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Page 87 of 1151922 · PDF PAGE 295
…ee us. They hadn’t left their names. They would call again in the morning. It struck me as curious ; but I gave the matter little enough thought. The fact is that I was in rather a bad temper. I had used a good deal of heroin off and on during the last few days, and it had certainly not cost me anything to cut off the cocaine. Morphine and heroin give one a physical craving; but the pull of cocaine is principally moral and when one is taking H. one doesn’t care such a lot about taking it. ‘But that night, raw as it was, I almost made up my mind…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…hless part of man, his individual consciousness as John Smith, which défiés death — that consciousness which dies and is reborn in every thought. That which persists (if anything persist) is his real John Smithiness, a quality of which he was probably never conscious in his life. " Even that does not persist unchanged. It is always growing. The Cross is a barren stick, and the petals of the Rose fall and decayj but in the union of the Cross and the Rose is a constant 1. There is a much deeper interprétation in which Pentheus is himself “The Dyi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
… as they happen to be for himself. I. This corresponds to the emotional and metaphysical fog which is characteristic of the emergence of thought from homogeneity. The clear and concise différentiation of ideas marks the adult mind. — 299
1954 · PDF PAGE 370
…tatus "to which it has pleased God to call me." The Brethren of the Rose and Cross deprecated monastic life or hermit life: perhaps they thought such expedients cowardly, or at least as a confession of weakness. I agree. One ought to be able to live the normal life of a member of one's class, to all external seeming; at least sufficiently so as not to appear unduly eccentric. Perhaps "Let my servants be few and secret!" bears some such implication. But the condition of allowing such apparent laxity is this: That one should be as swift and terse…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
… When baleful watchfires scared the witless night, And kings mocked Freedom, as she wept : ‘¢ Thou diest !”’ When priestcraft snarled at Thought: ‘‘I crush thee quite!” Then rose the splendid song of thee, ‘© Thou liest !”’ Out of the darkness, in the death of hope, Thy white star flamed in Europe’s horoscope. The coffin-nails were driven home: the curse Of mockery’s blessing flung the dust upon her: The horses of Destruction dragged the hearse Over besmirchéd roads of Truth and Honour : The obscene God spat on the universe: The sods of Destiny…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
… which, first master ing and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought; not by destroy ing their balance, and thereby showing a false and partial light, but by overleaping their limitations. Let not the pedant exclaim with Newman that I avoid the Scylla of Ay and the Charybdis of Nay by the Straits of No-meaning. Athing is not necessarily A or not-A. It may be outside the universe of discourse wherein A and not-A exist. It is absurd to say of Virtue either that it is gree…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
… new ornaments. The Qabalah is therefore a living Temple of the Holy Ghost. It is the man himseif and his universe expressed in terms of thought whose 1. Both these subjects may be studied in the Equinox in several articles appearing in several numbers. 2. It is easy to teach the General Princi.ples of exegesis, and the main doctrines. There is a vast body of knowledge common to ail cases; but this is no more than the basis on which the student must erect his original Research. 159 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
called Atmadarshana might arise from simple concentration of the thought on an imagined triangle or on the heart. But as the union of two bodies in chemistry may be endothermie or exothermic, the combination of Oxygen with Nitrogen is gentle, while that of Oxygen with Hydrogen is explosive 5 and as it is found that the most heat is disengaged as a rule by the union of bodies most opposite in character, and that the compound resulting from such is most stable, so it seems reasonable to suggest that the most important and enduring Samadhi results…
1922 · PDF PAGE 102
…dscape; we could grasp everything at once. It was as if we had acquired a totally new mental faculty as superior to the normal course of thought as the all-comprehending brain of a great man of science is to that of a savage, though the two men are both looking with the same optical instruments at the same blackbeetle. It is impossible to convey, to any one who has not experienced it, the overwhelming rapture of -this condition. | Another extraordinary feature of the situation was
1922 · PDF PAGE 265
…, for the very reason that he is so abnormal a man. He even distrusts me, on the ground that he has had so much influence on my life and thought. “Even a mediocrity like yourself, Sir Peter,” he said to me the other day, “ dull as you are, cannot be trusted in my neighbourhood. Your brain unconsciously soaks up the highly charged particles of my atmosphere. And before you know where you are, instead of expres- sing yourself—what little self you have to express—you will be repeating, in a debased currency, the words of wisdom that from time to t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 41
…se. Don't you see that , if I were trying to get you to do something or other , I should simply return to you the kind of answer which I thought would satisfy you , and make you happy? And this would be very easy to do because you have got no clear ideas about anything . For one thing, you keep on using terms about whose significance we are not yet in agreement. When you talk about the "Christian path ," do you believe in vicarious atonement and eternal damnation-or don't you? A great deal of the confusion that arises in all these questions, an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 70
…case, it does not matter so much whether the mental expression is syndromic; it is, indeed, better when two entirely different worlds of thought and experience have led to sister conclusions. But it is essential that the habit of mind should be sympathetic, that the machinery should be con structed on similar principles. The psychology of the one should be intelligible to the other. Social position and physical appearance and habits are of far less importance, especially in a society which has accepted the Law of Thelema. Tolerance itself prod…
1922 · PDF PAGE 209
Below the Brutes 195 The fourth man to whom Peter had gone told the same story, but had been very cordial. He thought he’d help things by standing Peter a dinner and filling him up with alcohol, with the idea that that would help him to support the lack of the other stimulant. It seems that I had to pay for the prescription. No, Lou, you're a naughty girl. You mustn’t be bitter like that. It’s your fault for getting born into a world where ignorance and folly are in constant competition for the premiership of the minds of the educated classes. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…here are, in the crowd of canaille, old women, slackers, valetudinarians, eaters of nuts!" [309] "God rest the soul of Edward Seventh! I thought all would be well when Victoria died; but now —" "This is no hour of the night to lapse into poetry! Anyhow, Germany is nearly as bad, with her Social Democratic Party." "Do you think that?" cried Cyril, sharply, sitting up. His gesture was indecipherably intense; it seemed utterly disproportionate to Bowling's casual commonplace. "I know it. It's one of the chief causes of the war. The Zabern incident…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…r. And let him not perform the act until he hath done this. As it is written : Liber VII, Cap. 5. — 22. aEvery breath, every word, every thought is an act of love with thee. 23. “The beat of my heart is the pendulum of love. 24. “The songs of me are the soft sighs. 25. “The thoughts of me are very rapture. 26. “And my deeds are the myriads of Thy Children, the stars and the atoms.” And Remember Well, that if thou wert in truth a lover, ail this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
…n this possession of the “fear-of- God” and “Sin” psychopathies. Truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. Therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an ansesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. The craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. If you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. There is no bet ter rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. If a man is sim…
1906 · PDF PAGE 208
…n than for attempting to steal other people’s. The affecta- tion in many modern mystics of adopting an Oriental civilisation and mode of thought must cause much harmless merriment among the actual Orientals. The notion tbat a turban and a few vows will make an Englishman a Hindu is quite ona par with the idea that a black hat and an Oxford degree will make a Hindu an Englishman. We wonder whether our Buddhistic philosophers have ever read a florid letter in Baboo English. We suspect that the said type of documentis in reality exceedingly like t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…th fine dew that bedims! Exempt from the bond All others that binds, As a flowery frond The spark of thee blinds, Within and beyond As a thought of the mind’s In all, and about, and above! I invoke thee, my word as the wind’s. THE FIRE. I, raging and lowering, I, flying and cowering, I, weaving and woven, Budding and flowering, Spiring and showering, Cleaving and cloven ! My being encloses Fountains of roses, Lilies, and light ! I wrap and I sunder! I am lightning and thuiuder ! The world-souls wonder At me and my might ! All-piercing, all-wind…
1922 · PDF PAGE 298
…hungry, hunted look in his eyes. Of course, I could see instantly what was the matter with him; he had been taking heroin. ‘“‘ Dear me,” thought I, for my dislike for the creature was instinctive, “ how are the mighty fallen!” Excuse a digression. There is a great deal of discussion about various pleasures—whether they are
1922 · PDF PAGE 379
…he genius which lies ‘in the core of every star.’ And, ‘Every man and every woman is a star.’ The taking of a drug should be a carefully thought out and purposeful religious act. Experience alone can teach you the right conditions in which the act is legitimate, that is, when it assists you to do your will. If a billiard player slams the balls around indiscriminately, he soon takes the edge off his game. But a golfer would be very foolish to leave his mashie out of his bag because at one time he got too fond of it and used it improperly, and lo…