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PENTECOST 177 515 639 533 540 ad5 To—what abyss’s dizzy brink? And fall! And I have ceased to think! That is, have conquered and made still Mind’s lower powers by utter Will. It may be that pure Nought will fail Quite to assuage the needs of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail? Aum! Let us meditate aright °° On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Tliume our minds! So mote it be! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man t…
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…is time. Going forth of that Mountain he met alsothe Fool. Then the discourse of that Fool, my Brethren; it shall repay your pains. They think they are a triangle,? he said, they think as the Picture-Folk. Base they are, and little infinitely. Ain Elohim. They think, being many, they are one.* They think asthe Rhine-Folk think. Many and none. | Ain Elohim. They think the erect® is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twins are the stoopers. They think as the Big-Nose-Folk. Save us, O Lord! 1 Nechesh the …
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…lief ; And an involuntary act Make difference infinite in fact Between the right and left-hand thief ? Belief is not an act of will !” I think, Sir, that I have you still, Free will. Even allowing (much indeed !) gctbert That any will at all is freed, penest And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed: I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading ! ) “ But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed If there is fre…
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…g knaves ! Be- I am of force, I say. PELIAS. Rebellious youth, the justice of thy cause And force I will admit—where force goes far. But think’st thou wait no wild Erinyes For thee a guest in these my halls, for thee Whose hands are dipped not yet in blood so deep As to have murdered an old man, and him Thy father’s brother? JASON. Justice covers all. The Furies cannot follow if a man To his own heart be reconciled. They feed On his own bosom, nay ! are born thereof. An alien clan he might elude, but these, Blood of his blood, he shall nor slay…
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…. Avigga. Ignorance. not remember his man-incarnation? Or, as Levi says, ‘‘In the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget.” I think it unlikely (may be), but in the total absence of all evidence for or against—at least with regard to the latter hypothesis !—I suspend my judgment, leave the question alone, and proceed to more practical points than are offered by these interesting but not over- useful metaphysical speculations. V. KARMA. The law of causation is formally identical with this. Karma means ‘‘ that which is ‘made,” and I th…
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… that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard a7 acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw th…
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…tion due to auto- hypnosis ? So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer ®!—test its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. ‘ O God,” I prayed, “‘ for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times--what a thumping trout ! (This is the only true fish-story I ever h…
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… spoil, And the glamour of all the sea! HERACLES. A good stout song, friend Argus, matching well The mighty blows thou strikest: yet me- thinks One blow should serve to drive yon nail well home Where thou with tenfold stroke— HERACLES. I have split the wood ! THESEUS. Vexation sits tremendous on his brow. Beware a hero’s fury! Thou art mad, Argus, to play so dangerous a trick. ARGUS. True, Theseus—if he had but hit his thumb ! CASTOR. Cease this fool’s talk. The moon waits not the work. POLLUX. The sun will sink no later for your pleasure. On t…
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184 THE SWORD OF SONG Christian mystics not true Christians, What think ye of Crowley? His interlo- cutor dis- missed, not with a jest, but with a warning. Poet yawns. cum ! Now who dares Call me no Christian? And, who cares? Read ; you will find the Master of Balliol, Discarding Berkeley, Locke, and Paley, ’Il Resume such thoughts and label clear “My Christianity lies here !” With such religion who finds fault? Stay, it seems foolish to exalt Religion to such heights as these, Refine the actual agonies To nothings, lest the mystic jeer ‘‘ So l…
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…and matter are the same ” Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like: I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own Non-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; | With Hegel and—the Christian? téach That which completes, includes, absorbs Both mighty unrevolving orbs. In one informing masterless Master-idea of consciousness— All differences as these indeed Are chess play, co…
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…— Practical ad- I only hope you’ve understood ! vice. Remember that ‘‘ conversion ” lurks Nowhere behind my words and works. Go home and think! my talk refined To the sheer needs of your own mind. You cannot bring God in the compass Of human thought? Up stick and thump ass! Let human thought itself expand— Bright Sun of Knowledge, in me rise! Lead me to those exalted skies To live and love and understand ! Paying no price, accepting nought— The Giver and the Gift are one With the Receiver—O thou Sun Of thought, of bliss transcending thought, Ri…
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… why I shun Impermanence The sight of men, the life and fun of the soul. You know I can enjoy so well, The Nature that I love as none (I think) before me ever loved. You know I scorn the fear of Hell, By worship and all else unmoved.
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…now considered genuine.” I snatch a Testament, begin Reading at random the first page ;— He stops me with a gesture sage : “You must not think, because I say St. Mark is genuine, I would lay Such stress unjust upon its text, As base thereon opinion. Next?” I gave itup. Heescaped. Ah me! But so did Christianity. As for a quiet talk on physics sane ac Lente, I hear the British Don Spout sentiments more bovine than a sane yak Ever would ruminate upon, Half Sabbatarian and half Khakimaniac, Built up from Paul and John, With not a little tincture of…
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…er, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll *’ when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny reality. And now (111 quote y…
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…the position that ‘‘self- consciousness” is a mere phenomenon; a bye-product, and no more, in the laboratory of life. Afyst. Alas: I can think no better of you for your modesty : whoso would make bricks without straw may as well plan pyramids as hovels. Sevpt. Your stricture is but too just. Teleo- logy * isa science which will make no progress until the most wicked and stupid of men are philosophers, since like is comprehended by like: unless, indeed, we excuse the Creator by saying that, the Universe being a mere mechanism, that it should suf…
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…640 Gird up my loins and make endeavour, And seek a refuge from my grief, O never in Heaven—but in Hell! Death-bed of “Oh, very well!” I think you say, poet. Effect “Wait only till your dying day ! 645 of body on : . mind See whether then you kiss the rod, And bow that proud soul down to God !” I perfectly admit the fact ; Quite likely that 1 so shall act ! Here’s why Creation jumps at prayer. 650 You Christians quote me in a breath This, that, the other atheist’s death ; How they sought God! Ofcourse! Impair By just a touch of fever, chill, My…
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…Concluding such a half-cured case With the remark ‘“ where Bromide fails !— But Bromide people did not know Those 1900 years ago.” 290 I think we may concede to Crowley an Impartial attitude. to=~!bot) And so I scorn the thousand subtle points Wherein a man might find a fulcrum 205 (Ex utero Matris ad sepulcrum, * Vide infra, Science and Buddhism, and the writings of Immanuel Kant and his successors. Basis of poem to be that of the Compro- mise of 1870. Non-medical nature of poem. Crowley J. No mention will be made of the Figs and the Pigs.
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…rred ? The brainish fancies of a man Hovering on delirium’s brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think? No! the strong man‘and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn in pieces By knowledge ; nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there…
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… wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained * His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated ‘ Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—lI have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . .…
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… the wily gonococcus.” So he is but a simple cynic Who takes the world to match his clinic ; And he assuredly may err Who, keeping cats, thinks birds have fur. You say: ‘‘ There's Berridge, Felkin, Mathers, Hysterics, epileptoids, blathers, Guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid, With ceremonial magic that toyed.” Granted. Astronomy’s no myth, But it produced Piazzi Smyth. What crazes actors ? Why do surgeons Go mad and cut up men like sturgeons? (These questions are the late Chas. Spur- geon’s.) Of yogi I could quote you hundreds In science, law…