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Page 86 of 951944 · PDF PAGE 32
…e has not begun to understand Scientific Method. The Ancients were fully cognisant of this idea; The Chinese, in particular, based their whole philosophy on this primary division of the original Nothing. One must begin with Noth‐ ing; otherwise the question would arise, Whence came this postulated Something? So they wrote the equation—Zero equals plus one plus minus one 0=(+1)+(‐1). “Plus One” they called the Yang, or Male Principle; “Minus One”, the Yin or Female Prin‐ ciple. These then combine in varying proportion, giving the idea of Heaven …
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
…groves and catacombs, no more of open fields and smiling bowers, they caused to be written in symbols by one of the lesser initiates the whole Mystery of Godliness, so that after the renaissance those who were fitted to the Work might infallibly discover the first matter of the Work and even many of the processes thereof. Such writings are those of the neo- Platonists, and in modern times the God- illumined Adept Berkeley, Christian though he called himself, is perhaps the most dis- P
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
…ss and also much more ‘than appears if Venus be studied from a strictly as‐ trological standpoint. One abandons the contemplation of the whole in order to take practical advantage of a part. Just so Tactics differs from Strategy. A great general does not think of war in the abstract, but confines his attention to a minute part of his perhaps vast knowledge of the subject by considering the disposition of his forces at a given place and hme, and how best to employ them against his adversary. Thi5 is of course true not only of the Trumps, but of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
…ir, the period of Apophis; then suddenly the subject is mastered and one comes to a triumphant conclusion, the period of Osiris. But the whole of this formula depends upon ignorance of the laws of nature; there is in fact no catastrophe. Natura non facit saltum; all change proceeds with perfect order, ease and harmony. It is the great task set before mankind at the present moment to realize, and there‐ fore to adjust, means of action to the facts of the case, thus preventing the illusion of catastro‐ phe by eliminating the element of surprise. …
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…“To what God should he appeal? His own, Hanuman, was silent. Sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. So Jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 Allan M acGregor Bennett ( whose motto in the “ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” was Iehi Aour, i.e. “Let there be Light”), now Ananda Metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 Taphtatharath [sic., s. b. T aphthartharath — T.S.], the spirit of Mercury. “Now hate hath power, though not the power of …
1906 · PDF PAGE 271
…line—since it is not straight and so cannot enclose a space—and more than one thing cannot form part of a universe, since unus implies a whole. Af, I should reply : (a) It is true that there is no line of demarcation, but that that non- existing line is after all just as much a part of the (non-exist- ing) universe as any other non- existing thing. We divide the universe into (1) Existing things. (2) Non-existing things. If 4 exists, the line must be zo?-4 - and vice versa. Which we know to be false. (b) It is true that there isa line, and that…
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…y sensible of our outer darkness. "Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise Qreat strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”—The Poetry Review, “Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zguinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…y sensible of our outer darkness. "Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise Qreat strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”—The Poetry Review, “Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zguinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…ly sensible of our outer darkness. Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise great strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”— Tye Poetry Review. «Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zgzinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is …
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…ly sensible of our outer darkness. Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise great strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”— Tye Poetry Review. «Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zgzinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is …
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
… Perfect, Ancient and Accepted, J ust, Regular Mahabrahma. His only business was to meditate, for as long as he did this, the worlds—the whole sy stem of 10,000 worlds—would go on peaceably . Nobody had better read the lesson of the Bible— the horrible results to m ankind of ill-timed, though possibly well-intentioned, interference on the part of a deity. “Well, he curled himself up, which was rather clever for a form less abstraction, and began. There was a grave difficulty in his mind—an obstacle right away from the w ord ‘Jump !’ Of course t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 242
…efs by the most solemn of obligations. I never dreamt of trying to minimize {404} my responsibility to them, yet they had cut across the whole trend of my aspiration. The magical part o me was, in a manner of speaking, stunned. My wife and I passed a short time in Paris and renewed old ties. One incident stands out in my memory as peculiarly amusing. We asked Arnold Bennett to lunch at Paillard's. He was completely overpowered by the deference of the Maître d'hôtel, who knew me very well, and his
1929 · PDF PAGE 252
252 haggis. I crawled and dripped and choked back my laughter. The idiocy of the whole adventure was intensified by the physical discomfort and the impossibility of relieving one's feelings. That interminable crawl! The rain never let up for a single second; and the wind came in gusts wilder and more hitter with every yard of ascent. I explained to Tartarin that if it should shift a few degrees, the haggis would infallibly get our scent and be off. I implored him to camouflage his posteriors, which arose in front for my balaclava, heaving like …
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
… have doubted whether the Ark was capable of containing two of every sort of creature, with provisions necessary for their support for a whole year; for so long and more did Noah stop in that Ark. But on a careful inquiry it has been found that only about one hundred different sorts of beasts, and not two hundred birds, are known, the greater part of them are of no bulk, and many exceedingly small, and it has been said all the creatures in the Ark would not take up the room of five hundred horses. After four thousand years human ingenuity canno…
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…into the hands of his enemies. My First Precept is m erely a general rule. 3 In 1 The Buddha had such long ear s that he could cover the whole of his f ace with them . Ears are referred to Spirit in Hindu sy mbolism, so that the legend means he could conceal the lower elements and dwell in this alone. 2 Here is the little rift within the lute which alienated Crowley f rom a ctive w ork o n Buddhist lines; the orthodox failing to see his attitude. 3 A more likely idea that the brilliantly logical nonsense of “Pansil,” supra.
1906 · PDF PAGE 243
…athematics, there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as I have shown, de- pendent on the idea of categories. If these existed, then the whole question is merely thrown back; we must reach a state in which the 0 is absolute. Not only must we get rid of all subjects, but of all predi- cates. By 0 (in mathematics) we really mean 02, where n is the final term of a natural scale of dimensions, categories, or predicates. Our Cosmic Egg, then, from which the present universe arose, was Nothingness, extended in no categories, or, graphically, 0°. This…
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
…anner now—but to take for me an entire house in vour own name, and as for yourself; for, all things considered, I am de- termined upon a whole house, with no mortal in it but a maid of your own petting, who is to look on herself as your servant. Let there be two bedrooms; one for you, another for me, and as you like you may ever and anon lie there. ‘«* T would have the house with necessary fur- niture taken by the month (or otherwise as you can), for I propose staying not beyond that time, and yet perhaps I may. ‘*« Take it as soon as possible.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 482
…realizes my idea of heaven. But I am pledged to give my life to the establishment of the Law of Thelema: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." So, if the operations on behalf of that Law are being tampered by the insensate belief that I ever was, am, or ever could be, disloyal to my country, which I love with an unreasoning passion, altogether beyond the interference of my intellectual opinions, I am willing to make this public statement as to what I did in the war, and why I did it. My attitude is unaltered by time. I still think …
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…he decep-| tions (harmless enough though they are) that This mysterious letter which so puzzles his biographer is in fact the key to his whole char- acter, life, and opinions. This is no place to labour the point; I have That he at one time or another achieved }at hand none of the necessary documents; but . . - . ~ success is certain from the universal report of his holiness and from the nature of his writings. The repeated phrase in the Optics, ‘‘ God is 1 The italics are ours.—Epb. it might be worth the research of a scholar to trace Berkeley…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…y adjustment of contending forces, a scene of strife, in which all the combatants fall in turn. What is true of each part is true of the whole. Natural knowledge tends more and more to the conclusion that ‘‘all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth” are the transitory forms of parcels of cosmic substance wending along the road of evolution, from ‘nebulous potentiality, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite, through all varieties of matter ; through infinite diversities of' life and thought, possibly, through modes of …