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…for them one of those traditional secrets with regard to which silence is necessary, and which it is sufficient to indicate to those who know, leaving always a veil upon the truth for the ignorant. Now here is what Paracelsus reserved for initiates alone, 213
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
…for them one of those traditional secrets with regard to which silence is necessary, and which it is sufficient to indicate to those who know, leaving always a veil upon the truth for the ignorant. Now here is what Paracelsus reserved for initiates alone, 213
1919 · PDF PAGE 441
… estranged thyself from objects of the senses, travelled on the “Path of seeing,’ on the “Path of hearing,” and standest in the light of Knowledge. Thou hast now reached Titiksha state. O Narjol, thou art safe. In these three verses the passage to the sixth Gate is made clear. There is no longer any struggle, there is but the golden fire within the alabaster vase, and thou art that vase. Male and female are again interchanged. Above Chiah and Neshamah is Yechidah, and in the lower aspect of that, one has again become the receptacle of the Infin…
1922 · PDF PAGE 250
…to get a doctorin at whatever risk. What troubles me is that as he gets stronger, the delusions of perse- cution have begun to return. J know now how deeply I was myself obsessed by ideas of grandeur, and how my need to be a mother determined their form. But is it a delusion that I should be thinking con- stantly of Basil? I seem to hear him saying that I was cured from the moment that I forgot myself altogetherin the absorption of my love for Peter; the work of bringing him back to life. And now that I have ceased to look at myself and feel fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…ately in so short a space. Top return the the general question of religion. The fundamental problem has never been explicitly stated. We know that all religions, without exception, have broken down at the first test. The claim of religion is to complete, {396} and (incidentally) to reverse, the conclusions of reason by means of a direct communication from some intelligence superior in kind to that o any incarnate human being. I ask Mohammed, "How am I to know that the Koran is not your own compilation?" It is impertinent to answer that the Kora…
1906 · PDF PAGE 120
… unutterable things ! ALCESTIS. Let me fetch father ! MEDEA. Nay, consider first. Would he consent? The process is severe ! DANAIDES. We know the sire is not exactly brave, Though very wise and good. MEDEA. Tis clear to me ; Without his knowledge we must do the deed. ALCKSTIS. What is this ‘‘ deed ” ? MEDEA. A caldron is prepared ; And, having hewn your father limb from limb, We seethe him in a broth of magic herbs. ALCESTIS. And then ? MEDEA. The proper incantations said, There rises from the steam a youthful shape More godlike than like man. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…stitution by raising a temple to the Eternal and Supreme Ruler of the Universe. “ Swear, my son, that you will be a true and faithful M. Know, from this moment, that I centre the affection of a parent in the name of a brother and a friend. May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may you burn with the same zeal your father possesses. Convince the xiv
1913 · PDF PAGE 430
THE EQUINOX science and reason broader horizons than those of a bourgeois criticism, which denies everything which it does not yet know how to explain to itself. Facts are inexorable, and genuine good faith should never fear to examine them. The explanation of these facts, which all traditions obsti- nately affirm, and which are reproduced before our eyes with tiresome publicity, this explanation, ancient as the facts themselves, rigorous as mathematics, but drawn for the first time from the shadows in which the hierophants of all ages have hid…
1913 · PDF PAGE 452
… EQUINOX this visitor, nor of what he might have lost. He accordingly replied: ‘You think me much more of a sorcerer than I am; I do not know who you are, nor what you seek; con- sequently, if you think that I can be useful to you in any way, you must explain yourself and make your request more precise.” “Oh, well, since you are determined not to understand me, you will at least recognize this,” said the stranger, taking from his pocket a little, much-used black book. It was the grimotve of Pope Honorius. One word upon this little book so much …
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…stitution by raising a temple to the Eternal and Supreme Ruler of the Universe. “ Swear, my son, that you will be a true and faithful M. Know, from this moment, that I centre the affection of a parent in the name of a brother and a friend. May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may you burn with the same zeal your father possesses. Convince the xiv
1913 · PDF PAGE 430
THE EQUINOX science and reason broader horizons than those of a bourgeois criticism, which denies everything which it does not yet know how to explain to itself. Facts are inexorable, and genuine good faith should never fear to examine them. The explanation of these facts, which all traditions obsti- nately affirm, and which are reproduced before our eyes with tiresome publicity, this explanation, ancient as the facts themselves, rigorous as mathematics, but drawn for the first time from the shadows in which the hierophants of all ages have hid…
1913 · PDF PAGE 452
… EQUINOX this visitor, nor of what he might have lost. He accordingly replied: ‘You think me much more of a sorcerer than I am; I do not know who you are, nor what you seek; con- sequently, if you think that I can be useful to you in any way, you must explain yourself and make your request more precise.” “Oh, well, since you are determined not to understand me, you will at least recognize this,” said the stranger, taking from his pocket a little, much-used black book. It was the grimotve of Pope Honorius. One word upon this little book so much …
1954 · PDF PAGE 128
…ck"; he may be intended to win through, to cover a general retreat, or to gain time by deliberate sacrifice. Only the Commander in Chief knows what the order means, or why he issues it; and even he does not know the issue, or whether it will display and justify his military skill and judgment. ·
1904 · PDF PAGE 16
…Or possibly the Prince of Wales” :— Concluding such a half-cured case With the remark “where Bromide fails !— But Bromide people did not know Those 1900 years ago.” I think we may concede to Crowley an Impartial attitude. And so I scorn the thousand subtle points Wherein a man might find a fulcrum (Ex utero Matris ad sepulcrum, * Vide infra “Science and Buddhism”, and the writings of Immanuel Kant and his successors. 260 265 270 275 280 285 290 295 Basis of poem to be that of the Compro- mise of 1870. Non-medical nature of poem. Crowley J. No m…
1912 · PDF PAGE 126
… an artist? Why should he not chop miracles of carving? The Michael Angelo of Fontainebleau? Why not? What does Browning say? “I want to know the butcher paints, the baker rhymes for his pursuit," and so on. Very well ; then what do you do that is truly good? That is, unnecessarily, supererogatively, and therefore superlatively good? You, my friend! You chop wood. Good. You cherish a fair wife ; you have strong children to defend the fatherland. Good again. You eat, you drink, you make merry: all good. But do you achieve fame? No. Glory? No. Ar…
1912 · PDF PAGE 126
… an artist? Why should he not chop miracles of carving? The Michael Angelo of Fontainebleau? Why not? What does Browning say? “I want to know the butcher paints, the baker rhymes for his pursuit," and so on. Very well ; then what do you do that is truly good? That is, unnecessarily, supererogatively, and therefore superlatively good? You, my friend! You chop wood. Good. You cherish a fair wife ; you have strong children to defend the fatherland. Good again. You eat, you drink, you make merry: all good. But do you achieve fame? No. Glory? No. Ar…
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
…re much more to be pitied than the blind, for there remains to them not even the resource of allowing themselves to be led... .” “Sir, I know all that as well as you do. But God cannot be divided against Himself. He cannot allow good faith to be deceived, and the Church itself could hardly decide that 141
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
…re much more to be pitied than the blind, for there remains to them not even the resource of allowing themselves to be led... .” “Sir, I know all that as well as you do. But God cannot be divided against Himself. He cannot allow good faith to be deceived, and the Church itself could hardly decide that 141
1906 · PDF PAGE 157
… possibly the Prince of Wales” :— Concluding such a half-cured case With the remark ‘“ where Bromide fails !— But Bromide people did not know Those 1900 years ago.” 290 I think we may concede to Crowley an Impartial attitude. to=~!bot) And so I scorn the thousand subtle points Wherein a man might find a fulcrum 205 (Ex utero Matris ad sepulcrum, * Vide infra, Science and Buddhism, and the writings of Immanuel Kant and his successors. Basis of poem to be that of the Compro- mise of 1870. Non-medical nature of poem. Crowley J. No mention will be …
1913 · PDF PAGE 547
… have possessed themselves of our ascendant, as Paracelsus says, and where they wish to lead us we shall go. They are our bad angels. We know it in the depths of our consciousness; but we put up with them, we have made ourselves their servants that they also may be ours. Our passions, treated tenderly and flattered, have become slave-mistresses ; and those who serve our passions our valets, and our masters. We breathe out our thoughts and breathe in those of others imprinted in the astral light which has become their electro-magnetic atmosphere…