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…TANK In the meanwhile, Mr. Bishop writes a book to prove the truth of all this pre- historic nonsense. Mr. Bishop’s intelligence is very far beneath the human level. For example, he actually maintains that the claws and teeth of predatory animals have been given to them out of kindness towards their prey! You would think it was impossible for any one to miss the point of the argument that nature is cruel. The fact is that Mr. Bishop’s ideas of kindness are a little crude, like his ideas of writing a book. This is not really a book at all. It’s …
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
realise, insofar as the marriage is consummated, that what he is and what he is not are identical. Therefore we cannot pick and choose in our Yoga. It is written in the Book of the Law, Chapter 1, verse 22, "Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing, for thereby there cometh hurt." Venus represents the ecstatic acceptance of all possible experience, and the transcendental assumption of all particular experience into the one experience. Oh yes, by the way, don't forget this. In a lesser sense Venus repre…
1939 · PDF PAGE 62
…ead of getting the real value of the lesson, which is that the gross pleasures of the senses are absolutely worthless. This practice, so far as it is useful at all, should be regarded as the first step towards emancipation from the thrall of the bodily desires, of the sensations self-destructive, of the thirst for pleasure. 18. I think this is a good opportunity to make a little digression in favour of Mahasatipatthana. This practice was recommended by the Buddha in very special terms, and it is the only one of which he speaks so highly. He tol…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
… martyr-cry of many slaughtered souls, Utterly potent both to bless and ban— I, I command thee in the name of Man! He trembled then. And far in thunder rolled Through countless ages, through the infinite gold Beyond existence, grew that master-sound Into the rent and agonized profound, Till even the Highest heard me: and Hesaid, As one who speaks alone among men dead: ‘* Behold, he rules as I the abyss of flame. Forlo! heknoweth, and hath said, My Name!” THE EVOCATION. FRoM the abyss, the horrible lone world Of agony, more sharp than moonbeams …
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…ire with the frosty crown Of thousand-twinkling stars, whose hoary crests Burn where light touches them, with diamond points Of infinite far fire, save where the sea Is ebony with sleep, and though the wind Pierces the marrow, since it is the word Of the Almighty, and cuts through the air That may not stay its fury, with a cold Nipping and chill, it is not in the wind ; Nor though the thunder broke, or flashed the fire From all the circle of eternity, Were that the reason ; for thou shudderest To hear the Voice of Love; it is no voice That men …
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…holds 7t to the light. The room ts lighted by electricity, the globes being the eyes of strange sculplurea stone beasts on the walls. So far the story is true. [Drinks a little. Why, that is better already. I am again the priest of Maurya—who is the brother of Maurya? A trivial ape o’ the time !— cold, logical to a fault !--Ay! and a crime, a crime at which the stars shake in the heaven, men might think. Yet the stars, I will wager, are indifferent. True, the news has not reached them: true, that star I see is not a star; it was so six, ten, tw…
1939 · PDF PAGE 66
…ss in Yoga in so short a time as I did had I not spent the previous three years in the daily practice of magical methods. 9. I may go so far as to say that just before I began Yoga seriously, I had almost invented a Yogic method of practising Magick in the stress of circumstances. I had been accustomed to work with full magical apparatus in an admirably devised temple of my own. Now I found myself on shipboard, or in some obscure bedroom of Mexico City, or camped beside my horse among the sugar canes in lonely tropical valleys, or couched with …
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…he soft stars and seas, and matchless music make. And now the sun is risen above the deep ; The mists pass slowly on the uplands steep ; Far snows are luminous with rosy flecks Of lambent light, and shadow tints and decks Their distant hollows with black radiance, While the delivered fountains flash and glance Adown the hills and through the woods of pine And stately larch, with cadences divine And trills and melodies instinct with light and wine. The sun, arising, sees the sleeping youth And lumes his locks with evanescent gold, While birds an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
…o Englishman of mountaineering ability and experience available. We had, however, a Trinity man named Knowles, aged twenty-two, which is far too young for work of this kind, which requires endurance. He knew practically nothing of mountains, but he had common sense enough to do what Eckenstein told him; and as it was, he proved invaluable in Srinagar and even on the actual journey. He was a source rather of strength than of weakness. Then there was an Austrian judge named Pfannl, reputed the best rock climber in Austria, and his regular climbin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
… And wrestle with the accuser. ‘So, depart ! CHorus, When the countenance fair of the morning And the lusty bright limbs of the day Race far through the west for a warning Of mght that is evil and gray ; When the light by the southward is dwindled, And the clouds as for sleep are unfurled, The moon in the east is rekindled, The hope of the passionate world. The stars for a token of glory Flash fire in the eyes of the night, And the holy immaculate story Of Heaven is flushed into light. For the night has a whisper to wake us, And the sunset a bl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…dwell, bids them glint amorously, While the intense hushed music of his breath Sighs, till her longing grows divine as death— So, fairer far, drew dawn on Ida’s grove. The young sun rose, whose burning lips of love Kissed the green steeps, whose royal locks of flame Brushed o’er the dewy pastures, with acclaim Of tuneful thrushes shrill with mountain song, And noise of nightingales, and murmur long— A sigh half-sad, as if remembering earth And all the massy pillars of her girth ; Half-jubilant, as if foreseeing a world Fresher with starlight an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
… sees. Immense disdain, Egyptian silence, mastery of pain, Gargantuan laughter, shake or still the ignited Stature of the Master, vivid. Far, affrighted, The stunned air shudders on the skin. In vain The Master of La Comédie Humaine Shadows the deep-set eyes, genius-lighted. Epithalamia, birth songs, epitaphs, Are written in the mystery of his lips. Sad wisdom, scornful shame, grand agony In the coffin folds of the cloak, scarred mountains, lie, And pity hides i' th' heart. Grim knowledge grips The essential manhood. Balzac stands, and laughs. …
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
…thetic either to Water or to Fire; compromise was a mark of that period. But now, under a Fiery lord of the Aeon, the watery element, so far as water is below the Abyss, is definitely hostile, unless the opposition is the right opposition implied in marriage. But in this card the only question is of the “redemption” of the submerged element, and therefore every‐ thing is reversed. This idea of sacrifice is, in the final analysis, a wrong idea. “I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable…
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
…Caduceus is Life itself, and is of universal application. It is the uni‐ versal solvent.” “I see it all now; the virile force of Mars is far beneath him. All the other gods are merely aspects of Jupiter formulated by Hermes. He is the first of the Aeons.” “The sense of humour of this god is very strong. He is not sentimental about his princi‐ pal function; he regards the Universe as an excellent practical joke; yet he recognizes that Jupiter is serious, and the Universe is serious, although he laughs at them for being serious. His sole business…
1904 · PDF PAGE 114
…ntist will concur. W e need not d iscuss the question whether or no he would find others to add. Buddhism may not be com- plete, but, as far as it goes, it is accurate.
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
… introduced I’ree Trade; And necessaries—woe is me !— Are furnished to the damned soul free. III. God’s hell, Earth’s heaven, are not so far. Dinner brought oysters, caviar, Anchovies, truffles, curried rabbit (Bad for the apoplectic habit), While ancient brandy and champagne Washed down the dainties. Once again I seemed to haunt the Continental.} A saucy little elemental Flitted across ; I heard it sneer ; ‘‘ You won’t get water, though, I fear.” That’s hell all over. Good-bye, greens, Water, cold mutton, bread, and beans! They feed us well, l…
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
… dwellers of the fire that fold Fine wings in wanton ecstasy, and sleep Where the thin tongues of glory leap Up from the brazen hold And far majestic keep Of Djinn, the Lord of elemental light. But he beheld some sight Beyond that city’s joy: his gentle word The old king gently heard. (This king was Zohra’s father) ‘‘ Lord and king Of love’s own city, give me leave to wing A fervid flight to yonder hills of night. Not that my soul is weary of the light And lordship of thy presence; but in tender dream I saw myself on the still stream Where the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…h of death, beneath a cactus cup. Ah turn! my bosom for thy love is cold ; My arms are empty, and my lips can hold No converse with thee far away like this. O for that communing pregnant with a kiss That is reborn when lips are set together To link our souls in one desirous tether, And weld our very bodies into one. Ah fiend Jehovah, what then have we done e like ours too like strong To dwell before thee, and do thy throne no wrong? Art thou grown jealous of the fiery band? Lo! thou hast spoken, and thy strong com- mand Bade earth and air divid…
1905 · PDF PAGE 104
…un VOL. I. With my That was the heart of spring. But the green land Seemed distant, with a sense of aery height ; As if it were below us far, that seemed Around. And as we gazed the water grew Ethereal, thin, most delicately hued, Misty, as if its substance were dissolved In some more subtle element. We heard ‘“O passers over water, do ye dare To tread the deadlier kingdoms of the air?” Whereat Icried: Arise! And then the pearl Budded with nautilus-wings, and upward now Soared. And our souls began to know the death That was about to take us. Al…
1919 · PDF PAGE 319
…f God.’ We have no doubt that as he progresses, he will attain this clearer conception of the magical doctrine. He has already gone very far. His interpretation, for example, of the statement “God is Love” can hardly be distinguished from our own “Love is the law.” Yet even here there is some taint of a lingering Manichaeanism. He seems to imagine “the All-Loving” as always trying to bring us to a concep- tion of sonship. Yet this ‘All-Loving’ is a metaphysical entity, omnipotent, omnis- cient, omnipresent, and so on. The result is that now and…