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Page 40 of 831919 · PDF PAGE 138
…number of THE Equinox, and before he got into touch with any Member of the A..A.. he made an attempt at Asana. The earliest record I can find reads as follows: Thursday, Nov. 4th, 1909. 11.20 p.m. to 11.41 p.m. Asana. Position I. The God. Inclination for back to bend, just above hips, had to straighten up several times. Opened eyes once and moved head, after about five minutes. Breathed fairly regularly after the first few minutes, counting 9 in, holding 4, 9 out, holding 4. Saw various colours in clouds, and uncertain figures, during the latte…
1919 · PDF PAGE 375
… do not be afraid of the length of the Path. This treatise being for beginners, reward is offered. And—it is really worth while. One may find oneself in the Office of a Buddha. “Yea, cried the Holy One, and from Thy spark will I the Lord kindle a great light; I will burn through the grey city in the old and desolate land; I will cleanse it from its great impurity. “And thou, O prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 53
1906 · PDF PAGE 168
…tians live and look the lie Their faith has taught them: none of these Inspire my life, disturb my peace. I go beneath the outward faith Find it a devil or a wraith, Just as my mood or temper tends! And thus to-day that “ Christ ascends,” I take the symbol, leave the fact, Decline to make the smallest pact With your creative Deity, And say: The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“ New Birth” you'll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary spher…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…elieve that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…elieve that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 62
…s thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value! 55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. , 22
1913 · PDF PAGE 62
…s thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value! 55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. , 22
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
… towards certain ideals , and frequently results in a definite hero - worship ; but genius cannot be bound for long ; it will eventually find its own level . The mere fact that certain forms of thought and modes of ex pression occur here as they have occurred elsewhere , should be as a literary barometer , enabling us to judge the mental standard of the writer . All great writers will have many points in common . It is more than probable that Aleister Crowley had already read most of Shakespeare before he wrote “ The Mother's Tra gedy ,” and ye…
1907 · PDF PAGE 322
…yogi , sets out to know the un knowable , and as “ it is just as grave an illusion to attribute morality to a stone as it is to think to find the supernatural in the world of phenomena ," ? so in the inmost depths of the ego alone , itself unthinkable , lies the source of all mystic experience . “ I live , yet not I, but God in me .” This is the suspense of Job , the sleep of Solomon , the silence of St. John , arrived at by fixing the mind upon one single object of thought , so that the treasures of representation which lie dormant in the memo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 252
…t yet Thy name! Who art Thou? Who art Thou? THOMAS [opening the door). Mr. Todd. [Enter tovp. caRR [rising]. How are you? I’m afraid you find me distracted! Listen: all my life I have sought—nor counted the cost—for the secret of things. Science is baffled, for Knowledge hath no wings! Religion is baffled, for Faith hath no feet! Life itself—of what value is all this coil and tumult? Who shall give me the secret? What is the secret ? [ropp whispers in his ear. Why, thanks, thanks! What a fool I have been! I have always known who you were, of co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 281
…t in an instant, preceded and followed by the successions of a distinctly recalled past life. What is the philosophy of this fact? If we find no ground for believing that we have ever lived self-consciously in any other state, and cannot thus explain it, may not this be the solu- tion of the enigma? At the moment of the soul’s reception ofa new impression, she first accepts it as a thing entirely of the sense ; she tells us how large it is, and of what quality. To this definition of its boundaries and likeness succeeds, at times 263
1910 · PDF PAGE 252
…t yet Thy name! Who art Thou? Who art Thou? THOMAS [opening the door). Mr. Todd. [Enter tovp. caRR [rising]. How are you? I’m afraid you find me distracted! Listen: all my life I have sought—nor counted the cost—for the secret of things. Science is baffled, for Knowledge hath no wings! Religion is baffled, for Faith hath no feet! Life itself—of what value is all this coil and tumult? Who shall give me the secret? What is the secret ? [ropp whispers in his ear. Why, thanks, thanks! What a fool I have been! I have always known who you were, of co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 281
…t in an instant, preceded and followed by the successions of a distinctly recalled past life. What is the philosophy of this fact? If we find no ground for believing that we have ever lived self-consciously in any other state, and cannot thus explain it, may not this be the solu- tion of the enigma? At the moment of the soul’s reception ofa new impression, she first accepts it as a thing entirely of the sense ; she tells us how large it is, and of what quality. To this definition of its boundaries and likeness succeeds, at times 263
1913 · PDF PAGE 463
…nster pre- sented itself; in a word, the devil would not appear. That is why he is looking for the gvimoive of Honorius, for he hopes to find in it stronger conjurations, and more efficacious rites.” “Really! But the man is then a monster, or a mad- man!” “JT think he is just simply in love,” said Desbarrolles. “He is gnawed by some absurd passion, and hopes for absolutely nothing unless he can get the devil to interfere.” “ But how then—what does he mean when he says that we shall hear him spoken of ?” “Who knows? Perhaps he thinks to carry of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 463
…nster pre- sented itself; in a word, the devil would not appear. That is why he is looking for the gvimoive of Honorius, for he hopes to find in it stronger conjurations, and more efficacious rites.” “Really! But the man is then a monster, or a mad- man!” “JT think he is just simply in love,” said Desbarrolles. “He is gnawed by some absurd passion, and hopes for absolutely nothing unless he can get the devil to interfere.” “ But how then—what does he mean when he says that we shall hear him spoken of ?” “Who knows? Perhaps he thinks to carry of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 205
…any by - ways , corridors , and blind alleys in this great labyrinth of Parnassus , so in this clue , which has been given us , we shall find many twisted threads , yet all of one fibre , which will lead us , the weary wanderers in the mys teries , to that certain and blissful kingdom which shall be our beginning . Kant has said , the business of all philosophy is to answer the question “ What can I know ? ” Huxley , perhaps the astutest philosopher since the days of the magus of Königsberg , observes that it is impos sible to answer the questi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
…e soul of a Loyola must be united in one person . And this illu mination must be as definite a phenomenon as orgasm , following which we find the material world , and its foundation the world of thought , as honestly set down to hallucination as a ghost would be . Construct the Temple in the place of the Manger , on the site of the ruins of religion and philosophy , but with the stones of the unfinished and abandoned Hall of Science . And in it let Semiramis , heavy with child by the Holy Ghost , possess the couch of labour , once crushed by th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
…uch and suffered much; he has endured poverty, calumny, proscription, prison, the forsaking of those whom he loved:—and yet never did he find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
…uch and suffered much; he has endured poverty, calumny, proscription, prison, the forsaking of those whom he loved:—and yet never did he find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 90
CHAPTER VI THE GLITTER ON THE SNOW I WOKE to find Lou fully dressed. She was sitting on the edge of my bed. She had taken hold of my hand, and her face was bending over mine like a pallid flower. She saw that I was awake, and her mouth descended upon mine with exquisite tenderness. Her lips were soft and firm; their kiss revived me into life. She was extraordinarily pale, and her gestures were limp and languid. I realised that I was utterly exhausted. | “I couldn’t sleep at all,” she said, ‘after what seemed a very long time in which I tried to…