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… you experience that there is a God . You can never understand until you have experi enced . You can never experience until you have got beyond reason . Those five paths lead us to one road , the road of “ Knowledge and Doubt " ; beyond which to the inept there is impenetrable night , and to the adept undying brilliancy . “ Know or Doubt ! is the alternative of highwayman Huxley ; ' Believe'is not to be admitted ; this is a fundamental ; in this agnosticism can never change ; this must ever command our moral , as our intellectual assent. Thus R…
1907 · PDF PAGE 309
…THE WEST MYSTICISM 1 This is “ the peace which passeth all understand ing , ” a conscious communion with the Absolute by paths which lie beyond the dialectical ; when the con sciousness is full of God and is carried outside itself by a sublime alienation which cannot be made intel ligible in words ; and even if we could do so , we should assimilate to our minds the very qualities which con stitute our minds , concerning which it is equally a lie to exclaim . Yea or Nay ! There is no equivalence of motion in Samadhi , Samadhi being beyond motion…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…ng ’ twixt the misty blue of the heavens , and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep . Before the name of That which is beyond life and death , beyond matter and energy , beyond the human and the mortal ; he stands , holding before us as a stan dard , the homologue of the Labarum of old , “ In
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…ill run B ,A , B ,A ,B ,A . Both , however , are indicating the same chain ; but Crowley, like the philosophers of the Vedanta , strides beyond both intellect and matter to find an “ I ” (purusha) or self, which is beyond all intellect , and of which in tellect is but the borrowed light , as Patanjali says in one of his yoga aphorisms : “ The seer is intelligence only , and though pure , sees through the colouring of the intellect .” In “ Pentecost ," Crowley writes : You know for me the soul is nought Save a new phantom in the thought , That t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…y “ elevating excitement ,” and as we have seen , it was because of its absence that he attacked the Epic school of verse . Ecstasy lies beyond our gnosis ; as we shall here after see , it carries us out of ourselves , beyond the mere shell of existence , into the very depths of the profound . For the fraction of a second the whole ocean of our being is whirled through a narrow gorge , then once again we are hurled forth into the eddying cataracts of life, an essential spirit light gilding once again the sepulchral abode of a corpse . For a mom…
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
188 THE STAR IN THE WEST ing cup of thine Illusions shalt thou hurl beyond the confines of Space over the very rim of Time . Thou O seeker after Wisdom , and Virtue , and multiscient Truth , thou O wanderer in the groves of Eleusis , thou , even thou shalt drink of the wine of Iacchus , and thy cup shall be as a triple flame set with sapphire , and beryl, and amethyst ; for it is the cup of Adepts , and of Heroes , and of Gods . Then all the absinthial bitterness of thine heart shall vanish midst the chaunting of souls lost in the ocean of unde…
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…ected by the HYLO-IDEALISTIC circle , which expresses them in terms of science ; and the whole is encircled by the ring of AGNOSTICISM , beyond which philo sophy as philosophy cannot penetrate . The three circles of Mysticism , Hylo - Idealism (Idealism and Realism ), and Agnos ticism ; or Magic , Science , and Philosophy, are all bisected by the PYRRHONISTIC Line of doubt which alone vanishes in the circumference of CROWLEYANITY . This is the outer circle of all , forming , with the Pyrrhonistic Line , a perfect Yin and YANG ; itself the unutt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…iverse, The Love of Isis ! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above , beyond the Tomb of Time , Blending the darkness into the profound Chasms of matter-so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space , Limitless fields of Time .. Such is the ecstatic rapture of Tannhäuser , in which he loses all perception of earthly love in the intoxication of the divine : Were it not only that the selflessness That fills me now , forbids the personal , Casts out the individual , and w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…n her ; her kisses draw my breath ; my face Loses its lustre in the grace of her quick bosom ; sinister The raving spectres reel ; I see beyond my Circe's eyes no shape Save vague cloud - measures that escape the dance's whirling witchery . Clothed with my flower - bride I sit , a harlot in a harlot's dress , And laugh with careless wickedness . And with our laughter's nails refix his torn flesh faster to the wood , And with more cruel zest make good the shackles of the Crucifix .3 | The Argonauts , vol . ii, p . 100 . 2 Mysteries : Lyrical and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 266
…have come down to the facts of real life . Empty space is the postulate of all metaphysics , but all absolute quantities finally must be beyond the finitely reasoning mind . 1 SPACE This assertion of the Absolute Zero may truly at first sight appear to be a somewhat exaggerated statement ; but on due consideration it will be dis closed , that not only do all physics and metaphysics rest on this bed - rock of nothingness ; but , that also both abstract philosopher and scientist alike , have in no way leapt its fiery circumference . When the scie…
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…versal force Means to the forceless universe Birth . I accept the furious course , Invoke the all - embracing curse . Blessing and peace beyond may lie When I annihilate the “ 1. " Therefore , O holy mother , gnash Thy teeth upon my willing flesh ! Thy chain of skulls wild music clash ! Thy bosom bruise my own afresh , Sri Maharani ! draw my breath Into the hollow lungs of death ! There is no light , nor any motion . There is no mass , nor any sound . Still , in the lampless heart of ocean , Fasten me down and hold me drowned Within thy womb , …
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… , Trees that are warmer and leafier , Starrier , sunnier hours Spurning the strain of all grief here , Bringing a quiet delight to us , beyond our belief , here ." Whilst in the next three cases I consider it distinctly faulty : I see the thin web binding me With thirteen cords of unity Toward the calm centre of the sea .? Where larkspur and cornflower Are blue with sunlight's hour ,3 Ring out your frosty peal , and smite Loud fingers on the harp , and touch Lutes , and clear psalteries musical , And all stringed instruments , to indite 4 The …
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…ire , as we have seen , is vividly described by Crowley in many of his poems . In “ The Nameless Quest ” we find the yearn ing “ For One beyond all song .” 1 In “ The Triumph of Man ” we again find the same idea crystallized , but in “ The Ultimate Voyage ,” the aspirant , on his spiritual journey towards the Supreme Knowledge , at one point on his journey all but attains Nirvana . In many other poems do we find this idea of Nir vana . In “ Why Jesus Wept ” we have : Thy flower - life is shed Into eternity , A waveless lake .2 Which reminds us …
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
…are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is the flaming of that flame . Death is the naming of that name . That star upon the serpent's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life's plan . The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought's abyss of tears and woes .
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…y . ” Yet once again that added impulse arises in the passing over . What is it ? Crowleyanity does not , in words , explain ; for being beyond reason , it is both inexplicable and undefinable in rational terms ; yet it directs , and the weary traveller , searching for the stone of the wise , has but to follow , guided by the sure and certain hope that if he so will , it will guide him to that great and glorious transfiguration he so ardently desires . روا TIME Kant , as we have seen , places both Time and Space in the realm of the à priori ; a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…assion of an unlustful nature . In “ The Flight ” we find in the following lines a still deeper glow : The snow -bright weather Calls us beyond the grassy downs , to be Beside the sea , The slowly breathing Ocean of the south . Oh , make thy mouth A rosy flame like the most perfect star Whose kisses are So red and ripe ! Oh , let thy limbs entwine Like love with mine !? In the third act of “ The Argonauts ,” we find the love of Medea is no longer passion , but fiery entranc ing lust : At the midmost hour His mind given up to sleepless muttering…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…loved one of his boy hood - his pure ideal — rises before him . so delicate and frail , Far , white , and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any eye but God's .2 And he tells Venus of her . To which she answers : Thine old desire Was just to touch the mere impalpable , To formulate the formless ... 3 Again Tannhäuser bursts into song , one of those magnificent lyrics , flashing like a ruby , warm and flaming in the glowing gold of this drama . And thus does his song end : Whose long - drawn curse runs venom in my veins ? What dragon …
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…ss .” One more quotation we will give from the song of Parthenope in “ The Argonauts ." O mortal , sad is love ! But my dominion Extends beyond love's ultimate abode . Eternity itself is but a minion , Lighting my way on the untravelled road . Gods shelter ' neath one shadow of my pinion . Thou only tread the path none else hath trode ! Come , lover , in my breast all blooms above , Here is thy love !3 The true Buddhist scorns the selfishness of heaven , the idea of hell is utterly repugnant to him , to feel that he is gaining eternal bliss whi…
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…d swinging it round has sent the whole fickle world conception of these excogitating spiders into those realms which lie behind Time and beyond Space . He stands on the virgin rock of Pyrrhonic - Zoroastrianism , which unlike the Hindu world - conception , stands on neither Elephant nor Tortoise , but on the Absolute Zero of the meta physical Qabalists . The question now is , what is Crowleyanity or Pyrrhonic - Zoroastrianism ? and the answer is as follows : " Hosanna to the Son of David ! Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord . Hos…
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…wn from God's forests , paid with sweat and tears and blood . Yet to what does this infinite yearning lead ? The soul looks “ out to the beyond ,” and from the shape less and unstayed there bursts the cry of “ Nothing ,” “ But evermore came out by the same door wherein I went . In verse vi we find the mysticism of Bera shith “ Nothing was everything "; and in verse vii , the perfection of life in death “ Absorbed my life in 92 | Aceldama , vol . i, p . 2. a Omar Khayyam ,