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Page 162 of 1731904 · PDF PAGE 64
NOTES 57 Clarendon, Ld. . History of the Great Re- bellion. De Comines, P. . Chronicle. Edwards, Bryan History of the B ritish C olo- nies in the W. Indies. Elton, C . . . Or igins of English History. Erdmann . . . History of Philosophy, Vol. II. Froude . . . History of England. Fyffe, C. A. . . History of Modern Europe. Gardiner, S. R. . History of the C ivil War in England. Gibbon . . . Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Green, J.R. . . A History of the English People. Guizot . . . H istoire de la Civilisation. Hallam, H. . . State of Euro…
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
APPENDIX I 76 XII. “At the hour of the great Initiation,” continued the Buddha, in the midst of the Five Hundred Thousand Arahats, “the wicked Jehjaour had joined himself with Mara to prevent the discovery of the truth. And in Mara’s fall he fell. At that m oment all the currents of his continued and concen- trated Hate recoiled upon him and he fell into the Abyss of Being. And in the Halls of Birth he was cast out into the Lowest H ell— he becam e a clergy man of the Church of England, further than he had ever been before from Truth and Light …
1929 · PDF PAGE 578
…f her superiority to sex, and continue by complaining that her husband absorbed in his work was starving her. She would proceed to claim great credit for being faithful to him, but we found out that she was carrying on any number of intrigues with the young bloods of Cefalu. Raoul, on his part, amply justified my faith in his future. A few weeks' work enabled him to fill the gaps in his knowledge of Magick and to unify its elements. He showed an understanding of the subject which was almost enough to satisfy the requirements of the Grade 8° = 3…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
… had not volunteered an account of his literary career and been quite unaware of the existence of the Mayor of Casterbridge. He was the "great" Thomas Hardy, the only and original bird, the chaplain to the forces at Hong Kong and author of How to be happy though married. I don't know how I kept my face straight. As a matter of fact, he was perfectly human and even contributed a quite valuable item of information as to the psychology of publishers. He had aproached one of these ineffable imbeciles1 with his book and been told that while the text…
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
… as the law of causa- tion seems suspended, and as their vividness is less than that of ordinary consciousness, and above all, as in the great majority of cases I can s how a caus e, dating from my waking hours, for the dream, I have four strong reasons (the first explanatory to some extent of my reasons for accepting the others) for concluding that the dream is fictitious. But what of the “ dreamless” s tate? To the dreamer his normal faculties and memo- ries arise at times, and are regarded as frag- mentary and absurd, even as the remembrance…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…h we may predicate of all known existing things): (a) Change. Anikka. (6) Sorrow. Dukkha. (c) Absence of an Ego. Anatta. 1 Change is the great enemy, the immediate cause of pain. Unable to arrest it, I slow the process, and render it temporarily painless, by eating. This is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat really in order to check change, or to maintain my ego- consciousness? Changel desire, for my present condition is Sorrow. I really desire the im- possible ; completely to retain my present egoity with all its condit…
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
…the writer and his associates had never approved of Frl. Sprengel’s action in authorising any form of group working, but, in view of the great reverence and esteem in which she was held, had refrained from open opposition. He went on to say that
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…elastic, sublimely Protean, to fill every interstice of the Universe of Manifestation which it meets in its course. There is no gulf too great for its immeasurable strength, no strait too arduous for its imper‐ turbable subtlety. It fits itself with perfect precision to every need; its fluidity is the warrant of its fidelity. Its form is always varied by that of the particular imperfection which it encounters: its essence is identical in every event. Always the effect of its action is Perfection, that is, Si‐ lence; and this Perfection is ever …
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…- rity of which he fir mly believed, Philo bor rowed from the Stoics ( who had been in like straits in respect of Greek m ythology) that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the m ethod of allegorical in- terpretation. T his m ighty ‘ two handed engine at the door’ of the theol ogian is war ranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically, or, as it is otherwise said “ poeti- cally’ or ‘in a spiritual sense,’ the plainest words mean whatever a piou…
1906 · PDF PAGE 251
…dhist metaphysic, and trace out their scientific analogies, or, as I hope to show, more often identities. First then let us examine that great Summary of the Buddhist Faith, the Four Noble Truths. “IIT. THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS, (1) SORROW.—Existence is Sorrow. This means that ‘*no known form of Existence is separable from Sorrow.” This truth is stated by Huxley, almost in so many words, in Evolution and Ethics. ‘‘It was no less plain to some of these antique philosophers -than to the fathers of modern philosophy that suffering is the badge of all…
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
… has the value 93, but in Greek that of 418, thus bringing into relation the Word of the Law of the Aeon with the Magical Formula of the Great Work. My preliminary studies, however, tended to discourage me, for the fourfold reason above stated; and the proposed dictionary remains uncompleted to this day. During this summer I wrote no less than nineteen books of magical and 1. WEH Note: This was to be published as "Liber MCCLXIV", but despite being cited in "Magick in Theory and Practice" it was not published in Crowley's lifetime. The first pub…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…ou, I see clearly what is of value ; or, tf not, at least what is worthless ; already something! Thus do I wish you and myself the three great boons Stla, Samadht, and Salam. DEDICATIO MAXIMA. To my unborn child, Who may learn by the study of this drama to choose the evil and avoid the good —i.e. as judged by Western, or ‘* Christian” standards. DEDICATIO EXTRAORDINARTA. Dear Mr, Chesterton, Alone among the puerile apologists of your detestable religion you hold a reasonably mystic head above the tides of criticism. You are the last champion of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 118
Recall, O my Son, the Fable of the Hebrews, which they brought from the City Babylon, how Nebuchadnezzar the Great King, being afflicted in his Spirit, did depart from among Men for Seven Years’ space, eating Grass as doth an Ox. Now this Ox is the letter Aleph, and is that Atu of Thoth whose number is Zero, and whose Name is Maat, Truth; or Maut, the Vulture, the All‐Mother, being an Image of Our Lady Nuith, but also it is called the Fool, which is Parsifal, “der reine Thor”, and so referreth to him that walketh in the Way of the Tao. Also he …
1904 · PDF PAGE 107
…lomon, Abramelin, and other sages of repute. When a man has evoked and mastered s uch forces as Taphtartharath, Belial, Amaimon, and the great powers of the elements, then he m ay be safely be per- mitted to begin to try to stop thinking. For, needless to say , the universe, including the thinker, exists only by virtue of the thinker’s thought.1 In y et one other way is magic a capital training ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake those macrocosmic forces of which they are the eidola, and it is possible in this m anner very large…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…s a sort of picture-puzzle to the uninitiated. Ca tain Fuller's task has apparently been a labour of love, and he has certainly expen ed great pains and ability in dragging Mr. Crowley up the steep slopes of Olympus. The CLARION says: We must confess that our intelligence is not equal to the task of wrestling with this book. The QUEEN says: We are glad that an interpreter has come forward. I . . . agree with Captain Fuller's estimate of the lines and passages which he quotes. In the matter of startling phraseology Captain Fuller easily distance…
1929 · PDF PAGE 273
…wo hundred and fifty of which are classed as obscene. The men are armed with bows and arrows, or occasionally spears, some of which show great skill of metallurgy and workmanship as well as a knowledge of certain branches of mechanics, and a marked sense of beauty. The women are free from the ordinary Hindu inhibitions, and their breasts are the most beautiful that I have ever seen, not excepting those of the women ofTehuantepec. They are small and well proportioned. Even when the women are mothers, they do not lose their form. The whole breast…
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
… to the Arahats of old is indifferent to me. ‘‘ Let the dead past bury its dead!” What I require is an advance in the Know- ledge of the Great Problem, derived no longer from hearsay revelation, from exalted fanati- cism, from hysteria and intoxication; but from method and research. Shut the temple; open the laboratory ! XI. THE TWILIGHT OF THE GERMANS." It is a commonplace of scientific men that metaphysics is mostly moonshine ; that it is largely argument in a circle cannot easily be disputed; that the advance since Aristotle is principally v…
1919 · PDF PAGE 458
…well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing, the Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . Rosert Rossin The Bystander, “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr. Neuburg’s verse... . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.”—Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to say ‘mor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
…the swords beaten into absinthes and the spears into tournedos! {347} S---, again, with a face like a portrait by Rembrandt, a man of no great intellect, but making no pretence thereto, how he was loved for his jolly humour, his broad smile, his inimitable stories! Yet it must not be suppose that the average man, however sincere, had much of a welcome there. Without intention to wound, he was yet hurt --- the arrows of wit shot over his head and he could never feel at home. I am perhaps the one exception. Without a ghost of talent, even in my o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
… treated exactly as if they were men in every respect. Gerald, always eager to oblige, addressed one of his models as old fellow, to her great satisfaction. Then he excused himself for a momentary absence in the terms which he would have used to another man. On his return, the lady had recovered her "sex and character", and had bolted. Woman can only mix with men on equal terms when adopts his morality lock, stock and barrel, and ceases to set an extravagant artificial value on her animal functions. The most high- principled woman (alleged) ins…