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…nkable 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 ! Bloom , Concentration's midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long -sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not , my friend !), Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time - suppose , the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh '!) And at that instant comprehend (That past and future tenses v…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…ere is the jest is it for a philosopher to chief and most confounding question the existence of sen objection to excessive sceptic sible things , till he hath it ism , that no durable good can proved to him from the vera ever result from it; while it city of God ; or to pretend our remains in its full force and knowledge in this point falls vigour . We need only ask such short of intuition or demonstra a sceptic , ' What his meaning tion ! I might as well doubt of is ? And what he proposes by my own being , as of the being all these curious res…
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…on , 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 quelled in the ordinary dogmatic way , because both theses and antitheses can be demonstrated by equally evident , clear and irresistible proofs …
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…in the destruction of all existences Space will also cease to be . But if Space be defined “ as that eternal actuality wherein all other things or no things may co - exist , then , even on the de struction of all things , Space would still remain ." 2 Yet this definition is extremely faulty , as Time re mains to be considered ; which we shall now deal with . In Crowley's essay bearing the name of “ Time ” the matter is set forth in a dialogue between a British sceptic and an Indian mystic . In it, by a rather dif ferent route , he comes to a so…
1907 · PDF PAGE 263
…w under the sun ." Not any Thing ,' says the Zohar , is lost in the universe , not even the vapour which goes out of our mouths , as all things , it has its place and destination , and the Holy One , blessed be It ! makes it concur to Its works ; not anything falls into the void , not even the words and the voice of man , but all has its place and its destination ." “ All things of which this world is composed , spirit as well as body , will again enter into the Principle , and into the root from which they went out .” Zohar , Part ii, fol . 21…
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…cends from earth to heaven , and again it comes down from heaven to earth , and it is invested with the potency of superior and inferior things . Thou wilt possess by this means the glory of the whole world , and all darkness will depart from thee . It is the strong power of every power , for it will over come all things subtle and penetrate all things solid . It is thus that the world was created .1 Tannhäuser also separated the higher from the lower self , the good from the evil . Christ also at tempted the same course , not living alone for …
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THE NEW WINE 219 by unthinking things are thought to have a natural subsistence of their own distinct from being perceived by spirits . This ... is the very root of Scepticism ... For how can it be known that the things which are perceived are conformable to those which are not per ceived , or exist without the mind . ” ? Shortly before arriving at this conclusion , he had already stated that as “ the infinite divisibility of matter ” was now uni versally allowed by the most approved and consider able philosophers , hence it follows that there …
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THE CUP 189 Sun unto thyself , and with thine own beams shalt thou paint the hueless ocean of thy Godhead . Thou shalt see things as they are ; and all shall dissolve around thee , and thou around all , till unity itself become but nothingness in the unutterable bliss of a boundless rapture . O wine of lacchus , O wine , wine , wine .
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…ly that the selflessness That fills me now , forbids the personal , Casts out the individual , and weeps on For the united sorrow of all things .? And such is the divine love to which we all must attain , “ For the united sorrow of all things ." 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . 2 Ibid .
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…d Bottle ” ; and yet was not spilt . And wherein it is shown how it intoxicated the multitudes to dreams in the which they perceive many things that are not ; and how it openeth the eye of the wise to the vision of the One Won der which alone is .
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… , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by sense or by reason . He never denied the material existence of things , and was as much a phenomenalist as an idealist . Crowley , similarly accepting Egoity , does not however reject Non egoity , but envelops both . In such a conflict I stand neuter . But oh ! Mistake not gold for pewter ! The plain fact is: materialise What spiritual fact you choose , And all such turn to folly - lose The subtle splendour , and the wise Love and dear bliss of truth . Beware Lest your le…
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262 THE STAR IN THE WEST Another triumph for Crowleyanity : Things as they are —of these take hold , Their heart of wonder throb to thine ! All things are matter and force and sense , No two alone . All's one : the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith , but wage of evidence. The clod , the God , the spar, the star , Mete in thy measure , as they are !! The sum total of the Vedantist Crowley sums up as follows : " I'am an illusion , externally . In reality , the true ' I'am the Infinite , and if the illusionary ‘ I ' could only realize Who…
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…f a sceptical theurgy the rational fifth -Monarchism of the Scientific cults . Philosophy and Science have up to the present apprehended things per nos , from this day forward they will , under the atheistic theurgy of Crowleyanity , know things per se . The Ultima Thule of our rigorous journey will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds , and the mixed drinks of the stumbling Scoto -German Bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of Iacchus . The above may be symbolized as follows : | The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii , p…
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…nails through His outstretched hands , O “ maudite race !” “ WHOSE GOD IS THEIR BELLY , WHOSE GLORY IS IN THEIR SHAME , WHO MIND EARTHLY THINGS .” Temptation is the Armourer who tries the blade, and Resistance the quality of the steel. How many of the well -fed will bear the test of old Andrea ? How many would prove themselves a worthy blade to Ferrara ? Sadness stares around us with hollow tear -drowned eyes , and the days of our joys are wet with the weep ing of the night of sorrow . On , on we plod , through life's by -ways and alleys , thro…
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…HY ? ” Berkeley, as we saw above , arrived at the conclu sion , that it was impossible to solve the question of relationship between the things which are perceived , and the things which are not perceived ; and in the “ Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous ” he further elaborates this proposition . Hume by a slightly different road arrives at an exactly similar conclusion , namely : how is it possible to judge the relationship between cause and effect , or in other words the per ceived and not perceived ? “ The first time a man saw the c…
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… what is pure extension ? -Absolute Zero . Thus the whole cosmic process resolves itself under 1 “ Heaven and earth and the ten thousand things come from existence , but existence comes from non - existence .” “ The TA O begets unity , unity begets duality ; duality begets trinity ; and trinity begets the ten thousand things .” — Lao - Tze . 2 The Principles of Human Knowledge , p . 69 . 3 The Three Dialogues , p . 45 .
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…ding of our extreme per fections and imperfections — vice and virtue — in one great monistic unity . He that would be wise must know all things , all things that his transient life can enable him to grasp . In the age which produced Rabelais and Boccaccio , vice was flagrantly open , and the lust which the early Christians had first opposed and secondly absorbed , slowly burnt within the society of their days , till it burst out in the lecherous flames
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… , And the round ocean and the living air , And the blue sky , and in the mind of man ; A motion and a spirit , that impels All thinking things , all objects of all thoughts , And rolls through all things .? To the uninitiated this matter must for the present remain dark , and though at first the neophyte may think that the following solution , which I trust I shall be able in some little way to explain , is but one on a similar footing to that as set forward by those super naturalists who dogmatize concerning credo quia ab surdum , I must bid …
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… when I love my God ? What is he whom my soul feels above itself ? I have tried to grasp it in my own intelligence , above all images of things , but at the moment when I reach that seat of being I cannot fix my gaze , and I fall back helpless into the common thoughts . I have carried away nothing from this vision but a memory full of love , and as it were a regretful longing for things whose perfume is felt but which are out of reach . What is it, then , that I love , O my God when I love you ? It is not 1 2 Gargoyles , vol . iii, pp . 85 , 86…
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266 THE STAR IN THE WEST BUDDHISM As regards the beginning of all things the Buddh ist is discreetly silent , he ( as Crowley says ) neither prevaricates like the Hindu , nor openly lies like the Christian . In the Is'a Upanishad we read : Into dense darkness he enters Who has conceived becoming to be naught , Into yet denser he Who has conceived becoming to be aught . In the second discourse of the Bhagavad - Gītā we also read : Uncleavable He , incombustible He , and indeed neither to be wetted nor dried away ; perpetual , all - pervasive , s…