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Page 89 of 1001910 · PDF PAGE 351
… brothers and write all this for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies most charming on the boat deck. We are mystics and are never bored; we are mystics…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
… brothers and write all this for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies most charming on the boat deck. We are mystics and are never bored; we are mystics…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…rs off. II. They told me I was damned. The Shroff? Gave me ten dollars Mex. (For ease Of English souls the dead Chinese 1 Money-changer. long the sole currency on the Chinese coast. Mexican dollars were Are taxed) to pay my way in hell. On one pound sterling one lives well. For luxuries are cheaply paid Since Satan introduced I’ree Trade; And necessaries—woe is me !— Are furnished to the damned soul free. III. God’s hell, Earth’s heaven, are not so far. Dinner brought oysters, caviar, Anchovies, truffles, curried rabbit (Bad for the apoplectic …
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
… interested in any of his re- sults, as such of them as I am acquainted with deal with objective and trivial pheno- mena.) Of course, as long as what Darwin called variation is called disease by Professor Ray Lankester, we shall (if we accept his views, 1 See note p. 258.
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
… amiss !) Give me one customary kiss— An end of it! I rend the veil. The flag falls for the Stakes of Song. Run, filly, for the odds are long !1 1(This ‘‘ possible Part II.” is still 72 nudsbus unless we are to suppose from the Greek Dedications (pp. 1 and 16) that ‘‘ Rosa Mundi” is to be taken as such.]
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
… quietly asked the God to leave him alone. ‘* Now he was still quite a young elephant when there came into the jungle, tripping merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Bacillus. ‘‘ And the elephant died. He was only seventeen years old. VI. “* A brief consultation ; and the Srotapatti was reincarnated asa parrot. For the parrot, said the wicked Jehjaour, may live 500 years and never feel it. ‘‘So a grey wonder of wings flitted into the jungle. So joyous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 27
…joy to a delight, As from broad sunshine to the iall of night, As from strong action to endurance strong, As from desire to the power to long, 1 Gladness.,
1929 · PDF PAGE 571
… Light. Ayin means an eye. Shin is the letter of fire or flame; while 93 signifies Thelema --- Will. Further 542 is a number which I had long sought to interpret as being the arithmetical mean between 418 (the Magical Formula of the New Aeon) and 666, my own cipher. I had never succeeded in finding a word to express this idea of the unification of my own nature with that of my dynamic structure. It must surely strike the most sceptical mind as remarkable that an untrained woman, wholly ignorant of Cabbalistic formulae, should obtain words, lett…
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
… as 1902, a reasonably complete demonstration of this conclusion whose premisses were not stated by the official leaders of thought till long afterwards. Yet the theory of initiation on which European adepts base their systems (derived, possibly, from the Egyptians and Chaldeans by way of the gnostics, Pythagoras and the neoplatonists), that of Lao tzu in China, and that of the Vedantists in India, alike imply something of the sort. My claim to originality is confined to the nature of my proof, which I drew from facts of a similar order to thos…
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…ut that does not prove the actual existence of any such oxymoron.! The truth is that you're a very spiritual sort of being and a prey to longevity. Men’s lives are so short that yours seems eternal in comparison. But —why, you’re a nice one to talk! You'll be dead in a week from now.’ ‘“*] quite appreciate the force of your remarks !’ said the seeming cowherd; ‘that about the Characteristics is very clever; and curiously enough, my perception of this has always just preceded my death for the last six goes.’ ‘¢ Well, so long, old chap,’ said Gau…
1944 · PDF PAGE 133
…h a snake; in the right hand a red, in the left hand a blue. And he hath red sandals, but no other garment. And he sayeth: Is not life a long initiation unto sorrow? And is not Isis the Lady of Sor‐ row? And she is my mother. Nature is her name, and she hath a twin sister Nephthys, whose name is Perfection. And Isis must be known of all, but of how few is Nephthys known! Because she is dark, therefore is she feared. But thou who hast adored her without fear, who hast made thy life an initiation into her Mystery, thou that hast neither mother no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…le abjection; even his scholarship deserted him. He published nothing new and lived in sodden intoxication till death put and end to his long misery. He was a great man in his way. May he have expiated his errors and resumed his labours, with the advantage of experience! Summer was now at hand and the wanderlust reasserted itself in me. There was no point in my going back to Boleskine till the following Easter. As it happened, Mathers --- to whom I returned to report progress --- had two guests, members of the Order. They had just comeback from…
1904 · PDF PAGE 125
…n interes ted in any of his results, as such of them as I am acquainted with deal with objective and trivial pheno- mena.) Of course, as long as what Darwin called variation is called disease by Professor Ray Lankester, we shall (if we accept his views, 1 See note p. 116
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…me to turn back the heels of my stockings to facilitate putting them on. I objected to the waste of time involved. This developed into a long argument on the point: he won, but I couldn't believe it and am yet unconverted. 5 I found nothing in the school curriculum which interested me. I had no inkling of it at the time, but I was already in the thrall of the search for reality. Mathematics captured my imagination. I was brilliant at arithmetic until the subject degenerated into "practice", which was a matter for grocers. I might have liked geo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…e quietly asked the God to leave him alone. “Now he was still quite a y oung elephant when there came into the jungle, tripping merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Bacillus. “And the elephant died. He was only seventeen years old.” VI. “A brief consultation ; and the Srotapatti was reincarnated as a parrot. For the parrot, said the wicked Jehjaour, may live 500 years and never feel it. “So a grey wonder of wings flitted into the jungle. So joy ous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 572
…proved pregnant with fate. A brilliant boy, just down from Oxford, where he had distinguished himself by his attainments in history, had long wished to meet me. For over two years, he had studied my magical writings with the utmost enthusiasm and intelligence. His character was extraordinary. He possessed every qualification for becoming a Magician of the first rank. I designed him from the first interview to be my magical heir. He possessed, of course, the defects of these qualities. His daring had made him reckless, and his insight contemptuo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
…velation of the universe in this aspect. I began my meditation with no special objective in view. Almost immediately (instead of after a long- continued effort, as had been the case generally speaking in the past) I obtained a Samadhi of which my conscious memory brought back the account "Nothingness and twinkles", adding subsequently "but what twinkles!" This Samadhi developed in the course of time, as I repeated it, into such importance that I feel almost justified in calling it the radix of my whole philosophical outlook. I have described it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…s an entirely new chapter in my life. {106} 12 When I went up to Cambridge in the October term of 1895, I had the sensation of drawing a long deep breath as one does after swimming under water or (an even better analogy) as one does after bracing oneself against the pain inflicted by a dentist. I could not imagine anything better in life. I found myself suddenly in an entirely new world. I was part of the glories of the past; and I made a firm resolution to be one of the glories of the future. I should like the haunted room over the Great Gate …
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…ntelligent deity. ‘Time is our friend,’ said the enchanter. ‘ Let your influence be used in the Halls of Birth that each birth may be as long as possible. Now the elephant is the longest lived of all beasts—’ ‘Done with you!’ sac Ganesha in great glee, for the idea struck him as ingenious. And he lumbered off to clinch the affair at once. ‘‘ And Perdw’ R Abu died. 1 The archdevil of the Buddhists.
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…were rash enough to tell him not to make grimaces, as he "might be struck like that". He would reply, with an air of enlightenment after long mediation: "So that accounts for it." All children born into a family whose social and economic conditions are settled are bound to take them for granted as universal. It is only when they meet with incompatible facts that they begin to wonder whether they are suited to their original environment. In this particular case the most trifling incidents of life were necessarily interpreted as part of a prearra…