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Page 33 of 801907 · PDF PAGE 237
…ource solely ... in the principle of contradiction ” ( p . 13 ). “ Judgements of experience are always synthetic . It would be absurd to found an analytic judgement on experience ” (p . 14 ). [ Crowley at once answers , “ All judgements are founded on experience . This primary fallacy of à priori validity is clearly the root of the great follies which follow . 1 + 1 = 2 cannot be doubted , but it is a definition , and means nothing , being arbitrary . But 2 + 2 = 4 is a synthetic conception .] Similarly under this synthetic heading , Kant tackl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation- stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which Moses ground the calf. These golden Elohim! Our calf-heads that brought us not out of Egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double Empire of Asar. Hume put his little ? to Berkeley's God-!; Buddha his ? to the Vedic Atman-!—and neither Hume nor Buddha was baulked of his reward. Ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no ! to put…
1913 · PDF PAGE 441
…the prophet to send you immediately the communion, and if in a place designated by you, in your own house, in a cloth, or in a book, you found a host on your return, what would you say?” “T should declare the fact inexplicable by ordinary critical rules.” “Oh, well, sir,” cried Mr. Madrolle, triumphantly, “ there is a thing that often happens to me; whenever I wish, that is to say, whenever I am prepared and hope humbly to be worthy of it! Yes, sir, I find the host when I ask for it; I find it real and palpable, but often ornamented with little…
1913 · PDF PAGE 441
…the prophet to send you immediately the communion, and if in a place designated by you, in your own house, in a cloth, or in a book, you found a host on your return, what would you say?” “T should declare the fact inexplicable by ordinary critical rules.” “Oh, well, sir,” cried Mr. Madrolle, triumphantly, “ there is a thing that often happens to me; whenever I wish, that is to say, whenever I am prepared and hope humbly to be worthy of it! Yes, sir, I find the host when I ask for it; I find it real and palpable, but often ornamented with little…
1919 · PDF PAGE 394
…urn, it still remains hydrogen, and it has not lost any of its qualities. The harmony of the doctrines of Action and Non-Action is to be found in The Way of the Tao. One should do what is perfectly natural to one; but this can only be done when one’s consciousness is merged in the Universal or Phallic Consciousness. 82. The “Open Way,’ no sooner hast thou reached its goal, will lead thee to reject the Bodhisattvic body, and make thee enter the thrice glorious state of Dharmakéya, which is oblivion of the world and men for ever. 72
1922 · PDF PAGE 347
…is own exertions. There was no question of soaring into the air by alien aid; and in all probability coming to earth with a bump. We had found ourselves repeatedly out of breath during the ascent, though it had only occupied three- quarters of an hour, and we should certainly never have reached the top without recourse to heroin. But all the time we were lost in amazement at the behaviour of the boys; their independence, their fearlessness, and their instinctive economy of force. We had no idea that it was possible for children of that age to a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
… of a woman eloping, whom I helped, and after, of a man stealing my Rose Cross jewel from a dressing-table in an hotel. I caught him and found him a man weak beyond the natural (I could bend or flatten him at will)1, and then the dream seemed to lose coherence ... I carried him about and found a hairbrush to beat him, etc. etc. Query: Was I totally obsessed? Invoking the angels of Earth, I obtained wonderful effect. The angel, my guide, treated me with great contempt and was very rude and truthful. He showed me divers things. In the centre of t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
…ad overseer brought forward a fattish young girl with a quite white skin. She yelled aloud for mercy, but it was no good. In a trice she found herself tied up to a triangle, and a lusty black was snipping great lumps out of her back with his whip. We raved in unison to her shrieks, and in one explosive foam of lust, jetted our family fountains at a single mo- ment. Before the woman fainted, the overseer gave the word to stop. She was a young and modest girl, and at his signal, three huge negroes bounded upon her. Heedless of her cries and tears…
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
…I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House. 3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. Iam the Magician and the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
…I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House. 3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. Iam the Magician and the …
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
12 by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos.: and with time, space and causality, the conditions limiting and inyolving them all. Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed, nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence ‘was just as much unformulated as that of toasted cheese. But0? is a finite expression, or has a finite phase, and our universe is a finite universe ; its categories are themselves finite, and the e…
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
…despair of a fond but pathic uncle. In vain did he resort to rubbings of asses milk, to decoctions herbal, mys- tical, medical ; it was found necessary to abandon the unequal contest and to relegate my contempti- ble garden-engine to the category of quick firers, instead of the heavy piece of field artillery which we had hoped to produce. Its speed was indeed suffi- cient. At the great Gold Medal competition of the Spunk Society in 1904, I was able to satisfy no less than twenty-seven ladies, besides an exhibition frig
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
…-preserver permitting the vital fuck-spunk to dribble away. Of course, when the unhappy Zuleika pulled at his vibrating tuning- fork and found that no juice followed her efforts, she shrieked and fainted, suspecting magic. Re- covering herself by a great effort, she caught hold of the traitors bollocks, and went on. For three
1906 · PDF PAGE 188
… I sat in vague expectant bliss. | The story as it runs is this: (I quote my Eastern friend © verbatim !) The Virgin, going to the bath, Found a young fellow in her path, And turned, prepared to scold and rate him / “How dare you be on me encroaching ?” The beautiful young gentleman, With perfect courtesy approaching, Bowed deeply, and at once began: “ Fear nothing, Mary! Allis well! Lam the angel Gabriel,” She bared her right breast ; (query why ?) The angel Gabriel let fly * Concerning conception of a virgin. 720 745
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…ish neighbours , did not shirk . Such café Turc I made her drink As she had never had before ; Set her where you are sitting ; chatted ; Found where the fires of laug ter lurk ; Played with her hair , tangled and matted ; Fell over strict nice conduct's brink , Gave all she would , and something more . She was an honest little thing , Gave of her best , asked no response . What more could Heaven's immortal King Censed with innumerous orisons ?1 What more indeed ! Nina is charming , and we wish we could say the same of many a Society dame who ho…
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
… J. had mummified them to what they were. I would be the Saviour of the future ! I must have wandered in my meditation ; for presently I found myself lying on the grass under the full moon and the stars, the sea’s low plash beneath my feet, the soft breeze blowing over me, a whisper — oh essence of the winds and of the seas of the world ! — in my ears (I seem to remember even now that her name was Mabel — thank you, Mabel !) and then I gazed upon the moon and vowed myself knight of Artemis, to bring the truth into this England of hypocrisy, lig…
1919 · PDF PAGE 366
…rong right. As, however, the disease of the age is intellectualism, this lesson is well to teach. Numerous sermons on this point will be found in many of the writings of Frater Perdurabo. 11. The seeds of Wisdom cannot sprout and grow in air- less space. To live and reap experience, the mind needs breadth and depth and points to draw it towards the Dia- mond Soul. Seek not those points in Maya's realm; but soar beyond illusions, search the eternal and the changeless SAT, mistrusting fancy’s false suggestions. Compare what is said in Book 4, Par…
1919 · PDF PAGE 434
… sorrows, O conqueror of weal and woe. More trouble, more poetic image, more apparent sen- timentality. Its true interpretation is to be found in the old symbolism of this marriage of Chiah and Neshamah. Chiah is the male, proof against seduction; Neshamah the female that overcomes by weakness. But in actual practice the meaning may be explained thus,—you yourself have con- quered, you have become perfectly indifferent, perfectly energetic, perfectly creative, but, having united yourself to the Universe, you become acutely conscious that your o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 65
…d rigorously rejecting all names and words which might be supposed to imply any religious or metaphysical theory. To do this utterly was found impossible, since all lan- guage has a history, and the use (for example) of the word “spirit” implies the Scholastic Philosophy and the Hindu and Taoist theories concerning the breath of man. So was it difficult to avoid implication of some undesirable bias by using the words “order,” “circle,” “chapter,” “society,” “brotherhood,” or any other to designate the body of ini- tiates. 23. Deliberately, ther…
1922 · PDF PAGE 34
…e a great flyer, but I ama fresh-air man. I detest these near-artists with their poses and their humbug and their swank. I hate shams. I found myself in a state of furious impatience before five minutes had passed. Mrs. Webster and Lou had not arrived. Ten minutes—twenty—I fell into a blind rage, drank heavily of the vile liquor with which the place was stinking, and flung myself with I don’t know what woman into the dance. A shrill-voiced Danish siren, the proprietress, was screaming abuse at one of her professional entertainers —some long, so…