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Page 76 of 1121913 · PDF PAGE 575
…oly. To be holy! that is easy to say; but how give one’s self faith when one no longer believes? How re-discover a taste for virtue in a heart faded by vice? One must have recourse to the four words of science: to know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence. One must still one’s dislikes, study duty, and begin by practising it as though one loved it. You are an unbeliever, and you wish to make yourself a Christian ? Perform the exercises of a Christian, pray regularly, using the Christian formule; approach the sacraments as if you had faith, an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 492
THE A:. A:. 459 makes the Masters responsible for the agony of the planet. I refer you to The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent, Cp.I: 33-40. 33. Let us take our delight in the multitude of men! Let u-s shape unto ourselves a boat of Mother-ofpearl from them, that we may ride upon the river of Amrit! 34. Thou seest yon petal of Amaranth, blown by the wind from the low sweet brows of Hathor? 35. (The magister saw it and rejoiced in the beauty of it.) Listen! 36. (From a certain world came an infinite wail.) That falling petal seemed to the l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…revelation of Jehovah as the arch-enemy of man. The above doctrine is the most secret of Qabalistic arcana. you were not far of from the Heart of the Qabalah. The occasion of thts letter 1s. the insertion ofa scene equivalent toan “appreciation of the Brixton Chapel” in my masterpiece “Why Jesus Wept.” You asked me for tt ;} Ipromtsed 7t;* and I hope you will like tt. Can [do more than make your Brixton my deus ex machind ? You see, when I wrote ‘* The Soul of Osiris,” Europe was my utmost tn travel. To-day, what country of the globe has not sh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
…ious for you: avoid him. Our double magnetism produces in us two sorts of sympathies. We need to absorb and to radiate turn by turn. Our heart loves contrasts, and there are few women who have loved two men of genius in succession. One finds peace through the protection which one’s own weariness of admiration gives; it is the law of equilibrium; but sometimes even sublime natures are surprised in caprices of vulgarity. Man, said the Abbé Gerbet, is the shadow of 246
1913 · PDF PAGE 571
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES No, that is not enough. One must know one’s self by heart, so to speak, to be able to calculate the leaps of the animal, divining its stratagems, avoiding its claws, foreseeing its movements, to be in a word past-master in lioncraft, as the excellent La Fontaine might have said. Animals are the living symbols of the instincts and passions of men. If you make a man timid, you change him into a hare. If, on the contrary, you drive him to ferocity, you make a tiger of him. The wand of Circe is the power of fascination whic…
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
…ious for you: avoid him. Our double magnetism produces in us two sorts of sympathies. We need to absorb and to radiate turn by turn. Our heart loves contrasts, and there are few women who have loved two men of genius in succession. One finds peace through the protection which one’s own weariness of admiration gives; it is the law of equilibrium; but sometimes even sublime natures are surprised in caprices of vulgarity. Man, said the Abbé Gerbet, is the shadow of 246
1913 · PDF PAGE 571
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES No, that is not enough. One must know one’s self by heart, so to speak, to be able to calculate the leaps of the animal, divining its stratagems, avoiding its claws, foreseeing its movements, to be in a word past-master in lioncraft, as the excellent La Fontaine might have said. Animals are the living symbols of the instincts and passions of men. If you make a man timid, you change him into a hare. If, on the contrary, you drive him to ferocity, you make a tiger of him. The wand of Circe is the power of fascination whic…
1919 · PDF PAGE 379
THE TWO PATHS 40. Know, O beginner, this is the Open PATH, the way to selfish bliss, shunned by the Bodhisattvas of the “Secret Heart,” the Buddhas of Compassion. The words “selfish bliss” must not be taken in a literal sense. It is exceedingly difficult to discuss this question. The Occidental mind finds it difficult even to attach any meaning to the conditions of Nirvana. Partly it is the fault of language, partly it is due to the fact that the condition of Arhat is quite beyond thought. He is beyond the Abyss, and there a thing is only true …
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
… of this resolution was jagged and envenomed; for he was the only person with whom I had ever enjoyed truly spiritual intercourse and my heart was lonely, hungry and embittered as only a poet's heart can understand. This determination developed gradually during that last May term. He fought most desperately against my increasing preoccupation with the aspiration in which he recognized the executioner of our friendship. Shortly after I went down, we had a last interview. I had gone down to the Bear at Maidenhead, on the quiet, to write "Jezebel"…
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
JOHN ST. JOHN 12.43. Heart that is girt about with the Serpent that “To await Thee is the End, not the Beginning "? It is as silly as rising at midnight, and saying, "I will go out and sleep in the sun." But I am an Irishman, and if you offer me a donkey— ride at a shilling the first hour and Sixpence the second, you must not be surprised at the shrewd silliness of my replying that I will take the second hour first. But that is always the way; the love 01 besting our dearest friends in a bargain is native to us : and so, even in religion, when we…
1911 · PDF PAGE 134
…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, and on the morrow, at the appointed hour, shall it be given thee further, as thou goest upon thy way, meditating this mystery. And thou shalt summon the Scribe, and that which shall be written, shall be written. Therefore I withdraw myself, as I am commanded. THE DESERT BETWEEN BENSHRUR AND TOLGA. December 12, 1909. 7-8.12…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…agon, with leaden wings. Suppose, thought he, that after all death does not end me! I cannot express this conception. It is not that the heart sank, it had nowhither to sink; it knew itself im- mortal, and immortal in a realm of unimagined pain and terror, unlighted by one glimpse of any other light than that pale glare of hate and of pestilence. This thought took shape in these words: I AM THAT I AM. One cannot say that the blasphemy added to the horror; rather it was the essence of the horror. It was the gnashing of the teeth of a damned soul…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
… conflict this ’twixt love and fear , “ honour and lust , and truth and trust beguiled ; " they wan dered in the scented garden of man's heart , and all their restraint was as ephemeral as the fleeting hour . “ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was pleasant to the eyes , and a tree to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat , and gave also unto her husband with her ; and he did eat .” ( N.B. — Husband : neither church nor registry office is mentioned !) Linked in the tiny shel…
1910 · PDF PAGE 296
…rlet against their angry purple, like sunset and storm. She pressed them to the square, and a smear stained the white. She caught at her heart; for some strange pang tore it. Up went her violin, and the bow crossed it. It might have been the swords of two skilled fencers, both blind with mortal hate. It might have been the bodies of two skilled lovers, blind with immortal love. She tore life and death asunder on her strings. Up, up soared the phoenix of her song; step by step on music’s golden scaling-ladder she stormed the citadel of her Desir…
1910 · PDF PAGE 296
…rlet against their angry purple, like sunset and storm. She pressed them to the square, and a smear stained the white. She caught at her heart; for some strange pang tore it. Up went her violin, and the bow crossed it. It might have been the swords of two skilled fencers, both blind with mortal hate. It might have been the bodies of two skilled lovers, blind with immortal love. She tore life and death asunder on her strings. Up, up soared the phoenix of her song; step by step on music’s golden scaling-ladder she stormed the citadel of her Desir…
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…be a true and faithful M. Know, from this moment, that I centre the affection of a parent in the name of a brother and a friend May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may you burn with the same zeal your father possesses. Convince the world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, xw
1912 · PDF PAGE 181
THE TELL-TALE HEART Come in, Warren; come in, Anderson; a cold night; we’ll have a drop of something to warm us by and by. [More mm” more at his ease. SERGEANT. Why, the fact is, Mr. Adams, neighbour Clark here heard a dreadful cry in the cottage, and JACK. Hal Ha! Clark, you're a funny fellow. It’s no joke to me, though, for the fact is I had the most awful dream SERGEANT. And so you shrieked, of course. Strikes me, neighbour Clark, you've found a pretty mare‘s nest. CLARK. But where’s 016 Meyer? I swear I saw him come in less than half an hou…
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…be a true and faithful M. Know, from this moment, that I centre the affection of a parent in the name of a brother and a friend May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may you burn with the same zeal your father possesses. Convince the world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, xw
1912 · PDF PAGE 181
THE TELL-TALE HEART Come in, Warren; come in, Anderson; a cold night; we’ll have a drop of something to warm us by and by. [More mm” more at his ease. SERGEANT. Why, the fact is, Mr. Adams, neighbour Clark here heard a dreadful cry in the cottage, and JACK. Hal Ha! Clark, you're a funny fellow. It’s no joke to me, though, for the fact is I had the most awful dream SERGEANT. And so you shrieked, of course. Strikes me, neighbour Clark, you've found a pretty mare‘s nest. CLARK. But where’s 016 Meyer? I swear I saw him come in less than half an hou…
1919 · PDF PAGE 94
…y may swim. 53. That they may swim, O my beloved, swim far in the warm honey of Thy being, O blessed one, O boy of beati- tude! 54. This heart of mine is girt about with the serpent that devoureth his own coils. 55. When shall there be an end, O my darling, O when shall the Universe and the Lord thereof be utterly swal- lowed up? 56. Nay! who shall devour the Infinite? who shall undo the Wrong of the Beginning? 57. Thou criest like a white cat upon the roof of the Uni- verse; there is none to answer Thee. . 58. Thou art like a lonely pillar in …