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Page 71 of 1151909 · PDF PAGE 368
…lties I cut my own right arm. Having no arm, I could no more kill my wife with an axe. God rewarded me by giving me the power of reading thought, which constitutes an extra sense for me; and to my nose He gave a voice of its own. I was a dentist. Indeed, I have found a new way of extracting teeth without gas. You merely press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—frien…
1911 · PDF PAGE 42
…ne has not uttered a word.) I say: O thou ape that speakest for Him whose name is Silence, how shall I know that thou speakest truly His thought? And the muttering continues: Nor speaketh He nor thinketh, so that which I say is true, because I lie in speaking His thoughts. He goes on, nothing stops him; and the muttering comes so fast that I cannot hear him at all. Now the muttering has ceased, or is overwhelmed by the bells, and the bells in their turn are overwhelmed by the whirring, and now the whirring is overwhelmed by the silence. And the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 412
… my Guru in Madura to the effect that there was a certain point in the body suitable for meditation, which, if once discovered, drew the thought naturally towards itself, the difficulty of concen- tration consequently disappearing, and that the knowledge of this particular point could be communicated by the Guru to his approved disciples. (Subsection VII.) We now find a muddle between the keys and the gates. The first five are all obviously keys. The last two seem to be gates, in spite of the statements in the text. We also find the term Bodhis…
1919 · PDF PAGE 423
…. Beware, Disciple, of that lethal shade. No light that shines from Spirit can dispel the darkness of the nether Soul unless all selfish thought has fled therefrom, and that the pil- grim saith: “I have renounced all this passing frame: I have destroyed the cause: the shadows cast can, as effects, no longer be.” For now the last great fight, the final war be- tween the Higher and the Lower Self, hath taken place. Be- hold, the very battlefield is now engulfed in the great war, and is no more. The quotation is only proper in the mouth of a Buddh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 250
…essarily led; and very nice for me, because it lets me out , cara soror! Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. I thought it a good plan to put my fundamental position all by itself in a postscript; to frame it. My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole …
1929 · PDF PAGE 526
…was herself struck by the singularity of the word, so much so, that I had to warn her not to spell it with two d's, and my explanations, thought unsatisfactory, decided me to insert this note in the text of my autohagiography.)1 Liber Aleph is the most tense and intense book that I have ever composed. The thought is so concentrated and, if I may use the word, nervous, that both to write then, and to read now, involved an involves an almost intolerable strain. I remember how I used to sit at my desk night after night --- it was the bitterest win…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…he power of Hell ! Amen. Kneel down, dear maiden o’ mine, and let your eyes Get knowledge with a soft and glad surprise ! Who would have thought you would have had it in you? Say nothing ! On the contrary, continue!
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
…nd hopeful disposition. For the second time the man-who-had-lost-his- cover left me alone; and I felt more relieved. He will never dare, thought I; and, after all, he does not look such a cold- blooded murderer. His eyes indicate some sort of inner life and his tone and voice are gentle at times. It is a joke, a mystification. . . . It must be. Thus I tried to deceive myself, and I must admit that I utterly failed. Looking, then, around my prison, I began to feel a very peculiar sort of numbness coming over me. It was almost like intoxication, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
…nd hopeful disposition. For the second time the man-who-had-lost-his- cover left me alone; and I felt more relieved. He will never dare, thought I; and, after all, he does not look such a cold- blooded murderer. His eyes indicate some sort of inner life and his tone and voice are gentle at times. It is a joke, a mystification. . . . It must be. Thus I tried to deceive myself, and I must admit that I utterly failed. Looking, then, around my prison, I began to feel a very peculiar sort of numbness coming over me. It was almost like intoxication, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…hoth. And this I understand, that I am not worthy to receive the mysteries of this Aethyr. And all this which I have seen (being all the thoughts that I have ever thought) is, as it were, a guardian of the Aethyr. I seem quite helpless. I am trying all sorts of magical methods of piercing the veil: and the more I strive, the farther away I seem to get from success. But a voice comes now: Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? Accordingly, I wait in a certain magical posture which it is not fitting to …
1913 · PDF PAGE 427
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES why, the insults of a Mr. de Péne, since then become known to fame through his unfortunate duel. We thought at the time of La Fontaine’s fable about the fool who threw stones at the sage. Mr. de Péne spoke of us as an unfrocked priest, and a bad Catholic. We at least showed ourself a good Christian in pitying and forgiving him, and as it is impossible to be an unfrocked priest without ever having been a priest, we let fall to the ground an insult which did not reach us. Spooks IN Paris. Mr. Home, a week ago, was once mo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 427
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES why, the insults of a Mr. de Péne, since then become known to fame through his unfortunate duel. We thought at the time of La Fontaine’s fable about the fool who threw stones at the sage. Mr. de Péne spoke of us as an unfrocked priest, and a bad Catholic. We at least showed ourself a good Christian in pitying and forgiving him, and as it is impossible to be an unfrocked priest without ever having been a priest, we let fall to the ground an insult which did not reach us. Spooks IN Paris. Mr. Home, a week ago, was once mo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 370
…ntatiously refraining from certain actions, while, however, they per- form them in private. Especially of recent years, some Adepts have thought it wise either to refrain or to pretend to refrain from various things in order to increase their influ- ence. This isa great folly. What is most necessary to dem- onstrate is that the Adept is not less but more than a man. It is better to hit your enemy and be falsely accused of mal- ice, than to refrain from hitting him and be falsely accused of cowardice. 21. If thou art told that to gain liberation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
… the universal query; for that I knew was evident. Ada Brown (Athanasia contra mundum) pooh- poohed the whole affair; Margaret Letchmere thought I must have heard something, perhaps a cry inaudible to
1954 · PDF PAGE 68
… oneself, since both parties are equally born of necessity.) 25. Every man must do Magick each time that he acts or even thinks, since a thought is an internal act whose influence ultimately affects action, though it may not do so at the time.
1910 · PDF PAGE 147
…eed Moha or MAaya—both God and No-God, Sorrow and Joy. But Buddha being a practical physician, though he knew sorrow to be but a form of thought, was most careful in keep- ing it as real a calamity as he could; for he well saw, that if he could only get people to concentrate upon Sorrow and its Causes, that the end could not be far off, of both Sorrow and Joy; but, if they began to speculate on its illusiveness, this happy deliverance would always remain distant. His business upon Earth was entirely a practical and exoteric one, in no way mysti…
1910 · PDF PAGE 147
…eed Moha or MAaya—both God and No-God, Sorrow and Joy. But Buddha being a practical physician, though he knew sorrow to be but a form of thought, was most careful in keep- ing it as real a calamity as he could; for he well saw, that if he could only get people to concentrate upon Sorrow and its Causes, that the end could not be far off, of both Sorrow and Joy; but, if they began to speculate on its illusiveness, this happy deliverance would always remain distant. His business upon Earth was entirely a practical and exoteric one, in no way mysti…
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
…dull of understanding, when wilt thou begin to annihilate thyself in the mysteries of the Aethyrs? For all that thou thinkest is but thy thought; and as there is no god in the ultimate shrine, so there is no I in thine own Cosmos. They that have said this are of them that understood. And all men have misinterpreted it, even as thou didst misin- terpret it. He says some more: I cannot catch it properly, but it seems to be to the effect that the true God is equally in all the shrines, and the true I in all the parts of the body and the soul. He s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 111
…ho said, “To-morrow never comes.” We were out of time and space. We were living according to the instruction | of our Saviour: “ Take no thought for the morrow.’ A great restlessness gripped us. Paris was perfectly impossible. We had to get to some place where time doesn’t count. The alternation of day and night doesn’t matter so much; but it’s absolutely intolerable to be mixed up with people who are working by the clock. We were living in the world of the Arabian Nights ; limitations were abhorrent. Paris was always reminding
1922 · PDF PAGE 292
278 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Lou must have caught my thought. She quoted sarcastically :— “OQ woodman, spare that tree, Touch not a single bough, In youth it sheltered me And I’ll protect it n-yow!”’ Since the war, women are taking a very peculiar attitude. I didn’t like the tone of the conversation. I instinctively looked to Maisie Jacobs for support. The Jewish tradition, which is, after all, the founda- tion of the so-called Christian point of view, could surely ‘be trusted. But Maisie merely retorted with some verses from Heine which showe…