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Page 81 of 1301913 · PDF PAGE 547
… have possessed themselves of our ascendant, as Paracelsus says, and where they wish to lead us we shall go. They are our bad angels. We know it in the depths of our consciousness; but we put up with them, we have made ourselves their servants that they also may be ours. Our passions, treated tenderly and flattered, have become slave-mistresses ; and those who serve our passions our valets, and our masters. We breathe out our thoughts and breathe in those of others imprinted in the astral light which has become their electro-magnetic atmosphere…
1919 · PDF PAGE 112
…being what they are. They will no longer appear pleasant and attractive, but as bonds, as shames. And when you have attained this point, know that you have passed the Middle Gate of this Path. For you will have uni- fied your Will. Even thus, were a man sitting in a theatre where the play wearies him, he would welcome every distraction, and find amusement in any accident: but if he were intent upon the play, every such incident would annoy him. His attitude to these is then an indication of his attitude towards the play itself. At first the hab…
1922 · PDF PAGE 119
… 1in the worshippers and make them elemental energies; Valkyrie-vampires surging and shrieking on the summit of the storm. I do not even know whether to call this a vision, or how to classify it psychologically. It was simply happening to me—and to Lou—though we were sitting decorously enough in our compartment. It became increasingly certain that Haidée, low-class, common- place, ignorant girl that she was, had somehow been sucked into a stupendous maelstrom of truth. The normal actions and reactions of the mind and the body are simply so many…
1929 · PDF PAGE 235
… impudence of Ouarda to offer independent remarks. I want her to see the sylphs. I must have been impressed by one point. How did Ouarda know that I had offended Horus? The troubles of Mathers were due to his excessive devotion to Mars, who represents one side of the personality of Horus, and no doubt I was inclined to err in the opposite directions, to neglect and dislike Mars as the personification of unintelligent violence. But was her bull's-eye a fluke? Her mention of Horus gave me a chance to cross-examine her. "How do you know that it is…
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…ame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn in pieces By knowledge ; nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay…
1954 · PDF PAGE 176
…t them in here. Yes: p. 22.) o thou that settest out upon the Path, false is the Phantom that thou seekest. When thou hast it thou shalt know all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the Sodom-Apple. Thus hast thou been lured along that Path, whose terror else had driven thee far away. o thou that stridest upon the middle of the Path, no phantoms mock thee. For the stride's sake thou stridest. Thus art thou lured along that Path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. o thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort is no more. Faster…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…ame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn to pieces By knowledge : nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not ! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Na…
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
… so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations of perversity do not constitute an insanity; the execution of this wretch proved it. 1 The great painter, dipping his brush in earthquake and eclipse, employs an excess of yellow.—O. M. N 177
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
… so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations of perversity do not constitute an insanity; the execution of this wretch proved it. 1 The great painter, dipping his brush in earthquake and eclipse, employs an excess of yellow.—O. M. N 177
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
…o. It’s no good without the H. We could go to Germany and get it; or even to London, but something keeps us from decision. I, of course, know what it is. It is necessary for me to undergo these torments that I may be purified completely from the flesh. But Peter doesn’t understand at all. He blames me bitterly. We go over the whole thing again and again. Every incident since we met is taken in turn as the cause of our misery Sometimes his brutal lust revives in his mind. He thinks I am a vampire sent from Hell to destroy him ;
1929 · PDF PAGE 176
…ve done wrong to leave him so much to himself. But I wanted the boy to gain all the laurels; he's young enough to like them." "I think I know who you mean," said Lord Antony, smiling; "and I don't think you need be [248] very much afraid. I never saw any one much better fitted to take care of himself." "For all that, he's in urgent danger at this very moment. He has incurred the greatest possible risk; he has gained a victory. But it has been only a clash of outposts; the enemy is coming up now, horse, foot, and artillery, with lust of revenge …
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
… of the elements will usually be a definite single act of catastrophic energy. This act, too, does not take place in time or space as we know them. I think that for the first time of experiencing a Dhyana it is necessarily single. Certain mystical methods may teach us to retain the image; but the criterion of true Dhyana is the singleness, so totally opposed as it is to the vague and varying phantoms of the “astral plane.” The new consciousness resulting from the combination is, too, always a simple one. Even where it is infinitely complex, as …
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
… of the elements will usually be a definite single act of catastrophic energy. This act, too, does not take place in time or space as we know them. I think that for the first time of experiencing a Dhyana it is necessarily single. Certain mystical methods may teach us to retain the image; but the criterion of true Dhyana is the singleness, so totally opposed as it is to the vague and varying phantoms of the “astral plane.” The new consciousness resulting from the combination is, too, always a simple one. Even where it is infinitely complex, as …
1910 · PDF PAGE 60
…ave many mental constituents, such as the simple sensations of pain and of pleasure, that are not ideas of bodies . . . every process of know- ledge, including scientific knowledge, is merely a psychical event. . . . This fact cannot be banished by the well-known method of the ostrich ” (pp. 39, 40). “The real mystery of mysteries is the mind of man. Why, with a pen or brush, one man sits down and makes a masterpiece, and yet another, with the self-same instruments and opportunities, turns out a daub or botch, is twenty 48
1910 · PDF PAGE 60
…ave many mental constituents, such as the simple sensations of pain and of pleasure, that are not ideas of bodies . . . every process of know- ledge, including scientific knowledge, is merely a psychical event. . . . This fact cannot be banished by the well-known method of the ostrich ” (pp. 39, 40). “The real mystery of mysteries is the mind of man. Why, with a pen or brush, one man sits down and makes a masterpiece, and yet another, with the self-same instruments and opportunities, turns out a daub or botch, is twenty 48
1910 · PDF PAGE 39
…rely), seduction, abortion, concealment of birth, child-murder, social tyranny, — et omnis horrida cohors malorum. As few people seem to know the fons et origo le- gis, I may here be permitted to sketch it in out- line. When the power of the Crescent menaced that of the Cross, sodomy was put down with Dra- conic rigour because the Turks believed that the
1913 · PDF PAGE 303
…us add that there are no mysteries without symbols. The symbol, being the formula or the expression of the mystery, only expresses its unknown depth by paradoxical images borrowed from the known. The symbolic form, having for its object to characterize what is above scientific reason, should necessarily find itself without that reason: hence the celebrated and perfectly just remark of a Father of the Church: “I believe because it is absurd. Credo guia absurdum.” If science were to affirm what it did not know, it would 1 A dog has six legs. Defi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 303
…us add that there are no mysteries without symbols. The symbol, being the formula or the expression of the mystery, only expresses its unknown depth by paradoxical images borrowed from the known. The symbolic form, having for its object to characterize what is above scientific reason, should necessarily find itself without that reason: hence the celebrated and perfectly just remark of a Father of the Church: “I believe because it is absurd. Credo guia absurdum.” If science were to affirm what it did not know, it would 1 A dog has six legs. Defi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 447
… but were not, because he was not mad, given by the Captain of the “Titanic” to caulk the planks after the ship had been cut in two. 83. Know, O Narjol, thou of the Secret Path, its pure fresh waters must be used to sweeter make the Ocean’s bitter waves—that mighty sea of sorrow formed of the tears of men. 84. Alas! when once thou hast become like the fix’d star in highest heaven, that bright celestial orb must shine from out the spatial depths for all—save for itself; give light to all, but take from none. It is incomparably annoying to see th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
…on be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in continuai ardour, dismissing ail but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.2 For know that the true Formula3 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus : INVOKE OFTEN 4 So may ail men corne at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,…