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…; there is bound to be misunderstanding , however cleverly I concoct the potion. But we understand pretty well for all that, at least so far as is necessary for most practical purposes.
…Serpent and the revelation of Jehovah as the arch-enemy of man. The above doctrine is the most secret of Qabalistic arcana. you were not far of from the Heart of the Qabalah. The occasion of thts letter 1s. the insertion ofa scene equivalent toan “appreciation of the Brixton Chapel” in my masterpiece “Why Jesus Wept.” You asked me for tt ;} Ipromtsed 7t;* and I hope you will like tt. Can [do more than make your Brixton my deus ex machind ? You see, when I wrote ‘* The Soul of Osiris,” Europe was my utmost tn travel. To-day, what country of the …
…and Mysticus , set out by agreeing that the unknow able is unreal , and as the latter says with Berkeley , a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by ") 2 us. ” When Scepticus asks Mysticus , • How old are you ? ” and receives the answer , “ I am but an ulti mate truth , six world -truths , fourteen grand general izations , eighty generalizations , sixty -two dilemmas , and the usual odd million impressions , " he is receiving a much more correct and scientific answer to his question than if Mysticus , like Mahatma Agamya , answered , …
… it is due to the fact that the condition of Arhat is quite beyond thought. He is beyond the Abyss, and there a thing is only true in so far as it is self-contradictory. The Arhat has no self to be blissful. It is much simpler to consider it on the lines given in my commentary to the last verse. 41. To live to benefit mankind is the first step. To prac- tise the six glorious virtues is the second. 42. To don Nirmanakéya’s humble robe is to forego eter- nal bliss for Self, to help on man’s salvation. To reach Nir- vana’s bliss but to renounce it…
…tances the writer of whose works his admiration 15 so chivalrous and profound. . . . There is something at the back of it all, but it is far beyond my comprehension. The DAILY CHRONICLE says: Here is a master-voice in song, and none the less masterly because of its being entirely unknown. At the fact of its masterliness some persons will cavil; others will doubt it, blaming me in their minds as an injudicious optimist who, in uncut stones, sees finished gems of finest brilliance. But these stones from the mine of true poetry are cut in a manner t…
… wonderful things. Philo Hebraeus saith that true Magic, by which we do arrive at the understanding of the Secret Works of Nature, is so far from being con- temptible that the greatest Monarchs and Kings have studied it. Nay! among the Persians none might reign unless he was skilful in this GREAT ART. This Noble Science often degenerateth, from Matural becometh Dza- bolical, and from True Philosophy turneth unto Nzgromancy.’ The which is wholly to be charged upon its followers, who, abusing or not being capable of that High and Mystical Knowled…
…w , Sorrow , Sorrow of the World ! 1 That such similarities as we have pointed out above show Aleister Crowley to be a copyist , must be far from the minds of all his readers . Youth most certainly tends towards certain ideals , and frequently results in a definite hero - worship ; but genius cannot be bound for long ; it will eventually find its own level . The mere fact that certain forms of thought and modes of ex pression occur here as they have occurred elsewhere , should be as a literary barometer , enabling us to judge the mental standar…
…and uterine Is shot with dawn and scented with the rose; The deep dim prison-house 01 corn and wine, Flowers, children, stars, with flame far subtler glows Formless, all-piercing, death-defying, divine, A sweet frail lamp whose shadow gleams and shows No darkness, is as light is where its rays Cross, interweave, and marry with the day’s ! I am : the heart that flames from central Me, Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul a…
…and uterine Is shot with dawn and scented with the rose; The deep dim prison-house 01 corn and wine, Flowers, children, stars, with flame far subtler glows Formless, all-piercing, death-defying, divine, A sweet frail lamp whose shadow gleams and shows No darkness, is as light is where its rays Cross, interweave, and marry with the day’s ! I am : the heart that flames from central Me, Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul a…
…gle. . that I make this appeal; that I seek to enlist genuine, not pseudo-scientific men in the Research; so that our children may be as far in advance of us in the study of the 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 o…
…and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weak- ness. Their natural disposition is to love good, and it is through that love that thou hast given them asa support in all their trials that they must sooner or later be led back to the worship of justice by the love of truth. Now let my books go where thy Providence shall send them! If they contain the words of thy wisdom they w…
…and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weak- ness. Their natural disposition is to love good, and it is through that love that thou hast given them asa support in all their trials that they must sooner or later be led back to the worship of justice by the love of truth. Now let my books go where thy Providence shall send them! If they contain the words of thy wisdom they w…
… thin, subtle flame Fitted to a shaft of love, to pierce, to endue My trance-rapt spirit with the avenue Of perfect pleasures, radiating far Up and up yet to where thy sacred star Burned in its brilliance : thence the storm was shed A passion of great calm about this head, This head no more a poets ; since the dream Of beauty gathered close into a stream Of tingling light, and, gathering ever force From thine own love, its unextended source, Became the magic utterance that makes Me, Dissolving self into the starless sea That makes one lake of …
…concourse of reason, which examines, not the decisions of faith, but the natural and rational bases of the authority which decides them, far from injuring faith, can only be useful to it; in other words, that a faith, perfectly reasonable in its principles, should not fear, but should, on the contrary, desire the sincere examination of reason. Such a decree is the accomplishment of a complete religious 66
…concourse of reason, which examines, not the decisions of faith, but the natural and rational bases of the authority which decides them, far from injuring faith, can only be useful to it; in other words, that a faith, perfectly reasonable in its principles, should not fear, but should, on the contrary, desire the sincere examination of reason. Such a decree is the accomplishment of a complete religious 66
…wn to the psycho-analyst: the name thereof Shame-Guilt-Fear. The Anglo-Saxon or bourgeois mentality is soaked therein; and his remedy so far from our
…nite cycle of mutations. Now, suddenly emerging from some deep embowerment of woods, I stood upon the banks of a broad river that curved far off into dreamy distance, and glided noiselessly past its jutting headlands, reflecting a light which was not of the sun nor of the moon, but midway between them, and here and there thrilling with subdued prismatic rays. Temples and gardens, fountains and vistas stretched continually through my waking or sleeping imagination, and mingled themselves with all I heard, or read, or saw. On the pages of Gibbon …
…nite cycle of mutations. Now, suddenly emerging from some deep embowerment of woods, I stood upon the banks of a broad river that curved far off into dreamy distance, and glided noiselessly past its jutting headlands, reflecting a light which was not of the sun nor of the moon, but midway between them, and here and there thrilling with subdued prismatic rays. Temples and gardens, fountains and vistas stretched continually through my waking or sleeping imagination, and mingled themselves with all I heard, or read, or saw. On the pages of Gibbon …
… on his astral larva. We shall here ask of MM. de Mirville and Gougenet Des- mousseaux if they take this shepherd for the devil, and if, far or near, the devil such as they conceive him can be scratched 252
… on his astral larva. We shall here ask of MM. de Mirville and Gougenet Des- mousseaux if they take this shepherd for the devil, and if, far or near, the devil such as they conceive him can be scratched 252