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…s all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. That's the point, father. If you accept a man the first time he asks you it’s practically bigamy! ossory. But—little girl, you ought to accept him at once. He will make you an excellent husband—I wish it. [Pom- pously.| It has ever been the desire of my heart to see my Phemie happily mated beforeI lay my old bones in the grave. EUPHEMIA. But I don’t love him. He’s a quirk. ossory. Tut! Nonsense! Appetite comes with eating. EUPHEMIA. But I don’t care for hors d’euur…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
… but the left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and looked at the time of night. * For reasons which are obvious to anyone who has mixed the Gluten of the White Eagle with the Red Powder, or accomplished the Third Projection, the order of the Tarot trumps cannot any longer be preserved. Nor will their number here exceed seven, 31
1910 · PDF PAGE 246
…s all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. That's the point, father. If you accept a man the first time he asks you it’s practically bigamy! ossory. But—little girl, you ought to accept him at once. He will make you an excellent husband—I wish it. [Pom- pously.| It has ever been the desire of my heart to see my Phemie happily mated beforeI lay my old bones in the grave. EUPHEMIA. But I don’t love him. He’s a quirk. ossory. Tut! Nonsense! Appetite comes with eating. EUPHEMIA. But I don’t care for hors d’euur…
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…k, the toast has but this weight, That thou and I are friends, and that King Death Is friend of both, and will not harvest us Before the time of our ripe harvest comes."’ We have surely said enough to establish clearly the abominable character of this book. We are sure that the moment it is brought to the notice of Lord Alfred Douglas he will take the proper steps to crush the perpetrator. The title-page discloses, as might be expected, both the title of the book and the name of the author. The former is “ Poémes,”, and the latter is Lord Alfre…
1916 · PDF PAGE 14
…from the smithy of Almighty God. And they would smite the hearer with such suddenness and vehemence that his inertia would not even find time to begin to operate. The present is such a moment. But people are not aware of it; they are still listening to the false prophets who prophesy smooth things. The critical situation of the world at present lies not in Europe. Europes fate is known. It lies in America and China. The attention of every man of even the smallest degree of foresight should be concentrated on this fact. It is emphasized clearly…
1919 · PDF PAGE 414
THE EQUINOX while at the same time his air of hopelessness is intensely funny—to the Guru. So we find in this verse that the final result, or something very like it, is given as a qualification antecedent to the starting point; as if one told a blind man that he must be able to see through a brick wall before re- gaining his eyesight. 16. Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind. Following on the tremendous task of verse 15 comes the obvious elementary piece of instruction which one gives to a beginner. The best way out of th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…ychology still leaves. This question Needs a more adequate digestion. Yet I may answer that the universe Of meditation suffers less From time’s insufferable stress Than that of matter. On, thou puny verse ! Weak tide of rhyme ! Another argument Will block the railway train of blague you meant To run me over with. This world Or that ? We’ll keep the question furled. But, surely, (let me corner you !) You wish the painter-mood were true! To leave the hateful world, and see Perish the whole Academy ; So you remain for ever sated, On your own pictu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…ild ass beat (uselessly, if he wished to wake them) upon the tombs of the sportsmen that once thronged those desolate halls. During this time Kwaw devoted his entire attention to the pursuit of philosophy; for the vast quantities of excellent stores abandoned by the British left him no anxiety upon the score of hunger. In the first year be disciplined and conquered his body and its emotions. In the next six years be disciplined and conquered his mind and its thoughts. In the next two years he had reduced the Universe to the Yang and the Yin and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 386
…em have the mystical roses. As soon as I perceived their intentions I felt the most intense impulse to murder them. We talked for a long time without being able to gather much of each other’s thoughts. At last I turned to the books in the coffin, and in the book containing “ Advice to Mankind for a better use of their faculties” I saw, traced by an invisible hand, the following advice : “ Be careful of womanly traps.” “Let the roses be planted; they are meant for that purpose.” “ A cover cannot fall in love except with boards and planks. Beware…
1909 · PDF PAGE 386
…em have the mystical roses. As soon as I perceived their intentions I felt the most intense impulse to murder them. We talked for a long time without being able to gather much of each other’s thoughts. At last I turned to the books in the coffin, and in the book containing “ Advice to Mankind for a better use of their faculties” I saw, traced by an invisible hand, the following advice : “ Be careful of womanly traps.” “Let the roses be planted; they are meant for that purpose.” “ A cover cannot fall in love except with boards and planks. Beware…
1913 · PDF PAGE 16
at Adyar and do the work of Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section. The plaintiff had at the time very great respect and veneration for the defendant, whom he regarded as his spiritual preceptress and whom he credited with more than human attributes, and he agreed to serve her as the Assistant Correspondence Secretary with— out receiving from her any remuneration whatever. The plaintiff accordingly took up his abode at Adyar along with his second and third sons, J. Krishnamurti and J. Nityananda, who are respectively aged 17…
1913 · PDF PAGE 482
… from a MS. annotated by himself. Levi refused to reveal these attri- butions, rightly enough, as his grade was not high enough, and the time not ripe. Note the subtlety of the form of his statement. The correct attributions are in Liber 777.—O. M. 184
1913 · PDF PAGE 482
… from a MS. annotated by himself. Levi refused to reveal these attri- butions, rightly enough, as his grade was not high enough, and the time not ripe. Note the subtlety of the form of his statement. The correct attributions are in Liber 777.—O. M. 184
1919 · PDF PAGE 62
… wrote to S.D.A., and in accordance with instructions received, an Order was founded which worked in a semi-secret manner. g. After some time S.D.A. died: further requests for help were met with a prompt refusal from the colleagues of S.D.A. It was written by one of them that S.D.A.’s scheme had always been regarded with disapproval. But since the absolute rule of the adepts is never to interfere with the judgment of any other person whomsoever—how much more, then, one of themselves, and that one most highly revered!—they had refrained from act…
1919 · PDF PAGE 335
… and has no connection with any other. A looking-glass knows nothing of the different people that look into it. It only reflects one ata time. The brain is however more like a sensitive plate, and memory is the faculty of bringing up into consciousness any picture required. As this occurs in the normal man with his own experiences, so it occurs in the Adept with all experiences. (This is one more reason for His identifying Himself with others.) 13. And then to the inner ear will speakR—THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE, And say: What follows must be reg…
1922 · PDF PAGE 276
…st returned, for she was taking off her furs as I woke. I had been covered with blankets. She came and took them off, and told me it was time to go and get my things from Greek Street and take them to the new rooms which she had engaged for us that morning. Lou, it seemed, was already there; and had fallen asleep again, said Lala, only a few minutes before she left. I could not help feeling a dislike for the way in which everything was being managed for me. I must have shown something of this in my manner. Lala, after bundling me into the autom…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…it into his inner pocket, and, pressing a sovereign into the man's hand, dashed with- out looking behind him from the shop, eager to put time and space between himself and his compromising posi- tion. He hurried to his hotel, not without many a suspi- cious glance over his shoulder, and packed his bag. He had ten minutes to spare. He locked the door carefully, sat down with his back to the light, and pulling the pho- tograph from his pocket, indulged in a long voluptuous gloat. Then the boots knocked with the news of his cab, and Bugg, nobler t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…son of that place and period) was addicted to black magical practices, for they were all Catholics. The power of the Church was, at that time, absolute, and even research was
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
… down in the Position of the Hanged Man, and await the coming of my Lord. Arisen again to go out to dinner. Iwas half-asleep some of the time. Dinner—Hers d’GEuvre—Tripes a la Mode de Caen— Filet de Porc—Glace—g Graves. Oh, how the world Y 81
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
…k. At first sight the problem seems insoluble. It may be so, for me. At least, I have not solved it. Yet I have come very near it, many a time, of old ; have solved it indeed, though in a less important sense than now I seek. I am not to be content with little or with much; but only with the Ultimate Attainment. Apparently the method is just this; to store up—no matter how—great treasures of energy and purity, until they begin to do the work themselves (in the way that the Hindus call Sukshma). Just so the engineer—five feet six in his boots—and …