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Page 46 of 1151912 · PDF PAGE 53
…of health. Digestive troubles in particular are very easy to remove in this way. It purifies both the body and the lower functions of the mind,1 and should be practised certainly never less than one hour daily by the serious student. 1 Emphatically. Emphatically. Emphatically. It is impossible to combine Prana- yama properly performed with emotional thought. It should be resorted to immedi- ately, at all times during life, when calm is threatened.
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…viduality. Of the methods of destroying various deep-rooted ideas there are many. The best is perhaps the method of equilibrium. Get the mind into the habit of calling up the opposite to every thought that may arise. In conversation always disagree. See the other man's arguments; but, however much your judgment approves them, find the answer. Let this be done dispassionately; the more convinced you are that a certain point of view is right, the more determined you should be to find proofs that it is wrong. If you have done this thoroughly, thes…
1913 · PDF PAGE 81
…er of facts, classifying them, and grouping them. The philologist, though perhaps he only speaks one language, has a much higher type of mind than the linguist who speaks twenty. This Tree of Thought is exactly paralleled by the tree of nervous structure. Very many people go about nowadays who are exceedingly " well- informed," but who have not the slightest idea of the meaning of the facts they know. They have not developed the necessary higher part of the brain. Induction is impossible to them.
1928 · PDF PAGE 96
…esent symbolically the mystery of life. He came upon the scenes lightly and perfectly at his ease; a fact which tended to confirm in the mind of the public the idea of grace and pardon. When one says of a comedian, There is a good comedian, one employs a formula which implies that beneath the person represented the comedian may still be found; that is to say, there is art, effort, will. Now, if a comedian succeeded in being, relatively to the character which it is his duty to express, that which the best statues of antiquity (miraculously ani…
1901 · PDF PAGE 79
THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY. 67 Jostlers and hurried folk and mad they are, A million actions and a single mind. “ What is thy purpose, sweet my lord ? ” I pressed One stalwart. “ Ah ! the quest,” he cried, “ the quest.” God’s heart ! the antics, as they toil and shove ! One grabs a coin, one life, another love. All shriek, “ The prize is mine ! ” as men possessed. I was not fooled at anything thereof. Rather I hated them, and scorned for slaves ; “ Fools ! all your treasure is at last the grave’s ! ” Mine eyes had fixed them on the sphinx, the s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
…r of a Fate: My fingers sapphire-ringed with sky are weaving Ever new flowers and lawns of life, designed Nobler and newer in mine olden mind. Iam: I am not, but all-changing move The worlds evolving in a golden ladder Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder ; All gateways leading far to the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. 104
1907 · PDF PAGE 327
…umination of which mental representa tions become more stripped of empirical conditions , and in an inverse proportion to which , as the mind withdraws into itself the consciousness is wiped out . its unextended source , Became the magic utterance that makes Me , Dissolving self into the starless sea .? CEREMONIAL MAGIC We have already pointed out some of the reasons which rendered the illumination of the West so much more poetic in nature than that attained by the East . We will now show the chief means which were em ployed by the adepts of th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…child ! Shall he not be A flame of fire, a ringless ocean, a wind All-penetrating, a ten-branching tree, A height of spirit, an abyss of mind ? Shall we not veil our eyes, lest he should see The extreme secret in their soul confined And die ? Then let us also cease from seeing And wake the lusty whirlwind of our being !
1911 · PDF PAGE 279
…he Wonder wrought. Bring death if life exceed! Bid thy pale Hermit bleed, Yet life exude; And Wisdom and the Word of Him Drench the mute mind grown dim With quietude! Fix thy sharp lightnings in my night! My spirit free! Mix with my breath and life and name thy mood And self of Thee. [SOR. GEMINI plays meow’z'nglyf [A short fame. FR. GEMINI. Master, be it thy pleasure to perform the In- vocation of Mercury. [All PROBATIONERS rise and/27in the four others m from of the alta;/.] MERCURY. [Lem/es throne] Majesty of the Godhead, Wisdom-crowned Thot…
1911 · PDF PAGE 284
…ed, Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness! Base and blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour: imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void Ah ! men my friends What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts Ρ Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies; Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 279
…he Wonder wrought. Bring death if life exceed! Bid thy pale Hermit bleed, Yet life exude; And Wisdom and the Word of Him Drench the mute mind grown dim With quietude! Fix thy sharp lightnings in my night! My spirit free! Mix with my breath and life and name thy mood And self of Thee. [SOR. GEMINI plays meow’z'nglyf [A short fame. FR. GEMINI. Master, be it thy pleasure to perform the In- vocation of Mercury. [All PROBATIONERS rise and/27in the four others m from of the alta;/.] MERCURY. [Lem/es throne] Majesty of the Godhead, Wisdom-crowned Thot…
1911 · PDF PAGE 284
…ed, Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness! Base and blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour: imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void Ah ! men my friends What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts Ρ Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies; Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 111
…It has been doubted whether there is any real relation between Mother and Child, any real distinction between Male and Female. The human mind, in despair, seeing insanity imminent in the breaking ' It should be noted that this ambiguity in the word "destruction" has been the cause of much misunderstanding. Solve is destruction, but so is coagitla. The aim of the Magus is to destroy his partial thought by uniting it with the Universal Thought, not to make a further breach and division in the Whole. ^ The Brahmin caste is not so strict as that of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
… wide Gape like the abyss, through which we fall to find Strange equilibrium without support, Strange rapture without sense, and void of mind Strange ecstasies that mock the name of thought. Sooner or later, Lola ! Circumstance Bows before those who never miss a chance. -- hy —- XIII This is enough to make a donkey laugh! I talk like a Dutch uncle; and you listen Like a man reading his own epitaph. But, really! Truly ! How our glad eyes glisten ! How our hearts romp ! Whatever we may say, Have never adoubt, Lord, that it’s all thanksgiving! If …
1911 · PDF PAGE 94
…rom Jerusalem. LAYLAH Oh, quick, quick, quick, his tidings! For pity’s sake. Would it were the winged horse of brass! I am dis- tracted. Mind me not! I can wait. A queen must be able to wait. LEDMIYA. He is quite near now. And in the distance is a glint, and a faint shouting. I think the battle is coming here. LAYLAH. Oh, we cannot have been beaten! Sliman is so strong and brave. FATMA [re-enlerz'ng} All is lost! All is lost! Let us all flee! LAYLAH. Peace, parrot! [Enter Messenger. MESSENGER. Pardon, princess! LAYLAH. Thy news, or thy head shal…
1911 · PDF PAGE 94
…rom Jerusalem. LAYLAH Oh, quick, quick, quick, his tidings! For pity’s sake. Would it were the winged horse of brass! I am dis- tracted. Mind me not! I can wait. A queen must be able to wait. LEDMIYA. He is quite near now. And in the distance is a glint, and a faint shouting. I think the battle is coming here. LAYLAH. Oh, we cannot have been beaten! Sliman is so strong and brave. FATMA [re-enlerz'ng} All is lost! All is lost! Let us all flee! LAYLAH. Peace, parrot! [Enter Messenger. MESSENGER. Pardon, princess! LAYLAH. Thy news, or thy head shal…
1944 · PDF PAGE 160
…a sword; in her left hand, the newly severed head of a bearded man. She is the clear, conscious perception of Idea, the Liberator of the Mind. The person symbolized by this card should be intensely perceptive, a keen observer, a subtle interpreter, an intense individualist, swift and accurate at recording ideas; in action confident, in spirit gracious and just. Her movements will be graceful, and her ability in danc‐ ing and balancing exceptional. If ill‐dignified, these qualities will all be turned to unworthy purposes. She will be cruel, sly,…
1961 · PDF PAGE 57
…thematical, of Laws physical and chemical. So then first, that thou mayst understand clearly the Nature of thine whole Work, map out thy Mind, and extend its Powers from the essential outwards, from the near to the far, always with Firmness and great Thoroughness, making every Link in thy Chain equal and perfect. i
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…r loathed, Hath attributes. This sand is gold :— Deem’st thou a gilder lurks within The atom ? What should Nature hold Of aureate save a mind begin Colour-conception? Then we win To think our thought itselfa chance Grafted upon the circumstance Of cerebrin and lethicin. A. Ill fares the rifleman that holds The muzzle to his eye. Yon gold’s Mental : enough ! the mind is all. NV. No: this is but a slave in thrall To matter’s motion. We deny A causeless cause, an entity Beyond experience, that tricks Our folly with its idle claim To be because we …
1929 · PDF PAGE 311
…o be Aleister Crowley, an individual independent of the communion of cosmic consciousness, but merely one manifestation of the Universal Mind whose thought must be sterile unless sown broadcast to blossom and bear fruit in every acre of God's vineyard. {505} P A R T F O U R MAGICAL WORKINGS 58 November 18th, 1905 was my seventh birthday in the Order, I wrote: "About now I may count my Speculative Criticism of the Reason as not only proved and understood, but realized." And on the ninteenth: "The misery of this is simply sickening --- I can writ…