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…and moonlight, stole in her brain; and her song was ever of love and death and music from beyond. “And one day as she sang thus the deep truth stole into being and she knew the Noble Truths. So she turned her flute to the new song, when—horror !—there was a mosquito in the flute. ‘Tootle ! Tootle !’ she began. ‘Buzz! Buzz!’ went the mosquito from the very vitals of her delicate tube. “Indra was not unprovided with a disc.1 Alas ! Jehjaour, art thou already in the toils ? She had only lived eight months. IX. “ ‘How y ou bungle !’ growled Ganesha…
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
… that eternal life, and consequently eternal suffering, joy, and change of all kinds, will be their melancholy fate. Such persons are in truth their own real enemies. Many of them, however, believing errone- ously that they are being ‘“‘ unselfish,” do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some de- votees on to the true…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
… cleared for action. I didn't know where I was going, but I was on the way. I was thus quite ready for the perception of the First Noble Truth, but also for an entirely new current to influence my life. Towards the end of the October term I met a man named Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt. He was an M.A., ten years older than myself, and had merely come up to Cambridge to dance for the F.D.C. (Footlights Dramatic Club). I saw him only once or twice that term, but corresponded with him from abroad during the Christmas vacation. The result was the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
…ject. But we wander far—By the way, how old are you? You appear young, but you know much. Myst. You are too polite. I am but an ultimate truth, six world-truths, fourteen grand generalisations, eighty generalisations, sixty-two dilemmas, and the usual odd mil- lion impressions. Scept. What is all this? You are surely— Myst. No, most noble Festus. Put me 1.6. , 1 The physical basis of thought, as dis- tinguished from its physical mechanism. A Hindu conception. Sanskrit, Chittam. | to the test, and I the matter will reword: which madness would ga…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…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 matter of fact, even in these early days, my real need was spiritual satisfaction; and I was a satanist or a worldling (as the cas…
1906 · PDF PAGE 270
…s, cuddle! Hear ye John Pronounce on the primordial protoplast Palingenetic, palzeontologic, And beat that beggar’s bleeding NWN IA With truth veracious, aletheiac, true! John ye hear. Cuddle, cubs, doves, lambs, kids, come !] First, God made heav’n, earth: Earth gauche, void; deep, dark. God's Ghost stirred sea, God said ‘ Light!" "Twas. ‘Saw light, Good, split off dark, call’d light ‘day,’ dark ‘night.’ Eve, Morn, day I. ‘Said, ‘‘’Twixt wets be air, split wets !"’ ‘Madeair, split wets ‘neath air, wets top air; so. Call’d air ‘heav'n.’ Eve, mo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
…ults will likely be as empirical as the facts they cover. Evolution is no better than creation to explain things, as Spencer showed. The truth of the matter appears to be that as reason is incompetent to solve the problems of philosophy and religion, @ fortiori science is incompetent. All that science can do is to present reason with new facts. To such good purpose has it done this, that no modern scientist can hope to do more than knowa little about one bud on his pet twig of the particular branch he has chosen: to study, as it hangs. tempting…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…atulate Captain Fuller upon his marvellous feeling for the unseen. We feel that he is very near to a complete understanding of prophetic truth. [Excursus on the “ Little Horn.”] The QUARTERLY COURIER says: In one of Mr. Aleister Crowley's vilest books—a book the horrid blasphemy of whose title we must be excused from quoting—the poet —save the mark l—says: . . . the loud bmbble of the monster Crowley That poet of the muck-heap. . . . Captain Fuller has written a book of 327 pages confirming this description. THE LITERARY GUIDE says: Happy the mi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
… the world! Ay, love, in that warm hour, ili. oI Rose on the breast of the world of spring, ill, Og So far my pen has touched with vivid truth, ili. 46 So fearful is the wrath divine, li. 120 So have the leaves departed, i. 127 So here is my tribute—a jolly good strong ‘un, il. 168 So, love, not thus for you and me! iii, 13 Some lives complain of their own happiness, i. 194 Some sins assume a garb so fine and white, 1, 132 Sometimes I think my blood in waves appears, ll, 18 Some years ago I thought to try, ii. 178 So much when philosophy’s lact…
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
…d sticks | at Aunt Sally. the metaphor, such elasticity having led Prof. Bliimengarten to surmise them to be india- rubber trees, 27. ‘' Truth, that's the gold.” “—Two Poets of Croisie, clii. 1, and elsewhere. 28. ‘7, you, or Simpkin.’13—Inn Album, ], 143. ‘‘Simpkin” has nothing to do with the foaming grape of Eastern France. 36. Azschulos.443—See Agamemnon (Brown- ing’s translation), Preface. 40. Aristobulus.}§—May be scanned elsehow by pedants. Cf. Swinburne’s curious scansion : Arlst6phanés, But the scansion adopted here gives a more credita…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…nknown knight, who, with the ravaging roar of ten thousand thunders, has flung down before the world his adaman tine gauntlet of Ecstatic Truth, which has sent the Old World a-tottering like Bacchus in his cups, and the sparks flying upwards, blinding the starry eyes of God. In this literary cataclysm the hosts of Corelli will be swallowed up, and above the bubblin suction of unkissed lips will the voice of Crowley, like the bellowing of a love-frenzi bull, reclaim himself lacehus—the Second Christ, and ofi'er to us, the crucified thieves of this m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…blic. I decided that it would save trouble to publish them myself. I decided to call myself the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, and issued The Argonauts, The Sword of Song, the Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King, Why Jesus Wept, Oracles, Orpheus, Gargoyles and The Collected Works. I had simply no idea of business. Besides this, I was in no need of money; my responsibility to the gods was to write as I was inspired; my responsibility to mankind was to publish what I wrote. But it ended there. As long as what I wrote was techn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…pened. My utmost condescension was to print "X-Rays on Ex-Probationers", three short contemptuous epigrams. MISTAKES OF MYSTICS I. Since truth is supra-rational, it is incommunicable in the language of reason. II. Hence all mystics have written nonsense, and what sense they have written is so far untrue. III. Yet as a still lake yields a truer reflection of the sun than a torrent, he whose mind is best balanced will, if he become a mystic, become the best mystic. When a friend of mine, or an enemy either, gets into trouble, I go or write to him…
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
…hat eternal life, and consequently eternal suffering, joy , and change of all kinds, will be their m elancholy fate. Such persons are in truth their own real enemies. Many of them, however, believing errone- ously that they are being “ unselfish,” do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier s tages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, s tupidly enough, arisen ; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some de- votees on to the tru…
1929 · PDF PAGE 282
… the same time, the example of India should have been enough. British prestige in India rested on the real moral superiority of courage, truthfulness, justice an self-control. It has been destroyed by the attempt to replace this irrational lever of iron by the rotten laths of reason. We should never have shown our weakness to the Indian student who fills Bengal with the tale of his sexual conquest of white women, our servant girls who took these sons of pettifoggers for princes. We should never have sent out middle-class pets-of-examiners to go…
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
…o correlate these physiological reactions with the psychology and philosophy of the race. It helped me to see that what we call ultimate truth is in reality no more than a statement of the internal relations of the universe which we perceive. One may say, indeed, that a unicellular organism would be absolutely justified in explaining the universe in terms of his own experience; that he could indeed by no possibility do anything else, and that the sole valid criticism which could be applied to his cosmology would be based on facts neither known …
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…At least one claim may be made; nothing has been invented, nothing suppressed, nothing altered and nothing "yellowed up". I believe that truth is not only stranger than fiction, but more interesting. And I have no motive for deception, because I don't give a damn for the whole human race --- "you're nothing but a pack of cards." {34} 1 Edward Crowley1, the wealthy scion of a race of Quakers, was the father of a son born at 30 Clarendon Square, Leamington, Warwichshire2, on the 12th day of October3 1875 E.V. between eleven and twelve at night. L…
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…fraid of it, they have not reached our own state of panic which makes us the prey of the most fantastic superstitions and perversions of truth. I have found it practically impossible to convince middle-class {257} Anlgo-Saxons of facts which anyone would think were bound to be known. They take refuge in angry denial. It seems to them that if they once admit the most elementary and obvious propositions, they are bound to fall headlong into a bottomless pit of bestiality. Where, in fact, they always are. {258} 31
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
… waters of test of faith to utter either a lie or a jest, this with reverence, and that with conviction, Achieve it; the one becomes the truth, the other a formula of power. Hence the real value of the Egyptian ritual by which the theurgist identified himself with the power he invoked. Modern neophytes should not (we think) use the old conjurations with their barbarous names, because, imperfectly un- derstanding the same, they may supersti- tiously attribute some real power to them; we shall rather advise ‘‘ Jack and Jill went up the hill,” ‘‘F…
1929 · PDF PAGE 383
…taking it out of anyone they feel they can bully. Worse still, the hysterical expansion of the ego means the deepest possible treason to truth. It invites obsession by every deceitful demon. They puff up the pride of the fool still further; they flatter every foible, exhort him to acts of the most {614} ridiculous kind, induce him to talk the most raving rubbish and teach him to think himself the greatest man in the world --- nay, not a man, but a god. He scores every fiasco as a success, takes every trifle as a token either of his sacrosanct s…