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Page 65 of 831922 · PDF PAGE 335
…l down and worship them for being wastrels. And at every turn they found the Big Lion in the way, to bring them back to reality. But the truth was too bitter medicine for them. If they had accepted the facts, they could have altered the facts; and learnt to do something worth while. But they preferred to cherish delusions of persecution. They persuaded themselves that they were being crucified when they were only having their faces washed. But the paint of self-esteem had been put on too thick ; so away they went, and said how badly they’d been…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
…l, and trace out that in similar fashion; and let this process be continued for many days until the inter- dependence of ail things is a truth assimilated in his inmost being. 420
1954 · PDF PAGE 522
…approval by steering you miraculously through one crisis after another. This course of conduct may seem to you a little like the "Act of Truth" but this is only superficially the case. The latter is . usually an emergency measure, and either not
1996 · PDF PAGE 173
…s we shout it, exulting and eager. O ye! Was not this your sneer, your vile Whisper that scorned Her and shamed Her? Was not “Whore” the truth of Her, the title of terror that you gave Her in your fear of Her, coward comfort ing coward with furtive glance and gesture? But we fear Her not; we cry Whore, as Her armies approach us. We beat on our shields with our swords. Earth echoes the clamour! Is there doubt of the victory? Your hordes of cringing slaves, afraid of themselves, afraid of their own slaves, hostile, despised and distrusted, your …
1910 · PDF PAGE 346
…error of thinking men pure-minded, and so used language which the gross might misinterpret; but sincere study of this book will make the truth apparent to all decent men, ALEISTER CROWLEY. [We print this review without committing ourselves to any opinion as to how these doctrines may be interpreted in practice by the avowed followers of Harris—Ep.] “No. 19.” By EDGAR JEPSON. Mills and Boon, Ltd. Arthur Machen wrote fine stories, “The Great God Pan,” “The White People, etc. Edgar Jepson would have done better to cook them alone; it was a mistake…
1910 · PDF PAGE 346
…error of thinking men pure-minded, and so used language which the gross might misinterpret; but sincere study of this book will make the truth apparent to all decent men, ALEISTER CROWLEY. [We print this review without committing ourselves to any opinion as to how these doctrines may be interpreted in practice by the avowed followers of Harris—Ep.] “No. 19.” By EDGAR JEPSON. Mills and Boon, Ltd. Arthur Machen wrote fine stories, “The Great God Pan,” “The White People, etc. Edgar Jepson would have done better to cook them alone; it was a mistake…
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
… cross and two smaller crosses not so symmetrical. This group represents the element of chance; and you will at least gain a hint of the truth if you reflect that eight is the cube of two, and twenty-seven of three. Bevan looked intelligent. On the return march, continued Duguesclin, Dodu said, The spy is on the watch. But count the letters in the name of Aristotles favourite disciple. I guessed (as he intended me to do) that he did not mean Aris- totle. He wished to suggest Plato, and so Socrates; hence I counted A-L-C-I-B-I-A-D-E-S = 1…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…as done much evil, it has also been the source of much goodj that if it is the child of error, it has yet been the mother of freedom and truth.” Ibid. XIV
1954 · PDF PAGE 537
…statements are equally false, but in order to realise this fact they must themselves be announced by the mind as ecstatic discoveries of truth. The result of all this naturally is that the mind very rapidly
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…t servant, ALEISTER CROWLE ¥. ? DEDICATIO MAJOR, My Friends, To you, Eastern of the Easterns, who have respectively given up all to find Truth ; you, Jinawaravansa,’ who esteemed the Yellow Robe 1 A Siamese prince who became a Buddhist monk, 20
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…he compelled them to take the stamp of his soûl ; from those dull, valueless créatures of earth he created a vital and powerful being of truth and beauty. It would indeed be surprising to anybody who lias corne to a clear compréhension of nature if there were any différence in the essence of these various formulas. The laws of nature apply equally in every possible circumstance. We are now in a position to nnderstand wliat alcliemy is. We miglit even go further and say tliat even if we liad ne ver lieard of it, we know wliat it mu si be. Let us…
1906 · PDF PAGE 174
… much when philosophy’s lacteal river Turns sour through a trifle of bile on the liver. S But now for the sane and the succulent milk Of truth—may it slip down as smoothly as silk! ‘“‘ How very hard it is to be” # 185 A Yogi! Let our spirits see At least what primal need of thought This end to its career has brought : * ‘© Who's Griffiths? The safe man.” <A well-known advertisement, hence ‘‘ Who's Griffiths ” =safe.
1910 · PDF PAGE 77
…f Magic, so in the East are there various systems of Yoga, each of which purports to lead the aspirant from the realm of Maya to that of Truth in Samadhi. The most important of these are: 1. Gnana Yoga. Union by Knowledge. 2. Raja Yoga. Union by Will. 3. Bhakta Yoga. Union by Love. to withdraw into solitude and meditate. (4) To live as a Sannydsin—to await the spirit’s release into the Supreme Spirit. * At the time of the Pralaya. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. i. Iv E 65
1910 · PDF PAGE 77
…f Magic, so in the East are there various systems of Yoga, each of which purports to lead the aspirant from the realm of Maya to that of Truth in Samadhi. The most important of these are: 1. Gnana Yoga. Union by Knowledge. 2. Raja Yoga. Union by Will. 3. Bhakta Yoga. Union by Love. to withdraw into solitude and meditate. (4) To live as a Sannydsin—to await the spirit’s release into the Supreme Spirit. * At the time of the Pralaya. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. i. Iv E 65
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…t mistaking the symbolism. In this case, for example, the doctrine of individual immortality has been dragged in, to the destruction, of truth. It is not that utterly worthless part of man, his individual consciousness as John Smith, which défiés death — that consciousness which dies and is reborn in every thought. That which persists (if anything persist) is his real John Smithiness, a quality of which he was probably never conscious in his life. " Even that does not persist unchanged. It is always growing. The Cross is a barren stick, and the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…ph. Zi—DE MORTE [192—On Death] Thou hast made Question of me concerning Death, and this is mine Opinion, of which I say not: This is the Truth. First: in the Temple called Man is the God, his Soul, or Star, indi vidual and eternal, but also inherent in the Body of Our Lady Nuit. Now this Soul, as an Officer in the High Mass of the Cosmos, taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhab- iteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And this Tabernacle is subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse, reacting to every Sti…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…ven home: the curse Of mockery’s blessing flung the dust upon her: The horses of Destruction dragged the hearse Over besmirchéd roads of Truth and Honour : The obscene God spat on the universe: The sods of Destiny were spattered on her:— Then rose thy spirit through the shaken skies: ‘* Child of the Dawn, I say to thee, arise !” Through the ancestral shame and feudal gloom, Through medieval blackness rung thy peean : Let there be light !—the desecrated tomb Gaped as thy fury smote the Galilean. Let there be light ! and there was light : the wom…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…existence. It soon became obvious to The Master Fherion that AUM was an inadéquate and misleading hieroglyph. It stated only part of the truth, and it implied a fundamental falsehood. He consequently determined to modify the Word in such a manner as to fit it to represent the Arcana unveiled by the Aeon of which He had attained to be the Logos. The essential task was to emphasize the fact that nature is not catastrophic, but proceeds by means of undulations. It might be suggested that Manvantara and Pralaya are in reality com- plementary curves…
1938 · PDF PAGE 7
…e frozen, every bone one ache, my blood throbbing with poison. But the shambles is now dimly to be seen. What? Can the Voice have spoken Truth after all? Is then that Star a Sun, whose light is at last piercing the foul mists of massacre, whose heat is forcing the congealed miasma to steam skyward in those murky banks of dim grey cloud? Hark! Yes, the few that are still alive have seen what rouses them to lift their crippled arms, to star with blear bloodshot eyes, to jabber with broken jaw-bones and torn tongues. For Christ's sake, screams a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…e are very rapture. 26. “And my deeds are the myriads of Thy Children, the stars and the atoms.” And Remember Well, that if thou wert in truth a lover, ail this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereof. 19. Concerning the Lections. — Let the Philosophus read solely in his copies of the holy books of Thelema, during the whole period of his dévotion. But if he weary, then let him read books which hâve no part whatever in love, as for récréation. But let him copy out each verse of Thele…