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Page 61 of 1081903 · PDF PAGE 12
…as two tails” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs, that “ Absence-of-cat possesses two tails” but that “In the category of two-tailed things, there is no extension of cat.” Nothingness is that about which no positive pro- position is valid. We cannot truly affirm : ‘Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let us call time, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. “ If a man be heavy and hungry, he is extended in all these, besides, of course, many more. But let us suppose that these five are all. Call the man X; his formula is the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
… antithesis implied, The irony, the curse-fruition, The calm assumption of Hell’s fevers As fit, as just, for unbelievers— These are the things that stick beside And hamper my quite serious wish To harbour kind thoughts of the “Fish.”58 Here goes my arrow to the gold ! I’ll make no magpies ! Though I hold Your Christianity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most immoral and absurd —(A priest’s invention, in a word)— Of all religions, I have hope In the good Dhamma’s59 wider scope, Nay, certainty ! that all at last, However came they in the past,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…ing of the dawn , Slowly , and to his steps took little heed ; He came towards the pool , his god -wrought reed Shrilling dim visions of things glorious , And saw the maiden , that disported thus , And worshipped. . . ? As Percy , “ a moment , and he flashed towards her side. " He clasps her to his breast , kisses her , is dis mayed : Her perfect eyelids drooped , her warm cheek paled, A tear stole over it.3 He is tender , pitiful, this is no Angela . My perfect love, O love ! for strange and dread Delights consume me ; I am as one dead Beating…
1910 · PDF PAGE 283
…m in the presence of his followers, “ Hail! Pythagoras.” Frequently, while in the power of the hasheesh delirium, have I heard inanimate things sonorous with such voices. On every side they have saluted me, from rocks, and trees, and waters, and sky, in my happiness filling me with intense exultation as I heard them welcoming their master; in my agony heaping nameless curses on my head as I went away into an eternal exile from all sympathy. Of this tradition of Jamblichus I feel an appreciation which almost convinces me that the voice of the ri…
1910 · PDF PAGE 283
…m in the presence of his followers, “ Hail! Pythagoras.” Frequently, while in the power of the hasheesh delirium, have I heard inanimate things sonorous with such voices. On every side they have saluted me, from rocks, and trees, and waters, and sky, in my happiness filling me with intense exultation as I heard them welcoming their master; in my agony heaping nameless curses on my head as I went away into an eternal exile from all sympathy. Of this tradition of Jamblichus I feel an appreciation which almost convinces me that the voice of the ri…
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
…ton to the sun, and the wind must tear thy petals from thee, and the bee must rob thee of thy honey, and thou must fall into the dusk of things. Amen and Amen. Verily the light is hidden, therefore he who hideth himself is like unto the light; but thou openest thyself; thou art like unto the darkness that bindeth the belly of the great goddess.* OLAHO VIRUDEN MAHORELA ZODIREDA! ON PIREDA EXENTASER; ARBA PIRE GAH GAHA GAHAL GAHALANA VO ABRA NA GAHA VELU- CORSAPAX. And the voice of the aeon cried: Return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 89
…is the know- ledge of the Aeons, and of aya. And to each shall it be given according to his capacity. (He has been saying certain secret things to the unconscious mind of the seer, of a personal nature.) Now a voice comes from without: And lo! I saw you to the end. And a great bell begins to toll. And there come six little children out of the floor of the chariot, and in their hands is a veil so fine and transparent that it is hardly visible. Yet, when they put it over the Cup, the Angel bowing his head reverently, the light of the Cup goes out…
1913 · PDF PAGE 300
…ion, honour—are sentiments essen- tially religious. The cult of the fatherland and of the family, fidelity to an oath and to memory, are things which humanity will never abjure without degrading itself utterly, and which could never exist without the belief in something greater than mortal life, with all its vicissitudes, its ignorance and its misery. If annihilation were the result of all our aspirations to 2
1913 · PDF PAGE 300
…ion, honour—are sentiments essen- tially religious. The cult of the fatherland and of the family, fidelity to an oath and to memory, are things which humanity will never abjure without degrading itself utterly, and which could never exist without the belief in something greater than mortal life, with all its vicissitudes, its ignorance and its misery. If annihilation were the result of all our aspirations to 2
1919 · PDF PAGE 84
… music of the lutes was stilled. 25. But Thou art Eternity and Space; Thou art Matter and Motion; and Thou art the negation of all these things. 26. For there is no Symbol of Thee. 78
1919 · PDF PAGE 363
…ble truth: “Everything is sorrow,” and he has learnt that there is no such thing as separate existence. Existence is one. He knows these things as facts, just as he knows that two and two make four. Consequently, although he has found the way of escape for that fraction of consciousness which he once called “I,” and although he knows that not only that consciousness, but all other consciousnesses, are but part of an illusion, yet he feels that his own task is not accomplished while there remains any fragment of con- sciousness thus unemancipate…
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
…age of Our Father the Sun, the Unity Creative. The Signification of this Mystery is hat the Adept must be Whole, Himself, containing all Things in true Proportion, before he maketh himself Bride of the One Universal Transcendental, in its most Secret Virtue. And now herefore, o my Son, comprehending this Mystery by thine Intelligence, I will write further unto thee of these your Beasts of Power. f
1961 · PDF PAGE 200
…e Might to accom- plish all Works soever, yet these are inoperative save as they are able to use a Machine which is of the same Order of Things as the Effect required. As the best Swordsman hath Need of a Sword, so hath every magician of a Body and Mind capable to the Work that he willeth; and he can do nothing, save it be proper to his Nature. d
1907 · PDF PAGE 268
…ages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law ? Their death embrace A simple accident of space ? ? “ In the category of existing things , space being infinite , for on that hypothesis we are still working , either matter fills or does not fill it . In the former , matter is infinitely great ; if the latter , infinitely small . Whether the matter -universe be 1010000light -years in diameter , or half a mile , it makes no difference ; it is infinitely small-in effect , Nothing. " : In the first case being infinitely great all else is crow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…ry is pure as the Sun: it spreads its veil of light over the errors of humanity. Woe to him who would lift the veil in order to perceive things ugly! The Council of Trent decided that it was permissible for wise and prudent persons to read the books of the ancients, even those which were obscene, on account of the beauty of the form. A statue of Nero or of Heliogabalus made like a masterpiece of Phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work ?—and would not he deserve the execration of the whole world who would propos…
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…ry is pure as the Sun: it spreads its veil of light over the errors of humanity. Woe to him who would lift the veil in order to perceive things ugly! The Council of Trent decided that it was permissible for wise and prudent persons to read the books of the ancients, even those which were obscene, on account of the beauty of the form. A statue of Nero or of Heliogabalus made like a masterpiece of Phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work ?—and would not he deserve the execration of the whole world who would propos…
1906 · PDF PAGE 178
…Buddha, fleeing The dreadful problem with the word ‘* Who answers, as who asks, hath erred,” I must decidedly insist On asking why these things exist. My mind refuses to admit All-Power can be all-Wickedness. —Nay! but it may! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What thoughts invade, insult, impress? There comes a lightning of my wit And sees—nor good nor ill address Itself to task, creation’s ill, But a mere law without a will,” Nothing resolved in something, fit Phantom of dull stupidity, And evolution’s endless stress All the in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 184
…nd averages, Are the results of meditation due to auto- hypnosis ? So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer ®!—test its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. ‘ O God,” I prayed, “‘ for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times--what a thumping trout ! (Thi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
…ontent, as if some great thing had indeed happened. But if I lost consciousness— a thing no man can be positive about from the nature of things—it must have happened so quietly that I never knew. Certainly I should not have thought that I had gone on for 25 minutes, as I did. But I do indeed ask for a Knowledge and Conversa- tion of the Holy Guardian Angel which is not left so much to be inferred from the good results in my life and work; I want the Perfume and the Vision. . . . Why am I so materially wallowing in grossness.> It matters little;…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…awn of consciousness till now as a gigantic “ pose ” ; my very love of truth assumed for the benefit of my biographer I All these strange things suffered and enjoyed for no better purpose than to seem a great man. One cannot express the horror of this thought; it is The thought that murders the soul—and there is no answer to it. So universal is it that it is impossible to prove the contrary. So one must play the man, and master it and kill it utterly, burying it in that putrid hell from which it sprang. Luckily I have dealt with it before, Once …