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… the antithesis of Yang and Yin.” Even Kwaw felt tired, and applied himself to saké-and-soda. Refreshed, he continued: “ The men who are willing by this means to become the saviours of their country shall be called the Synagogue of Satan, so as to keep themselves from the friendship of the fools who mistake names for things. There shall be masters of the Synagogue, but they shall never seek to dominate. They shall most carefully abstain from inducing any man to seek the Tao by any other way than that of equilibrium. They shall develop individua…
1907 · PDF PAGE 57
…s that there are not, seeing that all is but an illusory veil of the Indicible Arcanum in the Adytum of God nourished Silence. Frater L. will therefore reply Yes! if he thinks Frater K. in danger of scepticism. He will reply No! if he thinks Frater K. is a curiosity monger. In neither case will he consider the fact of the question, unless (with a secret smile) be for his own sake wishes to affirm the illusion of all thoughts. In this event he is really nearer “untruthful ness” than otherwise, even though his answer chance to coincide with fact. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…achine in perfect order, in case our S.H. Frater wants to dictate.” Bones. Just so; and if Brother Bowley goes on lying, our S.H. Frater will one day strike the A key and find a B on the paper. Then he will probably say: Damn the machine l—and do it. Bowley. We are leaving exactitude and wallowing in analogy. We have run up and down the planes till we are less like Exempt Adepti than monkeys on sticks; we Bones. We had better go to bed.
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
… Pie, and its Awful and Avenging Punitive Currants! But as I say, your alleged husband trains neither his child nor his moustache; and I will contend with him, I will fight and over come him; yea, I will inflict upon him my celebrated essay upon Truth—and he shall never rise againl It is written in the manner of Immanuel Kant? Ay, but of Immanuel Kant in bed with Bessie Bellwood. The hands are the hands of Schopenhauer, but the voice is the voice of Arthur Roberts. Listen to the Iataka, 0 child of wonder and the innocent eyes, and if you yell you…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
…ience, the Manager should comeforward and say: “ Ladies and Gentlemen, owing to the severe indzspositzon of the Author, no obscene jests will be found to occur in the dialogue of this play. The actors have, however, been instructed to pause and wink atfrequent intervals, when you are at liberty to imagine an unusually profound and peculiarly foul double entendre. We have also gone to the expense of hiring people to sit in the stalls and start the laughs, so that there is no excuse whatever for any ofyou to complain of having passed an unprurien…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
42 KONX 0M PAX He has sought to write Truth; is any ready to receive it? Will he not be misunderstood? Will not one set of fools cry “ Casuist !” and their twin brethren exclaim: “ Here, indeed, at last shine wisdom, and virtue, and multiscient truth 1"? No: for the Essay, and the Hearer, what are they but dog-faced demons, that manifest no sign of Truth, but seduce ever from the Sacred Mysteries? Aflirm their identity with the One that is None, or destroy them—these are the two aspects of the supreme Ritual, and these two are one, which is None…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…though. Bones. I suppose devotion to one’s profession is a form of Truth. But even if, as you say, it is often a question of courage and will, these are the very qualities which this truth telling stimulates. It’s a V.C. touch to reply to a lady who asks how her hat suits “ Not at all." Bowley. It seems to me mere boorishness. Bones. No! the lady is none the worse for the stab to her silly vanity; and though she may be angry or sulky, she will remember it in your favour when anything serious turns up. Bowlqy. You dog! You devil 1 You Machiavell…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…At this stage in my career—drop that silly Babu twaddle !——I offer you the following desperate alternative, greatly honoured F rater! We will go on with the Table, or I will read you my latest glorious masterpiece entitled Amath. The Hebrew for Truth, Baby! Reflect, O bat-eyed child, upon the circumstance that Amath adds up to 44!, which is the square of 2!, Eheieh, divine name of Kether, also mystic number of Tiphereth—vzde Tiphereth clause in “]”—“I will devote my self to Great Work,” etc., you remember—meaning Truth is of Kether the end and o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…ed upon the plane of Maya. I have already told you, said the big man, that Mr. Jones is the Unutterable Tao. Why not leave it at that? I will, said Basil, if Arthur will read us something. I know what he was leading up to when our friend~played with his opponent’s ball. A brother is a dreadful handicap! sighed Arthur. Still, here you are! And he read:
1907 · PDF PAGE 93
…ouse, as Sigiri springs from the flat table of the central province of Ceylon, came upon them, that their influence woke them into life. I will cause them to converse, said the Man (who was the Devil), as it were to take you upon an high mountain and show you all the king doms of the earth. I have seen them, said the Socialist. But, said the Man, things look very different from that height. Poverty and vice are the same from any point of view, began the Socialist. Listen 1 said the other. Arthur Gray stretched his legs as well as the room would a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…ER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 43 The Chairman. All those below the grade of Lords of the Absence of Paths in the Abyss of the Great Gulf Fixed will kindly leave the Court. I will myself set the example. [Exeunt Bonus and BOWLEY :011'. Bowie]. Your method of keeping silence is a good one. Dialogue is the best form, after all. But hush! who comes? Enter the YONLY YEATS, with druid apple-blossom in his hair, and the druid casting-net qf the stars in one hand. Doe: his turn and exit. Boner. To continue—True! And saying “ true,” let us discuss “truth.” In…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…! Be ye sure, the human balance looks distorted to a God! To yourselves be slaves and masters; stand or fall to self alone; Human ethics will not loosen our Astarte’s crimson zone. You will never fit your forehead with your father’s fancy hats: You know more about salvation than the Reverend Robert Rats. Well, you have most certainly met an unpleasant set of people, ex claimed the big man. Can’t we be a bit cheerful for a change? The night wears on: we must part. I think you would like my Gipsy girl, said Denzil, without scruple or difiidence. If…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
… have no hesitation in predicting that modern readers, weary of the sordid and tawdry tediousness of gutter realism and Utopia idealism, will find in this book a satisfaction of many a heartache. The SEEKBR says: Years ago, the saintly Novalis called Baruch de Spinoza “ that God-intoxicated Man.” What would he have said had he lived to-day, and looked upon the face of Aleister Crowley, that glory revealed to us by the genius of Captain 1. F. C. Fuller? Crowley has been reproached in some thoughtless or malicious quarters for his ignorance or tol…
1907 · PDF PAGE 118
… knew their own business; but they were misunderstood— and they’re in the Asylum at this minute. Misunderstandingl said the big man; why will people try to judge others? I know less of my own brain—and dfortian' of my brother’s -—than I do of an oyster. Yet I try to instruct my brother, and let the oyster gang his ain gait. Read that jest of yours about the Qabalistic Rabbi! said Arthur. I will. He was the dearest old man in the world; absolutely incapable of doing anything to shock the most puritanical. Yet his curious studies in the Zohar got…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…t I am really He; only one generation back is not so far, and I entirely represent his thought. Soon," he whispered ever so softly, “you will be a mother; there will be a Fairy Prince again to run away with another pretty little Sleepy head. Then I saw S mbola odos Chamelionis S bola G ius et Serpens Mons Abiegnus v. Cnvernarum Cnput candidum NDN erit ND‘N
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…me Magus of our Ancient Order! [with profound sarcasm] to go about saving people pain? Bowley. I give in. But really I tell you that you will never attain to the Brotherhood until you have genuinely conquered the Illusion of the Pairs of Opposites. Truthfulness and Lying are just as much opposites as white and black, good and evil—— Bones. I sometimes doubt if any of these are opposites at all. Next time you run up to Kether, look down the Tree and see what Truth looks like from there! Take the case of heat and cold, at one time the typical opp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
…, 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 Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, who protestest that thou dost aspire to the Great White Brotherhood, and demand of thee, “ What are thou doing?” wilt thou reply, “I am extracting the enzymes from this ferment,” or rather, “I am aspiring to the Great White Bro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 63 and the infidel faith, each may follow without inclination; for he will no longer plunge into his was a prostitute from native passion may indulge with safety in the pleasure of love; she who was by nature cold may enjoy a virginity in no wise marred by her disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other. “I have been taxed with assaulting what is commonly known as virtue. True; I hate it, but only in the same degree as I hate what is commonly known as vice. “ So it must be acknowle…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…melech, and all to brake his Skull.”——ANON. “Whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken; but upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”-~ANON. “ Qu’est-ce donc, en verité, que ce pierre? C’est le fondement de la philosophie absolue, c’est le supréme et inébranlable raison.”—LEVI. “One day when I was all alone I found a wondrous little stone. It lay forgotten on the road Far from the ways of man's abode. When on this stone mine eyes I cast I saw my Treasure found at last. —--0 stone, so red and rare and wise! 0 fragme…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…n every Infant School. Yet, suppose this were to happen, how would the world be advanced? In no wise. For the brilliance wherein we walk will be but thick dark ness to all those who have not become so blind that light and darkness are akin. The light wherein I write is not the light of reason; it is not the darkness of unreason ; it is the L. V. X. of that which, first master ing and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought; not by destroy ing their balance, and thereby …