1907 · PDF PAGE 178
The Star in the West
…all are religious and himself the single one on earth that ever broke a net . Now hear a plain fact : Swedenborg has not written one new truth .
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The Star in the West
234 THE STAR IN THE WEST Kant would not say (A) but “ à priori truth ” ; and as to the laws of cause and effect , [if we accept caus ality , etc. , then we must regard all as truly parts of one thing , perhaps even as aspects of one thing .) And Kant , after a series of analytical arguments , comes to the conclusion that the legitimacy of natural laws " rests on the necessary connection of phenomena in an experience , in other words , on the original laws of the understanding , ” (p . 67 ). The understanding draw ing its laws à priori not from …
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1907 · PDF PAGE 265
The Star in the West
…whether or no it be ex tended in any of the categories . But we have already agreed to look to O for an Uncaused . “ Now if there was in truth O‘before the beginning of years ,' THAT O WAS EXTENDED IN NONE OF THE CATE GORIES , FOR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD EXTEND ! If our O was the ordinary O of mathematics , there was not truly absolute O , for O is, as I have shown , dependent on the ideas of categories . If these existed , then the whole question is merely thrown back ; we must reach a state in which the O is abso…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 307
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
… generally been the case with the true adepts; and those who have tried to explain themselves have been called mad by the canaiile. “The truth is,” continues the Mystic, “ both of you have been talking foolishness through your material and idealistic hats. For: “In the Material World Matter is Existence. “Tn the Sensible World Sense is Existence. “In the Spiritual World Spirit is Existence. “And though in the Sensible World a cow or an angel exists solely as an idea to us, this does not preclude the possibility of a cow existing as beef in the …
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1909 · PDF PAGE 307
The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)
… generally been the case with the true adepts; and those who have tried to explain themselves have been called mad by the canaiile. “The truth is,” continues the Mystic, “ both of you have been talking foolishness through your material and idealistic hats. For: “In the Material World Matter is Existence. “Tn the Sensible World Sense is Existence. “In the Spiritual World Spirit is Existence. “And though in the Sensible World a cow or an angel exists solely as an idea to us, this does not preclude the possibility of a cow existing as beef in the …
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1922 · PDF PAGE 293
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…ys the all-unexpected ! When you've promised yourself, then you push me away; When you scorn me, you suddenly kindle and slay ; You hate truth as the lies She rejected! I love you because you are gallant and proud, (Your soul is a sun and your body a cloud) And you leap from my arms when I woo you ; Because you love earth and its worms, you caress The stars and the seas, and you mock my distress While the sorrows of others thrill through you |! I love you because my life’s lost in your being ; You burn for me all the night long, and on seeing M…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 83
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
…and him. Here, too, we must class the revelations of the pure Qabalah, and the discovery of the relations between symbols. So exalted in truth are the states upon this Safifia grade that the rational man will almost always fail to understand them. Of the Rupa visions he has some experience, if only in analogy; he calls the mystic of Rupa a silly fool; so too of Vedana, whose mystic he calls a besotted ass; but the mystic of Safifia appears to him as a raving lunatic. The hashish correspondences of this stage are the mental analyses which I have…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 83
The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)
…and him. Here, too, we must class the revelations of the pure Qabalah, and the discovery of the relations between symbols. So exalted in truth are the states upon this Safifia grade that the rational man will almost always fail to understand them. Of the Rupa visions he has some experience, if only in analogy; he calls the mystic of Rupa a silly fool; so too of Vedana, whose mystic he calls a besotted ass; but the mystic of Safifia appears to him as a raving lunatic. The hashish correspondences of this stage are the mental analyses which I have…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 321
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…t to rise again; thou tastest of death to under- stand life better! For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening star; for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn. Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny. Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to work. By itself it is only used in the plural, which will not do here, and throughou…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 321
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…t to rise again; thou tastest of death to under- stand life better! For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening star; for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn. Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny. Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to work. By itself it is only used in the plural, which will not do here, and throughou…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 475
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…r of the United States, whose people, however ignorant and dishonest individually, are always, as a whole, curiously anxious to know the truth and to do justice, this propaganda was infernally dangerous to British interests. I talked to my friends about it. All they could say was that Viereck was personally despicable. Some, like Captain Gaunt, affected to ignore the importance of The Fatherland. Others, even more hopeless from my point of view, seemed to think that they could suppress "The Fatherland" by continuing their lifelong policy of omi…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 304
The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)
…on, I said: “O Thou Shower from the Highest! Tell thy grovelling disciple what then zs a ‘lie’?” “Ha!” he replied, “it is illusion, this truth that has been diverged from its real point . . . an illusive spring in the primo-genial fermentation of ‘fee-no-me-non,’ in this typo- cosmy apparent to the senses which you call ‘de Vurld’!!!” With this, and promises of oceans of blissful reality from the highest eternality of ultimate ecstasy, he bade me sit in a chair and blow alternately through my nostrils; and, if I had faith, so he assured me, I s…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 304
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)
…on, I said: “O Thou Shower from the Highest! Tell thy grovelling disciple what then zs a ‘lie’?” “Ha!” he replied, “it is illusion, this truth that has been diverged from its real point . . . an illusive spring in the primo-genial fermentation of ‘fee-no-me-non,’ in this typo- cosmy apparent to the senses which you call ‘de Vurld’!!!” With this, and promises of oceans of blissful reality from the highest eternality of ultimate ecstasy, he bade me sit in a chair and blow alternately through my nostrils; and, if I had faith, so he assured me, I s…
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1930 · PDF PAGE 7
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)
…e Great Masters in every time and country. He should make a critical examination of themj not so much with the idea of discovering where truth lies, for he cannot do this except by virtue of his own spiritual expérience, but rather to discover the essential harmony in those varied Works. He should be on his guard against partisanship with a favourite author. He should familiarize himself thoroughly with the method of mental equilibrium, endeavouring to contradict any statement soever, although it may be apparently axiomatic. The general object …
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1996 · PDF PAGE 186
The Law is for All
…recent years, from conceiving a non-Euclidean geometry, or the existence of a fourth Dimension. The initiate soon becomes aware of the untruth of many of these limiting laws of his mind; he has to identify Being with not- Being, to perceive Matter as continuous and homogeneous, and so for many another Truth, apprehended directly by pure percep tion, and consequently not to be refuted by syllogistic methods. The Laws of Logic are thus discovered to be superficial, and their scope only partial. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tr…
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1905 · PDF PAGE 4
Collected Works (Vol. I)
… ings. When he came to man’s estate he not unnaturally revolted: and the result has been, as in many such cases, that his search for the truth has :ed him to investigate the religious beliefs of many nations; nor have those investigations tended to lessen the gulf which separates him from the orthodox point of view. The edition is authorised, and, as such, complete: therein are contained all the important works of Aleister Crowley. I. B. LONDON, March 1905.
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1907 · PDF PAGE 186
The Star in the West
…side in the Camp of Vice , plague reigns and pestilence rules ; yet if the summed evils of Virtue and Vice were cast into the balance of Truth , who dare say which would outweigh the other ? Everyone knows the degradation as well as the ennoblements of war ; the former ever as some leprous brach licking at her heels ; the latter a halo of sainthood to be cast o'er the skull of the time-cleansed skeleton , which was once a spongy mass of wriggling larvae . During his life the thief stole , he lied , and he cheated ; pursued , he was caught , jud…
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1930 · PDF PAGE 79
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)
…tion. With these words the Adept does not withdraw his will within him as in the previous Sections. He thinks of them as a reflection of Truth on the 283
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1954 · PDF PAGE 465
Magick Without Tears
…ning of the Child is one most dear Consideration, that I shall impress upon thee as is Conformity with our holy Experience in the Way of Truth And it is this, that since that which can be thought is not true, every Statement is in some sense false. Even on the Sea of pure Reason, we may say that
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1954 · PDF PAGE 551
Magick Without Tears
…CLXXV,137 -CLVI,137 - 418=The Vision and the Voice, 66 -III vel Jugorum, 149 Lidice,305 Lilith, 110 Lingam, 12, 389 Little Essays Toward Truth,S , 17,296 , 385 Lion Serpent, 23 Litton, 398 Logic, 8, 58 Logos, 474 Loki, 466 London, Jack, 97 Longfellow, 428 Lost Horizon, 224 Love under will, 7 Lovers, The, 310 Lower Manas, 275 Ludlow, 476 Lunn,Colin,268 Luxor , 271 Lycanthropy, 393 Lynch Law, 443 , 444 Lytton , 447 MacCarthy, Desmond, 441 Machen, Arthur, 447 Magical Child, 303 -Formula, 305 , 306 INDEX -Link, 391 -Memory, 243 , 491 -Power, 351, 3…
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