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…ng; and at even my wife died: and I did in the morning as I was commanded. And the people said unto me: Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so? Then I answered them. The word of the Lord came unto me saying: Speak unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God . . . Ezekiel is unto you a sign: ac- cording to all that he hath done, shall ye do; and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord. Also, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the des…
1944 · PDF PAGE 21
…ne does not really mean very much, because there is yet no measure of length. The limit of knowledge at this stage is that there are two things, in order to be able to talk about them at all. But one cannot say that they are near each other, or that they are far apart; one can only say that they are distant. In order to discriminate between them at all, there must be a third thing. We must have another point. One must invent The Surface; one must invent The Triangle. In doing this, incidentally, appears the whole of Plane Geometry. One can now …
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
…arling of the dawn, slowly, and to his steps took little heed ; IIe came towards the pool, his god-wrought reed Shrilling dim visions of things glorious, And saw the maiden, that disported thus, And worshipped. Then in doubt he stood, grown white And wonderful, with passion’s perfect might Viring his veins and tingling in his brain, He stood and whitened, and waxed red again. His oat' unheeded glanced beneath the wave, llis eyes grew bright and burning, his lips clave— A sudden cry broke from him: from the height His swift young body, like a ra…
1905 · PDF PAGE 45
… heart That lends the reins to fancy’s charioteer. Lay them together, let us leave them there! There comes a vision to my mortal eyes Of things immortal. swell Of some wild clarion through the dazzling night, Whose fairy zther suddenly illumes With silver meteors innumerable And golden showers of stars—lost worlds of thought And poets’ dreams, and jewels of virgin sighs. Hark ! the broad rings of sound go wavering on Eddying and rippling through the desart sky That now is peopled with the diamond wings That float through all the palaces of God.…
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…llect and synthesize our experience, the nearer we get to a perception of what the Buddha declared to be characteristic of all component things: Sorrow, Change, and Absence of any permanent principle. We constantly approach his enunciation of the first two 'Noble Truths,' as he called them. 'Everything is Sorrow'; and 'The cause of Sorrow is Desire.' By the word 'Desire' he meant exactly what is meant by 'Love' in The Book of the Law which I quoted a few moments ago. 'Desire' is the need of every unit to extend its experience by combining with …
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…se and amber dress, With broidery of old gold. Her hair Was long and starry, gilded red. Her face was laughter, shapen fair By the sweet things she thought and said. Her whiteness rustled as she walked. Her hair sang tunes across the air. She sighed, laughed, whispered, never talked. She smiled, and loves devout and rare Flickered about the room. She stayed Still in the dusk: her body sang Out full and clear ‘‘O love me!” Rang The silver couplets undismayed, Bright, bold, convincing. In her eyes Glittered enamelled sorceries. She was a piece of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
…allowable. A prosperous English grocer is in Paris on business. He wants desperately to be "wicked", but is ashamed to inquire how these things are done. On the last day of his stay he is goaded to madness by seeing the statue of Joan of Arc astride a horse. He makes up his mind to buy an indecent photograph at least and dives into a shop, where he asks for something "tray sho". The shopman contemptuously produces albums of reproductions from the Louvre. When he strikes the Venus of Milo, he secrets it, pays half a sovereign in terror and slink…
1919 · PDF PAGE 156
…ave ex- pressed this afternoon, and bad at that. Of course, I am really quite content, it is only when I begin to think and reason about things that I begin to become discontented. It’s about time I shut up. And on April 30th the three months prescribed by his Neophyte came toanend. He writes: “TI feel they have been well spent, and that I have gained a more certain control of 1He had finished his immediate work, and went back into the world, as per liber VILLII, 51-53, bestowing on himself this Benediction as he did so. O.M. 148
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…or, from the confines of material space, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark threshold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Demons dog-faced, that show no mortal sign Of Truth, but desecrate the Light Divine, Seducing from the sacred mysteries. But, after all these Folk of Fear are driven | Before the avenging levin That rives the opening skiés, Behold that Formless and that Holy Flame That hath no name; That Fire that darts and flashes, writhes and creeps Snake-wise in ro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…leep with us : you knew, and I, The purport of the eternal curse, The ill design of destiny. You know, and I, O living head Of love! the things that were not said. 1 The BuddGhist '‘ Skandhas.”” See ‘' Science and Buddhism,” vol. ii. p. 244.
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…rr Probing God’s Nature. See his lobes Swell with hell’s torment! Still he probes The same fool’s problem. I explain The simple state of things in vain. He chose to study God, and die in it. He made his bed, and he must lie in it. VI. After my dinner I debate (Urged to the task by habit’s Fate) The project of a poisoning. In hell one finds that everything Is easy. Poison to my hand ; A cunning potion cool and bland Fit to administer the draught :— How like old times! I nodded, laughed, Poisoned my neighbour, a young girl Sent here for marrying …
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…ws closed trap-like to expunge and end her! Let all the life and dream and death be done, And all the love and hate be woven in one, All things be broken of the winter winds, No soul stand up and look upon the sun ! Save only mine !—that my voice may con- found The universe, and spell the mighty sound To shake all heaven and earth, to mingle hell In chaos, in some limitless profound ; That it may tear Olympus from its place, Mix it with Hades, change the Ocean space, Level the tides of time that sink and swell, And curse my very father to his f…
1939 · PDF PAGE 36
…espiratory and muscular systems. 24. And so? Yes. Pranayama may be described as nice clean fun. Before you have been doing it very long, things are pretty certain to begin to happen, though this, I regret to remark, is fun to you, but death to Yoga. The classical physical results of Pranayama are usually divided into four stages: 1. Perspiration. This is not the ordinary perspiration which comes from violent exercise; it has peculiar properties, and I am not going to tell you what these are, because it is much better for you to perform the prac…
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
…. Dee’s book, referred to above. | Serve ye the lofty ones. Her members, let them differ ; be no soul Equal! Let thought, let reasonable things, Bow to thy wings, Thy manifest control, Vexation ! weeding out of one another. Their dwelling-places, let them lose their name ! The work of man, and all his pomp and power, Deface them: shatter the aspiring tower ! Let all his houses be as caves and holes, Unto the Beast I give them. And their souls— Lift up the shadowy hand !— | Confound with darkness them that under- stand ! For why? Me, the Most Hi…
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
… week-ends off; Time does not stop to admire himself; Time keeps right on.[3] Before very long, you forget all about the pleasantness of things, and it would not be at all polite to give you any idea of what you are going to think of the Teacher. 14. Perhaps the first thing you notice is that, although you have started in what is apparently the most comfortable position, there is a tendency to change that position without informing you. For example, if you are sitting in the 'god' position with your knees together, you will find in a few minute…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…everance the course prescribed by Abra-Melin the Mage; as far as in me lies, unto the attainment of this end. (3) To despise utterly the things and the opinions of this world lest they hinder me in doing this. (4) To use my powers only to the Spiritual well-being of all with whom I may be brought in contact.
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
…einéd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses. Iam: the greatest and the least : the sole And separate life of things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…Four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. Line 17.—He is inspired by Apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and profane: repre- sented by a boy with his bow and two women, a priestess and an harlot. Line 18.—He drives furiously a chariot drawn by two sphinxes. As Levi drew it. Line 20.—Before him goeth upright the Royal Uraus t. LinE 21.—[ fo) , 3 » and 6, or Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas). Line 23.—From a gallows shaped like the letter “1 hangs by one foot a young fair man. His other leg forms a cross with…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…h a Canadian’ should be expunged from human language. People should be prose- cuted for printing so foul and obscene a phrase. Yet these things happen every day. The sun turns sick in heaven to behold them. Yet we do not see his anguish. Life which involves such possibilities of infamy and horror as ‘marriage with a Canadian’ must surely be some atrocious species of damnation; the reward of infinite iniquity. But humanity has become so callous, so anzsthetic to any proper feeling, that many people may even fail to see the high seriousness and n…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
… only that the selflessness That fills me now, forbids the personal, Casts out the individual, and weeps on For the united sorrow of all things. For if I die, it is not Tannhduser, Rather a spark of the supreme white light That dwelt and flickered in him in old time ; That Light, I say, that hides its flame awhile To shine more fully—to redeem the world ! I say, then, ‘‘ I”; and yet it is not “I” Distinct, but ‘‘ I” incorporate in All. I am the Resurrection and the Life ! The Work is finished, and the Night rolled back ! I am the Rising Sun of …