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Page 10 of 1151903 · PDF PAGE 25
…it. I therefore definitely affirm ‘the validity of the Qabalistic tradition in its practical part as well as in those exalted regions of thought through which we have so recently, and so hardly, travelled. Eight are the limbs of Yoga: morality and virtue, control of body, thought, and force, leading to concen- tration, meditation, and rapture. Only when the last of these has been attained, and itself refined upon by removing the gross and even the fine objects of its sphere can the causes, subtle and coarse, the unborn causes whose seed is hard…
1961 · PDF PAGE 193
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 181 #y Sequitur de hac re (Further concerning this matter) HOU knowest right well, o my Son, how a Thought is imperfect in two Dimensions, being separate from its Contradiction, but also constrained in its Scope, because by that Contradiction we do not (commonly) complete the Universe, save only that of its Discourse. Thus if we contrast health with Sickness, we include in their Sphere of Union no more than one Quality that may be predicated of all Things. Furthermore, it is for the most Part not easy to find or to f…
1903 · PDF PAGE 8
…ecious pleas of the Bhagavad- Gita, and the ethical works of Western Advaitist philoso- phers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. But no subtlety can turn the practical argument; the grinning mouths of the Dvaitist guns keep the fort of Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green grass/of religion. That its apologists should have devoted so much time, thought, scholarship, and ingenuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the gl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…ergence from the normal. So many, so fickle, are the combinations which con- stitute Cerebrin, Lethicin, and the rest ; so subtly is the thought dependent upon changes proximate or remote in the composition of the organism, that we must expect character which is but the statement of the sum of deep-seated habits of thought to show similar instability. The word habit may seem to invalidate such a conclu- [1]
1954 · PDF PAGE 500
…sted that all these "identical" gods are in reality distinct persons , but belonging to the same families. Can we follow up this line of thought? Yes: but I will defer it to a subsequent letter. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1909 · PDF PAGE 47
…No sleep—no rest for the wicked! ’Tis curious how totally independent is mantra-yoga of reverie. I can say my mantra vigorously while my thought wanders all over the world; yetI cannot write the simplest sentence without stopping it, unless with a very great effort, and then it is not satisfactory to either party! Meditation—~of the " rational ” sort—on this leads me to suggestthat active “ radiant" thought may be incom— patible with the mantra, itself being (Ρ) active. One can 45
1919 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX This again commands the stilling of thoughts. The pre- vious verses referred rather to emotions, which are the great stagnant pools on which the mosquito thought breeds. Emo- tions are objectionable, as they represent an invasion of the mental plane by sensory or moral impressions. 64. Merge into one sense thy senses, if thou would’st be secure against the foe. ’Tis by that sense alone which lies concealed within the hollow of thy brain, that the steep Path which leadeth to thy Master may be disclosed before thy Soul’s dim eyes. ’ T…
1911 · PDF PAGE 179
…eila Waddell. [In view of the absurd statements as to the character of these rites which have been made in certain quarters, it has been thought that the best reply is the publication of the text in full. ΕΒ.]
1911 · PDF PAGE 179
…eila Waddell. [In view of the absurd statements as to the character of these rites which have been made in certain quarters, it has been thought that the best reply is the publication of the text in full. ΕΒ.]
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
…, his thumb is either against his lower lip or in his mouth; which it is, one cannot say. There is here a quarrel between two schools of thought; if be is pushing up his lower lip, he emphasizes silence as silence; if his thumb is in his mouth, it emphasizes the doctrine of Eheieh: “I shall Be”. Yet in the end these doctrines are identical. This babe is in an egg of blue, which is evidently the symbol of the Mother. This child has, in a way, not been born; the blue is the blue of space; the egg is sitting upon a lotus, and this lotus grows on t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 318
THE NEW WINE 311 (d ) This birth is prevented by Yoga . And as , on the one hand , it is so hard to drive away the thought we would fain be rid of ; so , upon the other , the pleasant imaginations which we would so gladly retain are , sooner or later , jostled away by the crowd of claimants for birth (d ) into the world of consciousness ; which hover as a sort of psychical possibilities , or inverse ghosts the bodily presentments of spiritual phenomena to be , in the limbo of the brain . To that form of desire which is called “ attention , ” th…
1912 · PDF PAGE 48
…the breathing, once some little skill has been acquired, with a watch to bear witness, is by the use of a mantra. The mantra acts on the thoughts very much as Pranayama does upon the breath. The thought is bound down to a recurring cycle; any intruding thoughts are thrown off by the mantra, just as pieces of putty would be from a fly-wheel; and the swifter the wheel the more difficult would it be for anything to stick. This is the proper way to practise a mantra. Utter it as loudly and slowly as possible ten times, then not quite so loudly and a …
1906 · PDF PAGE 104
… AND THE BHIKKHU: A TALE OF THE TENTH IMPURITY. (From the Pals.) I. LiIsTEN! The venerable monk pursued His path with downcast eyes; his thought re- volved Ever in closer coils serenely screwed About the Tenth Impurity. Dissolved All vision of his being but of one Thing only, his sun-whitened skeleton. II. A dainty lady sick of simple life, Chained to the cold couch of some vapid man, Put on her jewels, off the word of wife, Resolved to play the painted courtesan; 96
1939 · PDF PAGE 64
…tes of mind which result from the practice of Yoga are properly called trances, because they actually transcend the conditions of normal thought. 3. At this point we begin to see an almost insensible drawing together of the path of Yoga which is straight (and in a sense arid) with that of Magick, which may be compared with the Bacchic dance or the orgies of Pan. It suggests that Yoga is ultimately a sublimation of philosophy, even as Magick is a sublimation of science. The way is open for a reconciliation between these lower elements of thought…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… alter it so that the contents of the fatal chamber exist only in the woman's imagination, that she had so worked herself up by what she thought she might see that she also thought she saw it. So be on your guard!" [143] On the last day of the old moon he gave her an idea of the main programme. First, the honeymoon; their normal relations were to endure until there was evidence of the need to emphasize the crucial point of the operation. From that moment she was to see nothing of Cyril save in the ceremonies of invocation; all other relations w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
…The footsteps of the wind, and light invades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow The bitter draught of Truth ; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine : the whole seas glades And hills and springs are void of my Apollo The Sea herself my tune and my desire ! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre !
1912 · PDF PAGE 10
…REFACE ix this Caucasian mistress of vice so refined and lucid that it overtopped the highest peaks of virtue, gave me not one line, one thought. I no longer aspired to be a poet ; I was content to be a Chinese God ; and of my success in this minor matter there is unhappily little doubt. Enough of this disastrous affair. The play is ruined ; if I offer it to the public, it is that they may learn the great moral lesson, not to mix their drinks. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…r another mania, for a third melancholia, for a fourth death. It is not äþriarz' absurd to suggest that there may be some one particular thought that would cause death. In the man with heart disease, forinstance, the thought "I will run quickly upstairs ” might cause death quite as directly as “ I will shoot myself.” Yet of 61
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
…pired writing. It describes the conditions of that exalted Grade. I had at this time no idea that I should ever attain to it; in fact, I thought it utterly beyond possibility. This book was given to me that I might avoid mistakes when the time came for me to become a Magus. It is impossible to give any idea of the terror and sublimity of this book, while the accuracy of its predictions and of its descriptions of the state of being, at that time wholly beyond my imagination to conceive, make it a most astonishing document. LIBER X. This book is …
1913 · PDF PAGE 109
KE@®AAH IIE BORBORYGMI I distrust any thoughts uttered by any man whose health is not robust. All other thoughts are surely symptoms of disease. robust of men express no thoughts at all? They eat, drink, sleep, and copulate in silence. What better proof of the fact that all thought is dis-ease? We are Strassburg geese; the tastiness of our talk comes from the disorder of our bodies. We like it; this only proves that our tastes also are depraved and debauched by our disease.