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…ife is the best Of all your memories ? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to seek 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 or acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say ! I practice then, wi…
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…niverse. Closely connected with this question is that of the will of God. People argue that an Infi- nite intelligence must have been at work on this cosmos. I reply No ! There is no intelligence at work worthy of the name. The Laws of Nature may be generalised in one—the Law of Inertia. Everything moves in the direction determined by the path of least resistance ; species arise, develop, and die as their collec- tive inertia determines; to this Law there is no exception but the doubtful one of Free- will ; the Law of Destiny itself is form all…
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…ncipii. (2) This, to a scientist, is apparently anathema. But it only means, I think, that if we are not settled in our m inds we cannot work. And this is unquestionable. Suppose a chemist to set to work to determ ine the boiling-point of a new organic substance. Does he stop in the midst, struck by the fear that his therm ometer is inaccurate ? No ! he has, unless he is a fool, tested it previously. We must have our principia fixed before we can do research work. (3) A scientist hardly requires conviction on this point! (4) Do you think to com…
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… profound watchfulness kept up lest the thought should for a moment stray .1 The latter portion is, to m y m ind, the essential one. The work is comparable to that of an electrician who should sit for hours with h is finger on a delicately adjusted resistance-box and his eye on the spot of light of a galvanometer, charged with the duty of keeping the spot still, at least that it should never move bey ond a certain number of degrees, and of recording the more impor- tant details of his experiment. Our work is identical in design, though worked w…
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…e is unfortunately himself a Western, and in the same quagmire of mis- apprehension as Prof. Max Müller and the rest. Madame Blavatsky’s work was to remind the Hindus of the excellence of their own shastras,* to show that some Westerns held identical ideas, and thus to countermine the dishonest representations of the mission- aries. I am sufficiently well known as a bitter opponent of “Theosophy” to risk nothing in making these remarks. I trust that the sense of public duty which inspires these strictures w ill not be taken as incompatible w it…
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43 NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST “Blind Chesterton is sure to err, And scan my work in vain; I am my own interpreter, And I will make it plain.” NOTE TO INTRODUCTION 1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AN APPRECIATION BY ALEISTER CROWLEY.* IT is a lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H . Mallock, &c. ) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after all a problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. To me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for S…
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… A=A may be no longer true ; and this by no Hegelian word-juggle ; but by direct apperception as clear as the sun at noon. Therefore; no work more, but—to the work ! XII. THE THREE REFUGES. Buddham Saranangachami. Dhammam Saranangachami. Sangham Saranangachami. I take my refuge in the Buddha. I take my refuge in the Dhamma. I take my refuge in the Sangha. This formula of adhesion to Buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? It is no vain profession of reliance on others; no c owardly shirking of burdens—bu…
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THE SWORD OF SONG 38 Destroying passion, feeling, thought, The very practice you have sought Unconscious, when you work the best, I carry on one step firm-pressed Further than you the path, and you For all my trouble, comment : “True ! “Auto-hypnosis. Very quaint !”53 No one supposes me a Saint—54 Some Saints to wrath would be inclined With such a provocation pecked ! But I remember and reflect That anger makes a person blind, And my own “Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. But then you argue…
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…and define Being a shadowy sort of test ; A verbal lusus at the best, At worst a wicked lie devised To bind men’s thoughts ; but we must work With our own instruments, nor shirk Discarding what we erstwhile prized ; Should we perceive it disagree With the first-born necessity. I come to tell you why I shun The sight of men, the life and fun 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 190 195 200 205 210 215 220 225 Our logical met…
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…thel- red, Rev. . . History of the Jesuits Waite, A. E. . . The Real History of the Rosicrucians. Wolseley, Ld. . Marlborough. The above works and many others of less importance were carefully consulted by the Author before passing these lines for the press. Their substanital accuracy is further guaran- teed by the Professors of History at Cambridge, Oxford, Berlin, H arvard, Paris, Moscow , and London. 366. Shot his Chandra.56—Anglicé, shot the moon. 388. The subtle devilish omission.87—But what are w e to say of Christian dialectitians who qu…
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…hE, vah zavaz , t mhar nam istarae< me< sIne se iloa hE , hmare pas Aap cele , hm dva$ icÄa ke vaSte de<ge . ha< , said I : “I’m game to work through all eternity, Your holiness the Guru Swami !”* Thus I studied with him till he told me bs. 10 He taught the A B C of Yoga : I asked ik vaSte,11 kya haega .12 In strange and painful attitude,13 I sat while he was very rude.14 With eyes well fixed on my proboscis15 I soon absorbed the Yogi Gnosis. He taught me to steer clear of vices The giddy waltz, the tuneful aria, Those fatal foes of Brahma-char…
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…ptist chapel the only chapel worth of worship (sic). But Mr. Crowley is a strong and genuine poet, and we have little doubt that he will work up from his appreciation of the Temple of Osiris to that loftier and wider work of the hum an im agination, the appreciation of the Brixton chapel. G. K. CHESTERTON. 778, 779. The rest of life, for self-control, For liberation of the soul.81 Who said Rats ? Thanks for your advice, Tony Veller, but it came in vain. As the ex-monk* (that shook the bookstall) wrote in confidence to the publisher : “ Exis…
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…urch and a courtesan! “Truth, that’s the gold”12 But don’t worry about it! I, you, or Simpkin13 can get on without it! If life’s task be work and love’s (the soft-lippèd) ease, Death be God’s glory ? discuss with Euripides ! * The numbered notes are given at p. 48 † Bacon, “Essay on Truth,” line 1. ‡ “Childe Roland to the dark Tower came.”—BROWNING. Curious posi- tion of poet. What is Truth? said jesting Pilate: but Crowley waits for an answer.† Alternative theories of Greek authors. Browning’s summary. 5 10 15 20 25 30
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…ounder. May the dew of his admirable memory moisten the grass of our minds, that we may bring forth tender shoots of energy in the Great Work of Works. So mote it be! BENEDICTVS DONINVS DEVS NOSTER QVI NOBIS DEDIT SIGNVM R. C. Amen.
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…t and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre; lake, rise up in mist to sun; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Master’s work is done. Nectar perfume gently stealing, masterful and sweet and strong, Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed! Open wide the my stic portals, and be altogether lost!
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…ish for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated Frenchmen ? Moreover, Cordelia reckons w ithout her host. The British bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels, doubtless with the con- nivance of the King of France, who, with great and praiseworthy acuteness, forsees that Cordelia w ill be hanged, thus liberating him from his “most filthy bargain” : there is but one alarum, and the whole set of scoundrels surrender. Note this well; it is not by brute force that the battle is w on ; for even if we exonerate the King of France, we may ea…
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…he age he lived in. “Tennyson,” he says, “will die before sixty years are gone by : if I am to be beloved of men, it shall be because my work is for all times and all men, because it is greater than all the gods of chance and change, because it has the heart of the human race beating in every line.” This is a patch of magenta to mauve, undoubtedly ; but — ! The present collection of verses w ill hardly be popular ; if the lost works turn up, of course it may be that there may be found “shelter for songs that recede.” Still, even here, one is, o…
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…ew the other Bull, and he broke the arrow in twain ; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time, nor for the second time, nor for the third time. So to them he added3 that spiritual flame (for they were one, and ten, and fifty , thrice, and again) and that was the Beas t, the Living One that is Lifan. Let us be silent, therefore, my brethren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox 4 that was our F ather in his peace that …
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…loom went merrily, but to the rhy thm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his hands, but as if one told his beads. Where- fore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him . But it is written that m isfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that the seed of sorrow is as the s eed of the Bany an Tree. It groweth and is of stature as a mountain, and, ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. F or the boy grew and becam e a m an; and his ey es kindled with the lust of life and love; and the d…
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…cial life of any kind to tread t hese paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to com e? Others are working, failing, struggling, crowned here and there with rare garlands of success. Success for ourse lves, success for othe rs; is it not Compassion that binds us closer than all earthly ties? Ay, in joy and in sorrow, in weakness and in strength, do I take my refuge in the Sangha. XIII CONCLUSION Let me give a rapid resumé of what we have gone through. (a) We have stripped Science and Buddhism of their accid…