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MEN WIN NOT TRUTH OF TAO BECAUSE THEIR MINDS ARE WIRED. THE MIND UNCURBED, THE SELFS PERTURBED, AND LOSES TUNE OF TIDE. LOST, THE EXTERNAL LURES ; THEY TURN TO SEEK IT : THEN ALL THINGS PERPLEX, CONFUSE, AND VEX THOSE MISERABLE MEN. DISORDERED THOUGHTS ARISE ; BODY AND MIND GROW SICK. DISGRACE AND FEAR GROW YEAR BY YEAR TO THEIR CLIMACTERIC. WILD, THEY ARE TOSSED ABOUT THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH ; THEY QUIVER, SUNK IN SEA-STRESS OF BITTERNESS, AND LOSE THE TAO FOR EVER. THE TRUE, THE ABIDING TAO ! WHO UNDERSTANDETH HATH ; WHO HATH THE TAO IS HERE …
1939 · PDF PAGE 6
TAO HATH NO NAME ; ITS WORD IS GROWTH, AND SUSTENANCE TO ALL ; I AIM TO GIVE IT NAME : TAO (HEAVEN PROSPER CHANCE !) TAO HATH TWIN PHASE, WITH THE TEH : THE SILENT AND THE STRESSED. OF MOTION, THOSE ; OF THESE, REPOSE SUBLIMELY MANIFEST. HEAVEN MOVES, PURE SILENCE HE ; EARTH RESTS, BENEATH THE STRAIN ; SHUTTLE AND LOOM, AS WORD AND WOMB, THEIR MYSTERY SUSTAIN. PURE MOTION MAKETH REST AS SILENCE MAKETH STRESS. IF MAN WERE STILL, THEN HEAVEN SHOULD THRILL WITH EARTH TO NOTHINGNESS. SELF LOVETH SILENCE. YEA, BUT MIND DISTRACTETH IT. MIND LOVETH R…
1939 · PDF PAGE 9
MEN STYLE HIM LORD OF TAO, YET HE HATH NONE TO LORD. HID MOTIVE HE OF ALL THAT BE : ENOUGH FOR HIS REWARD ! HE THAT CAN COMPREHEND THIS DOCTRINE MAY TRANSMIT THIS SACRED TAO TO MEN THAT VOW THEMSELVES TO FATHOM IT. II. LAO KUN THE MASTER SAID : THE ADEPT IN SKILL OF SOUL HATH NEVER AN AIM ; THE BUNGLERS SHAME IS THAT HE GROPES A GOAL. WHO MOST POSSESS THE TEH CONCEAL THEIR MAGICK POWER ; WHO LEAST POSSESS EXERT THEIR STRESS SEVEN TIMES IN EVERY HOUR. THESE, WHO CLING FAST TO POWERS, WHO GUARD THEM, AND DISPLAY THEIR MAGICK ARTTHEY ARE NOT PAR…
1939 · PDF PAGE 5
…tten down by me KO YUEN in the Episode of the Dynasty of Wu and now made into a Rime by me ALEISTER CROWLEY I. LAO KUN THE MASTER SAID : TAO IS, DEVOID OF FORM YET HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE BROUGHT TO BIRTH, AND NURTURED BY ITS NORM TAO HATH NO WILL TO WORK ; YET BY ITS WAY OF HEAVEN THE MOON AND SUN REJOICE TO RUN AMONG THE STARRY SEVEN.
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
…WILL NOT SOIL ; THE THOUGHT WILL NOT UPSTRESS ; NOR POISONS (GREED, WRATH, DULNESS) BREED THEIR TRIFORM DEADLINESS. MEN EARN NOT EASE OF TAO FOR THEIR DESIRES DISEASE ; BECAUSE THEIR MIND IS NOT REFINED OF THOUGHT BY KILLING THESE IF ONE SHOULD SLAY DESIRES, HIS MIND AND BODY SEEM NO LONGER HIS, BUT PHANTASIES DANCED IN A WANTONS DREAM. SLAY MIND, SLAY BODY, SLAY THE EXTERNAL : MATTER GOES. THEN SPACE REMAINS ; RENEW THY PAINS ! UP ! FRONT THE FINAL FOES !
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
…S ABOVE THEIR TIDES THE SILENCE FREE FROM ACT ! HE THAT HATH THIS SHALL COME LITTLE BY LITTLE, A BREATH, SO FLOWETH HE NOW, TO TRUTH OF TAO, WHEREIN HE VANISHETH.