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…-Idealism , they have . Yet none to the individual brain , until they have been brought into reciprocal relationship to it. If the outer world is an illusion , then the inner world of self is but a delusion , a mere mirrored reflection of shadows cast by some blinding sun ; so hope some of us , as Orpheus did when he sang : This world is shadow -shapen of The bitterness of pain . 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 t…
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THE NEW WINE 235 2 Everything in the world con There is nothing simple , but sists of simple (parts ). everything is composite . 3 There are in the world causes There is no freedom , but all through freedom . is Nature . 4 In the series of the world There is nothing necessary causes there exists a necessary but in this series all is con being tingent . “ The above is the most remarkable phenomenon of the human Reason , of which no instance can be shown in any other sphere . If, as generally happens , we regard the phenomena of the world of sens…
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… seen the Star . In it we find the sublime maxim , almost universal , which has been 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 Vi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
… presence of a good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world . In the song of Orpheus we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . 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 co…
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THE NEW WINE 203 Mysticus , we , if we enter the vortex of subjectivity and objectivity , " shall be tossed about as the world this 2,500 years . "11 IDEALISM In the philosophy of Plato idealism took the shape of a strictly formal characteristic , there was nothing in itself, as Kant might have explained it , an idea however dating back long before either Plato or Kant , and to be first found in any degree of maturity in the Upanishads of post-vedic India . Form was reality, and nothing else , it was the sole and only essence . From such metaph…
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…ght of which there is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered . It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley . The world has indeed laboured , and has at last brought forth a man . Bacon blames the ancient and scholastic philosophers for spinning webs , like spiders out of their own entrails ; the reproach is perhaps unjust , but out of the web of these spiders , Crowley has himself twisted a subtle cord , on which he has suspended the universe , and swinging it round has sent the whole fickle world conception of these exc…
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…n knowable , and as “ it is just as grave an illusion to attribute morality to a stone as it is to think to find the supernatural in the world of phenomena ," ? so in the inmost depths of the ego alone , itself unthinkable , lies the source of all mystic experience . “ I live , yet not I, but God in me .” This is the suspense of Job , the sleep of Solomon , the silence of St. John , arrived at by fixing the mind upon one single object of thought , so that the treasures of representation which lie dormant in the memory , flow towards that one ob…
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…e find Lust seated crimson as a rose , then at the other we shall find Chastity white as a lily . This system of extremes has during the world's history exerted an overwhelming force on the will of man . Beholding a satyr he worshipped a virgin ; feel ing the ills of the flesh , he conceived the bliss of the soul . This diametric opposition , verging ever towards the extreme circumference of utility , has given and is giving birth to numerous world - wide systems and philosophies . The taboos of the South Seas , the restrictions laid on widow -…
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…es of God are vibrations calculated to establish : (a) General control of the brain ( Establishment of func tions relative to the subtle world ). (6) Control over the brain in detail . ( Rank or type of the Spirit .) (c) Control of one special portion . ( Name of the Spirit .) 1 66 Carlyle also partially grasps this idea in “ Sartor Resartus " when he writes : Witchcraft and all manner of Spectre - work , and Demon ology , we have now named Madness , and Diseases of the Nerves . Seldom reflecting that still the new question comes upon us : What…
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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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… Dread eyes ! Each flings its arrow of sharp sacrifice , Eating me up with poison ! I am hurled Far through the vaporous confines of the world With agony of sundering sense , beholding Thy mighty flower , blood - coloured death , unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , Life ! Life ! This Kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! He is lost ! Act II opens with two beautiful songs . Venus sings the…
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…l of the obscene Incarnate in the spirit : and above Hangs Sin , vast vampire , the corrupt , that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world , and flaps , for lust of Death - and Love ! 1 " Kill me,” cries Tannhäuser . “ In the kiss , ” answers Venus : thus ends Act II . Act III opens a different scene . The outer materi ality of body is all but sated , the starved soul within cries for sustenance ; he murmurs “ Elizabeth ,” and then wakes strong through her perfection . Venus still entices , but her power has vanished , and at the name of “ …
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…eptionally incongruous , but must so strike all who ever think at all . How God being Almighty as well as Beneficent can tolerate such a world of suffering as ours for one minute passes all understanding . The God idea in its infancy , as we have already seen , was the child of ignorance and revenge , and Jahveh , in his turn , is but an emanation of this world idea , no better than the rest : Baal and Jehovah , Ashtoreth And Chemosh and these Elohim , Life's panders in the brothel , Death ! Cloudy imaginings , a dream Built up of fear and word…
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…olve in showers of nectar, and the Master's work is done . Nectar perfume gently stealing , masterful and sweet and strong , Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals , and be altogether lost !! The ecstasy of the saints and mystics , is , this enter ing into the kingdom of God which is within them . ” Hugo de Saint -Victor says : “ The soul , dead to the world and to itself , sleeps in bliss , and yields itself utterly to th…
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…es ; for if we dare to attempt to tread so thorny a path with the utmost success the land we reach is but the land of Weissnichtwo . The world does not exist outside me . I am the world ; but what am I ? Herein lies the greatest of riddles . This question , this gigantic “ What ?" Crowley sets forth lucidly enough in “ Pentecost ” and “ Ascension Day ." He writes : To calculate one hour's result I find surpassing difficult ; One year's effect , one moment's cause ; What mind could estimate such laws ? Who then ( much more !) may act aright Judg…
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… Spiritualism ( Malebranche ), Agnosticism ( Spen cer ), all and one , with all the other isms , may , with the slightest trouble in the world , be equated into cor responding terms of Berkeleyan Idealism . And why ? Because each individual master , each separate school , like the astronomer in the fable , whilst gazing at his own particular star , fell into the open ditch which yawned unperceived at his feet . And Berkeley : is he the Ultima Thule , the stone of the wise ? By no means , only I, in the above case , chose to represent the ditch …
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… must be united in one person . And this illu mination must be as definite a phenomenon as orgasm , following which we find the material world , and its foundation the world of thought , as honestly set down to hallucination as a ghost would be . Construct the Temple in the place of the Manger , on the site of the ruins of religion and philosophy , but with the stones of the unfinished and abandoned Hall of Science . And in it let Semiramis , heavy with child by the Holy Ghost , possess the couch of labour , once crushed by the agon ized form o…
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… WINE 291 scenes . trampled by Bacchic feet , so to-day we find once again the farces of Aristophanes redacted on the grand stage of the world on which the great actors have played their part , and have retired behind the So once more , much to the joy of little children , the little Rationalias , the little Secularias , the harlequinade has again begun . Sinbad has sailed away with all his treasure ; Aladdin has departed , and has not forgotten to take with him his wonderful lamp . No more Jinn are to be unbottled from their sleep of a thousan…
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…dialectical assertions of the pure Reason . To each accordingly is opposed a contradictory assumption (p . 87 ). Thesis Antithesis I The world is infinite in time The world has a beginning ( boundary ) in time and space . and space .
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…dirges of despair Man cleft the womb , and shook the icy air With bitter cries for light and life and love . But these , begotten of the world above , Withdrew their glory , and the iron world Rolled on its cruel way , and passion furled Its pure wings , and abased itself , and bore Fetters impure , and stopped , and was no more . But resurrection's ghastly power grew strong , And Lust was born , adulterous with Wrong , The Child of Lies ; so man was blinded still , Garnered the harvest of abortive ill, For wheat reaped thistles , and for worsh…