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…13. Shun ignorance and likewise shun illusion. Avert thy face from world deceptions: mistrust thy senses; they are false. But within thy body—the shrine of thy sensations— seek in the Impersonal for the “Eternal Man’; and having sought him out, look inward: thou art Buddha. “Shun ignorance”: Keep on acquiring facts. “Shun illusion”: Refer every fact to the ultimate reality. “Interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with your Soul.” “Mistrust thy senses”: Avoid superficial judgment of the facts which they present to you. The las…
1911 · PDF PAGE 119
…e earth, and the little children of the earth shall make merry with you until the rose strike its root into your breast. Then shall your body be one again with the Mother, and your soul one with the Father, as it is written in the Book 01 the Law. All this have I been taught by her whose purity and strength are even as Earth’s, chosen before the foundation of Time. Lioness with lion, may we walk by night among the ruins 01 great cities, when, weary with happiness too great even 101 our immortality, we turn from the fragrance and fertility 01 Ea…
1911 · PDF PAGE 119
…e earth, and the little children of the earth shall make merry with you until the rose strike its root into your breast. Then shall your body be one again with the Mother, and your soul one with the Father, as it is written in the Book 01 the Law. All this have I been taught by her whose purity and strength are even as Earth’s, chosen before the foundation of Time. Lioness with lion, may we walk by night among the ruins 01 great cities, when, weary with happiness too great even 101 our immortality, we turn from the fragrance and fertility 01 Ea…
1909 · PDF PAGE 316
… dark forms, whom I commanded to lead me back to the circle. Then I sank amid a flock of eagles, and, descending, prayed and rejoined my body. “ My body was intensely strengthened; I was filled with a feeling of power and glory. I gave thanks.’ No. 10. “Queen’s Hall. During the axdante of Beetho- ven’s Symphony in C (No. 5) I assume white astral, and fill the entire hall. Then I looked up to God, and impulses of praise and prayer possessed me. Presently I shrink forcibly and re-enter my body.” No. 14. “I draw the circle and recite the ‘ Lesser …
1909 · PDF PAGE 316
… dark forms, whom I commanded to lead me back to the circle. Then I sank amid a flock of eagles, and, descending, prayed and rejoined my body. “ My body was intensely strengthened; I was filled with a feeling of power and glory. I gave thanks.’ No. 10. “Queen’s Hall. During the axdante of Beetho- ven’s Symphony in C (No. 5) I assume white astral, and fill the entire hall. Then I looked up to God, and impulses of praise and prayer possessed me. Presently I shrink forcibly and re-enter my body.” No. 14. “I draw the circle and recite the ‘ Lesser …
1930 · PDF PAGE 106
(b) The tendency to perspiration will stop as the practice is continue^ and the body become automatically rigid. Describe this rigidity with minute accuracy. (c) The State of automatic rigidity will develop into a State characterised by violent spasmodic movements of which the Practitioner is unconscious, but of whose resuit he is aware. This resuit is that the body hops gently from place to place. After the first two or three occurrences of this expérience, Asana is not lost. The body appears (on another theory) to hâve lost its weight almost …
1907 · PDF PAGE 237
…es : “ All analytic judge ments are based entirely on the principles of contra diction ... and are ... à priori ” (p. 13 ), e.g. “ Every body is extended ," ... " No body is unextended ," e.g. , “ Gold is a yellow metal .” “ Now , to know this , I require no further experience beyond my conception of gold , which contains the proposition that this body is yellow and a metal " ( p . 13 ). ( But , answers Crowley , what of the proposi tion “ Gold is a trivalent base ? None of these things are analytic . Thus gold must be reducible to the noumenon…
1905 · PDF PAGE 149
…hts concentred, unperplexed his mind renouncing good and ill. Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assail ! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas ! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie. Condemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief great…
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
…ment vies With the infinite galaxies. In the midst a cubic stone With the Devil set thereon ; Hath a lamb's virginal throat ; Hath the body of a stoat ; Hath the buttocks of a goat ; Hath the sanguine face and rod Of a goddess and a god ! Spell by spell and pace by pace ! Mystic flashes swing and trace Velvet soft the sigils stepped By the silver-starred adept. Back and front, and to and fro, Soul and body sway and flow In vertiginous caresses To imponderable recesses, Till at last the spell is woven, And the faery veil is cloven That was S…
1919 · PDF PAGE 376
…tate of the Black Dragon to attain thereto. 38. These vestures are: Nirménakéya, Sambhogakéya, Dharmakéya, robe Sublime. The Nirmanakaya body is the ‘Body of Light’ as described in Book 4, Part III. But it is to be considered as having been developed to the highest point possible that is compatible with incarnation. The Sambhogakaya has ‘three perfections’ added, so- called. These would prevent incarnation. The Dharmakaya body is what may be described as the final sublimation of an individual. It is a bodiless flame on the point of mingling wit…
1909 · PDF PAGE 199
…than prayer. “O beautiful, adorable, wonderful! O soul of wicked- ness! Supreme abomination, I invoke Thee! I worship Thee! I love Thee! Body and soul, I invoke Thee! Awake! Arise! Move! Manifest thy bliss to me, the soul that hungers for thy wisdom, as my body aches for thy kisses! “ Have not I wooed Thee and awaited Thee? But Thou comest not. By what spell may I conjure Thee? AmI the mock of Thy majesty? Ah, my god, my master, my lover— nay, that Thou art not. “But I love Thee! I worship Thee!” With supreme force she cried out upon the God ; …
1909 · PDF PAGE 199
…than prayer. “O beautiful, adorable, wonderful! O soul of wicked- ness! Supreme abomination, I invoke Thee! I worship Thee! I love Thee! Body and soul, I invoke Thee! Awake! Arise! Move! Manifest thy bliss to me, the soul that hungers for thy wisdom, as my body aches for thy kisses! “ Have not I wooed Thee and awaited Thee? But Thou comest not. By what spell may I conjure Thee? AmI the mock of Thy majesty? Ah, my god, my master, my lover— nay, that Thou art not. “But I love Thee! I worship Thee!” With supreme force she cried out upon the God ; …
1902 · PDF PAGE 50
The song that soars, and reads the starry runes, And swoons ! None but the dead can tune the lyre of love ! Come, love, thy body serpentine and bright ! What love is this, the heart of sombre hght. Impossible, and therefore infinite ? Sheer height ! None but the dead can twine the limbs of love. Come, love ! My body in thy passion weeps Tears keen as dewfall's, salter than the deep's. My bosom ! How its fortress wakes, and leaps, And sleeps ! None but the dead can sleep the sleep of love ! Come, love, caress me with endearing eyes ! Light the l…
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…ight could not veil it, Nor darkness dim , Flesh but receive it Vision of Him . Deep sunk His answer , The Word that sufficed Out of her Body Cometh His Christ .
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…ght of the Supernal Triad from the Altar. The Adoration then takes place, after which followeth the mystical repast, or communion in the body of Osiris. Its mystic name is ‘‘ The Formula of the Justified One.” * The Hierophant saying : “Nothing now remains but to partake in Silence the Mystic repast composed of the * The “ Formula of Osiris” is given in Z. 1, and is as follows : “For Osiris Onnophris hath said : He who is found perfect before the Gods hath said: These are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…ght of the Supernal Triad from the Altar. The Adoration then takes place, after which followeth the mystical repast, or communion in the body of Osiris. Its mystic name is ‘‘ The Formula of the Justified One.” * The Hierophant saying : “Nothing now remains but to partake in Silence the Mystic repast composed of the * The “ Formula of Osiris” is given in Z. 1, and is as follows : “For Osiris Onnophris hath said : He who is found perfect before the Gods hath said: These are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 525
…by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and who lend them at their own cost a factitious existence of a more or less durable kind. They then serve as supplementary instru- ments to the instinctive volitions of these degenerates : never to cure them, always to s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 525
…by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and who lend them at their own cost a factitious existence of a more or less durable kind. They then serve as supplementary instru- ments to the instinctive volitions of these degenerates : never to cure them, always to s…
1898 · PDF PAGE 137
² Åü¿Â 131 Who comes to see me daily—I shall die Happier if I kill him ; so shall I Reap on his body the last tare of lust, And shrivel back into my primal dust Filled with all worms and hornéd beasts with wings, The reptile that sweats acrid juice, and stings With bloody teeth and tongue ! Oh, all the room Spits fire and dung, and vomits forth a spume Of tawny sickly death ! All blotched and dark, The putrid air is vital with a spark Of fiery eyes of yonder filthy hound ! God ! I am reeling brain and body ! I swound ! The floor heaves up …
1913 · PDF PAGE 129
…cal of everything by the force of our Magick, so do we work upon the Pantacle. That which is merely a piece of common bread shall be the body of God ! The Wand was the will of man, his wisdom, his word ; the Cup was his understanding, the vehicle of grace; the Sword was his reason; and the Pantacle shall be his body, the temple of the Holy Ghost. What is the length of this Temple? 117