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“ If you hold by anything in the world more than by reason , truth , and justice ; if your will be un certain and vacillating, either in good or evil ; if logic alarm you , or the naked truth make you blush ; if you are hurt when accepted errors are assailed ; condemn this work straight away ; do not read it ; let it cease to exist for you ; but at the same time do not cry it down as dangerous ." ELIPHAS LÉVI .
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…kartshausen : 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 . This appearance of Truth is practically what the Hindu would call “. maya ,” in whi…
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…ore , O Ananda , be ye lamps unto yourselves . Be ye a refuge to yourselves . Betake yourselves to no ex ternal refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp . Hold fast as a refuge to the truth . Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves .” (Mahaparanibbana Sutta , ii , 33. ) ' YOGA » 2 Now comes the supreme question : How is this in ward mystery revealed ? And the answer is : In the East by Yoga , and in the West by Magic . “ Thus East and West from A to Z agree . In the East , by an entirely artificial and scientific method , in the West …
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…Swinburne's poem , The Centenary of the Battle of the Nile : The strong and sunbright lie whose name was France Arose against the sun of truth , whose glance Laughed large from the eyes of England fierce as fire Whence eyes wax blind that gaze in truth askance . 2 Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 119 . 3 Ibid .
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…he Qabalah is mere Buncombe . Because a weak man cannot lift a certain weight , that is no criterion that a strong man cannot . There is truth in everything , and truth lies beyond mere utility . If we cannot understand , it is sheer falsehood to say Yes or No , the agnostic mode being the only right course open to us ; yet if it were put to us to answer such a question as Is the reverse of the moon studded with tintacks ? ” “ No !” would naturally be the correct answer , and not , “ I cannot tell you ”; for as long as the bastion of our doubt …
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…ll fast : “ Next year !" in cruel distress 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 !"1 all my This last line is almost staggering , but such a cruel truth is soon given the lie : “ I am a fool , tossing a coin with Fate ,” says he ; and again , “ I love you , and shall love you till I die .” “ I love you , and shall love you life .” “ I love you and shall love you after death .” This is the Higher Love ; and so ends one of the gr…
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…ped the fact that its organs of reproduction are no more disgusting than its organs of respiration , it will then have grasped a greater truth than all philosophies have ever pro mulgated , than all religions have ever revealed . " And they were both naked , the man and his wife , and were not ashamed ” : THIS IS VIRTUE . " And the eyes of them both were opened , and they knew that they were naked ” : THIS IS VICE . Know Thyself , Be Thyself , Honour Thyself , are the three greatest commandments we can follow . This truth , universal and in its…
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…!” And so the God , who is eternal Love , at present does — in the Lock Hospital or over Waterloo Bridge . Nevertheless there is a great truth hidden in this line . The truth that love shall triumph over mind , or rather that both shall agree . If the carnal act is foul , it is then as foul in the palace as in the brothel : mere prostitution of the body need not necessarily mean a similar prostitution of the mind , as we saw in the “ Tale of Archais .' Every woman's body is as free a possession of her own as that of every man is of his own , an…
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… bowed awhile Before the terror suddenly shown. The nameless fear for self , far hurled By death to dissolution vile, Fades as the royal truth is known : Though change and sorrow range and roll , There is no self - there is no soul !? TIME AND SPACE One question still remains before we dismiss the question of Time and Space , and that is their homo geneity and accidental reality in the Ego . Being forms of extension , Space permits Size , and Time , Number , i.e., in Consciousness . This is the meaning of “ Time is the fourth Dimension .” So th…
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…ve - 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 , Know 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 .' 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . I, pp . 175-176 .
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…, A goodlier godhead than the broken God ." It was in the winter of 1619 that Descartes made the famous resolution to “ take nothing for truth with out the clear knowledge that it is such ." Thus Jove like he discrowned the authority of a thousand years , and though the symbolization of his ideas was often at variance with the logic of his facts , it is to him alone that present - day agnosticism must look back on as its founder . Berkeley , as we have seen , carried the Cartesian principle to its logical result ; Hume , 1 The Sword of Song , v…
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… . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is the flaming of that flame . Death is the naming of that name . That star upon the serpent's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life's plan . The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought's abyss of tears and woes .
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…ish up ! As by a posset of Hunyadi Clear mind ! Was Soudan of the Mahdi Not cleared by Kitchener ? Ah , Tchhup ! Such nonsense for sound truth you dish up , Were I magician , no mere cadi , Not Samuel's ghost you'd make me wish up , Nor Saul's ( the mighty son of Kish ) up , But Ingersoll's or Bradlaugh's , pardie ! By spells and cauldron stews that squish up , Or purifying of the Nadi , Till Stradivarius or Amati Shriek in my stomach ! Sarasate , Such strains ! Such music as once Sadi Made Persia ring with ! I who fish up No such from soul may…
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…he many were united : and I knew.1 And yet : I was wed Unto the part and could not grasp the whole . Thus , I was broken on the wheel of Truth . Fled all the hope and purpose of my youth , The high desire , the secret joy , the sin That coiled its rainbow dragon scales within . Hope's being , life's delight , time's eager tooth ; All , all are gone ; the serpent sloughs his skin ! The quest is mine ! Here ends mortality In contemplating the eternal Thee . Here , She is willing . Stands the Absolute Reaching its arms toward me . I am mute , I dr…
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…00 years or more , in which the priest has ever been ready to lie for the greater glory of his God , as S'afi well said : Then speak the truth , if so a priest May tune his tongue to anything but lies .' And of the gods of this greater glory , Amenhatep a few lines further on informs us : 1 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 142 . T
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…aterialise What spiritual fact you choose , And all such turn to folly - lose The subtle splendour , and the wise Love and dear bliss of truth . Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any ! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference ' Twixt spirit and the things of sense . What is the quarrel between us ? 1 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 138 . 2 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 134 . 3 The Principles of Human Knowledge , p . 39. ( Religion of Science Library .)
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…se take hold , Their heart of wonder throb to thine ! All things are matter and force and sense , No two alone . All's one : the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith , but wage of evidence. The clod , the God , the spar, the star , Mete in thy measure , as they are !! The sum total of the Vedantist Crowley sums up as follows : " I'am an illusion , externally . In reality , the true ' I'am the Infinite , and if the illusionary ‘ I ' could only realize Who I'really am , how very happy we should all be !” Here we have the great law of re - b…
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… is the devil's name for vice , And all your righteousness is filthy rags Wherein ye strut , and hide the one base thought . To mask the truth , to worship , to forget ; These three are one .“ The moral character of a nation is its true capital , and the two great laws of existence are The 2 Ibid . 414 . 1 Beverland , 238 . 3 Oracles , vol . ii, p . 5. 4 Orpheus , vol . iii, p . 208 .
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…f Dew , the Rose of Love and Night , The Rose of Silence , covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things Beheld in the mirror of truth , The Rose indifferent to God's gesture , The Rose on moonlight wings 1 Rosa Mundi , vol . iii , p . 52 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 54 .
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…n . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow, age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . This is but the chant of the Brahmin and the Buddhist as it has risen and fallen over the East for hundreds and thousands of years . There no sun shines , no moon , nor glimmering star , Nor yonder lightning , the fire of earth is quenched , From him , who alone shines , all else borrows its brightness , The whole world bursts into splendour at his shining . Kathaka Upanishad , v, 15 . The veil of Maya…