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DHAMMAPADA 45 The truth that ‘‘ here we all must die” those others do not comprehend ; But some perceiving it, for them all discords find.an utter end. Sodden ! with passion, unrestrained his senses (such an one we see), Immoderate in the food of sense, idle and void of energy : Him surely Mara ? overcomes, as wind throws down the feeble tree. Careless of passion, well restrained his senses, such an one we find Moderate in pleasure, faithful, great in mighty energy of mind: Him Mara shakes not ; are the hills thrown down by fury of the wind? He…
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THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY WITH PORTRAITS VOLUME II FOYERS SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH 1906
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AFTER 85 We sobbed, and stretched our arms out, and despaired, And—parted. Out the brute-side of truth flared ; ‘¢Thank God I’ve finished with that foolishness | ”’ II. AH! there’ be two sides to all shapes of truth ! I might indeed go back to bitter toil, Prune the mind’s vine, and gather in the spoil Rough-conquered from fields, without ruth Pillaging Nature, pawning youth For some strange guerdon (or its counter- foil) Gainless or not-to-be-gained, priestly or royal, Profane, canaille—I know not, in good sooth ! books, men, strength and I mi…
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…cho Brahe as the One Guide? How far the Buddha had he reverenced the Vedas with blind faith? Or how far can we proceed even from partial truth, unless a perfectly open mind be kept regarding it, aware that some new pheno- menon may possibly overthrow our most fun- damental hypotheses! Give me a reasonable proof of some (intelligent) existence which is not liable to sorrow, and I will throw the First Noble Truth to the dogs without a pang. And, knowing this, how splendid is it to read the grand words uttered more than two thousand years ago: ‘‘ …
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
…e, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty other things as well, The first of which is concentration ! Here most philosophers agree ; Does truth Claim that the truth must so intend, make itself in- aes _ stanily appa- Explain at once all agony rent? Not Of doubt, make people comprehend reason.
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… replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware, For I speak subtly. Resultsof prac- tice. ‘The poet abandons all to find ‘Truth. Known as I know my consciousness, That all division’s hosts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’ert…
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…asant. It is this desire inherent in me for continued consciousness that is responsible for it all, and this leads us to the Third Noble Truth. (3) SoRROW’S CEASING.—The cessation of desire is the cessation of sorrow, This is a simple logical inference from the second Truth, and needs no comment. (4) THE NosLeE EIGHTFOLD ParH.— There f a way, to be considered later, of realising the Third Truth. But we must, before we can perceive its possibility on the one hand, or its necessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets w…
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…lts As by a lightning flash, solve doubt a concentra- And turn all Nature inside out : 390 ion do so. And, if such potency of might Hath Truth, once state the truth aright, Whence came the use for all those pages Milhons together—mighty sages Whom the least obstacle enrages? 395 Condemn the mystic if he prove Thinking less valuable than love? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s? How many are Hegelians? 400 This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develo…
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…e crowd of gods,! And soul went down ® in the turbid tide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,® And I was-—anyhow, what’s the odds? or What isTruth? The life tolive? The thought to think? Shall I take refuge sald jesting In a tower like once Childe Roland {7 found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 ilate: but . Crowley waits Or in that forest of two hundred thousand for an answer.t Trees,® fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,? I warrant you'll journey a wiser man ever hence! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a g…
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…a, in the midst of the Five Hundred Thousand Arahats, ‘‘the wicked Jehjaour had joined himself with Mara to prevent the discovery of the truth. And in Mara’s fall he fell. At that moment all the currents of his continued and concen- trated Hate recoiled upon him and he fell into the Abyss of Being. And in the Halls of Birth he was cast out into the Lowest Hell—he became a clergyman of the Church of England, further than he had ever been before from Truth and Light and Peace and Love; deeper and deeper enmeshed in the net of Circumstance, bogged…
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…m, with few, few exceptions, you would not only cease to talk of the wickedness of causing death, but you would perceive the First Noble Truth, that no existence can be free from sorrow; the second, that the desire for existence only leads to sorrow; that the ceasing from existence is the ceasing of sorrow (the third); and you would seek in the fourth the Way, the Noble Eightfold Path. ‘‘T know, O Arahats, that you do not need this instruction: but my words will not stay here: they will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand w…
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…What horror came and crushed My whole soul’s life out as some shadow brushed My body and passed in? All sense allows At last the fearful truth—This is the house ! This is my old house on the marsh, and here, Here is the terror of the distant sea Moaning, and here the wind that wails, the drear Groans like a ghost’s, the desolate house of fear Whence I fled once from my great enemy— This is the house! O speechless misery ! Here the great silver candlesticks illume The agéd book, the blackness blazoned o’er With golden characters and scarlet bloo…
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‘THE SWORD OF SONG If the student has advanced spiritually so that he can internally, infallibly perceive what is Truth, he will find it equally well symbolised in most external faiths. . It is curious that Browning never turns his wonderful faculty of analysis upon the funda- mental problems of religion, as it were an axe laid to the root of the Tree of Life. It seems quite clear that he knew what would result if he did so. We cannot help fancying that he was unwilling to do this. of his knowledge I find in the following lines :— ‘‘T have read…
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…ool,” they laughed back—nay, even his maiden queen. For she would not any should know thereof. Yet were all right, both he and they. But truth ran quickly about ; for that was the House of Truth; and Mercury stood far from the Hammer of Sun. Yet the Suggler was ever in the Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree bor. was not far. So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. For alway doth this Arc…
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…awled sacred scrolls, whose legend goes Beyond recorded time, and founds Its age beyond all history’s bounds ; Therefore: all search for truth beyond The doubtful canon of the law, The bitter letter of the bond Given when Sinai shook with awe, They swear ; all wit that looks aslant Shamed at the shameful covenant ;! ‘Vherefore: this brooding over truth She much avers cuts short my day, Steals love and laughter from my youth, Will dye my beard in early grey. **Go forth to war! Shall Judah still Set mockery to thy kingly will?” May be. I often fe…
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… liars. These gods of theirs they often would invoke, Apparently with excellent effect: They trusted to escape the penal smoke By making Truth the trade-mark of their sect. How fortunate that we are Christian Folk, And know these notions to be incorrect ! CALL OF THE SYLPHS)} BEHOLD, I am; a circle on whose hands The twelvefold Kingdom of my Godhead stands. Six are the mighty seats of living breath, The rest sharp sickles, or the horns of death, Which are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they? hour. I made ye stewards in the primal d…
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…ile, fertile as the teeming spawn Of pickled lax or stickleback, Came ancient rituals,“ whack! whack ! Of Rosy Cross and Golden Dawn.$ * Truth-lover. 164 10 15 20 30
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…d death, the tragedy deep-lurking llidden in the laughter of the people, So that laughter’s self grows gross and hateful. Then the Noble Truth of Sorrow quickens Every heart, and, seeking out its causes, Still the one task of the wise, their wisdom Finds desire, and, seeking out its medicine, Finds cessation of desire, and, seeking How so fierce a feat may be accomplished, Finds at first in Truth a right foundation, Builds the walls of Rightful Life upon it, Four-square, Word and Act and Aspiration Folded mystically across each other, Crowns th…
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…udition, Frazer’s Research, find men have made—since men made aught— Their Gods, and slain, and eaten. face! I, Criosda of the Mist, see truth in all Rather than truth in none. Below the rite, The sight! Beyond the priest, the power! Above The sense, the soul! their gods Sur- So men who made
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…Of wave-swept sea confront me. Nay! Looms yet the glory through the grey, And in the darkest hours of youth I yet perceive the essential truth,