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Page 151 of 1971954 · PDF PAGE 507
… all, one point which should be made clear as to this Trinitarian simplification. One of the most interesting and fruitful periods of my life was when I was involved in research as to the meaning of Sankhara: "tendencies" may be, indeed is, a good enough translation, but it leaves one very much as deeply in the dark as before. You remember-I hope!-that Sankhara lies between Vinnanam, Pure Consciousness, and Sanna, Perception. For instance, an electric fan in motion: a house-fly "tends" to see the vanes as we do when they are still, we "tend" to…
1906 · PDF PAGE 66
60 ALICE: AN ADULTERY He sank back contented. ‘‘I have prayed to my God for many days,” he said, ‘‘and by one of the least of my life’s miracles you are here; worthy to receive my trust. For when I knew that I was to die, I destroyed all the papers which held the story of my life—all save one. That I saved; the only noble passage, perhaps—among the many notable. Men will say that it is stained; you, I think, should be wiser. It is the story of how the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. They were not drowned, you know (he seemed to lapse into a day…
1929 · PDF PAGE 575
… the house of a man named Robinson Smith, a retired concert agent with a wife apparently selected in order to prevent him imagining that life is nothing but music. I met him at Seaford one day after playing golf with Harrison. Nothing much transpired but later in London, he suddenly appeared in the character of a brother adept. His attainments were considerable, though his knowledge was unsystematic and his judgment correspondingly unbalanced. But his genius and his enthusiasm warmed the cockles of my heart. His idea of helping humanity was thr…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…lory of the stars. And unless he be in the shadow of the earth, he cannot see the stars. So, also, unless he be hidden from the light of life, he cannot behold Nuit. Here, then, do I abide in unalterable midnight, utterly at peace. I have forgotten where I am, and who Iam. I am hang- ing in nothing. Now the veil opens of itself. (To Scribe. Come nearer; I don’t want to have to speak so loudly.) It is a little child covered with lilies and roses. He is supported by countless myriads of Archangels. The Arch- angels are all the same colourless bri…
1922 · PDF PAGE 147
… spirits to our companion. He attributed them, no doubt, to our prospects of getting out of the scrape. Lou rattled on all the way about life in London, and I told the story—bar the snow part—of our elope- ment. He thawed out completely. Our confidence had reassured him. We shook hands amid all-round genial laughter
1922 · PDF PAGE 204
…e with a rush. He insisted on our regarding ourselves as pioneers of science and humanity. We were making an experiment; we were risking life and reason for the sake of mankind. Of course, it wasn’t true. And yet, who can tell the real root of one’s motives? If he chose to insist that we were doing what the leaders of thought have always done, how could I contradict him ? A buoyant billow of bliss bounded in my brain. It might not be true; but, by God, we’d make it come true. I suppose a light leapt in my eyes, and enabled him to read my though…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…, FF -f- IFD -f- ALP -f- OIN -f- FI -j~ 309 = Sh T = XX -f- XI = 31 the secret Key of the Law. F is the manifested Star. I is the secret Life. Serpent — Light . Lamp — Love . Wand — Liberty . Wings — Silence . Cloak These symbols are ail shewn in the Atu “The Hermit”. They are the powers of the Yod, whose extension is the Vau. Yod is the Hand wherewith man does his Will. It is also the Virgin ; his essence is inviolate. A is the Babe “who has formulated his Father, and made fertile his Mother” — Harpocrates, etc., as before; but he develops to …
1947 · PDF PAGE 7
…refore. This also is secret : my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. I give unimaginable joys on earth : certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death ; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy ; nor do I demand ought in sacrifice. My incense is of resinous woods and gums ; and there is no blood therein : because of my hair the trees of Eternity. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue and gold are
1954 · PDF PAGE 37
…or a (.uarter of an hour, and on coming back received a "yes" or "no." If there was any hesitation about it the applicant was barred for life. The reason for the relaxation of the rule was that it was thought better to help people along in the early stages of the work, even if there was no hope of their turning out first-class. But I should like you to realize that sooner or later, whether in this incarnation or another, it is put up to you to show perfect courage in face of the completely
1954 · PDF PAGE 266
…King revealed its simplicity and sublimity to my soul, little by little, as the conditions of my physical , no less than of my spiritual life, penetrated the sanctuaries of my spirit. The philosophy of Lao-tze communicated itself to me, despite the persistent efforts of my mind to compel it to confonn with my preconceived notions of what the text must mean. This process, having thus taken root in my innennost intuition during those tremendous months of wandering across Yun Nan, grew continually throughout succeeding years. Whenever I found myse…
1961 · PDF PAGE 12
…ell itself, I doubt whether I should have been warm. Night after night I sat, all through, rigid as a corpse, and icier; the whole of my life concentrated in two spots; the small section of my brain which was occupied in the work, and my right wrist and fingers. I remember with absolute clearness that my consciousness appeared to start form a perfectly dead forearm. The book is written in prose, yet there is a formal circumscription more imminent than anything which would have been possible in poetry. I limited myself by making a point of deali…
1996 · PDF PAGE 305
… Law is for All The Authorized Popular Commentary to The Book of the Law Edited by Louis Wilkinson and Hymenaeus Beta Aleister Crowley’s life and thought are inexorably linked with The Book of the Law (Liber AL velLegis sub figura CCXX). He was not the author of this short, prophetic text. He received this visionary work by direct-voice dictation from a preterhuman, possibly discarnate intelligence in Cairo in 1904. Crowley was an intelligent sceptic, and at first found this improbable means of communication as difficult to accept as most intel…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
…t that means that it is like a policeman keeping on saying “ Pass along, please l” I would have liked to stay in the Fourth House all my life, but I began to see it was just a little dream House too; and I couldn’t rest, because my own House was the very next one. But it’s too awful to tell you how to get there. You want the most fearful lot of courage, and there ’5 nobody to help you, nobody at all, and there’s no proper passage. But it’s frightfully exciting, and you must wait till next time before I tell you how I started on that horrible jo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
… feet, as they pass upon the mystical way that lieth through the pylons. And upon their breasts shall be the Rose and Cross of light and life, and in their hands the hermit’s staff and lamp. Thus shall they set out upon the never-ending journey, each step of which is an unutterable reward. Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy; yea, thrice and four times holy 171
1919 · PDF PAGE 250
…they will be adopted if you wish by the Master of your Lodge, or by the Grand Master of the O.T.O. In short, there is no circumstance of life in which the O.T.O. is not both sword and shield. You wonder? You reply that this can only be by gener- osity, by divine charity of the high toward the low, of the rich toward the poor, of the great toward the small? You are a thousand times right; you have understood the secret of the O.T.O. That such qualities can flourish in an extended commu- nity may surprise so eminent and so profound a student of h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 86
…. Feccles caught my thought. He quoted .with slow emphasis :— “ He weaves and is clothed with derision, Sows. and he shall not reap. His life is a watch or a vision, Between a sleep and a sleep.” The thought of the great Victorian seemed to chill him. He. threw off his depression, lighting a cigarette and taking a strong pull at his brandy. “‘ Haidée,”’ he said, with assumed lightness, ‘‘ lives in open sin with a person named Baruch de Espinosa. I think it’s Schopenhauer who calls him ‘Der Gott- betrunkene Mann.’ ” “ The God-intoxicated man,”’ …
1954 · PDF PAGE 90
THE 0=2 EQUATION 57 experienced "Samadhi" (this word conveniently groups the higher types of vision 4 ) to regard normal life as "illusion" by comparison with this state in which all problems are resolved, all doubts driven out, all limitations abolished. But even beyond Atmadarshana comes the experience called Shivadarshana,s in which this Atman (or Brahman), this limit-destroying Universe, is itself abolished and annihilated. (And, with its occurrence, smash goes the whole of the Advaitist theory!) It is a commonplace to say that no words can…
1929 · PDF PAGE 461
…uced by the administration of cocaine and the analogy is confirmed by the fact that American nerves are ragged and raw. The realities of life wreck their victim. In case of a general collapse of civilization under economic stress, such as seem actually imminent at present, it is to be feared that the shock to their spiritual self-sufficiency will find them unable to resist reactions. America, resenting the arrogance of Europe, refuses angrily to admit the extent of her indebtedness, but in the case of European anarchy, the main source of energy…
1905 · PDF PAGE 168
…eart is_ broken. thine. This will murder ULRIc. Kill, but not torture! truth. Let me know the Cora. This shaft is aimed even against thy life. L
1922 · PDF PAGE 42
… nor no. I had been wasting words to speak to her at all. , **O Thou bird-sweet river of Love, that warblest through the pebbly gorge of Life! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” Her voice had sunk to a clear murmur. We found ourselves in the street. The chucker-out hailed us a taxi. I stopped her song at last. My mouth was on her mouth. We were driving in the chariot of the Sun through the circus of the Universe. We didn’t know where we were going, and we didn’t care. We had no sense of time at*all. There was a sequence of sensa- tions; …