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Page 1 of 11910 · PDF PAGE 12
…and I bear witness that nothing is worthy to be com- pared with ecstasy. What is the path to this immortal land ? To the Oriental, whose mind is, so to say, static, meditation offers the best path, a path which to us seems (and indeed is) intolerably irksome and tedious. To the Western, whose mind is active and dynamic, there is no road better than ceremonial. For ecstasy is caused by the sudden combination of two ideas, just as hydrogen and oxygen unite explosively. A similar instance in a higher kingdom will occur to every one. But this relig…
1910 · PDF PAGE 8
…implest Methodist uses some sort of ceremony, and Crowley, who is quite in earnest in his endeavour to attain such unusual conditions of mind as are called ecstasy, believes that the gateway to Ecstasy can be reached through Ceremonial Magic. He has saturated himself with the magic of the East—a very real thing, in tune with the Eastern mind. He is well read in the modern metaphysicians, all of whom have attempted to explain the unexplainable. He abandons these. They appeal only to the brain, and once their jargon is mastered they lead nowhere …
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
… keynote of the scheme. The etiquette to be observed is that of the most solemn religious ceremonies. It should be particularly borne in mind that silence itself is used as a means of obtaining effects.