“Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!
The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.”

— Aleister Crowley

Eight Lectures On Yoga (1939) Ch. 4.

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