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Page 31 of 791911 · PDF PAGE 154
…ackl Trunks, portmanteaux, bags, boxes, and for the Lord’s sake pack some brains! Take the girl to Jericho or Johannesburg, and get some sense, and triplets, if you can! “ ”Twiddle so—Being! Twiddle st)—Form! Balance them, cheatinggrocerl Nation of shopkeepers] Twiddlel Twiddlel Twiddlel Isn’t the Balance in the Babe? Teach her to understand children !" The Brother paused to re-light his pipe, thrusting the bowl into the glowing carbon of the grate. “To understand children? It is hard. But we love children, sir." “And what the devil is the diff…
1919 · PDF PAGE 350
…itation, in that of chemical attraction, and so on; in fact, everything that is done is caused by the desire to do it, in this technical sense of the word. The ‘midnight blossom’ implies a certain monastic Renunciation of all desire, which reaches to all planes. One must however distinguish between de- sire, which means unnatural attraction to an ideal, and love, which is natural Motion. 55. Kill love of life; but if thou slayest Tanhd, let this not be for thirst of life eternal, but to replace the fleeting by the everlasting. This particularis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 276
…tted, I am the biggest coward alive; and I have constantly forced myself to face my fear. So not I was not tingling with the pleasurable sense of confronting the unknown; I had the definite sense of being trailed. The sensation angered me; I tried to ascribe it to imagination. I forgot it and I went my way. Presently, however, I turned aside for a moment from the dim street I was treading into an alley guarded by a black archway. I had no idea where it might lead; I simply wished to withdraw from the observation of my fellows for a few seconds,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 362
…simple,” said the Big Lion. “ It involves a knowledge of nothing but the Law; and the Law, after all, is nothing but the plainest common sense. Do you remember my asking you before tiffin what was your true will?” “Yes,” I said, “I do. And I told you then, and I tell you again now, that I haven’t the time to think about things like that.” “That fact,” he retorted, “was quite enough to assure me that you had discovered it.” ‘“‘ Look here,” I said, “ you’re a good sort and all that, but you are really a bit queer, and half the time I don’t know w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
… the actualities {233} of Colombo merely annoyed me; I was intensely aware of one thing only, the absence of the clossal calm and common sense of China. Experience has taught me that imponderables are all-important; when science declares that it can concern itself only with that which can be measured, it classes itself with the child that counts on its fingers and brands Shakespeare and Shelley as charlatans. I am not ashamed of such company; let me say then that the silent stress of my contact with the fringe of Chinese civilization operated i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 269
…h for Crowleyanity : Things as they are —of these take hold , Their heart of wonder throb to thine ! All things are matter and force and sense , No two alone . All's one : the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith , but wage of evidence. The clod , the God , the spar, the star , Mete in thy measure , as they are !! The sum total of the Vedantist Crowley sums up as follows : " I'am an illusion , externally . In reality , the true ' I'am the Infinite , and if the illusionary ‘ I ' could only realize Who I'really am , how very happy we should…
1909 · PDF PAGE 129
…e one’s clothes. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place." It is dirt to connect sex with statuary, morals with art. Only Adonai, who is in a sense the True Meaning of everything, cannot defile any idea. This is a hard saying, though true, for nothing of course is dirtier than to try and use Adonai as a fig—leaf for one’s shame. To seduce women under pretence of religion is un- 127
1917 · PDF PAGE 4
ALEISTER CROWLEY 5353 O Light! descend! My feet move vaguely on Pini amazing darkness, in the gloom Mist I can touch with trembling sense. There shone , in my misty memory, in the womb Nod smoke of mighty pillars ; yet my mind fj clouded with the horror of this same Path of the wise men : for my soul is blind Yee: and the foemen I have never feared could not see (if such should cross the way), ‘And therefore I am strange: my soul is scared With desolation of the Blinding day Tiare ome oo rom ye that fearful ihe Was not the Sun: my life has been…
1919 · PDF PAGE 53
… tidings? Then comes the first call of the Great Goddess Nuit, Lady of the Starry Heaven, who is also Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. Hear Her first summons to 47
1919 · PDF PAGE 416
…tream would enter,” thrill in response to every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes.” Here is another absurdity. What is the sense of asking a man at his initial step if he has complied with all the rules? If the disciple were in the condition mentioned, he would be already very far advanced. But of course if we were to take the words “The threshold of the Path” “The foremost gate” “The stream” as equivalent to Srotapatti, the passage would gain in intel- ligibility. But, just as in the noble eight-fold Path, the steps are concurren…
1919 · PDF PAGE 372
…25. The Dharma of the “Heart” is the embodiment of Bodhi, the Permanent and Everlasting. “Bodhi” implies the root “Light” in its highest sense of L.V.X. But, even in Hindu Theory, ravra feu. 26. The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. To make them clean a cleaner is required. The flame feels not the process of the cleaning. “The branches of the tree are shaken by the wind; the trunk remains unmoved.” This verse again refers to the process of selection and elimination already described. The aspiration must be con- sidered as unaffecte…
1954 · PDF PAGE 389
…pertaining to Magick. When, therefore, you express curiosity as to how much of the normally super-sensible world has been revealed to my senses, and especially that of sight, you must take my answer as "without prejudice," "e. and o.e.," "under the rose," and "in a Pickwickian sense." If you choose to call me a lunatic and/or a liar, I shall accept the verdict with mine accustomed imperturbability. Whether what I am about to tell you is "true" or not doesn't matter, as in any case it proves nothing in particular. What does matter is to accept n…
1961 · PDF PAGE 198
…g the Whole into one Billow of Love, under Will. Yea, o my son, until thou hast brought the Postulant into our Freedom from Sin, and the Sense and Conviction thereof, he is not ready for the Path of our Magick and Illumination; because every Way soever is a Going, and his Sin is an obstacle and a Fetter and an Hoodwink on every one of them, for it is Restriction, whether he set out by the Meditations of the Dhamma, or by Our Qabalah, or by Vision or Theurgy, or how else soever. n
1905 · PDF PAGE 238
… What ninefold forest, shade impassible, Surrounds Thy heart, as with a core of light Shut in the mystery of a dead world. Thou formless sense of gloom and terror! Thou Upas,! new tree of life—by sinister Cherubim with averted faces kept ! Nay! This one secret I suspect, and gloat Over the solemn purport of the dream With subtle shuddering of joy,—and that Keener delight, a sense of deadly fear ! This secret : Thou art darkness in Thyself, and evil wrapped in light, and ugliness Vested in beauty! Therefore is my love No petty passion like these…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
…rd ; The whole affair is quite absurd— Behold ! the righteous claims of Faith !” (He does not rhyme you quite so neatly ; But that’s the sense of it, completely.) I do not feel myself inclined In spit of my irrevent mind, So lightly to pass by the schemes Of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (one, Small though the apparent unison), As if they were mere drunken dreams ; For the first word in India here From Koromandl to Kashmir Says the same thing these Germans said : “Ekam Advaita !”44 one, not two ! Thus East and West from A to Z Agree—Alas ! so do not…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
… when and how had Jean pulled open the iron gates and retreated into the street? “It mattered little, though certainly it left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi-darkness—the dawn was not fairly lifted— for life and death. “Ten thousand crowns, Monsieur Jean,’ I cried, ‘and my service!’—I gave him my style—‘I see you can be a faithful servant.’ “* Faithful to death!’ he retorted, and I was sorry to have to kill him. “We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your mistress is dead. Your duty is to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
… when and how had Jean pulled open the iron gates and retreated into the street? “It mattered little, though certainly it left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi-darkness—the dawn was not fairly lifted— for life and death. “Ten thousand crowns, Monsieur Jean,’ I cried, ‘and my service!’—I gave him my style—‘I see you can be a faithful servant.’ “* Faithful to death!’ he retorted, and I was sorry to have to kill him. “We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your mistress is dead. Your duty is to …
1912 · PDF PAGE 140
… watch, He could have sworn it stopped, when it shook and staggered on with the importance of Big Ben, and he realized that his own time-sense was radically upset. He wondered if it was the same with her—the devil in him gloatecl‘ “A gentleman to see you, sirl" said the butler, opening the door. " He wouldn’t give his namel ” “I'll see him," said Zircon, as blithe as a larkr “Show him in!" In strode the bearded stranger of the afternoon. “You damned scoundrel!” he addressed the smiling Professor. ”So this is where my sister spends her evenings!…
1912 · PDF PAGE 140
… watch, He could have sworn it stopped, when it shook and staggered on with the importance of Big Ben, and he realized that his own time-sense was radically upset. He wondered if it was the same with her—the devil in him gloatecl‘ “A gentleman to see you, sirl" said the butler, opening the door. " He wouldn’t give his namel ” “I'll see him," said Zircon, as blithe as a larkr “Show him in!" In strode the bearded stranger of the afternoon. “You damned scoundrel!” he addressed the smiling Professor. ”So this is where my sister spends her evenings!…
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
…larly as the phlogiston - idea clung so long to the principles of chemistry . Now follows the philosophic fall . Seeking the Absolute in sense - perceptions , and listening to the chatter of the carnal snake , these wise men , these latter - day philo sophers , not finding eternal knowledge in the deific apple , ceased munching so wry a pippin , declaring the God of Religion , the Matter of Science , Unknowable , a thing in itself , like the jinnee in the vase , or dis persed throughout Space as the jinnee when the vase 1 Pentecost , vol . ii, …