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Page 29 of 801913 · PDF PAGE 27
…ce Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Rite. Brother Crowley, however, attended in order to protest against the illegalities. He further found a person claiming admission whose status he knew to be doubtful. The proceedings therefore began and ended with the following speech: Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite, Although I rise to protest against the illegality of the present Convocation, it is not in order to quibble over the letter of our Constitution that I have le…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…patible with sanity and sanitation! The next day after breakfast Allan cam to the doctor's house to avoid worshippers, but a few of them found him out after all and produced {271} buttered eggs, newspapers, marmalade, brazil nuts, bicarbonate of potash and works on Buddhism from their ample robes. We were able, however, to talk of Buddhism and our plans for extending it to Europe, most of the day. The next four days were occupied in the same way. 33 While at Akyab I wrote Ahab, which, with a few other poems, was published as a companion to Jezb…
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
47 of great price, which when a man hath found he straightway selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that pearl. With many people custom and habit —of which ethics is but the social expression —are the things most difificult to give up: and it is a useful practice to break any habit just to get into the way of being free from that form of slavery. Hence we have prac- tices for breaking up sleep, for putting our bodies into strained and un- natural positions, for doing difficult exercises of breathing — all these, apart from any special merit they…
1919 · PDF PAGE 364
…f existing things, the knowledge of the non-existent! This is indeed a serious metaphysical complaint. The so- lution of it is not to be found in reason. 7. Saith the Pupil: O Teacher, what shall I do to reach Wisdom? O Wise One, what, to gain perfection? 8. Search for the Paths. But, O Lanoo, be of clean heart before thou startest on thy journey. Before thou takest thy first step, learn to discern the real from the false, the ever- fleeting from the ever-lasting. Learn above all to separate Head-learning from Soul-wisdom, the “Eye” from the “H…
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
… School. But on his basal hypothesis of an infinite God; infinite space, time, and so on, no other conclusion is possible. Mr. Mansel is found in the impossible position of one who will neither give up his premisses nor dispute the validity of his logical processes, but who shrinks in horror from the inevitable conclusion ; he supposes there must be something. wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its own inferiority to faith. As Deussen “ well points out, faith in the Christian sense merely amounts to being …
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
…he soft night sleeps, O thou most inner and supernal dawn, Thou that bearest the torch for the feast of the gods ! In the heart of eld I found thee, and a rose Was thy heart, and a rose thy crown, and tiny rosebuds Girt thy green mantle, and thy yellow hair, Glittered with the dust of the stars! By the river-side Thou camest to me! Oh, the secret night WhenI stared into the water under the moon, Singing and tumbling on its way to the seal The soft stream flowed under the milky stars; And there were poplars by the water-side, Gazing upon themsel…
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
…he soft night sleeps, O thou most inner and supernal dawn, Thou that bearest the torch for the feast of the gods ! In the heart of eld I found thee, and a rose Was thy heart, and a rose thy crown, and tiny rosebuds Girt thy green mantle, and thy yellow hair, Glittered with the dust of the stars! By the river-side Thou camest to me! Oh, the secret night WhenI stared into the water under the moon, Singing and tumbling on its way to the seal The soft stream flowed under the milky stars; And there were poplars by the water-side, Gazing upon themsel…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…ve , and having lost the skein of her desires in the labyrinthine byways of lust , threw her weeping form at the feet of Him in whom she found the ideal of her affection , washing those dusty feet with her tears , and drying them with the long tresses of her hair , still perfumed with the kisses of a thousand lovers . Jesus Christ and John Smith are very nearly related , and a woman who is capable of loving one is also capable of loving the other . Flaubert finely pictures this when he represents Madame Bovary , kneeling at her prie - dieu and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
… neighbour, One thought of winter with one word of June, Muddled and mixed in mere dismay, Chiselled with the cunning chisel fo despair, Found wanting, well aware Of its own fault, even insistent
1919 · PDF PAGE 445
…ite agony. Such is the attempt of all Buddhist writers, and their even feebler Western imitators. But once the secret of the universe is found, then everything is joy. The prop- osition is quite as universal. 80. If thou would’st have that stream of hard-earn’d knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should’st not leave it to become a stagnant pond. Here we have the same thesis developed with unexpected force. So far from the Path being repose, the slightest slackening turns it stagnant. 81. Know, if of Amitabha, the…
1912 · PDF PAGE 27
…l with these in turn. But let us pass by for the moment to the point where you are nearing success. In your early struggles you may have found it difficult to conquer sleep; and you may have wandered so far from the object of your meditations without noticing it, that the meditation has really been broken; but much later on, when you feel that you are “getting quite good,” you will be shocked to find a complete oblivion of yourself and
1913 · PDF PAGE 476
…phe- nomena produced by Mr. Home: the noise of the storm heard by the wicked priest in his early evocations, and the difficulty which he found in expressing his real thought in the presence of Eliphas Levi. One may also comment upon the apparition of the sinister man taking pleasure in the public grief, and uttering an indeed infernal word in the midst of the consternation of the crowd, an apparition only noticed by the ecstatic of La Salette, the too celebrated Mlle. de La Merliére, who has the air after all of a worthy individual, but very ex…
1913 · PDF PAGE 476
…phe- nomena produced by Mr. Home: the noise of the storm heard by the wicked priest in his early evocations, and the difficulty which he found in expressing his real thought in the presence of Eliphas Levi. One may also comment upon the apparition of the sinister man taking pleasure in the public grief, and uttering an indeed infernal word in the midst of the consternation of the crowd, an apparition only noticed by the ecstatic of La Salette, the too celebrated Mlle. de La Merliére, who has the air after all of a worthy individual, but very ex…
1907 · PDF PAGE 210
… was nothing in itself, as Kant might have explained it , an idea however dating back long before either Plato or Kant , and to be first found in any degree of maturity in the Upanishads of post-vedic India . Form was reality, and nothing else , it was the sole and only essence . From such metaphysics rose numerous modified forms which may be roughly classed under the name of Spiritualism (Malebranche). They asserted that matter objectively was illusion or maya , and that the world problem could only be considered as a reality sub jectively in …
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…cle you would draw an eight-pointed star of yellow, at whose points you would place eight lamps, The Sigil of the Spirit (which is to be found in Cornelius 15
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…cle you would draw an eight-pointed star of yellow, at whose points you would place eight lamps, The Sigil of the Spirit (which is to be found in Cornelius 15
1913 · PDF PAGE 152
…is high calling. We now find him, therefore, attempting to carry out the work, and finding it as difficult to do so as he had previously found it to avoid doing so; yet doing so successfully, since he was working in accordance with the Will of the Masters, and this Temple of Solomon the King was now intended to lead up to the point which it has at last attained. 112
1913 · PDF PAGE 152
…is high calling. We now find him, therefore, attempting to carry out the work, and finding it as difficult to do so as he had previously found it to avoid doing so; yet doing so successfully, since he was working in accordance with the Will of the Masters, and this Temple of Solomon the King was now intended to lead up to the point which it has at last attained. 112
1919 · PDF PAGE 89
…still ye drink. Come up through the creeks to the fresh water; I shall be waiting for you with my kisses. 7. As the bezoar-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. Ohoney boy! Bring me Thy cool limbs hither! Let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! Let us feast on the cool grass! Bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. g. In the garden of immortal kisses, O thou brilliant One, shine forth! Make Thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one 83
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…e blackness sounds the sickening noise Of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys.? Feeding perhaps first on man's body , the priest soon found , after investing his victim with an immortal soul , that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail , enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven : still death reigns , and God and priests are fed , Man's blood for wine , man's flesh for meat and bread .? And these priests are not dead yet . As the human race throve so did their gods…