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Page 1 of 11907 · PDF PAGE 15
… white. Nor, 0 man, believe thou that finality is anywhere to be reached in words. I balance A and not-A (a), and finding both false, both true, transcend with B. But whatever B is, it is as false and true as b ; we reach C. So from C to c, and for ever. Not, as Hegel thought, until we reach an idea in which no seed of self-contradiction lurks; for that can never be. The thinkable is false, then? (once more!) _Yea, but equally it is true. So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul …
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…TS, with druid apple-blossom in his hair, and the druid casting-net qf the stars in one hand. Doe: his turn and exit. Boner. To continue—True! And saying “ true,” let us discuss “truth.” In the lower worlds, where are we? Take this frivolous Mrs. I. Why does she elude Mrs. 1.? From fear. Bowley. Fear is failure. Bones. More, G. H. Frater! It is the forerunner of failure. Bowley. I certainly recommend people to be without fear. Bones. The more so that in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not. Bowley. Pass thou on! Bones. 1 take in my hand p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…ery difficult matter to deal with in speech; in practice there is never any doubt or hesitation. What I say about Kether is of course not true; I cannot even know the truth unless I am actually in Kether. If I describe Samadhi, I fail. You understand enough (may be) to feel sure that I was there; but how is an outsider to judge? Bowley. True; Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, all try to describe it-_ how great is the contradiction of their teaching! E
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…of Combining Weights, and finds difficulty in accepting it, only to discover that the real difficulty of the chemist is that the law is not true; just as the golfer painfully corrects his pull and his slice, only to learn that the pull and the slice are the master strokes of the game; just as the brilliant and studious person arrives at the summit of his academic career, only to discover (if he have sufficient wit left over from the process) that the qualities required for success in life are a set different from, and even incompatible with, those …
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…ike confessed Mere changes rung upon a curse? I swear by all the bliss of blue My Phryne with her powder on Is just as false—and just as true— As your disgusting skeleton. Each to his taste: if you prefer This loathly brooding on Decay, I call it Growth, and lovelier Than all the glamours of the day.
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…of the slimy scales of vice One concentrated cockatrice! “Think!” laughs the devil, “everywhere Is Rupert Street by Leicester Square.” “ True l ” I replied, “it spells to me: There is none other God than He.” He conjures up the loathly rout Of Christians crawling in and out,
1907 · PDF PAGE 124
…t terrible story I ever heard. A fico for your tragedies of blood and bones! Indeed, ’tis the one hopeless hell, added the Scholar. It is true? You knew the man? I did, returned the big man. As nice a fellow as you could find in three continents. And lost! lost! lost! Oh! when will men be free of all this superstition? groaned Denzil. Never, said the Scholar. Now, said the big man. I can’t see it, cried Denzil, but it shall be! it shall be! And he rolled off this great oath: I SWEAR by all the stars that stream Through all the lofty leaves of nig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…ofound thought assures your beetle-headed suppliant that your glorious nobility must meet him before the controversy can be decided. (9) True. Would your sublimity condescend to defile himself by entering this muck-sweeper’s miserable hovel? "T
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
… window, some one, and remember that He is God alone, and that there is none other God than He! Right as usual, said the scholar. It’s a true story, though, in a way. I’ve seen the mask myself, and I believe it. THE GILT MASK IN Florence in the days of old there dwelt a craftsman pale and grim. The Devil entered into him, and fanned his soul with plumes of gold. He offered all he chose to ask. “ O snatch this itching soul away, So that thou animate my clay and finish me this magic mask l ” The Devil brought him graving tools; the first a ravening…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…ee—it is but a step to jonah’s Whale. Now the process of waking from these dreams of evil, of arising into the Dawn of Glory that is the true consciousness of the Adept, of annihilating these disturbed phantoms, may involve some symbolic
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
… tell; the habit is easily acquired. Bowley. You know what an expert liar I have always been. You know my capacity for making a full and true confession of countless crimes without enlightening a soul. You know my shameless maxim, “ Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.” To try your formula I must control not only my words, but my tones, the shape of my mouth, the mirth of my eyes, the ready ambiguity of my shoulders! Bones. A good exercise, Frater. Bowley. Another point. I am, after all, a Poet. T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
… lie not to the Holy Ghost! Shakespeare is perhaps thought by some (may it be credited?) to have written the lines: To thine own self be true, And it will follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all Eternity !—and the possibility of lying is avoided. For one speaketh not, nor, if one spake, is there any to hear. Know that the greater the Adept, the more truthful; should he—in error—speak…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…urse of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other. “I have been taxed with assaulting what is commonly known as virtue. True; I hate it, but only in the same degree as I hate what is commonly known as vice. “ So it must be acknowledged that one who is but slightly unbalanced needs a milder correction than whoso is obsessed by prejudice. There are men who make a fetish of cleanliness; they shall work in a fitter’s shop, and learn that dirt is the mark of honourable toil. There are those whose lives are rendered wretched by the fe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
… OM PAX You may be right, said Basil, in thinking as you evidently do that much of the ceremonial debauchery of the Pagan worships was a true mystical process. Indeed, at this day there are many cults in India (also, I believe, in the South Seas) of what is called Vamacharya. Religious frenzy is invoked by the aid of the Erotic and Bacchic frenzies mingled with that of the Muse of the Tom-Tom. Soma, bhang, arraq, and the Uniting of the Lingam and the Yoni! All, mind you, by a most elaborate ritual. But, on the other hand, there is perfect purit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…y insist? The so-called casuists of the Christian Church have exhaustively investi gated this subject; and all they say is none the less true because it is subtle or immoral, as the stupid and the puritan pretend. Cardinal Newman may have had his faults, but he is at least a pleasant con trast to Gladstone and Kensit. If my truth is not the truth of the Divorce Court, it is because my world (thank God i) is not the Divorce Court. I prefer Christ to Sir Gorell Barnes as an authority on the Seventh Commandment; and the Spiritual Interpretation of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…ve results of illumination. But let us consider the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, brother, this is fulsome. Bones. Ass! . . . He lives (it is true) in Kether; but his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. Wha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…I’ll only put your mouth to my head, and your hand—there, that’ll tell any body who knows that I’ve really been there, and that it’s all true that I’m telling you. This Sixth House is called the Treasure House of Gold; it’s a most mysterious place as ever you were in. First there’s a tiny, tiny, tiny doorway, you must crawl through on your hands and knees; and even then I scraped ever such a lot of skin off my back; then you have to be nailed on a red board with four arms, with a great gold circle in the middle, and that hurts you dreadfully. T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…in their minds as an injudicious optimist who, in uncut stones, sees finished gems of finest brilliance. But these stones from the mine of true poetry are cut in a manner that says: Here is a hand which has “ waked to ecstasy the living lyre." .4 Crowded Shelf —It has rarely fallen to the lot of a man—so far as my reading goes, it has not happened to one—to be the author of thirty-two books, ranging in prices from two guineas to half a crown each, and to have a book of 327 pages written anent his work, and still be an unknown voice in the land. I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…he author’s estimate, Mr. Crowley is no longer to be termed a “minor” t, but stands in the ranks of the immortals. Captain Fuller, it is true, deals more in eulogy than in criticism, and would be a more convincin interpreter if he did not write as a Qabalist, an adept in ceremonial magic, occult Bu dhism, and “all that sort of thing.” His knowledge is weird and remarkable, his ethics unfettered by the shackles of convention, and his style frequently eccentric, sometimes in doubtful taste, and sometimes, like that of his master, rushin onward in…