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Page 9 of 1151961 · PDF PAGE 73
…u hast found thy Self, and knowest Thy Self immortal and immutable beyond Time and Space, free of Causality, so thoroughly that even thy Mind partaketh constantly thereof, thou hast in no wise altered the Relations of thy Body with its Syndromics in the World whereof it is a Part. Wouldst thou lengthen the Life of thy Body? Then accommodate thou the Conditions of thy Body to its Environment by giving it Light, Air, Food, and Exercise as its Nature requireth. So also, mutatis mutandis, do thou cherish the Health of thy Mind. m
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…der the class of people for whom the injunction was promulgated; for, as we will be shown later, preliminary to the concentration of the mind is the control of the mind, which means the calm of the mind, and the Hindu mind is so constituted that if you offer a man the most trifling object, the incident is a landmark in his life. It upsets him completely for years. In the East, an absolutely automatic and thoughtless act of kindness to a native is liable to attach him to you, body and soul, for the rest of his life. In other words, it is going t…
1902 · PDF PAGE 129
…nhAuser. Lady pure, miracle of true love, 1 have a bitter word and harsh to say. This is my curse —no sooner do I speak, Or formulate my mind in iron words. That my mind grows, o'erleaps the limit set, And I perceive the truth that lies beyond— One further step into a new-fallen night. Hear then — I hate to hurt your perfect soul ; 127
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
… than that of Luxor or of Karnak. He had still the old illusion that to succeed on one plane you must fail on another; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was not for three years later that it fully illuminated his mind. This illusion, of which it…
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
… than that of Luxor or of Karnak. He had still the old illusion that to succeed on one plane you must fail on another; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was not for three years later that it fully illuminated his mind. This illusion, of which it…
1899 · PDF PAGE 162
…must in hard gray balance-shackles bind The essence of all thought : No sorrier sexton in a grave inters The nobler children of a poet’s mind Of wine and gold well wrought. By the poor sense of touch they judge that this Or that is real or not. Have they divined This simplest spirit-bond, The joy of some bad woman’s deadly kiss ; The thought-flash that well tunes a lover’s mind Seas and gray gulfs beyond ? So that which is impalpable to touch, They judge by touch; the viewless they decide By sight ; their logic fails, Their jarring jargon jingl…
1922 · PDF PAGE 150
…the Caligula and hop so riture at the earliest possibile opportunity. Courier till attend to busines details.”’ It suddenly dawned on my mind that there was one scrap of fact imbedded in this fantastic farrago. The courier had attended to business details with an efficiency worthy of the best traditions of the profession. The thing seemed to sink into Lou’s mind like a person seeing his way through a chess problem. Her face was absolutely white with cold and concentrated rage. ‘He must have watched us in Paris,’ she said. “He must have known th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 8
…implest Methodist uses some sort of ceremony, and Crowley, who is quite in earnest in his endeavour to attain such unusual conditions of mind as are called ecstasy, believes that the gateway to Ecstasy can be reached through Ceremonial Magic. He has saturated himself with the magic of the East—a very real thing, in tune with the Eastern mind. He is well read in the modern metaphysicians, all of whom have attempted to explain the unexplainable. He abandons these. They appeal only to the brain, and once their jargon is mastered they lead nowhere …
1961 · PDF PAGE 59
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 47 At De Arte Mentis Colendi (1) Mathematica. (Of the Art of Cultivating the Mind. 1: Mathematics) OW concerning the first Foundation of thy Mind I will say somewhat. Thou shalt study with Diligence in the Mathematics, because thereby shall be revealed unto thee the Laws of thine own Reason and the Limitations thereof. This Science manifesteth unto thee thy true Nature in respect of the Machinery whereby it worketh; and showeth in pure Nakedness, without Clothing of Personality or Desire, the Anatomy of thy conscious…
1906 · PDF PAGE 140
…hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of cares how heavy! Drink! The peace of the Priest ! [He drinks up the liquor. Be thou my light ! Uncloud the misty channels of the mind ! Off, horror! O…
1901 · PDF PAGE 114
…nt; and distracted pain Must from sheer agony some respite find; When some half-maddened miserable brain Projects a God in his detesting mind. God who made him—to the core all evil, In his own image—and a God of Terror ; A vast foul nightmare, an impending devil; Compact of darkness, infamy, and error. Some bestial woman, beaten by her mates, In utter fear broke down the bar of reason; Shrieked, crawled to die; delirium abates By some good chance her terror in its season. Her ravings picture the cessation of Such life 2s she had. known: her min…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…ARKS. Winged-Globe.t 4 min, The entire meditation was bad. Tejas-Akasa.t 3» There was no difficulty in getting the object clear; but the mind wandered. Apas-Vayu.§ ry Result not very good. Winged-Globe and Flam- Meditation on both of these was only ing Sword.|| ry fair. * “The Bhagavad-Gita,” ii, 69, 70; vi, 32. Cf. “Konx om Pax,” pp. 73-77. + The ordinary Egyptian Winged-Globe is here meant, but as visualized by the mind’s eye; the meditation then takes place on the image in the mind. So with the following practices. + Tejas-Akasa is the Eleme…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…ARKS. Winged-Globe.t 4 min, The entire meditation was bad. Tejas-Akasa.t 3» There was no difficulty in getting the object clear; but the mind wandered. Apas-Vayu.§ ry Result not very good. Winged-Globe and Flam- Meditation on both of these was only ing Sword.|| ry fair. * “The Bhagavad-Gita,” ii, 69, 70; vi, 32. Cf. “Konx om Pax,” pp. 73-77. + The ordinary Egyptian Winged-Globe is here meant, but as visualized by the mind’s eye; the meditation then takes place on the image in the mind. So with the following practices. + Tejas-Akasa is the Eleme…
1922 · PDF PAGE 25
…not perhaps looked a little rudely at what his common sense assured him was quite an ordinary and not a particularly attractive girl. My mind was immediately troubled. I went hastily back to my table. And then it seemed to me as if it were hours while the waiters were persuading the earl to his feet. I sipped my drink automatically. When I looked up the girl had disappeared. It is a trivial observation enough which I am going to make. I hope at least it will help to clear any one’s mind of any idea that I may be an abnormal man. As a matter of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 172
ON CONCENTRATION 139 from the beginning as if there had never been anything on the subject written before. I must keep always in mind that you are assumed to know nothing whatever about Yoga or Magick, or anything else beyond what the average educated person may be assumed to have been taught. What is the problem? There are two. Beta: To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. Alpha: To stop the mind alto…
1905 · PDF PAGE 120
…dawn their footsteps died again. They can do nothing to me—that is plain— While the door bars them ! What is that runs clear Truth in my mind ? Once more they may be near ? And then came memory. Wide the portal stood And—what had brushed me as it passed ? What froze My dream to this awakening—fearful flood Of horror loosed, loosing a sweat of blood, An agony of terror on these brows ? God ! God ! Indeed, indeed this is the house ! The candles sputtered and went out. I stood Fettered by fear, and heard the lonely wind Lament across the marsh. A …
1929 · PDF PAGE 181
…self over to the most hideous thoughts. They were in fact the thoughts of madness. It is a strange fact that the most harmless states of mind, the most correct trains of idea, may accompany a dangerous lunacy. The difference is that the madman makes a secret of his fancies. Lord Dunsany's [255] stories are the perfect prose jewels of a master cutter and polisher, lit by the rays of an imagination that is the godlike son of the Father of All Truth and Light; but if he kept them to himself, they would be the symptoms of an incurable lesion of the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
III. II. Il. THE EQUINOX Rational ideas being thus expelled from the mind, there is room for the apprehension of spiritual truth. It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane. Ill. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM Man being a finite being, he is incapable of appre- hending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
III. II. Il. THE EQUINOX Rational ideas being thus expelled from the mind, there is room for the apprehension of spiritual truth. It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane. Ill. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM Man being a finite being, he is incapable of appre- hending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 123
…ib, though otherwise not at all like a bird, dost expose thy podex, even when in no danger.1 I cannot but think that all this was in the mind of the Mullah, when in his sermon on Friday he reproached us openly with beastliness. It is true that no beast does anything in the hope of receiving money ; it is in my mind to take an hundred dinars2 to this one-eyed dotard, so that the orthodox of Shiraz may speak of the beau- ty and chastity of Habib, the piety of El Qahar, and of the great wisdom and tunefulness of his songs.3 1. These similes are ve…