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Page 66 of 831938 · PDF PAGE 6
… I am awarelike a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiatedthat the strange phrase declares a final Mystery of Truth, the word of the Plan of Battle, the Key of the Campaign. But in my mind its meaning is most utter darkness. Again the solemn stillness. Few were they who had heard the voice of the young captain: for the sleep of all but the youngest and strongest was the sleep of death. Even of these the fate was ill indeed; for their minds had been distraught by the bitterness of their hearts. So, when they noticed th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
…ncidents in its terrific Pageant. 1 [This is treated of in “Liber I vel Magi”; see Works Cited.] The “equation” is the representation of Truth by Word. 57. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but li is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall …
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
…er, save among the lowest types of negro, who resemble the Anglo-Saxon in this possession of the “fear-of- God” and “Sin” psychopathies. Truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. Therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an ansesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. The craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. If you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. There is no be…
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
…Even biologists have erred. But to the true scientist every failure is a stepping- stone to s uccess; every m istake is the key to a new truth. And the history of our Science is the history of all Science. If y ou choose to ape Christendom and put the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack ( i.e. into lunatic asylums) I doubt not we shall find our Bruno. But it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. Let us , however, turn away from the aspect of criticism …
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
…So much when philosophy’s lacteal river Turns sour through a trifle of bile on the liver. 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”34 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 advertisment, hence “Who’s Griffiths” = safe. Slowness of Divine Justice. Poet pockets Piety Stakes. National An- them of Natal. But this talk is all indigestion. Now for health. Reasons …
1919 · PDF PAGE 152
…2th. “During Lecture on ‘Parsifal,’ I felt illumination within which per- meated my whole being, and I became conscious once more of the Truth of my previous Illumination which I had lost, as it were.” This entry is interesting. Illumination comes, and at the time there is no doubt about it. IT IS. Then, perhaps, life goes on much as before, except for the ever present remem- brance of “Something that happened”; and, having nothing with which to compare it, that Something is difficult to de- scribe or even to formulate. However, immediately one…
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
…thinkers have been sceptics or agnostics: omnia exeunt in mysterium, and summa scientia nihil scire are old commonplaces.1 In my essays “Truth” (in Konx Om Pax), “The Soldier and the Hunchback,” “Eleusis” and others, I have offered a detailed demonstration of the self-contradictory nature of Reason. The crux of the whole proof may be summa rized by saying that any possible proposition must be equally true with its contradictory, as, if not, the universe would no longer be in equilibrium. It is no objection that to accept this is to destroy con…
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
…r what I did. He was not shocked at my lying to him—the first time I had ever done so. I took a taxi round to the studio. My he was half truth. I was going to ask him to help in the cure; but my real object was to induce him, no matter how, to give me at least one dose. I didn’t care how I got it. I would try pretending illness. I would appeal to our old relations, and I would look about slyly to see if I couldn’t find some and steal it. And I didn’t mean to let Peter know. On the top of everything else was the torture of shame. I had always be…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…aphy of divination. The student must guard himself constantly against supposing that this art affords any absolute means of discovering “truth”, or indeed, of using that Word as if it meant more than the i. As the poet puts it; “Psyché, beware how thou disclose Thy tricks of toilet to Eros, Or let him learn that those love-breathing Lyrical lins that whisper, wreathing His brows with sense-bewitching gold, Are equally expert to scold; 1 hat those caressing hands will maybe Yet box his ears and slap the baby ! ”
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
… If a man in delirium tremens fell into the Hudson River, he might remember the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as “truth” are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, “We know”: yet, questioned, awe” make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would be indeed little less than the whole body…
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…wakes ! | O coiled and constricted and chosen ! O tortured and twisted and twined ! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind ! As a bright snake curled Round the vine of the World ! O sleeper through dawn and through day- light, | O sleeper through dusk and through night ! O shifted from white light to gray light, From gray to the one black light ! O silence and sound In the far profound ! O serpent of scales as an armour To bind on the breast of a lord ! Not deaf to the Voice of the Charmer, Not blind to the sweep…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…e rays which we now use for wireless telegraphy was stérile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take his truth, and transmit it to the world of action bv means of mechanical and économie *» instruments.) (22) Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the Universe. (Illustration: A microscope, however perfect, is useless in the i. It is no objection that the hypocrite is himself part of Nature. He is an “en…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…-tom, and even the violin, hâve ail been used, as well as many others, of which the I. A true poet cannot help revealing himself and the truth of things in his art, whether he be aware of what he is writing, or no. I. See “Eleusis”, A. Crowley, Collected Works, Vol. III Epilogue. — 69
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…bition, insane impulse, ignorant arrogance, superstitious hysteria, fear fashioning falsehoods on the stone that it sets on the grave of Truth whom it has murdered and buried in the black earth Oblivion. Moral philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, mental pathology, physiology, and many another of 340 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
… of His attainment, be uplifted from Him. 14. Let Him beware of abstinence from action. For the curse of His grade is that he must speak Truth, that the Faisehood thereof may enslave the soûls of men. Let Him then utter that without Fear, that the Law may be fulfilled. And according to His Original Nature will that law be shapen, so that one may déclaré gentleness and quietness, being an Hindu- and another fierceness and servility, being a Jew; and yet another ardour and manüness, bemg an Arab. Y et this matter toucheth the mystery of Incarnati…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
… the terms employed in that study should always be capable of precise definition. I am not sure whether you have my Little Essays Toward Truth. The first essay in the book entitled "Man" gives a full account of the five principles which go to make up Man according to the Qabalistic system. I have tried to define these terms as accurately as possible, and I think you will find them, in any case, clearer than those to which you have become accustomed with the Eastern systems. In India, by the way, no attempt is ever made to use these vague terms.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…Code of Righteousness, the identification of Fate with Freewill, and the end of the Civil War in Man’s nature by appointing the Canon of Truth, the conformity of things with themselves, to détermine his every act. “Do what thou wilt” is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its levelj man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself. (e) His power to interpret the Spirit of the New Aeon, the relapse into ruthless savagery of the most civilised races, at a time when war was discredited by …
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
… a moment, let Thy dwelling-place be empty; apply thyself unto laiava oD Dorebesa na-e-el: soVamerann pujo-ooaona fetabe-are- the secret truthand obey my power: appear unto my eyes, visit us in peace, 300i, gobola faiada do-bianu oD Do-omepe. MDI larinuji-ilasa od speaking the secrets of truth in voice and understanding. I stir thee up and Z00akame ilasa gabe 32. do tofijila Do-o-a-inu 0s gobo i eli: od ol move thee, O spirit N., in all the names that I have said, and I pamucla vaunesa ela oD norez0Da DO-0-a-inu quiinu Solomon, enapo add these …
1919 · PDF PAGE 402
…cholar might furnish. I am inclined to think that this was Blavatsky’s method. So obvious a forgery as this volume only contains so much truth and wisdom because this is the case. The Master—alike of Language and of Experience—has at last arisen; it is the Master Therion—The Beast—666—the Logos of the A2on—whose Word is “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” 80
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…te infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. This does not mean that they are malignant. They hâve a proper pride in their office as Oracles of Truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination of inferior and impure intelligences. A Magician whose research is fuily adapted to his Neschamah will hnd them lucid and reliable. 2. Malicious or pranksome elementals instinctively avoid the austere sincerity of the Figures of Fu and King Wan. — 161 —