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…y , a great wave of materialism sweeps over the face of the globe . This system of thought , built on the illusive phantasmagoria of the mind , found in the West a master - mind to mould it into shape , in the personality of Democritus of Abdera ; and from the day when that sage materialized the creations of his brain to that of Büchner and the present - day mud - larks , it has formed the stumbling - block to nearly every great thinker , and the veritable pus puriens of the common mind . However , out of the slough grew , as must always happen…
1907 · PDF PAGE 299
…o an unchangeable changelessness . The yogi proposes to himself no less a task than to master the entire universe , and finding that the mind has the reflexive power of looking back into its own depths , does his utmost to develop this power by turning the mind , as it were , by artificial means , inside on itself , concentrating all its powers on itself , and stopping it at every turn from wandering outside of itself . Then the mind , slowly learning its own nature , analyzes itself and discovers the Divinity which is itself . And I have cease…
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…... For how can it be known that the things which are perceived are conformable to those which are not per ceived , or exist without the mind . ” ? Shortly before arriving at this conclusion , he had already stated that as “ the infinite divisibility of matter ” was now uni versally allowed by the most approved and consider able philosophers , hence it follows that there are an infinite number of parts in each particle of matter which are not perceived by sense . “ ... In proportion , therefore , as the sense is rendered more acute , it per cei…
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… and feel .” — P. 91 . and knows not what to an swer .” — P. 169 . “ Now , it is plain they [ things ] have an existence ex terior to my mind ; ... There is therefore some other mind wherein they exist , during the intervals between the times of my perceiving them : as like wise they did before my birth , and would doafter my supposed annihilation ... it necessarily follows that there is an omni present eternal Mind .” — P. 91 . “ When he awakes from his dream , he will be the first ... to confess , that ... mankind .. must act and reason and b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
…weird play— “ The God - Eater ” — we have already heard him solemnly utter : Mystery ninefold closed upon itself That matter should move mind - Ay ! darker yet That mind should work on matter ? And the proof Extant , implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain . These twain be one .? 3 In these five lines we find a clinching of the whole argument . " These twain be one .” No more than this did Berkeley ever arrive at : " But , though it were possible that solid , figured , movable substances may exist without the mind , corres…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
…s with Berkeley in stating that : “ An extension that is neither tangible nor visible , cannot possibly be conceived ,” and that , “ The mind has never anything present to it but the perceptions , and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connexion with objects ."' And again that the " ... universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy , which teaches us , that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception , and that the senses are only the inlets through which these images ar…
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310 THE STAR IN THE WEST (a) Yoga teaches that by concentrating the whole mind upon “ horse " these ideas will be withheld , and the ultimate state arrived at will be “ horse " pure and simple (ec stasy). (But this theory involves Scholastic -Realism ; like all others , it is a false reflection of the L.V.X. ) mind , and was followed in quick succession by the idea of four legs, hoofs, teeth , rider , saddle, racing , cheating ; all of which ideas are connected in my experience with the im . pression , or the idea , of a horse and with one anot…
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218 THE STAR IN THE WEST or by reason . ... But what reason can induce us to believe the existence of bodies without the mind , from what we perceive ." 1 This point Crowley fully em 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, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…ecked and be tired her worn carrion , and how she standeth at the corners by the parting of the ways , beguiling those who are simple in mind and virtuous , and how she feasteth on their innocence and con verteth all she eateth into dung ,
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…r, in which this operation is performed , the power by which it is produced, is entirely beyond our comprehension ... The command of the mind over itself is limited, as well as its command over the body ;) and these limits are not known by reason , or any acquaintance with the nature of cause and effect , but only by experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external objects . Our authority over our sentiments is much weaker than over our ideas ; and even the latter authority is cir cumscribed within ve…
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…in the “ Three Dialogues ” he again maintains this indisputable fact : Phil . And is not time measured by the succession of ideas in our mind ? Hyl. It is. Phil . And is it not possible ideas should succeed one another twice as fast in your mind as they do in mine , or in that of some spirit of another kind ? Hyl . I own it.2 This clinches the whole argument between Mysticus and Scepticus , as it did between the two disputants Philonous and Hylas . THE QABALAH Before entering upon Aleister Crowley's ontological essay on Space , it will be as we…
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…ve a superior faculty To reasoning , which makes absurd , Unthinkable and wicked too , A great deal that I know is true ! In short , the mind is capable , Besides mere ratiocination , Of twenty other things as well , The first of which is concentration ! Bloom , Concentration's midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long -sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not , my friend !), Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time - suppose , the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh '!…
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…ippery road of lust , so essential to the basic knowledge of the good . Among the extraordinary antipathies and sym pathies of the human mind , few are so startling as the frequent attraction of contraries . Good attracts bad , and bad good , in the love - history of life over and over again shall we find this : Have they divined This simplest spirit - bond , The joy of some bad woman's deadly kiss ;? In the “ Lesbian Hell ” we see those white unsated women , and in “ The Fatal Force ” one so flushed with lust , that she has become blind to rea…
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…rtainty 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 ally true . Kant's reasoning runs as follows : Firstly , there is a sensibility, a power of being affected by objects , a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
…tianity , so let this theurgy , as ex pounded by this marvellous being , be known as Crowleyanity : or in other words , according to the mind of the reader ; --- Pyrrhonic - Zoroastrianism , Pyrrhonic - Mysticism , Sceptical - Transcendentalism , Sceptical - Theurgy , Sceptical - Energy , Scientific Illuminism , or what you will ; for in short it is the conscious communion with God on the part of an Atheist , a transcending of reason by scepticism of the instrument , and the limitation of scepticism by direct consciousness of the Absolute . To …
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
… and distracted pain Must from sheer agony some respite find ; When some half - maddened miserable brain Projects a god in his detesting mind . A who made him -- to the core all evil , In his own image - and a God of Terror ; A vast foul nightmare , an impending devil ; Compact of darkness , infamy , and error . Some bestial woman , beaten by her mates , In utter fear broke down the bar of reason ; Shrieked , crawled to die ; delirium abates By some good chance her terror in its season , Her ravings picture the cessation of Such life as she had…
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…sophy ; for it was never synthetical , or concrete , being a con glomerated mass of ecstatic ideals and exalted desires , evolved in the mind of man as an attempt to grasp all possible quantities emanating from the Ain Soph , which in itself remained Zero . Turning now for a short time from the Mystic to the Idealistic philosophy , we find that though both are closely united , the former founds its system on man's wondering ignorance in trying to link subject and object esoterically , whilst the latter builds up reality in mind perceptions , tr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 267
…hat , “ though we should grant the unknown substance may possibly exist , yet where can it be supposed to be ? That it exists not in the mind is agreed ; and that it exists not in place is no less certain - since all place or ex tension exists only in the mind , as hath been already proved . It remains , therefore , that it exists nowhere at all ” -i.e ., in the Absolute Zero . And again he asserts , this time by the word of Philonous : Con sequently every corporal substance being the substra tum of extension must have in itself another extensi…
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…nsignificant compared with the labours of mental un knotting , but even in such places ( where the sense becomes tangled in the reader's mind ) he loses none of the beauty of rime and rhythm , he never becomes bored , never weary . Set in the pure gold of verse and line , lie lyrics of surpassing beauty : Tannhäuser ( the longest of the poems ) would be a magnificent con templation even if we cut from it its sparkling songs , but with them it becomes superb , neither are there too many ; the queen of our poet's ideals is no gilded prostitute , …
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…mpulse " , which in the homogeneous protoplasm causes fission , is as mystical to - day as that added " something " which will cause the mind of one man to admire a Wagnerian opera , and another a drawing by Beardsley . No sound is in the air , vibrations only pass . No sound is in the brain , molecular changes only result . Where then is sound ? It is a creation in the mind by the divine “ I ” ; that unextended absolute Passivity , whose dwelling is in that equilibrating activity which balances action and reaction . Hegel (outside the realms o…