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Page 17 of 1151907 · PDF PAGE 235
…rtainty whereby knowledge may be increased . A priori laws are not derived from experience , but belong to the inherent structure of the mind . Kant then sets himself to answer the question : How are synthetic judge ments à priori possible ? And his answer is :-Unless cognitions are synthetical they can add nothing to our previous knowledge, unless à priori they cannot be universal , unless universal they cannot be apodictic ally true . Kant's reasoning runs as follows : Firstly , there is a sensibility, a power of being affected by objects , a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 283
…ble extent consisted in the employment, judiciously, if we may use the word, of hasheesh, as giving a critical and analytic power to the mind, which enabled the neophyte to roll up the murk and mist from beclouded truths till they stood distinctly seen in the splendour of their own harmonious beauty as an intuition. One thing related of Pythagoras and his friends has seemed very striking tome. There isa legend that, as he was passing over a river, its waters called up to him in the presence of his followers, “ Hail! Pythagoras.” Frequently, whi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 283
…ble extent consisted in the employment, judiciously, if we may use the word, of hasheesh, as giving a critical and analytic power to the mind, which enabled the neophyte to roll up the murk and mist from beclouded truths till they stood distinctly seen in the splendour of their own harmonious beauty as an intuition. One thing related of Pythagoras and his friends has seemed very striking tome. There isa legend that, as he was passing over a river, its waters called up to him in the presence of his followers, “ Hail! Pythagoras.” Frequently, whi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
…ceeding weary. Yet my skin trembles with the impact of the light, and all my body shakes. And there is a peace deeper than sleep upon my mind. It is the body and the mind that are weary, and I would that they were dead, save that I must bend them to my work. And now I am in the tent, under the stars. THE DESERT BETWEEN BOU-SAADA AND BISKRA. December 8, 1909. 7+10-9.10 p.m. THE CRY OF THE 7TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED DEO The stone is divided, the left half dark, the right half light, and at the bottom thereof is a certain blackness, of three dive…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
…eloquent face is gone , Dull memory is mute and chill , The ecstasy is flown . O could the gods immortalize The one remaining hour , The mind 's delight , the soul 's surprise , And your elusive power ! 205
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
beings know one another? By their bounding solids. In other words, my soul speaks to yours through the medium of our minds and bodies. "That is the common phrase? Quite so; but I am using it in an absolute physical sense. A line can only be aware of another line at a point of contact; a plane of another plane at the line where they cut; a cube of another cube at the surface common to both; and a soul of another soul where their ideas are in conjunction. "I do want you to grasp this with every fibre in your being; I believe it to be the most imp…
1898 · PDF PAGE 76
…heir hold upon the perfect prize. My hands no longer write : Communion with the night Is built, a bride of fiery truth across the subtle mind. God’s angels, and His fire, Consume the soul’s desire, And strike a lighter lyre. I seek ; the angels lead me on, all light and truth to find. 66
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…ents should be varied in different experi- ments. Or even a System of flywheels, eccentrics, and governor. 5. During these practices the mind must be absolutely confined to the object determined upon; no other thought must be allowed to intrude upon the consciousness. The moving Systems must be regular and harmonious. 6. Note carefully the duration of the experiments, the number and nature of the intruding thoughts, the tendency of the object itself to départ from the course laid out for it, and any other pheno- mena which may présent themselve…
1906 · PDF PAGE 57
…th golden snows, To gardens green with many a rose, To secrets past the sense of sense, Skies virgin of experience, Untrodden avenues of mind, Things far from hurrying humankind. Thus spins out life its splendid charm :— Live, love, enjoy, yet do no harm. No rose of thought may bear or breed The poisonous thorn of word and deed. Call ** homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and doers—missing links! Such songs are twilight’s, when I stretch My limbs, and wander down to fetch My water from the cool cascade, My wood from the enchanted glade, 49
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…second smiled, ‘‘ Ingenious blind !” The youngest neither blessed nor cursed, Contented to believe the worst— That He had spoken all his mind! The second earned the name of prig, The first the epithet of prude; The third, as merry as a grig, On melon and on sucking pig Feasts with the Great White Brotherhood. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…second smiled, ‘‘ Ingenious blind !” The youngest neither blessed nor cursed, Contented to believe the worst— That He had spoken all his mind! The second earned the name of prig, The first the epithet of prude; The third, as merry as a grig, On melon and on sucking pig Feasts with the Great White Brotherhood. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1944 · PDF PAGE 241
…vine, enchanted Earth! Dissolve my rapture in Thine own, a sacred slaughter Whereby to capture and atone the Soul of Water! Fill thou my mind with gleaming Thought intense and rare To One refined, outflung to Naught, the Word of Air! Most, bridal bound, my quintessential Form thus freeing From self, be found one Selfhood blent in Spirit‐Being.
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…(much indeed !) That any will at all is freed, And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things ! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed : I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading.) “But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed As a mere mirage in the mind, Up jumps free will.” But all I’m pleading Is against pain and hell. Freewill Then can damn man ? No fearful mill, Grinding catastrophe, is speeding Outside—some whence, some whither ? And67 I think …
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…Universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of génération1 ; a soûl implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them aware of their Inmate, and thus to partake of its own conscious- ness of the Light. “Grâce” has here its proper sense of “Pleasant- I. That is, Yod Hé realizing Themselves, Will and Undcrstanding, m the twias Vau Hé, Mind and Body. 288 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…or philosophie validity to any of them. 3. The advantages to be gained from them are chiefly these: (a) A widening of the horizon of the mind. (b) An improvement of the control of the mind. 4. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confrontcd by things (ideas or beings) too glorious or too dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of ail that he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion and the prey of madness. Before entering upon any of these…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
…etire: renounce: the hermit’s cell Hath all of earth, and naught of hell. Renouncing all, keep naught enshrined A lurking serpent in the mind, Deem not to catch some goodlier gain Than these; the goodliest prize were pain. Know that the utmost heaven is void Of aught save star or asteroid! Or, an it please thee, idly dream A God therein, a force supreme, 47
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
… thought altogether, instead of concentrating on one thought, ‘is the highest kind. But, with the Buddhist, Samadhi, though the state of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. The holy-man-of-the-East must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the Three Characteristics (the antithesis of Nibbana) even as one uses one’s normal dualistic consciousness to attack that dualism. But I must observe that this idea is so tremendous that I almost doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
… thought altogether, instead of concentrating on one thought, ‘is the highest kind. But, with the Buddhist, Samadhi, though the state of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. The holy-man-of-the-East must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the Three Characteristics (the antithesis of Nibbana) even as one uses one’s normal dualistic consciousness to attack that dualism. But I must observe that this idea is so tremendous that I almost doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 284
…omprehension; even in those here set down, there is quite a little that I should not care to boast that I had altogether clear in my own mind. Leaving out nearly everything, the only way to simplify it is to call Hadit the "Point-of-View," and "Anywhere" to be the radix of all possible "Point-Events," or "experiences," or "phenomena"; Nuit is the complement, the total possibilities of any such radix. You can only get this properly into that part of your mind which is "above the Abyss," i.e., Neschamah; even so, Neschamah must be very thoroughly…
1904 · PDF PAGE 119
SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 112 this term. And I am convinced in my own mind that the Ananda (bliss) of Dhyana will surely arise long before one has passed even up to Sankhara. And for the reality, ’twill be a brave jest, my masters, to fling back on the materialists that terrible gibe of Voltaire’s at the m ystery- mongers of his day : “Ils nient ce qui est, et expliquent ce qui n’est pas.” NOTE TO SECTION VIII. Transfigured Realism. I will not waste my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert S pencer’s “ Transfigured…