ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Pratyhara gets rid of the Objective.
Dharana gets rid of the Subjective.” [via]
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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Yama and Niyama get rid of Ethical consciousness.
} Voluntary ‘Breaks'” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Asana gets rid of Anatomy-consciousness.
Pranayama gets rid of Physiology-consciousness.
} Involuntary ‘Breaks'” [via]
Commentary (ΜϜ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜϜ Buttons and Rosettes in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The lesson of the chapter is thus always to rise hungry from a meal, always to violate one’s own nature. Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure, and it has a real further advantage, in destroying the Sankharas, which, however ‘good’ in themselves, relatively to other Sankharas, are yet barriers upon the Path; they are modifications of the Ego, and therefore those things which bar it from the absolute.” [via]
Commentary (ΜϜ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜϜ Buttons and Rosettes in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The fact remains that in vice, as in everything else, some things satiate, others refresh. Any game in which perfection is easily attained soon ceases to amuse, although in the beginning its fascination is so violent.
Witness the tremendous, but transitory, vogue of ping-pong and diabolo. Those games in which perfection is impossible never cease to attract.” [via, see, see]
Commentary (ΜϜ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜϜ Buttons and Rosettes in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The title of this chapter is best explained by a reference to Mistinguette and Mayol.
It would be hard to decide, and it is fortunately unnecessary even to discuss, whether the distinction of their art is the cause, result, or concomitant of their private peculiarities.” [via]
Mistinguett (née Jeanne Bourgeois, 1875–1956) and Félix Mayol (1872–1941) were popular French entertainers active in the early 20th Century, were among the first French singers to be recorded.
“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know.” – Mistinguett
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜϜ Buttons and Rosettes in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Do this by virtue of THAT in thyself before which law and nature are but shadows.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜϜ Buttons and Rosettes in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The road winds uphill: all law, all nature must be overcome.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜϜ Buttons and Rosettes in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The weary pilgrim struggles on; the satiated pilgrim stops.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜϜ Buttons and Rosettes in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Be thou more greedy that the shark, more full of yearning than the wind among the pines.” [via]