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Page 39 of 791913 · PDF PAGE 251
…n (which might happen to the best of French authors) he shrieks [séc/ / /]. Many other remarks of the future saint display a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It was also unfortunate in a way that a book purporting to deal exhaustively with the inmost cabinet secrets of high- grade Freemasonry should be written by one who was not even a craft Mason. The ?result was that Dr. Wynn Westcott having been made to swear by all his gods that he was zof Consulting Chemist to the British G…
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
… of madness. Well, this programme is only paradoxical in its form, which lends itself to a false and sacrilegious interpretation. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, creates for himself a God corresponding to his own intelligence and his own goodness; he cannot raise his ideal higher than his moral development permits him to do. The God whom he adores is always an enlargement of his own reflection. To conceive the absolute of goodness …
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
…n (which might happen to the best of French authors) he shrieks [séc/ / /]. Many other remarks of the future saint display a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It was also unfortunate in a way that a book purporting to deal exhaustively with the inmost cabinet secrets of high- grade Freemasonry should be written by one who was not even a craft Mason. The ?result was that Dr. Wynn Westcott having been made to swear by all his gods that he was zof Consulting Chemist to the British G…
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
… of madness. Well, this programme is only paradoxical in its form, which lends itself to a false and sacrilegious interpretation. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, creates for himself a God corresponding to his own intelligence and his own goodness; he cannot raise his ideal higher than his moral development permits him to do. The God whom he adores is always an enlargement of his own reflection. To conceive the absolute of goodness …
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…he Blessed Buddhas lift not up their voice without a reason and without an object.”* But in spite of their being no sow/ “in the highest sense,” j Gotama had to postulate some vehicle which would transmit the sorrow of one generation to another, of one instant of time to the next; and, not being able to use the familiar idea of Atman, he instead made that of Karma doa double duty. ‘He does not die until that evil Karma is exhausted,” says Nagasena.{ Now this brings us to an extraordinary complex question, namely the Jractical difference between…
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…he Blessed Buddhas lift not up their voice without a reason and without an object.”* But in spite of their being no sow/ “in the highest sense,” j Gotama had to postulate some vehicle which would transmit the sorrow of one generation to another, of one instant of time to the next; and, not being able to use the familiar idea of Atman, he instead made that of Karma doa double duty. ‘He does not die until that evil Karma is exhausted,” says Nagasena.{ Now this brings us to an extraordinary complex question, namely the Jractical difference between…
1919 · PDF PAGE 55
… “I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunk- enness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you; come unto me!” And thus She ends: “Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me per- fumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. To me! 49
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
…ing. Their position is radically weak, but at least we m ay say for them that they have tried to square their religion with their common sense. The Christians, on the other hand, though they saw whither the Manichean Heresy1 must lead, and crushed it, have not officially admitted the precisely similar conclusion with regard to man, and denied the exis tence of the hum an s oul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblichus, Porphy ry, Boehme, and the my stics generally have of course substantially done so, though occa- sionally with…
1907 · PDF PAGE 264
…HE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO .” “ When we say that the Cosmos sprang from O , what kind of O do we mean ? By O in the ordinary sense of the term we mean ' absence of extension in any of the categories .' " When I say “ No cat has two tails ,'I do not mean , as the old fallacy runs , that ‘ Absence of cat possesses two tails , but that “ In the category of two - tailed things , there is no extension of cat !' “ Nothingness is that about which no positive pro position is valid . We cannot truly affirm : ‘ Nothing ness is green , or heav…
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…n mysticism and war respectively. We pity the Urning, as we pity the consumptive or the drunkard ; but we do not pity him in any special sense, any more than a connoisseur of fine wines pities the drunkard above all other pitiable folk. We do not acknowledge any nervous weak- ness as having a peculiar claim on us, just be- cause it lies in the same plane6 as one of our hob- bies. Now this question of Bimetallism leads us to the subject of the reasons for our indulgence, since we are not (as some silly Germans would pretend) equally with the Urn…
1911 · PDF PAGE 86
… mystery of this Aire, and few that are new-born unto Understanding are capable thereof. The cup glows ever brighter and fierier. All my sense is unsteady, being smitten with ecstasy. And the Angel sayeth: Blessed are the saints, that their blood is mingled in the cup, and can never be separate any more. For Babylon the Beautiful, the Mother of abomina- tions, hath sworn by her holy cteis, whereof every point is a pang, that she will not rest from her adulteries until the blood of everything that liveth is gathered therein, and the wine thereof…
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
… few of these . .. Why not leave it alone, and try to be God? But even had we Maudsley’s committee of geniuses; should we be in any real sense the better? Not while the reason is, as at present, the best guide known to men, not until humanity has developed a mental power of an entirely different kind. For to the philosopher it soon becomes apparent that. reason is a weapon inadequate to the task, Hume saw it, and became a sceptic in the widest sense of the term. Mansel saw it, and counsels us to try Faith, as if it was not the very fact that Fa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
…ition of Darwin and {319} Spencer. But the average explorer (for some inexplicable reason) seems absolutely incapable of applying common sense, experience or the teaching of science to the vital problems with which he is posed. Here in 1922, after all our experience, we have the members of the Everest expedition drivelling about acclimatization, as if science did not exist. Norman Collie told me plainly in 1896 on his return from the Mummery expedition to Nanga Parbat, that the only chance of getting up a big mountain was to rush it. I knew Col…
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
… long passage steeply sliding ever up to my feet where I stood in the emptiness ; at last a sure abiding only in absolute ceasing of all sense, and all perceived or understood or knowable ; thus, purple and intense, I beheld the past that leads to peace, from royal heights of mastery to sleep, from self-control imperial to an end, therefore I shaped the seven tiers of the ascending corridor into seven strokes of wisdom, seven harvests fair to reap from seven bitter sowings. Here ascend the armies of life’s universal war chasing the pious pilgri…
1906 · PDF PAGE 187
… world above Which he denominated ‘ Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—lI have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . . * oe . tions. eus in Christ did attain in every deed ; machina. Pon- Yet, being an i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…ver “ overcome ” ; to meet him is the proof of having strayed. The Key fits the Door perfectly ; but he who is drunken on the bad wine of Sense and Thought fumbles thereat. And of course there is a great deal of door, and very little key-hole), who dost use my very love of Adonai to destroy me! Yet how shall I approach Him, if not with reverent 95
1919 · PDF PAGE 271
…ess. Ilove you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come untome! Tome! Tome! Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Drink to me, for I love you! Iloveyou. Jam the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. To me! Tome! The PRIEST mounts the second step. Tue Priest. O secret of secrets that art hidden in the be- ing of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…ne who knows are not radically one person. This double personality is enormously ac- centuated at death. Another point was that the time-sense, which with men is usually so reliableespecially in my own case was decidedly deranged, if not abrogated altogether.
1907 · PDF PAGE 310
…, probably depending on certain higher laws unknown to the rational world . When the soul has reached this point , law , in the rational sense of the term , has ceased to have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own law . Thus when we have raised our hearts to the nth power , we become as Gods knowing good and evil ; and if this raising of the heart , which Crowley so brilliantly sets forth throughout his works , can in any way lead a man into a nobler and higher insight of himself , no on…
1922 · PDF PAGE 109
…ng up. But never you mind that. The point is that when you have the right amount of snow in you, you can't feel anything in the ordinary sense of the word. You appreciate it in a sort of impersonal way. There’s a pain, but the pain doesn’t hurt. You enjoy the fact of the pain as you enjoy reading about all sorts of terrible things in history at school. But the trouble about cocaine is this; that it’s almost impossible to take it in moderation as almost any one, except an American, can take whisky. Every dose makes you better and better. It dest…