1944 · PDF PAGE 110
The Book of Thoth
…eavy qualities, the element of earth was thrust upon the sym‐ bol. The original three elements, Fire, Air, Water, sufficed for primitive thought; Earth and
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Collected Works (Vol. II)
116 THE ARGONAUTS The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice An unseen hand has caught the uplifted knife, A grinning face lurked out from the blank air Between me and that filthy sorceress. SECOND WOMAN. Daily I poison the she-devil’s drink, And nothing harms her ! THIRD WOMAN. I have a toad whose breath Destroys all …
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1907 · PDF PAGE 97
Konx Om Pax
…it is better to get nearer truth. Ihate all the evil that religion has wrought. As I looked on Granada and its cathedral, this is what I thought. Can you blame me? And from a little leathem pocket-book he began to read these lines: ON A PROSPECT OF GRANADA CATHEDRAL FROM THE ALHAMBRA BROWN bloated toad that squattest in the sun! Loose thankless mouth whose greed is never done!
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1909 · PDF PAGE 69
John St. John
…d nothing in heaven above, or in earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, to have interfered with its due performance. Instead I thought myself such a fine fellow that to get into Asana for a few minutes every midnight and the rest go—as—you-please would be enough. I am well punished. This food, eaten in aYogin and ceremonial manner, is doing me good. I shall end, God willing, with coffee, cognac, and cigar. It is a fatal error to knock the body to pieces and leave the consciousness intact, as has been the case with me all day. It is tru…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 107
Ambergris
…moons of labour Into the compass of a single day, And wrought into continuous tune, One laughter with one languor for its neighbour, One thought of winter with one word of June, Muddled and mixed in mere dismay, Chiselled with the cunning chisel fo despair, Found wanting, well aware Of its own fault, even insistent
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1912 · PDF PAGE 87
Book 4 (Part I)
71 only be expressedby a note of interrogation, since to doubt that thought asserts it. (For a full discussion see “ The Soldierand the Hunchback,” “ Equinox,” Ι.) But apart from this deep-seated philosophic doubt there is the practical doubt of every day. The popular phrase, “to doubt the evidence of one’s senses,” shows us that that evidence is normally accepted; but a man of science does nothing of the sort. He is so well aware that his senses constantly deceive him, that he invents elaborate instruments to correct them. And he is further aw…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 129
The Book of Thoth
…ather, who is Truth. (“This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the in‐ toxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compas‐ sion. I understand by ‘Compassion’ the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true wor‐
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1906 · PDF PAGE 282
Collected Works (Vol. II)
…h to proceed with your exposition ! Myst. In a moment. There are other Westerns who study these matters? Scept. To follow up the line of thought you gave me but just now, we have a great number of philosophers in the West who have enunciated ideas which to the dull minds of the common run of men seem wild and absurd. Myst. You refer to Idealism. Scept. To more; to nearly all philosophy, save only that self-styled ‘‘of common sense,’ which is merely stupidity glossing ignorance. But Berkeley Myst. The devout, the angelic Scepit. Hegel Myst. The …
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1929 · PDF PAGE 480
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
… offices of John Bull in a taxi and saw Mr Sam Waring --- the principal director of Waring and Gillow --- descending the steps. Quick as thought, he paid off the chauffeur, bounced upstairs into the private office of the great Patriot and said firmly, though gently. "I've come for my three hundred pounds." "How did you know?" was the Patriot's only question. "Never mind. I know." And Horatio handed over three hundred pounds in notes. This was indeed kindness of heart. I could not doubt that if he seemed to be neglecting my publicity, it was ina…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 23
John St. John
… one or two remarks, In my walk I dis- covered that my mantra Hua allahu, etc., really belongs to the Visuddhi Cakkram; so I allowed the thought to concentrate itself there. [The Visuddhi-Cakkram: the “nerve centre,” in Hindu mystic physiology, opposite the larynx.——ED.] Also, since others are to read this, one must mention that almost from the beginning of this Working of Magick Art the changed aspect of the world whose culmination is the keeping of the oath “ I will inter- pret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul ” wa…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 96
John St. John
…a small bottle of Perrier Water. I know the New Ritual down to the end of the Con- fession. It was hard to stop the mantra—the moment my thought wandered, up it popped 1 I shall add Cafe Cognac Cigare to this debauch. I continue learning the Ritual. I will return and humble myself before the Lord
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1909 · PDF PAGE 27
The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?
…thou shalt sit throned on the Invisible, thine eyes fixed upon That which we call Nothing, because it is beyond Everything attainable by thought, or trance, thy right hand gripping the azure rod of Light, thy left hand clasped upon the scarlet scourge of Death; thy body girdled with a snake more brilliant than the sun, its name Eternity; thy mouth curved moonlike in a smile, in the invisible kiss of Nuit, our Lady of the Starry Abodes; thy body’s electric flesh stilled by sheer might to a movement closed upon itself in the con- trolled fury of …
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1906 · PDF PAGE 236
Collected Works (Vol. II)
…less, futureless PRESENT. ‘© «To the uttermost bounds of space rushes the voice of Ages unheard of save in the concentrated unity of the thought-formulated Abstract; and eternally that voice formu- lates a word which is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.2 Do I make myself clear?’ ‘Perfectly. “Who would have thought it was all so simple?’ The God cleared his throat, and rather diffidently, even shamefacedly, went on: ‘¢* But what I really wished to know was about my incarnation. How is it I have so suddenly risen from change and death …
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1939 · PDF PAGE 49
Eight Lectures on Yoga
consider the nature of the results of meditation, our conceptions of the backgrounds of thought are decided in quite a different manner; not by intellectual analysis, which, as we have seen, carries no conviction, but by illumination, which does carry conviction. Let us, therefore, proceed to examine the elements of our normal thinking. 5. I need hardly recapitulate the mathematical theorem which you all doubtless laid to heart when you were criticising Einstein's theory of relativity. I only want to recall to your minds the simplest element of…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 61
John St. John
…he Will toward Adonai less unapparent. To—day I began ill, full of spiritual pride—look at the records of my early hours! One might have thought me a great master of magic 10fti1y condescending to explain a few elementary truths suited to the capacity of his disciples. The fact is that I am a toad, ugly and venomous, and HI do wear a precious jewel in my hand, that jewel is Adonai, and—well, come to think of it, I am Adonai. But St. John is not Adonai ; and St. John had better do a little humiliation to-morrow. Nothing being more humiliating th…
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1919 · PDF PAGE 182
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…nce, mode of life, and conversation. Observe. The A.’.A.'. work throughout is definite and directed. There is no room for a single loose thought. (3) You must be perfectly stern and austere about the sanctity of the Work. You wouldn’t allow your wife to come to the office and talk: you must make her respect your hour of work at home. Here I foresee trouble: with rarest excep- tions a woman objects to a man doing anything of which she is not the centre. His business is only allowable because it provides for her. Herein no compro- mise is possibl…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 382
Magick Without Tears
… be taken from you." It was so; he lost all. In the end he became, after a fashion, Sannyasi, and died (I suppose) in the usual odour. I thought of this incident in Paris in the twenties, when I saw American tourists plaster the bonnets of their cars with 1000 franc notes, or tear them up and strew the floors of banks with them. Grimly I prognosticated Twenty-Nine. And it was so. "Nice work!" you charmingly remark; "but hardly what I sought to know." Patience, child! 1. No money-lender in the drunkenness of guilt plus the delirium of cocaine fo…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 527
Magick Without Tears
…ctices prevent the body and its functions from interrupting the mental process. Then, one inhibits that process itself; the stilling of "thoughts" allows one to become aware of mental functions beyond the intellectual; these functions have their own peculiar properties and powers. Each sheath, as one goes deeper, is discarded as 'unreal'; finally one apprehends that Nothing which is the only true and real form of existence. (But then it does not exist : in these regions of thought words always become nightmares of self-contradiction. This is as…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 232
The Star in the West
…proceeds to travel along that road which he has warned others not to follow , and , having com pletely lost his way , and overloaded his thoughts with the darkness of night , finding it impossible to continue his journey , knocks at the creaky door of a miserable tavern , and regaling himself on the common wine of that strange country in which he has wandered , pro claims the hour of noon as the clock strikes midnight . “ I conclude,” states Philonous , “ not that they sensible things have no real existence , but that , see ing they depend not …
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1910 · PDF PAGE 27
Ambergris
… Wine tasteless, tired the brain, and cold the breast ! Ah ! but if with it is one good deed wrought, One kind word spoken, one immortal thought Born in thee, all is paid : the weary strife Grows victory. Love is all and Death is nought ! Such an one wrote that work as I would meet, Lay my lifes burden at his silver feet, Have him give ear if I say Master. Yea ! I know no heaven, no honour, half so sweet ! He passed before me on the wheel of Time, He who knows no Timethe intense sublime Master of all philosophy and play, Lord of all love …
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