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Page 41 of 831909 · PDF PAGE 8
…ught, the irritating sceptic will have many more remarks to make: for it now appears that the proof that thought exists depends upon the truth of that which is thought, to say no more. We have taken Cogitatur, to try and avoid the use of esse; but 4 is A involves that very idea, and the proof is fatally flawed. Cogitatur depends on £s¢ ; and there’s no avoiding it. Til Shall we get on any better if we investigate this Ast— Something is—Existence is—nmx vw rae ? 116
1911 · PDF PAGE 127
…ence since I was sixteen? A blow is the one answer possible.” “ Α blow is but your male desire,” he said, unmoved. “How shall I prove my truth?” she sobbed, disquieted and angry. " Live it down, little girl,” he said kindly. "Trust me; I will prove you and justify you. Afterwards I ” “ Do you think ?—now—?" she began indignantly. “I know it,” said he. “ In the grey light, to—morrow, we will talk." She suddenly felt chill and afraid. “ I am not ready,” she said; “I am not worthy . . .” " It is to prove you worthy,” said he, “ that I was sent to …
1911 · PDF PAGE 127
…ence since I was sixteen? A blow is the one answer possible.” “ Α blow is but your male desire,” he said, unmoved. “How shall I prove my truth?” she sobbed, disquieted and angry. " Live it down, little girl,” he said kindly. "Trust me; I will prove you and justify you. Afterwards I ” “ Do you think ?—now—?" she began indignantly. “I know it,” said he. “ In the grey light, to—morrow, we will talk." She suddenly felt chill and afraid. “ I am not ready,” she said; “I am not worthy . . .” " It is to prove you worthy,” said he, “ that I was sent to …
1913 · PDF PAGE 378
…Jesus Christ is idolatrous, because Jesus Christ could not be an isolated God. The number of Protestants is of no importance to Catholic truth. If all men were blind, would that be a reason for denying the existence of the sun? Reason, in protesting against dogma, proves sufficiently that she has not invented it; but she is forced to admire the morality which results from that dogma. Now, if morality is a light, it follows that dogma must be a sun; light does not come from shadows. Between the two abysses of polytheism, and an absurd and ignora…
1913 · PDF PAGE 378
…Jesus Christ is idolatrous, because Jesus Christ could not be an isolated God. The number of Protestants is of no importance to Catholic truth. If all men were blind, would that be a reason for denying the existence of the sun? Reason, in protesting against dogma, proves sufficiently that she has not invented it; but she is forced to admire the morality which results from that dogma. Now, if morality is a light, it follows that dogma must be a sun; light does not come from shadows. Between the two abysses of polytheism, and an absurd and ignora…
1944 · PDF PAGE 129
…er weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is manifested the glory of my Father, who is Truth. (“This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the in‐ toxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compas‐ sion. I understand by ‘Compassion’ the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true wor‐
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
JOHN ST. JOHN VIII. that I will work in truth: IX. that Iwill rely only upon myself: X. that I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul. And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the Eye be closed upon me I All this did I swear and seal with a stroke upon the Bell. Then I steadily sat down in my Asana (or sacred Posture), having my left heel beneath my body pressing into the anus, my right sole closely covering the phallus, the right leg vertical; my head, neck, and spine in one straight vertical l…
1961 · PDF PAGE 165
… these Symbols are most similar in their Nature, save as the Slaves of the Slave-gods have read their own Formula into the Simplicity of Truth. For there is naught so plain that Ignorance and Malice may not confuse and misinterpret it, even as the Bat is dazzled and bewildered by the Light of the Sun. See then that thou understand this Bull in Terms of the Law of this our Æon of Life. c
1996 · PDF PAGE 214
…rd of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veiled sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee:— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; 8c its re…
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…‘‘ Kabbalah Unveiled.” correct deductions.’ ‘Yes, you can, if only your logical methods are unsound. That’s the Christian way of getting truth.’ ‘True!’ replied the sage, ‘but precious little they get. Learn, O Mahabrahma (for I pene- trate this disguise), that all existing things, even from thee unto this grain of sand, possess Three Characteristics. These are Mutability, Sorrow, and Unsubstantiality.’ ‘All right for the sand, but how about Me? Why, they defixe me as unchange- able.’ ‘You can define a quirk as being a two-sided triangle,’ reto…
1996 · PDF PAGE 22
…ull physical sense.1 They are the tao and te of Chinese Philosophy; or, to put it very simply, the Noun and Verb in grammar. Our central Truth—beyond other philosophies—is that these two infinities cannot exist apart. This extensive subject must be studied in our other writings, nota bly Berashith, my own Magical Diaries, especially those of 1919, 1920 and 1921,1 2 and The Book of Wisdom or Folly.3 See also “The Soldier and the Hunchback.”4 Further information concern ing Nuit and Hadit is given in the course of this Book; but I must here men…
1996 · PDF PAGE 286
…ists below in which the papers appear. The descriptions in quo tations are Crowley’s, from the A.'. A.-. Curricula. “Amath, an Essay on Truth.” In (14). “Berashith.” As (1) and in (7). “The Book of the Great Auk.” Surviving fragment in (9.v). “Eleusis.” In (7). 285
1929 · PDF PAGE 441
…hat not one mason in ten thousand in England is aware of this fact; but he has only to remember his "raising" to realize the fundamental truth of the statement. Well may Catholic and freemason alike stand appalled at the stupendous blasphemy which is implied, as they ignorantly think, not knowing themselves of the stuff and substance of the Supreme Self, each for himself alike no less than Very God of Very God! But suppose that the sublimity of this conception is accepted, the identity admitted; what sudden overwhelming billow from the past bla…
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57
1922 · PDF PAGE 252
… a fall when he realises that others are in a same calamity—without having been at such perverse pains to get there. He only attains the truth when he becomes wholly impersonal, in the final paragraph. ** Morphia is but one Spark of its secular fire. She is the single sun— Type of all desire ! All that you would you are— And that is the crown of a craving. You are slaves of the wormwood star. Analysed, reason is Taving.. Feeling, examined, is pain. What heaven were to hope for a doubt of it! Life is anguish, insane; And death is—not a way out o…
1961 · PDF PAGE 210
…ows. But all this Delight that thou mayst have of the Universe both in its Veils and in its Nakedness is a Reward of thine Attainment of Truth, and followeth after it. Nor canst thou comprehend this Doctrine by Mind, for the Division in thee crieth aloud in its Agony, denying it, unless thou be wholly Initiate. i
1944 · PDF PAGE 17
…efs had authorized him to continue the work of the Order, as its sole head. There is, however, no evidence that he was here a witness of truth, because no new knowledge of any particular importance came to the Order; such as did appear proved to be no more than Mathers could have acquired by normal means from quite accessible sources, such as the British Museum. These circumstances, and a great deal of petty intrigue, led to serious dissatisfaction among the members of the Order. Frl. Sprengel’s judgment, that group‐working in an Order of this …
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…he many were united : and I knew.1 And yet : I was wed Unto the part and could not grasp the whole . Thus , I was broken on the wheel of Truth . Fled all the hope and purpose of my youth , The high desire , the secret joy , the sin That coiled its rainbow dragon scales within . Hope's being , life's delight , time's eager tooth ; All , all are gone ; the serpent sloughs his skin ! The quest is mine ! Here ends mortality In contemplating the eternal Thee . Here , She is willing . Stands the Absolute Reaching its arms toward me . I am mute , I dr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 280
…00 years or more , in which the priest has ever been ready to lie for the greater glory of his God , as S'afi well said : Then speak the truth , if so a priest May tune his tongue to anything but lies .' And of the gods of this greater glory , Amenhatep a few lines further on informs us : 1 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 142 . T