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Page 37 of 781909 · PDF PAGE 76
… the phenomenon but one minimum cogitabile. In short, it is experienced in some other kind of time, some other kind of space. There is nothing irrational about this. Non-Euclidean geometries, for example, are possible, and may be true. It is only necessary to a theory of the universe that it should be true to itself within itself; for there is no other thing outside by which we can check our calculations. Nor is it inconceivable that many of these worlds may exist, interpenetrating. Assume four dimensions, and there is room for an infinite numb…
1913 · PDF PAGE 441
…y?” “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 hearts, little miraculous hearts, which one might think had been painted by Raphael.” Eliphas Levi, who felt ill at ease in discussing facts with which there was mingled a sort of pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 441
…y?” “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 hearts, little miraculous hearts, which one might think had been painted by Raphael.” Eliphas Levi, who felt ill at ease in discussing facts with which there was mingled a sort of pr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
…rves all ground within 50 feet of a dagoba. The incident described in this section actually occurred in 1901. 2 Siam. | example—— know a thing or two about Indra, for ‘Tt was done. Beautiful was the young- girl’s face’.as :she Sprang mature. from the womb of. Matter,:.on- her’ ie-goamey of: an hundred: thousand. years... Of.’‘ali. ‘Indra’s ’ flute-girls:she played and-sang’ the:sweetest, . Yet ever some remembrance, dim:as a-pallid - ghost. that fleets down the’ tong’ avenues! Of - ‘deodar and moonlight; stole in: her: brains and her song was e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 240
…ty ," and demands an explanation of “ thinking . ” ] Then working through the Berkeleyan arguments backwards , he arrives at defining . [Thing as a (unknowable ) power to produce sense impressions , which is purely Berkeley or his antithesis according as the power is conceived as God or Matter . ] Here we have struck again the fundamental chain A , B , A , B , A , B. Having now settled with “ Pure Mathematics ,” he turns to “ Pure Natural Science ," again assuming at the outset apodictic laws of nature , which Berkeley also assumed , and which …
1912 · PDF PAGE 116
…ct is—er—er—well, we’ve just discovered he's a bit mad, do you see? Listen to me, Jane. Jane. Oh, I'm trying to. Dr. F. He says the same thing to everybody—it's his mania. Don't believe a word of it. Jane No, no. [She collapses again. DR. BOB ref/flees !eleþhone receiver, ano! 6017185 forward. He and DR. FIELDING tarry JANE aut L. Outer hell. SERVANT ushers ih 11 !111181111 Eli/er L. MRS. B013 iii a state of 7/10/8111 exeilemezzfl Mrs. B. Go! go! Why will you stay in this house of death ? (The Patient mohifeSis surprise.) Go! go! I say. My husban…
1912 · PDF PAGE 116
…ct is—er—er—well, we’ve just discovered he's a bit mad, do you see? Listen to me, Jane. Jane. Oh, I'm trying to. Dr. F. He says the same thing to everybody—it's his mania. Don't believe a word of it. Jane No, no. [She collapses again. DR. BOB ref/flees !eleþhone receiver, ano! 6017185 forward. He and DR. FIELDING tarry JANE aut L. Outer hell. SERVANT ushers ih 11 !111181111 Eli/er L. MRS. B013 iii a state of 7/10/8111 exeilemezzfl Mrs. B. Go! go! Why will you stay in this house of death ? (The Patient mohifeSis surprise.) Go! go! I say. My husban…
1919 · PDF PAGE 453
…ions were Bodhisattvas, and therefore, as there shall not be a single grain of dust which shall not attain to Buddhahood, every existing thing is ina way a Bodhisattva. But of course in practice the term is confined to these special incarnations of the only Buddha of whom we have any such record. It is, therefore, ridiculous to place Srotapatti as a Soul of inferior grade to Bodhisattva. Buddha did not become a Srotapatti until seven incarnations before he attained to Buddhahood. The last part of the verse and the long note (of which we quote t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 260
…hat is the Tao? No proposed equivalent in any other language comes within a billion light-years of giving even an approximation. For one thing, it is itself a paradox; for another, it has several meanings which are apparently quite distinct. For instance, one sinologist calls it "Reason"; another, "The Way"; another "Tat" or "Shiva". These are all true in one sense or another. My own "White Hope" (see The Book of Thoth) is to identify it with the Qabalistic Zero. This last attribution is useful, as I will show presently, for hard practical reas…
1954 · PDF PAGE 263
… and not static! For if there were some form of Being separate from Going, it would necessarily be subject to decay; and, in any case, a thing impossible to apprehend, since apprehension is itself an Act, not an idea immobile which would be bound to change in the very moment of grasping it. As I have tried to show in another letter, the "Point-Event" (or whatever it is) of which we are aware is a change, or, less inaccurately, the memory of one; the things that change remain relentlessly unknown. It does seem to me, young woman, that you ought …
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
THE LOOKING -GLASS 23 Yet the little thing who “ stinks and stings ” was not satisfied, the second metaphor actually weakened the effect of the first , etc. , etc. With such have poets to contend , but I do not think such homunculi worry Aleister Crowley much . His poetry is his own , and he gives it us as it is written without respect of persons or opinions , for his masters have been the greatest of our race . In these poems we find a certain preponderance of Swinburne , Blake , Browning , Keats , Shelley , and Rossetti . In the dedication to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 325
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Faith is a greater thing than all religions, because it states the articles of belief with less precision. Any dogma constitutes but a belief, and belongs to our particular communion; faith is a sentiment which is common to the whole of humanity. The more one discusses with the object of obtaining greater accuracy, the less one believes; every new dogma is a belief which a sect appropriates to itself, and thus, in some sort, steals from universal faith. Let us leave sectarians to make and remake their dogmas; let us lea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 325
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Faith is a greater thing than all religions, because it states the articles of belief with less precision. Any dogma constitutes but a belief, and belongs to our particular communion; faith is a sentiment which is common to the whole of humanity. The more one discusses with the object of obtaining greater accuracy, the less one believes; every new dogma is a belief which a sect appropriates to itself, and thus, in some sort, steals from universal faith. Let us leave sectarians to make and remake their dogmas; let us lea…
1919 · PDF PAGE 334
…ilateral, isosceles, or sca- lene, so every object is a miscarriage of an ideal. In the course of practice one concentrates upon a given thing, re- jecting this outer appearance and arriving at that ideal, which of course will not in any way resemble any of the objects which are its incarnations. It is with this in view that the verse tells us that the Soul must be united to the Silent Speaker. The words “Silent Speaker” may be con- sidered as a hieroglyph of the same character as LOGOS, 378, or the Ineffable Name. 12. For then the Soul will he…
1922 · PDF PAGE 234
…LD 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, and I am to be…
1906 · PDF PAGE 160
… antithesis implied, The irony, the curse-fruition, The calm assumption of Hell’s fevers As fit, as just, for unbelievers— These are the things that stick beside And hamper my quite serious wish To harbour kind thoughts of the “ Fish.” °8 Here goes my arrow to the gold! I’ll make no magpies! Though I hold Your Christianity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most immoral and absurd — —(A priest’s invention, in a word)— Of all religions, I have hope In the good Dhamma’s ® wider scope, Nay, certainty ! that all_at last, However came they. in the pa…
1919 · PDF PAGE 194
…gots that on the one hand are read- ily kindled by the small Wood, and on the other endure until the great logs blaze. (Behold how sad a thing it is, quoth the Ape of Thoth, for one to be so holy that he cannot chop a tree and cook his food without preparing upon it a long and tedious Morality!) Let this epistle be copied and circulated among all those that have accepted the Law of Thelema. Receive now Our paternal benediction: the Benediction of the All-Begetter be upon thee. Love is the law, love under will. @HPION 9° =2° A..A.. Given under O…
1919 · PDF PAGE 398
THE EQUINOX for your sake,” and there are times when a Dhamma- Buddha reflects on the fact that he is no more and no less than any other thing, and wishes he were dead. That is to say, that kind of a Dhnamma-Buddha in whom such thoughts necessarily arise, thinks so; but this of course does not hap- pen, because it is not in the nature of a Dhamma-Buddha to think anything of the sort, and he even knows too much to think that it would be rather natural if there were some kinds of Dhamma-Buddha who did think something of the kind. But he is assure…
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
…e 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 a Truth contrary o his Prejudice, as it fell out in mine own Ca…
1911 · PDF PAGE 99
…ou that there is no Cry in the tenth Aethyr like unto the other Cries, for Choronzon is Dispersion, and cannot fix his mind upon any one thing for any length of time. Thou canst master him in argument, O talkative one; thou wast commanded, wast thou not, to talk toChoronzon? He sought not to enter the circle, or to leave the triangle, yet thou didst prate of all these things. (Here the Scribe threatened the demon with anger and pain and hell. The demon replied:) Thinkest thou, O fool, that there is any anger and any pain that I am not, or any h…