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…ces of that decade of Pythagoras, which is so magnificently applied in the Sepher Yetzirah to the complete and absolute notion of divine things, that decade composed of unity and a triple ternary which the Rabbis have 1 In this joke, Levi indicates that he really knew the Great Arcanum; but only those who also possess it can recognize it, and enjoy the joke—O. M. 192
…up towards it like a comet, dressed in long white robes, with a flashing scimitar in my hand. “ After much peril, on account of suns and things very hot and glowing, through which I sped, I arrived there safely, on the shore of a lake, upon which was floating a boat in which stood a man. “On seeing me, he cried out: ‘Who art thou ?’ “And having explained to him, he brought his boat close enough to the shore to enable me to spring into it. This I did, whereupon he seized the oars and rowed speedily into the darkness beyond. ; “«Shall I soon see …
…up towards it like a comet, dressed in long white robes, with a flashing scimitar in my hand. “ After much peril, on account of suns and things very hot and glowing, through which I sped, I arrived there safely, on the shore of a lake, upon which was floating a boat in which stood a man. “On seeing me, he cried out: ‘Who art thou ?’ “And having explained to him, he brought his boat close enough to the shore to enable me to spring into it. This I did, whereupon he seized the oars and rowed speedily into the darkness beyond. ; “«Shall I soon see …
…swer me that? Myst. A woodcock to mine own springe, indeed. I am justly caught with mine own metaphysic. 1 The science of the Purpose of Things. Certain of : Scept. Throw metaphysic to the dogs! I'll none of it. I will resolve it to you, then, on your own principles. The term, so con- stantly in use, or rather abuse, by your de- votees as by ours, is meaningless. All they can mean is a state of consciousness which is never changed—that is, one unit of time, since time is no more than a succession of states of consciousness, and we have no means…
… all is freed, And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things ! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed : I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading.) “But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed As a mere mirage in the mind, Up jumps free will.” But all I’m pleading Is against pain and hell. Freewill Then can damn man ? No fearful mill, Grinding catastrophe, is speeding Outside—some whence, some whither ? And67 I think we easier understand Where Schel…
…ce of poetic or otherinfluence. But this is my sheet—anchor: I cannot write a lie, either in poetry or about magic. These are the serious things that constitute my per- sonality; and I could more easily blow out my brains than write a poem which I did not feel. The apparent exception is in case of irony. [P.S. I wonder whether it would be possible to draw up a mathematical table, showing curves of food (and
…word naked is not in the vocabulary of the fashionable dressmaker; besides which, the word is improper. We know that there are no such things! So that even if a dawning perception of the meaning of the prophet strikes the more enlightened minds, it is often put aside with a sort of horror; although that word has been awaited with yearning and anxiety. Now it must be confessed that this objection does to some extent apply to the writings which we have under consideration. Mr. Stuarts style is as difficult as Wagners or Whistlers were to the…
Nevertheless, forget not that this practice is dangerous, and may cause the manifestation of evil things, hostile and malicious, to thy great hurt. 45. Concerning a further sacrifice. — Of this it shall be under- stood that nothing is to be spoken; nor need anything be spoken to him that hath wisdom to comprehend the number of the para- graph. And this sacrifice is fatal beyond all,unless it be a sacrificium indeed. Yet there are those who hâve dared and achieved thereby. 46. Concerning yet a further sacrifice. — Here it is spoken of actual mut…
…f externality, or no;1 whether or no we fly to the extrem e idealistic position; there is no question that, to our normal consciousness, things as they present themselves—apart from obvious illusion, if even we dare to except this—are undisprovable to the immediate apprehen- sion. Whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as through Berkeley had never lived, and the herculean Kant had been strangled while yet in his cradle by the twin serpents of his own perversity and termi- nology. What criterion shall we apply to the relative realiti…
…mos; and, in particular, to man.? IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteristics (which we may predicate of all known existing things): (a) Change. Anikka. (6) Sorrow. Dukkha. (c) Absence of an Ego. Anatta. 1 Change is the great enemy, the immediate cause of pain. Unable to arrest it, I slow the process, and render it temporarily painless, by eating. This is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat really in order to check change, or to maintain my ego- consciousness? Changel desire, for my present condition is Sorro…
…, if pushed to its logical extreme , passes into pantheism pure and simple ; and thus through object ing to Locke's primary qualities as things in them selves , Berkeley returns , through the objection , back to the causa sui , or better , ratio sui of Spinoza , the spiritual twin of Locke . I have taken some little trouble to arrive at this one isolated conclusion , that the Realism of the scholastic philosophers , the materialism of the classical and modern sages , and also , if we choose to extend our scheme , Nominalism , Conceptualism , Th…
…wledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its Works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature j they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.” The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. “Wherever sympathetic magic occurs in its pure unadulterated form,…
…o 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,40 Nothing resolved in something, fit Phantom of dull stupidity, And evolution’s endless stress All t…
…nward malice in the gizzard. The path is easy, I suppose, for such an one to play the wizard. In any case he took the risk, and left off things like soap and eating, Till he could give the world a bisque, ten spells in thirty, and a beating. Well, at the age of eighty-eight he found himself the One-horse Wire For the Iehannum Maiden Plate—by Satan, out of Lake 0’ Fire. So, calling Iblis of the jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the …
…our is necessarily of higher type than this shadowy form-world. Mistake on this point has led many a student astray. Highest among these things are the three visual and seven auditory phenomena of Yoga. (We omit consideration of the other senses; the subject requires a volume.) These are referred to the Sun, the Moon, and Fire; and their appearance marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to…
…our is necessarily of higher type than this shadowy form-world. Mistake on this point has led many a student astray. Highest among these things are the three visual and seven auditory phenomena of Yoga. (We omit consideration of the other senses; the subject requires a volume.) These are referred to the Sun, the Moon, and Fire; and their appearance marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to…
…INOX diet is defined to mean taking pleasant and sweet food, leaving one fourth of the stomach free, and offering up the act to Shiva.”* Things that have been once cooked and have since grown cold should be avoided, also foods containing an excess of salt and sourness. Wheat, rice, barley, butter, sugar, honey and beans may be eaten, and pure water and milk drunk. The Yogi should partake of one meal a day, usually a little after noon. ‘Yoga should not be practised immediately after a meal, nor when one is very hungry; before beginning the pract…
…INOX diet is defined to mean taking pleasant and sweet food, leaving one fourth of the stomach free, and offering up the act to Shiva.”* Things that have been once cooked and have since grown cold should be avoided, also foods containing an excess of salt and sourness. Wheat, rice, barley, butter, sugar, honey and beans may be eaten, and pure water and milk drunk. The Yogi should partake of one meal a day, usually a little after noon. ‘Yoga should not be practised immediately after a meal, nor when one is very hungry; before beginning the pract…
…urn through the grey city in the old and desolate land; I will cleanse it from its great impurity. “And thou, O prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 53
…een the personal progress of the man, and his progress in relation to his in- carnations. It cannot be too clearly understood that these things are altogether different. Blavatsky’s attempt to mix up Hin- duism and Buddhism is productive of constant friction. The first Path in Dhyana has nothing whatever to do with being a Srotapatti. It is perfectly clear that you could be Master of all the eight Jhanas with no more hope of be- coming a Srotapatti than a Pwe-dancer. However, this is an extremely poetical description of what happens on the seve…