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…stigating. One must pass by contemptuously the Christian liar’s gloss which interprets “ sceptic” as “ mocker” ; though in a sense it is true for him, since to inquire into Christianity is assuredly to mock at it ; but I am concerned to intensify the etymological connotation in several respects. First, I do not regard mere incredulity as necessary to the idea, though credulity is incompatible with it. Incredulity implies a pre- judice in favour of a negative conclusion; and the true sceptic should be perfectly unbiassed. Second, I exclude “vita…
1922 · PDF PAGE 14
…IT. 199 IV. VI. Vit. Contents BOOK III—PURGATORIO KING LAMUS INTERVENES FIRST AID THE VOICE OF VIRTUE OUT OF HARM’S WAY AT TELEPYLUS THE TRUE WILL LOVE UNDER WILL PAGE 247 262 280 297 315 333 348
1907 · PDF PAGE 304
…ssign any meaning to it is frankly beyond me ; but I am as certain that such a state once existed , as I am of anything .' This is quite true , for on attaining to such an ad vanced stage of illumination , language rapidly fails us , and we break through the dialectic veil and enter that life which lies “ behind , ” solely expressed by means of symbols . “ What can I know ? " asked Kant , as we have already seen . “ What is Knowledge ? ” asks the Yogi or mystic , and his question is the right one of the two . I see a cat. Dr. Johnson says it is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 22
…s ! We must climb up the shaft to reach that point—but— wait one moment! How obscure and subtle has our simile become! Can we attach any true meaning to the phrase? I doubt it, seeing what we have taken for the limits of the swing. True, it may be that at the end the swing is always 360° so that the !-point and the ?-point coincide; but that is not the same thing as having no swing at all, unless we make kinematics identical with statics. What is to be done? How shall such mysteries be uttered? Is this how it is that the true Path of the Wise i…
1961 · PDF PAGE 41
…Tendency is continually to release itself from that strain by the Marriage of Opposites whenever they are brought into Contact. Thus thy true Nature is a Will to Zero, or an Inertia, or Doing Nothing; and the Way of Doing Nothing is to oppose no Obstacle to the free Function of that true Nature. Consider the Electrical Charge of a Cloud, whose Will is to discharge itself in Earth, and so release the Strain of its Potential. Do this by free conduction, there is Silence and Darkness; oppose it, there is Heat and Light, and the Rending asunder of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 30
…EADOW 25 Calm after strain and stress Now to our weariness Brings love anew. Peace brings her balm to us, Lying as amorous Still, and as true, Linked by new mystery, Lovers confessed. A sigh Sobs to the happy sky, “ Sorrow, go to ! ”
1961 · PDF PAGE 88
… and Trowel; say I) in this Work. For this is the first and last of all, that thou bid every Man do What he will, in accord with his own true Nature. Therefore also blast thou that Lie that Man is of a fallen and evil Nature. For the Word of Sin is Restriction, the Doubt of his own Godhead, the Suppression of, which is the Blasphemy against, his own Holy Spirit. Saith not The Book of the Law that . . . It is a lie, this folly against self. . . .? Therefore to every Man, in every Circumstance, say thou: Do what thou wilt; and teach him, if he …
1961 · PDF PAGE 89
… wilt! be this our Slogan of Battle in every Act; for every Act is Conflict. There Victory leapeth shining before us; for who may thwart true Will, which is the Order of Nature Herself? . . . thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For if that Will be true, its Fulfilment is of a Surety as Daylight following Sunrise. It is as certain as the Operation of any other Law of Nature; it is Destiny. Then, if that Will be obscured, if thou turn from it to Wills diseased or perverse, how canst thou hope? Fool! Even …
1954 · PDF PAGE 474
…ool I was to expect that. "All they can digest," said he, "is a mess of stewed cliches with Bird's custard Powder." Damn everything-it's true, it's true. So do you at least get together the stones that you need to build your Basilica! Entrepreneur Correspondent and Co-respondent. (They don't know the difference) Subcutaneous Olordei\. (Although they have them!) Gleet J Histology ("Something to do with history")
1961 · PDF PAGE 78
…nditions or limits, of thine own individual Will. Thou dost laugh? Err not, my Son! The Magus, even as the Poet is the Expression of the true Will of his Fellows, and his Success is his Proof, as it is written in The Book of the Law. For his Work is to free Men from the Fetters of a false or a superannuated Will, revealing unto them, in Measure attuned to their Needs, their true Natures. s
1961 · PDF PAGE 39
…with, and thus separate, as sayeth Trismegistus, the fine from the coarse, Fire from Earth, or, as we may say, assign each Effect to its true Cause. Seek then to perfect a conscious Satisfaction of every Part of that Will, so that the unconscious Disturbances be at last brought to Silence. Then will the Residuum be as an Elixir clarified and perfected, a true Symbol of that other hidden Will which is the Vector of thy Magical Self. a
1912 · PDF PAGE 95
…Even Patanjali, who is extraordinarily clear and practical in most things, begins to rave when he talks of it. Even if what he said were true he should not have mentioned it ; because it does not sound true, and we should make no statement that is ἁpriori improbable without being prepared to back it up with the fullest proofs. But it is more than likely that his com- mentators have misunderstood him. The most reasonable statement, of any acknowledged authority, is that of Yajna Valkya, who says: “ By Pranayama impurities of the body are thrown …
1922 · PDF PAGE 204
…ers of science and humanity. We were making an experiment; we were risking life and reason for the sake of mankind. Of course, it wasn’t true. And yet, who can tell the real root of one’s motives? If he chose to insist that we were doing what the leaders of thought have always done, how could I contradict him ? A buoyant billow of bliss bounded in my brain. It might not be true; but, by God, we’d make it come true. I suppose a light leapt in my eyes, and enabled him to read my thought. Respice finem! Judge the end; The man, and not the child, m…
1912 · PDF PAGE 79
… the words “vault on Vera" Hence in the diary the letters S.D. (for Stooping Dragon) will refer to somebody named Vera, or possibly ”the true woman,” or " true things." As I am ninety—four years old come Martinmas, and have much more of this “ Temple ” anyhow, I feel justified in leaving the rest of this ingeni— ous cipher to any lunatics who get tired of the Bacon-Shakespeare folly. Anybody who understands this entry of October 6— Brassies and Billiards. Council of War. The King’s letter to the Queen : “ Pussy the Prince is ill ” Paedicabo ego …
1912 · PDF PAGE 79
… the words “vault on Vera" Hence in the diary the letters S.D. (for Stooping Dragon) will refer to somebody named Vera, or possibly ”the true woman,” or " true things." As I am ninety—four years old come Martinmas, and have much more of this “ Temple ” anyhow, I feel justified in leaving the rest of this ingeni— ous cipher to any lunatics who get tired of the Bacon-Shakespeare folly. Anybody who understands this entry of October 6— Brassies and Billiards. Council of War. The King’s letter to the Queen : “ Pussy the Prince is ill ” Paedicabo ego …
1961 · PDF PAGE 73
…R FOLLY 61 Bq De Veritate Falsi (Of the Truth of Falsehood) OREOVER this Matter touches the Nature of Truth. For although to thee in thy True Self, absolute and without Conditions, all this Universe, which is relative and conditioned is an Illusion; yet to that Part of Thee by which thou perceivest it, the Law of its Being (or By-coming) is a Law of Truth. Learn then that all Relations are true upon their own Plane, and that it would be a Violation of Nature to adjust them skewwise. Thus, albeit thou hast found thy Self, and knowest Thy Self im…
1914 · PDF PAGE 5
… all speech! Yet “love,” obscenely purred From whiskered lips, stillsends my spi To God from all this miry martyrdom. ‘There is a woman, true, fair, wise, and young, Her soul one flame for art and song, her soul Pure as the trilling musick of her tongue, Her heart one flame—for me. The single goal Of this great purgatory of mine is she. God grant her hope to her, and mine to me! fa) ‘Thou all-beholding sun, whose beams Comfort the just and the unjust, Wake me from all these evil dreams Of this grey globe of greed and lust! Ah ! that is less tha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 261
…these come to pass with simplicity." (The Tao Teh King, VII: 2) The ideal analogy seems to be that of a planet in its orbit. It has its "true motion"; it meets the minimum of friction from circumambient space. When it suffers the attraction of another body, it sways slightly to make the proper adjustment without effort or argument; it can, consequently, continue indefinitely in its orbit. This is roughly the plan of the Taoist in his attitude to life. Having ascertained the Path which satisfies the equations of his Nature (as we say, "found his…
1913 · PDF PAGE 34
KE@AAH KA THE BLIND WEBSTER we create. Let us create nothing but GOD! That which causes us to create is our true father and mother; we create in our own image, which is theirs. Let us create therefore without fears; for we can create nothing that is not GOD.
1919 · PDF PAGE 2
…tation. About Him flames the Aura corresponding to that particular Trance as directly observed by the artist, who possesses the Power of True Vision.