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Page 91 of 1231910 · PDF PAGE 11
…re saints immortal reign.” SO used some of us to sing in our childhood. And we used to think of this land as far away, farther even than death that in those days seemed so far. But I know this now : that land is not so far as my flesh is from my bones ! It is even Here and Now. If there is one cloud in this tranquil azure, it is this thought ; that conscious beings exist who are not thus infinitely happy, masters of ecstasy. So to remove this cloud have I cheerfully dedicated all I have and all I am. That I do not overvalue ecstasy is shown by …
1912 · PDF PAGE 290
…t, and settled down as the principal ornament of London’s most suburban “subbub.” I suppose none even of his accomplices will regret his death; to the lachrymal glands of a crocodile he added the bowels of compassion of a cast-iron rhinoceros; with the 248
1912 · PDF PAGE 290
…t, and settled down as the principal ornament of London’s most suburban “subbub.” I suppose none even of his accomplices will regret his death; to the lachrymal glands of a crocodile he added the bowels of compassion of a cast-iron rhinoceros; with the 248
1919 · PDF PAGE 103
…s beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the Pyramid of the ceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one Thought of Me thy delight Adonai. 59. And I answered and said: It is done even according unto Thy word. Anditwasdone. And they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of Barren Words. And they that sealed up the book into their blood were the chosen of Adonai, and the Thought of Adonai was a Word…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
…in a vast majority, and snatched greedily at all the gross plea- sures and profits of which the educated and wealthy were sick even unto death. Further, the asceticism of surfeit is a false passion, and only lasts until a healthy hunger is attained; so that the change was an entire corruption, without redeeming aspect. ad there been five righteous men in Rome, a Cato, a Brutus, a Curtius, a Scipio, and a Julian, nothing would have occurred; but there was only the last, and he too late. No doubt Maximus, his teacher, was too holy an Adept to min…
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…wed energy necessary to maintain it? The Yogi’s answer is simple enough: Seeing that the extinction of the first would mean the ultimate death of the second the various Mudra exercises were introduced so that this healthy passion might not only be preserved, but cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of vitality resulting from the practices adopted. Equilibrium is above all things necessary, and even in these early stages, the mind of the aspirant should be entirely free from the obsession of either ungratified or over- grat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…wed energy necessary to maintain it? The Yogi’s answer is simple enough: Seeing that the extinction of the first would mean the ultimate death of the second the various Mudra exercises were introduced so that this healthy passion might not only be preserved, but cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of vitality resulting from the practices adopted. Equilibrium is above all things necessary, and even in these early stages, the mind of the aspirant should be entirely free from the obsession of either ungratified or over- grat…
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
…sh. At the end, he the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the End is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is 38
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
…sh. At the end, he the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the End is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is 38
1909 · PDF PAGE 353
…drum could assume the form of a seal and betake himself tothe sea! While in this guise we are told that several MacCodrums had met their death. 345
1909 · PDF PAGE 353
…drum could assume the form of a seal and betake himself tothe sea! While in this guise we are told that several MacCodrums had met their death. 345
1911 · PDF PAGE 141
… the Black Sabbath when thou didst kiss the hairy buttocks of the goat, when the gnarled god tore thee asunder, when the icy cataract of death swept thee away. Shriek, therefore, shriek aloud; mingle the roar of the 139
1911 · PDF PAGE 160
…l of foam that is venomous and bitter, and I have no purpose. I go no whither. I can neither live nor die. I can but rave and rave in my death agony. I am the Crocodile that eateth up the children of men. And through the malice of BABALONI hunger, hunger, hunger. All this while the Stone is more inert than ever yet; a thousand times more lifeless than when it is not invoked. Now, when it kindles, it only kindles into its physical beauty. And now upon the face of it isa great black Rose, each of whose petals, though it be featureless, is yet a d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…rogress with it, or else stagnation and retrogression will set in ; and in these competitive times the latter two spell social and moral death . What was good yesterday may be bad to - day , and what is good to - day may be evil to - morrow . What the ultimate end will be , none can tell , for it lies “ behind the veil ”; but what we must do is very certain , very definite , very sure . We must ameliorate our lot , not by the ephemeral
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…isty blue of the heavens , and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep . Before the name of That which is beyond life and death , beyond matter and energy , beyond the human and the mortal ; he stands , holding before us as a stan dard , the homologue of the Labarum of old , “ In
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…were the Yea and Nay of the Universe; his breath was the breath of very Life; his being was the Mahalingam of the First, beyond Life and Death the generator from Nothingness. His armour was the Primal Water of Chaos. The infinite moon-like curve of his body; the flashing swiftness of his Word, that was the Word that formulated that which was beyond Chaos and Cosmos; the might of him, greater than that of the Elephant and of the Lion and of the Tortoise and of the Bull fabled in Indian legend as the supports of the four letters of the Name; the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…were the Yea and Nay of the Universe; his breath was the breath of very Life; his being was the Mahalingam of the First, beyond Life and Death the generator from Nothingness. His armour was the Primal Water of Chaos. The infinite moon-like curve of his body; the flashing swiftness of his Word, that was the Word that formulated that which was beyond Chaos and Cosmos; the might of him, greater than that of the Elephant and of the Lion and of the Tortoise and of the Bull fabled in Indian legend as the supports of the four letters of the Name; the …
1961 · PDF PAGE 118
…nd maketh One the Human with the Divine, as in the Attainment of the Master of the Temple. Yet his Work hath his Perversion, which is of Death. Thus then for these four Works, they pertain all to the Natural Formula of the Cross and Rose. i
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…r right hand—oh, the delicate beauty of it | I kissed it. ‘My knight,’ she said, ‘Jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death—kiss me!’ “With a sob I caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. I closed my eyes in trance ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground before her. “When I opened my eyes again she too was praying. Softly, without a word, I stepped to the window, took the dagger in my teeth, dropped from the edge, landed lightly beside the corpse. She was quite dead, the skull broken in, the teeth …
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…r right hand—oh, the delicate beauty of it | I kissed it. ‘My knight,’ she said, ‘Jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death—kiss me!’ “With a sob I caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. I closed my eyes in trance ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground before her. “When I opened my eyes again she too was praying. Softly, without a word, I stepped to the window, took the dagger in my teeth, dropped from the edge, landed lightly beside the corpse. She was quite dead, the skull broken in, the teeth …