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THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE These states have been sufficiently, and much better, de- scribed in Book 4. q. v. 80. And now thy Self is lostin SELF, Thyself unto THY- SELF, merged in THAT SELF from which thou first didst radiate. In this verse is given a hint of the underlying philosophi- cal theory of the Cosmos. See Liber CXI for a full and proper account of this. 81. Where is thy individuality, Lanoo, where the Lanoo himself? It is the spark lost in the fire, the drop within the ocean, the ever-present ray become the ALL and the eternal radiance…
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….O.) 10.45 P.M. Oh Thou Ever-present, Eternal Silence, wherein all vanishes and emerges clothed in Bliss. I Invoke Thee. Oh Thou elusive Self of my self, Thou All, wherein all dissolves and be- comes Thy Being. I invoke Thee. Oh Thou Existence of Existences, Thou Knower of Knowledge, wherein knowledge of all else is lost. I Invoke Thee. Oh Thou Bliss Absolute, Thou One without a second, Thou in Whom Time and Space no longer exist. I invoke Thee. Oh Thou, who when I think of Thee art God, who when I cease to think of Thee art My self, may I be l…
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…NOX morously pretended that this Book is an ancient Tibetan writing.—Eb.] 19. Saith the Great Law: “In order to become the knower of ALL-SELF, thou hast first of SELF to be the knower.” To reach the knowledge of that SELF, thou hast to give up Self to Non-Self, Being to Non-Being, and then thou canst repose between the wings of the GREAT BIRD. Aye, sweet is rest between the wings of that which is not born, nor dies, but is the AUM throughout eternal Ages. The words “give up” may be explained as “yield” in its subtler or quasi-masochistic erotic…
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THE TWO PATHS entirely beyond the Law of cause and effect. The words “Self Divine” are somewhat misleading in view of the sense in which they have been used previously. 65. Guard thou the Lower lest it soil the Higher. The Student is told to ‘guard’ the lower, that is to say he should protect and strengthen it in every possible way, never allowing it to grow disproportionately or to overstep its boundaries. 66. The way to final freedom is within thy SELF. In this verse we find the “SELF” identified with the Uni- verse. 67. That way begins and e…
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…cks. This verse explains the state of the mind which has failed in the Abyss—the student becomes insane. 65. Beware, lest in the care of Self thy Soul should lose her foothold on the soil of Deva-knowledge. 66. Beware, lest in forgetting SELF, thy Soul lose o’er its trembling mind control, and forfeit thus the due fruition of its conquests. These two verses seem to mean that any attention to Self would prevent one crossing the Abyss, while in the event of any inattention to Self the mind would revolt. In other 115
1919 · PDF PAGE 424
…st near that goal, before thine hand is lifted to upraise the fourth gate’s latch, thou must have mastered all the mental changes in thy Self and slain the army of the thought sensations that, subtle and insidious, creep unasked within the Soul’s bright shrine. It is the mental changes and the invading thoughts which distress us. These are to be understood in a rather ad- vanced sense, for of course thought must have been con- quered earlier than this, that is to say, the self must have been separated from its thoughts, so that they no longer d…
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…filling of the cup of Babalon with every drop of blood, which is explained in Liber 418. The higher Ego—“Holy Isle’”—is not the thinking self; it is the ‘“Dwarf-Self,” the self which is beyond thinking. The aspirant is now in fact beyond all thought, and this talk of building high the wall or dam is too much like poetry to be good sense. What it means is, “Beware lest the re- awakened Ego, the Chiah, should become self-conscious, as it is liable to do owing to its wedding with Neshamah.” Or, shall we say, with Nephesh? For the organism has now …
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… Holy Guar- dian Angel is only the “next step.” It does not imply Bud- dhahood by any means. 14. Shun praise, O Devotee. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thy SELF is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not. Pride is an expansion of the Ego, and the Ego must be destroyed. Pride is its protective sheath, and hence excep- 45
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…he presence of my Lord Adonai, and the knowledge and Conversation of the Holy One, the Angel that Guardeth me. 42. O Holy Exalted One, O Self beyond self, O Self- Luminous Image of the Unimaginable Naught, O my dar- ling, my beautiful, come Thou forth and follow me. 43. Adonai, divine Adonai, let Adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! Thus I concealed the name of Her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. 94
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…lation to, and identity with, the Whole. In our Holy Books are given sundry means of making this discovery, and each must make it for himself, attaining absolute conviction by direct experience, not merely reason- ing and calculating what is probable. And to each will come the knowledge of his finite will, whereby one is poet, one prophet, one worker in steel, another in jade. But also to each be the knowledge of his infinite Will, his destiny to per- form the Great Work, the realization of his True Self. Of this Will let me therefore speak cle…
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THE TWO PATHS 40. Know, O beginner, this is the Open PATH, the way to selfish bliss, shunned by the Bodhisattvas of the “Secret Heart,” the Buddhas of Compassion. The words “selfish bliss” must not be taken in a literal sense. It is exceedingly difficult to discuss this question. The Occidental mind finds it difficult even to attach any meaning to the conditions of Nirvana. Partly it is the fault of language, partly it is due to the fact that the condition of Arhat is quite beyond thought. He is beyond the Abyss, and there a thing is only true …
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…unchback” in Egurnox I. 1., and many other references are to be found in the works of Mr. Aleister Crowley. A real identification of the Self with the Not-Self is neces- sary. 40. For, on Path fourth, the lightest breeze of passion or desire will stir the steady light upon the pure white walls of Soul. The smallest wave of longing or regret for Maya's gifts illusive, along Antakarana—the path that lies be- tween thy Spirit and thy Self, the highway of sensations, the rude arousers of AhankGra (the faculty that makes the illu- sion called the Eg…
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…n 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, how death itself is an ecstasy like love, but more intense, the reunion of the soul with its true self. And what are the conditions of this joy, and peace, and glory? Is ours the gloomy asceticism of the Christian, and the Buddhist, and the Hindu? Are we walking in eternal fear lest some “sin” should cut us off from “grace”? By no means. “Be ye goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet…
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…p. (This sounds good, as if the Tamo-Guna were breaking up. O.M.) Dec. 19, 11.38. Prayer and Meditation. Felt ‘informed’ by that Greater Self that Humility, Patience and Selflessness would bring the condition required. Dwelt for awhile in that Boundless Silence of which words can express nothing. (Humility, like Pride, implies a self. O.M.) Dec. 26th, 11.3 to 11.20 P.M. Meditation. Gradually separating the Self from the body, mind, life, death, etc., till an entirely impersonal state resulted. (These things don’t mean much, as a rule. They are …
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…ed with ardour unquenchable, is this especial grace, that you will come as it were by fortune into states which transcend the practice itself, being of the nature of those Works of Pure Light of which I will to write to you in the chapter following after this. For there be certain Gates which no being who is still conscious of dividuality, that is, of the Self and not-Self as opposites, may pass through: and in the storming of those Gates by fiery assault of lust celes- tial, your flame will burn vehemently against your gross Self, though it be…
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THE EQUINOX falls upon them shines from thyself, O thou who wast Dis- ciple, but art Teacher now. The five impediments are usually taken to be the five senses. In this case the term “Master of the sixth” becomes of profound significance. The ‘sixth sense’ is the race- instinct, whose common manifestation is in sex; this sense is then the birth of the Individual or Conscious Self with the ‘Dwarf-Self,’ the Silent Babe, Harpocrates. The “four modes of Truth” (noble Truths) are adequately described in “Science and Buddhism.” [See Crowley, Collecte…
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…etations, but its main meaning is that you should accept the universe without being affected by it. 61. Restrain by thy Divine thy lower Self. “Divine” refers to Tiphareth. (See THE Equinox.) 62. Restrain by the Eternal the Divine. “Eternal” refers to Kether. In these two verses the Path is explained in language almost Qabalistic. 63. Ave (se), great is he who is the slayer of desire. By “desire” is again meant “tendency” in the technical Buddhist sense. The Law of Gravitation is the most uni- versal example of such a tendency. 64. Still greate…
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… ever desired Thee shall obtain Thee, even at the End of their Desire. 64. Glorious, glorious, glorious art Thou, O my lover supernal, O Self of myself. 65. For I have found Thee alike in the Me and the Thee; there is no difference, O my beautiful, my desirable One! In the One and the Many have I found Thee; yea, I have found Thee. 82
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…uction. If you can slay a thing at will it means that you can revive it at will, for the word “faculty” implies repeated action. 47. The Self of Matter and the SELF of Spirit can never meet. One of the twain must disappear; there is no place for both. This is a very difficult verse, because it appears so easy. It is not merely a question of Advaitism, it refers to the spiritual marriage. [Advaitism is a spiritual Monism.— Ep.] 48. Ere thy Soul’s mind can understand, the bud of per- sonality must be crushed out; the worm of sense destroyed past …
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…crystal ray; a beam of light immaculate within, a form of clay material upon the lower surface. That beam is thy life-guide and thy true Self, the Watcher and the silent Thinker, the victim of thy lower Self. Thy Soul cannot be hurt but through thy erring body; con- trol and master both, and thou art safe when crossing to the nearing “Gate of Balance.” Here we have Alaya identified with Atma. The rest of the verse is mostly poetic nothing, and there is no guide to the meaning of the word “Soul.” It is a perfectly absurd theory to regard the bod…