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Page 64 of 871996 · PDF PAGE 112
…n quick.”] The quintessence of this verse is (however) its revelation of the nature of Hadit as a self-conscious and individual Being, although impersonal. He is an ultifnate, independent, and unique element in Nature, impenetrably aloof. The negative electron seems to be his physical analogue. Each such electron is indistinguishable from any other; yet each is determined diversely by its relations with various positive complementary electrons. The verse is introduced at this juncture in order to throw light on the passage which follows. It is …
1922 · PDF PAGE 102
…dscape; we could grasp everything at once. It was as if we had acquired a totally new mental faculty as superior to the normal course of thought as the all-comprehending brain of a great man of science is to that of a savage, though the two men are both looking with the same optical instruments at the same blackbeetle. It is impossible to convey, to any one who has not experienced it, the overwhelming rapture of -this condition. | Another extraordinary feature of the situation was
1922 · PDF PAGE 24
…t know at the first moment even that they were eyes. It’s a funny thing to say; but the first impression was that they were one of those thoughts that come to one from nowhere when one is flying at ten thousand feet or so. Awfully queer thing, I tell you—reminds one of the atmospherics that one gets in wireless; and they give one a horrible feeling. It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is …
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…aks. Dharana on the Shiva Pantacle given me by Maitrananda Swami, mentally muttering “Aum Shivaya Vashi.” * Nothing particular occurred, though (were I not fixed in the know- ledge of the vanity of physiological tests) I should judge my weight had diminishedt The A’sana gave no pain till I moved. I had my eyes turned up to the third eye. Vivekananda says: “vibration of body” is the second stage of Pranayama. I get this, but put it down to weakness, Dharana on tip of nose for five minutes, Heard a voice saying: “And if you’re passing, won’t you?…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…aks. Dharana on the Shiva Pantacle given me by Maitrananda Swami, mentally muttering “Aum Shivaya Vashi.” * Nothing particular occurred, though (were I not fixed in the know- ledge of the vanity of physiological tests) I should judge my weight had diminishedt The A’sana gave no pain till I moved. I had my eyes turned up to the third eye. Vivekananda says: “vibration of body” is the second stage of Pranayama. I get this, but put it down to weakness, Dharana on tip of nose for five minutes, Heard a voice saying: “And if you’re passing, won’t you?…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…ily produce an effect than a magician working by himself. The psychology of aRevival meetings” will be familiar to almost every one, and though such 1. This is said of the partial or lesser Works of Magick. This is an elementary treatise; one cannot discuss higher Works as for example those of “The Hermit of Aesopus Island”. 2. See “The Book of Lies”; there are several chapters on this subject. But Right Exaltation should produce spontaneously the proper mental and physical reactions. As soon as tho development is secured, there will be automat…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
… perhaps, yet does its best To show its strong appreciation Of the humour of the situation— In short, dismiss me, jeered and hooted, Who thought I sported Roland’s crest,30 With wisdom saddled, spurred, and booted, (As I my Jesus) with a jest.31 So here is my tribute—a jolly good strong ’un— To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way32 God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for his pace, we bethought us Achilles could…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…s fulfilled by the Phallus, “Naught and Two” because the plus and the minus hâve United in “love under will.” A is “the Fool”, Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word (Harpo- crates), and Action (Bacchus). He is the boundless air, the wander- ing Ghost, but with “possibilités”. He is the Naught that the Two hâve made by “love under will”. LA thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined, lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby. Their child is begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught also, as yet. LA is thus the Univ…
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
…s to make each term more complex. Reason does not add to our knowledge; a filing system does not increase one’s correspondence directly, though by arranging it one gets a better grasp of one’s
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
practice of Dharana is perhaps more generally useful. As one prevents the more accessible thoughts from arising, we strike deeper strata — memories of childhood reawaken. Still deeper lies a class of thoughts whose origin puzzles us. Sojne of these apparently belong to former incarnations. By cultivating these departments of one’s mind we can develop them; we become expert ; we form an organized cohérence of these originally disconnected éléments ; the faculty grows with astonishing rapidity, once the knack of the business is mastered. It is mu…
1899 · PDF PAGE 251
…titled * Songs of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley, whose initials ‘A. C.’ are not unknown to readers of ‘The Cantab’ and ‘ The Granta.’ Though we cannot identify ourselves with the sentiments ex- pressed in its pages, we must acknowledge that the poems show very considerable literary merit. Here is a description of the Cam: ‘The corpse-lit river, whose dank vapours teem Heavy and horrible, a deadly steam Of murder’s black intolerable might.’ * —TZhe Cantab. “We imagine Mr. Aleister Crowley, author of ‘Songs of the Spirit’ (Kegan Paul), to be a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 29
…another funny thing. I don’t believe that I should have ever recognised her by sight. What put me on the track was the grip of her hand, though I had never touched it in my life before. Now don’t think that I’m going off the deep end about this. Don’t dismiss me as a mystic-monger. Look back each one into your own lives, and if you can’t find half a dozen incidents equally inexplicable, equally
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…s he expounded, the nature of Magick considered as a universal formula) paid no attention whatever to that question of the Magical Link, though he everywhere implies that it is essential to the Work. He evaded the question by making the petitio principii of assigning to the Astral Light the power of transmitting vibrations of ail kinds. He nowhere enters into detail as to how its effects are produced. He does not inform us as to the qualitative or quantitative laws of this light. (The scientifically trained student will observe the analogy betw…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…uch, achieved so much, who dare deny that the Book of Thoth, the quintessentialized wisdom of our ancestors whose civilizations, penshed though they be, hâve left monuments which dwarf ours until we wonder whether we are degenerate from them, or evolved from Simians, who dare deny that such a book may be possessed of unimaginable powers? It is not so long since the methods of modem science were scoffed at by the whole cultured world. In the sacred halls themselves the roofs rang loud with the scornful laughter of the high pnests as each new pos…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…he Hudson River, he might remember the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as “truth” are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, “We know”: yet, questioned, awe” make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would be indeed little less than the whole body of his knowledge, implied in the theory …
1954 · PDF PAGE 419
…t from mere ignorance. Rather like one's feeling about the automatic functions of physiology, perhaps: an acceptance so complete that, although the mind contains the idea, it is not stirred thereby into consciousness. These speculations are, perhaps, idle, amI so distracting, for you in your present path. Was it worth while to make this analogy? I think so, vague and unscientific as it must have seemed to you, as reminding you of the way in which unlike ideas acquire close kinship as one advanced on the path . Let us get on to your white rages!…
1929 · PDF PAGE 262
…eir loads and strolled cheerfully up the slopes without so much as a word of admonition. {433} Not understanding the secret of my power, though he had seen it exercised so often by Eckenstein and myself, he imagined that I must be terrorizing the men by threats and beatings. In point of fact, I never struck a man during the entire expedition, save on one occasion to be described presently. Camp 3 was extremely pleasant. It afforded magnificent views in every direction and one had one's choice of sun or shade. I spent the day in taking advantage…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…heaving over the carrion earth, a brotherhood bound by blind greed for rottenness. Science still hésitâtes to raze the temple of Rimmon, though every year finds more of her sons impatient of Naaman’s prudence. The Privy Council of the Kingdom of Mansoul sits in permanent secret session j it dares not déclaré what must follow its deed in shattering the monarch morality into scraps of crumbling conglomerate of climatic, tribal, and personal préjudices, corrupted yet more by the action of crafty ambition, insane impulse, ignorant arrogance, supers…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… to the spirit of the club to do anything original. Mummery had been blackballed because he was the most famous climber in England; and, though occasionally climbing with guides before he found Collie and Hastings, had been in fact the leader of the party. The club was, of course, afraid to give its real reasons for objecting to him. It circulated the lie that he was a bootmaker! Later on, it became a public scandal that he was not a member of the club and he was weak enough to allow himself to be elected. In my case, Collie and Conway warned m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…pher involving the knowledge of facts never tili then existing in any human mind, and depending on the control of the arm of the scribe, though He thought Fie was writing consciously from dictation; and to weave into a single pattern so many threads of proof of different orders that every type of mind, so it be but open and just, may be sure of the existence of AIWAZ as a being independent of body, conscious and individual, with a mind mightier than man’s, and a power beyond man’s set in motion by will. In a word, the Book of the Law proves the…