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Page 16 of 1151910 · PDF PAGE 500
… from the ‘White Cross Library.” With an Introduction by ARTHUR Epwarp Waite. Third Edition. CONTENTS.—God in the Trees; or the Infinite Mind in Nature. The God in Yourself. The Doctor within. Mental Medicine. Faith; or, Being Led of the Spirit. The Material Mind v. The Spiritual Mind. What are Spiritual Gifts? Healthy and Unhealthy Spirit Communion. Spells; or, the Law of Change. Immortality in the Flesh. Regeneration; or, Being Born again. The Process of Re-Embodiment. Re-Embodiment Universal in Nature. The Mystery of Sleep. ‘Where you Travel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…h her, she reflected him, she clung to him, she was one with him, Isis to his Osiris, sister as well as spouse; and every thought of her mind being but the harmonic of his, there was no possibility of any internal disturbance. But now she was torn suddenly from her support; she could not even speak to her man; and she discovered her own position as the mere centre of an Experiment. She knew now that she was not of scientific mind; that her aspirations to the Unknown had been fully satisfied by mere love; and that she would have been much happie…
1906 · PDF PAGE 177
…he soul foredoomed to pain. In any case, its run must range Through countless miseries of change. So far, no farther, gentle youth ! The mind can see. So much, no more. So runs the premiss major plain ; Identical, the Noble truth First of the Buddha’s Noble Four ! The premiss minor. I deplore These limitations of the mind. I strain my eyes until they’re blind, And cannot pierce the awful veil * In Memoriam. + All is Sorrow. Bard is pleased with himself. Poetee mani- fests a natural irritation. Sabbé pi Duk- kham ! ¢ Beyond thought, is there hop…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
…nded and foundationless, Consciousness and unconsciousness, Reality and unreality.* All these are vain attempts to obscure the devotee’s mind into believing in that Origin he could in no way understand, by piling up symbols of extravagant vastness. All, as with the Qabalists, was based on Zero, all, save one thing, and this one thing saved the mind of man from the fearful palsy of doubt which had shaken to ruin his brave certainties, his audacious hopes and his invincible resolutions. Man, slowly through all his doubts, began to realize that if…
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
…ing object.** Winged-Globe. 29 m. Seven breaks. Result would have been much better but for an epi- cene eunuch with an alleged flute. My mind revolved various methods of killing it. Tejas-Akasa. 18 , Seven breaks. R.R. et A. C.tt 19 ,, Seven breaks. Pendulum. roy After 3 m. lost control and gave up. Winged-Globe (E).j 10 Ten breaks.t{ * By this is meant watching the swing of an imaginary pendulum. The difficulty is to keep it in one plane, as it tries to swing round; also to change its rate. + In these records “M” means morning and “ E” evening…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
…nded and foundationless, Consciousness and unconsciousness, Reality and unreality.* All these are vain attempts to obscure the devotee’s mind into believing in that Origin he could in no way understand, by piling up symbols of extravagant vastness. All, as with the Qabalists, was based on Zero, all, save one thing, and this one thing saved the mind of man from the fearful palsy of doubt which had shaken to ruin his brave certainties, his audacious hopes and his invincible resolutions. Man, slowly through all his doubts, began to realize that if…
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
…ing object.** Winged-Globe. 29 m. Seven breaks. Result would have been much better but for an epi- cene eunuch with an alleged flute. My mind revolved various methods of killing it. Tejas-Akasa. 18 , Seven breaks. R.R. et A. C.tt 19 ,, Seven breaks. Pendulum. roy After 3 m. lost control and gave up. Winged-Globe (E).j 10 Ten breaks.t{ * By this is meant watching the swing of an imaginary pendulum. The difficulty is to keep it in one plane, as it tries to swing round; also to change its rate. + In these records “M” means morning and “ E” evening…
1922 · PDF PAGE 234
CHAPTER VI COLD TURKEY | September 23 I pon’tT remember what happened. -I know why. Basil told me long ago. that the mind only kept count of material things. So these spiritual events are recorded in a higher kind of mind of which we are not conscious until we get accustomed to spiritual life. So all I can put down is that we Ahad a complete success. The Devil, of course, needs a human interpreter if he is to communicate with this world, and so he took possession of Peter. He has been preparing Peter to represent him. He will make Peter pope, a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
…wift as caddies pat and cap a tee, Gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- Roic guerdon of Srotapatti ?35 With calm and philsophic mind, No fears, no hopes, devotions blind To hamper, soberly we’ll state The problem, and investigate In purely scientific mood The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our steel to find Whereby those brazen nails subdued Against our door-post may in vain Ring. We’ll examine, to be plain, By logic’s intellectual prism The spiritual Syllogism. We know what fools (only) call Divine and Supernatural And what th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number suggests Mercury; he smells the per- fumes, and again Mercury is brought to his mind. In other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics. [The importance of these lies principally in the fact that particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names, &c., and are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing results external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordina…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number suggests Mercury; he smells the per- fumes, and again Mercury is brought to his mind. In other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics. [The importance of these lies principally in the fact that particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names, &c., and are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing results external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordina…
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 187 Ze De Mente Inimica Animo (Of the Mind, Enemy to the Soul) OW shall a Man attain to the Trance where All is One, if he yet debate within his Mind concerning Virtue as a Thing Absolute? Thus, o my Son, there be those that are fuddled with Doubt whether Meat is to be eaten (I choose this as a Reference), which Habit is proper to the Lion, as Grass to the Horse, so that his right Problem is solely thus, what is fitting to his own Nature. Or again, I suppose that he is in Vision, and an Angel, visiting him, imparteth…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…osts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind ! Why, fool, I think I am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As your this fabric of mine own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll47 when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise ; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny reality.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 224
…ulled by the whirr of the stars ; We are fanned by the whisper, the wind ; We are locked in unbreakable bars, The love of the spirit and mind. The infinite powers Of rapture are ours; We are one, and our kisses are kind. EXPLICIT LIBER QUARTUS
1904 · PDF PAGE 36
…he soul foredoomed to pain. In any case, its run must range Through countless miseries of change. So far, no farther, gentle youth ! The mind can see. So much, no more. So runs the premiss major plain ; Identical, the Noble truth First of the Buddha’s Noble Four! The premiss minor. I deplore These limitations of the mind I strain my eyes until they’re blind, And cannot pierce the awful veil * In Memoriam † All is Sorrow 270 275 280 285 290 295 300 305 Bard is pleased with himself. Poetee mani- fests a natural irritation. Sabbé pi Duk- kham ! † …
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
… quite. Til “ALL of you, suckling babes, have read the Russian tale of the Man who bought souls—or heard of it. Men of a similar turn of mind exist in Russia, and I want you to concentrate your mind upon such a man, albeit his bargains cost him even less, and were of a more physical reality. From town to village he went, in search of treasures in the shape of eyes. The tools of his trade were a few walnut shells, enamelled within, and a certain magical liquid preparation, which he used to preserve the qualities, freshness and beauty of his acqu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
… quite. Til “ALL of you, suckling babes, have read the Russian tale of the Man who bought souls—or heard of it. Men of a similar turn of mind exist in Russia, and I want you to concentrate your mind upon such a man, albeit his bargains cost him even less, and were of a more physical reality. From town to village he went, in search of treasures in the shape of eyes. The tools of his trade were a few walnut shells, enamelled within, and a certain magical liquid preparation, which he used to preserve the qualities, freshness and beauty of his acqu…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
PROFESSOR ZIRCON Then a gleam of sanity crossed the bigoted scientific mind of the man. She might be able to explain. But he brushed away the ideal How can a fact ever be upset? Credulity itself is reason compared to the mind of the logician who has once allowed emotion to infect his brain, who has missed the {actor of the personal equation. The idea returned. 50 long she had sat there 111 her childish purity that the conservatism of his hard old brain reacted. It could not be. Things could not change. Yet? In the upshot he was English enough to…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
PROFESSOR ZIRCON Then a gleam of sanity crossed the bigoted scientific mind of the man. She might be able to explain. But he brushed away the ideal How can a fact ever be upset? Credulity itself is reason compared to the mind of the logician who has once allowed emotion to infect his brain, who has missed the {actor of the personal equation. The idea returned. 50 long she had sat there 111 her childish purity that the conservatism of his hard old brain reacted. It could not be. Things could not change. Yet? In the upshot he was English enough to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 127
…G. K. Chesterton also writes a_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the side of a mind concerned with idle merriment [sic!] there is certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout, and Nuit, and Ra, and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the English mind to lend themselves to pious exhilaration. Mr. Crowley says in the same poem: ‘The burden is too hard to bear; I took too adamant a cross; This sackcloth rends my soul to w…