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1909 · PDF PAGE 59

John St. John

…n ever in her wild way. She says that she is favourably disposed towards me, on the recommendation of her concierge ! l! " The tongue of good report hath already been heard in his favourl Advance, free and of good report! ” 57

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1907 · PDF PAGE 33

Rodin in Rime

…ient, let it rise Alone; it doth not ask a friend, © Nor shall it bend a fatuous knee To a fantastic deity. What crest or chrism were so good To work as Art, the crown upon Work’s brow? Thy will with love endued Lift up this loftier Parthenon! Thine art the consecrative oil To hallow us the Tower of Toil! 19

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1912 · PDF PAGE 38

Household Gods

ALICIA. ‘Then, Crassus, I will always be your friend. Crassus. Ab, that is good! You do not mock me now! Auicia. Creep softly to the land. Kiss but my brow. My curls are wet. ... No, never touch me there! Crassus. Why? Have I not? ALICIA. ‘You have not. Crassus. Just my band. Auta. You disobey your mistress's command? The time is near when you shall see ‘The keyhole of my comedy! Crassus. Hal Ha! Hal ar

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1919 · PDF PAGE 368

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ven for avoiding pride, in that it defeats its own object. 16. False learning is rejected by the Wise, and scattered to the Winds by the Good Law. Its wheel revolves for all, the humble and the proud; the “Doctrine of the Heart” for the elect. The first repeat in pride: “Behold, I know”; the last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess: “Thus have I heard.” Continues the subject, but adds a further Word to dis- criminate from Daath (knowledge) in favour of Binah (un- derstanding). 17. “Great Sifter’ is the name of the “Heart Doctrine…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 9

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…rucians, by Hargrave Jennings. Valuable to those who can read between the lines. The Real History of the Rosicrucians, by A. E. Waite. A good vulgar piece of journalism on the subject. The Works of Arthur Machen. Most of these stories are of great magical interest. The Writings of William O’Neill (Blake). Invaluable to ail students. The Shaviug of Shagpat, by George Meredith. An excellent allegory. Lilith, by George MacDonald. A good introduction to the Astral. Là-Bas, By J. K. Huysmans. An account of the extravagances caused by the Sin-complex…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 180

The World’s Tragedy

THE GREY NIGHT. I27 AGRIPPA But fear persuades. — This deathly light, these foul grey shades ! PUBLIUS Portending little enough of good To Rome, that beats with our heart’s blood. See how dejected on their spears The guard lean ! AGRIPPA Rather a thousand years Of strife than this black peace. Accurst I know this night shall be. ISSA I thirst. AGRIPPA Give him to drink ! PUBLIUS How strange a fate ! Those noble eyes irradiate This leprous luster.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 271

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…E CONCLUSIONS OF THE RESEARCHES OF MODERN SCIENCE. By J, W. Frincs. Wm. Rider & Son, Ltd., London, 2s. 6d. net. THIS little book is very good, and might have been much better if the author had any knowledge of Science or of the Occult Arts. A.C, 233

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1913 · PDF PAGE 271

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…E CONCLUSIONS OF THE RESEARCHES OF MODERN SCIENCE. By J, W. Frincs. Wm. Rider & Son, Ltd., London, 2s. 6d. net. THIS little book is very good, and might have been much better if the author had any knowledge of Science or of the Occult Arts. A.C, 233

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1909 · PDF PAGE 101

John St. John

… miss his appointment with Michael Brenner to continue moulding Siddhasana. Again I awake. . . , ]0 swine! thou hast felt in thy- self " Good! Good I the night is broken up nicely; all goes very well ”—and thou hast written “ I ! " Oswine, John St. John! When wilt thou learn that the least stirring of thy smug content is the great Fall from the Plath ?[ It will be best to get up and do some kind of work; for the beast would sleep. John St John has arisen, after doing 20 breath- cycles, reciting internally the ritual, 70 per cent. of which he no…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 533

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of ma…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 533

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of ma…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 237

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…s, there you are again! How can you be so thoughtless ? GRANDFATHER. Oh! Oh! Oh! [They get him out of the room. MRS. ossory [veturning]. Good-bye, Mr. Carr. It is so good of you to help. carr. Not at all, Mrs. Ossory, not at all. Iam only too glad. You should try and get a nap after lunch. mrs. ossory. I will—I really think I will. [Bxit. caRR. [Closes the door, turns to EUPHEMIA, executes a quiet hornpipe, goes to Euruemia, holds out his arms.] Sweetheart | EUPHEMIA. How dare you! Howcan you! With poor Uncle Henry lying dead! 219

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1910 · PDF PAGE 237

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…s, there you are again! How can you be so thoughtless ? GRANDFATHER. Oh! Oh! Oh! [They get him out of the room. MRS. ossory [veturning]. Good-bye, Mr. Carr. It is so good of you to help. carr. Not at all, Mrs. Ossory, not at all. Iam only too glad. You should try and get a nap after lunch. mrs. ossory. I will—I really think I will. [Bxit. caRR. [Closes the door, turns to EUPHEMIA, executes a quiet hornpipe, goes to Euruemia, holds out his arms.] Sweetheart | EUPHEMIA. How dare you! Howcan you! With poor Uncle Henry lying dead! 219

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1909 · PDF PAGE 62

John St. John

…g Fire into their Lustral Water. I am so sleepy that I cannot concentrate at all. (I was trying the “Bornless One”) The magic goes well; good images and powerful, but I slack right off into sleep. It’s the hour for heroic measures or else to say : A good night’s rest, and start fresh in the morning! I suppose, as usual, I shall say the first and do the second. Have risen, washed, performed the ritual “Thee I invoke, the Bornless One " physically. The result fair. One gets better magical sight and feeling when one is performing a ritual in one’s …

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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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1909 · PDF PAGE 31

John St. John

…y of man. A theosophic term—Eu] N.B.-—Mantras might with advantage be palindromes. I try to construct a magic square from the mantra. No good. But the mantra is going much better, quite mechanically and “without attachment ” (la, without conscious ulterior design. “Art for Art’s sake ” as it were). I drink a “Citron pressé.” Alas! here comes Maryt (with a sad tale of X. It appears that she fainted and spent some hours at the hospital. I should have insisted on her staying with me; the symptoms began immediately on her drinking some coffee. I ha…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 119

John St. John

…oint of either going back to work, or across Paris to the Hammam. He will make the experiment, reading through his proofs the while. One good thing; the Chittam is moving slowly. The waiters all hurry him—what a contrast to last night l Proofs read through again. John St. John feels far from well. A stroll down the Boul’ Mich’ and avisit to M—’s studio improve matters a good deal. The cure continued. No worry about the Work, but an effort to put it altogether out of the mind. A cafe creme, forty minutes at the Academic Marcelle —a gruelling bou…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 136

The Book of Lies

…ecstasy, the passionate desire of the overman to- wards his ultimate consummation—re-union with God.”—Occuli Review. The High History of Good Sir Palamedes, the Saracen Knight, and of his fol- lowing of the Questing Beast. 55. net. An account of the Mystic Quest. “¢. , . Noble and beautiful poem.”—Occult Re- VIEW. *‘Ttis impossible to read ... without being impressed by the essential truth and beauty of the author’s spirit . .. written not as tasks are written, but from the fulness of the heart, passionately. In ‘ Sir Palamedes’ we have the his…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 193

The Winged Beetle

…here you are again ! How can you be so thoughtless ? GRANDFATHER. Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! [They get him out of the room. MRS. OSSORY [returning]. Good-bye, Mr. Carr. It is so good of you to help. CARR. Not at all, Mrs. Ossory, not at all. I am only too glad. You should try and get a nap after lunch. MRS. OSSORY. I will—I really think I will. [Exit. CARR. [Closes the door, turns to EUPHEMIA, executes a quiet hornpipe, goes to EUPHEMIA, holds out his arms.] Sweetheart ! EUPHEMIA. How dare you ! How can you ! With poor Uncle Henry lying dead ! CARR. Why ha…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 329

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES He who seeks the origin of evil, seeks the source of what is not. Evil is the disordered appetite of good, the unfruitful attempt of an unskilful will. Every one possesses the fruit of his work, and poverty is only the spur to toil. For the flock of men, suffering is like the shepherd dog, who bites the wool of the sheep to put them back in the right way. It is because of shadow that we are able to see light; because of cold that we feel heat; because of pain that we are sensible to pleasure. Evil is then for us the occ…

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