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1910 · PDF PAGE 291

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ant fate from all benignant fates, Of its own spite drives its own angel afar. Nay; this is the great import of the curse That the whole world is sick, and not a part. Conterminous with its own universe The horror of my heart ! ANANDA VUJaA. T 273

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1910 · PDF PAGE 291

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ant fate from all benignant fates, Of its own spite drives its own angel afar. Nay; this is the great import of the curse That the whole world is sick, and not a part. Conterminous with its own universe The horror of my heart ! ANANDA VUJaA. T 273

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1913 · PDF PAGE 36

The Book of Lies

SKIDOO What man is at ease in his Inn? Get out. Wide is the world and cold. Get out. Thou hast become an in-itiate. Get out. But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The Way out is THE WAY. Get out. For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power. '? Get OUT. If thou hast T already, first get UT.1° Then get O. And so at last get OUT.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 140

John St. John

… there is always so much more possible that one can never be satisfied Much less, then, satiatedl . Having gone back into the life of the world—yet a world transfiguredI—I did all my little work, my little amusements, all the things that one does, very quietly and beatifically. About 10.30 the rapture began to carry me away; yet I withstood it and went on with my game of Billiards, for politeness’ sake. And even there in the Café du Dome was the glory within me, and I therein; 50 that every time that I failed at a stroke and stood up and drank in …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 217

Magick Without Tears

…visibility, Levitation, Transmutations, Kinks in Time Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Dear me! dear me! The world's indeed gone topsy-tUIVY if you have to ask me for the secrets of Fascination! Altogether tohu-bohu and the Temurah Thash raq! So much for a display of Old-World Courtly Manners; actually rubbish, for you might very well be fascinating without knowing how you worked the trick. In fact, I think that is the case ninety-nine times in a hundred. Besides, I read your letter carelessly; I overlooked the phras…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 140

The Scented Garden

…love’s podex-joy, and missing love all good ye miss. Come, O Habib, thy podex close on El Qahar’s enamoured tool ! Though we mistake the world and God, at least is no mistake in this. 1. After this ode the “ secret key-number ” breaks down. It is said that there are five odes missing. But no doubt need therefore be cast upon the genuineness of the following odes. Some weight is to be given to the contention that there can be only 42 odes, neither more nor less, for mystical reasons. Their Persian dress I cannot learn ; but the Egyptians knew 42…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 236

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… sing Dawnwards all night, and at even Year after year, will be true now we are speaking of heaven. Breezes caress me and creep Over the world to admire it; Sweet air shall sigh me to sleep, Softly my lips shall respire it, Lying half-closed with a kiss ready for who shall desire it.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 94

The Scented Garden

…ir — membrum virile. 5. This simile, like that of the lotus-leaf in India, is the invariable expression of the life “ unspotted from the world.” 6. Hajj — here used of the actual procession of pilgrims. 7. The official leader of the Hajj, usually ap- pointed by the Padishah.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 101

The World’s Tragedy

48 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. IST NYMPH From what a lash ! 2ND NYMPH O the monstrous travail—gape In the belly of the sky ! IST NYMPH Shall the man beget the ape, All the wine of time run dry ? 2ND NYMPH Ah ! the grisly spoil of rape Dark with vilest ecstasy ! IST NYMPH Listen, how shall life escape From such death it breedeth by ? 2ND NYMPH Hangs there not a single grape From that nightshade galaxy ?

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1929 · PDF PAGE 11

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

… With hoofs of Steel I race on the rocks Througli solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; and I râpe and I rip and I rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, mænad, man, In the might of Pan. lo Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan ! IX

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1907 · PDF PAGE 252

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…gaze, iii. 117 The Virgin lies at Bethlehem, ii. 14 The wail of the wind in the desolate land, i. 49 The wandering waters move about the world, i. 96 The wand of Hermes, the caduceus wonder- working, iii. 132 The waterpot is broken at the well, iii. rar The waving surf shone from the Peaceful Sea, il, 64 The Wingéd Bull that dwelléd in the north, li, The woodland hollows know us, ii. 75 The woods are very quiet, i. 36 The world is borne upon thy breast, ii. 130 The world is dusk, expectant of its doom, i. 47 The world moves not, i. 32 The worst…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 9

The Star in the West

“ If you hold by anything in the world more than by reason , truth , and justice ; if your will be un certain and vacillating, either in good or evil ; if logic alarm you , or the naked truth make you blush ; if you are hurt when accepted errors are assailed ; condemn this work straight away ; do not read it ; let it cease to exist for you ; but at the same time do not cry it down as dangerous ." ELIPHAS LÉVI .

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1910 · PDF PAGE 161

The World’s Tragedy

I08 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. ISSA Take note of it : Matter is muck ! JOHN True wisdom and true wit ! The upshot, Lord ? ISSA Than living, I would rather Play the fool’s game of my unnatural Father. JOHN Thy father, Lord ? Thy pardon, but we heard — ISSA No odds — all genealogy’s absurd. JOHN Suppose, Lord, I should simply call Thee “ Word ” ? ISSA Happy the thought ! But, in thy secret ear, There was a scheme — thou mark’st me ?

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1911 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e Cause of Α111ι be unmasked and annihilated. 7. This is that which was spoken by wise men of old time concerning the destruction of the world by fire; yea, the destruction of the world by fire. 8. [This and the following verses are of modern origin] Let the Student remember that each Point represents a definite achievement of great difficulty. 9. Let him not then attempt the second until he be well satisfied of his mastery over the first. * This is also the “Opening of the Eye of Shiva.” ΕΙ). 1- Mayan, the Magician, or Mara. Also The Dweller on the …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…e Cause of Α111ι be unmasked and annihilated. 7. This is that which was spoken by wise men of old time concerning the destruction of the world by fire; yea, the destruction of the world by fire. 8. [This and the following verses are of modern origin] Let the Student remember that each Point represents a definite achievement of great difficulty. 9. Let him not then attempt the second until he be well satisfied of his mastery over the first. * This is also the “Opening of the Eye of Shiva.” ΕΙ). 1- Mayan, the Magician, or Mara. Also The Dweller on the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 86

Book 4 (Part II)

…saying: They are one, or saying: They are many . . . then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit. . . . This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister." These are the words of NUIT, Our Lady of the Stars, of whom Binah is but the troubled reflection.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 41

Konx Om Pax

THE WAKE WORLD 21 sphinxes, one black and one white. The charioteer is a most curious person; he is a great big crab in the most lovely glittering armour, and he can just drivel His name is the mysterious name I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 34

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…on the snow-clad mountains, Slow as the voice of the great green gliding River. Calmly in Thy silence am I come to rest me, Now from the world the light hath slowly faded ; I have left the groves of Pan that I might gaze upon Thee, Gaze upon the Virgin that before Time was begotten, Mother of Chronos, and the old gods before him, Child of the womb of the Silence, whose father Is the unknown breath of the most secret Goddess, Whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness. “ Now do I come before Thee in Thy temple, With offerings from the oak…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 34

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…on the snow-clad mountains, Slow as the voice of the great green gliding River. Calmly in Thy silence am I come to rest me, Now from the world the light hath slowly faded ; I have left the groves of Pan that I might gaze upon Thee, Gaze upon the Virgin that before Time was begotten, Mother of Chronos, and the old gods before him, Child of the womb of the Silence, whose father Is the unknown breath of the most secret Goddess, Whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness. “ Now do I come before Thee in Thy temple, With offerings from the oak…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 23

Alice: An Adultery

…plagiarisms in metre, form, and language; others as among the best and loveliest we have of any poet, living or dead. “ The roses of the world are sad ” and “ I have no heart to sing ” are, in my opinion, unsurpassed in any language. Their presence alone is sufficient apology for the publication of an otherwise objectionable book. G.K. xx

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