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…uage; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81
…uage; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81
Sconpio,K.C, Why did they revolt against you? Martians, Firstly, because they thought that by declaring the Warrant to be a forgery, I fad destroyed my own authority Secondly, because they couldn't make my methods of magic work y- Thirdly, because they were tired of my incessant demands, Fourthly, becauseI refused to expel Dr. Berridge from the Order. Scounio, KC, WI Dr, Berridge? Martens. That girls who came to him for examination in the Knowledge Lectures were subjected to insult Sconvi0, KC. te this charge? Maries. Sconrio, KC. W any other c…
… the conditions of Nirvana. Partly it is the fault of language, partly it is due to the fact that the condition of Arhat is quite beyond thought. He is beyond the Abyss, and there a thing is only true in so far as it is self-contradictory. The Arhat has no self to be blissful. It is much simpler to consider it on the lines given in my commentary to the last verse. 41. To live to benefit mankind is the first step. To prac- tise the six glorious virtues is the second. 42. To don Nirmanakéya’s humble robe is to forego eter- nal bliss for Self, to …
…ly Initiate, for the Momentum of thy Force in Transcendental Antithesis serveth to propel thee, and the Emancipation from the Fetters of Thought hat thou hast won in that Praxis of Art maketh the Whirlpool and Gravitation of Truth of Competence to Draw theeunto itself. l
…tradesman. I did this sort of thing on purpose to affirm magically that nothing mattered except the work of the moment. It was "Take not thought for the morrow" carried out in its most literal sense. I made a point of putting God on His honour, so to speak, to supply anything I might need by demonstrating to {147} him that I would not keep back the least imaginable fraction of my resources. I acquired this custom later on, when I had definitely discovered the direction of my destiny; but the moral basis of my attitude was already present. The f…
…inite hero - worship ; but genius cannot be bound for long ; it will eventually find its own level . The mere fact that certain forms of thought and modes of ex pression occur here as they have occurred elsewhere , should be as a literary barometer , enabling us to judge the mental standard of the writer . All great writers will have many points in common . It is more than probable that Aleister Crowley had already read most of Shakespeare before he wrote “ The Mother's Tra gedy ,” and yet , because of this we should not neces sarily say that t…
…” This is the suspense of Job , the sleep of Solomon , the silence of St. John , arrived at by fixing the mind upon one single object of thought , so that the treasures of representation which lie dormant in the memory , flow towards that one object and overwhelm and engulf it in a divine glory , as Eckartshausen says : “ With , however , the development of the new organ , the curtain is all at once raised , the impenetrable veil is torn away , and the cloud before the Sanctuary lifts , a new world suddenly exists for us , scales fall from our …
…n subtle flame, I am no more . And Nor shall the mind revoke at ease These myriad cressets from the sun ; Constrained in sober destinies Thought's river shall its ripples run Into the one , the one , the one , the one .? 2 2 Orpheus , vol . iii, p . 213 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 97. I may here point out that not only in their Sapphic brilliance , but also in their mirrored mysticism , so many of Crowley's poems are akin to the esoteric teaching of the Sufi poets of Persia , such as Jelaladdin and Jami . A very beautiful parable of Jelaladdin…
…de to lead the seeker from the Western realms of Magic and action to the Eastern lands of Yoga and renunciation. To begin with, the root-thought of all philosophy and religion, both Eastern and Western, is that the universe is only an appearance and not a reality, or, as Deussen has it: The entire external universe, with its infinite ramifications in space and time, as also the involved and intricate sum of our inner perceptions, is all merely the form under which the essential reality presents itself to a consciousness such as ours, but is not…
…on the indestructible leaves of her diary, assured that it is to come out in the future revelation. Yet we who, from the tendency of our thought, reject all claims to any knowledge of the future, can only acknowledge perceptions as of the present or the past, and accordingly refer the dual realisation to some period gone by. We perceive the correspondence of two sensations, but, by an instantaneous process, give the second one a wrong position in the succession of experiences. The soul is regarded as the historian when she is in reality the sib…
…de to lead the seeker from the Western realms of Magic and action to the Eastern lands of Yoga and renunciation. To begin with, the root-thought of all philosophy and religion, both Eastern and Western, is that the universe is only an appearance and not a reality, or, as Deussen has it: The entire external universe, with its infinite ramifications in space and time, as also the involved and intricate sum of our inner perceptions, is all merely the form under which the essential reality presents itself to a consciousness such as ours, but is not…
…on the indestructible leaves of her diary, assured that it is to come out in the future revelation. Yet we who, from the tendency of our thought, reject all claims to any knowledge of the future, can only acknowledge perceptions as of the present or the past, and accordingly refer the dual realisation to some period gone by. We perceive the correspondence of two sensations, but, by an instantaneous process, give the second one a wrong position in the succession of experiences. The soul is regarded as the historian when she is in reality the sib…
…“A real young he-goat?” “Doubtless. Understand that it was neither a child’s toy, nor a stuffed animal.” Eliphas breathed again. “Good,” thought he ; “this man is not a sorcerer worthy of the stake. He does not know that the abominable authors 157
…he laws of the Church, and he no longer dared to tell you what he wished.” “Bah! What did he wish then?” “To see the devil.” “Perhaps he thought I had him in my pocket ?” “No, but he knows that you give lessons in the Qabalah, and in magic, and so he hoped that you would help him in his enterprise. He told my daughter and myself that in his vicarage in the country, he had already made one night an evocation of the devil by the help of a popular grimoirve. ‘Then’ said he, ‘a whirlwind seemed to shake the vicarage; the rafts groaned, the wainscot…
…“A real young he-goat?” “Doubtless. Understand that it was neither a child’s toy, nor a stuffed animal.” Eliphas breathed again. “Good,” thought he ; “this man is not a sorcerer worthy of the stake. He does not know that the abominable authors 157
…he laws of the Church, and he no longer dared to tell you what he wished.” “Bah! What did he wish then?” “To see the devil.” “Perhaps he thought I had him in my pocket ?” “No, but he knows that you give lessons in the Qabalah, and in magic, and so he hoped that you would help him in his enterprise. He told my daughter and myself that in his vicarage in the country, he had already made one night an evocation of the devil by the help of a popular grimoirve. ‘Then’ said he, ‘a whirlwind seemed to shake the vicarage; the rafts groaned, the wainscot…
…dio, Lala was sitting as usual at the desk, but Lamus was walking up and down the room with his hands behind his back; his head bowed in thought so deep that he seemed not to notice our arrival. Lou had not removed her furs. She was standing like a statue in the middle of the room. The only sign of life was that her face continually flushed from white to red and back again. Her eyes were closed. For some reason or other she reminded me of a criminal awaiting sentence. Lamus stopped short in his stride and shook hands with me. — “Take your thing…
… in the nature of excrements, because they did not grow. The first problem of alchemy was to raise mineral to vegetable life; the adepts thought that the proper way to do this was to imi‐ tate the processes of nature. Distillation, for instance, was not an operation to be performed by heating something in a retort over a flame; it had to take place naturally, even if months were required to consummate the Work. (Months, at that period of civilization, were at the disposal of enquiring minds.) A great deal of what people now consider ignorance, …
… wanted to see Bhikku A. M. Why? Because --- and so on to the half-forgotten past, dark seas that phosphoresced as the clean keel of his thought divided them. I had eliminated a vast number of possible replies to the question of Zoroaster above quoted by Allan. I might even have discovered my true will, as indeed the meditation should enable me to do, had it not been interfered with by the larger question with its smashing academic scepticism. The question posed by the meditation assumes a casual connection between events and even to some exten…