Little Essays Toward Truth
1938 book written by Aleister Crowley
Little Essays Toward Truth is a 1938 book written by the mystic Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). It consists of sixteen philosophical essays on various topics within the framework of the Qabalah and Crowley's religion of Thelema. On the concept of truth, Crowley writes:
- What then can be meant by the title of this compilation: Little Essays toward Truth? Do we not all assume a perfectly illogical conception of Truth as an entity of "the supra-mundane order, whence a whirling flame and flying Light subsist?" Do we not instinctively assimilate these ideas of Truth and Light, though there is no rational nexus? Is it not clear, then, that we do understand each other perfectly, so far as we can understand each other at all, in a sphere such as Zoroaster calls "Intelligible," which "subsisteth beyond Mind' but which we should "seek to grasp with the Flower of Mind"? (p.84).
The sixteen topics include: Man, Memory, Sorrow, Wonder, Beatitude, Laughter, Indifference, Mastery, Trance, Energy, Knowledge, Understanding, Chastity, Silence, Love, Truth.
Editions
- New Falcon Publications, 1991. ISBN 1-56184-000-9
See also
- Aleister Crowley bibliography
- v
- t
- e
Thelema
- List of Thelemites
- Ankh-af-na-khonsu
- Aleister Crowley
- Kenneth Anger
- Allan Bennett
- William Breeze
- Mary Butts
- Marjorie Cameron
- Lon Milo DuQuette
- J. F. C. Fuller
- Karl Germer
- Kenneth Grant
- Lady Frieda Harris
- Leah Hirsig
- Christopher Hyatt
- Charles Stansfeld Jones
- George Cecil Jones
- Richard Kaczynski
- Carl Kellner
- Rose Edith Kelly
- James Lees
- Grady Louis McMurtry
- Mogg Morgan
- Marcelo Ramos Motta
- Nema Andahadna
- Victor Neuburg
- Sara Northrup
- Jack Parsons
- Helen Parsons Smith
- Israel Regardie
- Theodor Reuss
- C. F. Russell
- Phyllis Seckler
- Wilfred Talbot Smith
- Leila Waddell
- James Wasserman
- Sam Webster
- Jane Wolfe
- Aleister Crowley bibliography
- The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis)
- The Equinox
- Liber 777
- Magick (Book 4)
- Confessions
- The Book of Lies
- "Liber OZ (Liber 77)"
- The Equinox of the Gods
- The Law is for All
- Konx Om Pax
- The Book of Thoth
- The Vision and the Voice
- Little Essays Toward Truth
- Eight Lectures on Yoga
- Magick Without Tears
- The Blue Equinox
- Liber Aleph
- Moonchild
- The Diary of a Drug Fiend
- White Stains
- Clouds without Water
- Collected Works of Aleister Crowley
- The Stratagem and other Stories
- The Holy Books of Thelema
- Thoth Tarot
- Nuit
- Hadit
- Heru-ra-ha
- Aiwass
- Therion
- Babalon
- Chaos
- Ma'at
- Harpocrates
- Ankh
- Number of the beast
- Pentagram
- Rose Cross
- Tree of Life
- Unicursal hexagram
This Thelema-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
This article about a non-fiction book on occultism is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e