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against the Word ; for Samadhi surpasses
all
rational
quantities including
Egotism
and Altruism
,
Time
and
Space
.
Passing
to
that state beyond progress
,
which
is
pure freedom and divine Will
,
man
reaches
the
stage
when
he
ceases
to
think
empirically
under
the
schemata
of
Time and Space
.
The mind
at
such
moments
reaches
heights wherein another light suc
ceeds
to
the
light
of
experience
;
there
is
a
mental
“
whirl
"
which
,
though irrational
to
pure reason
,
has
an
incalculable value
,
probably depending
on
certain
higher
laws
unknown
to
the
rational
world
.
When
the soul
has
reached
this point
,
law
,
in
the rational
sense
of
the term
,
has ceased
to
have any existence
,
and
it
henceforth enters into direct communion with
the Good
;
which
is
its
own law
.
Thus when we have raised our
hearts
to
the
nth
power
,
we become
as
Gods
knowing good and evil
;
and
if
this
raising
of
the
heart
,
which
Crowley
so
brilliantly
sets forth throughout
his works
,
can
in
any
way lead
a
man into
a
nobler and higher
insight
of
himself
,
no
one can ever doubt then that
it
is
right for
him
to
so raise
it
.
We
have already
seen
from
Dr.
Maudsley
what
dangers have
to
be
expected
by
those who chose
this
hill
-
top track
to
follow
.
Others
from
a
similar
point
of
vantage attack
it
as
being pure autohypnosis
and
nothing
else
.
But curious
to
say
,
if
such
be
the case
why
is
it
that the greatest sages
of
all
times have been
able
to
attract within
their focus
so
many hundreds
of
millions
of
rational beings
?
they
themselves being
only irrational and pathological
mystagogues
.
If
such
men
as
Krishna
,
Mahomet
,
St.
Augustine
,
Moses
,
Orpheus
,
Pythagoras
,
Buddha
,
Plato
,
Jesus
,
and
a
host
of
equal and lesser names
,
owed their power
to