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Page 46 of 831916 · PDF PAGE 5
…is incapable of being of hoodwinked by any mere arguments, however clever, cogent, and convincing. He invariably applies the standard of truth, intuitive or instinctive, to the conclusion. And if there be a contradiction, he perceives it instantly. A brain of this kind is peculiarly useful in America, where the people are the slaves of false logic. In transplanting themselves from their native soil, they have left behind them their greatest possession: inherited race knowledge. I have never yet met a stupid American. But Mr. Stuart is almost th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 263
… of these answers could be cut off short and neatly trimmed with paper frills like a ham, it would no longer be even an approximation to truth. I am quite sure that this is the Doctrine of the Tao, and of opinion that no other body of teaching puts forward its thought more clearly or more simply. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1961 · PDF PAGE 212
…and of Observation! The Emptiness of their Bellies was it that bred Phantoms of Ideal, so that they sought Joy by a crude Denial of what Truth (or rather, Fact) they had perceived concerning he Universe, so that they set up an Idol of Death for their God, in very Rage of Hatred against the Sum of their own Selves. b
1906 · PDF PAGE 177
…of change. So far, no farther, gentle youth ! The mind can see. So much, no more. So runs the premiss major plain ; Identical, the Noble truth First of the Buddha’s Noble Four ! The premiss minor. I deplore These limitations of the mind. I strain my eyes until they’re blind, And cannot pierce the awful veil * In Memoriam. + All is Sorrow. Bard is pleased with himself. Poetee mani- fests a natural irritation. Sabbé pi Duk- kham ! ¢ Beyond thought, is there hope? Maya again. Vision of the
1913 · PDF PAGE 325
…itious to detail and formulate their superstitions. As the Master said, “ Let the dead bury their dead!” Let us believe in the indicible truth; let us believe in that Absolute which reason admits without understanding it; let us believe in what we feel without knowingit | Let us believe in the supreme reason ! Let us believe in Infinite Love, and pity the stupidities of scholasticism and the barbarities of false religion! Oman! Tell me what thou hopest, and I will tell thee what thou art worth. Thou dost pray, thou dost fast, thou dost keep vig…
1913 · PDF PAGE 489
…ty in our so distrustful and so credulous century. However, as we have just explained, that is not the true science. Men rarely seek the truth for its own sake; they have always a secret motive in their efforts, some passion to satisfy, or some greed to assuage. Among the secrets of the Qabalah there is one above all which has always tormented seekers; it is the secret of the transmutation of metals, and of the conversion of all earthly substances into gold. Alchemy borrowed all these signs from the Qabalah, and it is upon the law of the analog…
1913 · PDF PAGE 325
…itious to detail and formulate their superstitions. As the Master said, “ Let the dead bury their dead!” Let us believe in the indicible truth; let us believe in that Absolute which reason admits without understanding it; let us believe in what we feel without knowingit | Let us believe in the supreme reason ! Let us believe in Infinite Love, and pity the stupidities of scholasticism and the barbarities of false religion! Oman! Tell me what thou hopest, and I will tell thee what thou art worth. Thou dost pray, thou dost fast, thou dost keep vig…
1913 · PDF PAGE 489
…ty in our so distrustful and so credulous century. However, as we have just explained, that is not the true science. Men rarely seek the truth for its own sake; they have always a secret motive in their efforts, some passion to satisfy, or some greed to assuage. Among the secrets of the Qabalah there is one above all which has always tormented seekers; it is the secret of the transmutation of metals, and of the conversion of all earthly substances into gold. Alchemy borrowed all these signs from the Qabalah, and it is upon the law of the analog…
1919 · PDF PAGE 346
…etely changed. By the slaying of the principles is meant the withdrawal of the consciousness from them, their rejection by the seeker of truth. Sabapaty 24
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
…ion in terms. The idea of an-absolute and ofan infinite God, is relegated to the limbo of all similar idle and pernicious perversions of truth. Infinity remains, but only as a mathematical conception, as impossible in nature as the square root of— 1. Against all this mathema- tical, or semi-mathematical, reasoning, it may doubtless be objected that our whole system of numbers, and of manipulating them, is merely a series of conventions. When I say that the square root of three is unreal, know quite well that it is only so in relation to the ser…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…sin , cling hard within . " 2 The small still voice calls to us , yet we must overcome it , in its conquest alone lies our salvation . “ Truth ” is our St. George , whose sword is as keen as his of “ The Nameless Quest ," and “ Self ” the dragon which we must slay : Central , supreme , most formidable , Night Gathered its garments , drew itself apart ; Gaunt limbs appear athwart the coprolite , Veil the deep agony , display the heart ; Even as a gloomy sea , Wherein dead fishes be , Poisonous things , nameless ; the eightfold Fear , Misshapen c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
…r even now that her name was Mabel — thank you, Mabel !) and then I gazed upon the moon and vowed myself knight of Artemis, to bring the truth into this England of hypocrisy, light in its superstition of rationa- lism, love in its prudery, chastity into its whoredom ! So I swore, and rose up and kissed Mabel and went home in the might of the holy vision — for the god Pan appeared to me, and abode in me and I in him — and wrote for four nights night by night, until the World’s Tragedy lay finished and perfect before me. All day I kept myself up …
1911 · PDF PAGE 143
…gh they diverge from the centre. In all this is no voice and no motion. And yet it seems that the great Snake feedeth upon the plumes of Truth as upon itself, so that it contracteth. But ever so little as it contracteth, without it gloweth the golden rim, which is that minute point in the centre. And all this is the sigil of the Aethyr, gold and azure and green. Yet also these are the Severities. It is only in the first three Aethyrs that we find the pure 141
1919 · PDF PAGE 366
…imentality is allowed to creep in. “Soul-wisdom” does not mean ‘piety’ and ‘nobility’ and similar conceptions, which only flourish where truth is permanently lost, as in 44
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
…lem is solely thus, what is fitting to his own Nature. Or again, I suppose that he is in Vision, and an Angel, visiting him, imparteth a Truth contrary o his Prejudice, as it fell out in mine own Case, when I inhabited the Body of Sir Edward Kelly, or so do I in Part remember, as it seemeth dimly. This nevertheless is sure (or the learned Casaubon, publishing the Record of that Word with the Magician Dee, sayeth falsely) that an Angel did declare unto Kelly the very Axiomata of our Law of Thelema, in good Measure, and plainly; but Dee, afflicte…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…on were vocal But Heaven forbid! What he said, though parrot-talk, caught up in some fifth-rate sculptor’s studio, no doubt, had so much truth in it, carefully concealed by the lying misinterpre- tation he had put on it, that, as I said, the pellet hit me. This was what it came to. Rodin’s works, it is said, mean nothing. He makes a study: people see it in his studio: A. goes up and says to the Master: “Ah, how beautiful, etc., ad nauseam—“I suppose it is ‘Harth and the Spring.’” B. follows, and suggests “ Hercules and Cacus’; C. thinks “The Bi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
… hued , It focussed all the sky and all the plain To its own ugliness and yet as he looked again he saw it in another form : A shapeless truth took image in my brain . o | The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 188 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 189 . 3 Ibid . vol . i, p . 190 . 4 Ibid . vol . i, p . 191 . H
1911 · PDF PAGE 99
…. The malice of Choronzon is not the malice of a being; it is the quality of malice, because he that boasteth himself “JT am I,” hath in truth no self, and these are they that are fallen under my power, the slaves of the Blind One that boasteth himself to be the Enlightened One. For there is no centre, nay, nothing but Dispersion. Woe, woe, woe, threefold to him that is led away by talk, O talkative One. O thou that hast written two-and-thirty books of Wisdom, and art more stupid than an owl, by thine own talk is thy IV h 97
1919 · PDF PAGE 65
…ood,” or any other to designate the body of ini- tiates. 23. Deliberately, therefore, did he take refuge in vague- ness. Not to veil the truth to the Neophyte, but to warn him against valuing non-essentials. Should therefore the candidate hear the name of any God, let him not rashly assume that it refers to any known God, save only the God known to himself. Or should the ritual speak in terms (however vague) which seem to imply Egyptian, Taoist, Buddhist, Indian, Persian, Greek, Judaic, Christian, or Moslem philosophy, let him reflect that this…
1922 · PDF PAGE 157
…’s mind very full; drags out the details ; but it doesn’t make one think and talk and act with that glorious sense of speed. I think the truth is that we've got tired out. Suppose I suggest to Cockie that we knock off for a week and get our physical strength back and start fresh. I may as well telephone Gretel and arrange for a really big supply. If we're going to live at Barley Grange, we'll have to be cocaine hogs and lay in a big stock. There wouldn’t be any chance of getting it down there ; and besides one must take precautions. . . . Bothe…