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Page 69 of 1081954 · PDF PAGE 71
…lude us more and more successfully the more accurately we struggle to define their import. We might fare even worse if we tried to clear things up by making lists of events in history, tradition, or experience, and classifying this as being, and that as not being, true Magick. The borderland cases would confuse and mislead us. But-since I have mentioned history-I think it might help, if I went straight on to the latter part of your question, and gave you a brief sketch of Magick past, present, and future as it is seen from the inside. What are …
1911 · PDF PAGE 16
…ols; but by playing child’s games with symbols thou shalt never understand. Thou hast the signs; thou hast the words; but there are many things that are not in my power, who am but the warden of the 28th Aethyr. Now my name thou shalt obtain in this wise. Of the three angels of the Aethyr, thou shalt write the names from right to left and from left to right and from right to left, and these are the holy letters: The first 1, the fifth 2, the sixth 3, the eleventh 4, the seventh 5, the twelfth 6, the seventeenth 7. Thus hast thou my name who am …
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES those sublime things which we feel to be eternal, our only duties would be the enjoyment of the present, forgetfulness of the past, and carelessness about the future, and it would be rigorously true to say, as a celebrated sophist once said, that the man who thinks is a degraded animal. Moreover, of all human passions, religious passion is the most powerful and the most lively. It generates itself, whether by affirmation or negation, with an equal fanaticism, some obstinately affirming the god that they have made in the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES those sublime things which we feel to be eternal, our only duties would be the enjoyment of the present, forgetfulness of the past, and carelessness about the future, and it would be rigorously true to say, as a celebrated sophist once said, that the man who thinks is a degraded animal. Moreover, of all human passions, religious passion is the most powerful and the most lively. It generates itself, whether by affirmation or negation, with an equal fanaticism, some obstinately affirming the god that they have made in the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
…e him was a beautiful courtesan whom previously he had loved in Paris. Now, she wooed him with soft words and glances, but he knew these things for delusions of the devil, and he would not leave the circle. The demon then laughed wildly and loud. (Upon the Scribe threatening him, the Demon proceeded, after a short delay.) They have called me the God of laughter, and I laugh when I will slay. And they have thought that I could not 94
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
…mets appreciate truffles, and employ them for their purposes, but it is hogs that dig them up: it is analogically the same for plenty of things less material and less gastronomical : instincts have groping presentiments, but it is really only science which discovers. The actual progress of human knowledge has diminished by a great deal the chances of prodigies, but there still remains a great number, since both the power of the imagination and the nature and power of magnetism are not yet known. The observation of universal analogies, moreover,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
…mets appreciate truffles, and employ them for their purposes, but it is hogs that dig them up: it is analogically the same for plenty of things less material and less gastronomical : instincts have groping presentiments, but it is really only science which discovers. The actual progress of human knowledge has diminished by a great deal the chances of prodigies, but there still remains a great number, since both the power of the imagination and the nature and power of magnetism are not yet known. The observation of universal analogies, moreover,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 451
…. It is the Law of LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya’s SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of Love eternal. Here again is apparently a serious difficulty. The idea of Klesha, here identified with Love of worldly enjoyment, seems to put one back almost before the beginning. Is it now only that the almost-Arhat no longer wants to go to the theatre? It must not be interpreted in this low sense. At the same time, it is difficult to discover a sense high enough to fit the passage. With Ta…
1907 · PDF PAGE 225
…; even its Un knowability is a species of knowledge of it : and , by Savitri ! when I say real to us , I say real absolutely , since all things lie to me in the radius of my , sensorium . * To others ' is a vain phrase .". And as it has already been shown in the chain A, B, A, B, A, B, it matters not if the Materialist chooses to place his finger on A , or the Idealist on B; so in the above , Berkeley annihil ating the idea of a material substratum , at one and the same moment , unwittingly immolates his own cherished child on that same blade w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…feller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an incredibly strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intention of picturing inflicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actua…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…feller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an incredibly strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intention of picturing inflicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actua…
1910 · PDF PAGE 199
…nary, Neverrise intoconsciousness at all,being helddown by themost perfect control. Hence the blank of thought, the forgetfulness of all things, including the object. Not partaking of any character at all, are the “ meteor ” thoughts which seem to be quite independent of anything the brain could think, or had ever thought. Probably this kind of thought is the root of irrational hallucinations, e.g., “And if you’re passing, won’t you?” * * These interrupting voice suggestions have been named by P. Telephone- cross-voices on account of their clos…
1910 · PDF PAGE 267
…was morning—actually morning, and not a hasheesh hallucination. The first emotion that I felt upon opening my eyes was happiness to find things again wearing a natural air. Yes; although the last experience of which I had been conscious had seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual, I smiled on the four plain white walls of my bed-chamber, and hailed their familiar unostentatiousness with a pleasure which had no wish to transfer itself to arabesque or rainbows. It was like re- turning home from an eternity spent in loneliness am…
1910 · PDF PAGE 199
…nary, Neverrise intoconsciousness at all,being helddown by themost perfect control. Hence the blank of thought, the forgetfulness of all things, including the object. Not partaking of any character at all, are the “ meteor ” thoughts which seem to be quite independent of anything the brain could think, or had ever thought. Probably this kind of thought is the root of irrational hallucinations, e.g., “And if you’re passing, won’t you?” * * These interrupting voice suggestions have been named by P. Telephone- cross-voices on account of their clos…
1910 · PDF PAGE 267
…was morning—actually morning, and not a hasheesh hallucination. The first emotion that I felt upon opening my eyes was happiness to find things again wearing a natural air. Yes; although the last experience of which I had been conscious had seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual, I smiled on the four plain white walls of my bed-chamber, and hailed their familiar unostentatiousness with a pleasure which had no wish to transfer itself to arabesque or rainbows. It was like re- turning home from an eternity spent in loneliness am…
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…rom sunrise unto sunset in the temple, and he shall obey the counsel that his Angel shall have given unto him, and he shall suffer those things that are appointed. And for ten days thereafter shall he withdraw himself as shall have been taught unto him from the fulness of that communion, for he must harmonize the world that is within with the world that is without. And at the end of the ninety-one days he shall return into the world, and there shall he perform that work to which the Angel shall have appointed him. And more than this it is not n…
1919 · PDF PAGE 409
THE SEVEN PORTALS stood by the equilibrium by which things can be done which bear no fruit. And this method it is quite impossible to ex- plain. The nearest I can come to intelligibility, is to say that you get very nearly the same sort of feeling as you do when you are making yourself invisible. Shila is in no way connected with the charming Irish col- leen of the same name. (Subsection III.) The “patience” here spoken of seems to imply courage of a very active kind. It is the quality which persists in spite of all opposition. It must not be f…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…os; and, in particular, to man.2 IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteris tics (which we may predicate of all known existing things: (a) Change. Anikka. (b) Sorrow. Dukkha. (c) Absence of an Ego. Anatta. 1 Change is the great enem y, the im mediate cause of pain. Unable to arrest it, I slo w the process, and render it tem porarily painless, by eating. T his is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat r eally in or der to check change, or to m aintain m y ego- consciousness? Change I desire, for my present condition…
1911 · PDF PAGE 91
…nine is the changefulness of the numbers brought to naught. For with whatsoever number thou wilt cover it, it appeareth unchanged. These things are spoken unto him that understandeth, that is a breastplate unto the elephants, or a corselet unto the angels, or a scale upon the towers of iron; yet is this mighty host set only for a defence, and whoso passeth beyond their lines hath no help in them. Yet must he that understandeth go forth unto the outer- most Abyss, and there must he speak with him that is set above the four-fold terror, the Princ…
1911 · PDF PAGE 139
…golden, that throng it, and they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of be- with-us is at hand! For he hath created the universe, and overthrown it, that he might take his pleasure thereupon. And now, in the midst of the Aethyr, I beheld that god. He hath a thousand arms, and in each hand is a weapon of terrible strength. His face is more terrible than the storm, and from his eyes flash lightnings of intolerable brilliance. From his mouth run sea…