Lust can never bring happiness, real contentment. We have the idea that lust can bring happiness, and it can bring pleasant sensation, but we do not see that those sensations are a pendulum of energy. The more we push to have pleasant sensations, the more that pendulum swings back to painful ones. This is the eternal law of the pendulum. Craving and aversion are the pendular movement of suffering. We set that in motion continally, so long as we listen to desires.
The History of the Watchmen
The History of the Watchmen (Or the Angels),
WRITTEN BY ENOCH THE PATRIARCH.
“And it came to pass, when the Sons of Men were increas’d, that very Beautiful Daughters were born to them: With these the Watchmen were in Love, and burnt with Desire toward them, which drew them into many Sins and Follies. They communed with themselves: ‘Let us, say they, choose us Wives out of the Daughters of Men upon the Earth. Semiazas, their Prince, made Answer: ‘I fear, says he, you will not execute your Resolution ; and so I shall derive upon myself alone the Guilt of this Impiety.’ They all reply’d and said; ‘We will bind ourselves with an Oath to perform our Purpose, and invoke dreadful Imprecations upon our Heads, if we depart from our Enterprize before it be accomplished.’ So they oblig’d themselves with an Oath; and implored an Arrest of Vengeance upon one another. Continue reading “The History of the Watchmen”
Enoch
“Enoch the great grandfather of Noah, who had that surname (Edris) from his great knowledge, for he was favoured with no less than thirty books of divine revelations, and was the first who wrote with a pen, and studied the sciences of astronomy and arithmetic.” This quotation is an approved Muhammedan commentary upon the following reference to Enoch in the Koran: ”And remember Edris in the same book; for he was a just person and a prophet, and we exalted him to a high place.” Sura XIX, Mary.
Numbers of Pythagoras
A Greek Initiate of the sixth century B.C., known as the Son of Apollo the Sun God, or Son of the Sun, and the first to take the name of Philosopher, lover of Wisdom, Pythagoras publicly recognized the power of woman to achieve Initiation by associating his wife Theano with him in the teaching of a brotherhood which he founded at Crotona, and by entrusting the conduct of this work to her at his death. Continue reading “Numbers of Pythagoras”