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Page 126 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 19
…rick to induce people to rely on their good character. The parable of the pharisee and the publican taught this clearly enough. I do not know whether my Uncle Tom could have found any arguments against this theory, but in practice he had a horror of what he called sin which was exaggerated almost to the point of insanity. His talents, I may almost say his genius2, gave him tremendous influence. In his own house he was a ruthless, petty tyrant; and it was into this den of bitter slavery that I was suddenly hurled from my position of fresh air, f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 328
… I bore the stigmata of my Operation physically. I visibly radiated light. People used to turn in the street to look at me; they did not know what it was, but the impression must have been irresistible. No sooner had this worn off than the enemy struck again at my health. I was obliged to put myself once more in the doctor's hands and go to Bournemouth. I was now thoroughly prepared to take up my Work of initiating mankind, but I was still determined to do it on the old lines. I had no books of reference at Bournemouth, and it struck me that it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 160
160 to analyse and measure him. Once an idea is intelligently grasped, it ceases to threaten the mind with the terrors of the unknown. I went to Delhi on the sixteenth. The best thing here is the Turkish bath, where the process of purification is completed by charming ladies. On the eighteenth I wrote about Orpheus, "The accursed Book III utterly finished. Oh Book IV! On the nineteenth I went and saw the fort with "Major Graham, a prize fool from South Africa". The entry demands emendation. He wasn't a major; his name wasn't Graham; he had neve…
1929 · PDF PAGE 191
…re likely to succeed in forcing a ridge over three miles long of the moist desperate character. I have also an instinct about weather. I know when it breaks for good. I cannot explain it; but there is an absolutely definite difference in what one feels in two apparently similar storms. One will blow itself out in preparation {324} for a cloudless fortnight and the other will be the prelude to more Wagner. I was also perfectly convinced that Collie's ideas were correct. We had exhausted our vital capital; we were none of us fit to climb anything…
1929 · PDF PAGE 285
… have been highly civilized for thousands of years in the rudiments of politeness and morality, to say nothing of religion. I knew, as I know that two and two make four, that it is only necessary to behave like a gentleman in order to calm the apprehensions {466} of the aborigines and to appeal to the fundamental fact that all men are brothers. By this I do not mean anything stupid, sodden and sentimental; I mean that all men equally require food, clothing and shelter, in the first place; and in the second, security from aggression in respect o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
…g the see of Ceylon he wrote a book in which “Buddhism” is de- scribed as consisting of “devil-dances.” Now, when a man, in a postion to know the facts, writes a book of the subscription-cadging type, whose value for the purpose depends on the suppression of these facts, I think I am to be commended for my moderation in using the term “liar.” 212. Ibsen.42—Norwegian dramatist. This and the next sentence have nineteen distinct meanings. As, however, all (with one doubt- ful exception) are truem and taken together synthetically connote my concept…
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
…ain apparently within a day's march, yet four days later that mountain will hardly have changed its apparent size and distance. I do not know why I made no attempts on the peaks. Perhaps it was from an obscure feeling of comradeship. I preferred to wait till Eckenstein joined me, which he was to do towards the end of the year. {211} 25
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…ust therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. {201} People tell me that they must read the papers so as to know what is going on. In the first place, they could hardly find a worse guide. Most of what is printed turns out to be false, sooner or later. Even when there is no deliberate deception, the account must, from the nature of the case, be presented without adequate reflection and must seem to possess an importance which time shows to be absurdly exaggerated; or vice versa. No event can be fairly judged without…
1929 · PDF PAGE 403
…ature. Nobody troubled to find out the facts about the simplest matters. People printed falsehoods about my family, my fortune, the best-known events of my life. There was no attempt to be consistent or probable. To edit a newspaper while undergoing penal servitude seemed to strike nobody as beyond my ability, and so on ad nauseam. Still more absurdly, trifles which are true of hundreds of thousands of people became charged with the most sinister significance when applied to myself. I have been accused of living in a farmhouse, as if only assas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 530
…d to convey the meaning of Lao Tzu. An uninitiated translator is bound to meet constantly with apparently nonsensical passages. One must know what the author is likely to mean by any given phrase, and this can only be done my a man who has intimate experience of the spiritual states and magical principles set forth. Otherwise, the translator is in the position of a scholar ignorant of football who should try to translate some slangy description of a cup tie. He will think that "wing" has something to do with a bird and be puzzled as to how it g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…ple grunt for—putrid slime, for like swine they nose glee full the dung hill. But Crowley cannot produce muck. 'lyherefore though we now know this Star to be the greatest master iece in all literature, we feel certain it will not raise a crop of that smutty wheat whic needs the left hand of Ezekiel to knead it into bread and the stomach of a Trimalchio to digest it. Captain Fuller has written his masterpiece for the few, those few who possess the mind of a Huxley and the Soul of a Loyola, and not for those many who possess the Station of 9. Vic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 386
…umulative effect of repeated tests over a period of years that gives confidence. Incidentally, one acquires by experience the faculty of knowing by instinct whether any given sight or sound is genuine; just as one learns to recognize the style of a writer or painter so that the most plausible imitations fail to deceive, hard as it may be to say in so many words what strikes one as suspicious. Now, The Book of the Law guarantees itself by so closely woven a web of internal evidence of every kind, from Cabbalistic and mathematical proofs, and tho…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…st that's what Mathers said. According to G.Sholem in his "Kabbalah", English and Hebrew versions have been found in British collections known to have been consulted by Mathers. It is conjectured that Mathers faked the translation of the Old French version from the library of the Arsenal to obtain translator's remuneration from the eventual publisher. Mathers did the same thing with the "Greater Key of Solomon" and an excerpt from the "Lesser Key of Solomon," called "The Goetia" and subsequently published by Crowley. Mathers plagiarized the who…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. Matter being evil, the less that we know about it the better --- such was the Christian philosophy in the ages which it darkened. Morris Travers told me that his father, an eminent physician, had been ostracized, and had lost much of his practice, for joining the Anthropological society. Later still, Havelock Ellis and {144} Edward Carpenter have been treated with the foulest injustice by ignorant and prejudiced people. My mother always believed…
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
… loving, to cherish ill- will toward none, to retire from those pleasures of sense which are the fruitful cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though w e aspire to renounce the pleasures of s ense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accom plishment of our aspiration. But if the desire to becom e pitiful and pure be but honest and earnest, we have gained the Second Step upon the Path—Sammasankappo, Right Aspiration. “He whose motives are pure has no need to conceal the Truth—h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 314
…lves had hardened my heart against it. I had hardened my own heart; I had tried to go round the Boyg. They answered, "Thou hast said." I know now from the experience of others that The Book of the Law is veritably a Golden bough. It is the only thing that one is allowed to take with one through Hades and it is an absolute passport. In fact, one cannot go through Hades at all; there is no "one" to go. But the Law itself bridges the Abyss, for "Love is the law, love under will." One's will-to-cross is to disintegrate all things soever into soulle…
1929 · PDF PAGE 223
…nous bodies in the heavens. There are various theories, but I personally believe that the force now called radio-activity {372} which we know to be possessed in some degree by every particle of matter, is responsible. Our eyes are affected with the impression of light by forces which are not in themselves recognized as luminous. However, back to the facts. The King's Chamber was aglow as if with the brightest tropical moonlight. The pitiful dirty yellow flame of the candle was like a blasphemy, and I put it out. The astral light remained during…
1929 · PDF PAGE 303
… village has no good inn, so we went on to a lovely glade which afforded a delightful and romantic place for a camp. I fell ill, I don't know of what, for the next three days. Whatever scenery there may have been I was too sick to observe. {493} We reached Yunnanfu on the twentieth. Mr. Wilkinson, the consul general, wrote that he was very sorry not to be able to offer hospitality, but the Bengali blackguard of Tengyueh had pout in a complaint that I had assaulted him, so that his relations with me must be strictly official until the matter was…
1904 · PDF PAGE 117
…ave not experienced, and conse- quently do not treat of, being content to accept the highly probably s tatements of those who profess to know, and who have so far not deceived m e (i.e. as to Dhyana), is a question which it is not pertinent to the present argum ent to dis cuss.1 I shall, however, suggest certain ideas in the follow- ing section, in which I propose to discuss the most famous of the Buddhist medita- tions (Mahasatipatthana, its method, object, and results. VIII. MAHASATIPATTHANA. This meditation differs fundamentally from the usu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…est types of humanity. It also acquired an independence of my conscious will which enabled it to travel on its own initiative without my knowledge. Strange tales began to circulate, some doubtless true, others probably coloured, and, of course, not a few baseless inventions. As a type of the first class, let me quote the following: G. H. Frater S.R.M.D. had asked me to visit him in Paris. He expected me in the afternoon. My train was late; I was tired and dirty. I postponed my call till the following day. To my surprise, my host and hostess did…