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Page 75 of 871906 · PDF PAGE 49
…iding ever Above the lonely river Aloft: no more I saw than this, The shadowy 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 love…
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
…thesis that every object in Nature possessed a spiritual guardian. Roughly speaking, this did not apply so much to manufactured objects, though there are ex‐ ceptions to this, as in the case of the Gods of the Hearth, the Lintel, and the like; or of angels or spirits as supposed to be interested in one’s sword or one’s spear. A particularly powerful weapon was likely to get the reputation of not having been manufactured at all by human hands, but forged in volcanoes or in fairy‐land, and thus imbued with preternatural powers. Some famous swords…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
… to altar ; and, with his hand on tt, turns towards door. Mouths of God’s mercy ! I would her eyes were bleeding wounds*sin my heart! Ah though! If she were a dog I could not do it. She is my sister—— |Zurns wth a cry to throne and flings up his hands. and I will! Death! Death! It is a year to-night. I arrayed her first In yon gold ornaments—-My brain is sick ! I want coffee—or hashish—No! That is for her ! I must be very clear and calm, very clear, very calm, How I must be ill— [Correcting himself with effort.) I I must be. Ha! [Goes to altar,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
…nd behaved like Tartarin de Tarascon. He knew as little of mountains as he did of medicine, and proved a great source of {279} weakness, though his delightful geniality helped both the psychology of the party and our relations with the natives. He was our comic relief and did much to make things more tolerable for all of us. For all that, I think we should have done better to take none of the foreigners1. Our numbers made us unwieldy; and the question of international jealousy contributed indirectly to our failure, as will be explained later. W…
1905 · PDF PAGE 18
…an : ‘*O thou, a child of Heaven, and a man, Even so my lover, shall my woeful song So move thy spirit for my bitter wrong (God-nurtured though thou be) against the rods Laid on me by my mother, whom the gods
1904 · PDF PAGE 114
…oints different from ourselves? As the small boy said, “What has posterity done for me?” But som ethin does persist; something changing, though less slowly . What evi- dence have we after all that an anim al does not remember his man-incarnation? Or, as Levi says, “In the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget.” I think it unlikely (may be), but in the total absence of all evidence for or agains t—at leas t with regard to the latter hy pothesis !—I suspend my judgement, leave the question alone, and proceed to m ore practical points…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…ies. 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, like gentlemen, On chilis, seasoned with cayenne. Worse, one must finish every course. ’S truth, I had rather eat boiled horse ! IV. My first friend was an agéd monk. He fed on rice and water. Sunk His cheeks and cold his blood. You see The fool was a damned soul like me; 1 Smart restaurant in Lond…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…ness, as we know it, is absolutely indrawn, so that it exists in ure isolation, it knows an ecstasy which can only be ex— pressed in the thought, “ I 0 not exist." This last paradox of human manifestation as been perceived by every school of mystics. “ Man’s darkness is a leathern sheath, Myself the sun-bright sword,” is the feeling of the consciousness as it returns to its human state, admirably expressed by Mr. Crowley in “Mysteries” (vol. i, p. 105). Finally he is driven to the utterance of one who has gained final liberation from human illus…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…g. agro !— When to my blossom body clean as snow You pressed your bosom till desire was pain, And—then—that midnight—you did dare remain Though all my limbs were bloody with your mouth That tore their flesh to satiate its drouth, That was not thereby satished! And now A pallid coward, with sly, skulking brow, You must leave Sodom for your spouse’s sake. Coward and coward and coward! who would take The best flower of my life and leave me so, Still loving you—Ah ! weak—and turn to go For me We worship, You dared enough—so_ long
1905 · PDF PAGE 115
… Lament aloud over the frosted moor. Sad am I, sad, albeit sure There is no change of God above And no abatement of our love. For still, though thou be gone, I see In the glad mirror secretly That I am beautiful in thee. Thy love irradiates my eyes, Tints my skin gold ; its melodies Of inusic run over my face 3 Smiles envy kisses in the race To bathe beneath my eyelids. Light Clothes me and circles with the might Of warmer rosier suns. Thy kiss Dwells on my bosom, and it is A glittering mount of fire, that burns Incense unnamed to heaven, and y…
1944 · PDF PAGE 33
…at table, A sees the right side of the lobster, and B the left. If they stand side by side and look at a star, the angle is different; although this difference is infinitesimal, it exists. But the Tarot is the same for all in the same way in which any scientific fact or formula is the same for all. It is most important to remember that the facts of science, though universally true in the abstract, are still not precisely true for any one observer, because even if the observation of any common object is made by two people 1The present author dis…
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
…heres and pyramids (four in number, signifying Law and Limitation) which themselves maintain the same equity that she herself manifests, though on a completely impersonal plane, in the framework within which all op‐ erations take place. Outside this again, at the corner of the card, are indicated balanced spheres of light and darkness, and constantly equilibrated rays from these spheres form a cur‐ tain, the interplay of all those forces which she sums up and adjudicates. One must go more deeply into philosophy; the Trump represents The Woman S…
1906 · PDF PAGE 228
…s. And all we waited about him, both by day and night ; lest one word should fall, and we not hear the same. But he spake never unto us, though his lips moved and his eyes sought ever that which we could not see. At last, on the day of D., the mother of P.,? he straightened himself up and spake. This his final discourse was written down then by the dying lions in their own blood, traced willingly on the desert sands about the Grove of the Tlustrious. Also here set down: but who will confirm the same, let him seek it on the sands. Children of my…
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
…, his thumb is either against his lower lip or in his mouth; which it is, one cannot say. There is here a quarrel between two schools of thought; if be is pushing up his lower lip, he emphasizes silence as silence; if his thumb is in his mouth, it emphasizes the doctrine of Eheieh: “I shall Be”. Yet in the end these doctrines are identical. This babe is in an egg of blue, which is evidently the symbol of the Mother. This child has, in a way, not been born; the blue is the blue of space; the egg is sitting upon a lotus, and this lotus grows on t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
… offices of John Bull in a taxi and saw Mr Sam Waring --- the principal director of Waring and Gillow --- descending the steps. Quick as thought, he paid off the chauffeur, bounced upstairs into the private office of the great Patriot and said firmly, though gently. "I've come for my three hundred pounds." "How did you know?" was the Patriot's only question. "Never mind. I know." And Horatio handed over three hundred pounds in notes. This was indeed kindness of heart. I could not doubt that if he seemed to be neglecting my publicity, it was ina…
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…elf! ‘thou seekest illumina- tion!’ Mahabrahma smirked and admitted it. ‘From negative to positive,’ explained the Thrice-Honoured One, ‘though Poten- tial Existence eternally vibrates the Divine Absolute of the Hidden Unity of proces- sional form masked in the Eternal Abyss of the Unknowable, the synthetical hiero- glyph of an illimitable, pastless, futureless PRESENT. ‘© «To the uttermost bounds of space rushes the voice of Ages unheard of save in the concentrated unity of the thought-formulated Abstract; and eternally that voice formu- lates…
1939 · PDF PAGE 49
consider the nature of the results of meditation, our conceptions of the backgrounds of thought are decided in quite a different manner; not by intellectual analysis, which, as we have seen, carries no conviction, but by illumination, which does carry conviction. Let us, therefore, proceed to examine the elements of our normal thinking. 5. I need hardly recapitulate the mathematical theorem which you all doubtless laid to heart when you were criticising Einstein's theory of relativity. I only want to recall to your minds the simplest element of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…nothing worth fighting for. The rebel camp broke up in anarchy. They issued various hysterical manifestos, distinguished by confusion of thought, inaccuracy of statement, personal malice, empty bombast and ignorance of English. One error is worth rescuing from oblivion. "Nothing in the above resolutions shall effect our connection with the Rosicrucian order." The poor darlings meant affect. They went on squabbling amongst themselves for a few months and then had the sense to give up playing at Magick. Their only survivor is Arthur Edward Waite,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 441
… task laid upon me by the most intelligent freemasons of the world, united as they were by their sincerity, understanding and good will, though divided by sectarian squabbles about jurisdiction. My first object was to answer the question, "What is freemasonry?" I collated the rituals and their secrets, much as I had done the religions of the world, with their magical and mystical bases. As in that case, I decided to neglect what it too often actually was. It would be absurd to judge Protestantism by the political acts of Henry VIII. In the same…
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
256 SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM pendent thought, of keen ecstasy of love of knowledge, of practical training, that the Buddhasanana Samagama? appeals; it is time that Buddhism reformed itself from within; though its truths be held untarnished (and even this is not everywhere the case), its methods, its organisation, are sadly in need of repair; research must be done, men must be perfected, error must be fought. And if,in the West a great Buddhist society is built up of men of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lies, there is then an awake…