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Page 79 of 1151907 · PDF PAGE 226
THE NEW WINE 219 by unthinking things are thought to have a natural subsistence of their own distinct from being perceived by spirits . This ... is the very root of Scepticism ... For how can it be known that the things which are perceived are conformable to those which are not per ceived , or exist without the mind . ” ? Shortly before arriving at this conclusion , he had already stated that as “ the infinite divisibility of matter ” was now uni versally allowed by the most approved and consider able philosophers , hence it follows that there …
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
…he heroin craving nearly drove me to take the stuff without my body telling me what it was doing. But I detected the movement in time. I thought a brisk walk might help me to pass through the critical moment. Just as I got out of the house, I was met by Sister Athena. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” she said. It was the regular morning greeting at the Abbey. Accustomed as I was to the phrase, it still took me rather aback. “‘ Good-morning,”’ I said in a rather embarrassed way. ** The answer is ‘ Love is the law, love under wi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 184
…hapter III & Verses 58-60 185 I have myself practiced constantly to prove the Law by many and divers modes in many and divers spheres of thought, until it has become absolutely fixed in me, so much so that it appears an “identical equation,” axiomatic indeed, and yet not a platitude, but a very sword of Truth to sunder every knot at a touch. As the practical ethics of the Law, I have formulated in words of one syllable my declaration of the RIGHTS OF MAN Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is no god but Man. Man has the right…
1907 · PDF PAGE 332
…ected to attain this end , and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes . By act, word , and thought , both in quantity and quality , the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated . Every fumigation , purification , banishing , invocation , evocation , is chiefly a reminder of a single purpose , until the supreme moment arrives , and every fibre of the body , every force -channel of the mind , is strained , and in one overwhelming rush of the Will in the direction desired . Such is the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…ide the authority of miracles, and appealed to the reason of the middle classes of their day. The Vedas were the outcome of aristocratic thought; and so in truth was the Christianity of Constantine and the Popes, that full-blooded Christianity which so soon swallowed the mystical Christ and the anaemic communism of the canazlle which followed him. Conven- tional Buddhism is pre-eminently the “nice” religion of the bourgeoisie; it neither panders to the superstition of the masses nor palliates the gallantries of the aristocracy; it is essentiall…
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…ide the authority of miracles, and appealed to the reason of the middle classes of their day. The Vedas were the outcome of aristocratic thought; and so in truth was the Christianity of Constantine and the Popes, that full-blooded Christianity which so soon swallowed the mystical Christ and the anaemic communism of the canazlle which followed him. Conven- tional Buddhism is pre-eminently the “nice” religion of the bourgeoisie; it neither panders to the superstition of the masses nor palliates the gallantries of the aristocracy; it is essentiall…
1919 · PDF PAGE 123
…, and made partaker of the Sacrament of Wine that is the blood of the Sun. Yet at the first there may be shock and conflict, for the old thought persists by force of its habit: it is for you to create by repeated act the true right habit of this consciousness of the Life which abideth in Light. And this is easy, if your will be strong: for the true Life is so much more vivid and quintessential than the false that (as I rudely estimate) one hour of the former makes an impression on the memory equal to one year of the latter. One single experienc…
1919 · PDF PAGE 196
…we live which revolves so that its shadow cuts us off from the sunlight during what we call night. The Sun does not die, as the ancients thought; It is always shining, always radiating Light and Life. Stop for a moment and get a clear conception of this Sun, how He is shining in the early morning, shining at mid-day, shining in the evening, and shining in the night. Have you got this idea clearly in your minds? You have stepped out of the Old Zon into the New. : Now let us consider what has happened. In order to get this mental picture of the e…
1919 · PDF PAGE 197
…y our brothers and sisters, whose essential and Starry nature we had never before seen and realized. These are the ‘remains’ of those we thought we had left behind. There is plenty of room here, each one travels in His true Path, all is Joy. Now, if you want to step back into the Old A£on, do so. But try and bear in mind that those around you are in real- ity Suns and Stars, not little shivering slaves. If youare not willing to be a King yourself, still recognise that they have a right to Kingship, even as you have, whenever you wish to 185
1954 · PDF PAGE 145
…uivalent of crossing the Abyss. Beware of any such conclusions! The Trances are simply isolated experiences, sharply cut off from normal thought-life. To cross the Abyss is a permanent and fundamental revolution in the whole of one's being. Much more, upon the brink of the Abyss. If there be missing or redundant even one atom, the entire monstrous, the portentous mass must tend to move with irresistible impact, in such direction as to restore the equilibrium. To deflect it-well, think of a gyroscope! How then can you destroy it in one sole stup…
1954 · PDF PAGE 222
…s food very quietly (from time to time) into the room adjoining that where he was working. One day he missed two successive meals, and I thought I ought to look into his room to see if all was weI/. I must explain that I have known only two European women and three European men who could sit in the attitude called Padmasana, which is that usually seen in seated images of the Buddha. Of these men, Allan was one. He could knot his legs so well that, putting his hands on the ground, he could swing his body to and fro in the air between them. When …
1954 · PDF PAGE 546
…eron, Jane, 330, 331 Chesterton, J.K., 408 Chiah, 251, 297,309,310,473 Chimaera, 146 China, walk across, 232, 301, 485 Chinese system of thought, 60, 61,72,232,233 Chokmah,92,130,474 Choronzon, 11 7, 119, 120 Christ, 54,185,241,357 Christian-attitude, 8 -path,8,138,420,458 -Home, 342 -Science,76,77,324 Christian Scientist, 57 Christianity, 11,73,76-86 Church of Rome, 374, 375 Chirchili, Winston, (reference to), 127 Chymicai Marriage of C.R., 446 City of the Pyramids, 120, 124, 312 , 338 Cleopatra, 34, 246
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…at school had been called "the little Chinese girl", so his daughter, Lola Zaza, has the Mongolian physiognomy even more pronounced. His thought follows this indication. He has never been able to sympathize with any European religion or philosophy; and of Jewish or Mohammedan thought he has assimilated only the mysticism of the Cabbalists and the Sufis. Even Hindu psychology, thoroughly as he studied it, never satisfied him wholly. As will be seen, Buddhism itself failed to win his devotion. But he found himself instantly at home with the Yi Ki…
1922 · PDF PAGE 30
… that. Good-night. I told you that Lou was “ quite an ordinary and not a particularly attractive girl.” Remember that this was the first thought of my “ carnal mind” which, as St. Paul says, is ‘‘ enmity against God.” My real first impression had been the tremendous psychological experience for which all words are inadequate. Seated by her side, at leisure to look while she babbled, I found my carnal mind reversed on appeal. She was certainly not a pretty girl from the standpoint of a music-hall audience. There was something indefinably Mongoli…
1922 · PDF PAGE 41
…et orb, as I have seen the sunset over Belgium, over the crinkled line of shore, over the dim blue mystic curve of sea and sky; with the thought in my mind beating in tune with my excited heart. We didn’t miss the arsenal this time. I was the arsenal too. I had exploded. I was the slayer and the slain ! And there sailed Lou across the sky to meet me. “‘O Thou outrider of the Sun, that spurrest the bloody flanks of the wind! I adore Thee, Evoe ! I adore Thee, I A O!” We came into each other’s arms with the inevitable- ness of gravitation. We wer…
1922 · PDF PAGE 88
…n ocean of exceeding calm. My mind was very active, but only so within peculiar limits. I did not seem to be directing the current of my thoughts. In an ordinary way that fact would have annoyed me intensely. But now it merely made me curious. I tried, as an experiment, to fix my mind on something definite. I was technically able to do so, but at the same time I was aware that I considered the effort not worth making. I noticed, too, that my thoughts were uniformly pleasant. Curiosity impelled me to fix my mind on ideas which are normally the s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 143
…He increases the sum of his experiences in these particular ways. Sometimes he has a 'liaison-experience', which links two main lines of thought, and so is worth dozens of isolated gains. Now, if there is any difference at all between the White and the Black Adept in similar case, it is that the one, working by "love under will" achieves a marriage with the new idea, while the other, merely grabbing, adds a concubine to his harem of slaves. The about-to-be-Black Brother constantly restricts himself; he is satisfied with a very limited ideal; he…
1954 · PDF PAGE 408
…has both the capacity and the energy as well as the theoretical and intellectual ability to carry out successfully the practices. I have thought it most important that you should impress upon everybody these points. It is absolutely pitiful to watch the vain struggle of the incompetent; they are so earnest, so sincere, so worthy in every way of every possible reward and yet they seem unable to advance a single step. There is another side to this matter which is really approximating to the criminal. There are any number of teachers and masters a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 100
…octrines of the Three Schools, that this parable was invented by an Intelligence of the Black School, who was aware of his iniquity, and thought to transform it into righteousness by the alchemy of making a boast of it. The intelligent reader will note the insidious attempt to identify the doctrine of the Black School with the kind of black magic that is commonly called Diabolism. In other words, this parable is itself an example of an exceedingly subtle black magical operation, and the contemplation of such devices carried far enough brings us…
1919 · PDF PAGE 245
…rther quotation. You will say swiftly that the heavenly state of mind thus induced will be hard put to it to endure hunger and cold. The thought occurred also to our founder, and I will endeavour to put before you the skeleton of his plan to avert such mis- fortune (or at least such ordeal) from his adherents. In the first place he availed himself of a certain organiza- tion of which he was offered the control, namely, the O.T.O. This great Order accepted the Law immediately, and was justified by the sudden and great revival of its activities. …