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…raft! Bones. I don’t see it, quite. Bowley. Nor do I. It’s the story, though. Bones. I suppose devotion to one’s profession is a form of Truth. But even if, as you say, it is often a question of courage and will, these are the very qualities which this truth telling stimulates. It’s a V.C. touch to reply to a lady who asks how her hat suits “ Not at all." Bowley. It seems to me mere boorishness. Bones. No! the lady is none the worse for the stab to her silly vanity; and though she may be angry or sulky, she will remember it in your favour when …
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
…rs. P. C. [Aside.] If Maeterlinck gives meaname likeaheadache, will not Shaw call me simply a cough-drop? [ExiL Prompter. [Angn'ly.] The Truth! Mr. .M. H. The Truth! The Truth! The Truth! [Exit Blare of Trumpets. Mrs. Bones. A truce to this theatrical follyl More cofi‘ee, Mr. Bowley? Bowley. Please. I hope you will forgive me, Mrs. Bones, but in honour of the festive season, and as relaxation of our severe labours upon the Table of Correspondences, I have taken the liberty of
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…hild nor his moustache; and I will contend with him, I will fight and over come him; yea, I will inflict upon him my celebrated essay upon Truth—and he shall never rise againl It is written in the manner of Immanuel Kant? Ay, but of Immanuel Kant in bed with Bessie Bellwood. The hands are the hands of Schopenhauer, but the voice is the voice of Arthur Roberts. Listen to the Iataka, 0 child of wonder and the innocent eyes, and if you yell you will be deposited in the coal-hole. Superlativer Honoured Fratres and Sorores of the Order of The Tin Suns…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…heir doctrine of Maya? Exactly so; but of course they cannot mean what they say. The thinkable is false. All our attempts to crystallize Truth in words are just as futile as the trickery by which the artist gets his sunlight effects with some dull ochre. The impression ’5 good enough, maybe, at a distance, as an impression. Examine it close: it goes. God sees the clever composition; man sees the untidy brushwork. So logic destroys our religions, despite their truth. But, said Denzil, surely it is better to get nearer truth. Ihate all the evil t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…ch a thought is hardly an illusion—but Bones must not and shall not think that there is an opposition of black and white, good and evil, truth and falsehood. One of our weaker brethren (and I alas! had relied on him as strong among the strong 1) recently plumed himself vastly on this per ception of the Illusion of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil— though “Why in the name of Glory was he proud?” considering that he had the authentic dictum of very Tikkunim for referring that Tree to Malkuth, the first and easiest broken of the false fires of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
…LEY LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE Y WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK: 3, EAST 14TH STREET SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGA _ r TION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH O BOLESKINE, FOYERS, INVERNESS I907
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
8o KONX OM PAX 0 fool! not thus the Intimate Gives up its secret to the soul. Truth flies beyond, inviolate, And slips beside the glancing goal. Who probes the body gains a fact, Yet leaves an equal fact behind; So gathering for the cataract Roll up the rapid waves of mind. Swift as the light at last they leap Into the chasm of despair; Of all their freshet force they keep But froth and smoke and empty air. 0 fool! to deem dissection truth And paint and patches but a blind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! co…
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42 KONX 0M PAX He has sought to write Truth; is any ready to receive it? Will he not be misunderstood? Will not one set of fools cry “ Casuist !” and their twin brethren exclaim: “ Here, indeed, at last shine wisdom, and virtue, and multiscient truth 1"? No: for the Essay, and the Hearer, what are they but dog-faced demons, that manifest no sign of Truth, but seduce ever from the Sacred Mysteries? Aflirm their identity with the One that is None, or destroy them—these are the two aspects of the supreme Ritual, and these two are one, which is None…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…usly widdershins. He causes two deceitful moons To dance upon the driving dunes. “ If all ’s illusion, gentle youth, All is the enemy of Truth. Where are you now?” “ My worthy friend !” (I answered) “take it to the end. I do not think you prove it quite That truth and lies are opposite. But upon This we can agree: There is none other God than He.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…tery'erts, “ Flirted! Autres temps, Autres motsl You’re improving, Frater ! ” Reader replies “ Pig l ”] But she says the same words with truth to Mrs. 1., who is merely asking out of curiosity. For if she changes the subject, or is rude, it is tantamount to a con fession, and Mrs. J. has no right to trick or force one from her. This is called Keeping the Vow of Secrecy which one has sworn to one’s own Soul. [BONES protests violently, and is reminded that dis cussion follows, net/er interrupts, the Paper.] But why insist? The so-called casuists …
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 47 in value to yours of telling truth to a man in the sense he under stands. Bones. Yes; I may grant so much: but my formula is a good one too. Bowley. I promise to try it. Bones. You have two advantages. One is the common or Garden Magic; you acquire the habit of telling truth in the low material ob jective sense, and nature is bound (as Levi says) “to accommodate herself to the statement of the magician.” Thus, one may take hold of a hot iron, or coal, saying “ It does not hurt ” and it doesn’t. 80101:]. I have…
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46 KONX OM PAX Bowley. Then what is the converse of Truth? Bones. My dear Pilate, it certainly is not falsehood. A crooked line is not the contradictory of a straight one. Curves and corners alike exclude the straight line and— Bowley. No proposition can possibly have two logical contradic tories. Bones. There I pass. Bowley. Keynes. Bones. I should certainly have brought it in justifiable homicide had the remark been Abel’s. Bowley. Our old friendship— Bones. All very well—you know I should never have made such a remark in real life and it’s da…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
… sarcastie tone of this passage ohills the bloodqf MRS. BONES, and she hastily prepares more amfi'e. Therefore they determine to announce Truth to men, that Truth may make them free—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 58
…w subtly !—to a statement which I do not wish to support by proofs. I imagine that he who is able to receive it will receive it. This is Truth, that one should be concerned with one’s own busi ness, and with nothing else whatever. If I enter thy laboratory, 0 Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, who protestest that thou dost aspire to the Great White Brotherhood, and demand of thee, “ What are thou doing?” wilt thou reply, “I am extracting the enzymes from this ferment,” or rather, “I am aspiring to the Great White Brotherhood ”? And if that q…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…the day! Seek not to imitate the language of the wise ,- ’tis easy. There is no royal road to illumination; that which I say in Light is truth to the children of the Light; to them of darkness is a confusion and a snare. Knew ye what agony the nimble acuteness of mine own dialectic was to me, ye would not envy me, O dullardsl For I fear ever, lest I be replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanic skill. Then, seeing the thought as fear, I quench it masterly. Whence rise other evil things; the thought “ Is this too mere trickery of …
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…n who animadvert scomfully upon the circumstance that a poet, a philosopher, an adept, an emancipated man of any sort, rarely speaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken ofl" from the invisible Crown of Glory, sparks which they have mistaken for corpse-lights or marsh-vapours, surrounding—they think it an inexplicable paradox l—one who, in all other respects, is so high and pure a being. The first point is, it takes two to make a lie. A. say…
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…ones. Especially as interpreted by followers absolutely wallowing in Ruach. Bowley. Shall we leave it at that? That Bones finds objective truth a Way up the Tree, and a Fruit in the topmost bough? Bones. I am more positive than that. Bowley. Less Zoroaster and more Pyrrho, please Lord, for Brother Bones! else you will fall into the way of Paul, and perish in the gain saying of Mohammed. Bones. You are obstinate about the necessity of scorning the objective results of illumination. But let us consider the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, brother, this is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…greatly honoured F rater! We will go on with the Table, or I will read you my latest glorious masterpiece entitled Amath. The Hebrew for Truth, Baby! Reflect, O bat-eyed child, upon the circumstance that Amath adds up to 44!, which is the square of 2!, Eheieh, divine name of Kether, also mystic number of Tiphereth—vzde Tiphereth clause in “]”—“I will devote my self to Great Work,” etc., you remember—meaning Truth is of Kether the end and of Tiphereth the means, also Aleph is the Fool, Kether, Mem the Hanged Man, Tiphereth ; and Tau the Sign of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…hat bowed awhile Before the terror sudden! shown. The nameless fear for self, ar hurled By death to dissolution vile, Fades as the royal truth is known : Though change and sorrow range and roll, There is no self—there is no so . The essay on Science and Buddhism (p. 244, vol. ii of The Collected Works) is valuable, proving as it does that Buddhistic philosophy is a logical development from observed facts. Captain Fuller declares that the Agnostic principles of “ Crowley anrty " may be summed up as follows: Believe nothing till you find it out fo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…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 page 39 of your able monograph and follow m…