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Page 97 of 1201910 · PDF PAGE 87
…ld be performed vary with the instructions of the Guru, but usually they should be four times a day, at sunrise, mid-day, sunset and mid-night. iv. Food. According to the ‘“ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika”: “ Moderate good men but talk little; secondly, should eat little; thirdly, should renounce the company of men, the company of women, all company. He should practise in secrecy in a retired place. “For the sake of appearances he should remain in society, but should not have his heart in it. He should not renounce the duties of his profession, caste or …
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…Seven breaks, Calvary Cross. 50m. Did I go to sleep? 11th. Designed Abrahadabra for a pantacle.* 12th. I performed a Magic Ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at Astral Projection. I prefer the Esoteric Theosophist Society’s seven- fold division for these practical purposes. I think Physical Astral Projection should be preceded by a (ceremonial) “loosening of the girders of the soul.”+ How to do it is the great problem, I am inclined to believe in drugs—if one only knew the right drug. 13th, Drew a pantacle. 16th, Painted wicked black-magi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…ld be performed vary with the instructions of the Guru, but usually they should be four times a day, at sunrise, mid-day, sunset and mid-night. iv. Food. According to the ‘“ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika”: “ Moderate good men but talk little; secondly, should eat little; thirdly, should renounce the company of men, the company of women, all company. He should practise in secrecy in a retired place. “For the sake of appearances he should remain in society, but should not have his heart in it. He should not renounce the duties of his profession, caste or …
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…Seven breaks, Calvary Cross. 50m. Did I go to sleep? 11th. Designed Abrahadabra for a pantacle.* 12th. I performed a Magic Ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at Astral Projection. I prefer the Esoteric Theosophist Society’s seven- fold division for these practical purposes. I think Physical Astral Projection should be preceded by a (ceremonial) “loosening of the girders of the soul.”+ How to do it is the great problem, I am inclined to believe in drugs—if one only knew the right drug. 13th, Drew a pantacle. 16th, Painted wicked black-magi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 21
A Knight Out 7 So, when I turned into the café, I think the real reason was that I hoped to find somebody there, and talk the night out. People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn’t, for the most part; on the con- trary, it’s a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily un- conscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom. You see what gloomy thoughts a fellow can have, even when he’s Fortune’s pet.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 203
…ill calm you down; your nerves have all gone west. I’ve got some people coming here in a few minutes. But this will help you through the night, and I’m coming round in the morning to see you. What’s the address ? ” I told him. My face blazed with the disgrace. A house where the top social note was a fifth-rate musician in a jazz-band, and the bottom where we don’t give it a name. He jotted it down as if it had been the Ritz. But I could feel in my over-sensitive state the disgust in his mind. It was as if he had soiled his pencil. The tablet ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
… I do not mean that he suffered from delusions. I mean that the problem of the true Ego took hold of his imagination. One perfect summer night at Contrexéville he was feel- ing much better; the symptoms had (temporarily) disap- peared almost entirely under the treatment of a very skilful doctor at that Spa, a Dr. Barbezieux, a most kind and thoughtful man. I am going to try, said Arthur, to penetrate my- self. Am I an animal, and is the world without a pur- pose? Or am I a soul in a body? Or am I, one and indi- visible in some incredible sen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 46
…ing in darkness,” do not try to make the sun rise by self-sacrifice, but wait in confidence for the dawn, and enjoy the pleasures of the night meanwhile. The general allusion is to the Equinox Ritual of the G.'.D.-. where the officer of the previous six months, representing Horus, took the place of the retiring Hierophant, who had represented Osiris.1 1 [See “The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 372; The Equinox of the Gods (1936), p. 88; or Book 4, Parts I-IV, (rev. ed., 1994), Appendix VIII, p. 666. See Works Cited.] 2…
1954 · PDF PAGE 305
…. Alan Bennett, I may mention, was one such.) As the practice proceeds, you should find not only that your dreams increase in number per night, but also become very much fuller, clearer and more coherent. I assume that the reason is that the fact of your paying attention to them brings them to the surface. I am not quite sure whether this is a complete and adequate answer to your question 4, "How can I best bring my sleeping memory into my waking hours?"
1929 · PDF PAGE 289
… across a bridge, quite incomprehensibly. It was extraordinary luck that they did not come to serious grief. The day after, we spent the night in a Buddhist temple after a march in the pouring rain, during which the ayah was both kicked and bitten by a mule. The day after that it was again my turn to be kicked. I have had a good deal of experience with mules in various parts of the world; but only in this short section did such things occur. This day was again very wet. The road led over a pass three thousand feet high. I say "road", and of cou…
1899 · PDF PAGE 253
…y That heralds the day ; Warmer the kiss of a love that is free As the wind of the sea, Quick and resurgent and splendid. ‘ CHARICLES. ‘ Night her bright bow-string has bended : Fast flies her arrow unsparing Through the beech-leaves, Ether it cleaves Rapid and daring. Ah ! how it strikes as with silver! how the sun’s laughter is ended !’ 7
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
… ; They worshi p, but not at y our back-pews-hi gh-priced Church. I’ve seen them at twenty thousand feet On the ice, in a snow-storm, at night fall, repeat Their prayer23—will your Grace do as much for your Three As they do for their One ? I have seen—may you see ! They sleep and know not what a mat is ; Seem to enjoy their cold chapaties ;* Are healthy, strong—and some are old. They do not care a damn24 for cold, Behave like children, trust in Allah ; (Flies in Mohammed’s spider-parlour !) They may not think : at least they dare Live out their…
1905 · PDF PAGE 68
…AUGHAN [dbend7ng over PERCY]. Are you burt ? PERCY. Oh, hardly hurt at all! Only my head a little, and [ wanted so to finish the poem to-night, EsMr. Let me come to hin, father. Oh, Percy, Percy, look at me, look at me3 you're not hurt, are you? PERCY, Am T ever hurt with your arms round me? EsME. Oh, but you grow whiter; you must he hurt. VAUGHAN, A knife! Te must have stabbed him. What does the Bible, Fetch a doctor, one of you, sharp| [five a man,
1905 · PDF PAGE 261
… [ Seve. Can you believe the deadly will’s decree, The bitter earnestness of this desire, The deep intention, the solemnity, Profound as night and penetrant as fire, 1 The secret headquarters of the Rosicru- cians was named by them Collegium Spiritus Sancti.
1922 · PDF PAGE 73
…fectly ; we expressed the fact in every subtle harmony of glance and gesture. The world had stopped suddenly still. We were alone in the night and the silence of things. We
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…he morning she went in to see her friend. She found her lying on the bed, still dressed, her eyes red and haggard. She had not slept all night. Amy Brough on the contrary, was still asleep in the arm-chair. When she was roused, she only muttered: "something about a journey in a letter." Then she suddenly shook herself and went off without a word to her place of business in Bond [16] Street. For she was the representative of one of the great Paris dressmaking houses. Lavinia King never knew how it was managed; she never realized even that it had…
1954 · PDF PAGE 357
…. Moritz, breaking the journey at Zurich. This town is so hideous and depressing that we felt that our only chance of living through the night was to get superbly drunk, which we did. (Let me emphasize that this wild adventure had not the remotest connection with Magick. Virakam was utterly ignorant of the subject. She had hardly so much as a smattering of Christian Science. She had never attended a seance or played Planchette.) ... Lassati sed non Satiati by midnight, I expected to sleep; but was aroused by Virakam being apparently seized with…
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…ing technique in regular "astral visions." Sometimes I was quite blind, as compared with Frater V.N.; for when the circle was broken one night-see the whole story in my Autohagiography-he saw and identified dozens and scores of Abramelin demons as they marched widdershins around my library, while all I saw of them was a procession of "half-formed faces" moving shadowy through the dimly-lit room. When it was a matter of the sense of touch, it was far otherwise; I got it good and hearty-but that is not the su bject of this letter. I find all this…
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
…hame? Is Love hid eous, that men should cover him with lies? Is Love so sacred that others must not intrude? Nay, “under the stars,” at night, what eye but theirs may see? Or, if one see, should not your worship wake the cloisters of his soul to echo sanctity for that so lovely a deed and gracious you have done? 13. I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.
1906 · PDF PAGE 127
…Of my soul in the hollows of earth—how my spirit hath taunted— Away ! I am here, I am laid to the breast of the earth in the dusk of the night, By palm and pagoda enchaunted. Carved hair AHAB: Part I, THE polished silver flings me back Dominant brows and eyes of bronze, A curling beard of vigorous black, And dusky red of desert suns Burnt in my cheeks. Who saith me Nay? Who reigns in Israel to-day? Samaria in well-ordered ranks Of houses stands in honoured peace: Sweet nourishment from Kenah’s banks Flows, and the corn and vine increase. In two…