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…causes there exists a necessary but in this series all is con being tingent . “ The above is the most remarkable phenomenon of the human Reason , of which no instance can be shown in any other sphere . If, as generally happens , we regard the phenomena of the world of sense as things in themselves ; if we assume the principles of their connection as universal of things in themselves , and not merely as principles valid of experience , as is usual and indeed unavoidable without our Critique ; then an unexpected conflict arises , never to be quel…
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…ich every Adept sets out to discover ; for, whether in the dark night of the neophyte , or the noonday brilliancy of the supreme magus , Reason deserts us , and we at length are forced to seek a diviner illumination beyond those dark realms of rational understanding . Crowley writes on thispoint, in " Eleusis ," as follows : Not while reason is , as at present , the best guide known to men , not until humanity has developed a mental power of an entirely different kind . For , to the philosopher , it soon becomes apparent that reason is a weapon…
1907 · PDF PAGE 316
…s like some vast ocean , the empire of illusion ? " And then again and again answered in the negative . He proposed time after time that Reason be its own end , founded upon Right and Duty , and in the Freedom of the “ Person ," the moral sublimity of “ Duty ”: It is not so much because it is subject to the moral law that the person has sublimity , but because it gives that law to itself , and is not subject to it on any other condi tion.2 Expressing himself with regard to the free - being , Kant says : “ In him no act would be born , and no ac…
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…perience 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 Reason e…
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…prehension ... The command of the mind over itself is limited, as well as its command over the body ;) and these limits are not known by reason , or any acquaintance with the nature of cause and effect , but only by experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external objects . Our authority over our sentiments is much weaker than over our ideas ; and even the latter authority is cir cumscribed within very narrow boundaries . Will any one pretend to assign the ultimate reason of these boundaries , or show…
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218 THE STAR IN THE WEST or by reason . ... But what reason can induce us to believe the existence of bodies without the mind , from what we perceive ." 1 This point Crowley fully em phasizes in “ Time ” when he writes : “ a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us ; even its Un knowability is a species of knowledge of it : and , by Savitri ! when I say real to us , I say real absolutely , since all things lie to me in the radius of my , sensorium . * To others ' is a vain phrase .". And as it has already been shown in the chain A, …
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“ If you hold by anything in the world more than by reason , truth , and justice ; if your will be un certain and vacillating, either in good or evil ; if logic alarm you , or the naked truth make you blush ; if you are hurt when accepted errors are assailed ; condemn this work straight away ; do not read it ; let it cease to exist for you ; but at the same time do not cry it down as dangerous ." ELIPHAS LÉVI .
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…atal power And lost the Spirit in the act .? 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, pp . 178 , 179 . I am ; and by my fancy : if my reason Will thereto be obedient , I have reason ; If not , my senses better pleased with madness Do bid it welcome .- Winter's Tale . 2 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 182 .
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…h Buddhism | The Mother's Tragedy , vol . i, pp . 156-7 . Qabalistic Dogma of Pistorius . Factum fatum quia fatum verbum est . A supreme reason governs all , and hence there is no fatality ; all which is must be ; all which happens ought to take place . An accomplished fact is irrevocable as destiny , but destiny is the reason of the Supreme Intelligence . - The Mysteries of Magic , p . 123 .
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…ion , choked by their venomous vomit , they cannot see the divine form of Love through the mist of their steam ing sensuality . For what reason did man tie woman to him ? For what reason did he devise the horrors of indissoluble marriage ? And the answer is : that he might ever have at least one poor victim to sate his vile carnalities on . Lust and Indolence are the parents of Marriage and Law , but not even the menials of Freedom and Free Love . We clung still closer , till the soul ran through Body to body , twined like sunny snakes , Sinles…
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…f that distance , inversely our knowledge be comes known ; yet curious to say , as Rousseau once said : “ The choice which is opposed to Reason comes to us from Reason . We have made the god of love blind because he has better eyes than we have , and sees things which we cannot perceive . now making the Sublime ridiculous , and like the Bhikkhu can no longer see the “ dainty lady ” but in her place “ a set of bones .” ? Not until we under stand ourselves , shall we understand the world of God , and not until we have replenished the lamp of our …
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…not be required by us .” Then standing aghast as the phantasmagoria of his mind crowd past him ; states in the plainest words , that the Reason itself is at fault , and casting it into the balance of Pyrrho , weighs it out in due terms of Crowleyanity . The following are the four transcendent ideas , or four dialectical assertions of the pure Reason . To each accordingly is opposed a contradictory assumption (p . 87 ). Thesis Antithesis I The world is infinite in time The world has a beginning ( boundary ) in time and space . and space .
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…ng as the violation of the laws of nature , but merely a violation of that under standing which falsely interprets a “ something ” which reason alone cannot grasp . 1 Huxley's Hume , p . 155. “ It will be said that these are miracles , but we reply that miracles , when they are genuine , are simply facts for science ." “ A philosopher has declared that he would discredit universal testimony rather than believe in the resurrection of a dead person , but his speech was rash , for it is on the faith of universal testimony that he believed in the i…
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…active thinking im age of the Deity . And though I perceive Him not by sense , yet I have a notion of Him , or know Him by reflexion and reasoning .” — P. 93 . " The existence , therefore , of any being can only be proved by arguments from its cause or its effect ; and these arguments are founded entirely on perience . . . It is only ex perience , which teaches us the nature and bounds of cause and effect , and enables us to infer the existence of one ob ject from that of another . Such is the foundation of moral reasoning .” — P. 174 . KANT On…
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…our knowledge à priori ” ( p.96 ). ( And since the noumenon can possess no predicate -- what is it then that it does possess ? It is the Reason itself which is at fault ; the delicate time - piece of Kant's intellect has gone wrong , it has ceased to “ tick ," and with the terrific blow of an à priori club , he proclaims it mended , and regulates each chiming clock in the house of many mansions by means of its handless face .] Thus has the great lion of Crowleyanity set the little crab of Konigsberg and his lunar hut in their appointed niche in…
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…fine and complex co-ordinated ma chinery quite out of gear . The ecstatic attains an illumi nation ( so-called ) at the expense of sober reason and solid judgement, Crowley's answer to this is : Mysticus would not , I think , wish to contest this view , but rather would argue that if this be the case , it is at least a choice between two evils. Sober reason and solid judge ment offer no prize more desirable than death after a number of years , less or greater , while ecstasy can , if the facts stated in the Dialogue are accepted , give the joys…
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…esent eternal Mind .” — P. 91 . “ When he awakes from his dream , he will be the first ... to confess , that ... mankind .. must act and reason and believe ; though they are not able , by their most diligent enquiry , to satisfy themselves concerning the foundation of these operations , or to remove the objections , which may be raised against them .” — P. 170 . “ As to your first question : ( how can you conceive it pos sible that things should exist in God's mind )I own I have properly no idea , either of God or any other Spirit ; for these b…
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…nts to shine into the eyes of my soul and make my heart beat with fear and love ? It is something quite other than myself , and for this reason I am frozen with terror ; it is something identical with myself , and therefore I am kindled with love .1 Similarly John Tauler writes : The more the Bridegroom loves the Bride , the more bitter will be the cup he gives her to drink . “ The cup is that she is to cease from all her own thoughts . . . for she can take pleasure in nothing that is not her own .” She must be made like the Bridegroom , and hu…
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…et 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 realm …
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…source of meta physical knowledge ) consists , then , in knowledge à priori , that is, knowledge derived from pure under standing , pure reason (p . 11 ).” [ Then it is im con 1 These are the words of Crowley , the student . 2 Bohn's edition of the Prolegomena .