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Page 92 of 1281907 · PDF PAGE 251
244 THE STAR IN THE WEST energy , and then , curious to say , they discovered he had given them , as a slight reward , an immortal soul for all the trouble they had taken in turning him out a really nice , amiable , and respectable Deity . Having magnified their friend into a God , they then proceeded to enlarge their enemy into a Devil . This gross materialism in accordance with the universal law of polarity , set in motion by the hand of Idealism , pro duced as effect a fanciful spiritualism , which sought in the mysteries of life an answer t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more common. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I am afraid that the very great majority of mystics live all their lives wandering about in this vain world of shadows and of shells. All this, too, is the pleasant aspect of the affair. Here belong the awful shapes of delirium a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…t doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my own under- standing of it. Samadhi twelve seconds in duration is a phenomenon to shake the soul of a man, to uproot his Kamma, to destroy his Identity—and Bhikku Ananda Metteyya cheer- fully talks of practically perpetual Samadhi as the first step to attainment ! The Hindu, too, asks this question. biography of a Mystic would run: foetus, babe, child, boy, youth, man, 418. There is no personal identity as a link between the man who is on the brink of “attainment” and the Being who arises in him, ann…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more common. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I am afraid that the very great majority of mystics live all their lives wandering about in this vain world of shadows and of shells. All this, too, is the pleasant aspect of the affair. Here belong the awful shapes of delirium a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…t doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my own under- standing of it. Samadhi twelve seconds in duration is a phenomenon to shake the soul of a man, to uproot his Kamma, to destroy his Identity—and Bhikku Ananda Metteyya cheer- fully talks of practically perpetual Samadhi as the first step to attainment ! The Hindu, too, asks this question. biography of a Mystic would run: foetus, babe, child, boy, youth, man, 418. There is no personal identity as a link between the man who is on the brink of “attainment” and the Being who arises in him, ann…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
… little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “Your body and soul," she answered solemnly; her eyes sank into his, like a dagger into the belly of a faithless Kabyle woman. “ But beyond that, your secret! You know life, yet you can laugh from a mad heart ! ” " It is easily said. I am going to London to—morrow. There they will make me bankrupt, because I love my neigh- bour better than myself, and prosecute me for blasphemy and indecency, because I uttered a few simple t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
… little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “Your body and soul," she answered solemnly; her eyes sank into his, like a dagger into the belly of a faithless Kabyle woman. “ But beyond that, your secret! You know life, yet you can laugh from a mad heart ! ” " It is easily said. I am going to London to—morrow. There they will make me bankrupt, because I love my neigh- bour better than myself, and prosecute me for blasphemy and indecency, because I uttered a few simple t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 1
…s-kiss is," languid as Sappho writhing to the breeze of Leucadia, under a rain of roseleaves. The hot angry famine and pestilence of the soul is the sulphur of the spring and the poisonous mist that plays upon it. "Come, Love, nor list to tired dreams that twist thy lithe long limbs in fierce abandonment," fierce as Pasiphae in Edmond d'Haraucourt's secret masterpiece; all the joyous torture of the damned in a phrase. Dear lady, when this flask of perfume comes from the bookseller, you shall tire your hair, and paint your face, and gild your na…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
… St. Ignatius. By similar exercises, a fool, if he willed it with perse- verance, would become a wise man. By changing the habits of the soul one certainly changes those of the body; we have already said so, and we have ex- plained the method. What contributes above all to age us by making us ugly? Hatred and bitterness, the unfavourable judgments which 1 If the fool would but persist in his folly, he would become wise—WILLIAM BLAKE. 277
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
… St. Ignatius. By similar exercises, a fool, if he willed it with perse- verance, would become a wise man. By changing the habits of the soul one certainly changes those of the body; we have already said so, and we have ex- plained the method. What contributes above all to age us by making us ugly? Hatred and bitterness, the unfavourable judgments which 1 If the fool would but persist in his folly, he would become wise—WILLIAM BLAKE. 277
1919 · PDF PAGE 138
… more serious from that moment, we must to a certain extent follow his example and treat what is recorded as the attempt of a struggling soul to obtain Light for himself and others. Whatever his mistakes, however poor his results, or laugh- able his failures, there is this much to be said for him, that he never turned back. Section II. DEcEMBER 24, 1909, TO May 14, 1910 Frater V.I.O. started off bravely enough. As soon as he had read the first number of THE Equinox, and before he got into touch with any Member of the A..A.. he made an attempt a…
1898 · PDF PAGE 74
… or of action (the material world). The further development of these facts, their connection with the numerical system, the parts of the soul, and many other interesting details may be studied in the seventy-two volumes
1904 · PDF PAGE 13
…rius or Amati Shriek in my stomach ! Sarasate, Such strains ! Such music as once Sadi Made Persia ring with ! I who fish up No such from soul may yet cry: Vade Retro, Satanas ! Tom Bond Bishop !40 You old screw, Pegasus ! Gee (Swish !) up ! (To any who correctly rhymes41 With Bishop more than seven times I hereby offer as emolum- Ent, a bound copy of this volume.) These strictures must include the liar Copleston,42 Reverend F. B. Meyer, (The cock of the Dissenter’s midden, he !) And others of the self-same kidney:— How different from Sir Philip…
1919 · PDF PAGE 343
…proper here to divulge. 33. The moth attracted to the dazzling flame of thy night lamp is doomed to perish in the viscid oil. The unwary Soul that fails to grapple with the mocking demon of illusion, will return to earth the slave of Méra. The result of failing to reject rewards is the return to earth. The temptation is to regard oneself as having at- tained, and so do no more work. 34. Behold the Hosts of Souls. Watch how they hover o’er the stormy sea of human life, and how, exhausted, bleeding, broken-winged, they drop one after another on t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 154
…rius or Amati Shriek in my stomach! Sarasate, Such strains ! Such music as once Sadi Made. Persia ring with! I who fish up -No such from soul may yet cry : Vade Retro, Satanas! Tom Bond Bishop! ” You old screw, Pegasus! Gee (Swish!) up! (To any who correctly rhymes *! With Bishop more than seven times I hereby offer as emolum- Ent, a bound copy of this volume.) These strictures must include the har Copleston,* Reverend F. B. Meyer, (The cock of the Dissenter’s midden, he !) And others of the self-same kidney :— How different from Sir Philip Sid…
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
… but so also is the Non-Ego; not only is Karma absurd, but so also is Nibbana. For, all things and no-things are absurd save “I,” who am Soul and Body, Good and Evil, Sorrow and Joy, Change and Equilibrium; who in the temple of Adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire side in my study—Mr. X, one with each and all. Thus it came about that the study of Buddhism caused Frater P. to abandon the tinsel of the Vedanta as well as its own cherished baubles, and induced him, more than ever, to rely on Work and Work alone and not on philosophizing, m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
…pondence of two sensations, but, by an instantaneous process, give the second one a wrong position in the succession of experiences. The soul is regarded as the historian when she is in reality the sibyl; but the misconception takes place in such a microscopic portion of time that detection is impossible. In the hasheesh expansion of seconds into minutes, or even according to a much mightier ratio, there is an opportunity thoroughly to scrutinise the hitherto evanescent phenomena, and the truth comes out. How many more such prophecies as these …
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
… but so also is the Non-Ego; not only is Karma absurd, but so also is Nibbana. For, all things and no-things are absurd save “I,” who am Soul and Body, Good and Evil, Sorrow and Joy, Change and Equilibrium; who in the temple of Adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire side in my study—Mr. X, one with each and all. Thus it came about that the study of Buddhism caused Frater P. to abandon the tinsel of the Vedanta as well as its own cherished baubles, and induced him, more than ever, to rely on Work and Work alone and not on philosophizing, m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
…pondence of two sensations, but, by an instantaneous process, give the second one a wrong position in the succession of experiences. The soul is regarded as the historian when she is in reality the sibyl; but the misconception takes place in such a microscopic portion of time that detection is impossible. In the hasheesh expansion of seconds into minutes, or even according to a much mightier ratio, there is an opportunity thoroughly to scrutinise the hitherto evanescent phenomena, and the truth comes out. How many more such prophecies as these …
1911 · PDF PAGE 254
…d takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll Το make one tear in my superb caresses, When on mysel…