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Page 33 of 831907 · PDF PAGE 289
282 THE STAR IN THE WEST The Agnostic principles of Crowleyanity may briefly be summed up as follows : Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself. Say not “ I have a soul,” before you feel that you have a soul . Say not “ There is a God," before you experience that there is a God . You can never understand until you have experi enced . You can never experience until you have got beyond reason . Those five paths lead us to one road , the road of “ Knowledge and Doubt " ; beyond which to the inept there is impenetrable night , and to the …
1919 · PDF PAGE 340
…m to Binah and Neshamah (the aspira- tion or Divine Mind). 24. The name of Hall the second is the Hall of LEARN- ING. Init thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled. This Hall is a very much larger region than that usually understood by the Astral World. It would certainly include all states up to Dhyana. The Student will remember that 18
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
… ? And the proof Extant , implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain . These twain be one .? 3 In these five lines we find a clinching of the whole argument . " These twain be one .” No more than this did Berkeley ever arrive at : " But , though it were possible that solid , figured , movable substances may exist without the mind , corresponding to the ideas we have of bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by sense or by reason . He never denied the material existence of things , and was…
1907 · PDF PAGE 281
…indeed go down to death , But the new gods arise from rottenness . 1 2 The pantheistic idea , which is so near akin to the agnostic , we find set in the fine prayer of Jephthah , and still more so in the final words of Tannhäuser : I say , then “ I ”; and yet it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I " incorporate in All.3 It further finds development in the last four lines of “ Ode to Poesy ”: No man, No petty god , but One who governs all , Slips the sun's leash , perceives the sparrow's fall , Too high for me to fear , too near for man to call .* A…
1909 · PDF PAGE 403
STEWED PRUNES AND PRISM perfect parallel one cannot find in the shoddy sentimentalism of Tennyson. Even where the vision is true and beautiful it is quite out of place. The young gentleman waits in the park for his young lady; and sees, quite clearly and nicely : “ And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.” Apart from the villainous cacophony and bad taste of the wording, the vision is true enough ; I was once young myself, in a park—and the rest of it; and that is exactly the vision. But what a point of view! The young gentleman must certainly h…
1909 · PDF PAGE 403
STEWED PRUNES AND PRISM perfect parallel one cannot find in the shoddy sentimentalism of Tennyson. Even where the vision is true and beautiful it is quite out of place. The young gentleman waits in the park for his young lady; and sees, quite clearly and nicely : “ And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.” Apart from the villainous cacophony and bad taste of the wording, the vision is true enough ; I was once young myself, in a park—and the rest of it; and that is exactly the vision. But what a point of view! The young gentleman must certainly h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 152
…inomies, that between Magick and Mysticism, is transcended in the Method of the New 2on. But to return to the effect upon Fra. P. of the Finding of the Lost Book. There is no longer any hesitation or dissipation ; as an Arrow from the Bow he flies to the mark of his 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 th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 152
…inomies, that between Magick and Mysticism, is transcended in the Method of the New 2on. But to return to the effect upon Fra. P. of the Finding of the Lost Book. There is no longer any hesitation or dissipation ; as an Arrow from the Bow he flies to the mark of his 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 th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…imed success — all these have ever belonged to the witling 's stock -in -trade , and I know no part of it more cheaply come by. You will find it very nobly and disdainfully assigned its proper value in the opening page or two of Dryden 's famous Essay of Dramatic Poesy . In that little masterpiece , Dryden deliberately lays his scene , choosing an occasion which , more than any in his time , might seem to justify the vulgar con tempt of poetry as a mere frill and accessory upon human affairs : ' It was that memorable day ( he says ), in the fir…
1913 · PDF PAGE 259
…rtem on the dying saint. Mr. Wilmshurst was reading through the will in which the dying saint had left everything to Lady S——, and could find no flaw, though he had drawn it up himself. Mr. Battiscombe Gunn was rapidly revising the funeral arrange- ments of the dying saint, which he proposed to found on some unedited documents of the Second Dynasty, which showed conclusively that the sacred lotus was in reality a corset, and the Weapon of Men Thu a button-hook. Neuburg was improvising (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a croo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 259
…rtem on the dying saint. Mr. Wilmshurst was reading through the will in which the dying saint had left everything to Lady S——, and could find no flaw, though he had drawn it up himself. Mr. Battiscombe Gunn was rapidly revising the funeral arrange- ments of the dying saint, which he proposed to found on some unedited documents of the Second Dynasty, which showed conclusively that the sacred lotus was in reality a corset, and the Weapon of Men Thu a button-hook. Neuburg was improvising (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a croo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 349
…the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal. ’Tis on such soil that grows the midnight blossom of Buddha, more difficult to find, more rare to view, than is the flower of 27
1954 · PDF PAGE 497
…have noticed the curious fashion in which Gods seem to overlap. It is not the same (you point out) with Angels. In no other system do we find a parallel for the Living Creatures. Wheels, Wings, Fiery Serpents, with such quasi-human cohorts as the Beni Elohim who beget children on women , to whom the Qabalah has introduced us. The Beni Elohim is actually an exception; there is the Incubus and some of the Fairy Folk, as well as certain Gods and demi-Gods, who act thus paternally. But you are right in the main. The Arabs, for example, have "seven …
1913 · PDF PAGE 114
I02 bringing it into harmony and proportion you will find the hidden stone, the same stone of the philosophers of which mention has already been made, which turns all into gold. This oil which can eat into the steel, is further that which is written. Liber LXV, i, i6: "As an acid eats into steel ... so am I unto the Spirit of Man." Note how closely woven into itself is all this symbolism ! The centre of Ruach being the heart, it is seen that this Sword of the Ruach must be thrust by the Magician into his own heart. But there is a subsequent tas…
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
… spoken of by the prophet Milton!* This is the horn of the prophet Zeruiah, and with this am I, though no Syrian, utterly pushed, till I find myself back against the dead wall of Dogma. Only now realising how dead a wall that is, do I turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox “literary”† school of Buddhists, as grown at Rangoon, exclaim with Lear: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have an intellect!” How is this? Listen, and hear! I find myself confronted with the crux: that a Buddhist, convinced int…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
… work; and usually they are forerunners of a new and higher realization of another un- known land to explore. Thus again and again do we find them rising and dissolving like some strange mist over the realms of the Vedanta. To disperse them we must consume them in that same fire which has consumed all we held dear; we must turn our engines of war about and destroy our sick and wounded, so that those who are strong and whole may press on the faster to victory. As early as the days of the Rig Veda, before the beginning was, there was “neither not…
1910 · PDF PAGE 323
…g forward and his hands searched in the darkness for the ears. A tiny little sound, made by the Lady, as she turned round, helped him to find the place. His fingers closed on each side over the ears and he pulled out with a violent movement. The Lady fell unconscious without having uttered a sound, so acute and sudden had been the pain. Piotr went away slowly, his hands grasping two ear-rings with a little piece of human flesh attached to them. 305
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
… work; and usually they are forerunners of a new and higher realization of another un- known land to explore. Thus again and again do we find them rising and dissolving like some strange mist over the realms of the Vedanta. To disperse them we must consume them in that same fire which has consumed all we held dear; we must turn our engines of war about and destroy our sick and wounded, so that those who are strong and whole may press on the faster to victory. As early as the days of the Rig Veda, before the beginning was, there was “neither not…
1910 · PDF PAGE 323
…g forward and his hands searched in the darkness for the ears. A tiny little sound, made by the Lady, as she turned round, helped him to find the place. His fingers closed on each side over the ears and he pulled out with a violent movement. The Lady fell unconscious without having uttered a sound, so acute and sudden had been the pain. Piotr went away slowly, his hands grasping two ear-rings with a little piece of human flesh attached to them. 305
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…from thy left; for in the aeon of my Father there is neither sound nor silence. Whoso hath power to break open this sapphire stone shall find therein four elephants having tusks of mother-of-pearl, and upon whose backs are castles, those castles which ye call the watch-towers of the Universe. Let me dwell in peace within the breast of the Angel that is warden of the aethyr. Let not the shame of my Mother be 12