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Page 87 of 1191913 · PDF PAGE 394
THE EQUINOX screncE. Admit that if religion has produced much good, she has also done much evil. FAITH. When one kills in the name of the God who said, “Thou shalt not kill,’ when one persecutes in the name of Him who commands us to forgive our enemies, when one propagates darkness in the name of Him who tells us not to hide the light under a bushel, is it just to attribute the crime to the very law which condemns it? Say, if you wish to be just, that in spite of religion, much evil has been done upon earth. But also, to how many virtues has it…
1913 · PDF PAGE 420
THE EQUINOX tears ; the song of Castor and Pollux, whom death could not divide, and who love alternately in hell and upon earth. . . . Then he calls softly Eurydice, his dear Eurydice, his so much loved Eurydice: Ah! miseram Eurydicen anima fugiente vocabat, Eurydicen! toto referebant flumine rip. While he sings, that pallid statue of the sculptor death takes on the colour of the first tint of life, its white lips begin to redden like the dawn . . . Orpheus sees her, he trembles, he stammers, the hymn almost dies upon his lips, but she pales an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
THE EQUINOX In the last century all Europe resounded with the miracles of Cagliostro. Who is ignorant of what powers were attri- buted to his ‘wine of Egypt,’ and to his ‘elixir’? What can we add to the stories that they tell of his other-world suppers, where he made appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 248
THE EQUINOX the Order unless he be equally well disposed to all classes of opinion. You may have six wives or none; but if you have six, you are required not to let them talk all at once, and if you have none, you are required to refrain from boring other people with dithyrambs upon your own virtue. This toler- ance is taught by a peculiar course of instruction whose na- ture it would be imprudent as well as impertinent to disclose; I will ask you to accept my word that it is efficient. With this provision, it is easy to see that intolerance an…
1919 · PDF PAGE 384
THE EQUINOX which is taught. On reaching the highest grade of the sec- ond Order, that of Exempt Adept, there are two Paths open, the right hand and the left. These are described at length in Liber 418, and we must refer the Student to that book. But the main point is that on the right hand path, stripping self, the Adept becomes Nemo, the Master of the Temple, and re- turns across the abyss, or rather is flung forth, and appears in the Heaven of Jupiter—or sphere of another planet—as a morning Star or an evening Star to bring light to them tha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX It is in such as Frédéric that the hope of the world lies. You could not bribe Frédéric with a motor-car to grind in an office and help to starve and enslave his fellows. The bloated, short-of-breath, bedizened magnates of commerce and finance are not life, but a disease. The monster hotel is not hospitality, but imprisonment. Civilisation is a madness ; and while there are men like Frédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 324
THE EQUINOX “ Before us glared a human face above a human body with arms and feet; but behind it, it was as the body of a lion. “Sappho then gave me the 0°=o° sign, which I returned, whereupon the great figure rose and blessed us, and we embraced. Then I knelt before Sappho and said: “You have given me of your strength and brought me into this place of blessing; I will now give you of mine.’ “For answer she held my hands in hers, and wonderful tinglings of glory and passion flowed into me like live fire. I raised my head to her bosom, and kisse…
1909 · PDF PAGE 332
THE EQUINOX according to the powers of attainment, but in all cases these journeys would be of little use unless method were brought into the extraordinary chaos which they at first reveal. And, as in Geography, little information could be obtained of the configuration of the Earth’s surface unless explorers set out with a definite object in view, such as Columbus had when he set out on his great journey of discovery, and equipped with definite instruments; so in these Astral journeys, little or no spiritual information can be obtained unless t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX It is in such as Frédéric that the hope of the world lies. You could not bribe Frédéric with a motor-car to grind in an office and help to starve and enslave his fellows. The bloated, short-of-breath, bedizened magnates of commerce and finance are not life, but a disease. The monster hotel is not hospitality, but imprisonment. Civilisation is a madness ; and while there are men like Frédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 324
THE EQUINOX “ Before us glared a human face above a human body with arms and feet; but behind it, it was as the body of a lion. “Sappho then gave me the 0°=o° sign, which I returned, whereupon the great figure rose and blessed us, and we embraced. Then I knelt before Sappho and said: “You have given me of your strength and brought me into this place of blessing; I will now give you of mine.’ “For answer she held my hands in hers, and wonderful tinglings of glory and passion flowed into me like live fire. I raised my head to her bosom, and kisse…
1909 · PDF PAGE 332
THE EQUINOX according to the powers of attainment, but in all cases these journeys would be of little use unless method were brought into the extraordinary chaos which they at first reveal. And, as in Geography, little information could be obtained of the configuration of the Earth’s surface unless explorers set out with a definite object in view, such as Columbus had when he set out on his great journey of discovery, and equipped with definite instruments; so in these Astral journeys, little or no spiritual information can be obtained unless t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
THE EQUINOX minnesinger, or trouvere? The difference can not be accounted for by climate, religion, or manners. It is not the supernatural in Arabian story which is inexplicable, but the peculiar phase of the supernatural both in beauty and terror. I say inexplicable, because to me, in common with all around me, it bore this character for years. In later days, I believe, and now with all due modesty assert, I unlocked the secret, not by a hypothesis, not by processes of reasoning, but by journeying through those self-same fields of weird expe- …
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
THE EQUINOX minnesinger, or trouvere? The difference can not be accounted for by climate, religion, or manners. It is not the supernatural in Arabian story which is inexplicable, but the peculiar phase of the supernatural both in beauty and terror. I say inexplicable, because to me, in common with all around me, it bore this character for years. In later days, I believe, and now with all due modesty assert, I unlocked the secret, not by a hypothesis, not by processes of reasoning, but by journeying through those self-same fields of weird expe- …
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
THE EQUINOX 7. Now therefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the Holy Graal, do thou divest thyself of all thy goods. 8. Thou hast wealth; give it unto them that have need thereof, yet no desire toward it. 9. Thou hast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit…
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
THE EQUINOX 7. Now therefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the Holy Graal, do thou divest thyself of all thy goods. 8. Thou hast wealth; give it unto them that have need thereof, yet no desire toward it. 9. Thou hast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit…
1911 · PDF PAGE 84
THE EQUINOX Tarot. But it is drawn by four sphinxes, diverse, like the four sphinxes upon the door of the vault of the adepts, counter- changed in their component parts. The chariot itself is the lunar crescent, waning. The canopy is supported by eight pillars of amber. These pillars are upright, and yet the canopy which they support is the whole vault of night. The charioteer is a man in golden armour, studded with sapphires, but over his shoulders is a white robe, and over that a red robe. Upon his golden helmet he beareth for his crest a cra…
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
THE EQUINOX the little finger, is equivalent, in the sacred hieroglyphic language, to the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. It is the perverted and material translation of that great word of St. Augustine: ‘Love, and do what you will!” Compare now this sign with the doctrine of Mr. Madrolle: Ze most imperfect and the most apparently guilty act of love is worth more than the best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
THE EQUINOX the little finger, is equivalent, in the sacred hieroglyphic language, to the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. It is the perverted and material translation of that great word of St. Augustine: ‘Love, and do what you will!” Compare now this sign with the doctrine of Mr. Madrolle: Ze most imperfect and the most apparently guilty act of love is worth more than the best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 400
THE EQUINOX Ulysses, and the East her Wooden Horse. [Maha (great) and Hina (little) are quite meaningless epithets, only serv- ing to distinguish Hinduized Tibetan Buddhism from ca- nonical Cingalese-Burmese-Siamese Buddhism.—Eb.] 2. ’Tis well, Shravaka. Prepare thyself, for thou wilt have to travel on alone. The Teacher can but point the way. The path is one for all, the means to reach the goal must vary with the Pilgrims. It is here admitted that there are many ways of reaching the same end. In order to assist a pupil, the Teacher should know…
1909 · PDF PAGE 124
THE EQUINOX “Such a one is ripe for adventure, and since, as your great poet has said, ‘Circumstance bows before those who never miss a chance,’ it was perhaps only a matter of time before I met with one. “Indeed (I will tell you, for it will help you to under- stand my story), I once found myself in an extremely absurd position through my fantastic trust in the impeccability of woman, “Tt was rather late one night, and I was walking home through a deserted street, when two brutal-looking ruffians came towards me, between them a young and beaut…