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Page 36 of 841909 · PDF PAGE 23
JOHN ST. JOHN worm I gave up, and tried playing the fool; got amused by the New Monster, but did not perform the “Vajroli Mudra.” [For this see the Shiva Sanhita, and other of the Holy Sanskrit Tantras.—ED.] However, having got rid of her for the moment, one may continue. 10.24— Py. [Prana Yama.—Ed.] 14 cycles. Some effort re- Io.39. quired ; sweating appears to have stopped and Bhuchari hardly begun, My head really aches a good deal. I must add one or two remarks, In my walk I dis- covered that my mantra Hua allahu, etc., really belongs to the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 262
THE NEW WINE 255 Such is the step of their duality , when they face the awful unity of their existence . ... their logic fails , Their jarring jargon jingles —even such An empty brazen pot-wise men deride The clouds that mimic whales. Man's darkness is a leathern sheath , Myself the sun -bright sword !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or r…
1954 · PDF PAGE 527
…sses beyond,) one creates a subtle body (instrument is a better term) called the Body of Light; this one develops and controls; it gains new powers as one progresses, usually by means of what is called 'initiation'; finally, one carries on almost one's whole life in this Body of Light, and achieves in its own way the mastery of the Universe. The first step in Yoga is "Keep still." The first step in Magick is "Travel beyond the world of the senses." There, that is the whole business in a nutshell, and expressed so that anyone, however ignorant o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…man, daughter of the Mazawattee tea man, and later of Manchester Theatre fame. She had been expelled by Mathers some time previously. I knew enough of campaigning to decline joining battle against such heavy artillery as Mr. Gill. Luckily, the value of the property had been sworn at a sum beyond the limit with which a police magistrate can deal. The summons was therefore withdrawn and Mr. Gill kept his eloquence and his fee to himself. There was in reality nothing worth fighting for. The rebel camp broke up in anarchy. They issued various hyste…
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
THE NEW WINE 225 nature .” On this despairing position of Hume , Kant bases his à priori. BERKELEY AND HUME Thus Hume arrives at the conclusion that all rela tionships between cause and effect are based on ex perience , and behind experience there is , “ a certain unknown and inexplicable something ." ? So also does Berkeley in the “ Three Dialogues " end in a similar quandary which he calls “ God." Starting out on his quest by stating : “ Can any doctrine be true that necessarily leads a man into an absurdity ? " ; he promptly proceeds to trav…
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER [Tlzz's Manifesto following has been issued by order of 6/68 new MI. Sovereign GrandMaster Generalfor G. B. and I.] . To all Sovereign Sanctuaries, Supreme Councils and Masonic Bodies in friendship with the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland. WE, Grand Secretary General of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, hereby give due Notice to all Sovereign Sanctuaries, Supreme Councils and Maso…
1919 · PDF PAGE 408
…cally. This love is not a sloppy feeling of maudlin sentimental kindness. The majority of people of the Christian Science, Theosophical, New Thought type, think that a lot of flabby thoughts, sending out streams of love in the Six Quarters, and so on, will help them. It won’t. Love is a pure flame, as swift and deadly as the lightning. This is the kind of love that the Student needs. (Subsection II.) The “key” here spoken of has been thor- oughly explained in Thien Tao in Konx Om Pax, but there is a peculiar method, apart from this plane, and e…
1961 · PDF PAGE 210
…he veileth Her Beauty in the Robe of Illusion many- coloured, and evadeth Him in Sport, yea, and divorceth Him from the Embrace, weaving new Modesties and allurements in Her Dance. Now, o my Son, the full Comprehension of this Arcanum is the Fruit of Contemplation, if this be prepared by the Experience of this Art in thine own Case. But to them that understand not, and have Grief and Separation, being deceived by this Play so that they deem it the Division of Hate, She can but speak in Simplicity by that Word written in The Book of the Law: To…
1907 · PDF PAGE 210
THE NEW WINE 203 Mysticus , we , if we enter the vortex of subjectivity and objectivity , " shall be tossed about as the world this 2,500 years . "11 IDEALISM In the philosophy of Plato idealism took the shape of a strictly formal characteristic , there 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 metaph…
1907 · PDF PAGE 280
THE NEW WINE 273 AGNOSTICISM Ex Oriente Lux . As old as the Vedas is the idea of Agnosticism , though in name it is not yet forty years of age . Everywhere we look we find the 'Ayvborq Oeq of Paul , midst the Greeks , the Egyptians , the Hebrews , the Chaldeans , the Aryans , and the Chinese , and its light is focussed in the greatest of the great : Socrates and Plato , Malebranche and Descartes , Locke and Spinoza , Hume and Berkeley , Swedenborg and Kant , Hegel and Comte , Tyndall , Spencer , and Huxley . Declining the mimetic , seeking the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 42
…d lack of sportsmanship. The first use he had to make of his freedom and of his fortune was to book a cabin on the first liner bound for New Zealand, where he was led to expect a total recovery. Il THE EMPRESS LiongEL lived on a large estate, rode, hunted, played games, was made love to; discovered the joys of Nature, the pleasures kept in reserve for man by Isis, and the superiority of the numbers two and three over the unity. He found, to his surprise, that women could take interest in him. His shyness was apparent, but tempted them. In his e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 42
…d lack of sportsmanship. The first use he had to make of his freedom and of his fortune was to book a cabin on the first liner bound for New Zealand, where he was led to expect a total recovery. Il THE EMPRESS LiongEL lived on a large estate, rode, hunted, played games, was made love to; discovered the joys of Nature, the pleasures kept in reserve for man by Isis, and the superiority of the numbers two and three over the unity. He found, to his surprise, that women could take interest in him. His shyness was apparent, but tempted them. In his e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
… who is described as having “ unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the knowledge of Good and of Evil, singing old songs and new, flinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world, as some stormy petrel shrillyc 'ng to the storm; or sweet notes of love, soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly.’ Captain Fuller’s language is always picturesque, and those who have not read Crowley’s poems could not discover a more enthusiastic cicerone. He insists on the superabundance of the poet’s genius and the diversity of his form, points…
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
THE NEW WINE 207 “ All is illusion ,” says Criosda ,' and further back in that weird play— “ The God - Eater ” — we have already heard him solemnly utter : Mystery ninefold closed upon itself That matter should move mind - Ay ! darker yet That mind should work on matter ? 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 possibl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 281
274 THE STAR IN THE WEST For the old gods 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 …
1912 · PDF PAGE 351
…Angel of ytb4 %, and of Chokmah of Briah, ete. Rod. [Ps. xxiii. 4] pay 26 x 12, the Twelve Banners giz Night Demon of 3" Dec. = YY) To renew; hence=a new wn moon, a month West. [Cf 272] aye 313 Angel of 15 Dec. ny TNNIIN 314 [Vide K.D. L.C.K.p.275] wo Son Metatron, Archangel of wp Kether, and Angel of Tiphareth of Briah. {When spelt with * after {9 it denotes Shekinah]
1912 · PDF PAGE 351
…Angel of ytb4 %, and of Chokmah of Briah, ete. Rod. [Ps. xxiii. 4] pay 26 x 12, the Twelve Banners giz Night Demon of 3" Dec. = YY) To renew; hence=a new wn moon, a month West. [Cf 272] aye 313 Angel of 15 Dec. ny TNNIIN 314 [Vide K.D. L.C.K.p.275] wo Son Metatron, Archangel of wp Kether, and Angel of Tiphareth of Briah. {When spelt with * after {9 it denotes Shekinah]
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
…stand themselves sufficiently to be able to formulate this will to themselves, and therefore at the end of their probation they choose a new name. adding to 463. Now 400 is Tau, the path leading from Malkuth to Yesod. Sixty is Samekh, the path leading leading from Yesod to Tiphereth ; and 3 is Gimel, the path leading thence to Kether. The whole rod therefore gives the paths from the Kingdom to the Crown. ^ In one, the best, system of Magick, the Absolute is called the Crown, God is called the Father, the Pure Soul is called the Mother, the Holy…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…es and apish men , Rivalling their gods in petty filthiness.3 Gods sprang from gods : For the old gods indeed go down to death , But the new gods arise from rottenness .4 The first cause , a pervading terror , was grand in its wilfulness compared with the degraded images which 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 126 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 106 . 3 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 19 . 4 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 143 .
1911 · PDF PAGE 10
…s stern and terrible. He spake saying: I have judged! It is the end: the gate of the beginning. Look in the Beneath and thou shalt see a new world! I looked and saw a great abyss and a dark funnel of whirling waters or fixed airs, wherein were cities and monsters and trees and atoms and mountains and little flames (being souls) and all the material of an universe. And all are sucked down one by one, as necessity hath ordained. For below is a glittering jewelled globe of gold and azure, set in a World of Stars. And there came a Voice from the Ab…