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By Aleister Crowley

ISBN-10: 0972658319

ISBN-13: 9780972658317

Aleister Crowley was once one of the first Europeans to check, perform and train Yoga. those lectures set forth a few of Crowley's conclusions after a lifelong philosophical research. the 1st sequence of lectures is entitled 'Yoga for Yahoos.' the weather of Yoga are brought, tested and demystified so as to extracting the sensible essence of Yoga doctrine. Yoga is additionally correlated with astrology and the Qabalah. the second one sequence is entitled 'Yoga for Yellowbellies.' right here Crowley weaves Yoga right into a conceptual framework the encompasses Western philosophy, magick and mathematical physics. All of those lectures are approached with humor, wit and not less than jargon.

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Aleister Crowley was once one of the first Europeans to review, perform and train Yoga. those lectures set forth a few of Crowley's conclusions after a lifelong philosophical research. the 1st sequence of lectures is entitled 'Yoga for Yahoos. ' the weather of Yoga are brought, tested and demystified for you to extracting the sensible essence of Yoga doctrine.

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It is then evident that 44 the composer is himself attempting to express in sensible form some such sublimities as are attained by those who practise Magick and Yoga as they should. 17. The same is true of plastic art, but evidently in much less degree; and all those who really know and love art are well aware that classical painting and sculpture are rarely capable of producing these transcendent orgasms of ecstasy, as in the case of the higher arts. One is bound to the impressions of the eye; one is drawn back to the contemplation of a static object.

Cheer, my comrades, cheer! 'But although consistent materialists were probably always rare, the humanistically important fact remained that science did not find it necessary to include values in its description of the universe. For it appeared that science, in spite of this omission, formed a closed system. If values form an integral part of reality, it seems strange that science should be able to give a consistent description of phenomena which ignores them. 'At the present time, this difficulty is being met in two ways.

They have a curious trick of running one into the other. This, I believe, is one of the reasons why it has been impossible to find any really satisfactory literature about Yoga at all. The more advanced one's progress, the less one knows, and the more one understands. The effect is simply additional evidence of what I have been saying all this time: that it is very little use discussing things; what is needed is continuous devotion to the practice. Love is the law, love under will. YOGA FOR YELLOWBELLIES Fourth Lecture Salutation to the Sons of the Morning!

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