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Page 60 of 831907 · PDF PAGE 65
…ally I tell you that you will never attain to the Brotherhood until you have genuinely conquered the Illusion of the Pairs of Opposites. Truthfulness and Lying are just as much opposites as white and black, good and evil—— Bones. I sometimes doubt if any of these are opposites at all. Next time you run up to Kether, look down the Tree and see what Truth looks like from there! Take the case of heat and cold, at one time the typical opposites. Nowadays we conceive of a hot body as one in violent internal motion, a cold body as in moderate motion.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 118
…in such a state is conditional on sound mental health, and terminable by disease or death at any moment. Were it not so, the First Noble Truth would be a lie. The two further stages Sankhara and V iñ- ñanam pursue the analy sis to its ultimation, “There is a consciousness of a tendency to perceive the (pleasant or unpleasant) sensa- tion of a raising of a right foot” being the final form. And I suppose no psy chologist of any standing will quarrel with this.1 Reasoning in fact leads us to this analysis; the Buddhist goes further only in so far …
1919 · PDF PAGE 396
…passed the seven Portals. Thy mind is clear. No more art thou entangled in delusive thoughts, for thou hast learned all. Unveiled stands Truth and looks 74
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
… silent* about that which can only be “known” and not “believed in,” and that which can never be named without begetting a duality (an untruth), and conse- quently a whole world of illusions. It is the crucifixion of every would-be Saviour, this teaching of a truth under the symbol of a lie, this would-be explanation to the multitude of the unexplainable, this passing off on the “canaille” the strumpet of language (the Consciously Known) in the place of the Virgin of the World (the Consciously Unknown). + No philosophy has ever grasped this ter…
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
… silent* about that which can only be “known” and not “believed in,” and that which can never be named without begetting a duality (an untruth), and conse- quently a whole world of illusions. It is the crucifixion of every would-be Saviour, this teaching of a truth under the symbol of a lie, this would-be explanation to the multitude of the unexplainable, this passing off on the “canaille” the strumpet of language (the Consciously Known) in the place of the Virgin of the World (the Consciously Unknown). + No philosophy has ever grasped this ter…
1913 · PDF PAGE 523
… by means of tables and hats. And so, no more regulated instruction, no more priesthood, no more Church, delirium set upon the throne of truth, oracles which write for the salvation of the human race the word attributed to Cambronne, great men who leave the serenity of their eternal destinies to make our furniture dance, and to hold with us conversations like those which Beroalde de Verville! makes them hold, in Le Moyen de Parvenir. All this is a great pity; and yet, in America, all this is 1 Born in 1538—died in 1612, Author of Le Moyen de Pa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 523
… by means of tables and hats. And so, no more regulated instruction, no more priesthood, no more Church, delirium set upon the throne of truth, oracles which write for the salvation of the human race the word attributed to Cambronne, great men who leave the serenity of their eternal destinies to make our furniture dance, and to hold with us conversations like those which Beroalde de Verville! makes them hold, in Le Moyen de Parvenir. All this is a great pity; and yet, in America, all this is 1 Born in 1538—died in 1612, Author of Le Moyen de Pa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…hed to whelm the sun with vehement assault ." Such is the power of Love , undaunted , infuriated in the cause of Freedom , Justice , and Truth . Charicles plunges into the waves of destiny , “ And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped . ” Onward he swims striving against Poseidon , god of the ocean , who heaps the sea foam against him , as he makes for the Paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess of Love ; and in his blinding anger he sees her not , though she is by his side journeying homeward from Rome . She raises the swimmer t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…niverse of giants clamouring for hors d'oeuvres must take refuge from Reality in Freudian phantasies of “God.” He winces at the touch of Truth; and shivers at his nakedness in Nature. He therefore invents a cult of fear and shame, and makes it presumption and blasphemy to possess courage and self-respect. He burrows in the slime of “Reverence and godly fear,” and makes himself houses of his own excrement, like the earthworm
1929 · PDF PAGE 330
… therefore, in a rather shamefaced spirit. I deliberately introduced bad jokes to show that I did not take myself seriously; whereas the truth was I was simply nervous about my achievement, just as a man afraid to disgrace {536} himself as a boxer might pretend that the bout was not in earnest. My prose is consequently marred by absolutely stupid blasphemies against itself. I now began to see that this was schoolboyish bashfulness, and to feel my responsibility as an exponent of the hidden knowledge, to treat my prose as reverently as my verse,…
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
…el the poe- tical nature of the books of a religion ? Does he suppose that they do not rea- lise the immense importance of believing the truth ? But Mr. Crowley has got something into his soul stronger even than the beautiful passion of the man who believes in Buddhism ; he has the passion of the man who does not believe in Christianity. He adds one more testimony to the endless series of testimo- nies to the fascination and vitality of the faith. For some mysterious reason no man can contrive to be agnostic about Christianity. He always tries …
1911 · PDF PAGE 61
…m of justice. For as that straight path of the Arrow cleaving the Rainbow became righteousness in her that sitteth in the hall of double truth, so at last is she exalted unto the throne of the High Priestess, the Priestess of the Silver Star, wherein also is thine Angel made manifest. And this is the mystery of the camel that is ten days in the desert, and is not athirst, because he hath within him that water which is the dew distilled from the night of Nuit. Triple is the cord of silver, that it may not be loosed; and three score and half a sc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 138
… the Continent have an illusion that the mere fact of their nationality permits them to do anything soever. And there is a great deal of truth in this, after all, because the inhabitants of Europe have a settled conviction that we are all harmless lunatics. So we are allowed to act in all sorts of ways which they would not tolerate for a moment in any supposedly rational person. In the present instance, I have little doubt that, if we had been dressed as ourselves, we should have been politely conducted to our hotel or put into an automobile, w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 310
…excitations for Divine benediction; if only because there was never a demon yet so atrocious as that same old Ego. You will discover the truth of these remarks when you
1996 · PDF PAGE 184
…solutely fixed in me, so much so that it appears an “identical equation,” axiomatic indeed, and yet not a platitude, but a very sword of Truth to sunder every knot at a touch. As the practical ethics of the Law, I have formulated in words of one syllable my declaration of the RIGHTS OF MAN Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is no god but Man. Man has the right to live by his own law. Man has the right to live in the way that he wills to do. Man has the right to dress as he wills to do. Man has the right to dwell where he wil…
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…se tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of Baptistical Buddhists, the Four Noble Truths were none other than the complete Yoga, and that in The Three Characteristics + the summit of philosophy (The Ruach) had been reached. The terrific strain of Asana and Pranayama, the two chief exercises of Hathavidya, P., by months of trial proved to be * Buddhism as a schism from the Brahminical religion may in many respects be compared with Lutheranism as a schism from the Catholic Church, Both Buddha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…se tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of Baptistical Buddhists, the Four Noble Truths were none other than the complete Yoga, and that in The Three Characteristics + the summit of philosophy (The Ruach) had been reached. The terrific strain of Asana and Pranayama, the two chief exercises of Hathavidya, P., by months of trial proved to be * Buddhism as a schism from the Brahminical religion may in many respects be compared with Lutheranism as a schism from the Catholic Church, Both Buddha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 197
…r a moment on one tiny spot, the Earth. What happens? It is burnt up, it is consumed, it disappears. But in our Solar Conscious- ness is Truth, and though we glance for a moment at the little sphere we have left behind us, and it is no more, yet there is “that which remains.” What remains? What has happened? We realize that “every man and every woman is astar.” We gaze around at our wider heritage, we gaze at the Body of Our Lady Nuit. We are not in darkness; we are much nearer to Her now. What (from the little planet) looked like specks of lig…
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
…te wrong to say that what happened in the taxi ever began or ended. What happened was that our attention was distracted from the eternal truth of this essential marriage of our souls by the chauffeur, who had stopped the taxi and opened the door. “ Here we are, sir,” he said, with a grin. Sir Peter Pendragon and Lou Laleham automatically reappeared. Before all things, decorum ! The shock bit the incident deeply into my mind: I remember with the utmost distinctness paying the man off, and then being lost in absolute blank wonder as to how it hap…
1929 · PDF PAGE 196
20 Chapter WALPURGIS-NIGHT THE spring in Naples had advanced with eager foot; in her gait she revealed the truth of her godhead; and by the end of April there was no wreath of snow on Apennine, or Alban, or Apulian Hill. The last day of the month was hot and still as midsummer; the slopes of Posillippo begged a breath from Ocean, and were denied. So heavy a haze hung on the sea that not only Capri, not only the blue spur that stabs the sunset, but Vesuvius itself, were hidden from the Villa where Iliel and her friends were nested. Sunset was so…