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Page 120 of 1971912 · PDF PAGE 26
12 external influences are likely to be unfavourable. New faces, new scenes will disjturb us ; even the new habits of life which we undertake for this very purpose of controlling the mind will at first tend to upset it. Still, we must give up our habit of eating too much, and follow the natural rule of only eating when we are hungry, listening to the interior voice which tells us that we have had enough. The same rule applies to sleep. We have determined to control our minds, and so our time for meditation must take precedence of other hours. We …
1912 · PDF PAGE 100
… EQUINOX There was a silence. “ Excuse me, father, ” said the girl at last, “ but I’ve just had a glimpse of you for the first time in my life, and it’s a bit ofa shock. I must think. ” And she stood motionless until her hapless father attracted her attention by backing into his wicker chain “ Don't touch holy things," she snapped suddenly, taking the sketch from his nerveless hand, and replacing it reverently in the portfolio. The action seemed to decide heri "I'll give you an address to send my things to, ” she said, and walked out of the gard…
1912 · PDF PAGE 182
…JACK. What? What? Ι say no—[louder]—I say no ! Know your own mind and stick to it. Let’s have a song—ah, what do you say? “A policeman's life is not a happy one "? SERGEANT. Why, it’s no trouble; it’s well worth coming across to talk to such a good fellow, and drink a glass of ale like this. JACK. Have some more! Sing, somebody—Clark, you sing. r40
1912 · PDF PAGE 100
… EQUINOX There was a silence. “ Excuse me, father, ” said the girl at last, “ but I’ve just had a glimpse of you for the first time in my life, and it’s a bit ofa shock. I must think. ” And she stood motionless until her hapless father attracted her attention by backing into his wicker chain “ Don't touch holy things," she snapped suddenly, taking the sketch from his nerveless hand, and replacing it reverently in the portfolio. The action seemed to decide heri "I'll give you an address to send my things to, ” she said, and walked out of the gard…
1912 · PDF PAGE 182
…JACK. What? What? Ι say no—[louder]—I say no ! Know your own mind and stick to it. Let’s have a song—ah, what do you say? “A policeman's life is not a happy one "? SERGEANT. Why, it’s no trouble; it’s well worth coming across to talk to such a good fellow, and drink a glass of ale like this. JACK. Have some more! Sing, somebody—Clark, you sing. r40
1913 · PDF PAGE 378
…against the legitimate papacy. The divinity of Jesus Christ only exists in the Catholic Church, to which He transmits hierarchically His life and His divine powers. This divinity is sacerdotal and royal by virtue of communion ; but outside of that communion, every affirma- tion of the divinity of Jesus Christ is idolatrous, because Jesus Christ could not be an isolated God. The number of Protestants is of no importance to Catholic truth. If all men were blind, would that be a reason for denying the existence of the sun? Reason, in protesting ag…
1913 · PDF PAGE 378
…against the legitimate papacy. The divinity of Jesus Christ only exists in the Catholic Church, to which He transmits hierarchically His life and His divine powers. This divinity is sacerdotal and royal by virtue of communion ; but outside of that communion, every affirma- tion of the divinity of Jesus Christ is idolatrous, because Jesus Christ could not be an isolated God. The number of Protestants is of no importance to Catholic truth. If all men were blind, would that be a reason for denying the existence of the sun? Reason, in protesting ag…
1919 · PDF PAGE 214
…e secret Wisdom of the Ancients. In its bosom repose the Great Mysteries; its brain has re- solved all the problems of philosophy and of life. It possesses the secret of the Stone of the Wise, of the Elixir of Immortality, and of the Universal Medicine. Moreover, it possesses a Secret capable of realizing the world-old dream of the Brotherhood of Man. It also possesses in every important centre of population a hidden Retreat (Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum) where members may conceal themselves in order to pursue the Great Work without hindrance.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 81
…ng the foetus. Following him is Cerberus, the three‐headed Hound of Hell whom he has tamed. In this Trump is shewn the entire mystery of Life in its most secret workings. Yod ؠ Phallus ؠ Spermatozoon ؠ Hand ؠ Lo‐ gos ؠ Virgin. There is perfect Identity, not merely Equivalence, of the Extremes, the Mani‐ festation, and the Method.
1944 · PDF PAGE 129
…ace have they be‐ held my Father. Thus are they made worthy to become partakers of the Mystery of this holy vessel, for the blood is the life. So sitteth she from age to age, and the righteous are never weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is manifested the glory of my Father, who is Truth. (“This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the in‐ toxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compas‐ sion. I understand b…
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…lm of the mind, and the Hindu mind is so constituted that if you offer a man the most trifling object, the incident is a landmark in his life. It upsets him completely for years. In the East, an absolutely automatic and thoughtless act of kindness to a native is liable to attach him to you, body and soul, for the rest of his life. In other words, it is going to upset him; and as a budding Yogi he has got to refuse it. But even the refusal is going to upset him quite a lot; and therefore he has got to become 'fixed' in refusal; that is to say, h…
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…tion of their Spiritual Meaning; just as, on putting one’s eye to the microscope, the drop of water on the slide is gone, and a world of life discovered, though the real import of that world is not apprehended, until one’s knowledge becomes far greater than a single glance can make it. 21
1912 · PDF PAGE 27
…r loves and hates, our ambitions, our envies, and many other emotions. All these must be cut off. We must have absolutely no interest in life but that of quieting our minds. This is the object of the usual monastic vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience. If you have no property, you have no care, nothing to be anxious about ; with chastity no other person to be anxious about, and to distract your attention; while if you are vowed to obedience the question of what you are to do no longer frets: you simply obey. There are a great many other obst…
1954 · PDF PAGE 12
…rship, its profound insight and its great worth. The letters that comprise this volume were written fairly close to the end of Crowley's life here on earth. (It seems difficult at this writing to realize that he was born almost a century ago-in 1875!) Some critics are inclined to believe that he had become feebleminded toward the end, a condition which some felt to be due to the "softening" of his brain through his use of drugs. He was troubled by emphysema it is true, brought about by many years of asthma and heavy smoking. Heroin had long bef…
1961 · PDF PAGE 165
…he Bat is dazzled and bewildered by the Light of the Sun. See then that thou understand this Bull in Terms of the Law of this our Æon of Life. c
1944 · PDF PAGE 133
… he hath a snake; in the right hand a red, in the left hand a blue. And he hath red sandals, but no other garment. And he sayeth: Is not life a long initiation unto sorrow? And is not Isis the Lady of Sor‐ row? And she is my mother. Nature is her name, and she hath a twin sister Nephthys, whose name is Perfection. And Isis must be known of all, but of how few is Nephthys known! Because she is dark, therefore is she feared. But thou who hast adored her without fear, who hast made thy life an initiation into her Mystery, thou that hast neither mo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
…ddha's Arahats, who being blind, in walking up and down unwittingly killed a number of insects. [The Buddhist regards the destruction of life as the most shocking crime.] His brother Arahats inquired as to how this was, and Buddha spun them a long yarn as to how, in a previous incarnation, he had maliciously deprived a woman of her sight. This is only a fairy tale, a bogey to frighten the children, and probably the worst way of influencing the young yet devised by human stupidity. ^ To surrender all, one must give up not only the bad but the go…
1913 · PDF PAGE 484
…f a garden, in the midst of which a single fountain branched into four rivers (the 1op and the TETRAGRAM), and then of two trees, one of life, and the other of death, planted near the river. There are placed the man and the woman, the active and the 186
1913 · PDF PAGE 484
…f a garden, in the midst of which a single fountain branched into four rivers (the 1op and the TETRAGRAM), and then of two trees, one of life, and the other of death, planted near the river. There are placed the man and the woman, the active and the 186
1922 · PDF PAGE 170
…You are slaves of the wormwood star. Analysed, reason 1s raving. Feeling, examined, is patn. What heaven were to hope for a doubt of it! Life is anguish, insane; And death is—not a way out of it! “‘ Olya,” too, reminds me of myself. I have a morbid wish to be an impossible monster of cruelty and wickedness. , Lamus had told me that long ago. He said it was the phantasm which summed up my longing to “ revert to type.” La nostalgie de la boue. Cockie lost all his dignity. He pleaded for just one sniff. We weren't really very bad, but the descript…