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Page 5 of 1151961 · PDF PAGE 29
… now concerning Meditation let me disclose unto thee more fully the Mystery of the Key of Dreams and Phantasies. Learn first that as the Thought of the Mind standeth before the Soul and hindereth its Manifestation in consciousness, so also the gross physical Will is the Creator of the Dreams of common Men, and as in Meditation thou doest destroy every Thought by mating it with its Opposite, so must thou cleanse thyself by a full and perfect Satisfaction of that bodily will in the Way of Chastity and Holiness which has been revealed unto thee in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 45
…of slaves, Leaving no shadow where they drooped, No echo in the architraves As silent as the grave’s. That shape vibrated to the tune Of thought lulled low; the stirless swoon Half felt its fellow gather close, Yet stirred not: now the intruder moves, Turns the tune slowlier to grave rows Of palm trees, losing life in loves Less turbid than the mildest dream That ever stirred the stream Whereon night floats, a shallop faint, Ivory and silver bow and beam, Dim-figured with the images Divinely quaint Of gold engraved, forth shadowing sorceries. S…
1922 · PDF PAGE 118
…he had touched with his penhad blossomed into immortality. And Lou and I were’ living in the land which his prophetic eyes had seen. © I thought of that incomparable idyll, I will not call it an island, to which he invites Emilia, in Epipsychidion. Lou and I, my love and I, my wife and I, we were not merely going there;- we had always been there and should always be. For the name of the island, the name of the house, the name of Shelley, and the name of Lou and me, they were all one name—Love. “ The wingéd words with which my song would pierce …
1906 · PDF PAGE 121
Kneel down, dear maiden o’ mine, and let your eyes Get knowledge with a soft and glad surprise! Who would have thought you would have had it in you? Say nothing: on the contrary, continue! 113 I
1913 · PDF PAGE 131
…ature of thy mind : Give back the warmth , give back the light . A thousand , thousand years of time I drank men 's blood , I drew their thought : Dwelt in an ecstasy sublime , And what I would superbly wrought . And man that made me , weeting not The thing he fashioned did believe Himself the creature , his the lot And mine the power his lot to give . Give back the genial warmth once more Of living blood from living veins , The incomparable light restore The living thought of living brains ." 112
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…eadful rose-dawn suddenly greyed and sick- ened with doubt. Hope sank to its nadir; fear rose like a dragon, with leaden wings. Suppose, thought he, that after all death does not end me! I cannot express this conception. It is not that the heart sank, it had nowhither to sink; it knew itself im- mortal, and immortal in a realm of unimagined pain and terror, unlighted by one glimpse of any other light than that pale glare of hate and of pestilence. This thought took shape in these words: I AM THAT I AM. One cannot say that the blasphemy added to…
1911 · PDF PAGE 49
…hings of the spirit. (This holy alphabet must be written by sinners, that is, by those who are impure.) “Impure” means those whose every thought is followed by another thought, or who confuse the higher with the lower, the substance with the shadow. Every Aethyr is truth, though it be but a shadow, for the shadow of a man is not the shadow of an ape. (Note.—All this has come to me without voice, without vision, without thought.) (The shew-stone is pressed upon my forehead and causes intense pain; as I go on from Aethyr to Aethyr, it seems more …
1961 · PDF PAGE 14
… Not until the Universe is thus laid naked before thee canst thou truly anatomize it. The Tendencies of thy Mind lie deeper far than any Thought, for they are the Conditions and the Laws of Thought; and it is these that thou must bring to Nought. This Way is most sure; most sacred; and the Enemies thereof most awful, most sublime. It is for the Great Souls to enter on this Rigour and Austerity. To them the Gods themselves do Homage; for it is the Way of Utmost Purity. d
1904 · PDF PAGE 28
I found myself swimming for dear life. This is what comes, I thought, witty even in my boyhood, of the Volunteer Movement ! Why, Galahad, said my mother, how beautifully your linen is starched this week. . . . . [26]
1913 · PDF PAGE 161
CHAPTER XIII THE BOOK THE Book of Spells or of Conjurations is the Record of every thought, word, and deed of the Magician; for everything that he has willed is willed to a purpose. It is the same as if he had taken an oath to perform some achievement. Now this Book must be a holy Book, not a scribbling-book in which you jot down every piece of rubbish that comes into your head. It is written, Liber VII, v, 23: "Every breath, every word, every thought, every deed is an act of love with Thee. Be this devotion a potent spell to exorcise the demon…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
No! thought he, perhaps I lack their faith. Perhaps if I could really persuade myself of God and ChristPerhaps if I could deceive myself, could make believe Such a thought is to surrender one's honesty, to ab- dicate one's reason. It marked the final futile struggle of his will. The demon caught and crunched him, and the noisy delirium began anew. My flesh and blood rebelled. Taken with a deathly vomit, I rushed from the room, and resolutely, for a whole hour, diverted my sensorium from thought. I had always found that the slightest …
1907 · PDF PAGE 317
… by the relations of contiguity and succession (a). No great attention to what passes in the mind is needful to prove that our trains of thought are neither to be arrested , nor even permanently controlled , by our desires or emotions . Never theless , they are largely influ enced by them . In the pres ence of a strong desire , or emotion , the stream of thought no longer flows on in a straight course , but seems , as it were , to eddy round the idea of that which is the object of the emo tion . Every one who has “ eaten his bread in sorrow ," …
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…ave dispelled the dark at last, That covers all the rudiments of knowledge. I should not have been expected in that station to produce a thought, Or do anything but drawa little salary; And I would one day eventually most graciously let loose a thought On some subject such as Maeterlinck or Malory. But good-bye to thoughts of greatness amid men of Major Schol. degree! It’s the first step that regards me with defiance; They’ll allow me, p’raps, the General, or possibly the Poll Degree, , For my papers in the Trip. of Moral Science. So I, who mig…
1938 · PDF PAGE 17
… Break down the fortress of thine Individual Self, that thy Truth may spring free from the ruins! XVII. Use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the Phoenix! XVIII. Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning! XIX. Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play! XX. Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship! Be every Act the Fiat of a God! Be every Act a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 90
…that, he is found hidden in the earth, tend- ing a garden. This mystery is all too complex to be elucidated in these fragments of impure thought; it is a suitable subject for meditation.
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX hour, so mentally a less definite but far from indefinite number of thoughts makes an hour’s consciousness. Perhaps powerful and vivid thoughts count for a longer lapse of time than weak ones. Deep sleep passes like an invisible electric discharge. The apparently contrary fact that time seems short when we have been reading an interesting book or performing a pleasant and absorbing task is explained thus; the multitude of impressions is harmonised into one impression. Read an unharmonious and dull book, or an essay like this, and th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX hour, so mentally a less definite but far from indefinite number of thoughts makes an hour’s consciousness. Perhaps powerful and vivid thoughts count for a longer lapse of time than weak ones. Deep sleep passes like an invisible electric discharge. The apparently contrary fact that time seems short when we have been reading an interesting book or performing a pleasant and absorbing task is explained thus; the multitude of impressions is harmonised into one impression. Read an unharmonious and dull book, or an essay like this, and th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 187
…remains darkling, let me know , and I will follow up with a postscript. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666 P.S. I thought it might help you if I were to make a few experiments. I have done so. Result: this is much more difficult and delicate an affair than I had thought when I wrote this letter. For instance, one single thought of a "second string" -e.g. "if it fails, I had better do so and so" - is enough to kill the whole operation stone dead . Of course, I am totally out of practice; but ; even so . . .
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
202 THE STAR IN THE WEST 1 thought . Science will say that intelligence is last , and that matter slowly evolves into animal life ; in fact, that matter (A ) is first, and intelligence (B ) is second . The idealists and sankhyâs will put intelligence (B ) first , and the series will run B ,A , B ,A ,B ,A . Both , however , are indicating the same chain ; but Crowley, like the philosophers of the Vedanta , strides beyond both intellect and matter to find an “ I ” (purusha) or self, which is beyond all intellect , and of which in tellect is but t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 410
34 SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT He was so sick and ill at ease And hot against his fellow men, He thought to end his purpose then— Nay! let him seek new lands and seas, Sir Palamede the Saracen !