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Page 98 of 1291910 · PDF PAGE 69
… around; he saw nothing there but himself. Thereupon he cried out at the beginning: ‘It is I? Thence originated the name I. Therefore to-day, when anyone is summoned, he answers first ‘It is 1’; and then only he names the other name which he bears.”+ This Consciousness of “I” is the second veil which man meets on his upward journey, and, unless he avoid it and escape from its hidden meshes, which are a thousandfold more dangerous than the entanglements of the veil of words, he will never arrive at that higher consciousness, that super- consciou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 69
… around; he saw nothing there but himself. Thereupon he cried out at the beginning: ‘It is I? Thence originated the name I. Therefore to-day, when anyone is summoned, he answers first ‘It is 1’; and then only he names the other name which he bears.”+ This Consciousness of “I” is the second veil which man meets on his upward journey, and, unless he avoid it and escape from its hidden meshes, which are a thousandfold more dangerous than the entanglements of the veil of words, he will never arrive at that higher consciousness, that super- consciou…
1922 · PDF PAGE 290
…hem, so that an unscrupulous man armed with expert knowledge is much more likely to get the better of his unwary fellows than in the old days when his activities were confined to thimble-rigging and pulling favourites. “Oh, Basil,’ put in Maisie, ‘‘ do tell our friends what you were saying the other day about the South Sea Islands.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…ch Government for rehabilitation. Such was the simple yet subtle plan of Dodu. Down to the last detail was it perfecteduntil one fatal day. The spy, stricken by yellow fever, dropped suddenly dead in the fields before noon Cease work had sounded. Instantly, without a moments hesitation, Dodu strode across to me and said, at the risk of the lash: The whole plan which I have explained to you in cipher these last four months is a blind. That spy knew all. His lips are sealed in death. I have another plan, the real plan, simpler and surer. I…
1954 · PDF PAGE 74
…e course of action B." 1. N + N = Two or Naught; one is the Magical, the other the Mystical, process. You wili hear a lot about this one day!
1907 · PDF PAGE 129
…s thy face; magnificence ! no less. Ay! thou shalt drink the hemlock; thou shalt suffer And die for self-respect, for love of others! To-day are men indissolubly brothers? Is my life smoother than the Greek’s or rougher ? The Greek at least shall stead me in my craft. Crucify Crowley! Nay, my friends! the draught. COLOPHON. INCIDENT. (RUE DE L'UNIVERSITE, 182.) SPELL-BOUND we Sat: the vivid violin Wailed, pleaded, waited, triumphed. Kingly note By note imperial from its passionate throat Vibrates : the shadows fall like pauses in The workshop o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
… perhaps thought by some (may it be credited?) to have written the lines: To thine own self be true, And it will follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all Eternity !—and the possibility of lying is avoided. For one speaketh not, nor, if one spake, is there any to hear. Know that the greater the Adept, the more truthful; should he—in error—speak, the more must he appear a liar to those …
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…) did not encourage bloodshed, in spite of his having died from an overfeed of pork, but as Mr. A. Crowley has said, many of his present-day followers are quite capable of killing their own brothers for five rupees. The Western theory that Buddhists are lambs and models of virtue is due to the fact that certain Western vices are not so congenial to the Asiatic as they are to the European; and not because Buddhists are incapable of enjoying themselves. 192
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…) did not encourage bloodshed, in spite of his having died from an overfeed of pork, but as Mr. A. Crowley has said, many of his present-day followers are quite capable of killing their own brothers for five rupees. The Western theory that Buddhists are lambs and models of virtue is due to the fact that certain Western vices are not so congenial to the Asiatic as they are to the European; and not because Buddhists are incapable of enjoying themselves. 192
1919 · PDF PAGE 148
… before noticed how unneces- sary some of our speech is; in fact I have now no doubt that a great many things are better left unsaid. Monday, Jan. oth. Bedtime. Said word to-day for the first time at Lunch. I. at 1.20 P.M. Lunch. 1. at 2.25 P.M. at Office. 2. at 4 PM. { Was careless enough to repeat a sentence containing it. Gave extra sharp cut. I. at 5.10 P.M. I. at 5.30 P.M. Total 6 I am glad this shows further improvement. I was working and talking at the Office all the evening up to 10 o’c. and then had some conversation at home. Tuesday, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 111
…ot? Surely I am not alone in the Hermitage! ” And this practice should be carried out not only at the time of méditation, but during the day’s work. 2. This méditation is to be assisted by reasoning- as, “This foot is not I. If I should lose my foot, I should still be I. This foot is a mass of changing and decaying flesh, bone, skin, blood, I. If armed with wand and lamp let him extinguish the light with his hand. — N. — 411
1906 · PDF PAGE 173
…i ! % You are, youare, you are a beauty ! If after all these years of worship You hail Ra” his bark or Nuit 2? her ship remains warm all day. It cooks gradually, and Live out thy life! Charac- ter of Balti. His religious sincerity. Re- lations of poet and the Egyp- tian God of Wisdom. Crowley dis- missed with a jest.
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
…LI5 pm. Dharana on nose. 12th. 7.35-7.55 Pranayama. Six minutes 10. 20, 30. am, a.m. Dharana. Six minutes. (P. was called away for a few days on business (or in disgust ?) to Colombo.) On the 20th of September P. returned from Colombo and then he made the following entry in his diary: “The Blessed Abhavananda said: ‘Thus have I heard. One day in Thy courts is better than a thousand’; let me recommence Pranayama.” Thus he thought, and said. Further he said: “Let me abandon these follies of poesy and Vamacharya (“debauchery,” ze, normal life) and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
…LI5 pm. Dharana on nose. 12th. 7.35-7.55 Pranayama. Six minutes 10. 20, 30. am, a.m. Dharana. Six minutes. (P. was called away for a few days on business (or in disgust ?) to Colombo.) On the 20th of September P. returned from Colombo and then he made the following entry in his diary: “The Blessed Abhavananda said: ‘Thus have I heard. One day in Thy courts is better than a thousand’; let me recommence Pranayama.” Thus he thought, and said. Further he said: “Let me abandon these follies of poesy and Vamacharya (“debauchery,” ze, normal life) and…
1922 · PDF PAGE 211
…d put me up to symptoms ; but he wasn’t taking any. He talked.about change of climate and diet and the mixture to be taken three times a day. I saw at once it was no good by the way he jumped when I mentioned heroin first. All I could do was to get out of the old fool’s room without losing face... . I didn’t know what to do next. I felt like Morris
1922 · PDF PAGE 348
…immediate problem. Yet, in spite of what Lamus had said, we were both obsessed by the idea that we must stop taking heroin. The next few days passed in strenuous efforts to reduce the number of the doses, and it was then that we began to discover the animal cunning of our bodies. Do what we might, there was always a reason, an imperative reason, for taking a dose at any given moment. Our minds, too, began to play us false. We found ourselves arguing as to what a dose was. As the doses became fewer, they became larger. Presently, we arrived at t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 358
…id. ‘‘ But, of course, you aren’t going to get out of it as easily as that. You don’t give up eating mutton because you ate too much one day and got indigestion. You'll find heroin pretty useful when you know how to use it. However, your gesture just now was automatic. It was evidence that your unconscious or true will objects to your taking heroin. So far so good for the negative side. But the question is, what does your true will actually want you to do in a positive way?”
1954 · PDF PAGE 213
…man, who knew a little Russian. The Shaman once boasted that he could foretell the future, which my Bolshevik friend ridiculed. The next day the Shaman took him to a cave in the side of a hill in which there was a big transparent block of ice enclosing the naked body of a man-a white man, not a native-apparently about thirty years of age with no sign of a wound anywhere. The man's head, which was clean-shaven, was outside the block of ice; the eyes were closed and the
1954 · PDF PAGE 301
…und the world, alas for fidelity! I began to forget him. By 1906 e.v. the operation was practically complete . In '42 e.v. I spent a few days with friends in Cambridge. Sauntering along K.P. (King's Parade to you , madam!) on my way back to the station with half an hour or so to kill, I thought I would pop in to Lunn's new shop there , and pass the time of day. He might have something to take my fancy. So I did. Needless to say, I didn't know the shopman from Adam, as he did not offer me a view of his identification mark. I asked after old frie…
1954 · PDF PAGE 416
…nd of yours; but to one knows better than you do that these things can't be telped." Mohammed set off sadly for Bassorah. Indeed, as the days 'assed, the incident preyed upon his mind, until at last he esolved to risk the breach of professional confidence and V'arn his friend. He sent accordingly a letter of condolence nd farewell. But Isaak was a man of action. Prompt and stealthy, on he day appointed he saddled his best horse and so passed hrough the silent streets of the city in search of a refuge. That evening Mohammed was returning from pr…