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Page 38 of 791906 · PDF PAGE 264
… supernormal phenomena of mind as we are in advance of our fathers in the sciences of the physical world.? Note carefully this practical sense of my intention. I care nothing for the academic meanings of the steps inthe Path ; what they meant to the Arahats of old is indifferent to me. ‘‘ Let the dead past bury its dead!” What I require is an advance in the Know- ledge of the Great Problem, derived no longer from hearsay revelation, from exalted fanati- cism, from hysteria and intoxication; but from method and research. Shut the temple; open th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…6} Zoroaster in Tannhuser's song. And after all, there is nothing specially magical about them except that they are in the plain common sense of psychology. Huxley said that science was organized common sense, and Frazer that science was successful Magick. The syllogism presents no difficulties. Only one point remained for consideration. I had said how almost insanely anxious I had always been about economizing time. My mind is, perhaps, the most infernally active on the globe. I cannot bear to eat a meal except as a deliberate debauch. I like…
1907 · PDF PAGE 205
…tly to show , in a still deeper problem than this , namely : “ What is the 'I' which causes us to know ? ” For surely it is but common - sense to first inquire of the engineer how the engine is worked , " 2 | Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 170 . 2 Huxley's Essay on Hume , p . 59 .
1922 · PDF PAGE 261
…ke the plunge. Some instinct prevented us dropping out of existence in a place like those lodgings in Greek Street. When all one’s moral sense is gone, there remains a racial instinct in men and women of good blood which tells them, like Macbeth and Brutus, to die positively and not negatively. D.D.F. 247 R
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…ake of molten joy, one pond Steady as light and hard as diamond ; One drop, one atom of constraint intense, Of elemental passion corning sense,
1913 · PDF PAGE 291
… anything to these few remarks. This is the only difficulty in the whole book, though in one or two passages Levi’s extraordinarily keen sense of humour leads him to indulge in a little harmless bombast. We may instance his remarks on the Grimoire of Honorius. We have said that this is the masterpiece of Levi. He reaches an exaltation of both thought and language which is equal to that of any other writer known to us. Once it is understood that it is purely a thesis for the Grade of Exempt Adept, the reader should have no further difficulty.—A.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
… my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense of what I have said unto you.” : Now the Spirit of Truth is the spirit of science and intelli- gence, the spirit of force and of counsel. It is that spirit which solemnly manifested itself in the Roman Church, when it declared in the four articles of its decree of the 12th December, 1845 : 1°.—That if faith is superior to reason, reason ought to endorse the inspirations of faith ; 2°.—That faith and scie…
1913 · PDF PAGE 291
… anything to these few remarks. This is the only difficulty in the whole book, though in one or two passages Levi’s extraordinarily keen sense of humour leads him to indulge in a little harmless bombast. We may instance his remarks on the Grimoire of Honorius. We have said that this is the masterpiece of Levi. He reaches an exaltation of both thought and language which is equal to that of any other writer known to us. Once it is understood that it is purely a thesis for the Grade of Exempt Adept, the reader should have no further difficulty.—A.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
… my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense of what I have said unto you.” : Now the Spirit of Truth is the spirit of science and intelli- gence, the spirit of force and of counsel. It is that spirit which solemnly manifested itself in the Roman Church, when it declared in the four articles of its decree of the 12th December, 1845 : 1°.—That if faith is superior to reason, reason ought to endorse the inspirations of faith ; 2°.—That faith and scie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
…dea is that the earthly or receptive part of the Master is destroyed. That which remains has passed through fire; and is therefore, in a sense, of the nature of fire. The Urn is engraved with a word or symbol expressive of the nature of the being whose ash is therein. The Magus is thus, of course, not a person in any ordinary sense; he represents a certain nature or idea. To put it otherwise, we may say, the Magus is a word. He is the Logos of the Aeon which he brings to pass1. The above is obscure. I perceived and deplore the fact. The idea ma…
1907 · PDF PAGE 204
…issect all philosophic arguments which rise up antagonistic to our true selves — that is in harmony with our false selves - seducing our sense to pluck the fruit which is pleasant to the eye , or inducing our understanding in despair , to cast itself down from the pinnacle of the temple into that abyss below , which is the world . Then in the end we shall find all these philosophies are but types of the One , that all things are a unity , that no con tradiction can or does exist , and that there is a universal harmony ; then , as that terrific …
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
…d Crowleyanity .' Yet though he does not end at that barrier beyond which the Rationalist cannot proceed , he by no means rejects common sense and understanding as his Epode on Nature clearly shows . Nature my name is called . O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless ! O shadowy tale ! I am Nature and God : I reign ,I am , alone . None other may abide apart : they perish , Drawn into me , into my being grown . None other bosom is, to bear , to nourish , To be : the heart of all beneath my zone Of blu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…ole guide was a slender snake of light that moved upon the water. Or so it appeared ; for I have since discovered that I had an interior sense of direction as trusty as the mariner’s com- pass; so that, though I knew it not, it was never possible for me to go astray. Now as I swam I came upon one floundering and spluttering in the stream, who with mightypuffings urged me to continue. 56
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…ole guide was a slender snake of light that moved upon the water. Or so it appeared ; for I have since discovered that I had an interior sense of direction as trusty as the mariner’s com- pass; so that, though I knew it not, it was never possible for me to go astray. Now as I swam I came upon one floundering and spluttering in the stream, who with mightypuffings urged me to continue. 56
1913 · PDF PAGE 411
…o worlds. The soul moves the springs of the particular life while bathing itself in the universal life, and experiences an inexpressible sense of well-being; it will then willingly let go the nervous branches which hold it suspended above the current. In ecstasies of every kind the situation is the same. If the will plunges into it with a passionate effort, or even abandons itself entirely to it, the subject may become insane or paralysed, or even die. Hallucinations and visions result from wounds inflicted on the plastic medium, and from its l…
1913 · PDF PAGE 411
…o worlds. The soul moves the springs of the particular life while bathing itself in the universal life, and experiences an inexpressible sense of well-being; it will then willingly let go the nervous branches which hold it suspended above the current. In ecstasies of every kind the situation is the same. If the will plunges into it with a passionate effort, or even abandons itself entirely to it, the subject may become insane or paralysed, or even die. Hallucinations and visions result from wounds inflicted on the plastic medium, and from its l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
…of passionate pleasure, became a cold chaos of inanity. The bells no longer sang; the sun and moon were stagnant, soulless spectres in a senseless sky --- like a ghost on the gusts of the gale. I went from miraculous Moscow into a world of inarticulate impressions. St Petersburg failed to rekindle the wonder and worship which it had awakened in me of old. The Nevski Prospekt seemed narrower, meaner; a mere street. St Isaacs no longer enthralled me. I was able to compare the Neva with the Nile, the Ganges, the Rangoon River, and even the Rhine, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
… The Persians supposed the smaller capillary blood vessels to be nerves. 4. Imam — a leader of prayer. Muslim have no “ priests ” in the sense of paid mediators. 5. Mushtari — also Birjis [Persian text] is the planet Jupiter. Most nations seem to attribute a blue or violet colour to it ; for mystical reasons, doubtless, but also because (to my eyes at least) it actually has that colour. 6. I suspect, maugre Mahbub’s head, that this is “ writ sarcastic.” The pompous old dullard must have seemed to our lively Abdullah very much as Southey did to …
1919 · PDF PAGE 404
…Parabrahman is without quantity or quality, not subject to change in any way, altogether beyond Manvantara and Pralaya; and soon. In one sense he is pure Atman. Now the Buddhist rejects Atman, saying there is no such thing. Therefore—to him—there is no Parabrahman. There is really Maha Brahma, who is (ultimately) subject to change, and, when the Karma which has made him Maha Brahma is exhausted, may be reincarnated as a pig or a Pisacha. Consequently Moksha is not liberation at all, for Nirvana means cessation of that which, after however long …
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…scientific studies, mere straws before the blast of our hunchback friend! Well, one of the buttresses is just the small matter of common sense. The other day I was with Dorothy, and, as I foolishly imagined, very cosy: for her sandwiches are celebrated. It was surely bad taste on the part of Father Bernard Vaughan, and Dr. Torrey, and Ananda Metteyya, and Mr. G. W. Foote, and Captain Fuller, and the ghost of Immanuel Kant, and Mr. Bernard Shaw, and young Neuburg, to intrude. But intrude they did; and talk! I never heard anything like it. Every …