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Page 42 of 871911 · PDF PAGE 145
…in laughter at the culminating impossibility. But Edgar Rolles only frowned. “ I am sorry for Ida," he said slowly. " If your story were true I should be glad; but she is only the painter with his palette mixing paints: she never gives her soul up to the canvas. Tigress ? yes : but not the Bodhi—sattva who let the tigress eat him. She always wins ; she cannot lose. As the proverb says : ’ Lucky at play, unlucky in love—and ‘ God is love.’ " " Listen ! he is saying the Black Mass again," cried Ninon, and springing on a table began the Dance of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 345
…he right to sequestrate. To destroy or sequestrate the common wealth is not to possess; it is to steal. I say common wealth, because the true proprietor of all things is God, who wishes all things to belong to everybody. Whatever you may do, at your death you will carry away nothing of this world’s goods. Now, that which must be taken away from you one day is not really yours. It has only been lent to you. As to the usufruct, it is the result of work; but even work is not an assured guarantee of possession, and war may come with devastation and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 345
…he right to sequestrate. To destroy or sequestrate the common wealth is not to possess; it is to steal. I say common wealth, because the true proprietor of all things is God, who wishes all things to belong to everybody. Whatever you may do, at your death you will carry away nothing of this world’s goods. Now, that which must be taken away from you one day is not really yours. It has only been lent to you. As to the usufruct, it is the result of work; but even work is not an assured guarantee of possession, and war may come with devastation and…
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
…Advaitism. The third, the only remaining theory, this theory, must, however antecedently improbable, however difficult to assimilate, be true. ” “My friend, my young friend,” I think I hear some Christian cleric say, with an air of profound wisdom, not untinged with pity, condescending to pose beardless and brainless\ impertinence : “where is the C a us e for this truly remarkable change”?
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
…ompanions) and open the Pastos ; and with thy Winged Globe thou wilt touch the Rosy Cross upon my breast, and I shall wake into life—the true life that is Union with Thee. So therefore—perinde ac cadaver—I await Thee. I wrote, by the way, on some previous day (IV. 12.57 AM.) that Ι used the Supreme formula of Awaiting. . . . Ridiculous mouse! is it not written in the Book of the
1913 · PDF PAGE 422
…ave been told as an actual fact a story whose authenticity we will not altogether guarantee. We are about to repeat it because it may be true. Certain persons who doubted both religion and magnetism, of that incredulous class which is ready for all superstitions and all fanaticisms, had persuaded a poor girl to submit to their experiments for a fee. This girl was of an impression- able and nervous nature, fatigued moreover by the excesses of a life which had been more than irregular, while she was already disgusted with existence. They put her …
1913 · PDF PAGE 422
…ave been told as an actual fact a story whose authenticity we will not altogether guarantee. We are about to repeat it because it may be true. Certain persons who doubted both religion and magnetism, of that incredulous class which is ready for all superstitions and all fanaticisms, had persuaded a poor girl to submit to their experiments for a fee. This girl was of an impression- able and nervous nature, fatigued moreover by the excesses of a life which had been more than irregular, while she was already disgusted with existence. They put her …
1919 · PDF PAGE 337
…her these remarks. 18. This earth, O ignorant Disciple, is but the dismal en- trance leading to the twilight that precedes the valley of true light—that light which no wind can extinguish, that light which burns without a wick or fuel. “Twilight” here may again refer to Atmadarshana. The last phrase is borrowed from Eliphas Levi, who was not (I believe) a Tibetan of antiquity. [Madame Blavatsky hu- 15
1919 · PDF PAGE 426
THE EQUINOX trying for cumulative effect, something of this sort is true. One gets a sort of Leyden Jar effect; but the sentence as it stands is misleading, as she explains further on in verse 70 —“Each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its reward in time.” 41. For know, that the ETERNAL knows no change. Here again we have one subject “THE ETERNAL”, and one predicate “the knower of no change”; the Hindu state- ment identical with the Buddhist, and the identity covered by crazy terminology. X=A says the Hindu, Y=A says the Buddhi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
…fast humbly with Coffee and Sandwich. May it strengthen me in my search for the Quint— essence, the Stone of the Wise, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness ! I hope (by the way) that I have made it quite clear that all this time even a momentary cessation of active thought has been accompanied by the rising-up of the mantra. The rhythm, in short, perpetually dominates the brain ; and becomes active on every opportunity. The liquid Moslem mantra is much easier to get on to than is the usual Hindu type with its 1% and n sounds pred…
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
The Results of Sin. 57 wineskin ; in three years thou wilt be as foul as thy Nubian. Come into my garden, boy ! with true love and pure, with open air and swift riding thou mayest regain thy beauty. Then wilt thou be grateful to El Qahar, and faithful, if thou canst be faithful. The camel that hath learnt to bite furiously8 — only Allah and the muzzle9 avail. 1. [Persian text] : Hakim — doctor, not to be confused with [Persian text] Hakim — official. 2. Wolf’s Tail — the false dawn or Zodiacal Light. 3. One M.S. omits the sentence, and finishes…
1916 · PDF PAGE 14
…fect. The prophet has usually been content to speak: to leave the responsibility of action with his hearers. Very rarely do we hear of a true prophet being a great administrator. Here once more America is fortunate. this is probable the greatest crisis that has ever occurred in the history of the world; and infinitely wise, all-seeing nature has provided against catastrophe by combining these two rare faculties in a single brain.
1954 · PDF PAGE 475
… at the beginning. It's some poet or other, Tennyson or Kipling, 1 think (I forget who) that wrote: "Folks in the loomp, is baad." It is true all round. Someone wisely took note that the vilest man alive had always found someone to love him. Remember the monster that Sir Frederick Treves picked up from an East End peep-show, and had petted by princesses? (What a cunning trick!) Revolting, all the same, to read his account of it. He-the monster, not Treves!-seems to have been a most charming individual-ah! That's the word we want. Every individu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…onic - Iconoclasm to break down the vulgar Ideal ism of Theology , as well as the vulgar Realism of the empirical Sciences . There's the true refuge of the wise ; To overthrow the Temple guards, Deny reality . In fact to crush and annihilate by means of a sceptical theurgy the rational fifth -Monarchism of the Scientific cults . Philosophy and Science have up to the present apprehended things per nos , from this day forward they will , under the atheistic theurgy of Crowleyanity , know things per se . The Ultima Thule of our rigorous journey wi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…econdly (and above this), its transcendence of the laws of thought, as we have been accustomed to understand them. (This is only in part true. Keynes’ “ Formal Logic,” pro- foundly studied, leads one perilously close to the supra- rational. The eminent professor is perhaps hardly aware of how his eagle-flights have brushed the sun with their fiery wings.) If a dweller upon this plane meditate upon a God, his first experience of that God will be no longer of His appearance or of His effect upon himself, but rather of His nature in some 72
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…econdly (and above this), its transcendence of the laws of thought, as we have been accustomed to understand them. (This is only in part true. Keynes’ “ Formal Logic,” pro- foundly studied, leads one perilously close to the supra- rational. The eminent professor is perhaps hardly aware of how his eagle-flights have brushed the sun with their fiery wings.) If a dweller upon this plane meditate upon a God, his first experience of that God will be no longer of His appearance or of His effect upon himself, but rather of His nature in some 72
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
…nis which results from the operation predisposes to sodomy, inasmuch as a greater intensity of friction is required to produce emission. True, but a moist and flabby vulva of gigantic size is poor fun for anybody. Undoubted- ly, a hardened tool does (in mathematical lan- guage) “ flatten the curve ” of rising excitement, and this is the secret alike of giving and receiving plea- sure. The Hindu bayadere compares the average Sahib to a village cock, and the passionate En- glishwoman jeers at her brutal and hasty husband for his “ two-puffs-and-a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 215
… and Love, and their position is only disclosed under an oath of secrecy to those entitled to make use of them. They are also temples of true worship, specially conse- crated by Nature to bring out of a man all that is best in him. 5. The authority of the O.T.O. is concentrated in the O.H.O. (Outer Head of the Order), or Frater Superior. The name of the person occupying this office is never dis- closed except to his immediate representatives. 6. The Authority of the O.H.O. in all English-speaking countries is delegated by charter to the Most Ho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 467
…use thereby shall be revealed unto thee the Laws of thine own Reason and the Limitations thereof. This Science manifesteth unto thee thy true Nature in respect of the Machinery whereby it worketh, and showeth in pure Nakedness, without Clothing of Personality or Desire, the Anatomy of thy conscious Self. Furthermore, by this thou mayst understand the Essence of the Relations between all Things, and the Nature of Necessity, and come to the Knowledge of Form. For this Mathematics is as it were the last Veil before the Image of Truth, so that ther…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…s God break his unrepentant will , and let the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lips to flame , fling back the gates of Dis ! This is the true conquest of life , the salvation of a soul wandering through the mazy depths of existence . At length filled with the experience of worldly things seeking the Sublime , he finds it. The kingdom of Dis , the terrors of Death are vanquished , “ and , like this in substantial pageant faded , leave not a rack behind .” Yet how difficult is all this without the guidance of a master hand , the hand which suppor…