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Page 69 of 741939 · PDF PAGE 26
…e has his own path. So the Niyama which corresponds to this planet is, first and last, the discovery of the True Will. This knowledge is secret and most sacred; each of you must incorporate for yourself the incidence and quality of Herschel. It is the most important of the tasks of the Yogi, because, until he has achieved it, he can have no idea who he is or where he is going. 18. Still more remote and tenuous is the influence of Neptune. Here we have a Niyama of infinite delicacy, a spiritual intuition far, far removed from any human quality w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…de, strange avatars In all the skies, Ill. One way sets free. That way is not to tread Through fire or earth or spirit, air or sea. That secret is not gathered of the dead. One way sets free. Not to desire shall lead to mot to be. There is no hope within, none overhead, None by the chance of fate’s august decree. It is a path where tears are ever shed. There is no joy—is that a path for me? Yea ! though F track the ways of utmost dread, One way sets free. IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH.} I SAw in a trance or a vision the web of the ages unfurle…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…ing, And hamadryad of the trees, And naiad of the sleepy lake, That watched us on the mossy leas Look on each other’s face, and take The secret of the universe To sleep with us : you knew, and I, The purport of the eternal curse, The ill design of destiny. You know, and I, O living head Of love! the things that were not said. 1 The BuddGhist '‘ Skandhas.”” See ‘' Science and Buddhism,” vol. ii. p. 244.
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…with the ecstasy of blood. Dear love, dear wife, dear mother of the child Whose fair faint features are a match for mine, Lurks there no secret where your body smiled, No serpent in the generous draught of wine? Did I guess all, who guessed your life well given Up to my kiss? Aha! the veil is riven! Beneath the smiling mask of a young bride Languorous, luscious, melancholy-eyed ; Beneath the gentle raptures, hints celestial Of holy secrets, kisses like soft dew, Reneath the amorous mystery, I view The surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, A p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…I returned to England sometime later, after "passing the chair" in my Lodge, and wishing to join the Royal Arch, called on its venerable Secretary. I presented my credentials. "O Thou Great Architect of the Universe," the old man sobbed out in rage, "why dost Thou not wither this impudent impostor with Thy fire from heaven? Sir, begone! You are not a Mason at all! As all the world knows, the people in Z--- are atheists and live with other men's wives." I thought this a little hard on my Reverend Father in God, my proposer; and I noted that, of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
TANNHAUSER 261 That glowed with most internal brilliance ; Borne up, borne up by hands invisible Into a firmament of secret light Manifest, open, permeating me ! Then, then, I cried upon the mystic Word ! (That once begot in me the Venusberg) And lo! that light was darkness—in the , face Of That which gleamed above. And verily My life was borne on the dark stream of death Down whirling aeons, linked abysses, columns Built of essential time. © And lo! the light Shed from Her shoulders whom I dimly saw ; Crowned with twelve stars and horndd as th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…ld palace where the sea-winds rest, And hurl him ravening on the breaking foam ; ‘To find the Spirit in his glimmering home And draw his secret from unwilling lips ; To master earthquake, and the dread eclipse ; To dominate the red volcanic rage ; To quench the whirlpool, conquering war to wage Against all gods not wholly made as ye, O patient, and O marvellous! I see, I see before me an archangel stand, Whose flaming scimitar, a triple brand, Quivers before him, whose vast eyebrows bend, A million comets: for his locks extend A million flashin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…hadowy bending to the first sweet kiss That surely could not end, though earth should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no long…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…ian plain! Is there one lesson to be learned From this my voluntary pain, My dread initiation, long Desired and long deferred? Is he the secret of the song, Portent of triumph or disaster The Master— - 1 Intended as the prologue to a history of an initiate in Semiedramatic form, The night wind breathes upon the air Still shimmering from the fearful heat ? Can I still trust who have learned to dare? All others I have known effete, Bid them await. Who knows to-day The purpose of the dread essay? Surely I, earlier, further fared ! I knew the deed …
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…ap; before it stands the Himalayan goat, with an eye in the cen‐ tre of his forehead, representing the god Pan upon the highest and most secret mountains of the earth. His creative energy is veiled in the symbol of the Wand of the Chief Adept, crowned with the winged globe and the twin serpents of Horus and Osiris. 1The Early Christians also were accused of worshipping an Ass, or ass‐headed god. See Browning, The Ring and the Book (The Pope). “Hear me, Lord of the Stars, For thee have I worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With jo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
…f the Grand Master, but not the one you know. Upon the cross are the Dove, the Hawk, the Serpent and the Lion. Also, one symbol yet more secret. Now I behold fiery swords of light. All this is upon a Cosmic scale. All the distances are astronomical. When I say “Sword”, I have a definite consciousness of a weapon many millions of miles in length”.
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
…I have, that a Man must first be Initiate, and established in Our Law, before he may use this Method. For in it is an Implication of our Secret Enlightenment, concerning the Universe, how its Nature is ut‐ terly Perfection. Now every Thought is a Separation, and the Medicine of that is to marry Each One with its Contradiction, as I have shewed formerly in many Writings. And thou shalt clap the one to the other with Vehemence of Spirit, swiftly as Light itself, that the Ecstasy be Spon‐ taneous. So therefore it is expedient that thou have travel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 571
…a man suddenly came forward precisely fitted to undertake the organization required. I say suddenly, for he had steadfastly resisted the Secret Chiefs for years. His soul was torn by an earthquake and he broke with his past ruthlessly, devoting himself wholly to the Great Work from that hour henceforth. The work of the abbey was described by the 51st hexagram "Kan". The first month indicates anxiety mingled with cheerful intercourse with friends. Till the last week in October I was worried indeed, but meeting many pleasant people and enjoying a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…orth1 and to this practical problem. I took all the mystical and magical practices of all religions all over the world, and those of the secret teachers and associations to which I had access. I have little hesitation in saying that I have not omitted any practice of importance. I stripped these methods of all their dogmatic top-hamper, all their racial and climatic limitations, and all the complications which had been introduced in the course of time or through the idiosyncrasies of their inventors. I further freed them from the weight of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
… for the neophyte ritual, so that the last spark of interest is extinct for ever. Mathers, of course, carried on; but he had fallen. The Secret Chiefs cast him off; he fell into deplorable abjection; even his scholarship deserted him. He published nothing new and lived in sodden intoxication till death put and end to his long misery. He was a great man in his way. May he have expiated his errors and resumed his labours, with the advantage of experience! Summer was now at hand and the wanderlust reasserted itself in me. There was no point in my …
1929 · PDF PAGE 572
…ly. She suddenly took fright and cured herself by switching over, first to injections of morphia, and then to plain alcohol. She made no secret of this, and I admired her immensely for her frankness about it and her superb courage in curing herself. She was a charming child, tender and simple of soul. Yet with all that, Raoul should not have married her. It meant the sterilization of the genius of success in life. Already the evil effects were manifest. His university career was closed. The friends who might have helped him refused to succour a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…n the thick forest. And this is the mystery of Dionysus Zagreus, that is celebrated upon the holy mountain of Kithairon. And this is the secret of the brothers of the Rosy Cross; and this is the heart of the ritual that is accom‐ plished in the Vault of the Adepts that is hidden in the Mountain of the Caverns, even the Holy Mountain Abiegnus.
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
…o complicate the question. 3. Early astronomers calculated that the Sun took 360 days to go round the Zodiac. This was a closely guarded secret of the learned; so they concealed it in the divine name Mithras, which adds up, according to the Greek Convention (M 40—I 10—Th. 9—R 100—A 1—S 200) to 360. Better observation showed 365 days to be more accurate; so they decided to call it “Abraxas” (A 1—B 2—R 100—A 1—X 6o—A 1—S 200). When the others found this out they put themselves right by altering the spelling of Mithras to Meithras, which adds (lik…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…ult in youth, awake At the first touch of the diviner air Of manhood, that could bane and blessing make, The Lord of Life and Death, the secret of the Snake. The snake of Egypt hath a body twin ; It hath bright wings wherewith it well can fly ; It is of virtue and of bitter sin; It beareth strength and beauty in its eye ; Beneath its tongue are Hate and Misery ; Love in its coils is hidden, and its nature Is double everyway ; dost wonder why The poet worships every scaléd feature, And holds him lordliest yet of every kingly creature ?? Sir Perc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 460
…ibition was put over by every unscrupulous trick against the will of the people. Today, we see the Ku Klux Klan attempting to impose, by secret society methods of anonymous menace backed by boycott, arson and assassination, the ideals of a clique; and nearly {728} as noxious are the arrogant aims and brutal tactics of Catholics and freemasons. In their own way capital and labour are influenced by the same idea, that of imposing a rigid and uniform rule on the entire community regardless of local conditions or any other considerations which migh…