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…a maiden kissed, or dreaming. Light, as I swim through rollers green and gleaming, Sheds its most subtle sense to penetrate This heart I thought impervious to Fate, Now the sweet light, the full delight, is beaming 1 The song describes Waikiki Beach, near Honolulu.
THE EQUINOX silently, and at first I thought I must be mistaken, I had (it seemed) heard it so many times before. No other answer came, so I went out into the streets and along my way. Gradually the fuller meaning has dawned on me, and I have returned to make this entry. I need not add much more. I do not put the answer down. It was given in silence and must remain in Silence. Still there seemed to be just one little ripple of joy in the Great Silent Sea as another soul gently sank to its rest, and the silent voices whispered “Welcome brother.”…
… no despair may pay * The joy to hold thee for a day ! JASON. Athena’s servant recks not much of Ares. PELIAS. Are thine eyes kindled at thought ? the golden JASON. Mine eyes see farther than the Fleece of Gold. PELIAS. What heroes can attain so fair a thing? JASON. I have some friends who would esteem this quest Lightly—a maiden’s pleasure-wandering Through lilied fields a summer’s afternoon. PELIAS. The Gods give strength! I pray them send thee back Safe to this throne. JASON. I will not see thy face Ever again until the quest be won. Rule th…
…e into something so Sybilline, Oracular, Delphic, Cumaean, that his interlocutor almost trembled. Verus incessu patuit Deus — when Cyril thought it necessary to impress the uninitiate. To the majority of mankind gold looks like dross unless it be wrapped up in tinsel, and tenfold the proper price marked on it in plain figures, with the word "Sacrifice." Hence it is that the most successful merchants omit the gold altogether. "Oh; I didn't understand." "You'll observe that I can't explain this to [324] Cripps,; I shall have to spin some sort of …
…verted, in a month of war, to the type of the coyote and the dingo. But Cyril shouted in his joy. His confidence rose as he went; he had thought out one of General Cripps's "facts" which he felt sure would carry conviction to the mind of the French commander. Arrived at the chateau where the general was quartered, he found no trouble in gaining audience. The Frenchman, splendidly built, his eyes glittering with restless intelligence, concentrated all his faculties [329]
… troubled by fearing to exceed; but excess does not matter. Extra Unes are simply null and void, so that the best plan is to banish that thought, and make sure only of not stopping too soon.1 The lines being traced, the operation is over as far as spiritual qualifies are required, for a time. The process of setting up the figure for judgment is purely mechanical. But, in the judgment, the diviner stands once more in need of his mmost and utmost attainments. He sbould exhaust tlie infcellectual sources of information at Iiis disposai, and form f…
…f the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably addressed, in an intimately personal sense, to him. It is because the thought expressed in this Book of the Law was sometimes not easily intelligible to the transmitter that he wrote a Commentary upon it.1 2 He wished to explain, so far as he could, the messages that he had received. After some lapse of time he wrote a second Commentary,3 which superseded the first; so I have not included the first in this volume. And there is a good deal of the second Commentary that I have not…
… than for attempting to steal other people’s. T hat affecta-tion in many modern mystics of adopting an Oriental civilisation and mode of thought must cause much harmless merriment among the actual Orientals. The notion that a turban and a f ew vows will m ake an Englishm an a Hindu is quite on a par with the idea that a black hat and an Oxford degree will make a Hindu an Englishman. We wonder whether our Buddhistic philosopher s have ever read a flor id letter in Baboo E nglish. We suspect that the said type of docum ent is in reality exceeding…
…ent."He met the eye of his master, and read its chill contempt. "I—er—er—" "Dare you play with me?" The young man protested that no such thought had crossed his mind. "In that case," pursued the sorcerer, "you won't know what that means?" Douglas took from his pocket a fifty-franc note. The Turk caught it up, his eyes grown momentarily wider with surprise. "Examine it!" said Douglas, coldly. The Turkish agent held it to the light. In the figures numbering the note were two small pinpricks. "Allah!" he cried. "Then you are —" "I am. You may as w…
…hile supporting the concentration of the Will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the Lordship of the thought which expresses the act. The Will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. It must be, in alchemical language, the Sulphur which fixes the Mercury which determines the nature of the Salt. The whole man, from his inmost Godhead to the tip of his tiniest eyelash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of Jove. It must give itself u…
…e to fail us on the hideous way. What? Must we pray? Verily, O thou littlest babe, too weak To stir or speak, So we, Capable hardly of a thought, yet seed Of word and deed! ‘To thine assured fruition we may trust This weary dust. We who are old, and palsied, (and so wise !) Lift up our eyes To little children, as the storm-tossed bark Hails in the dark Some hardly visible harbour light ; we hold The hours of gold To our own breasts, whose hours are iron and brass :-— So swift they pass And grind us down :—we hold the wondrous light Our scatteri…
… the Name of that Brother was hidden from me. Then was I shewn the Mystery of the Words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from Woman alone, and worked by the Formula of Isis, worshipping Nature chaste and kindly, not understanding Death, or the Arcanum of Love. So, when the time was ripe, appeared the Brethren of the Formula of Osiris, whose word is I A O; so that men worshipped Man, thinking him subject to Death, and his victory dependent upon Resurrection. Even so conceived they of the Sun as slain and re…
…showed no evidence of any spécial power. In fact, his bodily eyes — if he could discern Tailoring — would hâve served him better, for he thought the owner of the vest was a corn-chandler, instead of an earl, as he is. The Magician can hardi y take too much trouble to develop this power in himself. It is extremely useful to him in guarding himself against attack; in obtaining warnings, in judging character, and especially in watching the process of his Ceremonies. I. This is because there is a certain necessary correspondence between planes; as …
… attainment in the practices of méditation. He must hâve succeeded in destroying the tendency of the ego to interfère with the ohject of thought. He must be able to conceive of a thing out of ail relation with anything eise. The regular practice of concentration leads to this resuit; in fact, it destroys the thing itself as we hâve hitherto conceived it; for the nature of things is always veiled from us by our habit of regarding them as in essential relation with ourselves and our reactions toward them. One can hardly expect the diviner to make…
…ain in a true Astral Vision ; it hurts the Self to hâve to admit the existence of a not- Self ; and it taxes the brain to register a new thought. This is true at the first touch, even when exaltation and stimulation resuit from the joy of making an agreeable contact. There is a deeper eiïect of right reaction to a strange Self: the impact invariably tends to break up some complex in the Seer. The class of ideas concerned has always been tied up, labelled, and put away. It is now necessary to unpack it, and rearrange its contents. At least, the …
…mine-you seem to have failed to note any single one of all my prayerful injunctions , either in the letter or on your visit. Perhaps you thought that I should take circles and pentagrams etc. for granted; but you give no hint of the object of your journey. (No don't quote AL, I: 44 at me; it doesn't mean that. I don't expect you to answer the clerk at the booking-office "Where to, madam?" with "I don't mind
…ve it tobe innocuous? With the reported murder of Jesus of Naza- rethI am not concerned; but Vespasian’s ‘*Ut puto Deus fio” is commonly thought to have been meant as a jest. Our Romanticist’s unique and magnificent dramatisation of the war between the sceptic or lover of truth, and the religious man or lover of life, may be well quoted against me. Though Vespasian did jest, though Christ’s ‘‘It is finished” were subjectively but the cry of his physical weakness, like Burton's ‘‘ I am a dead man,” it is no less true that millions have regarded …
…f which is first—if either? Ananda Metteya carries his illustration further still. John Smith, then, in a sense, is immortal; nay, every thought he thinks is deathless, and will persist, somewhere, in the depths of infinity... . But it is not this part of his energy that results in the formation of a new being when he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his own brain. So that at the mome…
…f which is first—if either? Ananda Metteya carries his illustration further still. John Smith, then, in a sense, is immortal; nay, every thought he thinks is deathless, and will persist, somewhere, in the depths of infinity... . But it is not this part of his energy that results in the formation of a new being when he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his own brain. So that at the mome…
…question) that no one had ever explained it. This merely filled me with ambition to be the great exegetist who had explained it. I never thought of doubting the story. Well, all this time, and then through puberty, despite my romantic bent, my absorption in the gramarye of Sir Walter Scott, my imaginative life as one of his heroes, and the rest of it, I never had even a moment's illusion that anything of the sort had ever happened to me. I went through all the motions; I haunted all the places where such things are reputed likely to happen, but…