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Page 85 of 911912 · PDF PAGE 427
…night with a knobby stick in his hand. . '.'. ‘This clever book.”—Academy. “A vivid imagination fostered by a keen and loving insight of nature, and this allied to a command of richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the author a prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm, From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…n in conscious communication is shown not merely by the character of the book itself, but by the fact of his comprehending perfectly the nature of the proof necessary to demonstrate the fact of his own existence and the conditions of that existence. And, further, having provided the proof required.
1929 · PDF PAGE 396
…lts of quite practical kinds. More yet, these results involve no improbable theories. We can explain them in terms of well-known laws of nature. I have always been able to loose the genius which dwells in the inmost self of even the most imperfect artist, by taking the proper measures to prevent the interference of his conscious characteristics. Neuburg himself furnishes a striking instance of this. When I met him he was writing feeble verses of hardly more than undergraduate merit. Under my training he produced some of the most passionate, int…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
…rt, at which any philosophical Hindoo would roll about with laughter, Does Mr, Crowley sup- pose that Buddhists do not feel the poetical nature of the books of a religion? Does he suppose that they do not realise the inmmense K.. CHESTERTON * The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned them back in the day of battle.
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…night with a knobby stick in his hand. . . . This clever book.” —Academy. “*A vivid imagination fostered by a keen and loving insight of nature, and this allied to a command ot richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the authora prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century’s literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propoun…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…night with a knobby stick in his hand. . . . This clever book.” —Academy. “*A vivid imagination fostered by a keen and loving insight of nature, and this allied to a command ot richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the authora prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century’s literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propoun…
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…nary ‘1’ could only realise Who ‘I’ really am, how very happy we should all be!’ And here we have Karma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of nature operat- ing nowhere in nothing ! There is no room for worship or for morality in the Advaitist system. All the specious pleas of the Bhagavad-Gita, and the ethical works of Western Advaitist philosophers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. But no subtlety can turn the practical argument; the grinning mouths of the Dvaitist guns keep the fort of Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 209
…, in Pali Anatta, and will seem to my poor spiritually-minded friends an excuse for a course of action they do not understand, and whose nature is beyond them. 782. Christ ascends .8*—And I tell you frankly that if he does not come back by the time I have finished reading these proofs, I shall give him up. 783. Bell.83—The folios have ‘‘ bun.” NOTES TQ PENTECOST 22. With sacred thirst.\—‘' He, soul-hy-! droptic with a sacred thirst.””. A Grammarian’s Funeral. 23. Levi.2—Ceremonial magic is not quite so | silly as it sounds. Witness the followin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 457
… it had never been broken from the moment that my initiation is over. The effect is to persuade me that this period of my life is in the nature of a dream. I meet strange monsters; one phantom succeeds another without a shadow of coherence. Even those incidents which help me to recognize that I am the central figure of the dream complete my conviction of its unreality. {724} 75 It is one of the regular jokes in India that people on the strength of the season in Calcutta write a book about the peninsula, but even the tourist of genius, like Char…
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…elay in my appearance, but it seemed to me nonsense that I should have arrived before I started! At that time I understood little of the nature of time. {445} My lyric gift had begun to sit up and take notice a little after the shock of the realization of all its aspirations. I had begun to write again. Some of my poems at this period were definitely rationalistic. I was already aware that the rationalist position was wooden and shallow. The members of the Rationalist Press Association were no less narrow-minded sectarians than the Evangelicals…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
…iseptics, the application of stem to travel, and of mechanical principles to such arts as spinning and printing, the systematic study of nature, the extension of the term poetry to metres other than the heroic, the recognition of painting other than voluptuous coloured photographs as art, and of music other than classical melody as art --- these and a thousand similar innovations have all been denounced as chimerical, blasphemous, obscene, seditious, anti-social and what not. We crossed the Salween by means of a bridge ornamented with shrines a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 297
…alism. I was sorry not to have been able to stay longer in this perfumed paradise of beauty and pleasure, where every element of art and nature were harmoniously woven as if endeavouring to echo the melody of the personality of the mandarin. The next day took us over superbly swelling hills upon whose bosom slumbered a lake. Here once more I was mystified as to its outlet. At the end of a delicious day we slept in a temple. It was the first day of the year and everyone but the missionary was rejoicing. Crackers clustered on long poles of bamboo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
…o, in Pali A natta, and will seem to my poor spiritually-mind friends an excuse for a course of action they do not understand, and whose nature is beyond them. 782. Christ ascends.82—And I tell you frankly that if he does not come back by the time I have finished reading these proofs, I shall give him up. 783. Bell.83—The folios have “bun.” NOTES TO PENTECOST 22. With sacred thirst.1—“He, soul-hy- droptic with a sacred thirst. ” A Grammarian’s Funeral. 23. Levi.2—Ceremonial magic is not quite so silly as it sounds. Witness the following mas-ter…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…desires of the original animal. To a civilized mind, accordingly, the impression was charged with a certain disquietude partaking of the nature of terror without understanding why; one felt the presence of forces which appal because one feels their power, recognizes their existence in oneself. They are the things one has tried to forget and persuaded oneself that they are in fact forgotten. They are the voices of ancestral appetite. It is the roar of the mob in the ears of the educated: but as for any definite religious impression, the Perahera…
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
…e for y ourself the realisation of the nothingness of y ourself by keeping the fourth dimension ever present to your mind.) The illusory nature of this idea of an in- finite Atman is well shown by the very proof which that most distinguished Vedan- tist, the late Swami Vivekananda (no con- nection with the firm of a similar name1 across the street), gives of the exis tence of the infinite. “ Think of a circle !” says he. “ You will in a m oment becom e con- scious of an infinite circle around y our original small one.” The fallacy is obvious. T…
1929 · PDF PAGE 334
…iod as the Alhambra above {543} 1. WEH Note: Here Crowley refers to the preferred manner of his publication. Yet he never understood the nature of binding, and looked to hand-made papers that yellow and mold in the damp. He sought fine leather for the covers, but the stitchings were of linen and the glue such as to fail with age. The first edition of "The Equinox" tends to fall apart at the touch! the hovels of the vermin that surround it. The scheme required capital, and though I was already somewhat embarrassed by the habit of buying a black …
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…m bo of all similar idle and pernicious perversions of truth. Infinity remains, but only as a mathe- matical conception as impossible in nature as the square root of -1. Against all this mathematical, or s emi-mathematical, reason- ing, it may doubtless be objected that our 1 Compare and contrast this doctrine with that of Herbert Spencer (“First Principles,” Pt. I.), and see my “Science and Buddhism ” for a full discussion of the difference involved. —A. C. 2 If by “infinitely gr eat” we only mean “indefinitely gr eat,” as a m athematician wou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…l that I can do is to describe everything that I remember, as best I can, as if it were, in itself, the centre of interest. I must trust nature so to order matters that, in the multiplicity of the material, the proper proportion will somehow appear automatically, just as in the operations of pure chance or inexorable law a unity ennobled by strength and beautified by harmony arises inscrutably out of the chaotic concatenation of circumstances. At least one claim may be made; nothing has been invented, nothing suppressed, nothing altered and not…
1904 · PDF PAGE 100
…ary ‘I’ could only realise Who ‘I’ really am, how very happy we should all be !” And here we have Karma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of nature o perat- ing nowhere in nothing ! There is no room for worship or for m orality in the Advaitist sy stem. All the specious pleas of the Bhagavad-Gita, and the ethical works of Western Advaitist philosophers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. But no subtlety can turn the practical argument; the grinning mouths of the Dvaitist guns keep the fort of Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off…
1929 · PDF PAGE 570
…d her by impersonating them. The very first experiment succeeded. She brought back information of great value. Its truth and the exalted nature of the being who uttered it was guaranteed by internal evidence of the strictest accuracy. Shortly after this the sun entered the sign of Libra. I chose her to assist me in obtaining the word of the autumnal equinox. She made good. The word was given by her as "THIGHS", to which she assigned the number 542 and the meaning "Light, Eyes, Flame and Will".