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Page 94 of 1231919 · PDF PAGE 460
…to sing, and makes his readers feel that impulse.”—The Morning Post. “There is a certain grim power in some of the imaginings concerning death, as ‘The Dream’ and ‘The Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste.”—The Daily Telegraph. “Here is a poet of promise.”—The Daily Chronicle. “Tt is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book.”— The Morning Leader. “There is promise and some fine lines in these verses.”—The Times. TO BE …
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
11 purely symbolic. But there is also the feeling that the fact of death destroys all possible interest; the disaster is {42} 1. i.e. sit at the communion table. 2. What a name! 3. With one notable exception, at which he officiated. irreparable, it should be forgotten as soon as possible. He would not even join the search party after the Kangchenjunga accident. What object was there in digging frozen corpses from under an avalanche? Dead bodies themselves do not repel him; he is as interested in dissecting rooms as in anything else. When he met…
1906 · PDF PAGE 158
…ur God’s creation, Just at their own sweet valuation. For by this culminating scene, Close of that wondrous life of woe Before and after death, we know How to esteem the Nazarene. Where’s the wet towel? Let us first Destroy the argument of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascension’s self rehearsed Christ’s Godhead by its miracle. Grand !—but the power is mine as well ! In India levitation counts No tithe of the immense amounts Of powers demanded by the wise From Chela ere the Chela rise To Knowledge. Fairy-tales? Well, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 249
…he next period. It has throughout proved impossible to elucidate the complex facts. “We content ourselves, then, with observing that the death of one of his two colleagues, and the weakness of the other, secured to S.R.M.D. the sole authority. The rituals were elaborated, though scholarly enough, into verbose and pre- tentious nonsense: the knowledge proved worthless, even where it was correct: for it is in vain that pearls, be they never so clear and precious, are given to the swine. “The ordeals were turned into contempt, it being impossible …
1909 · PDF PAGE 249
…he next period. It has throughout proved impossible to elucidate the complex facts. “We content ourselves, then, with observing that the death of one of his two colleagues, and the weakness of the other, secured to S.R.M.D. the sole authority. The rituals were elaborated, though scholarly enough, into verbose and pre- tentious nonsense: the knowledge proved worthless, even where it was correct: for it is in vain that pearls, be they never so clear and precious, are given to the swine. “The ordeals were turned into contempt, it being impossible …
1910 · PDF PAGE 154
… glory. 63. The vindu (semen) causes the pleasure and pain of all creatures living in this world, who are infatuated, and are subject to death and de- cay. For the Yogi, this preservation of semen is the best of all Yogas, and it is the giver of happiness. 64. Though immersed in enjoyments, men get powers through its practice. Through the force of his practice, he becomes an adept in due season, in his present life. 65. The Yogi certainly obtains through this practice all kinds of powers at the same time enjoy- ing all the innumerable enjoyment…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…e floor of that palace is of silver and gold ; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents ; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me. 52. If this b…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…e floor of that palace is of silver and gold ; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents ; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me. 52. If this b…
1919 · PDF PAGE 119
… is the life of man. Its curve arises from the latency of the fertilized ovum, say you, to a zenith whence it declines to the nullity of death? Rightly consid- ered, this is not wholly truth. The life of man is but one seg- ment of a serpentine curve which reaches out to infinity, and its zeros but mark the changes from the plus to minus, and minus to plus, coefficients of its equation. It is for this cause, 113
1911 · PDF PAGE 57
… the place of his retirement; lest he contaminate his glory with uncleanness, and lest they that behold him be smitten by his glory unto death. For this is a holy mystery, and he that did first attain to 55
1913 · PDF PAGE 562
…ecessary and regular conclusions of the spirit of perversity; to aspire ceaselessly to suicide, to calumniate life and nature, to invoke death every day without being able to die. This is eternal Hell, it is the punishment of Satan, that mythological incarna- tion of the spirit of perversity; the true translation into French of the Greek word Diadolos, or devil, is fe pervers— the perverse. Here is a mystery which debauchees do not suspect. It is this: one cannot enjoy even the material pleasures of life but by virtue of the moral sense. Pleasu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 580
…n world by stripping it of its protective envelope. Let us study the mystery of birth, and we shall have the key of the great arcanum of death ! Thrown by the laws of Nature into the womb of a woman, the incarnated spirit very slowly wakes, and creates for itself with effort organs which will later be indispensable, but which as they grow increase its discomfort in its present situation. The happiest period of the life of the embryo is that when, like a chrysalis, it spreads around it the membrane which serves it for refuge, and which swims wit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 562
…ecessary and regular conclusions of the spirit of perversity; to aspire ceaselessly to suicide, to calumniate life and nature, to invoke death every day without being able to die. This is eternal Hell, it is the punishment of Satan, that mythological incarna- tion of the spirit of perversity; the true translation into French of the Greek word Diadolos, or devil, is fe pervers— the perverse. Here is a mystery which debauchees do not suspect. It is this: one cannot enjoy even the material pleasures of life but by virtue of the moral sense. Pleasu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 580
…n world by stripping it of its protective envelope. Let us study the mystery of birth, and we shall have the key of the great arcanum of death ! Thrown by the laws of Nature into the womb of a woman, the incarnated spirit very slowly wakes, and creates for itself with effort organs which will later be indispensable, but which as they grow increase its discomfort in its present situation. The happiest period of the life of the embryo is that when, like a chrysalis, it spreads around it the membrane which serves it for refuge, and which swims wit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…ssion. It requires a highly trained intelligence to distinguish between fifteen and sixteen matches on a plate without counting them. In death this limitation is entirely removed. Of the infinite content of the Universe every item was separately real- ized. The brain of Arthur had become equal in power to that attributed by theologians to the Creator; yet of ex- ecutive power there was no seed. The impotence of man before circumstance was in him magnified indefinitely, yet without loss of detail or of mass. He understood that The Many was The O…
1929 · PDF PAGE 442
…arriage, understood as the voluntary union of itself with each element of its environment. I then proceed to the climax of its career in death and show how this sacrament both consecrates (or, rather, sets its seal upon) the previous procedure and gives a meaning thereto, just as the auditing of the account enables the merchant to see his year's transactions in perspective. In the next ceremony I show how the individual, released by death from the obsession of personality, resumes relations with the truth of the universe. Reality bursts upon hi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 36
…mmense sphere of many-coloured bands; it seems it is the sphere of the Sephiroth projected in the three dimensions. This is the birth of death. Now in the centre within me is a glowing sun. That is the birth of hell. Now all that is swept away, washed away by the table. It is the virtue of the table to sweep everything away. It is the letter I in this Aethyr that gives this vision, and L is its purity, and N is its energy. Now everything is confused, for I invoked the Mind, that is disruption. Every Adept who beholds this vision is corrupted by…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…ld of sleep; you are the one woman in the worldperhaps there may never be anotherwho has such an opportunity to study the phenomena of death. He charged me earnestly to suppress my grief, to concentrate wholly on the thoughts that passed through his mind when he could no longer express them, and
1954 · PDF PAGE 125
… is usually called "the Ophidian Vibrations," thus laying special stress upon its serpentine strength, subtlety, its control of life and death, and its power to insinuate itself into any desired set of circumstances. It is of this universally powerful weapon that the Secret Chiefs must be supposed to possess complete control. They can induce a girl to embroider a tapestry, or initiate a
1906 · PDF PAGE 259
…e is no more pain; only an intense interest similar to that which has enabled men of science to watch and note the progress of thelr own death-agony. Un- ' «Why should you expect Vedana to make Rupa appear illusory ?”’ asked afriend of mine, on reading through the MS. of this essay. The reason of my omission to explain is that to me it seemed obvious. ‘The fact had been assimilated. To meditate on anything is to perceive its unreal nature. Notably this is so in concentrating on parts of the body, such as the nose. On this phenomenon the Hindus …