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Page 19 of 871904 · PDF PAGE 126
…seous mess of medieval superstition, and we may just as well have vital principle and creative power as not, for Science cannot help us. True, if we do not use all the methods at our disposal! But we go bey ond. We admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to illusion and inaccuracy of any sort. So were the early determ inations of s pecific heat. Even biologists have erred. But to the true scientist every failure is a stepping- stone to s uccess; every m istake is the key to a new truth. And the history of our Science is the hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…ly did make history; but it is to be observed that Nelson, on his monument, is careful to turn his gaze upon the Thames. For here is the true life of the city, the aorta of that great heart of which London and Westminster are the ventricles. Charing Cross Station, moreover, is the only true Metropolitan terminus. Euston, St. Pancras, and King's Cross merely convey one to the provinces, even, perhaps, to savage Scotland, as nude and barren to-day as in the time of Dr. Johnson; Victoria and Paddington seem to serve the vices of Brighton and Bourn…
1903 · PDF PAGE 88
Forget your silly self, and store Its vital horror, stabbed and spurred ‘To fearful pace and torture wild Deep in your true heart's core, my child! For though I strip you bare, and run My red-hot iron through your flesh, ‘There is a citadel that none May touch—not God! The rotten rest Evacuate; be seated there, Let there be music, and Rome burn ‘Then you may climb to be aware How well you serve my idle turn, Yet to yourself avail. There too Lies a last doubtful chance for you. Behold who dare! (Ay, you are fain!) Purblind with prejudice? No vis…
1909 · PDF PAGE 148
…ways by the power of Necessity. The pro- gression of the Stars was not generated for your sake. The wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud: flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety where Virtue, Wisdom, and Equity are assembled.” ZOROASTER,
1909 · PDF PAGE 148
…ways by the power of Necessity. The pro- gression of the Stars was not generated for your sake. The wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud: flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety where Virtue, Wisdom, and Equity are assembled.” ZOROASTER,
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
…cular and concrete to the general and abstract. (It is curious that the highest values of all, the "Laws of Nature, " are never exactly 'true' for any two persons, for one person can never observe the identical phenomena sensible to another, since two people cannot be in exactly the same place at exactly the same time: yet it is just these facts that are equally true for all men.) Observe, I pray, the paramount importance of memory .
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…eeds, is only a garbage-heap. 1 [Matthew 18:13, paraphrase.] 2 [Luke 17:21, paraphrase.] Remember, also, that, unless you know what your true Will is, you may be devoting the most laudable energies to destroying yourself. Remember that every word and deed is a witness to thought, that therefore your mind must be perfectly organized, its sole duty to interpret circumstances in terms of the Will so that speech and action may be rightly directed to express the Will appropriately to the occasion. Remember that every word and deed which is not a def…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…dea which ordinary people call “God,” christened it ‘“‘ Mind,” and then by affirming a set of propositions about “ Mind,” which are only true of “ God,” set all hysterical, dyspeptic, crazy Amurrka by the ears. Personally, I don’t object to people dis- cussing the properties of four-sided triangles ; but I draw the line when they use a well-known word, such as pig, or mental healer, or dung-heap, to denote the object of their paranoiac fetishism. | Even among serious philosophers the confusion is very great. Such terms as God, the Absolute, Spi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
…t, a pale, wan phantom floating Aimless in air, than which I am thinner. You I see, more brilliant, of that sanguine hue (If anything be true that I can see). Full fed; you smile, a smile obscenely gloating On the voluptuous wreck your lust hath wrought. See the loose languor of precipitate thought These versicles exhale! How rude the rime! There is no melody; the tune and time Are broken. Thirteen centuries ago They would have said, ‘‘ Alas! the youth! We know , This devil hath from him plucked the immortal soul,” 7 say: you have dulled my cen…
1939 · PDF PAGE 28
…got to earn the right to devote yourself to Yoga proper by arranging for that devotion to be a necessary stage in the fulfilment of your True Will. In Hindustan one is not allowed to become 'Sanyasi'a recluseuntil one has fulfilled one's duty to one's own environmentrendered to Caesar the things which are Caesar's before rendering to God the things which are God's. Woe to that seven months' abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a blank wall in China! Yama and Ni…
1903 · PDF PAGE 52
…ons floated through, More foul because a golden cord did wind Unspotted through that revel epicene, The pure faith of one woman that was true. * This circumstance was later fulfilled : I having judged her actions on insufficient evidence. 32
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…ly. In the Apologia pro Vita Sua, Cardinal Newman tells us, I suspect truthfully, that as a child he wished that The Arabian Nights were true. As we all know, he gratified his ambitions by accepting for reality the Freudian phantasm of hashed-up paganism with Semitic sauce which led him to the hat. But I went further. My senses and my rational judgment created a subconscious feeling of uneasiness that supernaturalism might not be true. This insulted my inmost consciousness of myself. But the reply was not to accept the false for the true, but t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 78
…th the poor worm that we had made ! It cannot be (it cannot be !) That we ourselves are taken In the sweet snare, my Dorothy ! Did Love, true love, awaken ? And, even so, dear, why should we Be wildly wit-forsaken ? Yea ; for we digged a wanton pit. Ourselves are fallen into it. Our dance grew fierceself-stirred, self-willed ! And Bacchus shewed his forehead Jutting sharp horns ; his grape distilled A liquor harsh and florid. Our cool sweet kisses throbbed and thrilled From temperate to torrid. Yea ; the new wine burns up our brain. Like molte…
1913 · PDF PAGE 23
…. I, Narayaniah, the plaintiff above named, do hereby declare that all the facts stated above, except portions of paragraph 7 and 9, are true to my knowledge, and the above said portions are based on information and belief. (Signed) ]. NARAYANIAH. October 24, 1912. ᾽ On this judgment was given in favour of the plaintiff. 23
1904 · PDF PAGE 25
…imbs of manly mould. In sooth, I doubt if I shall earn The singer’s fee for his return. PELIAS. Think now—I feared that.fool. It must be true That guilt is timorous. Ay! when danger’s none! Let but swords flash—and guilt grows God for might! Indeed I rule—until he come again. Ay, when the stars fall, Jason shall be king! EXPLICIT ACTUS PRIMUS. c 17
1913 · PDF PAGE 76
…ow the dance that hails the golden pinions The sun waves over an awakening earth ; We know the joy that floods the heart 's dominions At true love 's birth . Even so, the mists that roll o' er earth are riven , The spirit flashes forth from mortal sight , And , flaming through the viewless space , is given A robe of light . As when the conqueror Christ burst forth of prison And triumph woke the thunder of the spheres , So broke the soul , as newly re - arisen Beyond the years . 57
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…ostic about Christianity. He always tries to prove something about it—that it is un- philosophical or immoral or disastrous—which is not true. He can never say simply that it does not convince him—which is true. - A casual carpenter wandered about a string of villages and suddenly a horde of rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 24
… hardness earthy. Yet, weight is but a function of the curvature of the “space‐time Continuum”: “Earth is the Throne of Spirit.” This is true, even in matters of the strictest science. The scientific description of an object is universally true; and yet it is not completely true for any single observer. The phenomenon called the Daughter is ambiguous. It has been explained above as the spiritual ingredient in the result of the marriage of the Father and the Mother; but this is only one interpretation. THE TAROT AND THE ELEMENTS The Ancients con…
1902 · PDF PAGE 124
…t stubborn ecstasy for God ! To this clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell— in the profoundest sky! This knowledge —the true immortality, I came unto through pain and tears. Tigerish hopes, and serpent loves, and dragon fears, Most bitter kisses, salted springs and dry ; In those deep caverns and slow-moving years. When dwelt I, in the Mount of Venus, even I ! [ The spell is broken, and uproar ensues. Landgrave. The fiend ! The atheist ! Devil that you are ! Voices. Kill him, ay, kill him ! Tannhauser. Crucify him, say ! [ Tann…
1996 · PDF PAGE 20
…ce, and “Justice”3 in the Tarot. This title should probably be AL, “El,” as the “L” was heard of the Voice of Aiwaz, not seen. AL is the true name of the Book, for these letters, and their number 31, form the Master Key to its Mysteries. 1 [“Liber L vel Legis sub figura CCXX,” in OEAHMA [London: pri vately printed for initiates of A.'.A.'., 1909], vol. 3, and The Equinox 1(10) (1913), p. 9.] 2 [Crowley, Liber XXX /Erum ... The Vision and the Voice, 15th /Ethyr. See Works Cited.] 3 [Atu VIII, retitled “Adjustment” in Crowley’s The Book of Thoth…