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1904 · PDF PAGE 72

The Goetia

…it was as oreri caclasoD§ coresa ta agsage Do bomila Jpame caosago od stones from the firmament of wrath, such as was not in the ages of Time the beginning of the Earth Do-0-a-ipe ADNI, Das ABosheh cameliatza od 3odDameranu hami caosago, and in the name of Adni, which Mosheh spake and there appeared creatures of earth Das quasabe Das oreri ge-poilape: oD Do-0-a-ipe Schema Amathia, das who destroyed what the big stones did not: andin the name Schema Amathia, which Joshua vinu od ore pa-aot3a vaoresaji ili-i tabila @ibeon od Toshua invoked, and t…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 296

The Law is for All

…nt) 193 dwarf 29,31 dwarf self 163 dwarf soul 95,103,128 dweller on the threshold 111 economics 68,129,176,182 Eddington, Arthur, Space, Time and Gravitation 94 Eddy, Mary Baker 182 education 102 ego 92 annihilation of 95 conscious 41 death of sense of the 93 Egypt 74,85,93 Egyptian Book of the Dead 171 Eliot, George 44 elixir of life 140 Elizabeth I of England 44 Empedocles 59 Emperor (Atu IV) 78,138 energy 66,96,114 England 37,43,57 Equinox of the Gods 46,59,124 Esau 184 eschatology 126 eternal punishment 181 ethics 42,45.50,54,57.61,91,117,1…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 41

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e theory of Young and Helmholz. 2 Compare this octet with that of the ‘*Sonnet to Sleep” of P. B. Marston, which Crowley had not at this time read. Whilst we may find in thee the secrets grey Of all things God would fain have hid for ever. IT, All things grow still before thine awful face. Now fails the lover’s sigh; Sleep’s angel clings About the children with her dreamy wings, And all the world is silent for a space. The waving of thy dusky plumes in heaven Alone breathes gentle music to mine ears, So that despair is fain to flee, and fear Co…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 89

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…oung comfort in a babe beyond belief. God would not curse and bless us to such measure; We were not sad enough nor glad enough! A little time of misery and pleasure ;. Pain strangling half the ecstasy thereof— Such all our gain, who gained the utmost treasure, Gift of the wizard wand and cup of love. THE FORTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘*Thou ever young, fresh, lov’d, and delicate wooer.”’ Timon of Athens. THE little money that we had to spend Was gone long since: the little more I stole Followed: I pledged then all things but my soul (On which the usurers …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 160

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…s, the flowers, The many-fruited bowers, The lustred lilies and arboreal scent And fresh young element Of blood in every osseous vein of time, New senses more sublime ! Should it not be that the ill days are past And my soul lost at last, l.ost in thy bosom who art mother of all Ere the first was, to fall After the end. And then, O soul endued (In this my solitude) With all the thousand elements of life, Shall I not call thee wife? O Muse long wooed !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 178

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…easons 3 The earth has swept, exultant, round the sun$ Our love has slept, and, sleeping, made us one: The thirteenth moon, be sure, the time o1 treasons! Another spirit waves its pinions. Love vanishes : we hate each other’s sight. In sullen seas sinks our sun-flaming light, Darkness is master of the dream-dominions. Lo! in thy womb a child! How rotten Seems love to me who love it as my soul ! The love of thee hath broken its control, The misconceived become the misbegotten. In thee the love of me is broken. , Fear, hatred, pain, discomfort mo…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…nd coherent. But I see no trace of scientific method in directing the vision. I explain further in the general comment. O.M.) About this time Frater V.I.O. appears to have been study- ing Jnana Yoga. There is a simple entry on November 30th, “THOU ART THAT,” without any attempt at comment, and on the following day “Ditto, but in a less degree.” On December 4 we find this entry: The reading of ‘Jnana Yoga’ revives very clearly the state of Unity produced by the practice of Raja Yoga. There is a clearer conception, and the feeling of be- ing very…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 171

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…nd midmost hollow of earth. I followed Ilamadryads’ feet That made at eve their mirth To where the streamlet wandered fleet To show what time was worth. I watched the waters wake and laugh Running o’er pebbly beaches, Writing amazement’s epitaph With freshets, turns, and reaches :—- The only tale too short by half That nature ever teaches.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 51

Moonchild

…ught. He had reorganized Buddhism as a missionary religion, and founded societies everywhere to study and practise it. He had even found time and strength, amid these labours, to pursue his own hobby of electrical research. Misunderstood, thwarted, hampered in every way, he had won through; and he had never violated the precepts of his Teacher by raising his voice to denounce error. Even his enemies had been compelled to recognize him as a saint. Simon Iff had never met him, but he went to greet Cyril with the affection of a brother. The boy ha…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 124

Collected Works (Vol. I)

A WOODLAND [DYLL So He who ordered this shall still work thus, And ere life’s lamp shall Hicker into death, And Time lose all his empire over us, A gleam of Ifope, of Knowledge, shall arise, A star to silver o'er Death’s glooming skies, And gladden the last labouring torch of breath. SONNET FOR G. FL KELLY’S DRAWING OF AN HERMAPHRODITE. O Bopy pale and beautiful with sin! O breasts with venom swollen by the snakes Of passion, whose cold slaver slimes and slakes The soul-consuming fevers that within Thy heart the fires of hell on carth begin! O …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 69

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…o. Her stature waves, as if a flower Forgot the evening breeze, But heard the charioted hour Sweep from the farther seas, And kept sweet time within her bower, And hushed mild melodies. So grave and delicate and tall— Shall laughter never sweep Like a moss-guarded waterfall Across her ivory sleep? A tender laugh most musical? A sigh serenely deep? 1 Signature, usually applied to the supposed signatures of divine beings.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 57

Moonchild

… again, in response to kind enquiries, he had the honour to announce that the manifestations of the Poltergeist had totally ceased since time day of the wedding. Some of these Adepts are of course fearfully particular on the sex- question, as we all know. Fall for an hour from the austerities of a Galahad, and devil a cigar will precipitate itself into your soup, nor will you be interrupted at billiards by the arrival of an urgent message from Tibet, written on notepaper of the kind you purchase in Walham Green if you are a real lady, to the ef…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 34

The Goetia

…f Amaymon, he goeth before all other. When the Exorcist hath a mind to call him, let it be abroad, and let him stand on his feet all the time of action, with his Cap or Head-dress off; for if it be on, AMAYMoN will deceive him and call all his actions to be bewrayed. * One or two Codices have “invincible,” but “invisible” is given in the majority. Yet the form of appearance of Foras as a strong man might warrant the former, though from the nature of his offices the invincibility would probably be rather on the mental than on the physical plane.…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 25

Moonchild

…Now look here! These arguments about 'evidential' phenomena always resolve themselves into questions of the conditions prevailing at the time; but the jest is that it always turns out that the argument is about conjuring tricks, not about 'forces' at all." "Won't she mind us talking?" "Mediums alway's encourage the sitters to talk. The moment she sees us getting interested in what we are saying, she takes the opportunity to do the dangerous, delicate part of the trick; then she calls our attention, says we must watch her very carefully to see t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 73

Moonchild

…d all the 'ologies'! Life is reduced to mathematical formulae, indeed, as the Victorian scientists rightly wished to do; but at the same time mathematics is restored to her royal pre-eminence as not only the most exact, but the most exalted of the sciences. The intelligible order of things, moreover, becomes natural and inevitable; and such moral problems as the cruelty of organic life return to their real insignificance. The almost comic antinomy between man's size and his intelligence is reduced; and although the mystery of the Universe remai…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 175

Moonchild

…uy. We inherited the germ of it, and we developed it by the sweat of our brows. The possession of money helped us, but only by giving us time and opportunity and the means of travel. Anyhow, the principle is clear; one must sacrifice the lower to the higher, and, as the Greeks did with their oxen, one must fatten and bedeck the lower, so that it may be the worthier offering." "And what happens when you go on the other tack?" "When you trade your gold for pewter you impoverish yourself. The sorcerer sells his soul for money; spends the money, an…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 117

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… Toil. Below be miners fashioned fair, And all that labour in the sea Sepulchred from the ambient air, A fatal weird of dole to dree. No time to be, no light to live. Earth’s need to these hath hope to give. Above be various shapes of labour, The bodily strength, the manual skill ; They shape the anvil and the sabre, The ploughshare and the bolt; they fill The myriad will of brains that boil: Their fame be thine, O Tower of Toil ! Here set the travailers of land ; Here the young shepherd, fluteless now ; The mariner with tarry hand ; The clerk,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…dre du Temple, the continuation of the Knights Templars in Paris. This body claims an uninterrupted succession of Grand Masters from the time of Jacques de Molay, who, it is said, invested as Grand Master Marc Larmenius in 1307, when the Order was first impugned, before he himself perished at the stake. Later, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, and several scions of the French Royal Family, were Grand Masters. It was atime of much activity, a Masonic Renaissance, in which the Very Illustrious Brother John Yarker played an important réle, and many other …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…dre du Temple, the continuation of the Knights Templars in Paris. This body claims an uninterrupted succession of Grand Masters from the time of Jacques de Molay, who, it is said, invested as Grand Master Marc Larmenius in 1307, when the Order was first impugned, before he himself perished at the stake. Later, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, and several scions of the French Royal Family, were Grand Masters. It was atime of much activity, a Masonic Renaissance, in which the Very Illustrious Brother John Yarker played an important réle, and many other …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 35

Moonchild

…t may lie before you, but that you judge it to be formidable; and that you embrace the adventure with both hands." "I mustn't contradict time famous expert in psychology!" she laughed back at him. "I ought to deny it indignantly. And I surely am crazy to leap in the dark — only it isn't dark when Love is the lamp." "Be careful of love!" the old magician warned her. "Love is a Jack o' Lantern, and hovers over bogs and graves; it's but a luminous bubble of poisonous gas. In our Order we say 'Love is the law, love under will.' Will is

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