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Page 79 of 1301913 · PDF PAGE 575
…es it holy, says an adept—Ve/ sanctum invenit, vel sanctum Jacit; because it makes us understand that in order to be happy, even in this world, one must be holy. To be holy! that is easy to say; but how give one’s self faith when one no longer believes? How re-discover a taste for virtue in a heart faded by vice? One must have recourse to the four words of science: to know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence. One must still one’s dislikes, study duty, and begin by practising it as though one loved it. You are an unbeliever, and you wish to m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 492
… by the wind from the low sweet brows of Hathor? 35. (The magister saw it and rejoiced in the beauty of it.) Listen! 36. (From a certain world came an infinite wail.) That falling petal seemed to the little ones a wave to engulph their continent. 37. So they will reproach thy servant, saying: Who hath set thee to save us? 38. He will be sore distressed. 39. All they will understand not that thou and I are fashioning a boat of Mother-ofPearl. We will sail down the river of Amrit even to the yew groves of Yama, where we may rejoice exceedingly. 4…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…tal Chopin unconscious of disquieting realities. But more, Colombo is the "place where four winds meet", the crossroads of the civilized world. Westward lies Europe, the energetic stripling, who thought to bear the world on his shoulders, but could not co-ordinate his own muscles. Northward lies India, like a woman weary of bearing, a widow holding to her ancient habits without hope. Southward, Australia, topsy-turvy as our childhood's wisdom warned us, sprawls its awkward adolescence and embarrasses its elders by its unconscious absurdity. Las…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
…s known by ") 2 us. ” When Scepticus asks Mysticus , • How old are you ? ” and receives the answer , “ I am but an ulti mate truth , six world -truths , fourteen grand general izations , eighty generalizations , sixty -two dilemmas , and the usual odd million impressions , " he is receiving a much more correct and scientific answer to his question than if Mysticus , like Mahatma Agamya , answered , “ sixty - two.” Mysticus then turning to Scepticus asks him the seemingly simple question , “ What is a ' year ' ? ” . Scepticus answers something a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
… play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
… play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…g light 0 which t ere is nothing concealed which shall not be discovereJ It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley. The world has indeed laboured, and has at last brought forth a man. . . . He stands on the virgin rock of Pyrrhonic Zoroastrianism, which, unlike the Hindu world-conce tion, stands on neither Ele hnnt nor Tortoise, but on the Absolute Zero of the metaphysical abaltsts. . . . And he shall called “lmmanuel"—that is, “ Gog; with us, or, being interpreted, Aleister Crowley, the spiritual son of Immanuel whose surname …
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
… Light , The Glory of the Shining of the Dawn ! I am Osiris ! I the Lord of Life Triumphant over death O Sorrow , Sorrow , Sorrow of the World ! 1 That such similarities as we have pointed out above show Aleister Crowley to be a copyist , must be far from the minds of all his readers . Youth most certainly tends towards certain ideals , and frequently results in a definite hero - worship ; but genius cannot be bound for long ; it will eventually find its own level . The mere fact that certain forms of thought and modes of ex pression occur here…
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
THE OLD BOTTLE 151 a thousand -headed hydra , for ever battling with him on the field of the world , fearing her awful powers and dim mysteries , reversed facts which were so un palatable to him , and drinking deep of the cup of joy during those short moments when it was proffered to his lips , dimly or vividly saw through the intoxicating fumes cloudy realms of perpetual libation , of hope , and of glorious expectations . Heaven and then Hell . The former first , for man is essentially selfish ; having found a fat billet for himself , it was n…
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…and for our intellectual capacities, not how they are in themselves and apart from intelligences such as ours.* Here is the whole of the World’s philosophy in a hundred words; the undying question which has perplexed the mind of man from the dim twilight of the Vedas to the sweltering noon-tide of present-day Scepticism, what is the “ Ding an sich”; what is the aro xa6’ avré; what is the Atman? That the thing which we perceive and experience is not * Deussen, “The Philosophy of the Upanishads,” p. 40. See also Berkeley's “Three Dialogues betwee…
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
…through the gross habit of the body we may never know until spirit vindicates her claim in a court where she must have audience. In this world we are but half spirit; we are thus able to hold only the perceptions and emotions of half an orb. Once fully rounded into symmetry ourselves, we shall have strength to bear the pressure of influences from a whole sphere of truth and loveliness. It is this present half-developed state of ours which makes the infinitude of the hasheesh awakening so unendurable, even when its sublimity is the sublimity of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…and for our intellectual capacities, not how they are in themselves and apart from intelligences such as ours.* Here is the whole of the World’s philosophy in a hundred words; the undying question which has perplexed the mind of man from the dim twilight of the Vedas to the sweltering noon-tide of present-day Scepticism, what is the “ Ding an sich”; what is the aro xa6’ avré; what is the Atman? That the thing which we perceive and experience is not * Deussen, “The Philosophy of the Upanishads,” p. 40. See also Berkeley's “Three Dialogues betwee…
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
…through the gross habit of the body we may never know until spirit vindicates her claim in a court where she must have audience. In this world we are but half spirit; we are thus able to hold only the perceptions and emotions of half an orb. Once fully rounded into symmetry ourselves, we shall have strength to bear the pressure of influences from a whole sphere of truth and loveliness. It is this present half-developed state of ours which makes the infinitude of the hasheesh awakening so unendurable, even when its sublimity is the sublimity of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
…re is in the other three suits. One becomes more and more stolid, and feels that “everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”. THE FOUR TENS These cards are attributed to Malkuth. Here is the end of all energy; it is away from the “formative world” altogether, where things are elastic. There is now no planetary attribution to consider. So far as the Sephira is concerned, it is right down in the world of Assiah. By the mere fact of having devised four elements, the current has derogated from the original perfec‐ tion. The Tens…
1910 · PDF PAGE 339
…nd go. Through our five portals life only flows, and the flavour of its tides is with us always. I sit in judgment on myself—I where the world could gather itself in one, little, humble, focus-point of curiosity and peep into the garden of her soul—I—where seas could be held calm and captive in a little pool of blue—I—who could consume mountains in a flash, and devour the dawn, I who could bid the moon trail her white limbs for my pleasure through the windy bagnios of the sky. “T sit in judgment and condemn, for often I was a sword when Truth w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 339
…nd go. Through our five portals life only flows, and the flavour of its tides is with us always. I sit in judgment on myself—I where the world could gather itself in one, little, humble, focus-point of curiosity and peep into the garden of her soul—I—where seas could be held calm and captive in a little pool of blue—I—who could consume mountains in a flash, and devour the dawn, I who could bid the moon trail her white limbs for my pleasure through the windy bagnios of the sky. “T sit in judgment and condemn, for often I was a sword when Truth w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…r and a friend May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may you burn with the same zeal your father possesses. Convince the world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, xw
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…r and a friend May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may you burn with the same zeal your father possesses. Convince the world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, xw
1913 · PDF PAGE 557
…lly against them, that their flight may not be hindered by them, that they may not be pulled back to Hell. This war is as ancient as the world; the Greeks figured it under the symbols of Eros and Anteros, and the Hebrews by the antagonism of Cain and Abel. It is the war of the Titans and the Gods. The two armies are everywhere invisible, disciplined and always ready for attack or counter- attack. Simple-minded folk on both sides, astonished at the instant and unanimous resistance that they meet, begin to believe in vast plots cleverly organized…
1913 · PDF PAGE 557
…lly against them, that their flight may not be hindered by them, that they may not be pulled back to Hell. This war is as ancient as the world; the Greeks figured it under the symbols of Eros and Anteros, and the Hebrews by the antagonism of Cain and Abel. It is the war of the Titans and the Gods. The two armies are everywhere invisible, disciplined and always ready for attack or counter- attack. Simple-minded folk on both sides, astonished at the instant and unanimous resistance that they meet, begin to believe in vast plots cleverly organized…