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Page 64 of 1211909 · PDF PAGE 69
…o one of pure con- sciousness (Vififianam). The rose and the observer and their tendencies and relations have somehow vanished. The phenomenon (not the original phenomenon, “a rose,” but the phenomenon of the tendency to perceive the sensation of a rose) becomes a cloudless light; a static, no longer a dynamic conception. One has somehow got behind the veil of the universe. Here live the mystic and the true artist. The Buddhist, however, does not stop here; for he alleges that even this consciousness is false; that like all things it has the Th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX There is one local story which stands out from the rest, in that it contains a song by the animal : A band of North Uist men slaughtered a number of seals on the Heisker rocks, and brought them to the main island, They were spread out in a row on the strand. One of the party was left in charge of them over night. To vary the monotony of his vigil he wandered a little distance away from the row of dead seals. When sitting under the shelter of a rock he beheld coming from the sea a woman of surpassing beauty, with her rich yellow tres…
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
…o one of pure con- sciousness (Vififianam). The rose and the observer and their tendencies and relations have somehow vanished. The phenomenon (not the original phenomenon, “a rose,” but the phenomenon of the tendency to perceive the sensation of a rose) becomes a cloudless light; a static, no longer a dynamic conception. One has somehow got behind the veil of the universe. Here live the mystic and the true artist. The Buddhist, however, does not stop here; for he alleges that even this consciousness is false; that like all things it has the Th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX There is one local story which stands out from the rest, in that it contains a song by the animal : A band of North Uist men slaughtered a number of seals on the Heisker rocks, and brought them to the main island, They were spread out in a row on the strand. One of the party was left in charge of them over night. To vary the monotony of his vigil he wandered a little distance away from the row of dead seals. When sitting under the shelter of a rock he beheld coming from the sea a woman of surpassing beauty, with her rich yellow tres…
1913 · PDF PAGE 340
…s the most sacred and the strongest bond of human association, and to perform an act of religion is to perform an act of humanity.” When men understand at last that one must not dispute about things about which one is ignorant, When they feel that a little charity is worth more than much influence and domination, When the whole world respects what even God respects in the least of His creatures, the spontaneity of obedience and the liberty of duty, Then there will be no more than one religion in the world, the Christian and universal religion, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 340
…s the most sacred and the strongest bond of human association, and to perform an act of religion is to perform an act of humanity.” When men understand at last that one must not dispute about things about which one is ignorant, When they feel that a little charity is worth more than much influence and domination, When the whole world respects what even God respects in the least of His creatures, the spontaneity of obedience and the liberty of duty, Then there will be no more than one religion in the world, the Christian and universal religion, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 28
…bark Lingers, we raise no silk to meet the gale. The bank slips by ; we gather not its fruit. We plant no seed, we irrigate no root True men have planted ; and the tare and thorn Spring to rank weedy vigour ; poisons shoot Into the overspreading foliage ; So as days darken into weary age The flowers are fewer ; the weeds are stronger born, And hands are grown too feeble to assuage Their venom ; then, the unutterable sea ! Is she green-cinctured with the earlier tree Of life ? Do blossoms blow, or weeds create A foul rank undergrowth of misery ?…
1913 · PDF PAGE 347
… is obscene when one exhibits them. Husbands, hide your domestic wounds; do not strip your wives naked before the laughter of the mob! Women, do not advertise the discomforts of the conjugal bed: to do so is to write yourselves prostitutes in public opinion. It needs a lofty degree of courage to keep conjugal faith; it isa pact of heroism of which only great souls can under- stand the whole extent. Marriages which break are not marriages: they are couplings. A woman who abandons her husband, what can she be- come? She is no more a wife, and she…
1913 · PDF PAGE 347
… is obscene when one exhibits them. Husbands, hide your domestic wounds; do not strip your wives naked before the laughter of the mob! Women, do not advertise the discomforts of the conjugal bed: to do so is to write yourselves prostitutes in public opinion. It needs a lofty degree of courage to keep conjugal faith; it isa pact of heroism of which only great souls can under- stand the whole extent. Marriages which break are not marriages: they are couplings. A woman who abandons her husband, what can she be- come? She is no more a wife, and she…
1954 · PDF PAGE 513
…n the slime and came down with a thud; and at the end blood spurted from innumerable bites. The whole scene was too much for most of the men; they Ii terally howled like famished wolves, and shook the balustrade until it creaked and groaned. Presently one slipped over, let himself lightly to the floor and charged. Others followed . All had their heart's desire. I was reminded of Swinburne's Laus Veneris: I let mine eyes have all their will of thee I seal myself upon thee with my might. As for the women, the ferocious glitter of their eyes was a…
1903 · PDF PAGE 10
…or both conceive of a previous and eternally existing God, though the Qabalists hedge by describing this latent Deity as “Nor”. Later commentators, notably the illustrious MacGregorMathers, have explained this Not as Snegatively-existing”. Profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom I am proud to have been permitted to call my master, I am bound to express my view that when the Qabalists said Not, they meant Not, and nothing else. In fact, I really claim to have re-discovered the long-lost and central Ar…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
10.55. I L10. 11.17. 11.35. 22 THE EQUINOX Having written the above, I shall rest for a few moments to try and get rid of my headache. A good simile (by the way) for the Yogi is to say that he watches his thought like a cat watching a mouse. The paw ready to strike the instant Mr. Mouse stirsi I have chewed a Gaufrette and drunk a little water, in case the headache is from hunger. (P.S.—It was so; the food cured it at once.) I now lie down as Hanged Man and say mantra in Visuddhi. I must really note the curious confusion in my mind between the …
1912 · PDF PAGE 83
…e swayed by anything thus authoritative and distinct. History is full of stories of officers who have walked unarmed up to a mutinous regiment, and disarmed them by the mere force of confidence. The power of the orator over the mob is well known. It is, probably, for this reason while that the prophet has been able to constrain mankind to obey his law. It never occurs to him that any one can do otherwise. In practical life one can walk past any guardian, such as a sentry or ticket-collector, if one can really act so that the man is somehow persua…
1913 · PDF PAGE 381
…ernal principles of Nature; but the worship necessitated by the needs of man may change, and modify itself, parallel with the changes in men themselves. This signifies that the worship itself is immutable, but modifies itself as language does. Worship is a form of instruction; it is a language; one must translate it when nations no longer understand it. G2 83
1913 · PDF PAGE 381
…ernal principles of Nature; but the worship necessitated by the needs of man may change, and modify itself, parallel with the changes in men themselves. This signifies that the worship itself is immutable, but modifies itself as language does. Worship is a form of instruction; it is a language; one must translate it when nations no longer understand it. G2 83
1928 · PDF PAGE 111
My profession of painter impels me to look attentively at every face which I see in the course of the day, and you know well what en- joyment we draw from this faculty which ren- ders life more living and significant to our eyes than it is for other men. In the retired district where I dwelt, and where broad brass-covered spaces still separate the buildings, I often saw a child whose eager and merry face attracted me at the first glance more than did that of anyone else. He had posed more than once for me, and I have turned him at one time into…
1961 · PDF PAGE 211
…urse. Verily, o my Son, it is well written in the Book of the Magus that it is he Curse of my Grade that I must needs preach my Law unto Men. For I am afflicted in my Tabernacle on this Count, but in my Self, I rejoice, and join in the Laughter of Her love. o
1910 · PDF PAGE 45
…very comfortable—and lonely. He pursued his education, often troubled by horrid visions, when he saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, around, and beneath him. They re- minded him of the terrible prediction of the French poet, who showed the two sexes dying away, irrevocably parted, La femme ayant Gomorrhe et l’homme ayant Sodome.* All the Messalines and Circes of an impure sex were * Alfred de Vigny: “Colére de Samson.” IV c 33
1910 · PDF PAGE 45
…very comfortable—and lonely. He pursued his education, often troubled by horrid visions, when he saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, around, and beneath him. They re- minded him of the terrible prediction of the French poet, who showed the two sexes dying away, irrevocably parted, La femme ayant Gomorrhe et l’homme ayant Sodome.* All the Messalines and Circes of an impure sex were * Alfred de Vigny: “Colére de Samson.” IV c 33
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…llum of perfection in any work. The perfect lover is calm and equable ; storms of thunder, quakings of the earth, losses of goods, punishment from great men, none of these things cause him to rise from his divan, or to remove the silken tube of the rose-perfumed huqqa from his mouth. I can even take pleasure with Laila, O no longer jealous one ! When thou wast away from me, I was unable to regard her or her companions (the thunder-smitten bitches2 !) without excessive sick- ness. It was for thy sake, o mischievous one ! that I caused the eunuch…