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276 THE STAR IN THE WEST on the other hand , “ proved that , in a multitude of important instances , so far from possessing ' clear knowledge ,' that they may be so taken , we have none at all ; and that our duty therefore is to remain silent , or to express at most , suspended judgment ." 1 This , the mob of mankind are very loath to do , for instead of honestly expressing nine - tenths of their knowledge in terms of doubt , they cast the whole onus of Absolute or Noumenal knowledge on to the back of some aching and asinine deity . By postulat…
1907 · PDF PAGE 236
…d not necessarily be so for all other personalities , as it cannot be in any way demonstrated as final . Kant did not have the necessary knowledge of taking into consideration the fact of inherited experiences , as Herbert Spencer was able to do , so worked at a dis advantage , postulating an à priori in place of organ iged intuitions . CROWLEYANITY AND THE PROLEGOMENA To illustrate the infolding of Crowleyanity , it will be necessary here to run through Kant's Prolegomena , reducing his arguments to the terms of this all embrac ing philosophy …
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…phasizes in “ Time ” when he writes : “ a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us ; even its Un knowability is a species of knowledge of it : and , by Savitri ! when I say real to us , I say real absolutely , since all things lie to me in the radius of my , sensorium . * To others ' is a vain phrase .". And as it has already been shown in the chain A, B, A, B, A, B, it matters not if the Materialist chooses to place his finger on A , or the Idealist on B; so in the above , Berkeley annihil ating the idea of a material substratum , …
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…ce dare open our eyes for fear of being blinded . A mystic by nature and a priest by profession , we must , in reviewing his bequests to knowledge , always remember how much of the one side to deduct from the other , should we wish to prove him either an Adept or a Bishop . But with such inborn predilection , and such outward assumption , it is easy to understand why it was that he threw the whole energy of his life into an attempt to refute the advancing scepticism latent in the works of Hobbes and Locke . He saw , and seeing fought the many c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
…lity or Adultery à- la- mode ." It was through the Garter that in the end the Star was seen , in other words it was through the intimate knowledge of the lewd , bad and vicious , that the tender weeping heart was discovered ; the rough matrix contained a gem of surpassing beauty , the horny shell a pearl of perfect loveliness . Charicles had to tread the thorny path before he won his Archais , and so must we , before we can win knowledge , weep many bitter tears . The incessant search after Truth carries us through desert lands of misery , and …
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232 THE STAR IN THE WEST obtained is merely a statement of limitation , and there fore every accession of knowledge is a vision of a new vista of ignorance . Summa scientia nihil scire, has yet another meaning . ) Having then as he thought discovered an à priori basis to metaphysics , he places before his reader the crucial problem . “ How are synthetic propositions à priori possible ” ? And at the very outset , assuming pure synthetic knowledge from the Reason as real (p . 22 ), attacks the problem . “ How is it possible when a conception is g…
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…osco , Agnosco ." The hyperbola of Time , the parabola of Infinity , lie far to the north in the hyperborean regions of the Unknowable . Knowledge is but a ring smitten into the face of the waters , around it grows another ring , the ring of a greater knowledge , around that yet another , it is the ring of a higher knowledge still , countless rings upon rings surround rings ; then , as he has reached some far distant one , man in his pre sumption shouts , “ I have found God ” ; blinded by the glittering projection of circles , dazzled by the gr…
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… we conceive God . Hic labor , hoc opus est : This is my secret —in a man's delight To lose the stubborn ecstasy for God ! To thus clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell — in the profoundest sky ! This knowledge , the true immortality , I came unto through pain and tears , Tigerish hopes , and serpent loves , and dragon fears , Most bitter kisses , salted springs and dry ; In those deep caverns and slow -moving years , When dwelt I , in the Mount of Venus , even I !? CROWLEYANITY Quod utilius Deus patefieri sinet , quod autem ma…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
…which we shall see more fully developed when touching upon the philosophy of Aleister Crowley and it is this : that Happiness , Wisdom , Knowledge , and at length Perfection , can no more be gained by solely travelling along the direct and spotless road of Virtue , than man can be evolved from the primal protoplasmic jelly without countless generations of weeping and tortured life . The path of Vice we must tread before we can find the high road of Virtue , and Vice we must wed before we can open the gates of a more perfect understanding . The …
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…s impossible . But the laws and forms of thoughts are universal and irrefragable , and form an unalterable standard of certainty whereby knowledge may be increased . A priori laws are not derived from experience , but belong to the inherent structure of the mind . Kant then sets himself to answer the question : How are synthetic judge ments à priori possible ? And his answer is :-Unless cognitions are synthetical they can add nothing to our previous knowledge, unless à priori they cannot be universal , unless universal they cannot be apodictic …
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THE NEW WINE 199 instead of blundering in attempts to do so for our selves , without knowledge, or even the necessary in struction as to the subtle adjustment of the different parts . And it is on account of the want of this “ I ” that all science resting on the inquiry “ What do I know ? ” without the “ I” being analytically disclosed , must , and does , rest upon knowledge purely accidental or hypothetical . It is quite as possible for hypothetical arguments to be rightly and wrongly applied , as it is for mechan ical tools . A pick - axe is …
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… criticism differs from that of Hume's , in the main result it coincides , arriving at the same unleapable ditch , the limitation of all knowledge regarding the reality of phenomena as revealed to us by our senses . Hume starting with the proposition that ideas are copied from impressions ends in the unknown ; Berkeley through a similar process declares bankruptcy in God : Kant does likewise , stating in his “ Critic of pure Reason " : “ All knowledge ( touching an object of mere reason ) can be communicated not logically but morally ... I am m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 293
…pecially Hinduism and Buddhism , lose themselves in metaphysical specu lation only proper to those who are already Adepts . Ignorance or Knowledge have nothing to do with illumination any more than pig has to do with Chicago pork ; yet as there are standards of knowledge , so are there degrees of illumination ; for there is not the slightest doubt that Booth and Robert Evans stand on a much lower footing than a St. Augustine or a Paracelsus ; yet nevertheless , Boehme , who was only a shoemaker , ranks with them . ? “ It is no doubt more diffic…
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THE NEW WINE 285 This may be further amplified by the following quotation from Eckartshausen : In time and space knowledge is but relative. Is it not true that all which we call reality is but relative , for abso lute truth is not to be found in the phenomenal world . Thus your natural reason does not possess its true essence , but only the appearance of truth and light ; and the more the essence of light inwardly fades , and the man confuses him self with this appearance , and gropes vainly after the dazzling phantasmal images he conjures . Th…
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…er can a nation . The present ages are peopled with fiends and fools , living outwardly in precadian innocence , but inwardly in all the knowledge of the cities of the plains . The fiend crawls in the slimy dark , and the fool pulls the white sheets of credulity over his head , and like the gaby ostrich chuckles : “ I can't see them , they can't see me ” -he forgets his odour . Crowley has torn the veil of mock - modesty from off the face of Pseudo morality , leaving her as bare and hideous to the gaze as the face of the prophet of Khorassan . …
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…mprehensible .” Not so the Buddhist who went back to the older vedic con ception : In the beginning there is existence blind and without knowledge ; and in this sea of ignorance there are appet ences formative and organizing . – The Questions of King Milinda . We must , however , pass by the question of begin ning , and see how the Buddhistic ideals have affected the poetry and philosophy of Aleister Crowley . According to Buddhism , existence is sorrow , the cause of sorrow is desire , the cessation of sorrow is
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…HE STAR IN THE WEST gustine, “ independent of the senses , which , acting by means of an internal organ , is enabled to give a completer knowledge than ordinary experience ? ” Crowleyanity , once and for all , answers : Yes ! and this faculty becomes active during the ecstatic state , under the illumination of which mental representa tions become more stripped of empirical conditions , and in an inverse proportion to which , as the mind withdraws into itself the consciousness is wiped out . its unextended source , Became the magic utterance tha…
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…een postulated by all the greatest ethical codes of the world . It is the moral prototype , the Favashi of the Zoroastrian , the Tree of Knowledge of Babylonia and Genesis , the Light and Darkness of Isaiah , the Yakheen and Boaz of Solomon , the Unique Athanor of the Qabalist , the Balance of Hegel ; the polarity of the worlds , the great centripetal and centrifugal forces , the harmony of the spheres , the path of the stars , the life of the universe . Without Vice there can be no Virtue , without Virtue there can be no Vice . Without the one…
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…lves , they invest him with special powers ; once fashioned , the next step was to endow him with an immortalizing 1 Principles of Human Knowledge , p. 62. 2 The Dialogues , p. 35.
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…nt power in the universe ; over and over again we shall find this enforced , greater than fame , than wealth , than glory , greater than knowledge ,