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Page 1 of 11909 · PDF PAGE 16
…d. Answer is impossible if you ask: Are round squares triangular? or Is butter virtuous? or How many ounces go to the shilling? for the “questions” are not really questions at all. So if you ask me Is Samadhi real? I reply: First, I pray you, establish a connection between the terms. What do you mean by Samadhi? There is a physiological (or pathological; never mind now!) state which I call Samadhi; and that state is as real— in relation to man—as sleep, or intoxication, or death. Philosophically, we may doubt the existence of all of these ; but…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…body; is Aleister Crowley here ?—Samson blinded and bound, grinding corn for the Philistines! Not at all, dear boy! We shall put all the questions that we can put—but we may find a tower built upon a rock, against which the winds beat in vain. Not what Christians call faith, be sure! But what (pos- sibly) the forgers of the Epistles—those eminent mystics !— meant by faith. What I call Samadhi—and as “ faith with- 121
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
… and its answer is another question. It is difficult to conceive of any question, indeed, whose answer does not imply a thousand further questions. So simple an inquiry as “Why is sugar sweet ?” involves an infinity of chemical researches, each leading ultimately to the blank wall—what is matter? and an infinity of physiological researches, each (similarly) leading to the blank wall—what is mind ? Even so, the relation between the two ideas is unthink- able; causality is itself unthinkable; it depends, for one thing, upon experience—and what, i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…verses, ever revealing one more real, shall we not wield it with divine ecstasy? Shall we not, too, perceive the inter-dependence of the Questions and the Answers, the necessary connection of the one with the other, so that (just as o x ois an indefinite) we destroy the absolutism of either ? or ! by their alternation and balance, until in our series PLl?tPl?...12?1?... we care nothing as to which may prove the final term, any single term being so negligible a quantity in relation to the vastness of the series? Is it not a series of geometrical…