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Page 68 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 70
…trikingly similar symbols. F. Vau the Sun — Son. He is supposed to be mortal ; but how is this shewn? It seems an absolute perversion of truth: the sacred symbols hâve no hint of it. This lie is the essence of the Great Sorcery. Osirian religion is a Freudian phantasy fashioned of man’s dread of death and ignorance of nature. The partheno- 1. Her sole speech in the last Act is “Dienen: Dienen ”. 2. Note that alî these three remain for a time as neuters among women, prevenled from living the male life.
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…over, the existence of certain previously unsuspected éléments in nature. Ail discussions upon philosophy are necessarily stérile, since truth is beyond language. Tliey are, liowever, useful if carried far enough — if carried to the point when it becomes apparent that ail arguments are arguments in a circle. * But discussions of the details of purely imaginary : qualifies are frivolous and may be deadly. For the great danger of this magical theory is that the student may mistake the alphabet for the things which the words represent. An excellen…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…ecessary as it was in the first part of the work. In setting up the figure, bias would beget a Freudian phantasm to replace the image of truth which the figure ought to be; and it is not too much to say that the entire subconscious machinery of the body and mind lends itself with horrid willingness to this ape- like antic of treason. But now that the figure stands for judgment, the same bias Vvouid tend to form its phantasm of wish-fulfilment in a different manner. It would act through the mind to bewray sound judgment. It might, for example, i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 179
… the first essential to make sure of his integrity. Accordingly you begin by asking his name. This is vital; because if he tells you the truth , it gives you power over him. But if, on the other hand , he tells you a lie, he abandons for good and all his fortress. He becomes rather like a submarine whose base has been destroyed. He may do you a lot of mischief in the meantime , of course , so look out! Well then, he tells you that his name is Ottilia. Shall we try to spell it in Greek or in Hebrew? By the sound of the name and perhaps to some e…
1996 · PDF PAGE 104
…the relation. This path, the “Way of the Tao,” is perfectly proper to all men. It does not attempt either to transcend or to tamper with Truth; it is loyal to its own laws, and therefore no less perfect
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…se banks have no flowers, Whose waves have no suns. Sheer to the terror Of heaven, the walls Strike ; and the mirror Of water recalls No truth, but dim error. The soul of me falls Down to the glamour Of dream ; and fear Beats like a hammer. Ilere ! it is here! Lost are my friends ; The elements shrink Where the life-world ends On the icy brink Of the sunless river ; Inds, and for ever ! I pass to the portals Of death in my flight. I sound at the gates. I call the immortals Of death and of night. I call on the Fates By the summons of light. The …
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…h it replaces and from which it was developed: the word AUM. The word AUM is the sacred Hindu mantra which was the suprême hieroglyph of Truth, a compendium of the Sacred Knowledge. Many volumes hâve been written with regard to it j but, for our présent purpose, it will be necessary only to explain how it came to serve for the représentation of the principal philosophical tenets of the Rishis. of classifying observed facts. One is reminded of the Democracy, who, on being informed by the Minister of the Interior that the scarcity of provisions w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
… to set up one class of ideas against another as being "more real”. The advance of man towaids God is not necessarily an advance towards truth. Ail philosophical Systems hâve crumbled. But each class of ideas possesses true relations within itself. It is possible, with Berkeley, 1 to deny the existence of water and of wood; but, for ail that, wood fioats on water. The Magician becomes identical with the imrnor- tal Osins, yet the Magician dies. In this dilemma the facts must be restated. One should preferably say that the Magician becomes tonsc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…this, excluding ail error, both question and answer are limited in validity by their own conditions 3 and these conditions are such that truth may cease to be true, either as time goes on, or if it be flawed by the defect of failure to considei some circum- stances whose concealed operation cancels the contract. In a word, divination, like any other science, is justified of its children. It would be extraordinary should so fertile a mother be immune from still-births, monstrosities, and abomons. We none of us dismiss our servant science with a …
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…to them, then to analyse them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them if they are really harmful in relation to health or comfort. Also, our sélection of “evils” is limited to those that cannot damage us irreparably. E.g., 011e ought to practise smelling assafoetida until one likes it ; but not arsine or hydrocyanic acid. Again, one might hâve a liaison with an ugly old woman until one beheld and loved the star which she is;…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…the life Of the flowers renew, The victorious strife Of the spring run through, The child’s birth rife With loftier dew— I know the deep truth in myself; see acacia in cypress and yew.
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
…le is exactly that: you are pushing too hard. Your mind runs back to AL, I: 44; you realize (again!) that any result actually spoils the Truth and Beauty of the Act of Will; it is almost a burden, even an insult. Rather as if I risked my life to save yours , and you tipped me half-a-crown! Here's that Book of Lies popping out its ugly mug again: "Thou hast become the Way." This is why the Ankh or "Key of Life" is a sandal-strap, borne in the hand of every God as a mark of his Godhead: a God is one who goes. (If I remember rightly, Plato derives…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
… vitality of slavery or Delphi? Yes, perhaps, when Simon Legree and the Pythoness were actually making money, but to argue their eternal truth, or even their value at that time, is a further and a false step. Does the fact that a cobra is alive prove it tobe innocuous? With the reported murder of Jesus of Naza- rethI am not concerned; but Vespasian’s ‘*Ut puto Deus fio” is commonly thought to have been meant as a jest. Our Romanticist’s unique and magnificent dramatisation of the war between the sceptic or lover of truth, and the religious man …
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…od forces the King it has imprisoned to assent to its edicts, even to believe that his interests are those of his oppressor, and to fear Truth as once Jehovah did the Serpent. 1 [Mark 9:44, paraphrase; see also Isaiah 66:24.] 2 Beast-food; even The New York Times of November 13, 1918 E.v. has it. [This issue announced the end of World War I, giving casualty totals. At the back is a six-line item reporting the massacre of Arme nians by the Turks, the first wholesale ethnic genocide of the century.] 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! Co…
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
…lute. Ta-lirra-lirra ! TANNHAUSER. These were the melodies that I despised ! Oh God! Be merciful to sinful me, And keep me in the Way of Truth. But Thou! Forgive, forgive ! Light! Lead, lead me to Thy SHEPHERD-BOY (szzgs). Light in the sky Dawns to the East ! Song-bird and beast Wake and reply. Let me not die, Now, at the least ! Lord of the Light ! Queen of the dawn! Soul of the Night Hid and withdrawn ! Voice of the thunder ! Light of the levin ! I worship and wonder, O maker of Heaven! The night falls asunder; The darkness is riven ! Light, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 319
…...The twin fiends "Might-have-been" and "Should-have-done". ........Keep us, by Jesu's ruth, ........What time the King-Ghost grins the truth! The King-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature; ....For in this pool of tears his fingers fret I had imagined, by enduring nature, ....The twin gods "Thus-will-I" and "May-be-yet". ........God, keep us most from ill, ........What time the King-Ghost grips the will! Silver and rose and gold what flame resurges? ....What living light pours forth in emerald waves? What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges? {…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…urk stammering out an appeal for pardon, the other laughing off his embarrassment. "But you are ill, Cyril!" cried Sister Cybele. And in truth the boy could hardly stand. "Action and reaction are equal and opposite," explained Simon Iff, cheerily. "You will sleep, Brother Cyril, and you will then pass seven days in meditation, in one of the high trances. I will see to the extension of your leave." "There is a meditation," said Cyril firmly, "given by the Buddha, a meditation upon a corpse torn by wild beasts. I will take that." Simon Iff acquie…
1919 · PDF PAGE 174
THE EQUINOX Dec. 5th. More and More realization of the One Truth. THOU ART THAT. Got some idea that there was only one ‘plane’ in reality, not many. Dec. 6th, 11.22 A.M. Started Neti, Neti! again. (Very near, not quite. V.I.O.) 10.45 P.M. Oh Thou Ever-present, Eternal Silence, wherein all vanishes and emerges clothed in Bliss. I Invoke Thee. Oh Thou elusive Self of my self, Thou All, wherein all dissolves and be- comes Thy Being. I invoke Thee. Oh Thou Existence of Existences, Thou Knower of Knowledge, wherein knowledge of all else is lost. I I…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…ail that I am is not the absolute Ail, and ail my ail is mine and not another’s; mine, who conceive of others like myself in essence and truth, yet unlike in expression and illusion. I am the None, for ail that I am is the imperfect image of the perfect; each partial phantom must perish in the clasp of its coun- terpart; each form fulfil itself by finding its equated opposite, and satisfying its need to be the Absolute by the attainment of annihila¬ tion. The word, LAShTAL includes ail this. LA — Naught. ~ 335 ~
1906 · PDF PAGE 116
… pain. Vain are the little lamps of ilove ! The hight of life is vain! Life, death, Joy, sorrow, age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth. Beyond the splendour of the world,! False glittering of the gold, A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom’s sacred cold. Life is the flaming of that flame. Death is the naming of that name. 1 The theory of these verses is that of certain esoteric schools among the [Hindus.