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Page 126 of 1731904 · PDF PAGE 2
…ristianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intent to explain the beauty of the Buddhist philosophy ; he knows a great deal about it ; he believes in it. But as he went on writing one thing became stronger and stronger in his soul — the living hatred of Christianity. Before he has finished he has descended to the babyish “ difficulties ” of the Hall of Science — things about “ the plain words of your sacred books,” things about “ the panacea of belief ” — things, in short, at which any philosophical Hindoo would roll abo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…ns than of rites and ceremonials, are more inclined to obsess than to illuminate. Of course it may be urged that as they constitute four great trials, it is after all a greater test to be placed under a false guide than an honest one. But indeed, if this be so, then most certainly should the Neophyte, Zelator, Theoricus or Practicus travel his own road unhelped by others ; further, he should not be tempted by others, and when he is hopelessly entangled be relieved of his trials like the reader of a fairy-tale who invariably finds that after the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…ns than of rites and ceremonials, are more inclined to obsess than to illuminate. Of course it may be urged that as they constitute four great trials, it is after all a greater test to be placed under a false guide than an honest one. But indeed, if this be so, then most certainly should the Neophyte, Zelator, Theoricus or Practicus travel his own road unhelped by others ; further, he should not be tempted by others, and when he is hopelessly entangled be relieved of his trials like the reader of a fairy-tale who invariably finds that after the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
… be brought to asatisfactory conclusion. It is unnecessary in this place to detail how this came about, as it is quite recent and of too great importance in itself to deal with in any casual manner. It must suffice that this instruction is now being fully obeyed, as will be evident upon the publication of Part IV of Book 4. We now return to the diary. On September 24 we find a new password for the forthcoming Equinox—4 dio. Its sublime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
… be brought to asatisfactory conclusion. It is unnecessary in this place to detail how this came about, as it is quite recent and of too great importance in itself to deal with in any casual manner. It must suffice that this instruction is now being fully obeyed, as will be evident upon the publication of Part IV of Book 4. We now return to the diary. On September 24 we find a new password for the forthcoming Equinox—4 dio. Its sublime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 138
…lish people on the Continent have an illusion that the mere fact of their nationality permits them to do anything soever. And there is a great deal of truth in this, after all, because the inhabitants of Europe have a settled conviction that we are all harmless lunatics. So we are allowed to act in all sorts of ways which they would not tolerate for a moment in any supposedly rational person. In the present instance, I have little doubt that, if we had been dressed as ourselves, we should have been politely conducted to our hotel or put into an…
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
…e under will,’ ” she smiled. ‘“‘ We exchange this greeting so as to make sure that the sight of our friends doesn’t distract us from the Great Work. Now we can talk about whatever we like. Oh, no, we can’t, I must first inspect your yesterday’s chart.” I brought it out, and we sat down at the table together. Of course, there was only the one cross, She assumed a very severe look. “This is extremely irregular, brother,” she said. “You haven't filled in column two.” D.D.F. ¥
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
… OF MOVING OBJECTS AT A DISTANCE THE Countess Mottich was far more famous than most Prime Ministers or Imperial Chancellors. For, to the great bewilderment of many alleged men of science, she had the power of small objects to move without apparent physical contact. Her first experiments had been with a purblind old person named Oudouwitz, who was in love with her in his senile way. Few people swallowed the published results of his experiiments with her. If convinced they would have been very much startled. For she was supposed to be able to sto…
1954 · PDF PAGE 477
…icable plan whereby we may each one of us settle down peaceably to mind his own business, to pursue his True Will, and to accomplish the Great Work. So never lose sight for a moment of the maxim so often repeated in one context or another in these letters: that fear
1929 · PDF PAGE 274
… much less the sights of my rifle. When the moon rose at last, the few animals that had arrived vanished with equal stealth. There was a great silence in the jungle and the roars of the tigers (there were several all round the compass) became less frequent and less near. All of a sudden I became aware of a tremendous disturbance. It was not exactly a noise --- I'm inclined to think that it may have been a smell. I cannot say definitely more than this, that I had the impression that something enormous was going on. I had been lying flat in the m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 15
…y surprised, for he was fond of walking, and hated travelling in any kind of vehicle. Near the Pont-Neuf he stopped the cab, removed his great blue cloak and coat (an elaborate tunic trimmed with ermine, for he was an eccentric in costume to the point of monomania) and stepped outside with me, bidding the cabman to wait. We stood in the shadow of a large urinoir and he anxiously con- sulted his watch. Dam the b . . . ! he exclaimed after a few minutes, Will she trick me after all ? Or has my note miscarried ? I was more and more astonis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…o learn ‘ Paradise Lost’ by heart than ‘ We are Seven ’; but when you have done it you are no better at figure skating.” He quotes as the great guiding scripture of his life a Buddhist Sutta (ii, 33): “Therefore, 0 Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourself to no external refuge." How is this inward m stery revealed? The answer is in the East by Yoga, and in the West by Magic; in the East by an entirely artificial and scientific method, in the West by a stimulation and sudden outflowing of the poetic faculty.…
1919 · PDF PAGE 123
… our Holy Books. And with this goeth, as it were sister with twin brother, the practice of mortal love as a sacrament symbolical of that great Death: as it is written “Kill thyself”: and again “Die daily.” And the second of these lesser modes is the practice of the mental apprehension and analysis of ideas, mainly as I have 117
1919 · PDF PAGE 197
…re not in darkness; we are much nearer to Her now. What (from the little planet) looked like specks of light, are now blazing like other great Suns, and these are truly our brothers and sisters, whose essential and Starry nature we had never before seen and realized. These are the ‘remains’ of those we thought we had left behind. There is plenty of room here, each one travels in His true Path, all is Joy. Now, if you want to step back into the Old A£on, do so. But try and bear in mind that those around you are in real- ity Suns and Stars, not l…
1922 · PDF PAGE 25
…lso make the remark, because the essential bearing of it is practically the whole story of this book. And the remark is this, after that great flourish of trumpets : although I was personally entirely uninterested in what I had witnessed, the depression had vanished from my mind. As the French say, “Un clou chasse l'autre.”
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
… - So here were Lou and I flying together beyond the bounds of eternity, side by side; her low, persistent throb in perfect second to my great galloping boom. Things of this sort take place outside time and space. It is quite wrong to say that what happened in the taxi ever began or ended. What happened was that our attention was distracted from the eternal truth of this essential marriage of our souls by the chauffeur, who had stopped the taxi and opened the door. “ Here we are, sir,” he said, with a grin. Sir Peter Pendragon and Lou Laleham a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…mind? Nothing at all. I knew it, said the man from the tropics. Then I must tell you all. In my veins boils the fiery blood of the greatest of the French warriors, and my mother was the lineal descendant of the Maid of Saragossa. Bevan was startled, and showed it. After the siege, sir, she was honourably married to a nobleman, snapped Duguesclin. Do you think a man of my ancestry will permit a stranger to lift the shadow of an eyebrow against the memory of my great- grandmother? The Englishman protested that nothing had been further …
1954 · PDF PAGE 132
…tion does not pay his book-keeper to make a statement of the countless billions of profit to be made in some future year. It requires no great ability to string a row of zeros after the significant figure until the ink runs out. What is wanted is the actual balance of the week.
1954 · PDF PAGE 344
…lawyers say) I could persuade a dying person to leave me a couple of hundred thousand in his will. I shall use every penny of it for the Great Work; it sounds easy! "Of course! Damn your integrity! Damn you! The Work is all that matters." All the same, I say NO. I should never be the same man again. I should have lost that confidence in myself which is the spine of my work. No need that the fraud should be discovered openly: it would appear in all my subsequent work, a subtle contamination. But suppose that it were not the matter of gulling a m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 489
…ary sane person foresaw anything of the sort. But special knowledge alters things, and it is certain that the Masters anticipated , with great exactness of calculation, the way things would go in the political world. Practically all the messages received during the "Cairo Working" (March-April 1904 e.v.) came to me through 1. The OtanceUor of the Exchequer, having fIXed the increase of Income Tax at threepence, proceeded to defraud the Insurance Companies by insuring himself against a rise of that sum!