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Page 81 of 1151906 · PDF PAGE 117
…ent’s head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life’s plan. The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought’s abyss of tears and woes. Leave Sirenusa ! Even Greece Forget ! they are not there! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayer ! Leave the illusions, life and time And death, and seek that star sublime— Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are, And single through eternity Exists alone the Star, And utter Knowledge rise and cease In that which is beyond the Peace ! JASON. Tho…
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
… return to the body, but should any difficulty arise, practice (again) will make the imagination fertile. For example, one may create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwaras. It might be dangerous to go too far, or to stay too long; for fatigue must be avoided. The danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. Finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to hâve been travelling to coincide with the p…
1899 · PDF PAGE 254
…res invade the white, Love and life are but a span; Woeis me! and woe is man ! “In conclusion, as far as descriptive power and beauty of thought are concerned, we consider that the author of ‘ The Tale of Archais’ holds the first place among the latter-day poets. But there are passages in the book in our opinion quite unsuit- able for the perusal of the white maidens of England, to whom it is dedicated. We do not know whether the poet is an up- holder of ‘Art for Art’s sake,’ which means that it is better to — paint an immoral picture well than…
1954 · PDF PAGE 137
…you accept no worthless material; that you select, and select again, always in proper order and proportion; organize, structuralize your thought, always with the one aim in view of accomplishing the Great Work. Well, now, before going further into this, I must behave like an utter cad, and disgrace my family tree, and blot my 'scutcheon and my copybook by confusing you about "realism." Excuse: not my muddle; it was made centuries ago by a gang of cursed monks, headed by one Duns Scotus-sQ-called because he was Irish-or if not by somebody else e…
1922 · PDF PAGE 273
…de me feel. The effect of the drug had been to kill all feelingin me. My impulse to kill myself had not been so wholly negative’as I had thought. It was a positive craving for what I supposed to be the anzsthesia of death. The pain of life had been too much to endure, and the influence of King Lamus had been to brace me to meet life face to face, whatever it might have in store, and conquer it. I did not fear death any more than I had done in the old days, flying over the lines. I didn’t mind dying at all; but I wanted to die fighting. Lou was …
1954 · PDF PAGE 139
… whole System of the Qabalah. It does more than merely increase the mnemonic faculty by 10,000 percent or so; the habit of throwing your thoughts about, manipulating them, giving them a wash and brush-up, packing them away into their proper places in your "Crystal Cabinet," gives you immensely increased power over them. In particular, it helps you to rid them of the emotional dirt which normally clogs them? you become perfectly indifferent to any implication but their value in respect of the whole system; and this is of incalculable help in the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 185
186 The Law is for All Modern thought, even that of the shallowest, is compelled by Aiwaz to confirm His Law, without knowing what it is about. For instance: “God’s wind from nowhere which is called the Will; and is man’s only excuse upon this earth,” was written by so triv ial a Fat Man as Gilbert Keith Chesterton in The Flying Inn.1 1 [G. K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn (1914), ch. 17.] 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. Commentary: Note that Heru-ra-ha is not merely a particu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
84 Alps --- slopes of very soft snow set in an unclimbable angle. He thought that my capacity for swimming up places of this sort might enable us to bag the mountain. I hope that Eckenstein has left adequate material for a biography and made arrangements for its publication. I had always meant to handle the matter myself. But the unhappy termination of his life in phthisis and marriage, when he had hoped to spend its autumn and winter in Kashmir meditating upon the mysteries which appealed to his sublime spirit, made all such plans nugatory. I …
1929 · PDF PAGE 521
…know the extent of my capacity to endure; and thereby, of course, to increase that capacity in the future by showing me that even when I thought I had broken the chain it held by invisible links as firmly as ever and was, in fact, unbreakable; for it is an essential element of my being to be pledged to the performance of the Great Work. They also taught me by this means the {822} consequences of any such error; and this has been very useful to me in dealing with those who may be in danger of making a similar blunder. The penalty itself was also…
1906 · PDF PAGE 119
…nour—to stretch forth The arm of murder o’er the head of age. But surely must be means—-— MADNESS. The prophecy ! VoL. 0 MEDEA. Happy my thought be! Ha! ‘* Athena shall relent not till the king Shall die and live.” Vainly the prophet meant Mere transference of the crown. his saying To daze the children — fools theyare ! So mask Evil beneath the waxen face of Good, Trick out Calamity in robes of Luck— Come, children! Is the sun bright? your eyesP I have found it. I'll twist And ALCESTIS. Dear queen, all’s well with us. Such happi- ness Crowds da…
1922 · PDF PAGE 214
…ly. The snobbishness of the man reminded me that he was the son of a small shopkeeper in a lowland village—a fact which I shouldn’t have thought of for a second but for his own unctuous insistence on Debrett. He got up and went to a little wall safe behind my back. I could hear him open and shut it. He returned and leant over the back of-my chair, stretching out his left arm so that I could see what was in his hand. It was a sealed ten-gramme bottle labelled “‘ Heroini Hydrochlorid,’’ with the quantity and the maker's
1922 · PDF PAGE 253
…ver it might seem to casual scrutiny, must be of the nature of pain, because it implied duality and imperfection; and that the nature of thought of whatever kind, must ultimately be insanity, because it expresses the relations between things, and never the things in themselves. It became evident that the sorrow of the Universe was caused by the desire of manifestation, and that death could not do more than suppress one form of existence in favour of another. Of course, the smpasse is complete. There seems to be no solution of the problem. It is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 426
…o acquire them is that one learns such a lot in the process. Otherwise- Here is another of those Eastern stories for you! A certain Yogi thought it would be an admirable achievement to walk across the Ganges. After forty years he succeeded, and went off to his Guru to demonstrate his power, and receive his due meed of praise. It so happened that this Guru was rather like myself, at least in the matter of his Nasty Temper; and when the disciple came gaily striding back across the Sacred Stream, expecting compliments, he was met with: "Well, I th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 54
…en any direct reference to the subject of sex to secure no happier result than to allow Sigmund Freud and others to prove that our every thought, speech, and gesture, conscious or unconscious, is an indirect reference! Unless one wants to wreck the neighbourhood, it is best to explode one’s gunpowder in an unconfined space. There are very few cases of “perverted hunger-instinct” in moderately healthy communities. War restrictions on food created dishonest devices to procure dainties, and artificial attempts to appease the ache of appetite by ch…
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…ll, not by Necessity. 341. Blavatskys Himalayan Balm.43—See the corkscrew theories of A . P. Sinnet in that masterpiece of confusion of thought—and nomenclature !—“Esoteric Buddhism.” Also see the “Voice of the Silence, or, The Butler’s Revenge.” Not Bp. Butler. 366. Ekam Advaita.44—Of course I now re- ject this utterly. B ut it is, I believe, a stage of thought necessary for many or most of us. The bulk of these poems w as w ritten w hen I was an A dvaitist, incredible as the retrospect now appears. My revision has borne Buddhist fruits, but …
1922 · PDF PAGE 290
276 The Diary of a Drug Fiend evils would immediately arise? Remember the food restrictions during the war.” “ By Jove, I never thought of that,” I said, as a hundred half-forgotten incidents bounced into my mind. There were all sorts of stratagems for dodging the regulations, on the part of people who in the ordinary way were plain straightforward law-abiding citizens. “Of course, we must have restrictions about love and drink and drugs. It is quite obvious how frightfully people would abuse their liberty if they had it.” “I’m sorry to have to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 313
…I could see Lou take an impulsive step towards me; and then, controlling herself, she recoiled as a man might who had approached what he thought was a beautifully marked piece of fallen timber and recog- nised it for a rattlesnake.
1922 · PDF PAGE 351
…d then get cancer or something right away, what a fool I shall feel| “Help you at all? ”’ asked Lamus. Well, honestly, it did not. I had thought out most of those things for myself at one time or another ; and I seemed to have got past them. It’s a curious thing that once you've written down a reason you diminish its value. You can’t go on using the same reason in- definitely. That fact tends to prove that the alleged reason is artificial and false, that it has simply been invented on the spur of the moment by oneself to excuse one’s indulgence…
1922 · PDF PAGE 352
…ss some particular occasion arose for taking a dose. I was very annoyed that Lou should have got on faster than myself. Basil told me he thought I needed © more active exercise, though already I had begun to take some interest in the sports of the place. I had even got through a whole game of Thelema without having to sit down and gasp. But there was still an obscure hankering after the drug life. It had been burnt into me that normal interests were not worth while. King Lamus had taken me out climbing several times ; but while I experienced pr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 356
…ous complexity of the vision co-ordinated itself. There was a sensation of whirling and rising communicated to the entire universe of my thought. A sort of dizziness seized upon my spirit. It was as if a wheel had been set in motion and gradually increased its pace so that one could no longer distinguish the spokes. It became an indefinite whirr. This feeling invaded my entire consciousness little by little, so that it was reduced to an unchanging unity; but a unity composed of diverse forces in regular motion. The monotony devoured consciousne…