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THE EQUINOX and it is precisely that which the old ascetic writers called the power of discerning spirits. You are cruel consolers, said Job to his pretended friends. It is, in fact, the vicious that afflict rather than console. They have a prodigious tact for finding and choosing the most desperate banalities. Are you weeping for a broken affection? How simple you are! they were playing with you, they did not love you. You admit sorrowfully that your child limps; in friendly fashion they bid you remark that he is a hunchback. If he coughs and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX 47. Where I am these are not. 48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. 49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.) 50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green. 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. 52. There is a veil: that vei…
1913 · PDF PAGE 254
THE EQUINOX out warrant or charter of any kind he extracted guineas from would-be “ Rosicrucians” of the servant-girl type of intellect. True to the same policy, he next declared himself possessed of numberless degrees of Masonry, and accordingly issued two portentous volumes on the subject, volumes which betray prejudice and ignorance so nicely balanced that it is next to impossible to determine which is the inspiration in any particular passage, especially as the sentences are themselves couched in the sham medizval jargon with which his name…
1913 · PDF PAGE 432
THE EQUINOX vigour the mysterious hands. ‘‘ They are,” says he, “ perfect shapes of human hands, warm and living, only one feels no bones.” Pressed by an unavoidable constraint, those hands did not struggle to escape, but grew smaller, and in some way melted, so that the Count ended by no longer holding anything. Other persons who have seen them, and touched them, say that the fingers are puffed out and stiff, and compare them to gloves of india-rubber, swollen with a warm and phosphorescent air. Sometimes, instead of hands, it is feet which pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
THE EQUINOX and it is precisely that which the old ascetic writers called the power of discerning spirits. You are cruel consolers, said Job to his pretended friends. It is, in fact, the vicious that afflict rather than console. They have a prodigious tact for finding and choosing the most desperate banalities. Are you weeping for a broken affection? How simple you are! they were playing with you, they did not love you. You admit sorrowfully that your child limps; in friendly fashion they bid you remark that he is a hunchback. If he coughs and …
1919 · PDF PAGE 446
THE EQUINOX acquired, like to the Bodhisattvas twain, upon the span of all three worlds. The same doctrine is still further detailed, but I cannot give the authority by which Blavatsky speaks of Kwan-shi- yin as a Bodhisattva. It will become abundantly evident in the comment to verse 97 that Blavatsky had not the re- motest idea as to what a Bodhisattva was and is. But it is quite true that you have to shed light in the manner indi- cated if you are going to live the life of a Magus. 82. Know that the stream of superhuman knowledge and the Deva…
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
THE EQUINOX the second The Invocations of Adonai—the work of attain- ment. Then he took another step forward. “Do as thou wilt!” Not only is Animism absurd, but so also is Morality; not only is Reincarnation absurd, but so also is Transmigration; not only is the Ego absurd, but so also is the Non-Ego; not only is Karma absurd, but so also is Nibbana. For, all things and no-things are absurd save “I,” who am Soul and Body, Good and Evil, Sorrow and Joy, Change and Equilibrium; who in the temple of Adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire sid…
1910 · PDF PAGE 250
THE EQUINOX Never mind that old frump of a Duchess, Mrs. Ossory— perhaps Mr. Todd may call. [Goes out with CHARLEY. mrs. ossory. I do hope he meant it. But he’s such a terrible man for pulling legs, as they call it—I can’t think where Euphemia picks up all her slang !—If that plain, quiet man should really be a crowned King! Oh! how I would frown at her! Ah! ah! Somebody coming. [Enter THOMAS. Tuomas. Mr. Todd. [Enter Topp. MRS. Ossory. Oh, my dear Mr. Todd, I am so glad to see you! I’m in such distress! You will help me, won't you? [ropp bows,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 252
THE EQUINOX being as dust? Who givest his fame to the poet, his bankruptcy to the rich man? Who dost distinguish between the just and the unjust? Thou keeper of all secrets, of this great secret which I seek, and have nowise found! This secret for whose very shadowing-forth in parable I, who am young, strong, successful, beloved, most enviable of men, would throw it all away! Oh Thou who givest that which none other can give, who art Thou? How can I bargain with Thee? What shall I give that I may possess Thy secret? O question unavailing ! For …
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
THE EQUINOX of high activity, an intuition of the fact that the sensation shall be perceived again in the future unveiling that is to throw open all the past. Prophetically she notes it down upon the indestructible leaves of her diary, assured that it is to come out in the future revelation. Yet we who, from the tendency of our thought, reject all claims to any knowledge of the future, can only acknowledge perceptions as of the present or the past, and accordingly refer the dual realisation to some period gone by. We perceive the correspondence…
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
THE EQUINOX the second The Invocations of Adonai—the work of attain- ment. Then he took another step forward. “Do as thou wilt!” Not only is Animism absurd, but so also is Morality; not only is Reincarnation absurd, but so also is Transmigration; not only is the Ego absurd, but so also is the Non-Ego; not only is Karma absurd, but so also is Nibbana. For, all things and no-things are absurd save “I,” who am Soul and Body, Good and Evil, Sorrow and Joy, Change and Equilibrium; who in the temple of Adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire sid…
1910 · PDF PAGE 250
THE EQUINOX Never mind that old frump of a Duchess, Mrs. Ossory— perhaps Mr. Todd may call. [Goes out with CHARLEY. mrs. ossory. I do hope he meant it. But he’s such a terrible man for pulling legs, as they call it—I can’t think where Euphemia picks up all her slang !—If that plain, quiet man should really be a crowned King! Oh! how I would frown at her! Ah! ah! Somebody coming. [Enter THOMAS. Tuomas. Mr. Todd. [Enter Topp. MRS. Ossory. Oh, my dear Mr. Todd, I am so glad to see you! I’m in such distress! You will help me, won't you? [ropp bows,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 252
THE EQUINOX being as dust? Who givest his fame to the poet, his bankruptcy to the rich man? Who dost distinguish between the just and the unjust? Thou keeper of all secrets, of this great secret which I seek, and have nowise found! This secret for whose very shadowing-forth in parable I, who am young, strong, successful, beloved, most enviable of men, would throw it all away! Oh Thou who givest that which none other can give, who art Thou? How can I bargain with Thee? What shall I give that I may possess Thy secret? O question unavailing ! For …
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
THE EQUINOX of high activity, an intuition of the fact that the sensation shall be perceived again in the future unveiling that is to throw open all the past. Prophetically she notes it down upon the indestructible leaves of her diary, assured that it is to come out in the future revelation. Yet we who, from the tendency of our thought, reject all claims to any knowledge of the future, can only acknowledge perceptions as of the present or the past, and accordingly refer the dual realisation to some period gone by. We perceive the correspondence…
1911 · PDF PAGE 134
THE EQUINOX of the head of the crowned lion and the body of the Snake and the Arrow therewith. Yet do thou distinguish between the upward and the downward Arrows, for the upward arrow is straitened in its flight, and it is shot by a firm hand, for Jesod is Jod Tetra- grammaton, and Jod isahand, but the downward arrow is shot by the topmost point of the Jod; and that Jod is the Hermit, and it is the minute point that is not extended, that is nigh unto the heart of Hadit. And now it is commanded thee that thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, an…
1912 · PDF PAGE 128
THE EQUINOX She told him that she was staying at the Savoy Hotel at Fontainebleau, and had gone for a walk and lost her way in the forest; and she asked him how far was it to the nearest village, and would he please take her there, and she would give him money. All this while Placide lit his fire, and proceeded to cook beans. He did not understand her, or try to understand her. There was a strange animal in his hut, possibly a human animal ; it might like beans; he would offer it beans. It was not his affair; his affair was to chop—chop—chop—cho…
1912 · PDF PAGE 128
THE EQUINOX She told him that she was staying at the Savoy Hotel at Fontainebleau, and had gone for a walk and lost her way in the forest; and she asked him how far was it to the nearest village, and would he please take her there, and she would give him money. All this while Placide lit his fire, and proceeded to cook beans. He did not understand her, or try to understand her. There was a strange animal in his hut, possibly a human animal ; it might like beans; he would offer it beans. It was not his affair; his affair was to chop—chop—chop—cho…
1913 · PDF PAGE 460
THE EQUINOX haute magie that an ecclesiastic was looking for his address, testifying the greatest desire to see him. Eliphas Levi did not feel himself immediately prepossessed with confidence towards the stranger, to the point of exposing himself without precaution to his visits; he indicated the house of a friend, where he was to be in the company of his faithful disciple, Desbarrolles. At the hour and date appointed they went, in fact, tothe house of Mme. A——, and found that the ecclesiastic had been waiting for them for some moments. He was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 470
THE EQUINOX “Go! Go!” said at that very moment the grave and anguished voice of a priest.“ The office cannot be continued ; we are going to close the church: it is profaned.” “ How is the Archbishop ?” said a man. “Sir,” replied the priest, ‘‘ the Archbishop is dying ; perhaps even at this very moment he is dead!” The crowd dispersed in consternation to spread the mournful news over Paris. A bizarre incident happened to Eliphas, and made a kind of diversion for his deep sorrow at what had just passed. At the moment of the uproar, an aged woman …
1913 · PDF PAGE 500
THE EQUINOX alternate currents, receives and transmits the imprints of the force of imagination which is in men the image and the semblance of the creative word, and thus produces presenti- ments and determines dreams. The science of miracles is then the knowledge of this marvellous force, and the art of doing miracles is simply the art of magnetizing or ¢duminat- ing beings, according to the invariable laws of magnetism or astral light. We prefer the word “light” to the word ‘ magnetism,” because it is more traditional in occultism, and expres…