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Page 51 of 921904 · PDF PAGE 100
…ship and in- genuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 Or, as the Sunday -school boy said: “Faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue.” I quote Deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence in all his writings with which I am in accord .—A.C. revert to the most elementary ideas of c anni- bal savages, challenge all the m ost vital premisses a nd axiomata that have passed curre…
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
…srs. Pond and Morrell in Gilberts ballad, was con- vinced. I will make it worth your while, added the wily ecclesiastic. You shall take down in that clever shorthand of yours the true story of my life. Mr N.ch.ls will buy the book and cheat you out of the money ; so theres fame and fortune at a stroke. Put away John Thomas now ; permit me, pray ! Yes, a fine long battering-piece, with a nice hard [19]
1909 · PDF PAGE 20
… of hunchbacks infinite ; but why should not the soldiers them- selves be infinite in number? However that may be, here is the point; it takes a moment for a hunchback to kill his man, and the farther we get from our base the longer it takes. You may crumble to ashes the dream-world of a boy, as it were, between your fingers; but before you can bring the physical universe tumbling about a man’s ears he requires to drill his hunchbacks so devilish well that they are terribly like soldiers themselves. Anda question capable of shaking the consciou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 32
… the necessity of cleaning it up, that, by allowing time for passion to cool, prevented a great deal of copulation which would otherwise take place. There is a great gulf fixed between the ‘ short time ’ and the ‘ all night ’, and that great gulf is filled with Condy’s Fluid ! This applies equally to Sodomy. If the semen is safely bestowed in mouth or anus of the beloved one, the temptation is to begin all over again ; bar the trifle of fatigue, one is in the same position as at first ; its loss between the legs or in the hand rouses a sentimen…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…of these correspondences. (See Illustrations in “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox No. 2. Cross references are given.) 2. If we take an example, the use of the tables will become clear. Let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. In column xlv1, line 12, you will find “Knowledge of Sciences.” By now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the Planet corresponding is Mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. The God who rules that planet Thoth, or in Hebrew …
1954 · PDF PAGE 39
… perfect freedom on this Plane of Discs. All the serious Orders of the world, or nearly all, begin by insisting that the aspirant should take a vow of poverty; a Buddhist Bhikku, for example, can own only nine objects-his three robes, begging bowl, a fan, toothbrush, and so on. The Hindu and Mohammedan Orders have similar regulations; and so do all the important Orders of monkhood in Christianity. Our own Order is the only exception of importance; and the reason for this is that it is much more difficult to retain one's purity if one is living …
1954 · PDF PAGE 160
…berately kept "in the wilderness" for decades as "unsound," "eccentric," "dangerous," "not to be trusted," "impossible to work with," to take over the country from the bewildered "safe" men? And what could he have done unless the people had responded? Nothing. So then there is still a remnant whose independence, sense of reality, and manhood begin to count when the dear, good, woolly flock scatter in terror at the wolfs first howl. Yes, they are there, and they can get us back our freedom-if only we can make them see that the enemy in Whitehall…
1954 · PDF PAGE 318
…ns speak ouder than words." Do you see what is my mark? It is you that I am going to ut in the dock about "being serious"; and that will take a eparate letter-part of the answer to yours received March Oth, 1944 and in to your entire course of conduct ince you came to me-now over a year ago. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666
1929 · PDF PAGE 523
523 spend months of absolutely sickening solitude, direst poverty and impotence to take any action whatever, so that I might realize how the world feels to the very vast majority of the inhabitants of its civilized sections, to people without resources, prospects, friends or exploitable abilities. I was also to be prepared to take up a public career for the first time in my life; my previous manifestations having been of a semi-private or amateur kind. This period was inexpressibly distressing; apart from other unpleasantnesses, my health broke…
1906 · PDF PAGE 150
…ide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,® And I was-—anyhow, what’s the odds? or What isTruth? The life tolive? The thought to think? Shall I take refuge sald jesting In a tower like once Childe Roland {7 found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 ilate: but . Crowley waits Or in that forest of two hundred thousand for an answer.t Trees,® fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,? I warrant you'll journey a wiser man ever hence! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, 16 Cares nought if that be, or be not…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…. Bones. To-day we celebrate Christ’s birth; then, Bowley’s. Bowls). I,hide my blushes in thy breast, O babe! [Does so; the child weeps] Take it, for God’s sakel [Done. The child smiles. Mrs. Bones. But I thought your birthday was in October. Bowley. It is; and why did I arrange it on that date? Because I knew that I was the Messiah—pass the baby, please !—and that people would celebrate the day according to my word. Mrs. Bones. But why? [BONES signals wildly to her, but in vain. Bowley. Because children born in summer thrive best. Mrs. Bones. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 142
…igence in this respect, but writes: “Yet know I well that I alone have suffered and shall suffer from this negligence, and I must humbly take any results that may arise out of my failure. Still, even though I may have neglected the advice given me whenI first became a Proba- tioner, I feel that I have progressed, be it never so slightly, along the Path which from the first I set out to tread. May it not be, O Adonai, that even now the second six months may be made to balance the first six, and that what is passed may yet be for the best?” At th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 231
…!” You go on till something comes. We used two black robes that we found hanging up there. — They were lovely silk robes with hoods. You take candlesin both hands and dance while you make the incantations. We got frightfully excited. It was as if a strange force had got hold of us. It seemed to lead us all round the house and then into the grounds. We were shouting at the top of our voices. Once or twice we saw a servant putting out a nose through a chink of a door. It would always be shut with a little squeal, and we could hear keys turing and…
1922 · PDF PAGE 258
… opened my dressing case and wrote this up, and had a few more sniffs. The only trouble before was simply our own foolishness. We didn’t take ordinary pre- cautions. This time we're going to watch out... . Peteris back, furious. His pedlar has been pinched. So I came to the rescue. “We'll go out to dinner and make a night of it.” November 6 ' We've arranged for a regular supply ; but the hellish thing is that the stuff doesn’t work any more. We get the insomnia and those things all mght, but we can’t get any fun out of it. We've tried all sorts…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…at formula in which Yod is the God invoked, Hé the Archangel, and so on. In order to understand the ceremony under this formula, we must take a more extended view of the functions of the four weapons than we hâve hitherto done. The formation of the Yod is the formulation of the first créative force, of that father who is called “self-begotten,?, and unto whom it is said: <cThou hast formulated thy Father, and made fertile thy Mother”. The adding of the Hé to the Yod is the marriage of that Father to the great co-equal Mother, who is a reflectio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 261
…and words uttered more than two thousand years ago: ‘‘ Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one be- sides yourselves.” (Mahaparanibbana Sutta, ii. 33.) And to such seekers only does the Buddha promise ‘‘ the very topmost Height ” —if only they are ‘‘anxious to learn.” This is the corner-stone of Buddhism ; can scien- tific men deny their assent to these words when th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
… purpose is swift, And my vengeance strong ; I shall not shift ; I shall cry the wrong. My voice I uplift In terrible song As your forms take shape before me in the} likeness for which ye long. The shape of my passion And bitter distress Shall clothe ye, and fashion An equal dress. Ye shall force compassion With awful stress From the soul that hath mocked me, and turned his heart from my song’s excess. The ruler of Hell, The invisible Lord, Hath laughed at my spell, Hath slept at my word. He hath heard me well— Awake, O Sword ! Shall he flout a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 98
…three, and that is thrice one. Be vigilant, therefore, for I warn thee that I am about to deceive thee. I shall say words that thou wilt take to be the cry of the Aethyr, and thou wilt write them down, thinking them to be great secrets of Magick power, and they will be only my jesting with thee. (Here the Scribe invoked Angels, and the Holy Guardian Angel of the Frater P. . . . The demon replied:) I know the name of the Angel of thee and thy brother P...., and all thy dealings with him are but a cloak for thy filthy sorceries. (Here the Scribe …
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…f the absolute is always closed for the majority. But the kingdom of truth, which is that of God, suffers violence, and the violent must take it by force. There exists a dogma, there exists a key, there exists a sublime tradition; and this dogma, this key, this tradition is transcendental magic. There only are found the absolute of knowledge and the eternal bases of law, guardian against all madness, all superstition and all error, the Eden of the intelligence, the ease of the heart, and the peace of the soul. We do not say this in the hope of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…f the absolute is always closed for the majority. But the kingdom of truth, which is that of God, suffers violence, and the violent must take it by force. There exists a dogma, there exists a key, there exists a sublime tradition; and this dogma, this key, this tradition is transcendental magic. There only are found the absolute of knowledge and the eternal bases of law, guardian against all madness, all superstition and all error, the Eden of the intelligence, the ease of the heart, and the peace of the soul. We do not say this in the hope of …