Concentrated on imaginary self for ten minutes, and then projected self into it with fearful force.
Aleister Crowley, The Temple of Solomon the King
Tag Archives: Self
Be the beggar at Allah’s door, he told me gently. He loves humility. It’s in the mendicant’s bowl that the secrets of Self are revealed.
Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library]
The radical magi encountered a world wherein one world-image was locked in place—not just the geocentric cosmos but the whole Christian orthodox value system that went with it. Their subversive purpose revolved around the project of a free circulation of imagery, a breaking-up of the stasis and the creation of a more responsive model. The single world-view of orthodoxy was seen as stifling, tyrannical, oppressive. Inasmuch as the self interiorized this view it reproduced the oppression on the level of the subjective. The hermeticists opposed the very singleness of this worldview with a contradictory multiplicity, a critical form of “paganism” based on difference.
Hakim Bey, The Obelisk
While I’ve been ruminating on the availability of trees, Peeta has been struggling with how to maintain his identity. His purity of self.
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
For I must pass
Desolate into the dusk of things again,
Having risen so far to fall to the abyss,
Deeper for exaltation; I must go
Wailing and naked into the inane
Cavernous shrineless place of misery,
Forgetful, hateful, impotent, except
The last initiation seize my soul,
And fling me into Isis’ very self,
The immortal, mortal.
Aleister Crowley, The Fatal Force
But horror
Seizes on the heart of the judicious.
They see only madness and destruction
In the mockery’s self innate, implicit.
Horror, deeper grief, most dreadful musings
Theirs who penetrate the poet’s purpose!
Aleister Crowley, Oracles, Sabbe Pi Dukkham
This self is the sun, the very center of man’s personal solar system, around which revolves his whole existence. The understanding of self causes all the other worlds of human experience to assume an orderly relationship.
Ralph M Lewis, The Conscious Interlude [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
what I really want is a world wherein I feel generously supported in having disreputable adventures, free to be my expansively weird self.
Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]
In every dictatorship which is tottering, there is an urge towards destruction. Of self, if that only is possible. Of the world, if that is.
Peter Bryant, Red Alert
Unfortunately, to the majority of people the nature of self constitutes an iron curtain behind which they will not penetrate.
Ralph M Lewis, The Conscious Interlude
