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…of Heaven and the Lord of the Gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops: the affaire Humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. ‘While he was thus musing, Bhavani got fairly mad at him. The Spretae Injuria Formae …
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
…tly, they radiate particles of the most tenuous character and the highest activity. In an essay written in Cefalù, Sicily, on the second law of Thermo‐dynamics, it was suggested that at the absolute zero of the air ther‐ mometer, an element heavier than uranium might exist, of such a nature that it was capable of reconstituting the entire series of elements. It was a chemical interpretation of the equation, 0=2. It becomes then reasonable to argue from analogy that since the end must beget the beginning, the symbolism will follow; hence, blackn…
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…on, we are not to rely on the Buddha; the vicious lie of vicarious atonement finds no place here. The Buddha himself does not escape the law of causation ; if this be metaphysics, so far Buddhism is metaphysical, but no further. While deny- ing obvious lies, it does not set up dogmas; all its statements are susceptible of proof-— a child can assent to all the more important.
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
… am equally confident that my normal consciousness is invalid. But as my dreams occupy a relatively small portion of my time, and as the law of causa- tion seems suspended, and as their vividness is less than that of normal consciousness, and above all, as in the great majority of cases I can show a cause, dating from my waking hours, for the dream, I have four strong reasons (the first explanatory to some extent of my reasons for accepting the others) for concluding that the dream is fictitious. But what of the ‘‘ dreamless” state? To the drea…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
… do. For the children left their foulness and came soliciling with shameless words his acquiescence in their sport ; and he, knowing the law of courtesy and of pity, rebuked them not. But master ever of himself he abode alone, about and above. So saw he his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts were otherwhere. Now loosed they his body; he bade it leap the wall. The giant flower of ocean bloomed above him! He had fallen headlong into the great deep. As the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a Beetle tha…
1906 · PDF PAGE 271
…even the impossibility of assigning predicates to it, with the excep- tion—you are bound to urge!—of itself. But this would violate your law of identity, that a predicate should exclude itself from its own category, even were it non-existent, incon- ceivable, bum. Consequently, thinkable or unthinkable, our creation of it subjectively has fixed it eternally in the immeasurable void. S. Your argument is as convincing as it is lucid. But to my third fortress ! Af, Dorje Vajra Samvritti! As to your third line of defence, I must admit that my diffi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…f Heaven and the Lord of the Gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire Hum bert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious m ind to flirt with his distinguished guest ! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. “While he was thus musing, Bhavani got fairly mad at him. The Spretæ Injuria Formæ …
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
…m equally confident that my normal consciousness is invalid. But as m y dream s occupy a relatively small portion of my time, and as the law of causa- tion seems suspended, and as their vividness is less than that of ordinary consciousness, and above all, as in the great majority of cases I can s how a caus e, dating from my waking hours, for the dream, I have four strong reasons (the first explanatory to some extent of my reasons for accepting the others) for concluding that the dream is fictitious. But what of the “ dreamless” s tate? To the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…nce apart. In fact, such use of the Calcultis is the one certain way of ensuring “straightness”. In the first chapter of the Book of the Law, the conclusion is of practical importance. It gives the definite formula for the attainment of truth. “I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” “But to love me is better than all things: if under the night‐stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…the Grave. We must cast out Fear by Love; seeing that every Act is an Orgasm, their to‐ tal issue cannot be but Birth. Also, Love is the law: thus every act must be Righteousness and Truth. By certain Meditations this may be understood and established; and this ought to be done so thoroughly that we become unconscious of our Sanctification, for only then is Inno‐ cence made perfect. This state is, in fact, a necessary condition of any proper contemplation of what we are accustomed to consider the first task of the Aspirant, the solution of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
… destroy the nation. To pass a "Short Act" would be to give the alarm and precipitate the disaster. It would be his duty to override the law and put his foot upon the mischief. Then again, the whole of Mathers' conduct might have been in the nature of a test. It might have been his way of asking the adepts whether they had the power of concentrating on the spiritual situation, of giving up for ever all their prejudices.
1904 · PDF PAGE 119
…on, we are not to rely on the Buddha; the vicious lie of vicarious atonement finds no place here. The Buddha himself does not escape the law of c ausation ; if this be metaphysics, so far Buddhism is metaphysical, but no further. While deny - ing obvious lies, it does not set up dogmas; all its statements are susceptible of proof— a child can assent to all the more important.
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…e, Schelling, and Hegel; that Crowleyanity is the scienti c illuminism which reconciles the vision of God with the hard facts of natural law. But if the reader accepts this, he had better do so on the authority of the interpreter rather than on an intelligent understanding of the message, for at this he will have difficulty in arriving. We frankly confess that this part of the exposition bafiies our comprehension. The quaint symbolical frontispiece to the book is a sort of picture-puzzle to the uninitiated. Ca tain Fuller's task has apparently be…
1907 · PDF PAGE 235
…nto the (material) brick, and that again into her (spiritual) reformation ?”’ Similarly, we have Kant’s clear proof that in studying the laws of nature we’ only study the laws of our own minds: since, for one thing, the language in which we announce a law is entirely the product of our mental conceptions. While, on the other hand, it is clear enough that our minds depend upon the laws of nature, since, for one thing, the appre- hension that six savages will rob and murder you is immediately allayed by the passage of a leaden bullet weighing 230…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
… the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, "Whence and in what order you have come." For three days --- the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law --- he remained in the choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon. Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. M. Why? Because --- and so on to the half-forgotten past, dark seas that phosphoresced as the clean keel of his thought divided them. I had eliminated a vast nu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
… fatuous. The emotionalism of some and the sacramentalism of others seemed to me perfectly insincere. The fact is that (as my brother-in-law, Gerald Kelly, once told me, with astounding insight) I was the most religious man that he had ever met. It is the inmost truth. The instinct was masked for a long time, firstly by the abominations of the Plymouth Brethren and the Evangelicals; secondly, by the normal world. It only broke out at a subsequent period in any recognizable form. But when it {92} did so, it became the axis of my being. As a matt…
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
…do. For th e children left their foulness and came soliciting with shameless words his acquiscence in their s port ; and he, knowing the law of courtesy and pity , rebuked them not. But master ever of himself he abode al one, about and above. So he saw his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts we re otherwere. Now loosed they his body ; he bade it leap the wall. The giant flower of ocean bloom ed above him! He had fallen headlong into the great deep. As the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a Beetle th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…am as defined by Freud's hypothesis. Allan was already at heart a Buddhist. The more he studied the Tripitika, "the three baskets of the law" --- waste paper baskets I used to call them --- the more he was attracted, but he was fearfully disappointed by the degeneracy of the Singalese bhikkhus. With rate exceptions, they were ignorant, idle, immoral and dishonest. At Anuradhapura, the sacred ruined city, there conduct is so openly scandalous as to have given rise to a proverb: "A bhikkhu is made, not born --- except at Anuradhapura." Allan had …
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…ut I hardly knew it. They were now to shine, the bushel of Kangchenjunga having been rudely removed. My instinct against The Book of the Law had apparently had its way. It was as if the events of eighteen months before had never taken place. I was going on with Magick on the old lines, without any particular aqmbition, but quietly exercising the powers already obtained. For instance, I had established regular communications with Soror F. (Soror Fidelis --- Mrs. Elaine Simpson). We had long interviews, visiting each other alternately. I was a li…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
… Go mad and cut up men like sturgeons? (These questions are the late Chas. Spur- geon’s.) Of yogi I could quote you hundreds In science, law, art, commerce noted. They fear no lunacy: their one dread’s Not for their noddles doom-devoted. They are not like black bulls (that shunned reds In vain) that madly charge the goathead Of rural Pan, because some gay puss Had smeared with blood his stone Priapus. They are as sane as politicians And people who subscribe to missions. This says but little ; a long way are Yogi more sane than such as they are.…