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Page 11 of 791929 · PDF PAGE 42
… time in relation to our daily habits or some similar standard. The conviction of immortality must naturally destroy all values for this sense. If I am immortal, what is the difference between a long time and a short time? A thousand years and a day are obviously the same thing from the point of view of for ever. There is a subconscious clock in us, a clock wound up by the experience of the race to go for seventy years or so. Five minutes is a very long time to us if we are waiting for an omnibus, an age if we are waiting for a lover, nothing…
1954 · PDF PAGE 89
… theory of the Universe. Everything fits perfectly. Also, when I say "realization," I want you to understand that I mean what I say in a sense so intense and so absolute that it is impossible to convey my meaning to anyone who has not undergone that experience. 3 How do we judge the "reality" of an ordinary impression upon consciousness? Chiefly by its intensity, by its persistence, by the fact that nobody can argue us out of our belief in it. As people said of Berkeley's 'Idealism' - "his arguments are irrefutable but they fail to carry convic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 326
…ght be confusing to quote these texts in full; but they throw much further light on the subject.) The word "compassion " in its accepted sense- which is bad etymology-implies that you are a fine fellow, and the other so much dirt ; that is, you insult him by pity for his misfortun es. But "Every man and every woman is a star" ; so don't you do it! You should treat everybody as a King of the same order as yourself. Of course, nine people out of ten won't stand for it, not for a minute ; the mere fact of your treating them decently frightens them…
1996 · PDF PAGE 169
…1 2 religions whose flesh must be torn out cover the whole globe outside Islam and Christianity. 1 [Din means religion in Arabic, in the sense of the obligation “reason ing” creatures have to God, with a sense of a debt to be discharged.] 2 [Four, not six, in the context of Crowley’s present discussion.] 3 [Crowley’s usual authority for etymology was Walter Skeat, who gives *mer (not *mr) as the “Indogermanic” (Indoeuropean) root underly ing death-words, giving as an example the Sanskrit mr-ta. Skeat was actually skeptical of a connection bet…
1954 · PDF PAGE 239
…p images to knock them down at once with "Not that! Not that! " And the Buddhists won't admit any God at all in anything at all like the sense in which you use the word. 3 What's worse, whatever you may mean by 'God' conveys no idea to me: I can only guess by the light of my exceedingly small knowledge of YOH and your general habits of thought and action . Then what sense was there in chucking it at my head? Half a brick would have served you better. You think you can explain to me viva voce, perhaps? Don't you dare try! Whatever you said, I sh…
1899 · PDF PAGE 169
… brain reels drowsily, the mind is dulled, Deadened and drowned by noises that are lulled By the harsh poison of the hateful breath. All sense and sound and seeing is annulled. Within a body dead a deadened brain Beats with the burden of a shameful! pain, The sullen agony that dares to think, And think through sleep, and wake to think again. Fools! bitter fools! Our breaths and kisses seem Constrained in devilry, debauch, and dream : Lives logged in the morass of meat and drink, Loves dipped in Phlegethon, the perjured stream.
1906 · PDF PAGE 33
Nay, let all light, all things, but cease! Sense is the seal of double rule. The million oracles that run Out of the mouth of God the fool are not myself. To nothing turn! To nothing look! Then, then !—discern Nothing, that one may one remain. So I am paid the horrible pain That these my brothers ordered me. I look upon their brows—I see Signs many and deep of torture past; A star, yon star, true peace at last. (There approach an aged man, riding upon an ass, with a led ass, and a Nubian servant.) The Adept. In the name of God, the One, the Gre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 132
…ood That for many a year shall brand With its blight full many a land. CHAU I have brought him frankincense. He shall dull therewith the sense Of his slaves, that they may be Docile in their slavery. He shall fill their aching minds
1913 · PDF PAGE 245
A BALLAD OF BEDLAM Out from the windswept hollows of the Tomb Into the Night,— Impenetrable gloom Folding me in from sound and sense and sight; No Light, Save from that leprous orb men call the Moon, Whose rune Spells Death and Madness : Like to a blinded babe from out the womb, Like a dishevelled ghost before the tomb, I wandered, seeking for my Self, the boom Of ANCIENT DAYS was on me. Not a star Swam in the heavens,—but aloft, afar, One Meteor Rolled like a great gold goblet through the sky, Spilling strange dreams. Strange dreams that ever …
1913 · PDF PAGE 245
A BALLAD OF BEDLAM Out from the windswept hollows of the Tomb Into the Night,— Impenetrable gloom Folding me in from sound and sense and sight; No Light, Save from that leprous orb men call the Moon, Whose rune Spells Death and Madness : Like to a blinded babe from out the womb, Like a dishevelled ghost before the tomb, I wandered, seeking for my Self, the boom Of ANCIENT DAYS was on me. Not a star Swam in the heavens,—but aloft, afar, One Meteor Rolled like a great gold goblet through the sky, Spilling strange dreams. Strange dreams that ever …
1905 · PDF PAGE 147
I42 DHAMMAPADA Follow not vanity, nor seek the transient pleasures of the sense : The earnest one who meditates derives the highest rapture thence. When the wise man by Earnestness hath Vanity to chaos hurled He mounts to wisdom’s palace, looks serene upon the sorrowing world. Mighty is wisdom : as a man climbs high upon the hills ice- crowned, Surveys, aloof, the toiling folk far distant on the dusty ground. Among the sleepers vigilant, among the thoughtless eager- eyed The wise speeds on ; the racer so passes the hack with vigorous stride. By…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…e to the sea the river flowed ; But not as on that primal change , When panic launched a quivering goad , And pricked each naked newborn sense , And drove me with the flail of fear Out of the wastes of impotence To build foul temples of despair . 116
1906 · PDF PAGE 32
…Who knows to-day The purpose of the dread essay? Surely I, earlier, further fared! I knew the deed that closes clay, Division’s sword by sense unbared, A living lie. The deep delusion! Dividuality—confusion ! These I unmasked of yore. - To-day The hideous blue, the hideous gold Of sky and sand their wrath unrolled, Their agony and hate proclaimed. . Is it that night shall kiss to peace The furious carnival that flamed Its ruinous ardour from the sun? 24,
1906 · PDF PAGE 51
…nce Stamped you my queen. Thus looked your lips to one Who stood a casual on life’s slippery ledge, A blind bat hanging from the tree of sense Head downward, gorged with sweet banana juice, Indifferent to—incapable of—aught Beyond these simple reflexes. Is thought, Even the highest thought, of any use? IV. We are not discussing metaphysics now. I see below the beautiful low brow 1 Rembrandt. 41
1922 · PDF PAGE 62
…mericans call “the morning after the night before.” Nature warns us that we have been breaking the rules; and Nature has given us common sense enough to know that although we can borrow a bit, we have to pay back. We have drunk alcohol since the beginning of time; and it is in our racial consciousness that although ‘“‘a hair of the dog” will put one right after a spree, it won't do to choke oneself with hair. But with cocaine, all this caution is utterly abrogated. Nobody would be really much the worse for a night with the drug, provided that h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
…! In particular, let me exhort all men and all women, for they are Stars! Heed well this holy Verse! True Religion is intoxication, in a sense. We are told elsewhere to intoxicate the innermost, not the outermost; but I think that the word “wine” should be taken in its widest sense as meaning that which brings out the soul. Climate, soil, and race change conditions; each man or woman must find and choose the fit intoxicant. Thus hashish in one or other of its forms seems to suit the Moslem, to go with dry heat; opium is right for the Mongol; wh…
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…s puberty. These are the very eructations of gingerbread ; they are the flatulence of calf-sickness. I thought I had taught the boy more sense. He weakens, and I weary. As you will, my Lady Glenstrae ! Hortense ! (Hortense enters with a glass of brandy.) Brandy ! HORTENSE. Here, milady. ANGELA. Not enough, you she-devil. More ! More ! Exit. Angela falls back to sleep. SCENE XI Paris. ANGELA, LORD and LADY GLENSTRAE, SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE. ANGELA. You will not believe what I tell you ? These friends will tell you what I mean, and if I mean it !…
1944 · PDF PAGE 105
… her face before the eyes of men. It needs unconquerable courage to begin to tread this path. Here is a weird, deceptive life. The fiery sense is baulked. The moon has no air. The knight upon this quest has to rely on the three lower senses: touch, taste and smell.1 Such light as there may be is deadlier than dark‐ ness, and the silence is wounded by the howling of wild beasts. To what god shall we appeal for aid? It is Anubis, the watcher in the twilight, the god that stands upon the threshold, the jackal god of Khem, who stands in double form…
1904 · PDF PAGE 36
…mes, Seeking the very nature of the things Thou namest thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. Tell us what they say! THESEUS. ’Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS. You speak more wisely when you float away Into pure dream, and talk of mystic things That no man born of woman understands, And therefore does not dare to contradict.
1910 · PDF PAGE 109
…lover !) And all my being flows In a flood to my lips, and I kiss kiss kiss Madly, madly kiss, Out of rhythm, out of rime, Out of space, sense, time, Thy mouth — and I am thine : Sealed, sealed at last, enthroned upon The very star thou ridest on. O wine ! o wine ! Wine of thy luminous body rushing, gushing,