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Page 97 of 1301954 · PDF PAGE 102
…ospel. The Tao Teh King inculcates conscious inaction, or rather unconscious inaction, with the object of minimizing the disorder of the world. A few quotations from the text should make the essence of the doctrine clear. X: 3: Here is the Mystery 0/ Virtue. It createth all and nourisheth all; yet it doth not adhere to them; it operateth all, but knoweth not o/it, nor proc/aimeth it; it directeth all, but without conscious control. 4. Unfortunately there is no translation at present published which is the work of an Initiate . All existing tran…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…bow-coloured Spring-tide of the Man in Motley. The nymph of Spring, Syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but Breath to fill the world with Music, attracts Pan, the Goat-God of Ecstatic Lust, by whose Work the glory of Summer is established anew. It is obvious that “The length of thy longing” varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. In other words, the more complex the Khu of the Star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his own imperfections of the scope of his work, and of his need to achieve it. 75. Aye!…
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…logues ;” overlooks the Newtonian law of gravity alto gether , though he supposes that he himself is not the only thinking entity in the world , his arguments lead one to infer that he is. As an Idealist he proves that nothing can exist except in mind ; then finding he has overlooked the question of God , as an Animist adds : that all things , he himself included , cannot exist except in the mind of some Divine Being , failing ( perhaps purposely ) to see that such a Being was also but a figment of his mind . 2 Ibid . p . 79 . 3 Ibid . p . 55 .
1922 · PDF PAGE 291
…irst Mid 277 Lamus laughed merrily. “Good for you, kid, very much to the point ! . “T’ve wandered a good deal through queer parts of the world, as you know, and in some of those places there are still taboos about eating and hunting and fishing—all sorts of things which we in England take quite simply, in consequence of which they give no trouble. “ But where a man has to think of a thousand things before he has his dinner: what he eats, and how it was killed, and who cooked it, and so on for ever and ever, he gets no chance to develop his mind…
1954 · PDF PAGE 15
… "The Three Schools of Magick" he refers to the stupid attempt by Annie Besant and Bishop Leadbeater to set up Jiddu Krishnamurti as the World Teacher. Both of these Theosophical leaders had made all sorts of preparation for this event, including the organization of special societies and service groups which would do honor to him. Crowley wrote of it: To make the humiliation more complete . a wretched creature was chosen who. to the most loathsome moral qualities. added the most fatuous imbecility . And then blew up! . .. We cannot suppose that…
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
…near her, and the mother clasped them to her bosom with her megs and then she looked up into Mansie’s face, and all the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could only be reached dry-shod at low water, the fish took unusually well, so that he stood and filled his basket. Indeed they took so well that he forgot all about the ti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
…near her, and the mother clasped them to her bosom with her megs and then she looked up into Mansie’s face, and all the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could only be reached dry-shod at low water, the fish took unusually well, so that he stood and filled his basket. Indeed they took so well that he forgot all about the ti…
1910 · PDF PAGE 373
…end of his resources among the Welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. By this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. He having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to Arthur’s court, bearing tidings of a Questing Beast, The knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. Lancelot findeth him upon Scawfell, clothed in his white beard. He returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, hurleth him to the heaven, viii. Sir Palamede, riding forth on t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 373
…end of his resources among the Welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. By this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. He having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to Arthur’s court, bearing tidings of a Questing Beast, The knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. Lancelot findeth him upon Scawfell, clothed in his white beard. He returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, hurleth him to the heaven, viii. Sir Palamede, riding forth on t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 489
…s things, and it is certain that the Masters anticipated , with great exactness of calculation, the way things would go in the political world. Practically all the messages received during the "Cairo Working" (March-April 1904 e.v.) came to me through 1. The OtanceUor of the Exchequer, having fIXed the increase of Income Tax at threepence, proceeded to defraud the Insurance Companies by insuring himself against a rise of that sum!
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
…ore yet; they have made it evident that they purposely smashed my career as mystic and Magician in the very hour of my success, when the world was at my feet, in order that they might the more utterly demonstrate their power to use me for their own purposes. We landed at Port Said on Monday, February the eighth, and went to Cairo on the following day. It was part of the plan of the gods that my romantic passion and pride, the intoxicated infatuation of my hymeneal happiness, should have induced me to play a puerile part on the world's stage. I …
1922 · PDF PAGE 57
…eal of good—to himself. His principle in politics was a very simple one: If you see anything, stop it; everything that is, is wrong; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs. We smiled our sympathefic assent, with sly glances at our hostess. If the old fool had only known that we were full of cocaine, as we sat and applauded his pompous platitudes ! We laughed our hearts out over the silly incident as we sat in the train. It doesn’t appear particularly comic in pers…
1922 · PDF PAGE 334
…aradox in a very complete manner.” **I know what you mean,” she said, smiling. “ If you're a lazy person, this is the worst place in the world for getting bored, and the lazier you determine to be the more bored you get. We had two people last year, absolutely hopeless rotters. They called themselves writers, and imagined they were working if they retired solemnly after breakfast and produced half a page of piffle by lunch. But they didn’t know the meaning of work ; and the place nearly drove them insane. They were bored with the Abbey, and bor…
1954 · PDF PAGE 233
…ssential characteristics of insect, reptile, mammal (or whatever they are) in the order in which these classes of animal appeared in the world's history. Now J want to put forward a thesis-and as far as I know it is personal to myself, based on my work at Cefalu-to the effect that the mind is constructed on precisely the same lines. You will remember from my note on "Breaks" in meditation how one's gradual improvement in the practice results in the barring-out of certain classes of idea, by classes. The ready-to-hand, recent fugitive thoughts c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 410
…al progress; I am doing this because I put it down in my programme to do it. It may hurt my spiritual progress more than anything in the world. That does not matter. I will gladly be damned eternally, but I will not break my obligation in the smallest detail.” By doing this you come out at the other end, and discover that the whole controversy was illusion. One does become blind; one does have to fight one’s way through the ocean of as- phalt. Hope and Faith areno more. All that can be done is to guard Love, the original source of your energy, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
THE WAKE WORLD 19 horribly disfigured with great advertisements, and every single house had written all over it: FIRST HOUSE This is his Majesty’s favourite'Residence. No other genuine. Beware of worthless imitations. Come in HERE and spend lifel Come in HERE and see the Serpent eat his Taill So I was furious, as you may imagine, and had men go and put all the proper numbers on them, and a little sarcastic remark to make them ashamed; so they read: Fifth House, and mostly dream at that. Seventh House. External splendour and internal corruption. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
…have you, in the summer and the south With our passion in your body and our love upon your month— With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew! My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you! The men breathed freer. So powerfully did the song lift them that through the open window all the fragrance of Spain and its roses seemed to flow into the room. Only Arthur Gray never smiled. The big man looked at him. What is it? he said sharply. We are all Gods! (said Arthur) knowing good and evil, and that which is beyond. But I love Holbein Ho…
1911 · PDF PAGE 230
… scattered them: He hurled forth his lightnings and destroyed them ! 4. The Channels of the Waters were seen: and the Foundations of the World were discovered. 5. At thy Rebuke, oh Lord! At the Blast of the Breath of thy Nostrils! l. Oh Lord! I have heard thy Speech, and was afraid! 2. The Voice of the Lord is upon the Waters. The God of Glory thundereth! The Lord is upon many Waters. 3. The Voice of the Lord is strong and powerful ! The Voice of the Lord is full of Majesty! 4. The Voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars ! Yea! the Lord breaketh …
1911 · PDF PAGE 230
… scattered them: He hurled forth his lightnings and destroyed them ! 4. The Channels of the Waters were seen: and the Foundations of the World were discovered. 5. At thy Rebuke, oh Lord! At the Blast of the Breath of thy Nostrils! l. Oh Lord! I have heard thy Speech, and was afraid! 2. The Voice of the Lord is upon the Waters. The God of Glory thundereth! The Lord is upon many Waters. 3. The Voice of the Lord is strong and powerful ! The Voice of the Lord is full of Majesty! 4. The Voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars ! Yea! the Lord breaketh …
1954 · PDF PAGE 95
…l though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a "Perfect Being" could create a world in which war, evil, etc., exist. God is only an appearance, because (/ike "good") it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as mystic monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. It is no …