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Page 81 of 921929 · PDF PAGE 201
…ng about Sophocles; Chogo Ri would be there when the last echo of Napoleon's glory had died away. I was more than ever convinced that to take an interest in the affairs of this world, one must turn one's back on truth. Buddhism might be right or wrong in saying that nothing is worth while; but anyhow there could be no doubt that the conventional standards of value were simply comic. If anything were worth while, it could only be discovered by turning one's back resolutely on temporal things. In accordance with Eckenstein's puritanical ideas of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…! 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
… DEATH! My beauty in thy deep pure love Anchors its homage far above All lights of heaven. The stars awake ; The very stars bend down to take From its fresh fragrance for the sake Of their own cloud-compelling peace. On earth there lies a silver fleece Of new-fallen snow, secure from sun, In alleys, leafy every one This year already with the spring, The breeze blows freshly, thrushes sing, And all the woods are burgeoning With quick new buds ; across the snow The scent of violets to and fro Wafts at the hour of dawn. Alone I wait, a figure turn…
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
…d the mysterious sentence. ‘*The old lady, whatever may have been her faults, could act promptly. She rang the bell. ‘Sarah!’ said she, ‘take away that dreadful creature! Its language is positively awful.’ ‘What shall I do with it, mum?’ asked the ‘general.’ ‘Aum Mani Padme Hum,’ said the parrot. The old lady stopped her ears. ‘ Wring its neck !’ she said. ‘* The parrot was only-eight years old. VII. *** You're a muddler and an idiot !’ said the infuriated God. ‘Why not make him a spiritual thing? A Nat? lives 10,000 years.” ‘Make him a Nat the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
…ls with less dangerous topics. These are truly conventional, no doubt; we may pass them by; they are foreign to our purpose; but we will take that stupendous example of literary subterfuge—King Lear. Let my digress to the history of my own conversion. Syllogistically,—all great men ( e.g. Shaw) are agnostics and subverters of morals. Shake- speare was a great man. Therefore Shakespeare was an agnostic and a subverter of morals. À priori this is then certain. But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 104
…ed: Arise! And then the pearl Budded with nautilus-wings, and upward now Soared. And our souls began to know the death That was about to take us. All our veins Boiled with tumultuous and bursting blood ; Our flesh broke bounds, and all our bones grew fierce, As if some poison ate us up. And lo! The air is peopled with a devil-tribe Born of our own selves. These, grown furious At dispossession by the subtle air, Contend with us, who know the agony Of half life drawn out lingering, who groan Eaten as if by worms, who dash ourselves Vainly against…
1944 · PDF PAGE 33
…allest fraction of a second is sufficient to move both object and observer in space. This fact is to be emphasised, because one must not take the Tree of Life as a dead fixed formula. It is in a sense an eternal pattern of the Universe, just because it is infinitely elastic; and it is to be used as an instrument in one’s researches into Nature and her forces. It is not to be made an excuse for Dogmatism. The Tarot should be learnt as early in life as possible; a ful‐ crum for memory and a schema for mind. It should be studied constantly, a dail…
1906 · PDF PAGE 27
…es: Now, by that Light, come forth, I say, to me, My Lady of the Starlight and the Moon! Come and be absolute within my mind, That I may take no dim remembrance back To drown this glory with earth’s quivering gloom. But, O abide within Me! Every hour I need the lofty and the limpid stream Of that White Brilliance : Leave me not alone, O Holy Spirit! Come to comfort me, To draw me, and to make me manifest, Osiris to the weeping world ; that I Be lifted up upon the Cross of Pain And Sacrifice, to draw all human kind And every germ of matter that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…dy from the pain which is its normal characteristic; that of Mantra Yoga to smooth the choppy sea of thought by inducing its movement to take the form of rhythmical billows. In this way I set forth the initiated teaching of all ages and all arts in a uniform and consistent body of writing, being careful nowhere to imply any theory soever. {567} 1. The Soldier and the Hunchback, ! and ? states it most clearly. In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things wh…
1944 · PDF PAGE 133
…he Vulture. Thou mayest draw to an head the bow of thy magical will; thou mayest loose the shaft and pierce her to the heart. I am Eros. Take then the bow and the quiver from my shoulders and slay me; for unless thou slay me, thou shalt not unveil the Mystery of the Aethyr. Therefore I did as he commanded; in the quiver were two arrows, one white, one black. I cannot force myself to fit an arrow to the bow. And there came a voice: It must needs be. And I said: No man can do this thing. And the voice answered, as it were an echo: Nemo hoc facere…
1929 · PDF PAGE 398
398 Man, unable to solve the Riddle of Existence, takes counsel of Saturn, extreme old age. Such answer as he can get is the one word "Despair". Is there more hope in the dignity and wisdom of Jupiter? No; for the noble senior lacks the vigour of Mars the warrior. Counsel is in vain without determination to carry it out. Mars, invoked, is indeed capable of victory: but he has already lost the controlled wisdom of age; in a moment of conquest he wastes the fruits of it, in the arms of luxury. {635} It is through this weakness that the perfected …
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
… idea that I should ever attain to it; in fact, I thought it utterly beyond possibility. This book was given to me that I might avoid mistakes when the time came for me to become a Magus. It is impossible to give any idea of the terror and sublimity of this book, while the accuracy of its predictions and of its descriptions of the state of being, at that time wholly beyond my imagination to conceive, make it a most astonishing document. LIBER X. This book is called "The Gate of Light". It explains how those who have attained initiation, taking …
1929 · PDF PAGE 286
…d stamped the fact on my memory. On the steamer was an old man, a distinguished official who had intended to retire from the service and take his pension a month or two before. He had been personally requested by the lieutenant governor to postpone his return to England that he might facilitate the arrangements for the visit of the Prince of Wales. The conversation of Europeans in these parts {467} of the earth is inexpressibly morbid; they seem obsessed by the ever present probability of death. The official tried to conceal his panic by loudly…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…the mysterious sentence. “The old lady, whatever may have been her faults, could act promptly . She rang the bell. ‘Sarah!’ s aid s he, ‘take away that dreadful creature! Its language is positively awful.’ ‘W hat shall I do with it, mum?’ asked the ‘general.’ ‘Aum Mani Padme Hum,’ said the parrot. The old lady stopped her ears. ‘Wring its neck!’ she said. “The parrot was only eight years old. VII. “ ‘You’re a muddle and an idiot !’ said the infuriated God. ‘Why not make him a spiritual thing ? A Nat2 lives 10,000 years.’ ‘M ake him a Nat then !…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…an arcanum that cannot be revealed. It is simply bad faith to swear a man to the most horrible penalties if he betray ..., &c., and then take him mysteriously apart and confide the Hebrew Alphabet to his safe keeping. This is perhaps only ridiculous ; but it isa wicked imposture to pretend to have received from the Rosicrucians manuscripts which are to be found in the British Museum. To obtain money on these grounds, as has been done by certain moderns, is clear (and I trust, indictable) fraud ; and ever to have countenanced those frauds, of wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
… dominion. And our Father could not at that time stay him: though for himself had he cut off the grip, yet for others—well, let each man take his sword! The way went through a forest. Now between two trees hung a man by one heel (Love was that tree).° Crossed were his legs, and his arms behind his head, that hung ever downwards, the fingers locked. ‘* Who art thou?” quoth our Father. ‘‘ He that came before thee.” ‘‘ Who am 1?” ‘‘ He that cometh after me.’’ With that worshipped our Father, and took a present of a great jewel from him, and went h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…he very moment of death; but once the saints had been called up, the day of grace was finally over. Various alarums and excursions would take place as per the Apocalypse, and then would come the millennium, when Satan would be chained for a thousand years and Christ reign for that period over the Jews regathered in Jerusalem. The position of these Jews is not quite clear. They were not saved in the same sense as Christians had been, yet they were not damned. The millennium seems to have been thought of as a fulfilment of god's promise to Abraha…
1906 · PDF PAGE 268
…as} severe. 6 Ontogeny can only be misunderstood by thorough study of phylogeny. Crepitation of the bivalves is a concurrent phenomenon. Take away the number you first thought of, and we see that the exostoses of the melanotic pyemata by the river's brim are exostoses and nothing more. . 7 An unpleasant subject—a great comfort to ‘think of—vide Wilde, of. czt., and A Woman | of 20 Importance. Also Krafft-Ebing, Psycho- pathia Sexualis, xx.; The Family Doctor, Quain, Anatomy of Grey Maiter, cxlv. 24. 8 The 24th part of a (solar) day. ® From Fren…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
… eating and drinking: Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me. The emancipation of mankind from all limitations whatever is one of the main precepts of the Book. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. It reconciles cosmological conceptions which transcend time and space with a convention…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…b‐ ing how the union of any two things produces a third thing which is neither of them. The simplest illustration is in Chemistry. If we take hydrogen gas and chlorine gas, and pass an electric spark through them, an explosion takes place, and hydrochloric acid is pro‐ duced. Here we have a positive substance, which may be called the Son of the marriage of these elements, and is an advance into Matter. But also, in the ecstasy of the union, Light and Heat are disengaged; these phenomena are not material in the same sense as the hydrochloric aci…