such necessary work, mastered during his early training. 2. In this sense especially: any one thing in volves, and is involved in, others apparently altogether alien. 63 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 73
…ication in “Liber XV” (the O.T.O. Gnostic Mass). See Works Cited.] Therefore, the Love that is Law is no less Love in the petty personal sense; for Love that makes two One is the engine whereby even the final Two, Self and Not-Self, may become One, in the mystic marriage of the Bride, the Soul, with Him appointed from eternity to espouse her; yea, even the Most High, God All- in-All, the Truth. Therefore we hold Love holy, our heart’s religion, our mind’s science. Shall He not have His ordered Rite, His priests and poets, His makers of beauty i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…so, the Gods arisen from the living Lights of the sky, half hidden in the night, Vast shapes beholden of men unbelieving, Staggering the sense and reason with the sight, Manifold, mighty, monstrous, no light giving Unto the soul that is not also light ; We rise in ghastly power; we know the token, © The speech of silence and the song unspoken. ORPHEUS., Come forth to the sound, Ye lustres of years That hide in profound Abysses of fears, Hidden and bound ! The voice of tears Implores and impels ye, O lustres, with a tune that is strong as a seer…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…he Macrocosm. To separate oneself from others is to destroy oneself; the way to realize and to extend oneself is to lose that self — its sense of separateness — in the other. Thus: Child plus food: this does not preserve one at the expense of the other; it “destroys” or rather changes both in order to fulfil both in the resuit of the operation — a grown man. It is in fact impossible to preserve anything as it is by positive action upon it. Its integrity demands inaction; and inaction, résistance to change, is stagnation, death and dissolution d…
1905 · PDF PAGE 254
…#xit TANNHAUSER. Am I still dreaming? It was surely he. But such an one, compact of suffering, Ofjoy, of love, of pity, of despair; Half senseless, half too subtle for my sense. WOLFRAM. He has passed through some unimagined test, Or undergone some sorrow. Leave it so! I saw high grief upon him, and new love ! ~“ TLEINRICH. You are the poet! To your instinct then ! Here's to the insight given us by God! LANDGRAVE. Wolfram is right ; a truce to jest to-day, The dogs are loose. Ride forward, gentle- men! [Amid the winding of horns and cries of th…
1939 · PDF PAGE 39
…e to be classed as related to one or more of these elements for convenience in certain operations. But these four letters, though in one sense they represent the eternal framework, are not, so to speak, original. For instance, when we place Tetragrammaton on the Tree of Life, the Ten Sephiroth or numbers, we do not include the first Sephira. Yod is referred to the second, He to the third, Vau to the group from 4 to 9, and Hé final to the tenth. No. 1 is said to be symbolised by the top point of the Yod. It is only in No. 10 that we get the mani…
1905 · PDF PAGE 51
…ed upon the wheel Of this vast scheme of stars, and made Him mirth In the poor dreams of us Who strive mysterious To pierce the bands of sense, and break the eirth Of our own minds’ desire, Till He relume the fire Lost at our fall, not kindled fresh till that diviner birth, IN NEVILLE’S COURT, TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. J THINK the souls of many men are here Among these cloisters, underneath the spire That the moon silvers with magnetic fire ; But not a moon-ray ts it, that so clear Shines on the pavement, for a voice of fear It hath, mocks My…
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…] "I'm over here to buy Italy. Bowling bought Belgium, you know, some time back. He was thick with Leopold, but the old man had too much sense to deal. He knew he would be the first to go smash when the war came. But Albert pocketed the good red gold without a second thought; that's partly what the trouble is over. Germany found out about it." "And why buy Italy? To keep Austria busy, I suppose? These Wops can hardly hope to force the line, especially with the Trentino Salient on the flank." "That's the idea. It would have been better and cheap…