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Page 47 of 911919 · PDF PAGE 109
…re speak clearly unto all, since it per- taineth unto all. Understand now that in yourselves is a certain discon- tent. Analyse well its nature: at the end is in every case one conclusion. The ill springs from the belief in two things, the Self and the Not-Self, and the conflict between them. This also is a restriction of the Will. He who is sick is in conflict with his own body: he who is poor is at odds with 103
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…hing is absolutely evil , nothing is accursed for ever , not even the archangel of evil , for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him .2 Thus we rise through the microprosopus of good and evil , to the great ethical macroprosopus which is equilibrated . Many are the tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existence to that great road , the road of the Soul . From the supernal flights of Idealism , we now find Crowley in the most infernal depths of realism strivin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX thought! “Look not upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature; for Her Name is Fatality; it becometh not thy body to behold Her, until it be first cleansed by the Sacred Mysteries.” The methods most practical and easy of obtaining these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX thought! “Look not upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature; for Her Name is Fatality; it becometh not thy body to behold Her, until it be first cleansed by the Sacred Mysteries.” The methods most practical and easy of obtaining these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
THE EQUINOX Black Magic, are absolutely recognized for the signatures of demons. Astral writings are often ridiculous or obscene. The pretended spirits, when questioned on the greater mysteries of Nature, often reply by that coarse word which became, so they say, heroic on one occasion, in the military mouth of Cambronne. The drawings which pencils will trace if left to their own devices very often reproduce shapeless phalli, such as the anemic hooligan, as one might picturesquely call him, sketches on the hoardings as he whistles, a further pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
THE EQUINOX Black Magic, are absolutely recognized for the signatures of demons. Astral writings are often ridiculous or obscene. The pretended spirits, when questioned on the greater mysteries of Nature, often reply by that coarse word which became, so they say, heroic on one occasion, in the military mouth of Cambronne. The drawings which pencils will trace if left to their own devices very often reproduce shapeless phalli, such as the anemic hooligan, as one might picturesquely call him, sketches on the hoardings as he whistles, a further pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
416 that the Magician has demanded that nature shall be for him a phenomenal mode of expressing his spiritual reality. The circumstances, therefore, of his life are uniformly adapted to his work. To take another analogy. The world appears to the lawyer quite otherwise than it does to the carpenter, and the same event occurring to the two men will suggest two quite different trains of thought and lead to two quite different results. My own errors of judgment, due to the annihilation of my ego and the consequent lack of leadership felt by my body…
1909 · PDF PAGE 369
…ter all, for the box was far from being empty. In the first compartment was a red flower, blushing deeply with all the purest carmine of Nature. The flower was certainly not freshly cut, but had preserved all its beauties and delect- able perfume. In the second compartment was a doll. Oh, not an extra- ordinary doll! A plain, common hand-made wooden doll, which you could open by the middle, to discover inside it a second doll presenting exactly the same appearance. Just like those figureless old women of white wood made by the Russian peasants …
1909 · PDF PAGE 369
…ter all, for the box was far from being empty. In the first compartment was a red flower, blushing deeply with all the purest carmine of Nature. The flower was certainly not freshly cut, but had preserved all its beauties and delect- able perfume. In the second compartment was a doll. Oh, not an extra- ordinary doll! A plain, common hand-made wooden doll, which you could open by the middle, to discover inside it a second doll presenting exactly the same appearance. Just like those figureless old women of white wood made by the Russian peasants …
1913 · PDF PAGE 126
…lems which exercised theimagination of John Ford. He views the sexual problem from the standpoint of the unconventional student of human nature. The principal poem in his new volume is a powerful dramatic sketch. passages in this drama are really very fine; and ‘The Fatal Force’ is also a dramatic poem of singular power. Mr. Crowley has a claim to recognition as a true poet. Most men who have thought deeply on life’s problems recognize that the current religion of nearly all their fellow men is an idle mockery.. We cannot shrink from looking be…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
… the consciousness. The moving Systems must be regular and harmonious. 6. Note carefully the duration of the experiments, the number and nature of the intruding thoughts, the tendency of the object itself to départ from the course laid out for it, and any other pheno- mena which may présent themselves. Avoid overstrain ; this is very important. 7. Proceed to imagine living objects; as a man, preferably sorne man known to, and respected by, yourself. 8. In the intervals of these experiments you may try to imagine the objects of the other senses,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 289
…ger talking of things as if their sense was fixed and universal. He is beginning to see some- thing of the contradiction inherent in the nature of things, or at any rate, he constantly illustrates the fact that the planes are to be kept separate for practical purposes, although in the final analysis they turn out to be one. This, and the extra- ordinarily subtle and delicate irony of which Eliphas Levi is one of the greatest masters that has ever lived, have baffled the pedantry and stupidity of such commentators as Waite. English has hardly a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…for a little while, by the embrace of their struggle itself. And the government of the future will be that whose model is shown to us in nature, by the family, and in the religious world bythe pastoral hierarchy. The elect shall reign with Jesus Christ during a thousand years, say the 1 “T do not say that Voltaire died a good Catholic, but he died a Catholic.” —E.L. Christian authors unanimously hold that, like all ‘heretics, he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. What on earth does it matter? Life, not death, reveals the soul— TRA…
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…s, and if one could ever formulate the conception of it, if it were possible to admit it, Hell would be a thing to hope for. This is why Nature itself seeks and imposes expiation as a remedy; that is why chastisement is a chastening, as that Ss 257
1913 · PDF PAGE 289
…ger talking of things as if their sense was fixed and universal. He is beginning to see some- thing of the contradiction inherent in the nature of things, or at any rate, he constantly illustrates the fact that the planes are to be kept separate for practical purposes, although in the final analysis they turn out to be one. This, and the extra- ordinarily subtle and delicate irony of which Eliphas Levi is one of the greatest masters that has ever lived, have baffled the pedantry and stupidity of such commentators as Waite. English has hardly a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…for a little while, by the embrace of their struggle itself. And the government of the future will be that whose model is shown to us in nature, by the family, and in the religious world bythe pastoral hierarchy. The elect shall reign with Jesus Christ during a thousand years, say the 1 “T do not say that Voltaire died a good Catholic, but he died a Catholic.” —E.L. Christian authors unanimously hold that, like all ‘heretics, he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. What on earth does it matter? Life, not death, reveals the soul— TRA…
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…s, and if one could ever formulate the conception of it, if it were possible to admit it, Hell would be a thing to hope for. This is why Nature itself seeks and imposes expiation as a remedy; that is why chastisement is a chastening, as that Ss 257
1919 · PDF PAGE 331
… upon the Eye- lids of the Seeker. 2. He who would hear the voice of Nada, the “Soundless Sound,” and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature of Dhéarané (concentrated thought). The voice of Nada is very soon heard by the beginner, especially during the practice of Pranayama (control of breath-force). At first it resembles distant surf, though in the adept it is more like the twittering of innumerable night- ingales; but this sound is premonitory, as it were, the veil of more distinct and articulate sounds which come later. It corresponds in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…n exclamation at the Note the extreme | moment of a Vision to express, however feebly, anxiety which he displays. What lesser matter its nature, rather than the phrase of a reasoner could so have stirred the placid and angelic exercising his reason. soul of Berkeley? On what he urges upon his brother? less urgent, grounds would he have agreed to the decep-| tions (harmless enough though they are) that This mysterious letter which so puzzles his biographer is in fact the key to his whole char- acter, life, and opinions. This is no place to labou…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…f a peripheral anguish. Here we leave the domain of fact; but at least as far our knowledge extends, all or nearly all the operations of Nature are vanity and vexation of spirit. Consider food, the desire for which periodically arises in all conscious beings.! The existence of these desires, or rather necessities, which I realise to be mine, is unpleasant. It is this desire inherent in me for continued consciousness that is responsible for it all, and this leads us to the Third Noble Truth. (3) SoRROW’S CEASING.—The cessation of desire is the c…