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Page 138 of 1971912 · PDF PAGE 125
…s is good. Hence, since God made man, He meant man to do good. Hence, man should do good. Agreed. Then, what is good? The necessities of life are good, for otherwise no other good were possible without them. Food is good, shelter is good, all that tends to the health of the individual and the reproduCtion of the species is good. For if not, let food be bad, let art be good. Then, since artists need food, good is based on bad, which is absurd. Agreed, then, that necessary things are good. Yes; but are 83
1913 · PDF PAGE 510
…sible. One will understand that such a science is already a power indeed sacerdotal and royal. The prediction of the principal events of life is already possible by means of the numerous analogical probabilities of this observation : but there exists a faculty called that of pre- sentiments or sensitivism. Events exist often in their causes before realizing themselves in action; sensitives see in advance 212
1913 · PDF PAGE 510
…sible. One will understand that such a science is already a power indeed sacerdotal and royal. The prediction of the principal events of life is already possible by means of the numerous analogical probabilities of this observation : but there exists a faculty called that of pre- sentiments or sensitivism. Events exist often in their causes before realizing themselves in action; sensitives see in advance 212
1919 · PDF PAGE 403
… the gate Srotapatti, “he who the stream hath entered” ; once thy foot hath pressed the bed of the Nirvanic stream in this or any future life; thou hast but seven other births before thee, O thou of adamantine Will. The author does not state what is meant by the “golden rule.” A Srotapatti is a person in such a stage that he will become Arhan after seven more incarnations.’ There is nothing in Buddhism about the voluntary undertaking of incarnations in order to help mankind. And of course the talk about “Nirvanic bliss” is misleading when one r…
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony To make the rest look light. Abides The thick sepulchral changeless shape Shapeless, continuous misery Whereof no smoke-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…ich is a satirical serio comedy , mingled with heterodox ribaldry , and a shrewd and sweeping cynicism on the utter rottenness of social life, we find love in youth depicted in the person of Sir Percy Percival , aged sixteen . The first effusion of puberty is described in the following three lines : what shall slake This terrible thirst , This torment accurst ? 3 1 Inscribed on the statue of the Goddess . 2 “ Perverted " I object to here , as it is but a synonym of ' converted ' from a different point of view. 3 Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
… ;' thus so have we all to do , we must eat of the “ Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil ” before we can pluck the fruit of the “ Tree of Life .” The mediaeval spiritualism of “ Paracelsus " is curiously modernized , if we may use so crude a word , in the mystical poem “ Aceldama .” The strife in the former from the kingdom to the crown , in the latter seems to be that of Vice towards Virtue , and though quite one of Crowley's earlier poems , it is, however , 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 18 .
1911 · PDF PAGE 49
…the mysteries of the Aethyr, for therein are the chariots of fire, and the tumult of the horsemen; whoso entereth here may never look on life again with equal eyes. I insist. 47
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…aven to those who should make themselves like little children. What is childhood? It is the age of faith. The child knows nothing yet of life ; and thus he radiates confident immortality. Is it possible for him to doubt the devotion, the tenderness, the friendship, and the love of Providence when he is in the arms of his mother? Become children in heart, and you will remain young in body. The realities of God and Nature surpass infinitely in beauty and goodness all the imagination of men. It is thus that the world-weary are people who have neve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…aven to those who should make themselves like little children. What is childhood? It is the age of faith. The child knows nothing yet of life ; and thus he radiates confident immortality. Is it possible for him to doubt the devotion, the tenderness, the friendship, and the love of Providence when he is in the arms of his mother? Become children in heart, and you will remain young in body. The realities of God and Nature surpass infinitely in beauty and goodness all the imagination of men. It is thus that the world-weary are people who have neve…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…s rather the formula of Consécra¬ tion than that of a complété ceremony. It is the breath of bénédiction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness. In consecrating a weapon, Aleph is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flameth out of the East even 1. “Gods” are the Forces of Nature; their “Names” are the Laws of Nature. Thus They are eternal, omnipotent, omniprésent and so on; and thus their “Wills” are immutable and absolute. • 2. It represents Sakti, or Teh; femininity always means form, mani¬ f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 442
…e the soft open expansive aspects of Nature; they both refer accordingly to the feminine throat, the tube either of present or of future life. (J upiter, when in Sagittarius, has an aggressive, masterful, male side; but his letter when there is Samekh.) Now pronounce these letters; observe the motions of opening and expulsion of the breath. Well, then, you will no longer wonder at that list we had in another letter of the words Cwm, coombe, quean, queen, and so on; also (?) quill, queer, quaintest, curious, (?) quick , (?) quince: especially wi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
… on him, left him for dead on the pavement, sprinted to his machine and raced home. I congratulated him on his resourcefulness in making life interesting and got him to go to bed. He was a good deal scared about the police, in case he had killed the man. We watched the papers anxiously. The next day a paragraph appeared. Mysterious midnight assault near Hyde Part. Dr. Herpes-Zoster1, a prominent physician of Clyster Street, was assaulted brutally, and battered by a thug at the door of 606 Mercury Mansions, Iodine Street, Hyde Park, about one o'…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…receive The Qabalistic Balm,36 believe Nothing—and choose to know instead. But, to that terror vague and dread, External worship; all my life— War to the knife ! War to the knife ! No ! on the other hand the Buddha Says: “I’m surprised at you ! How could a Person accept my law and still Use hatred, the sole means of ill, In Truth’s defence ? In praise of light ?” Well ! Well ! I guess Brer Buddha’s right ! I am no brutal Cain37 to smash an Abel: I hear that blasphemy’s unfashionable: So in the quietest way we’ll chat about it; No need to show t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 25
THE SWORD OF SONG 18 Each life bound over to the wheel72 Ay, and each being—we may guess Now that the very crystals feel !— For them no harp-reasounding court, No palm, no crown, but none the less A cross, be sure ! The worst man’s thought In hell itself, bereft of bliss, Were less unmerciful than this ! No ! for material things, I hear, Will burn away, and cease to be— (Nibbanna ! Ah ! Thou shoreless Sea !) Man, man alone, is doomed to fear, To suffer the eternal woe, Or else, to meet man’s subtle foe, God—and oh ! infamy of terror ! Be like h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…oyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not ! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony To make the rest look light. Abides The thick sepulchral changeless shape Shapeless, continuous misery Whereof no smoke-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
… he defines the noumenon as the final term of an infinite series , and asserts that the permanence of the soul can only be proved in the life of man , “ the proof of which will not be required by us .” Then standing aghast as the phantasmagoria of his mind crowd past him ; states in the plainest words , that the Reason itself is at fault , and casting it into the balance of Pyrrho , weighs it out in due terms of Crowleyanity . The following are the four transcendent ideas , or four dialectical assertions of the pure Reason . To each accordingly…
1907 · PDF PAGE 277
… poetically he is realizing the grim struggle which lies before him ; both doubt their toys , and eagerly peer into the dark corridor of Life , which , alas , is so often but a Blue Beard's chamber of despair . So with religions and | The Argonauts , vol . ii, pp . 110-111 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
…, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes and goes in gasps, when we are at rest it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends (restrains) the breath, restrains also the working of the mind. He who has controlled the mind, has also co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
…, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes and goes in gasps, when we are at rest it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends (restrains) the breath, restrains also the working of the mind. He who has controlled the mind, has also co…