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…ght ! Such an one wrote that work as I would meet, Lay my lifes burden at his silver feet, Have him give ear if I say Master. Yea ! I know no heaven, no honour, half so sweet ! He passed before me on the wheel of Time, He who knows no Timethe intense sublime Master of all philosophy and play, Lord of all love and music and sweet rime.
… in The Book of the Law: To me! For until thou love, the Play of Love is but Emptiness; and its cruelty is Cruelty indeed, except thou know it to be but a Sauce to whet Appetite, and to give Emphasis of Contrast, as a Painter dimmeth the Light by Cunning of his Shadows. But all this Delight that thou mayst have of the Universe both in its Veils and in its Nakedness is a Reward of thine Attainment of Truth, and followeth after it. Nor canst thou comprehend this Doctrine by Mind, for the Division in thee crieth aloud in its Agony, denying it, u…
THE SWORD OF SONG 28 You know for me the soul is nought36 Save a mere phantom in the thought, That thought itself impermanent, Save as a casual element With such another may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity, But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state. (Ask chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same37 Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like : I find it wea…
…ord: Olympus in a nutshell! | Jdave a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true } In short, the mind is capable, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty other things as well, The first of which is concentration ! Here most philosophers agree ; Does truth Claim that the truth must so intend, make itself in- aes _ stanily appa- Explain at once all agony rent? Not Of doubt, make people comprehend reason.
…to theistic churches was threatened not from the atheistical extremity , but from the Agnostic frontier . The Agnostic said , “ I do not know ," the theist said , “ I do," hence the uninterrupted warfare of 3,000 years or more , in which the priest has ever been ready to lie for the greater glory of his God , as S'afi well said : Then speak the truth , if so a priest May tune his tongue to anything but lies .' And of the gods of this greater glory , Amenhatep a few lines further on informs us : 1 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 142 . T
…you have experi enced . You can never experience until you have got beyond reason . Those five paths lead us to one road , the road of “ Knowledge and Doubt " ; beyond which to the inept there is impenetrable night , and to the adept undying brilliancy . “ Know or Doubt ! is the alternative of highwayman Huxley ; ' Believe'is not to be admitted ; this is a fundamental ; in this agnosticism can never change ; this must ever command our moral , as our intellectual assent. Thus Reason ends by whispering : “ I am agnostic ; I cannot answer ea or na…
…llow light (deep golden, but not l)rilliant. I mean not dazzling, but soft). Fra. P. looked like a person I had never seen but seemed to know quite well —his face, clothes and all were of this same yellow. I was so disturbed that I looked up to the ceiling to see what caused the light, but could only see the candles. Then the chair on which he sat seemed to rise; it was like a throne, and he seemed to be either dead or sleeping, but it was cer- tainly no longer Fra. P. This frightened me, and I tried to understand by looking round the room; whe…
…e, or some speculation of Heracleitus. The remoter Picay-universities of America, which teach farming or mining, with a little "useless" knowledge as a side-course, for show, are full of bumptious little professors who would not be allowed to sweep out a laboratory in London or Berlin. The ambition of such persons is to obtain an illustrated interview in a Sunday supplement, with a full account of their wonderful discoveries, which have revolutionized the art of sucking eggs. They are peculiarly severe upon back numbers like Charles Darwin. The…
…ays be with you. One day you will come to me, Esmé! Kiss me! Your kisses must finish my poem. One day your pen must finish it. ESME. You know I cannot write a line. Oh, how sorry I am for that ! PERCY [Zo VAUGHAN]. Good-bye, my dear, dear friend. Take care of Esmé for me. [ shall watch over her myself, I and God together. She is so frail and white, and she understands. She sees my soul, and IIeaven is always open to her eyes when she looks up, and she is so beautiful. Will it seem Jong, Esmé, till we kiss again beyond the moon there—it is the m…
… write it. [P.S.-But I do so, though less possibly, as I read] As I am really awake, I may as well do a little Prana- yama. How little I know of magic and the conditions of success! My 17 cycles of breath were not absolutely easy; yet I did them. After a big dinner!!! The sweating was quite suppressed, in spite of the heat of the night and the exercise ; and the first symptoms of the Bhuchari-Siddhi—the “jumping about like a frog" ——were well marked. I am encouraged to spend a few minutes (still in Asana) reading the Shiva Sanhita. Asana very pa…
…, master I ” “You never will, I think. Ο generation of vipers! Ο prosy princoxl Ο coxcomb of Kafoozelum I " ”I beg your pardon, sirl You know she failed in the abyss?" “ I? You? This is intolerable. Give me mere Hafiz! Here, thickheadl she was your mistress, I suppose? Most women in Paris seem to be.” 146
…, master I ” “You never will, I think. Ο generation of vipers! Ο prosy princoxl Ο coxcomb of Kafoozelum I " ”I beg your pardon, sirl You know she failed in the abyss?" “ I? You? This is intolerable. Give me mere Hafiz! Here, thickheadl she was your mistress, I suppose? Most women in Paris seem to be.” 146
50 we do perceive that one is bigger than the other. That is the fact of practical importance. We do know that persons can be trained to do things which they could not do without training —and anyone who remarks that you can- not train a person unless it is his destiny to be trained is quite unpractical. Equally it is the destiny of the trainer to train. There is a fallacy in the determinist argument similar to the fallacy which is the root of all " systems " of gambling at Roulette. The odds are just over three to one against red coming up twi…
…with Delight to the Perfection of Truth, it is no Odds from what Thought thou makest the first Leap in thy Meditation, so hat thou mayst know how every Road endeth in Monsalvat, and the Temple of the Sangraal. n
…and I beheld in one moment all the mystic visions in one ; and the Holy Graal appeared unto me, and many other inexpressible things were known of me. Also I was given to enjoy the subtle Presence of my Lord interiorly during the whole of this twelfth day. Then Ι besought the Lord that He would take me into His presence eternally even now. But He withdrew Himself, for that I must do that which I was sent hither to do; namely, to rule the earth. Therefore with sweetness ineffable He parted from me ; yet leaving acomfort not to be told, aPeace . .…
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH So for every known fact that concerns one—and all known facts concern one, if only to ask, “‘ Why do I know this fact ?” How does it all fitin? It must, for the Universe is not insane—that blackness has been passed. Who then am I? And why? And why? Reaching ecstasy or Samadhi through this channel, the riddle of Kamma is answered, and one is able to enter the realm of pure consciousness. The Universe, mastered long ere now in its effects, is at last mastered in its causes; and it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who c…
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH So for every known fact that concerns one—and all known facts concern one, if only to ask, “‘ Why do I know this fact ?” How does it all fitin? It must, for the Universe is not insane—that blackness has been passed. Who then am I? And why? And why? Reaching ecstasy or Samadhi through this channel, the riddle of Kamma is answered, and one is able to enter the realm of pure consciousness. The Universe, mastered long ere now in its effects, is at last mastered in its causes; and it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who c…
…of the poetic ambition in any stage short of acclaimed success — all these have ever belonged to the witling 's stock -in -trade , and I know no part of it more cheaply come by. You will find it very nobly and disdainfully assigned its proper value in the opening page or two of Dryden 's famous Essay of Dramatic Poesy . In that little masterpiece , Dryden deliberately lays his scene , choosing an occasion which , more than any in his time , might seem to justify the vulgar con tempt of poetry as a mere frill and accessory upon human affairs : '…
…herland. It is the thought of the poor man who works to support his wife and children. Let us pray in silence; let us raise toward our unknown Father a look of confidence and of love; let us accept with faith and resignation the part which He assigns to us in the toils of life, and every throb of our hearts will be a word of prayer! Have we need to inform God of what we ask from Him? Does not He know what is necessary for us? If we weep, let us offer Him our tears; if we rejoice, let us turn towards Him our smile; if He smite us, let us bow the…
…herland. It is the thought of the poor man who works to support his wife and children. Let us pray in silence; let us raise toward our unknown Father a look of confidence and of love; let us accept with faith and resignation the part which He assigns to us in the toils of life, and every throb of our hearts will be a word of prayer! Have we need to inform God of what we ask from Him? Does not He know what is necessary for us? If we weep, let us offer Him our tears; if we rejoice, let us turn towards Him our smile; if He smite us, let us bow the…