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Page 67 of 1151912 · PDF PAGE 124
… had no sport, since in his boyhood his father had thrashed him for throwing his axe at a stag; and no society, for the nearest forester thought him a boor. He chopped to live, and lived to chop. It was the philosopher of the Rue de Chevreuse who cast the grain of sand into the wheels of this approximation to the solution of the problem of perpetual motion. The philosopher was really a painter, but so bad a painter that he was only known as a theorist in the cafe which supplied his creme de menthe. There he would hold forth interininably on God…
1912 · PDF PAGE 124
… had no sport, since in his boyhood his father had thrashed him for throwing his axe at a stag; and no society, for the nearest forester thought him a boor. He chopped to live, and lived to chop. It was the philosopher of the Rue de Chevreuse who cast the grain of sand into the wheels of this approximation to the solution of the problem of perpetual motion. The philosopher was really a painter, but so bad a painter that he was only known as a theorist in the cafe which supplied his creme de menthe. There he would hold forth interininably on God…
1919 · PDF PAGE 427
…ake out what the Authoress really wants you to do. 44. Thou hast to saturate thyself with pure Alaya, be- come as one with Nature’s Soul-Thought. At one with it thou art invincible; in separation, thou becomest the play- ground of Samvritti, origin of all the world’s delusions. This means, acquire sympathy with the universal Soul of Nature. This Soul of Nature here spoken of is of course imagined as something entirely contrary to anything we really know of Nature. In fact, it would be difficult to dis- tinguish it from a pious fiction. The only…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
…of communicating ideas were envenomed arrows, pitfalls and the poisonous fluff of the bamboo which acts more subtly than ground glass. I thought this story extraordinarily typical of human thought in general. Everyone admits that we have reached the summit of wisdom, scaled the {481} loftiest pinnacles of morality, put the crown of perfection upon the cranium of progress, and everyone knows perfectly well how this remarkable result has been achieved. But at the first hint that anyone proposes to take a step farther on this road, he is universal…
1905 · PDF PAGE 4
…f Huxley, who took it for granted that his readers were entirely ignorant: and only such passages or phrases have been annotated as were thought likely to present any difficulty to the student of ordinary intelligence. It is no part of the duty of an editor to assume the rdle of critic. But I must explain that I am conscious of Crowley’s weaknesses. They are in the main the outcome of his astonish- ing perversity; nowhere more strikingly demonstrated than in “The Poem,” throughout which there is a struggle for the supre- macy between his sense …
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…that land is not so far as my flesh is from my bones ! It is even Here and Now. If there is one cloud in this tranquil azure, it is this thought ; that conscious beings exist who are not thus infinitely happy, masters of ecstasy. So to remove this cloud have I cheerfully dedicated all I have and all I am. That I do not overvalue ecstasy is shown by this, that I am not one who denies himself the good things of this world. There are too many mystics going about like the fox who lost his brush.
1912 · PDF PAGE 290
…These stories are usually about the good little girl who “converts" the horrid, swearing bargee, and the good little boy who brings his ”thoughtless" mother to Jesus. This, being a monthly, brought in another twelve pennies annually from every victim. He also published leaflets which he could sell by the hundred to the kind of idiot that likes to give such things to strangers who have never done it any harm. He had all these things translated into dozens of languages, and the rill of pennies swelled to a mighty river. By this time his sister A——…
1912 · PDF PAGE 290
…These stories are usually about the good little girl who “converts" the horrid, swearing bargee, and the good little boy who brings his ”thoughtless" mother to Jesus. This, being a monthly, brought in another twelve pennies annually from every victim. He also published leaflets which he could sell by the hundred to the kind of idiot that likes to give such things to strangers who have never done it any harm. He had all these things translated into dozens of languages, and the rill of pennies swelled to a mighty river. By this time his sister A——…
1913 · PDF PAGE 269
… ALBERT. All right. [Wizthin.] Here are some flowers for you, Mother ! MOTHER. Oh, thank you, Albert, how beautiful! FATHER. Very kindly thought of, my son!
1913 · PDF PAGE 269
… ALBERT. All right. [Wizthin.] Here are some flowers for you, Mother ! MOTHER. Oh, thank you, Albert, how beautiful! FATHER. Very kindly thought of, my son!
1954 · PDF PAGE 465
…hat I shall impress upon thee as is Conformity with our holy Experience in the Way of Truth And it is this, that since that which can be thought is not true, every Statement is in some sense false. Even on the Sea of pure Reason, we may say that
1905 · PDF PAGE 252
… old friend! Our chiefest bird ! Sweetest of singers ! TANNHAUSER. No, the naughty one! HEINRICH. Tannhauser! Yes! you dead. And we have thought LANDGRAVE. Friends, will you swear to him? HEINRICH. Yes, yes, ‘tis he! WOLFRAM. I know the blithe look in the sober eyes ! LANDGRAVE, Changed verily. It was most urgent, cousin, I were assured of your identity. — Three weeks the couriers scour the land for you, Urgent demands: last? Your horse? Your arms? since Germany Saw the brave eyes and kindly face of you! Where have you been? Upon the sacred que…
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
…though he is hardly to be called a beginner at this stage—Sankhara presents a terrible obstacle. For the distraction to his even flow of thought is that very flow itself ; not as in Safifia, the accidents necessarily arising from that flow, as it were the rocks in the bed of the stream, but the law of gravitation itself, its necessary tendency to follow its own course. So that the good young Yogi finds himself thus awkwardly placed ; that having created a mighty engine and removed all conceivable impediments to its smooth working, he is now con…
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
…though he is hardly to be called a beginner at this stage—Sankhara presents a terrible obstacle. For the distraction to his even flow of thought is that very flow itself ; not as in Safifia, the accidents necessarily arising from that flow, as it were the rocks in the bed of the stream, but the law of gravitation itself, its necessary tendency to follow its own course. So that the good young Yogi finds himself thus awkwardly placed ; that having created a mighty engine and removed all conceivable impediments to its smooth working, he is now con…
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…ically all about the Malkuth point of view. Consequently he goes about contradicting Malkuth ; he refuses to allow Malkuth to obsess his thought. He keeps on crying out that there is no difference between a goat and a God, in the hope of hypnotising himself (as it were) into that percep- tion of their identity, which is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from Kether. 126
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…, which first mastering and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. Itis one of the most suggestive definitions of KONX—the L.U.X. of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross—that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. Nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that L.U.X. But to those who do not it must remain as obscure and ridicu- lous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of Flatland.”— 7zmes. 777, 10S. This book contains in concise …
1954 · PDF PAGE 398
…he contrary, I will tell you more about "communication . " There is a method of using Ethyl Oxide which enables one (a) to analyse one's thoughts with a most exquisite subtlety and accuracy , (b) to find out-in the French phrase-"what is at the bottom of the bottle." By this they mean the final result of any project or investigation; and this; surprisingly often, is not at all what it is possible to discover by any ordinary means. For instance , one might ask oneself "Do I believe in God?" and, after a vast number of affirmative answers of cons…
1911 · PDF PAGE 85
…y Father, who is truth. (This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the intoxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compassion. I understand by ‘Compassion,’ the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true worshippers of the High- est. And it is an ecstasy in which there is no trace of pain. Its passivity (= passion) is like the giving-up of the self to the beloved). The voice continues: This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of abominations, and this is …
1916 · PDF PAGE 11
…mment in various places upon these letters. It is also to be remarked how curious a form Mr. Stuart has chosen for the expression of his thoughts. It is simple, attractive, and convenient, and possesses the great advantage that his messages are automatically dated. Mr. G. K. Chesterton, in one of his books, I think that on Browning, has remarked upon the utter futility of language. It is impossible to express thought, unless the person who is to receive it has already some inkling of what is meant. For example, if I say that someone is a Purita…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
The Hew wine1 LL philosophies when ultimately reduced to their simplest terms fall either under the subjective or objective systems of thought .' The former is A 1 Argument : This chapter attempts to show how all philo sophies may be equated in corresponding terms of each other ; and how the philosophic principles of Berkeley and Hume , combined , form what may be known as the philosophical theme of Crowleyanity , in which it is demonstrated how all systems are inwardly mystically identical , and outwardly sceptically diverse . Further , how by…