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Page 71 of 951996 · PDF PAGE 121
…he Hunchback,” “Eleusis” and others, I have offered a detailed demonstration of the self-contradictory nature of Reason. The crux of the whole proof may be summa rized by saying that any possible proposition must be equally true with its contradictory, as, if not, the universe would no longer be in equilibrium. It is no objection that to accept this is to destroy conventional Logic, for that is exactly what it is intended to do. I may also mention briefly one line of analysis. 1 [Lat., “all things go forth into mystery,” and “the highest knowl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
…ture.* Yet nevertheless if I did arrive at such a conclusion without being fully conscious that at any moment I might have to recast the whole of these laws, I should be but a bat-headed dogmatist instead of the hawk-eyed man of science who is ever ready to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
…ture.* Yet nevertheless if I did arrive at such a conclusion without being fully conscious that at any moment I might have to recast the whole of these laws, I should be but a bat-headed dogmatist instead of the hawk-eyed man of science who is ever ready to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
… is proper to tum our attention to the relative value of different kinds of thought. This question is of the very first importance : the whole theory of Education depends upon a correct standard. There are facts and facts: one would not necessarily be much the wiser if one got the Encyclopaedia Britannica by heart, or the Tables of Logarithms. The one aim of Mathematics, in fact-Whitehead points this out in his little Shilling Arithmetic-is to make one fact do the work of thousands. What we are looking for is a working Hierarchy of Facts. That …
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
… need the absolute relaxation of leisured luxury. Then what of the Work itself? If the Idea be truly new and important, God help it! The whole class of men affected jump on it with one accord, if haply they may crush it in the germ. Read a little of the History of Medicine! Any man who shows a sign of independent thought is watched. is thwarted. He persists and is threatened and bullied. He persists; every engine of oppression is set in motion against him. Then, something snaps; either they succeed in killing him (Ross, who defeated malaria, ne…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…gainst the idea of a pleroma, a flame of which we are Sparks, and to which we return when we “attain.”4 That would indeed be to make the whole curse of separate existence
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…ry act of “love under will” is lawful as such; but that when any act is not directed unto Nuit, who is here the inevitable result of the whole Work, that act is waste, and breeds conflict within you, so that “the kingdom of God which is within you”1 2 is torn by civil war. To the beginner I would offer this programme: 1. Furnish your mind as completely as possible with the knowledge of how to inspect and to control it. 2. Train your body to obey your mind, and not to distract its attention. 3. Control your mind to devote itself wholly to discov…
1996 · PDF PAGE 161
…or All false. The Ethics of Liber Legis are those of Evolution itself. We are only fools if we interfere. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, biologically as well as in every other way. Let us take an example. I am an antivaccinationist in a sense which every other antivaccinationist would repudiate. I admit that vaccination protects from smallpox. But I should like every body to have smallpox. The weak would die; the strong might have pitted faces; but the race would become immune to the disease in a few generations. On somewhat …
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…which dépends on innumerable physical conditions peculiar to this planetj and this planet is determined by the mechanical balance of the whole universe of matter. We may then say that our consciousness is causally connected with the remotest galaxies 3 yet we do not know even how it arises from — or with — the molecular changes in the brain.) (H) Science enahles us to take advantage of the contin- uity of Nature by the empirical application of certain XIX
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ny 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 postulant approached with his unorthodox offeiing. 174 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…re 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 of his définition of himself, and confirmed by every single expérience. Fie could receive impressions only by meeting A, or being caught up by B. \ et he would be wrong in an infinité number of ways. There are therefore Aleph-Zero possibilities that at any moment a man may find himself totally transformed. And it may be that our présent dazzled bewilderment is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 509
…spirin , to say nothing of the thousand Patent Medicines blared at them from every radio - as if the Press were not enough to poison the whole population! they gasp when they learn that of all classes, the first place among "drug addicts" is that of the doctor. But the crisis in which fear becomes phobia is the unreasoning aversion, the shuddering of panic , above all, the passionate refusal to learn anything about "drugs ," to analyse the conditions , still less to face them; and the spasmodic invention of imaginary terrors , as if the real da…
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
…f sex is of the first importance; for a destructive and distorted view, a Christian view, generates an evil pus which overflows upon the whole field of human thought and human activity, infecting with one malady after another. Sex repression, sex-frustration, as Freud has truly told us, breed war makers and war. They and their cousins german, malevolent inter ference with individual freedom of thought and man’s natural right to all the pleasures of life, breed also social discontents and social ills. In the strictest sense, such persecuting …
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
…rty; nay, thou art Mother and Whore for thine own pleasure; the Word I say to Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”! Ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor! Will ye not gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler’s tricks there be not one untried, or in your cunning and counsel one device new-false to save your pirate ship from sinking? It has always been so easy up to now! What is the blasting Magick in that Word, first thesis of The Book of the Law, that “every woman is a star.” Alas! it is I th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
… embrace him, and a cataract Of amber-scented hair hissing about His head, and in the darkness two great eyes Flaming above him, and the whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses. And those arms And kisses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being, and his life was lost In woman’s love at last ! CHORUS. Unseemly act ! Who dared thus break on meditation? MEDEA. CHORUS. Surely thy passion mastered thee, O queen !
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…imited by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes, to him, nothing but love boundless and immanent; but his mystical State is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the effect which his love has had upon himself by means of his mental and physical qualities. Thus, Catullus, Dante and Swinburne made their love a mighty mover of mankind by virtue of their power to put their thoughts on the s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…finity. Wherein Sorrow is Joy, and Change is Stability, and Selflessness is Self. For the interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole. And this contemplation shall be performed not by simple méditation — how much less then by reason! but by the method which shall hâve been given unto Him in His initiation to the Grade. 17. Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that trinity from its éléments, and further to combine Sat- Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which méditation s…
1939 · PDF PAGE 28
…schoolboy curriculum. Nor can schoolboy tricks adequately excuse the aspirant from the duties of manhood. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rejoice, true men, that this is thus! For this at least may be said, that there are results to be obtained in this way which will not only fit the aspirant for the actual battle, but will introduce him to classes of hitherto unguessed phenomena whose impact will prepare his mind for that terrific shock of its own complete overthrow which marks the first critical result of the practices of Yog…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…I hope it will not take too long to get you out of the way of thinking in these terms. For instance , the word "initiation" includes the whole process, and how to distinguish between it and enlightenment I cannot tell you . "Probation," moreover , if it means "Proving," continues throughout the entire process. Nothing is worse for the student than to indulge in these mild speculations about ambiguous terms. 5. You can, if you like, try to work out a progress of Osiris through Amennti on the Tree of Life, but I doubt whether you will get any sat…
1922 · PDF PAGE 96
…culty was that I can’t exactly borrow it on my face, can I ? and I don’t want to let those birds into ‘the know’— they’d simply snap the whole thing up for themselves. By the way, that reminds me of a very good thing I heard of the other day——’”’ and he rattled off an amusing story which had no connection with what he had been saying before. I didn’t listen to what it was. My brain was working very fast with the champagne on top of the other things. His talk had brought to my mind that I should have to wire for another thousand to-day or to-mor…