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224 AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM Amen. The pharynx to Mahabonisbash, the great angel; To seven-and-thirty myriads of legions of planetary spirits the hairs of the moustache, to each one; To ninety and one myriads of the Elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world ; To Shalach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, t…
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IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH 53 TO ‘‘ ELIZABETH.” WITH A COPY OF TANNHAUSER. Written in the Akasa.} THE story ofa fool. From love and death Emancipate, he stands above. The goal Is in the shrines of misty air: there roll The voices and the songs of One who saith : ‘There is no peace for him who lingereth.” Love is a cinder now that was a coal : Either were vain. The great magician’s soul Is far too weak to risk Elizabeth. All this is past and under me. Above, Around, the magian tree of knowledge waves Its rosy flowers and golden fruit. I know…
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… my own mind.) As far as normal reasoning goes, Mind’ssuperior I must admit my concepts close functions. Exactly where my worthy friend, Great Mansel, says they ought to end. But here’s the whole thing in a word: Olympus in a nutshell! | Jdave a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true } In short, the mind is capable, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty other things as well, The first of which is concentration ! Here most philosophers agree ; Does truth Claim that the trut…
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…ple |mathematical process! 0! . n 0—gi-l— | _” | 0°=0 =o Multiply by l=> . 1 Then —0ie 70x co, QO! Now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely small results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUMBER EX- TENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES. It happened, when this our Great Inversion took place, from the essence of all nothingness to finity ex- tended in innumerable categories, that an incalculably vast system was_ produced. Merely by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, …
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… 97 JASON. Nay, brother. is sorrow The voice was: ‘‘ The end '» THESEUS. Ye heard not, O dull-witted! Unto me (Alone of all ye wise) the great voice came, ‘““The Gates of Hell prevail.” shall not in = all CASTOR. I heard, ‘‘ Regret not thy mortality ! Love conquers death !” POLLUX. But I, ‘‘ Regret not thou Thine immortality! Love conquers life !””! ORPHEUS. A partial wisdom to a partial ear. JASON. But what speech came to thee ? ORPHEUS., I heard no voice. ARGUS. What means this? Here’s my labour thrown away, My skill made jest of, all my wage…
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…istant sea Moaning, and here the wind that wails, the drear Groans like a ghost’s, the desolate house of fear Whence I fled once from my great enemy— This is the house! O speechless misery ! Here the great silver candlesticks illume The agéd book, the blackness blazoned o’er With golden characters and scarlet bloom Twined in the blue-tinged sigils wrought for doom, And dreadful names of necromancer’s lore Written therein : so stood my room before When the hissed whisper came, ‘‘ Beware! Beware ! They’re coming !” and “‘ They’re coming !”” when …
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…the bara* slam? Eternal life. Divergent views of its desirability. Buddhist idea. Dogma of Belief. - But if you drink your mystic fill * Great slam-—a term of Bridge-Whist. + John iii, 18, ‘‘ He that believeth not is condemned already.”’ Under the good tree Igdrasil © Where is at all your use for Christ? Hath Krishna not at all sufficed? I hereby guarantee to pull A faith as quaint and beautiful As much attractive to an ass, And setting reason at defiance, As Zionism, Christian Science, Or Ladies’ League, ® ‘‘ Keep off the Grass !”’ From “ Alic…
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… of Iolchus King. JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great Aeson’s heir. MEN. We learn good news, most enviable sir ; That Aeson hath such grand inheritance. JASON. You have grown fat beneath an evil rule. Your period is at hand. Go, one of you, And drag the impious wretch before my sight ! MEN. Aeson? Thy father? JASON. Play not with my wrath ! My mood is something dangerous. MEN. Dangerous sir, I go indeed, to bring some danger more Hither. JASON. Poltroonery …
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…unconscious strain, his peace and pleasure and pain, his reflex life, his deepest-seated deed of mere brute muscle and nerve! Thence, by great Will new- freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarco- phggus! an end! an end! Resounds the echo in the stone, incalculable myriad…
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… take that stupendous example of literary subterfuge—Azny Lear. Let me digress to the history of my own conversion. Syllogistically,—All great men (e.g. Shaw) are agnostics and subverters of morals. Shake- speare was a great man. Therefore Shakespeare was an agnostic and a subverter of morals. prtort this is then certain, But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—so I killed Rousseau! Beware of a priori / Let us find our facts, guided in the search. by a priori methods, no doubt; but the result will t…
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…n others, I believe Science would say any object) Scept. That was my method. Myst. Suddenly the object disappears: in its stead arises a great glory, characterised by a feeling of calm, yet of intense, of un- imaginable bliss. Scept. That was my result. But, more re- markable still, the change was not from the consciousness ‘‘I behold a blue pig’’—the object I have ever affected—to ‘‘I behold 1 As represented by Huxley, who, I fancy, spoke from imperfect knowledge of the facts. But vide infra.—A. C. Indeed we are too bold in say-. 3 a glory,” b…
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…of death —— Scept. Shocks-—— Myst. Some incidents of earliest child- hood Scept. Memories which can be classed, and therefore fall under great headings; in- tellectual victories—-- Myst. Religious emotions Scepi. Ah! this minute too, for I group them! All these are intuitions which come near, which touch, which threaten, which alarm, the Ego itself! Myst. Yet in those great ecstasies of love, poetry, and their like; the Ego is altogether abased, absorbed in the belovéd: the pheno- menon is utterly objective. Scept. ‘To be abased is to be exalte…
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…cunning to place Aleph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he sojourned far, and came to a great Emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. And the Emperor (who is Solomon) told him of Sheba’s Land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. So he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden; even the cubical stone and the cross be…
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…le effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the metre of x Memoriam: ‘‘ No force on earth, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and man, destructive o…
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…during Crowley’s residence. ‘/yst. We then is the longest-lived, and the wisest, and the worthiest of respect, who can sum up all in one great generalisation? Scept. So Spencer defines philosophy: as the art of doing this. Myst. But you leave out this -‘‘ vividness.”’ He is greater who generalised the data of evolution than he who did the same thing tor heraldry: not only because of the number of facts covered, but because of the greater intrinsic value and interest of each fact. Not only, moreover, is the philosopher who can sum up the observa…
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…ut mix the manual and the mental—well, No ship was built by pure philosophy. POLLUX. Nor yet designed by artisans. JASON. Enough ! Come, great Alcides, it is time to go. ARGUS. A fool allows a moment’s irritation To move the purpose of a thousand years. Go, go! HERACLES. Remember! We are met this day To call upon the name with praise and prayer Of great Athena, since our ship is built With sculptured olive pregnant in the prow, And all the length of pine is coiled and curled With the swift serpent’s beauty, and the owl Sits in huge state upon t…
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…in current? Afyst. Ah! I remember now your phrase ‘Dhyana a debaucn.’’ You are of course familiar with the name of Maudsley, perhaps the greatest living authority on the brain? Scept, None greater. Afjst. By rare gocd fortune, at the very moment when this aspect of the question was confronting me, and I was (so any one would have imagined) many thousand miles from expert opinion, I had the opportunity of putting the matter before him. Our conversa- tion was pretty much as foliows: ‘* What is the cause of the phenomenon I have de- scribed?” (I h…
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…e,! should know three was cight,” if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my Brethren! And she gave him the great and perfect gift of Magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. Now at that great wedding was a Suggler,® a riddler: for he said, ‘‘ Thou hast beasts: I will give thee weapons one for one.” For the Lion did our Father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his Eagle a cup of ever flowing water : for his Man the Suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of al…
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…of Boundless Love, That this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. He might have been so great! He missed Heaven! ‘Think kindly of him! 169. Correctly rhymes.41—Such lines, how- ever noble in sentiment, as: ‘‘A bas les Anglais! The Irish up!” will not be admitted to the competition, Irish is accented on the penultimate—bad cess to the bloody Saxons that made it so! The same with Tarshish (see Browning, Pippa Passes, I1., in the long:speech of Blu- phocks) and many others. 173. The liar Copleston.4…
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…ndary, and in its limitation as applied to volition, an inconceiv- able idea. H. Spencer, of. czt. This con- sideration alone should add great weight to the agnostic, and a fortiori to the Buddhist, position. 2 See H. Spencer, ‘* First Principles,” ‘‘ The Knowable,” for afairsummary of the facts under- lying this generalisation; which indeed he comes within an ace of making iin so many words. It may be observed that this law is nearly if not quite axiomatic, its contrary being enormously difficult if not impossible to formulate mentally. As to …