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Page 66 of 921954 · PDF PAGE 75
…Nothing; A is less likely to create internal conflict. Will that serve? Offer a dog a juicy bone, and a bundle of hay; he will naturally take the bone, whereas a horse would choose the hay. So, while you happen to imagine yourself to be a Fair Lady seeking the Hidden Wisdom, you come to me; if you thought you were a Nigger Minstrel, you would play the banjo, and sing songs calculated to attract current coin of the Realm from a discerning Public! The two actions are ultimately identical-see AL, I: 22-and your perception of that fact would make y…
1954 · PDF PAGE 108
…he poison in its foulest and most virulent form only entered with Christianity.1 But even so, few men of any real eminence were found to take the axioms of pessimism seriously. Huxley, for all his harping on the minor key, was an eupeptic Tory. The culmination of the Black philosophy is only found in Schopenhauer, and we may regard him as having been obsessed, on the one hand, by the despair born of that false scepticism which he learnt from the bankruptcy of Hume and Kant; on the other, by the direct obsession of the Buddhist documents to whic…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
…nd, the will, the consciousness. Let him continue this with unremitting ardour, searching Nature, leaving nothing out. 28. Next, let him take one of the immédiate causes of his position, and trace out its equilibrium. For example, the will. What détermines the will to aid in holding the body erect and motionless ? 29. This being discovered, let him choose one of the forces which determined his will, and trace out that in similar fashion; and let this process be continued for many days until the inter- dependence of ail things is a truth assimil…
1996 · PDF PAGE 108
…himself. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. Commentary: Drunkenness is a curse and a hindrance only to slaves. Shelley’s couriers were “drunk on the wind of thei…
1922 · PDF PAGE 71
…not worth living!” “Ever try it?’’ 1 asked, and delayed the answer with a kiss. | When the worst was over, she told me that she had only taken it once, and then, in a very minute dose, which had had no effect on her as far as she knew. “That’s all right,” I said, from the height of my superior knowledge. “It’s all a question of estimating the physiological dose. It’s very fine indeed. The stimulation is very much better than that of morphine. One gets the same intense beatific calm, but without the languor. Why, Lou, darling, you’ve read De Qui…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
… enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the présent by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and shew him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.” Dr. J. G. FRAZER, «The Golden Bough “So far, therefore, as the public profession of magic has been one of the roads by which men hâve passed to suprême power, it has cont…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…ith, let us say, the Cup, we assure ourselves that the métal has never been employed for any other purpose — we smelt virgin ore, and we take ail possible pains in refining the métal — it must be chemically pure. To sum up this whole matter in a phrase, every article employed is treated as if it were a candidate for initiation; but in those parts of the ritual in which the candidate is blindfolded, we wrap the weapon in a black cloth 2. The oath which he takes is replaced by a “charge” in similar terms. The details of the préparation of each we…
1929 · PDF PAGE 245
…eping things sacred unto me." One day, to my amazement, having gone into the bathroom to bathe, I discovered a beetle. As I have said, I take no interest in natural history and know nothing of it. But this beetle attracted my attention at once. I had never seen anything like it before. It was about an inch and a half long and had a single horn nearly as long as itself. The horn ended in a small sphere suggestive of an eye. From the moment, for about a fortnight, there was an absolute plague of these beetles. They were not merely in the house, t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 98
…AE. | | Good Heracles ! Not all men owe thy strength —— ACTUS SECUNDUS. ARGO ARGUS. — Nay, let him try! ARGus the son of PHRIXUS, JASON, Take my toy hammer ! HERACLES, CASTOR, POLLUX, THE- SEUS, ORPHEUS. Chorus of Heroes. Chorus of Shipbuilders. SCENE: 472 open place near Lolchus. CHORUS OF SHIPBUILDERS. THE sound of the hammer and steel ! The song of the level and line! The whirr of the whistling wheel ! The ring of the axe on the pine! The joy of the ended labour, As the good ship plunges free By sound of pipe and tabor To front the sparkling…
1954 · PDF PAGE 79
…ably Reality. Yet we cannot confirm it; for it can never happen again precisely the same. What is even more bewildering is that since it takes time for the eye to convey an impression to the consciousness (it may alter in 1,000 ways in the process!) all that really exists is a memory of the Point-Event , not the Point-Event itself. What then is this Reality of which we are so sure? Obviously, it has not got a name, since it never happened before, or can happen again! To discuss it at all we must invent a name, and this name (like all names) can…
1954 · PDF PAGE 444
…n the dawn of speech. Even to-day children seem instinctively to say "Dad" for "Father," though no allowance can be made for cases of mistaken identity. And the most ancient Father-Gods of the oldest and simplest civilizations are thus named. In Sumer, He was AD, or ADAD, whence the later Egyptian Hadit, and the Semitic Adonai. (There are also words like AVO, the creative Magick.) So also the Greeks in Syria knew Adonis, and the Latin Deus is itself the general word for God. Again, Valhalla houses Odin, Woden; and there are others. When the den…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…milar in numerous subtle and deep-seated ways. The general point of view is almost identical. The quality of the irony is the same. Both take a perverse pleasure in playing practical jokes on the reader. In one point, above ail, the identity is absolute — there is no third name in literature which can be put in the same class. The point is this: In a single sentence is combined sublimity and enthusiasm with sneering bitterness, scepticism, grossness and scorn. It is evidently the suprême enjoyment to strike a chord composed of as many conflicti…
1954 · PDF PAGE 38
…you draw represents a victory in the struggle of the whole Universe. You can't have peace without perfect mastery of circumstance; and I take it that this is what you mean by "living, not stagnant." But it is of the first consequence for you to summon up the resolution to stamp on this sea of swirling thoughts by an act of will; you must say: "Peace be still." The moment you have understood these thoughts for what they are, tools of the enemy, invented by him with the idea of preventing you from undertaking the Great Work-the moment you dismiss…
1910 · PDF PAGE 77
…ing spirit like the sun is one. 49. All this universe, moveable or immoveable, has come out of Intelligence. Renouncing everything else, take shelter of it. 50. As space pervades a jar both in and out, similarly within and beyond this ever-changing universe there exists one universal Spirit. 58. Since from knowledge of that Cause of the universe, ignorance is destroyed, therefore the Spirit is Knowledge; and this Knowledge is everlasting. 59. That Spirit from which this manifold universe existing in time takes its origin is one, and unthinkable…
1910 · PDF PAGE 77
…ing spirit like the sun is one. 49. All this universe, moveable or immoveable, has come out of Intelligence. Renouncing everything else, take shelter of it. 50. As space pervades a jar both in and out, similarly within and beyond this ever-changing universe there exists one universal Spirit. 58. Since from knowledge of that Cause of the universe, ignorance is destroyed, therefore the Spirit is Knowledge; and this Knowledge is everlasting. 59. That Spirit from which this manifold universe existing in time takes its origin is one, and unthinkable…
1922 · PDF PAGE 19
…ce. I had no idea before of the depths to which servility could descend. “ By the way, Sir Peter,’’ said Mr. Wolfe, ‘it will, of course, take a little while to settle up these matters. It’s a very large estate, very large. But I thought that with times as they are, you wouldn’t be offended, Sir Peter, if we handed you an open cheque for a thousand pounds just to go on with.” It wasn’t till I had got outside his door that I realised how badly he wanted my business. He need not have worried. He had managed poor old Uncle Mortimer’s affairs well e…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
…ed to bursting point, till he would be abjectly ridiculous if he were not so pitifully dangerous to himself and others. He also tends to take his new-found “truths of illumination” for the entire body of truth, and insists that they must be as valid and vital for ail men as they happen to be for himself. I. This corresponds to the emotional and metaphysical fog which is characteristic of the emergence of thought from homogeneity. The clear and concise différentiation of ideas marks the adult mind. — 299
1954 · PDF PAGE 370
…7 It is an essential part of the Rosicrucian system that the Adept should "wear the costume of the country in which he is travelling." I take this in the widest sense. By that word "country" I understand this planet and this social status "to which it has pleased God to call me." The Brethren of the Rose and Cross deprecated monastic life or hermit life: perhaps they thought such expedients cowardly, or at least as a confession of weakness. I agree. One ought to be able to live the normal life of a member of one's class, to all external seeming…
1996 · PDF PAGE 144
…ossible variation; we wel come every new “sport”; its success or failure is our sole test of its value. We let the hen’s queer hatching take to water, and laugh at her alarms; and we protect the “ugly duckling,” knowing that Time will tell us whether it be a cygnet. Herbert Spencer,1 inexorably condemning the Unfit to the gal lows, only echoed the High Priest who protected Paul from the Pharisees. Sound biology and sound theology are for once at one! 1 [Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), British philosopher, whose works on psychology, biology, soci…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…g the tissues foul, And the devil is gloating over her soul, ..........Rotting away! Note that the title of this poem is ironical. It is taken from a goody-goody book, popular at that time, which describes the life of traveling barnstormers and how the only hope for them was to be converted. But the irony goes somewhat deeper. It was a genuine criticism of the shallow philosophy of optimism which went with the polite Christianity of the time. I was analysing life in the spirit of Schopenhauer. I couldn't see any sense in pretending that life wa…