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1907 · PDF PAGE 60

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…the Wife, Immune, intact, ignore. The people hear; Then, be the people smitten of grey Fear, It is no odds ! 13. I have seen the eternal Gods Sit, star-wed, in old Egypt by the Nile; The same calm pose, the inscrutable, wan smile, On every lip alike. Time hath not had his will to strike At them; they abide, they pass through all. Though their most ancient names may fall, They stir not nor are weary of Life, for with them, even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, weknow; let, then, the writing go! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14.…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 36

John St. John

…ight of this day to construct from DCLXXI a perfect ritual of self-initiation, so as to avoid the constant difficulty of assuming various God-forms. Then let that ritual be a constant and perfect link between Us . . . so that at all times I may be perfect in Thy Knowledge and Conversation, Ο mine Holy Guardian Angel! to whom I have aspired these ten years past. And though as it may seem I now compose myself to sleep, I await Thee . . . I await Thee! I arise from sleep, mine eyes a little weary, my soul fresh, my heart restored.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ts down thoughtfully. Todd’s been too frequently to this house. Well, Charley and I must get on as best we can. Life is a hard thing, my God! “ Meantime there is our life here. Well?” It seems sometimes to me as if all the world’s wisdom were summed up in that one Epicurus phrase. For if Todd has solved all their problems with a word, at least he supplies no hint of the answer to mine. For I—it seems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret?…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ts down thoughtfully. Todd’s been too frequently to this house. Well, Charley and I must get on as best we can. Life is a hard thing, my God! “ Meantime there is our life here. Well?” It seems sometimes to me as if all the world’s wisdom were summed up in that one Epicurus phrase. For if Todd has solved all their problems with a word, at least he supplies no hint of the answer to mine. For I—it seems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret?…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 12

The World’s Tragedy

…meron almost wept for joy. When (the mes- sage continued) Major Mc. Arthy had risen to his feet and retorted : “ He that hath the Son of God hath everlas- ting life ”, Mr. Cameron executed a Highland though funereal fling. When Mr. Raven, stung to the quick, had shaken his fist at the Major and yelled : “ Brother, you’re a sinful old man ! ” Mrs. Cameron “ had always known there was something ” and invented a ruined governess. But — oh the laughter of her husband when the telegraph brought the Major’s retort “ Brother, have you no sin ? ” Spoke…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ic, passion, death, upon thy lyre—— Thy lyre! I am the Grail and I the Glory now: I am the flame and fuel of thy breast; I am the star of God upon thy brow; I am thy queen, enraptured and possessed. Hide thee, sweet river ; welcome to the sea, Ocean of love that shall encompass thee! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! [PISCES performs a slezþy sinuous dame by herself, and mim/ns lo Veuus’ [krone lapsed 111/17 herself, and as if exhaus/eaq Rise, rise, my knight! My king! My love, arise! See the grave avenues of Parad…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ic, passion, death, upon thy lyre—— Thy lyre! I am the Grail and I the Glory now: I am the flame and fuel of thy breast; I am the star of God upon thy brow; I am thy queen, enraptured and possessed. Hide thee, sweet river ; welcome to the sea, Ocean of love that shall encompass thee! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! [PISCES performs a slezþy sinuous dame by herself, and mim/ns lo Veuus’ [krone lapsed 111/17 herself, and as if exhaus/eaq Rise, rise, my knight! My king! My love, arise! See the grave avenues of Parad…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 329

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…its work. The ploughshare is not cruel when it tears the bosom of the earth, and the great revolutions of the world are the husbandry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never change because they do not instruct them- selves; but peoples instruct themselves. Shepherds and butchers of the people, you are then 31

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1913 · PDF PAGE 329

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…its work. The ploughshare is not cruel when it tears the bosom of the earth, and the great revolutions of the world are the husbandry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never change because they do not instruct them- selves; but peoples instruct themselves. Shepherds and butchers of the people, you are then 31

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1996 · PDF PAGE 217

The Law is for All

216 The Law is for All 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the int…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 213

The Star in the West

… ; for there is the infinitely small , just as there is the infinitely great , as Crowley states in Aceldama : The inmost is the home of God . He moulds Infinity , The great within the small , one stainless unity !! The power of the small is grandly described in the following : Yet ants may move the mountain ; none is small But he who stretches out no arm at all ; Toadstools have wrecked fair cities in a night , One poet's song may bid a kingdom fall .? And that which is below is as that which is above ; for : Time is to us the Now , and Space …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 247

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF SOL SCORPIO-APOPHIS. The House of God is fallen. There is nothing left therein. Therefore I bring nothing but myself. LEO. Let us burn her upon the altar of burnt offering. SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the fire my tears would be dried up ; and these tears are of mine offering to the Lord. LEO. Let us throw her to the sacred crocodile SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the water my heart would be chilled; and this heart is of mine offering to the Lord. LEO. Let us throw her to the Winds from the Watchtowers of Silence. SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the win…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 247

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF SOL SCORPIO-APOPHIS. The House of God is fallen. There is nothing left therein. Therefore I bring nothing but myself. LEO. Let us burn her upon the altar of burnt offering. SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the fire my tears would be dried up ; and these tears are of mine offering to the Lord. LEO. Let us throw her to the sacred crocodile SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the water my heart would be chilled; and this heart is of mine offering to the Lord. LEO. Let us throw her to the Winds from the Watchtowers of Silence. SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the win…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 91

Book 4 (Part I)

…s are stopped the surface becomes calm ; and then, and only then, can it reflect unbroken the disk of the sun. This sun is the “soul” or “God.” We should, however, avoid these terms for the present, on account of their implications. Let us rather speak of this sun as “some unknown thing whose presence has been masked by all things known, and by the knower.” It is probable, too, that our memory of Dhyana is not of the pheno- menon itself, but of the image left thereby on the mind. But this is duration of Dhyana. One can only say that, since it ce…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 65

Book 4 (Part II)

53 the Temple asks, on seeing a slug: "What is the purpose of this message from the Unseen? How shall I interpret this Word of God Most High?" The Magus thinks: "How shall I use this slug?" And in this course he must persist. Though many things useless, so far as he can see, are sent to him, one day he will find the one thing he needs, while his Understanding will appreciate the fact that none of those other things were useless. So with these early practices of renunciation it will now be clearly understood that they were but of temporary use. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 340

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ignorant, When they feel that a little charity is worth more than much influence and domination, When the whole world respects what even God respects in the least of His creatures, the spontaneity of obedience and the liberty of duty, Then there will be no more than one religion in the world, the Christian and universal religion, the true Catholic religion, which will no longer deny itself by restrictions of place and of persons. “Woman,” said the Saviour to the woman of Samaria, 42

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1913 · PDF PAGE 340

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ignorant, When they feel that a little charity is worth more than much influence and domination, When the whole world respects what even God respects in the least of His creatures, the spontaneity of obedience and the liberty of duty, Then there will be no more than one religion in the world, the Christian and universal religion, the true Catholic religion, which will no longer deny itself by restrictions of place and of persons. “Woman,” said the Saviour to the woman of Samaria, 42

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1929 · PDF PAGE 68

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…he Four ma’ajab and ed therein* Eléments. ma’aruf. but male.) Four Wor~ Liberty, i.e. The Hexagram which unités shippers; the free will. God and Man. The cons- four ele- ciousness or Ruach. ments. Parzival as the Child in his widowed mother’s care : Horus, son of Isis and the slain Osiris. Parzival as King & Priest in Montsalvat performing the miracle of rédemp¬ tion; Horus crowned and conquering, taking the place of his father. Christ-Bacchus in Heaven- Olympus saving the world. The Hermit IX Yod (a hand) ÏO V i r g o (an The root of the Alpha…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 47

The Soul of Osiris

…thou hast spoken, and thy strong command Bade earth and air divide, and on the sea Thy spirit moved—and thou must envy me ! Gird all thy godhead to destroy a man Whose little moment is a single span, Whose small desire is nothing—and thy power Must root from out his bosom the fair flower Of passion ! Listen to thine own voice yet : “ A rich man many flocks and herds did get, “ And took the poor man’s lamb.” Thou art the man ! Our love must lie beneath thy bitter ban ! Thou petty, envious God ! My king, be sure His brute force shall not to the e…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 25

777

…rana (as Force), 3 Friendliness .S. Indra, Brahma . 4 Death . _R. Vishnu, Varruna-Avatar 5 Buddha . .R. Vishnu-Hari-Krishna-Rama . 6 The Gods .R. oe ee ee 7 Analysis into 4 Elements _ A. Hanuman . 8 Dhamma . R... . | Ganesha, Vishnu (Kurm Avatar) 9 The Body /R. } Lakshmi, &c. [Kundalini] . 10 Wind . . _K. The Maruts [Vayu] . 11 Yellow . K . . | Hanuman, Vishnu (as Parasa-Rama) . 12 Loathsomeness of Food . .P. Chandra (as ww). 13 Dark Blue . ....+.. -« ._K. Lalita (sexual aspect of Sakti) 14 Bloody Corpse. . . .t.. Shiva. 15 Beaten and Scattered…

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