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Page 83 of 951905 · PDF PAGE 199
…ade encountered blade. I was determined he should take my life. ‘Went your glance back—-encountering my wife ?” ‘““Taunt me afraid !” My whole soul weary of the coward strife. _ 17? I cried; ‘‘I will not be He seemed to see no opening I gave, But hated me the more. Serene and suave, He fenced with deep contempt. I stumble, slip, Guard wide—and only move his upper lip. ‘* You know I will not strike, Sir pure and brave ! Fight me your best—or I shall finda whip !” That stung me, even me. SO: Therefore some shame and hate informed the blow ; Some …
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…ago. 'Desire' is the need of every unit to extend its experience by combining with its opposite. (14) It is easy enough to construct the whole series of arguments which lead up to the first 'Noble Truth.' Every operation of Love is the satisfaction of a bitter hunger, but the appetite only grows fiercer by satisfaction; so that we can say with the Preacher: 'He that increaseth knowledge increaseth Sorrow.' The root of all this sorrow is in the sense of insufficiency; the need to unite, to lose oneself in the beloved object, is the manifest proo…
1939 · PDF PAGE 40
… Two and Three, the equal and opposite Father and Mother, and their union results in the complexity of the Son, the Vau Group, while the whole figure recovers its simplicity in the single Sephira of Hé final, of the Daughter. It is exactly the same in biology. The spermatozoon and the ovum are biologically the separation of an unmanifested single cell, which is in its function simple, though it contains in itself, in a latent form, all the possibilities of the original single cell. Their union results in the manifestation of these qualities in …
1906 · PDF PAGE 131
…For now the little shadow shaves An image ever in my brain ; Across my field of sight there gapes Ever a gulf, and draws the pain Of the whole knowledge of the man Into its vague and shifting span. Moreover, in that gulf I see Now the bright vineyard sweet and clean, Now the dog Naboth mocking me With rude curt word and mouth obscene Wried in derisidn—well relied Dog's insoleneéson monarch’s pride. Ah, friend! Some winds may shake a city ! Some dogs may creep too near a feast ! Thou, reckoning on my scorn, my pity, Thine own uncleanness as a be…
1944 · PDF PAGE 36
…essive card becomes less ideal and more actual, increasingly so until, with the number 6 which corresponds to the Sun, the centre of the whole system, the fiery idea re‐ surges, balanced; hence pure, although complex. Beyond this, the force is beginning to expend itself, or to spiritualise itself, in the cards of the Decan of Sagittarius. But the best fixation of the fiery force is found in the 9, which number is the foundation of the structure of the Tree of life. Thus the card is called The Lord of Strength. The fire has been purified, ethere…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…the vigil overpast. Call me to thee at last, () Rose, O perfect miracle lover, Call me! I hear thee though it be across The abyss of the whole universe, Though not a sigh escape. delicious loss ! Vhough hardly a wish rehearse The imperfection underlying ever The perfect happiness. 1 It will be noticed in fact that this poem is in an original metre, no stanza being com- plete in itself, but one running on into the next. Thou knowest that not in flesh Lies the fair fresh Delight of Love; not in mere lips and eyes The secret of these bridal ecstas…
1919 · PDF PAGE 156
…lt the interior trembling kindle itself into a kiss . . . also I was given to enjoy the subtle Presence of my Lord interiorly during the whole of the twelfth day. But he withdrew Himself . . . yet leaving a comfort not to be told, a Peace... The Peace.” Yes, with me also the Peace has remained, but sometimes I cannot connect myself with It, or fail to do so, being led away by Maya. Then comes the entry of the Thirteenth Day. “Being entered into the Silence let me abide in the Silence. Amen.” And here I am puzzled. Either J. St. J. attained perm…
1939 · PDF PAGE 26
…ances; these are the greatest of the obstacles which confront the human being, trained as he is by centuries of evolution to receive his whole consciousness through the senses alone. And they hit us hardest because they interfere directly with the technique of our work; we are constantly gaining new powers, despite ourselves, and every time this happens we have to invent a new method for bringing their malice to naught. But, as before, the remedy is of the same stuff as the disease; it is the unswerving purity of aspiration that enables us to s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
…im in the vital spot are very great; and strange as it may sound, in country like Hambantota, he is very difficult to see at all. In the whole province there are really very few trees of notable stature, yet the undergrowth (including smaller trees) is so think and so high that it is rarely possible to see an animal even when one is close to him. I remember once being so near to an elephant that I could have prodded him with a salmon rod; but I could not see one inch of all his acres. He was feeding on small twigs; I could hear every gentle sna…
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
…of Beginning, also was. Thus was the firmament a vital glass, The waters as the vessel of the soul ; Thus earth, the mystic basis of the whole, Was smitten through with fire, as chrysopras, Blending, uniting, and dividing it, Volcanic, airy, and celestial. T rose wiuun the elemental ball, And lo! the Ancient One of Days did sit ! His head and hair were white as wool, His eyes A flaming fire: and from the splendid mouth Flashed the Eternal Sword ! 1 Lo! Lying at his feet as dead, I saw The leaping-forth of Law: Division of the North wind and the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
44 ORACLES To illume the whole with final Rapture And destroy the House of pain for ever, Leave its laughter and its tears, and shatter All the causes of its mockery, master All the workings of its will, and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style ‘‘ Cessation”; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
…From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses ! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses ! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. Nature my name is called. O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless! O shadowy tale! O brain that halts before its thought for- gotten! Once all ye knew me—ere the earth grew pale, And Time began,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…an PARZIVAL, “der reine Thor”, the True Knight 1From Lieber Aleph: The Booh of Wisdom or Folly. that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole the Wound of Amfortas, and ordered Kun‐ dry to Right Service, and regained the Lance, and revived the Miracle of the Sangraal; yea, also upon himself did he accomplish his Word in the end: “Höchsten Heiles Wunder! Erlösung dem Erlöser!” This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship of this Mystery. Understand thou this, O my Son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…en Lion and White Eagle. Line 16.—He is crowned, sceptred, and blessing, all in a threefold manner, Four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. Line 17.—He is inspired by Apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and profane: repre- sented by a boy with his bow and two women, a priestess and an harlot. Line 18.—He drives furiously a chariot drawn by two sphinxes. As Levi drew it. Line 20.—Before him goeth upright the Royal Uraus t. LinE 21.—[ fo) , 3 » and 6, or Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas). Line 23.—From a ga…
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…th the same brush. Their abominable religion compels them to every kind of sentimentality; and the theory of original sin vitiates their whole position, because instead of the noble and inspiring Trance of Sorrow they have nothing but the miserable, cowardly, and selfish sense of guilt to urge them to undertake the Work. 15. I think we may dismiss altogether from our minds every claim to experience made by any Christian of whatever breed of spiritual virus as a mere morbid reflection, the apish imitation of the true ecstasies and trances. All e…
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…f dreamless sleep. The stream grew darker, and the willows cover (As lover from a lover Even for love's sake all the wealth of love) The whole light of the skies: there came to him Sense of some being dim Bent over him, one colour and one form With the dark leaves; but warm And capable of some diviner air. Her limbs were bare, her face supremely fair, Her soul one shapely splendour, Her voice indeed as tender As very silence: so he would not speak, But let his being fade: that all the past Grew shadowy and weak, And lost its life at last, Being…
1905 · PDF PAGE 72
…mortal secrecies ; If with the soul of Aé’schylus thy soul Talk, and with Sappho’s if thy music mingle ; If with the spirit infinite and whole Of Shakespeare thou commune; if thy brows tingle With Dante’s kiss; if Milton’s thunders roll Amid thy skies ; if thou, supreme and single, Be made as Shelley or as Hugo now, And all their laurels mingle on thy brow— Then (as Elijah, when the whirling fire Caught him) stoop not thy spiritual splendour, And sacred-seeking eyes to our desire, But mould one memory yet, divinely tender, 1 Ultramontanism. Dre…
1939 · PDF PAGE 60
…. Comparisons have often been drawn by students of the subject. I will only detain you with one example: 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.' What is this injunction? It is a generalisation of St. Augustine's 'Love, and do what thou wilt.' But in The Book of the Law, lest the hearer should be deluded into a spasm of antinomianism, there is a further explanation: 'Love is the law, love under will.' 8. However, the point is that it is no use discussing the results of Yoga, whether that Yoga be the type recommended by Lao-Tze, or Pat…
1905 · PDF PAGE 216
… planet knows his place In that supreme unquiet quietude. I am the master of my own deep mood. I am the master. Yea, no doubt I rule The whole mad universe by will extended!— Who whispers then, ‘‘ O miserable fool ! This night thy might and majesty are ended; Thy soul shall be required of thee”? I heard This voice, and knew it for my proper word ! Yea, mine own voice: the higher spirit speaks, Stemming the hands that guide, the arms that hold, Even the infinite brain: that spirit seeks A loftier dawn of more ephemeral gold— Ephemeral, and etern…
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
…e” is Tetragrammaton: I.H.V.H., com‐ monly called Jehovah. He is the Supreme Lord of the Four Elements which compose funda‐ mentally the whole Universe. There are three verses in Exodus (xiv, 19, 20, 21) each containing seventy‐two letters. By writing down the first of these, and underneath this the next verse backwards, and under this again the last verse forwards, seventy‐two columns of three letters each are obtained. These are read downwards, and the terminations AL or AH according as they are male or fe‐ male, appended. There is also an at…