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1913 · PDF PAGE 81

Book 4 (Part II)

… The savage has none but the most simple associations of ideas. Even the ordinary civilized man goes very little further. All advance in thought is made by collecting the greatest possible number of facts, classifying them, and grouping them. The philologist, though perhaps he only speaks one language, has a much higher type of mind than the linguist who speaks twenty. This Tree of Thought is exactly paralleled by the tree of nervous structure. Very many people go about nowadays who are exceedingly " well- informed," but who have not the slight…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 111

Book 4 (Part II)

…n" has been the cause of much misunderstanding. Solve is destruction, but so is coagitla. The aim of the Magus is to destroy his partial thought by uniting it with the Universal Thought, not to make a further breach and division in the Whole. ^ The Brahmin caste is not so strict as that of the "heaven-born" (Indian Civil Service).

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1922 · PDF PAGE 24

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…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 …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

Book 4 (Part I)

50 course the unhappy youth spends a disgusted week in thinking of little else. It is positively amazingwith what persistence a thought, even a whole train of thoughts, returns again and again to the charge. It becomes a positive nightmare. It is intensely annoying, too, to find that one does not become consciousthat one has got on to the forbidden subject until one has gone right through with it. However, one continues day after day investigating thoughts and trying to check them; and sooner or later one proceeds to the next stage, Dharana, the…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 6

Jezebel

…sy the tyrant’s end. The gates are close because of night Whose heavy breath infects the air ; The dog-star gleams, a devilish light : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends. I thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at the Name, Without a warder roused from sleep ; I pass, with face of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (For even my tears are tears of fire, For loathing, madness, and desire.)

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1910 · PDF PAGE 135

The Winged Beetle

BELLADONNA 125 Come ! let the night fall ; let us drown what knows In what exults ; blot out the wizard figure Of thought, and build the many-coloured rose Your body on the cross, my body’s rigour. Chaos and Cosmos as God ebbs and flows Less than your thrust—wring out the extreme vigour ! Annihilation take us, till we rise Once more to the damnation in your eyes !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 39

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…tion. And the soul of man Grapples in death-pangs with your mystery, And fails to wrestle down the hard embrace That grips the thighs of thought. And so he dies To pass beyond ye—whither? To find God? All my life long I have gazed, and dreamed, and thought, Unless my thought itself were but a dream, A little, troubled dream, a dream of death Whence I may wake—ah, where? In some new world Where Consciousness doth touch the Infinite, And all the strivings of the soul be found Sufficient to beat back the waves of doubt, To pierce the void, and gra…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 52

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…ith ideas, souls, etc. I perceived also that each star was connected by a ray of light with each other star. In the world of ideas, each thought possessed a necessary relation with each other thought; each such relation is of course a thought in itself; each such ray is itself a star. It is here that logical difficulty first presents itself. The seer has a direct perception of infinite series. Logically, therefore, it would appear as if the entire space must be filled up with a homogeneous blaze of light. This is not, however, the case. The spa…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 69

Liber Aleph

…true Nature of thine and of all Things, and every Phenomenon is the Resultant of the Totality of Forces; Amen. Then thou needest take no Thought and make no Effort? Thou sast sooth; yet, art thou not compelled to Thought and Effort in the Way of Nature? Yea, I, thy Father, work for thee solicitously, and also I laugh at thy Perplexities; for so was it fore-ordained that I should do, by Me, from the Beginning. a

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1919 · PDF PAGE 402

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of thought is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of thought he entered into a state of mind to which nothing at all was specially present. And passing out of the consciousness of no special object he fell into a state between consciousness and unconsciousness. And passing out of the state between consciousness and unconsciousness he fell into a state in which the unconsciousn…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 176

The Vision and the Voice

THE EQUINOX 24. Now appears his mate, the heavenly Venus, the Scarlet Woman, who by men is thought of as Babalon as he is thought of as Chaos. 23. Here appear the Cherubim, the other officers of the new Temple, the earth and water assistants of the fire and air Beast and Scarlet Woman. 22. Here is the First Key to the formula of Horus, a sevenfold arrangement. A shadow of Horus declares his nature. 21. This seems to be the Vision of God face to face that is the necessary ordeal for him who would pass the Abyss, as it were. A commission to be th…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 141

Magick Without Tears

108 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS thought or distressing problems. Don't say "he passed on" when you mean "he died," and don't call a spade a bloody shovel! I shall break off this brief note at this point , so that you may have time to tell me if what I have so far said covers the whole ground of your enquiry. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666

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1903 · PDF PAGE 65

The Star and the Garter

…n a silken kiss, And I will whisper to my rose The secret name of Artemis. Words were not needed then : to-day Must I begin what never I thought To do: mould flowers in common clay? Mud casket of mere words is nought, When by love’s miracle we guess What either always thinketh. Yes? 63

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1907 · PDF PAGE 98

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…rom the tree of sense Ifead downward, gorged with sweet banana juice, Indifferent to—incapable of—aught Beyond these simple reflexes. Is thought, Even the highest thought, of any use? IV. We are not discussing metaphysics now. I see below the beautiful low brow (Low too for cunning, like enough !) your lips, A scarlet splash of murder. From them drips This heart’s blood ; you have fed your fill on me. I am exhaust, a pale, wan phantom floating Aimless in air, than which [am thinner. You I see, more brilliant, of that sanguine hue ([f anything b…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 13

Gargoyles

…he universe revolves, then cracks, Then roars in dissolution due; And I am counting up the gains And losses of a life afire With dust of thought and dulled desire. Il, So, all is over. I admit Futility the lord of will. Life was an episode, for me 5

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1996 · PDF PAGE 92

The Law is for All

Chapter II A Verses 5—7 93 Nor is this thought, here conveyed, more than one ray of my Orb; and even that whole Orb is but the garment of Me. The analogy is precise; therefore when one becomes “the knower”, it involves the “death” of all sense of the Ego. One perceives one’s personal­ ity precisely as I now do these printed letters; and they are forgot­ ten, just as, absorbed in my thought, the trained automatism of my mind and body expresses that thought in writing, without attention on my part, still less with identification of the extremes i…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 93

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

14. Further, concerrimg the life of the devotee: — Let him eut away from his life any act, word or thought, that is hateful to the particular Deity; as, unchastity in the case of Artémis, évasions in the case of Ares. Besides this, he should avoid ail harshness or unkindness of any kind in thought, word, or deed, seeing that above the particular Deity is One in whom ail is One. \ et also he may deliberately practise cruelties, where the particular Deity manifests His Love in that manner, as in the case of Kali, and of Pan. And therefore, before…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 195

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…he ring she gave ! | My face grows grim and Oh! my pure heart! Adulterous love began So subtly to identify the man With its own perfumed thoughts. the grape Into the furtive brain—-a spirit shape Kisses my spirit as no woman can. 1 love her—yes; and I have no escape. So steals I never spoke, I never looked! But she Saw through the curtains of the soul of me, And loved me also! It is very well. Tam well started on the road to Hell. Loved, and no sin done! Ay, the world shall] see The quest is first—a love less terrible. Yet, as I ride toward the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 64

Book 4 (Part I)

48 Arab can tell him the family history of each of the fifty persons in View, because he has learnt how to look, so with practice the thoughts will become more numerous and more insistent. As soon as the body was accurately observed it was found to be terribly restless and painful; now that we ob- serve the mind it is seen to be more restless and painful still. (See 0722137627” opposite.) A similar curve might be plotted for the real and apparent painful- ness of Asana. Conscious of this fact, we begin to try to control it: “Not quite so many th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 484

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT 108 “Faugh!” cried the knight. “Thought, word, and act Confirm me. I have proved the quest Impossible. I break the pact. Back to the gilded halls, confessed A recreant! Achieved or not, This task hath earned a foison—rest. In Caerlon and Camelot Let me embrace my fellow-men ! To buss the wenches, pass the pot, Is now the enviable lot Of Palamede the Saracen!”

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