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Page 24 of 1151922 · PDF PAGE 56
…s get the first train to London.” There are no incidents to record. We were both completely anzsthetised. Nothing bothered us. We didn’t mind the waiting on the platform, or the way the old train lumbered up to London. Everything was part of the plan. Everything was perfect pleasure. We were living above ourselves, living at a tremendous pace. The speed of the ‘plane became merely a symbol, a physical projection of our spiritual sublimity. The next two days passed like pantomime. We were married in a dirty little office by a dirty little man. W…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…ow. We had the idea of a soul, of a real physical substance, one of whose surfaces, or rather boundary-solids, was what we call body and mind. Body and mind are real, too, and truly belong to the soul, but are only minute aspects of it, just as any ellipse or hyperbola is an aspect of the section of a cone. [104] "We'll take just one more analogy in the lower dimensions as we pass. "How do solids know one another? Almost entirely by their surfaces! Except in chemistry, which we have reason to believe to be a fourth- dimensional science, witness…
1954 · PDF PAGE 277
…s solid Ruach and that Triad, Death merely means the dropping off of the Nephesch (Malkuth) so that the man takes over his instrument of Mind (Ruach) with him to his next suitably chosen vehicle. The tendency of the Ruach is of course to disintegrate more or less rapidly under the impact of its new experiences of after-death conditions. It is therefore of the very first importance to train the mind in every possible way, and to bind it to the Higher Principles by steady, by constant, by flaming Aspiration, fortified by the sternest discipline, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
…Lock Hospital or over Waterloo Bridge . Nevertheless there is a great truth hidden in this line . The truth that love shall triumph over mind , or rather that both shall agree . If the carnal act is foul , it is then as foul in the palace as in the brothel : mere prostitution of the body need not necessarily mean a similar prostitution of the mind , as we saw in the “ Tale of Archais .' Every woman's body is as free a possession of her own as that of every man is of his own , and what is disgraceful to woman is equally disgraceful to man , and …
1906 · PDF PAGE 98
…orous tricks of wit Shalt thou regain thine empire over me. O virgin, O my sister! Hear me, death! Thou hast a sleep compelling soul and mind. Thine is the sweet insufferable breath That comes like Bessarabia’s twilight wind To bring a quiet coolth from day’s long heat, Peace to the belly gorged with blood and meat}; Stars for the sun that smote, for fire slow streams, For the simoom the zephyr’s cooing kiss, Deep sleep at last from all the evil dreams, And rest, the possibility of bliss.
1922 · PDF PAGE 145
…ch-chain nervously. I had sunk into a chair—I noticed they hadn't offered us chairs when we came in—and the whole scene vanished from my mind. I was aware of nothing but a passionate craving for drugs. I wanted them physically as I had never wanted anything in my life before. I wanted them mentally, too. They, and they only, would clear my mind of its confusion, and show me a way out of this rotten mess. I wanted them most of all morally. I lacked the spirit to stand up under this sudden burst of drum fire. But Lou stuck to it gamely. She was o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 148
…p what he was saying for a moment, but there was no mistaking the import of his final phrase. “I’m so delighted that you've changed your mind, Sir Peter, but I felt sure you could never bear to leave Capri so soon. Our beautiful Capri! ’’ What the deuce was the fellow talking about? Change my mind? What I wanted to do was to change my clothes|! The consul’s clerk made a few rapid: explanations in Italian, and it almost hit me in the eye to watch the manager’s face as he lifted his eyes and saw the two obvious detectives in the doorway. ‘“‘T don…
1922 · PDF PAGE 359
…ink I’m rude. I’m very grateful for all you’ve done for me.” Strangely enough, the memory of the last few months had just returned to my mind. Yet it was merely the background of the burning flame of thought that filled my consciousness. Basil did not answer, and as we walked down the hill together I began to explain my ideas about the new helicopter. Almost without knowing it, we had reached the door of the large house which the Abbey used for a refectory, and we sat down on the stone seats which lined its north-eastern wall, and gazed over th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 538
EPISTOLA ULTIMA 505 becomes a discredited instrument, and one attains to a totally different and much more exalted type of mind, and the same destructive criticism which one applied to the original consciousness applies equally to this higher consciousness; and one gets to one higher still which !s again destroyed. In The Equinox, Vol I there is an essay called The Soldier and the Hunchback : ! and ? In Liber Aleph too there are several chapters about attainment by what is called the Method of Ladders. All these operations are equally valid and…
1922 · PDF PAGE 291
…he has his dinner: what he eats, and how it was killed, and who cooked it, and so on for ever and ever, he gets no chance to develop his mind in more important ways. Taboo is responsible for the low mental and moral development of the peoples whom it afflicts, more than anything else. An appetite should be satisfied in the simplest and easiest way. Once you begin to worry about the right and wrong of it, you disturb the mind unnaturally, and begin to think awry in all sorts of ways that have apparently nothing to do with it. “ Think of the Quee…
1906 · PDF PAGE 112
…ie. But then On earth I never killed my men; They only die whom one forgets. Remember that each action sets Its mark still deeper in the mind! 104
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
…rough the abyss of flame ; Hear ye that I am that I am ! THE RETURN Behold ! I clothe mine awful light In yonder body born of night. Its mind be open to the higher ! Its heart be lucid-luminous ! The Temple of its own desire The Temple of the Rosy Cross !
1939 · PDF PAGE 47
leads to a contradiction in terms. There are dozens of ways of showing that if you begin 'A is A,' you end 'A is not A.' The mind reacts against this conclusion; it anaesthetises itself against the selfinflicted wound, and it regulates philosophy to the category of paradoxial tricks. But that is a cowardly and disgraceful attitude. The Yogi has got to face the fact that we are all raving lunatics; that sanity existsif it exists at allin a mental state free from dame's school rules of intellect. With an earnest personal appeal, therefore, to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
… blow the candle out with cryptic Morse - like dot and dash , leaving the imagination to wallow in the dark , intelligible to the baby - mind of sucklings , and we admire him all the more for not doing so ; his undraped virginity is delightful , and if his maidens lack vestments and his matrons mantles , it is a hearty sight , a robust sight , it flushes the drains of our mind , and discloses a heart lying beneath all the conventional tweeds and silks of our sleek respect
1907 · PDF PAGE 332
… one pointedness " is the crown ing glory of Crowleyanity . In the East it is arrived at by meditation , “ the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross , fine, or altogether spiritual ” ” in the West by cere monial magic . Now true magical ceremonial is entirely directed to attain this end , and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes . By act, word , and thought , both in quantity and quality , the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated …
1922 · PDF PAGE 302
…ome stupendous comedy. “The obligation is entirely on my side,” returned my guest. ‘‘ You have no idea how your kind approval has set my mind at ease.” I took another sniff. I was fainting away into an inexpressible ecstasy. I re-corked the bottle and put it in my pocket, thanking Platt profusely. “ T can’t imagine your mind being ill at ease,’’ I went on with a note of irony, which was. however, absolutely genial. I was friends with every one in the world. “ If there was ever a man with a conscience void of offence toward God and man, that man…
1898 · PDF PAGE 25
…anger. [Making as to leave room.] E’en this rocky isle Shall prove a friend—— A Voice. Stand still. Ph. Again ! Is this The warning of a mind o’er-strained ? [Moving towards door.] Voice. Stand still And see salvation in Jehovah’s hands. Ph. Is this the end of life ? Voice. Thy Life begins. Ph. Strange Voice, I hear thee, and obey. Perchance I have not lived so far. Perchance to-day, Like a spring-flower that slowly opens out Its willing petals to the tender dawn, My soul may open to the knowledge of A dawn of new thought that may lead—— Voice.…
1903 · PDF PAGE 51
…NINTH DAY “ How canst thou tell she will deny thy Before thou make a trial of her love ? ” 1 Henry VI. I was most weary of my work : the mind Shuddered at all the wonders it had written, And the whole body by the spirit smitten Groaned : so I went and left my love behind, Danced the gross “ hula,” hardly disinclined, By a new lust emphatically bitten ; And so in flames at harlot glances litten I sought that solace I shall never find. Fool ! not to tell her. Triple fool to fly The sunny glance, the moonlight meditation, For even the light of hea…
1910 · PDF PAGE 289
…r hours every sound had its colour and its form to him as truly as scenery could have them. The fact, never witnessed by me before, of a mind in that state being able to give its phenomena to another and philo- sophise about them calmly, afforded me the means of a most clear investigation. I found that his case was exactly analogous to those of B. and myself; for, like us, he recog- nised in distinct inner types every possible sensation, our words making a visible emblematic procession before his eyes, and every perception of whatever sense bec…
1910 · PDF PAGE 466
…ek in Hell; Ever he mocks me. Yet, methinks, I have the riddle of the Sphinx. For were I keener than the lynx I should not see within my mind One thought that is not in its kind In sooth That Beast that lurks behind : And in my quest his questing seems The authentic echo of my dreams, The proper thesis of my themes! Iknow him? Still he answers: No! I know him not? Maybe—and lo! He is the one sole thing I know! Nay! who knows not is different From him that knows. Then be content ; Thou canst not alter the event!