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Page 92 of 1211907 · PDF PAGE 58
38 KONX OM PAX He would not, however, care an obolus whether he was lying or not —unless he happened to be making experiments involving the subject. What he would care about was whether or no his answer showed that he was thinking as a sceptical philosopher. If so, good. This brings us—how subtly !—to a statement which I do not wish to support by proofs. I imagine that he who is able to receive it will receive it. This is Truth, that one should be concerned with one’s own busi ness, and with nothing else whatever. If I enter thy laboratory, 0 F…
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
62 KONX OM PAX knaves; show to them wise and honest men, and the socialistic ginger is no longer hot in the individualistic mouth.” Juju grunted assent. He had gone almost to sleep, but Kwaw, absorbed in his subject, never noticed the fact. He went on with the alacrity of a steam-roller, and the direct and purposeful vigour of a hypnotized butterfly. “Man is perfected by his identity with the great Tao. Subsidiary to this he must have balanced perfectly the Yang and the Yin. Easier still is it to rule the sixfold star of Intellect ; while for th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 262
…ther sleep nor waking. It was by a gigantic effort that I got up and put some clothes on, and went out and got shaved. Nothing but excitement and the idea of death enabled me to do it. I found the same thing in the war; and so did lots of men. It seems as if the soul is tired of the body, and welcomes the chance to be done with it once and for all. But it wants to offer itself gallantly in a flight or a charge. It objects to dyingin a ditch passively. I am sure that .nothing less would have got us up from that foetid stupor. | We had some champ…
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…omplete the logical sequence from 1898 till now . A ll, how ever, has been repeatedly revised. Wherever there seemed a lacuna in the argument an insertion was made, till all appeared a perfect chrysolite. Most of this was done, while the weary hours of the summer (save the mark !) of 1902 rolled over Camp Misery and Camp Despair on the Chogo Ri Glacier, in those rare intervals when one’s preoccuption with lice, tinned food, malaria, insoaking water, general soreness, mental misery, and the everlasting snowstorm gave place to a momentary glimmer…
1910 · PDF PAGE 85
…evident it does not depend on other truths. 60. And from being of the nature of peace and supreme bliss.* This exquisite little S@tra commences: 1. We will now explain Love. 2. Its nature is extreme devotion to some one. 3. Love is immortal. 4. Obtaining it man becomes perfect, becomes immortal, becomes satisfied. 5. And obtaining it he desires nothing, grieves not, hates not, does not delight, makes no effort. 6. Knowing it he becomes intoxicated, transfixed, and rejoices in the Self (Atman), This is further explained at the end of Swatmaram S…
1910 · PDF PAGE 85
…evident it does not depend on other truths. 60. And from being of the nature of peace and supreme bliss.* This exquisite little S@tra commences: 1. We will now explain Love. 2. Its nature is extreme devotion to some one. 3. Love is immortal. 4. Obtaining it man becomes perfect, becomes immortal, becomes satisfied. 5. And obtaining it he desires nothing, grieves not, hates not, does not delight, makes no effort. 6. Knowing it he becomes intoxicated, transfixed, and rejoices in the Self (Atman), This is further explained at the end of Swatmaram S…
1917 · PDF PAGE 1
…ter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. Hear her first summons to us men and women: “Come forth, O children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! I am aboye you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.” Later she explains the mystery of sorrow: ‘For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.” “This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.” It is shown later how this can be, h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 113
…t or not, depends for its information on so absurd a series of bodies as are groups under that “Crowley”! Yet the Buddhist meets all arguments of the spiritual order with a sim ple statem ent which, if not certain, is at least not im prob- able. There is, he will tell y ou, a “ spiritual” world, or to avoid any (most unjustifiable) misunderstandings, let us say a world of subtler matter than the visible and tangible, which has its own laws (analogous to, if not identical with, those laws of matter with which we are acquainted) and whose inhabi-…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
…. Having got to the point of saying. "Evil, be thou my good," I racked my brains to discover some really abominable crimes to do. In a moment of desperate daring I sneaked one Sunday morning into the church frequented by my Uncle Tom on Streatham Common, prepared, so to speak, to wallow in it. It was one of the most bitter disappointments of my life! I could not detect anything which satisfied my ideas of damnation. For a year or two after my father's death my mother did not seem to settle down; and during the holidays we either stayed with Bis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
THE EQUINOX all magic—which is love—and Mr. Brodie-Innes’ refinement avoids the crude detective solution of the mystery. And that mystery is enticing and enthralling; Morag is delicious as dream or death, enticing, elusive, exquisite. One of the subtlest and truest women in literature. Not many men have imagination so delicate and—dictame!—but Mr. Brodie- Innes writes “with authority, and not as the scribes.” Why he allows Mathers to go about saying that he is a Jesuit and a poisoner will be revealed at the Last Day. Perhaps, like us, he can’t …
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
THE EQUINOX all magic—which is love—and Mr. Brodie-Innes’ refinement avoids the crude detective solution of the mystery. And that mystery is enticing and enthralling; Morag is delicious as dream or death, enticing, elusive, exquisite. One of the subtlest and truest women in literature. Not many men have imagination so delicate and—dictame!—but Mr. Brodie- Innes writes “with authority, and not as the scribes.” Why he allows Mathers to go about saying that he is a Jesuit and a poisoner will be revealed at the Last Day. Perhaps, like us, he can’t …
1922 · PDF PAGE 180
…e C., so adulterated that we took the whole lot and it was hardly worth talking about. , What filthy mean beasts people are! ... How can men take advantage of the bitter needs of others ? It was the same in the war with the profiteers. It’s always been the same. I am writing this in a Turkish bath. I couldn’t stand that loathsome house any more. It has done me lots of good. The massage has calmed my nerves. I slept for a long while, and a cup of tea has revived me. I tried to read a paper, but every line opens the wound. They seem to have gone …
1922 · PDF PAGE 321
…ackle, and the events of the last few hours had given repeated evidence not only of the state of social unrest which was likely at any moment to lay the modern structure in ruins, but of general lassitude and lack of energy on the part of everybody with whom we came into contact. Our little party obviously represented undreamed-of possibilities of doing good business. But no one seemed to want to fulfil even that last of human ambitions: the acquiring of the good will of prosperous travellers. “Don’t be downhearted,” laughed Lamus. ‘“ Your trou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 54
…ng. No, there is this factor in all success: self-confidence. If we analyze this, we find that it means that one is aware that all one's men tal and physical faculties are working harmoniously. The deadliest and subtlest enemy of that feeling is anxiety about the result; the finest gauze of doubt is enough to dim one's vision, to throw the entire field out of focus. Hence, even to be aware that there is a result in prospect must militate against that serenity of spirit which is the essence of self-confidence. As you well know, all our automatic…
1996 · PDF PAGE 199
…rlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 309
…nd to contemplation of Almighty God any more than they warm the heart by seeming sentinels to watch over the habitations of one's fellow men. Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime both against the aspirations o the soul and the affections of the heart. I had been fed vilely on the train. I thought I would treat myself to a really first-class dinner. But all I could get was high-tea --- they had never heard the name of wine! Of all the loveless, lifeless lands that writhe beneath the wrath of God…
1913 · PDF PAGE 163
…f these things, for there is no He. Those things are. And of the results of this, and of how it may bear upon the question of his advancement to the Grade of Magus, who can say? It is not the Master of the Temple even who could answer such a question. For, in relation to his advancement, he is but that little pile of dust which is to burn up, and from which shall be prepared a white ash by Hermes the Invisible. And in relation to his true life, it is mixed with the blood of all his fellows in the Cup of BABALON. And in relation to his body and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 163
…f these things, for there is no He. Those things are. And of the results of this, and of how it may bear upon the question of his advancement to the Grade of Magus, who can say? It is not the Master of the Temple even who could answer such a question. For, in relation to his advancement, he is but that little pile of dust which is to burn up, and from which shall be prepared a white ash by Hermes the Invisible. And in relation to his true life, it is mixed with the blood of all his fellows in the Cup of BABALON. And in relation to his body and …
1922 · PDF PAGE 28
…Drug Fiend about with freaks. I suppose it is on the same principle as the old kings used to keep fools and dwarfs to amuse them. ‘‘Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.” But whichever way it is, the burden is usually too heavy for their shoulders. You remember Frank Harris's story of the Ugly Duckling? If you don’t, you’d better get busy and do it. That’s really what’s so frightful in flying—the fear of oneself, the feeling that one has got out of one’s class, that all the old kindly familiar th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
… the details of LA.O. as a magick formula it should be remarked that it is essentially the formula of Yoga or méditation; in fact, of elementary mysticism in ail its branches. In beginning a méditation practice, there is always 2 a quiet pleasure, a gentle natural growth; one takes a lively interest in the work; it seems easy; one is quite pleased to hâve started. This stage represents Isis. Sooner or later it is suc- ceeded by dépréssion -— the Dark Night of the Soûl, an infinité weariness and détestation of the work. The simplest and easiest …