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Page 69 of 791929 · PDF PAGE 141
…eads one to inquire into the ultimate nature of the atoms of thought. Each atom assumes an importance equal to that of the others. One's sense of values is completely destroyed. There is also the problem: how is it that one's idea of a horse, for example, should be composed of a set of ideas, none of which have any apparent relation with it, exactly as the word horse itself is composed of the letters h-o-r-s-e, none of which, by itself, suggests a horse, or part of one, in any way? Similarly, a lump of sugar is not merely a mass of homogeneous …
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
…ephira is in the direct line of succession. Each of these cards gives the full impact of the elemental force, but in its most ma‐ terial sense; that is, of the idea of the force, for Yesod is still in Yetzirah, the formative world. Zoroaster says: “The number Nine is sacred, and attains the summit of perfection.” Egypt and Rome, also, had Nine Major Deities. The Nine of Wands is called Strength. It is ruled by the Moon and Yesod. In “The Vision and the Voice”, the eleventh Aethyr gives a classical account of the resolution of this antinomy of C…
1944 · PDF PAGE 26
…the Negative. Now the Sephiroth, which are emanations of the number 1, as already shown, are things‐in‐themselves, in almost the Kantian sense. The lines joining them are Forces of Na‐ ture, of a much less complete type; they are less abstruse, less abstract. THE TWENTY‐TWO KEYS, ATU, OR TRUMPS OF THE TAROT Here now is an excellent example of the all‐pervading doctrine of Equilibrium. The equation always reads ax2+bx +x=0. If it does not equal 0, it is not an equation. And so, when‐ ever any symbol loses importance in one place in the Qabalah, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…ems. . . .”—Westminster Review. “Full, at any rate, of high artistic endeavour is Miss Ethel Archer’s ‘The Whirlpool.” There is a strong sense of classical beauty and of form in these passionate and exotic verses. ‘The Felon Flower’ is an extraordinary rhapsody, and the ‘Song to Leila’ is delicate and highly wrought.” —7he Commentator. “The verse is musical and the ideas profound. . . "Light,
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…ems. . . .”—Westminster Review. “Full, at any rate, of high artistic endeavour is Miss Ethel Archer’s ‘The Whirlpool.” There is a strong sense of classical beauty and of form in these passionate and exotic verses. ‘The Felon Flower’ is an extraordinary rhapsody, and the ‘Song to Leila’ is delicate and highly wrought.” —7he Commentator. “The verse is musical and the ideas profound. . . "Light,
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…iful poems. . . .”— Westminster “Full, at any rate, of high artistic endeavour is Miss Ethel Archer’s ‘The Whirlpool.’ There is a strong sense of classical beauty and of form in these passionate and exotic verses. ‘The Felon Flower’ is an extraordinary rhapsody, and the ‘Song to Leila? is delicate and highly wrought.” —Zie Commentator. ‘‘The verse is musical and the ideas profound. . . .”—Light.
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…iful poems. . . .”— Westminster “Full, at any rate, of high artistic endeavour is Miss Ethel Archer’s ‘The Whirlpool.’ There is a strong sense of classical beauty and of form in these passionate and exotic verses. ‘The Felon Flower’ is an extraordinary rhapsody, and the ‘Song to Leila? is delicate and highly wrought.” —Zie Commentator. ‘‘The verse is musical and the ideas profound. . . .”—Light.
1944 · PDF PAGE 40
…mmon parlance the word Magic has been used to mean the kind of science which ordinary people do not understand. It is in this restricted sense, for the most part, that the word will be used ill this essay. The business of Science is to explore Nature. It’s first questions are, What is this? How did it come to be? What are its relations with any other object? The knowledge acquired may then be used in Applied Science, which asks: How can we best employ such‐and‐such a thing or idea for the purpose that, to us, seems fit? An example may make this…
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
… ou know that, little Brother?” smiled the Thrice-Honoured One. “Lord, I perceive this Truth wheneverI 1 Thirst: i.e. desire in its evil sense. 2 Ignorance. 3 Doubt. 4 “Bliss-of-non-existence.” One of Crowley’s eastern names. consider the Universe. More, its consciousness seems ingrained in my very nature, perhaps through my having known this for many incarnations. I have never thought otherwise.” ”Rise, Sir Abhavananda, I dub thee Arahat!” cried the Buddha, striking the neophyte ently on the back with the flat of his ear.1 And he perceived. Wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 243
…s to finity ex- tended in innumerable categories, that an incalculably vast system was_ produced. Merely by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos : and with time, space, and causality, the conditions limiting and involving them all.! Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed; nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence was just as much uns formulated as that of toasted cheese. But 0° is a finite expression, or h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
… in the interest of “healthy optimism.” So far my pen has touched with vivid truth The constant story of the eternal struggle Of age and sense with flatulence and youth. Now—-see the venal poet start to juggle ! Young ladies, you desire to see a comedy ! ‘The poet’s master pen shall twist the river Of song into a simple to-and-from eddy, And you shall laugh where once you feared to shiver. So listen to the happy termination Of this apparently so sad relation ! Twill suit your rosy dreams to admiration ! But, be the gatepost witness ! it is rot.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
…luences are perm anent. Then, you will say, delirium trem ens (and the intoxication of hashish, in respect more particularly of the time sense) afford us a parallel. But the phenomena of delirium tremens do not occur in the healthy . As for the suggestion of auto-hypnosis, the memory of the “dream” is a sufficient reply . However this m ay be, the simple fact of the superior apparent reality—a conviction unshakable, inépuisable (for the English has no word), is a sufficient test. And if we condescend to argue, it is for pleasure, and aside from…
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and pur‐ ple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me!
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…able to arrest it, I slow the process, and render it temporarily painless, by eating. This is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat really in order to check change, or to maintain my ego- consciousness? Changel desire, for my present condition is Sorrow. I really desire the im- possible ; completely to retain my present egoity with all its conditions reversed.—A. C. 2 For an able and luminous exposition of ‘« The Four Noble Truths” I refer the reader to the pamphlet bearing that title by my old friend Bhikkhu Ananda Maitriy…
1929 · PDF PAGE 166
… property and dodging creditors and policemen. Civilization has become a hysterical scramble for momentary material advantage. Thrift is senseless when one is threatened with a levy on capital. Investment is insane when gilt-edged securities may lose two thirds of their value for no assignable reason. Suppose two brothers inherited ten thousand pounds apiece in 1900: one keeps his gold in a bag and spends four hundred pounds {284} a year; the other buys Consols and lives on a little over two hundred pounds of the income without touching his cap…
1929 · PDF PAGE 451
…an increasing failure to attain this object, because the established cults shock their intellectual convictions and outrage their common sense. Thus their minds criticize their enthusiasm; they are unable to consummate the union of their individual souls with the universal soul as a bridegroom would be to consummate his marriage if his love were constantly reminded that its assumptions were intellectually absurd. I resolved that my ritual should celebrate the sublimity of the operation of universal forces without introducing disputable metaphys…
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
vulgar sense is not the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx; it is that which is created by that answer. For Silence is the Equilibrium of Perfection; so that Harpocrates is the omniform, the universal Key to every Mystery soever. The Sphinx is the “Puzzel or Pucelle”, the Feminine Idea to which there is only one complement, always different in form, and always identical in es‐ sence. This is the signification of the Picture of the God; it is shown more clearly in His adult form as the Fool of the Tarot and as Bacchus Diphues, and without equivo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
… THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO. When we s ay that the Cos mos s prang from 0, what kind of 0 do we mean ? By 0 in the ordinary sense of the term we mean “absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say “No cat has two tails,” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs , that “Absence-of-cat possesses two tails” ; but that “In the category of two-tailed things, there is no extension of cat.” Nothingness is that about which no posi- tive proposition is valid. We cannot truly affirm: “Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let…
1906 · PDF PAGE 251
…ven had we a strong traditional explanation I should main- tain my position. The weapons of the Higher Criticism, supplemented by Common Sense, are perfectly valid and inevitably destructive against any such structure. But I am surely in danger of becoming ridiculous in writing thus to the scientific world. What IJ really wish to show is that one need not look for all) the Buddhist fancy dishes to be served at the scientific table to the peril of the scientific digestion. And by a backhanded stroke I wish to impress as deeply as possible upon m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 119
…es timony of conscious- ness is untrue; it is absurd, with Spencer, to refute reason ; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its impro- bity. Now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly re- sponsible for its untruthfulness. We seek (also by empiric means, alas!) to control it, to con- centrate it, to obs erve more accurately—has this source of possible error been sufficiently recognised?—what its testimony really is. Experience has taught me, so far as I h ave been able to go, that Reas…