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1910 · PDF PAGE 248

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…n. ossory. I can’t see him, Thomas. [Zurns.] I beg your pardon, Mr. Todd. The fact is, I’m damnably worried over pay-day. I really don’t know you well enough to ask you, perhaps, but the fact is, I’ve a good sound business proposi- tion which I must put before some one, and I believe you're the very man to help me. Now. (Topp takes him by the shoulder and whispers in his ear. Why, really, that is good of you—damned good of you! Why, damme, sir! you’re a public benefactor. Come, let us arrange the preliminaries-—— [They go out, ossory clinging t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 248

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…n. ossory. I can’t see him, Thomas. [Zurns.] I beg your pardon, Mr. Todd. The fact is, I’m damnably worried over pay-day. I really don’t know you well enough to ask you, perhaps, but the fact is, I’ve a good sound business proposi- tion which I must put before some one, and I believe you're the very man to help me. Now. (Topp takes him by the shoulder and whispers in his ear. Why, really, that is good of you—damned good of you! Why, damme, sir! you’re a public benefactor. Come, let us arrange the preliminaries-—— [They go out, ossory clinging t…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 119

Little Poems in Prose

…s decided that I should sleep in the same bed as my nurse.” He drew his comrades nearer to him, and low- ered his voice. “Oh, you do not know what a strange feeling it gives, not to be alone in bed, but with one’s nurse in the shadows. As I was not asleep, I amused myself while she slept in passing my hand over her arms and her neck and her shoulders. Her arms and neck are ever so much fatter tan those of all other women, and her skin is so soft, so soft, that one would say it was letter paper, or silk paper. I had so much pleasure in this that…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 82

Alice: An Adultery

UNDER THE PALMS The woodland hollows know us, bird-enchanted, Likewise the spaces of the ghostly sea, The lake’s abundant lilies, the pale slanted Moonlight on flowers, the wind’s low minstrelsy ; For all the tropic greenery is haunted By you and me. . . . . . . . The tall palms bend and catch love’s tender ditty To learn a sweeter song to lure their mate. The soft wind sighs in amorous self-pity, Having no love wherein to laugh elate, And turns to the cold harbour and the city, Wailing its fate. . . . . . . . 62

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1904 · PDF PAGE 41

Why Jesus Wept

…ad the kissing of her with vitriol ! SIR PERCY. Your kisses are like young rain. ANGELA. The slobbery kisses of virginity. He shall soon know these calculated, keen, Intense, important kisses, — mine ! Hell’s worm ! MOLLY. Yes, do not leave me. Let us away now ! No, I must tell them, fetch my —

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1928 · PDF PAGE 11

Little Poems in Prose

…ther, nor sister, nor brother.” “Your friends?” “There you employ a word whose sense I have never understood.” “Your country?” “I do not know its latitude.” “Beauty?” “I would love it willingly, Goddess and Immortal.” “Gold?” “I hate is as you hate God.” “Ah, what then do you love, strange man?” “I love the clouds . . . . the clouds that float . . . down there . . . the marvellous clouds.”

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1929 · PDF PAGE 120

Moonchild

…to the Equator to correct the obliquity of the Ecliptic in the interest of the Law of Righteousness. I'm sorry; I believe in that man; I know he's got something that I haven't, and I want it. However, Simple Simon has been nice to me; only he won't talk Phenomena — says that, like a certain Pope, he has seen too many miracles to believe in them. Which is my own case, only he is referring to genuine ones. Hence difficulty in comprehension of his attitude. "I hope you're having a great time with the devil; I envy your blue skies; London is wrappe…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… a saint, and so put to him several questions concerning the Vedanta philosophy, and its most noted exponents, to see what he really did know. “Do you know Swami Vivekananda?” I asked. 285

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1910 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… a saint, and so put to him several questions concerning the Vedanta philosophy, and its most noted exponents, to see what he really did know. “Do you know Swami Vivekananda?” I asked. 285

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1906 · PDF PAGE 185

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are pleased to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have h…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 247

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…illion from him if I want it; but I don’t care to unless—unless things—unless you EUPHEMIA. I’m the goods, am I? You old bear! ossory. I know, Phemie, I know. It’s those damned bulls on Wall Street! How could I foresee—— EUPHEMIA. At least you might have foreseen that I was not a bale of cotton. ossory. But I shall be hammered, my dear child. We shall all have to go to the workhouse! EUPHEMIA. [coldly]. I thought mamma had three thousand a year of her own. ossory. That’s just what I say. The workhouse! EUPHEMIA. My dear father, I really can’t p…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 247

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…illion from him if I want it; but I don’t care to unless—unless things—unless you EUPHEMIA. I’m the goods, am I? You old bear! ossory. I know, Phemie, I know. It’s those damned bulls on Wall Street! How could I foresee—— EUPHEMIA. At least you might have foreseen that I was not a bale of cotton. ossory. But I shall be hammered, my dear child. We shall all have to go to the workhouse! EUPHEMIA. [coldly]. I thought mamma had three thousand a year of her own. ossory. That’s just what I say. The workhouse! EUPHEMIA. My dear father, I really can’t p…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 401

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…EN PORTALS —to Arthur Edward Waite, immediately occur to the mind. What does not occur to the mind is the names of people now living who know their subject from experience. The late Swami Vivekananda did know his. Sabapaty Swami did so. Shri Parananda Swami did so, and of course above all these stands Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya. Outside these, one can think of no one, except the very reticent Rudolf Steiner, who betrays practical acquaintance with the Path. The way to discover whether a Teacher knows anything about it or not is to do the work yours…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 88

Tale of Archais

…sigh. CHARICLES Not a flower of them shall die, Every one shall blossom newly ; Stars shall lend them of their beauty, Rain and sunshine know their duty.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 539

Magick Without Tears

506 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS and more towards the side of Magick. I do not know why this should have been, but that it is so I have no doubt whatever. I see quite clearly now that Yoga from its very first beginnings is liable to lead the mind away into a condition of muddle, and though for each such state Yoga itself provides the necessary cure, may not one ask oneself it it is really wise to begin one's work with axioms and postulates which are inherently dangerous. The whole controversy might be expressed as a differential equation. Their curves …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 231

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… soles from Britain's dust; I shall not go there till I must; And when I must! --- I hold my nose. Farewell, you filthy-minded people! I know a stable from a steeple. Farewell, my decent-minded friends! I know arc lights from candle-ends. Farewell-a poet begs your alms, Will walk awhile among the palms, An honest love, a loyal kiss, Can show him better worlds than this; Nor will he come again to yours While he knows champak-stars from sewers. (This play has been analysed in such detail by Captain J. F. C. Fuller in The Star in the West that it …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 88

John St. John

…ere I lie, stripped of all magic force, doubting my own peace and faith, farther from Adonai than ever before—and yet—and yet—- Do I not know that every error is a necessary step in the Path? The longest way round is the shortest way home. But it is disgusting! There‘s a grim humour in it, too. The real Devil of the Operation must be sitting with sardonic grin upon his face, enjoying my perplexity For that Dweller-of-the—Threshold-thought was not as dead as I supposed ; as Iwrite he comes again and again, urging me to quit the Path, to abandon …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 381

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…y represent an attempt to run away from reality, a dispersion of energy and a corruption of moral strength. His business is, firstly, to know himself; secondly, to order and control himself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic lines little by little. The rest is only leather and Prunella. There is, however, a sense in which the service of human- ity is necessary to the completeness of the Adept. He is not to fly away too far. Some remarks on this course are given in the note to the next verse. The student is also advised to take note o…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 294

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…instead of as pioneers of humanity undertaking a desperate adventure for the good of the race.” I began a-sort of apology; I don’t quite know for what. “Nonsense,” he interrupted. “I know perfectly well why you’re ashamed of yourself. You’ve had what you call a relapse. After getting down to five, six and seven doses, you’ve suddenly gone back. Yesterday, I see, Lou had fourteen and you sixteen—more than you were taking ever since you have been in this place. You think that’s a bad sign. I don't. “To begin with, you’ve been honest with yourselv…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 36

The Star and the Garter

…ere in this room, on mountains far, Yonder to seaward, toward yon star, With your own kisses. Yes! I see The roseate embroidery Yonder—I know: it seems to give The lie to me in throat and teeth. That is the surface: underneath I live in you: in you I live. 34

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