I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“I took a bungalow at Kandy and was steered through the beginnings of the art. Yoga may be taught in eight words. ‘Sit still! Stop thinking! Shut up! Get out!’ It is the learning that is difficult.” [via, also]

Consider also:

  1. “My travels took me to Ceylon, where I devoted myself to Yoga.”
  2. “The forces had other and worse effects. An employee (who had not touched alcohol for twenty years) suddenly got drunk and tried to murder his wife and children. This was one of many similar cases. One summer more than half my pack of bloodhounds died. My servants were always getting ill. One of the men I employed to lay down putting greens went insane and tried to murder my wife.”
  3. “Then I perceived the stars to reflect a single sun– Not burning suns themselves, in furious regular race, But mirrors of midnight, lit to remind us of His face. Thus I beheld the truth: ye are stars that give me light; But I read you aright and learn I am walking in the night. Then I turned mine eyes away to the Light that is above you: The answering splendid Dawn arose, and I did not love you. I saw the breaking light, and the clouds fled far away: I was the resurrection of the Golden Star of Day. And now I live in Him; my heart may trace the years In drops of virginal blood and springs of virginal tears.”
  4. The Gnostic
  5. “The value of all this nonsense is somewhat discounted by the fact that I am back in England after wandering over most of the world, and go my way without interference. No charge of any sort has ever been preferred against me.”