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Page 40 of 801911 · PDF PAGE 165
… to society, but so is their love and good—will, and worst of all, so is their example and precept. Christ, at the height of his career, found time to wash the feet of his disciples ; any Master who does not do this on every plane is a Black Brother. The Hindus honour no man who becomes “ Sannyasi " (nearly our “hermit”) until he has faithfully fulfilled all his duties as a man and a citizen, Celibacy is immoral, and the celibate shirks one of the greatest difficulties of the Path. Beware of all those who shirk the lower difficulties: it’s a good …
1911 · PDF PAGE 165
… to society, but so is their love and good—will, and worst of all, so is their example and precept. Christ, at the height of his career, found time to wash the feet of his disciples ; any Master who does not do this on every plane is a Black Brother. The Hindus honour no man who becomes “ Sannyasi " (nearly our “hermit”) until he has faithfully fulfilled all his duties as a man and a citizen, Celibacy is immoral, and the celibate shirks one of the greatest difficulties of the Path. Beware of all those who shirk the lower difficulties: it’s a good …
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…mpile an account of various sorceries, of the kind which fill the compilations of people like Delancre, Delrio, and Bodin. He might have found better than that in history. And without speaking of the easily attested miracles of the Jansenists of Port Royal, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more marvellous than the great monomania of martyrdom which has made children, and even women, during three hundred years, go to execution as if to a feast? What more magnificent than that enthusiastic faith accorded during so many centuries to the most incom…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…mpile an account of various sorceries, of the kind which fill the compilations of people like Delancre, Delrio, and Bodin. He might have found better than that in history. And without speaking of the easily attested miracles of the Jansenists of Port Royal, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more marvellous than the great monomania of martyrdom which has made children, and even women, during three hundred years, go to execution as if to a feast? What more magnificent than that enthusiastic faith accorded during so many centuries to the most incom…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…it is plain self-interest which determines my action. I am even simple enough to expect everybody else to be equally selfish, but I have found that even my best friends, with few exceptions, run away or cool off whenever I need their assistance. I also find that I am not understood. I remember an incident in America. A man who purported to be an occult teacher, and was in reality an ignorant charlatan, had been the object of my onslaught. He had every reason to regard me as his bitterest enemy. In course of time, he was found out and arrested. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 366
…ol look like a piece of wood?” “The appearance has nothing to do with the case. As to madness, I fear I should have gone mad 7 I had not found you at last. Come; my men are waiting, ready for any 358
1909 · PDF PAGE 366
…ol look like a piece of wood?” “The appearance has nothing to do with the case. As to madness, I fear I should have gone mad 7 I had not found you at last. Come; my men are waiting, ready for any 358
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
THE EQUINOX Hong-Kong. I found Soror F. sitting or kneeling in a temple. On the Altar were elemental instruments also Symbol of Golden Dawn. She was waiting in awe, almost in fear. On my entering she saw me and started. Then I heard the words “carry it” or “wish to carry”; apparently with reference to idea of carrying away a physical token. The room was full of incense, which I took to materialize myself. At the time I was very tired and really not fit to travel. June 15th. The Buddha appeared to me in the Northern Heaven and said: “ Fear not f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
THE EQUINOX Hong-Kong. I found Soror F. sitting or kneeling in a temple. On the Altar were elemental instruments also Symbol of Golden Dawn. She was waiting in awe, almost in fear. On my entering she saw me and started. Then I heard the words “carry it” or “wish to carry”; apparently with reference to idea of carrying away a physical token. The room was full of incense, which I took to materialize myself. At the time I was very tired and really not fit to travel. June 15th. The Buddha appeared to me in the Northern Heaven and said: “ Fear not f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 358
…accustomed to be treated everywhere as a great lord, it never entered my head for a moment that they could suppose anything else. When I found out, I said to myself: Well, that is easy enough: I will show them some money. However, they still regarded us with great suspicion. They gave us what we wanted, but did not seem in the least happy about it. Further investigation, however, finally revealed that having money, they thought we must be brigands. We let it go at that. However, misunderstandings were not yet over. Three times on the road we we…
1912 · PDF PAGE 15
…erson; but it is known only to few that there exists also an external, visible organization of such men and women who, having themselves found the path to real self—knowledge, are willing to give to others, desirous of entering that path, the benefit of their experience and to act as spiritual guides to those who are willing to be guided, As a matter of course, those persons who are already sufficiently spiritually developed to enter into conscious communion with the great spiritual brotherhood ix
1912 · PDF PAGE 15
…erson; but it is known only to few that there exists also an external, visible organization of such men and women who, having themselves found the path to real self—knowledge, are willing to give to others, desirous of entering that path, the benefit of their experience and to act as spiritual guides to those who are willing to be guided, As a matter of course, those persons who are already sufficiently spiritually developed to enter into conscious communion with the great spiritual brotherhood ix
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…erson; but it is known only to few that there exists also an external, visible organization of such men and women who, having themselves found the path to real self-knowledge, are willing to give to others, desirous of entering that path, the benefit of their experience and to act as spiritual guides to those who are willing to be guided. As a matter of course, those persons who are already sufficiently spiritually developed to enter into conscious communion with the great spiritual brotherhood ix
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…erson; but it is known only to few that there exists also an external, visible organization of such men and women who, having themselves found the path to real self-knowledge, are willing to give to others, desirous of entering that path, the benefit of their experience and to act as spiritual guides to those who are willing to be guided. As a matter of course, those persons who are already sufficiently spiritually developed to enter into conscious communion with the great spiritual brotherhood ix
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
541 Of course (in practice) many people, perhaps the majority, will not accept {853} the Law of Thelema. We found that life in the abbey with its absolute freedom was too severe a strain on those who were accustomed to depend on others. The responsibility of being truly themselves was too much for them; but sooner or later, without any action on our part, without any quarrel or ostensible reason, they found themselves ejected into their "previous condition of servitude". The Book of the Law anticipates this: "... the slaves shall serve. ..." Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 433
…oking Dog, a walk in the forest, or the dealings of the Master with his disciples. Let me further brag that even uninstructed souls have found enlightenment and ecstasy in these mysterious mutterings. One brilliant boy wrote in Poetry and Drama as follows: Creation and destruction of gods has been for centuries mankind's favourite religious mania and philosophical exercise. The Book of Lies is a witty, instructive and wholly admirable collection of paradoxes, in themselves contradictory, summing up and illustrating various experiments in god- m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
… and he dug , and he slew and he slew , religion growing fatter and fatter , spawning churches and breeding sects , till unfortunate man found himself so hedged in by the spiritual , that in order to maintain his life in this world he had to acknowledge the Church's supreme authority , and grovel before her in the dust of degradation . Crowley gives a curious example of this growth , and the ulti mate sameness of all religions in that gruesome and weird drama , “ The God - Eater ." Maurya the sister of Criosda says : Criosda , ever the same ! T…
1910 · PDF PAGE 41
…rtheless, let us be true in this one history, and acknowledge the fact that some mothers are a thoroughly bad lot. They are mostly to be found among the well-to-do people, I suppose—and I do not wonder. When I seea mother smiling upon her grown-up son, I feel very sad. I remember my own parent... There! I called this a history—with a vengeance. You have it. Now for a lesson in psychology. Lionel’s mother was queen and “regente” of bad parents. She was clever, but void of reasoning powers; inclined to religious mania, her immediate neighbourhood…
1910 · PDF PAGE 286
…naces, but into —Life! To the first restaurant at hand we hastened. Passing in, I called for that only material relief which I have ever found for these spiritual sufferings—something strongly acid. In the East the form in use is sherbet ; mine was very sour lemonade. A glass of it was made ready, and with a small glass tube I drew it up, not being able to bear the shock of a large swallow. Relief came but very slightly—very slowly. Before the first glass was exhausted I called most imperatively for another one to be prepared as quickly as poss…
1910 · PDF PAGE 41
…rtheless, let us be true in this one history, and acknowledge the fact that some mothers are a thoroughly bad lot. They are mostly to be found among the well-to-do people, I suppose—and I do not wonder. When I seea mother smiling upon her grown-up son, I feel very sad. I remember my own parent... There! I called this a history—with a vengeance. You have it. Now for a lesson in psychology. Lionel’s mother was queen and “regente” of bad parents. She was clever, but void of reasoning powers; inclined to religious mania, her immediate neighbourhood…