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Page 94 of 1281912 · PDF PAGE 127
…ave formulated logically as “ Some men do not chop wood.” And in his heart and eye was a dull animal lust. Two strangers had come to his soul's Inn. There being only one room, he put them to bed together, in this form or some- thing like it: “ Chop—chop—chop—chop; I’m sick of it. Even in had a fine girl from Paris like that, what could I do but chop—chop—chop—chop? " For the first time in his life he went home half an hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell …
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…ave formulated logically as “ Some men do not chop wood.” And in his heart and eye was a dull animal lust. Two strangers had come to his soul's Inn. There being only one room, he put them to bed together, in this form or some- thing like it: “ Chop—chop—chop—chop; I’m sick of it. Even in had a fine girl from Paris like that, what could I do but chop—chop—chop—chop? " For the first time in his life he went home half an hour earlier than his custom, to the accompaniment of a terrific thunderstorm that rolled up from the valley of the Loing and fell …
1904 · PDF PAGE 20
…is brains, Each cell a life, self-centred, free Yet self-subordinate to the whole For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the truth—why ! worship then Were not so imbecile for men! But that’s no Christian faith ! For where Enters the dogma of despair ? Despite his logic’s silver flow I must count Caird62 a mystic ! No ! You Christians shall not mask me so The plain words of your sacred books Behind friend Swedenb…
1906 · PDF PAGE 163
… I think we easier understand Where Schelling (to the Buddha leading Calls real not-self. In any case There is not, there can never be A soul, or sword or armour needing, Incapable in time or space Or to inflict or suffer. We I think are gradually weeding The soil of dualism. Pheugh! Drop to the common Christian’s view! This is my point ; the world lies bleeding :—- | have pity: (Result of sin ?)—I do not care ; had Christ I will admit : here ! any? The you anywhere . Sheep and the I take your premisses themselves Goats. And, like the droll des…
1907 · PDF PAGE 294
…seeth not .” So the mystic's work lies here in life , and the greatest and most divine mystics have probably been those whose naïveté of soul was such , that they knew not that they were mystics , and whose illumination has become so brilliant , that they cannot even find expression in the most divine of symbols . Such adepts who arrive at so exalted a plane , keep silence , as Crowley says : “ the first and last ordeals and rewards of the Adept are comprised in the maxim ' Keep Silence '!” 1 Call “ homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and d…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
…Sword of Song” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man. Mr, Aleister Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet; his ‘‘ Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intention to explain the beauty of the Buddhis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 298
…bones .” ? Not until we under stand ourselves , shall we understand the world of God , and not until we have replenished the lamp of our soul with love , will it burn up into a brilliant » 1 So are we 1 J. J. Rousseau , “ Emile ," 1, 4, ed . Garnier , p . 230 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 104 . 2
1919 · PDF PAGE 390
…ake Ananta, the great green snake that bounds the Universe. 70. No Arhan, O Lanoo, becomes one in that birth when for the first time the Soul begins to long for final liberation. Vet, O thou anxious one, no warrior volunteering fight in the fierce strife between the living and the dead, not one recruit can ever be refused the right to enter on the Path that leads toward the field of Battle. For either he shall win, or he shall fail. It is most important that the Master should not reject any pupil. As it is written in Liber Legis, “He must teach…
1906 · PDF PAGE 180
…light : Laugh on the green. Is there a night * This simile for the mind and its impressions, which must be stilled before the sun of the soul can be reflected, is common in Hindu literature. The five glaciers are, of course, the senses.
1919 · PDF PAGE 112
…of Freedom? Persevere. You have never yet known Liberty. When the temptations are overcome, the voice of Reason silenced, then will your soul bound forward unhampered upon its chosen course, and for the first time will you experience the extreme delight of being Master of Yourself, and therefore of the Universe. When this is fully attained, when you sit securely in the saddle, then you may enjoy also all those distractions which first pleased you and then angered you. Now they will do neither any more: for they are your slaves and toys. Until y…
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn in pieces By knowledge ; nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony …
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
88 THE STAR IN THE WEST Trampled around her by the souls that knelt , Worshipping where her false lewd body dwelt , Was dark and hateful ; and a sleepy flood Trickled therefrom as magic gums that melt . ' I am a man , nor fear to drain the bowl.2 Now some old devil, dead no doubt and damned , But living in her life , had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat with such a foul device As made her belly yearn for sacrifice . She leered like love on me , and smiled , and shammed , And did not pity for all her breast of spice.3 Man though he was , …
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…why revile” (You urge me) “in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul ?” Perhaps you know How mystic doctrines melt the snow Of any faith: redeem it to A fountain of reviving dew. So I with Christ: but few receive The Qabalistic Balm,36 believe Nothing—and choose to know instead. But, to that terror vague and dread, External worship; all my life— War to the knife ! War to the knife ! No ! on the other hand the Buddha Says: “I’m surprised at you ! How could a Person accept m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn to pieces By knowledge : nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not ! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…g light Laugh on the green. Is there a night * This simile for the mind and its impressions, which must be stilled before the sun of the soul can be reflected, is common in Hindu literature. The five glaciers are, of course, the senses. 390 395 400 405 410 415 420 425 But the results of concentra- tion do so. Some poetry.
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
…e infinite depths of eternity ; he defines the noumenon as the final term of an infinite series , and asserts that the permanence of the soul can only be proved in the life of man , “ the proof of which will not be required by us .” Then standing aghast as the phantasmagoria of his mind crowd past him ; states in the plainest words , that the Reason itself is at fault , and casting it into the balance of Pyrrho , weighs it out in due terms of Crowleyanity . The following are the four transcendent ideas , or four dialectical assertions of the pu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 413
…itted to reproach her with one, was that, at first, she madly and passionately loved her husband. “But,” you will say, “is not the human soul, then, free?” No, it is no longer free when it has abandoned itself to the giddiness caused by passion. It is only wisdom which is free; disordered passions are the kingdom of folly, and folly is fatality. What we have said of love may equally well be said of religion, which is the most powerful, but also the most intoxi- cating, of all loves. Religious passion has also its excesses 12 115,
1913 · PDF PAGE 413
…itted to reproach her with one, was that, at first, she madly and passionately loved her husband. “But,” you will say, “is not the human soul, then, free?” No, it is no longer free when it has abandoned itself to the giddiness caused by passion. It is only wisdom which is free; disordered passions are the kingdom of folly, and folly is fatality. What we have said of love may equally well be said of religion, which is the most powerful, but also the most intoxi- cating, of all loves. Religious passion has also its excesses 12 115,
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
…Not the bodily thirst (Though that be frenzy accurst) When the mouth is full of sand, And the eyes are gummed up, and the ears Trick the soul till it hears Water, water at hand, When a man will dig his nails In his breast, and drink the blood Already that clots. and. stales Ere his tongue can tip its flood.” His mind had gone back to infancy. He thought that I was his mother, and came to me to be nursed. But when he came near, he recognised me and crawled away again, hurriedly, like a wounded animal trying to escape from the hunter... . Most of…
1922 · PDF PAGE 293
…ou scorn me, you suddenly kindle and slay ; You hate truth as the lies She rejected! I love you because you are gallant and proud, (Your soul is a sun and your body a cloud) And you leap from my arms when I woo you ; Because you love earth and its worms, you caress The stars and the seas, and you mock my distress While the sorrows of others thrill through you |! I love you because my life’s lost in your being ; You burn for me all the night long, and on seeing Me, jest at your tears—and allot mine! Because you elude me, a wave of the lake, Beca…