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1939 · PDF PAGE 52

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…we perceive is only perceived by us as such because of our tendency so to perceive it. And we shall find that in the fourth stage of the great Buddhist practice, Mahasatipatthana, we become directly and immediately aware of this fact instead of digging it out of the holts of these interminable sorites which

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1910 · PDF PAGE 491

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…d on breast and back. conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi Robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for those rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written: “ Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 491

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…d on breast and back. conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi Robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for those rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written: “ Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 296

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Revue, draw comic cartoons, manage his wife, never look more than thirty-five, and live to be a hundred. Yet Mr. Pound is ignored by the great American public. When all the readers and reviewers in the land should be hasting in their thousands to acclaim this ‘new birth of our new soil, the first American’—as indeed Mr. Pound is the first Complete American high-brow, armed at all points, accoutred cap-d-pie—instead they persist in regarding him as an exotic, a fantastic, a new-art poseur. I suppose, because he lives in Europe, because he has wr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 418

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ibe the dawn, the awakening of the world and myself to what men call reality. The trout leap in the shingly shallows. Soared skyward the great sun, that hallows The pagan shrines of labour and light As the moon consecrates the night. Labour is corn and love is wine, And both are bless‚d in the shrine; Nor is he for priest designated. Who partakes only in one kind. I suited the action to the word. There was also the poem "A Birthday", written on August 10th for Leila Waddell, who was then twenty-six. She had gone to England to fulfil an engageme…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 177

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… grey bird’s soul is flown Into a soundless night, Lampless: a vivid flight Beyond the thrones and stars of heaven down hurled, Till the great blackness heaves An iron breast, and cleaves The womb of night, another mightier world. Lost is my soul, and faded The light of life that braided Its comet tresses into golden fire, Fade, fade, the phantoms of desire ! Speed, speed the song of love upon the living lyre! Lo! I abide not, and my lover's glory Abides not: in the swaying of those tides Gathers beneath some mighty promontory One mightier wave…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…on breast and back. A conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for those rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written : “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions

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1911 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…on breast and back. A conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for those rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written : “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions

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1912 · PDF PAGE 433

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…on breast and back. A conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for those rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written: “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions. VII Ss

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1912 · PDF PAGE 433

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…on breast and back. A conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for those rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written: “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions. VII Ss

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1919 · PDF PAGE 463

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…on breast and back. A conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for those rites of Babylon and the Graal. Bue this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written: “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions.

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1939 · PDF PAGE 12

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…stigation, of reflexion. I propose to deal in a future instruction with the modifications of our perception thus caused, for they are of great importance to our science of Yoga. For example, the classical case of the two men lost in a thick wood at night. One says to the other: 'That dog barking is not a grasshopper; it is the creaking of a cart.' Or again, 'He thought he saw a banker's clerk descending from a bus. He looked again, and saw it was a hippopotamus.' Everyone who has done any scientific investigation knows painfully how every obser…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 18

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…the Upper Indus will have to be changed when you get to the glacier. But it is possible to indicate (in general terms expressed with the greatest caution) the 'sort' of thing that is likely to be bad for you. Anything that weakens the body, that exhausts, disturbs or inflames the mind is deprecable. You are pretty sure to find as you progress that there are some conditions that cannot be eliminated at all in your particular circumstances; and then you have to find a way of dealing with these so that they make a minimum of trouble. And you will …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 85

The Sword of Song

…old at the Three Keys in Nags-Head Court, Gracechurch St. IT is fitting that I, Am brose, called I.A.O., should set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journey s he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,1 the S tar Suaconch2 being in the sign of the Lion, that our Father set out from his Castle of Ug 3 to attain the Quint- essence or Philosophical Tincture. The way being dark…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 171

The Book of Thoth

…Lodge is con tempt for “the world, the flesh, and the devil”, all which are essential to the plan of the Universe; it is cardinal to the Great Work for the Adept so to order affairs that “even the evil germs of Matter shall alike become useful and good”. The error of Christian Mystics on this point has been responsible for more cruelty, misery, and collective insanity than all others put together; its poison can be traced even in the teaching of Freud, who assumed that the Unconscious was “the devil”, whereas in fact it is the instinct which ex…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 262

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…er bring No ultimation from the halls of night, The slippery staircase, and the Fatal Throne, The Evil House, the Fugitive of Light, The great Unluminous, the Formless One ! Stoop not! Beneath, a precipice is set, The Seven Steps. Stoop not, forget Never the Splendid Image, and the realm Where lightnings overwhelm The evil, and the barren, and the vile, In God’s undying smile ! Stoop not, O stoop not, to yon splendid’ world, Yon darkly-splendid, airless, void, inane, Blind confines in stupendous horror curled, The sleepless place of Terror and …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 175

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… caught the lavish lyre, and sate Hard by the waterfall, Twisting its sweetness intimate Into the solemn call Of many dead men that were great, The plectron’s wizard thrall. Thus as she danced, nor ceased, nor cared, I set the sacred throng Of heroes into acts that fared In Argo light and long, The foes they fought, the feats they dared, In shadow-show and song. (The play of Argonautae is sha- dowed before them by Or- pheus’ magtcal might.) So faded all the dream: so stole Some fearful fondness in her soul ; Even as a cloud thrilled sharply thr…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 32

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…e- fish, electric eels and piranhas. Also trippers, bathing belles and Mr. Lansbury.) Alternatively, freeze the water and dance on it! A great deal of Hindu endeavour seems to consist in discovering the most difficult possible way to attain the most undesirable end. 10. When you start tying yourself into a knot, you will find that some positions are much more difficult and inconvenient than others; but that is only the beginning. If you retain any posture long enough, you get cramp. I forget the exact statistics, but I gather that the muscular …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 138

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ble place this is with all its beauty and love! and my worship—oh, how strange it all is. Criosda! come! [She begins to carry him to the great door, then notices his white robe. This must come off: they must not see the holy robes. Criosda! my darling dear brother, do look at me! [She has removed the robes. CRIQSDA is now seen to be dressed ina dark- green tartan kilt and quast-military tunic with silver buttons, A dirk hangs at his stde. Its hilt ts of unusual shape, being surmounted by the circle and cross famtliar to visttors to Lona. Criosd…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…them. But if they insist that he is a Nuctanthropus, we must try again, and see if we cannot class him among the cockroaches. There is a great gambit in what may be called by history the olfactory argument. H. Sapiens. Tue Dorts Case oF MuttrpLe Personatity. By WALTER F. Prince, Ph.D., and James H. Hystop, Ph.D. Proceedings of the American Society for Psy- chical Research, Vols. IX, X, XI. 1915; 1916; 1917. Three volumes; price $20.00. Herz is a nice little piece of reading for the occult student—-some two thousand pages, weighing Lord knows ho…

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