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Page 66 of 1151913 · PDF PAGE 566
…UFFER- ING: there certainly is a programme more daring than the dream of Prometheus. Its expression is bold to the point of impiety, its thought ambitious to the point of madness. Well, this programme is only paradoxical in its form, which lends itself to a false and sacrilegious interpretation. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, creates for himself a God corresponding to his own intelligence and his own goodness; he cannot raise his …
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
…UFFER- ING: there certainly is a programme more daring than the dream of Prometheus. Its expression is bold to the point of impiety, its thought ambitious to the point of madness. Well, this programme is only paradoxical in its form, which lends itself to a false and sacrilegious interpretation. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, creates for himself a God corresponding to his own intelligence and his own goodness; he cannot raise his …
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…ure by now, I know nothing what- ever of my subject. But scientific experiment in those days was always a very prolonged operation. They thought nothing of exposing some unknown substance to the rays of the sun and moon for periods of three months at a time, in the hope that in some mysterious way the first stage of some dimly-visaged operation might be satisfactorily accomplished. And even if they sacrificed a child every day, it would have taken a matter of two and a half years to dispose of 800 children. Besides, it must have taken more than…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…in this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !)46 And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends. Division, Thought, wisdom, drop away. I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. There is a lake* amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break. Oh ! the deep brilliance of the lake ! The roar of ice that cracks and goes Crashing within the water ! Glows The pale pure water, shakes and slides The glittering sun through emerald tides, So that faint ripples of young light Laugh on the green. Is the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
…re is not the least doubt that Guru is father, Guru is mother, and Guru is God even: and as such, he should be served by all, with their thought, word and deed.t ii. Place. Solitude and Silence. The place where Yoga is performed should be a beautiful and pleasant place, according to the Shiva Sanhita.{ In the * A Guru is as necessary in Yoga as a Music Master is in Music. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iii. $ Ibid. chap. v, 184, 185. The aspirant should firstly, join the assembly of 74
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
…re is not the least doubt that Guru is father, Guru is mother, and Guru is God even: and as such, he should be served by all, with their thought, word and deed.t ii. Place. Solitude and Silence. The place where Yoga is performed should be a beautiful and pleasant place, according to the Shiva Sanhita.{ In the * A Guru is as necessary in Yoga as a Music Master is in Music. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iii. $ Ibid. chap. v, 184, 185. The aspirant should firstly, join the assembly of 74
1915 · PDF PAGE 3
…d Brahms and Straus and Wagner! In the meantime he will refrain from the wicked and unpa- triotic luxury of Vienna steak! And since Kant thought two and two make four, for all true Englishmen they must make five in future. Have Englishmen forgotten their own Royal family? The very dogs in England's court They bark and howl in German.
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
…his breast, and drink the blood Already that clots. and. stales Ere his tongue can tip its flood.” His mind had gone back to infancy. He thought that I was his mother, and came to me to be nursed. But when he came near, he recognised me and crawled away again, hurriedly, like a wounded animal trying to escape from the hunter... . Most of the time, when we have energy to talk at all, we discuss how to get more H. and C. The C. has been fmished long ago. It’s no good without the H. We could go to Germany and get it; or even to London, but somethi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 293
…ala dropped in from time to time in the course of the next five days to take us motoring, or to dinner, or the theatre, or to parties. I thought they made rather a point of keeping off the subject which was the real reason of their visits. D.D.F. T
1899 · PDF PAGE 247
…e not wholly unsweet.’ Nor shall it be, seeing how rich and melodious are many of his poems, besides being full of powerful and original thought. Their tendency is that of the occult philosophy, of a wild and lurid colouring enough it may be, but in no instance devoid of the marks of a true poetic imagination.”—The Book- seller. * A volume of very unequal verse. ‘There are exquisite stanzas here and there, and as a whole, the bookis above the average, but there are many poor pieces and many faults.” —-7e Bookman. * “¢Songsof the Spirit’ proves …
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH region of pure thought. In the case of the god Osiris, for example, he will no longer express his vision by the name Osiris or by the green face, by the white robes starred with the three active colours, by the crown and by the crook and scourge; nor will he chant wondrous hymns of the descent into Amennti, the death and resurrection of the God; but he will express all this by some pure symbol, such as the cross, the hexagram, or even the number 6. And those upon his plane will understand him. Here, too, we must class …
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH region of pure thought. In the case of the god Osiris, for example, he will no longer express his vision by the name Osiris or by the green face, by the white robes starred with the three active colours, by the crown and by the crook and scourge; nor will he chant wondrous hymns of the descent into Amennti, the death and resurrection of the God; but he will express all this by some pure symbol, such as the cross, the hexagram, or even the number 6. And those upon his plane will understand him. Here, too, we must class …
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…ke, nor ever from him brake woe-wingèd words, nor slaver of the snake. Fourth, in each noble act of life he taught crystalline vigour of thought, so in each deed he was aright ; well-wrought all the man’s work ; and fifth, this hero strife grew one with his whole life, so harmonized to the one after-end his every conscious and unconscious strain, his peace and pleasure and pain, his reflex life, his deepest-seated
1906 · PDF PAGE 187
…awhile in the caress Of that strange super-consciousness. After one memory —O abide ! Vivid Savitri lightning-eyed !— Nothing is worth a thought beside. One hint of Amrita® to taste And all earth’s wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained * His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated ‘ Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—lI have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such li…
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
…nce, quite directly and naturally. One of the matters that came up last night with Dr. R d was that of writing rubbish for magazines. He thought that one could do it in the intervals of serious work ; but I do not think that one should take the risk. I have spent these many years training my mind to think cleanly and express beautifully. Am I to prosti- tute myself for a handful of bread? I swear by Thyself, 0 Thou who art myself, that I will not write save to glorify Thee, that I will write only in beauty and melody, that I will give unto the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…come ” ; to meet him is the proof of having strayed. The Key fits the Door perfectly ; but he who is drunken on the bad wine of Sense and Thought fumbles thereat. And of course there is a great deal of door, and very little key-hole), who dost use my very love of Adonai to destroy me! Yet how shall I approach Him, if not with reverent 95
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…anal and dull; those of Hume are live and virile; there is ajoy in them greater than the joy of the Man in the Street. So too the Buddha-thought, Anatta, is a more splendid conception than the philosopher’s Dutch-doll-like Ego, or the rational artillery of Hume. This weapon, too, that has destroyed our lesser, our illusionary universes, ever revealing one more real, shall we not wield it with divine ecstasy? Shall we not, too, perceive the inter-dependence of the Questions and the Answers, the necessary connection of the one with the other, so …
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…e length. Good! then it isn’t a pendulum at all but a Mahalingam— The Mahalingam of Shiva (amo Shivaya namaha Aum !) which is all I ever thought it was; all you have to do is to keep swinging hard—I know it’s hook-swinging!—and you get there in the End. Why trouble to swing? First, because you're bound to swing, whether you like it or not; second, because your attention is thereby distracted from those lumbar muscles in which the hook is so very firmly fixed; third, because after all it’s a ripping good game; fourth, because you want to get on,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 111
…sent Manifesting Power out of which all energies arise, whether appertaining to magnetism, electricity, gravita- tion, nerve currents or thought vibrations, in fact the total forces of the Universe physical and mental. Prana, under one of its many forms,} may be in either a static, dynamic, kinetic or potential state, but, notwithstanding the form it assumes, it remains Prana, that is in common language the “ will to work” within the Akasa, from which it evolves the Universe which appeals to our senses. The control of this World Soul, this “wil…
1910 · PDF PAGE 111
…sent Manifesting Power out of which all energies arise, whether appertaining to magnetism, electricity, gravita- tion, nerve currents or thought vibrations, in fact the total forces of the Universe physical and mental. Prana, under one of its many forms,} may be in either a static, dynamic, kinetic or potential state, but, notwithstanding the form it assumes, it remains Prana, that is in common language the “ will to work” within the Akasa, from which it evolves the Universe which appeals to our senses. The control of this World Soul, this “wil…