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1898 · PDF PAGE 40

White Stains

…hast set on high for me, From her foul shrine shall chase thee thence : ‘ Avoid, get hence ! ’ “ And I—thou shalt not scorn my word, All Nature sets its scorn on thee ; Sweet flower and stream, swift fish and bird, Shall chorus out ‘ Thou fruitless tree ! Thou salt dry sea ! ’ “ I will not aid thee in thine age, Nor heed thee in thy piteous strait ; Live thou in thine own empty cage, Forged every day that thou didst wait Too long, too late ! “ Shall I turn back the seasons past, Recall sun’s shine and cloudlet’s fleece,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 409

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…gale. “This chatter lends to Thought a zest ” (Quod he), “but I am all for Act. Sit here, until your Talk hath cracked The addled egg in Nature’s nest!” With that he fled the dismal tract. c 33

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1910 · PDF PAGE 409

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…gale. “This chatter lends to Thought a zest ” (Quod he), “but I am all for Act. Sit here, until your Talk hath cracked The addled egg in Nature’s nest!” With that he fled the dismal tract. c 33

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1910 · PDF PAGE 85

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ys: 58. Love (Bhakti) is easier than other methods. 59. Being self-evident it does not depend on other truths. 60. And from being of the nature of peace and supreme bliss.* This exquisite little S@tra commences: 1. We will now explain Love. 2. Its nature is extreme devotion to some one. 3. Love is immortal. 4. Obtaining it man becomes perfect, becomes immortal, becomes satisfied. 5. And obtaining it he desires nothing, grieves not, hates not, does not delight, makes no effort. 6. Knowing it he becomes intoxicated, transfixed, and rejoices in th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 85

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ys: 58. Love (Bhakti) is easier than other methods. 59. Being self-evident it does not depend on other truths. 60. And from being of the nature of peace and supreme bliss.* This exquisite little S@tra commences: 1. We will now explain Love. 2. Its nature is extreme devotion to some one. 3. Love is immortal. 4. Obtaining it man becomes perfect, becomes immortal, becomes satisfied. 5. And obtaining it he desires nothing, grieves not, hates not, does not delight, makes no effort. 6. Knowing it he becomes intoxicated, transfixed, and rejoices in th…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 238

Diary of a Drug Fiend

224 The Diary of a Drug Fiend either by means of Peter or the pains of the body, or the sights and sounds of nature. Nature.is under a curse because of sex, and so this world is in the power of the Evil One. But I am chosen to redeem it, and the Holy Spirit overshadows me and sends angels to guard me. That is how we got rid of the servants. Peter suddenly attacked me. He got me down, and put his knee on my chest, and tried to strangle me. But the angel smote him suddenly, and all his muscles relaxed and he rolled over. His eyes were wide open, …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 15

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…sobedient, the implication is thaï sonie hostile force is at work îo hinder the operation. It will then become advisable to discover the nature of that force, and to attack and desîroy it. This makes the ceremony more useful than ever to the Magician, who may thereby be led to irnveil a black magical gang whose existence he had not hitherto snspected. His need to check the vampiring of a lady in Paris by a sorceress once led Frater Perdurabo to the discovery of a very powerful body of black magicians, with whom he was obliged to war for nearly …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 176

The World’s Tragedy

…age sacrament. Every scourge and sore and shame Blest in mine accursed name ! Love and beauty under ban ! Wit and wisdom barred to man ! Nature smirched by hideous lies ! Meanness lauded to the skies ! Pain and ruin and disease Praised, as if they made mine ease. Dead be dance and dream and revel ! Thought and courage, things of evil ! Corn and milk, wine and oil, The guerdon of degrading toil ! Life’s bright draught of honied leisure Soured to sick and tasteless pleasure. All the gracious grape degraded, To a fatuous foulness faded ; Ecstasy d…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 74

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ice with the dross of Matter, for there is a place for thy Image in a realm ever splendid.” “Invoke not the visible Image of the Soul of Nature.” “Look not upon Nature, for her name is fatal.” “Tt becometh you not to behold them before your body is initiated, since by alwaysalluring they seduce the souls from the sacred mysteries,” “Bring her not forth, lest in departing she retain something.” “The Light-hating World, and the winding currents by which many are drawn down.”—ZOROASTER. It may be useful here to distinguish once and for all between…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 74

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ice with the dross of Matter, for there is a place for thy Image in a realm ever splendid.” “Invoke not the visible Image of the Soul of Nature.” “Look not upon Nature, for her name is fatal.” “Tt becometh you not to behold them before your body is initiated, since by alwaysalluring they seduce the souls from the sacred mysteries,” “Bring her not forth, lest in departing she retain something.” “The Light-hating World, and the winding currents by which many are drawn down.”—ZOROASTER. It may be useful here to distinguish once and for all between…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 269

Magick Without Tears

…AGICK WITHOUT TEARS evidently illogical. What remains? We must not hastily answer "Nothing remains." There is some thing inherent in the nature of consciousness, reason, perception, sensation, and of the universe of which they inform us, which is responsible for the fact that we observe these phenomena and not others; that we reflect upon them as we do, and not otherwise. But, even deeper than this, part of the reality of the inscrutable energy which determined the form of our experience, consists in determining that experience should take plac…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 89

The Book of Thoth

…inferior darkness of death, the serpent of new life begins to stir. In the former Aeon, that of Osiris, the element of Air, which is the nature of that Aeon, is not unsympathetic either to Water or to Fire; compromise was a mark of that period. But now, under a Fiery lord of the Aeon, the watery element, so far as water is below the Abyss, is definitely hostile, unless the opposition is the right opposition implied in marriage. But in this card the only question is of the “redemption” of the submerged element, and therefore every‐ thing is reve…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 7

Orpheus

…t. y Death— (Suppressed antistrophe, Death being silent. His reply is really given in Books II., III., IV.) Parabasis: The Poet | Epode: Nature BOOK II. Orpheus laments his wife—‘‘ Come back, come back, come back, Eurydice” . ° . “‘ Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power” , PAGE 53 53 54 61 71 72-88 73 76 82 85 86 113

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1905 · PDF PAGE 131

Orpheus

…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. Then growing grander as it swept Past bulrushes and ferns, 132

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1922 · PDF PAGE 62

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…comes in. If one goes on the bust in the ordinary way on alcohol, one gets what the Americans call “the morning after the night before.” Nature warns us that we have been breaking the rules; and Nature has given us common sense enough to know that although we can borrow a bit, we have to pay back. We have drunk alcohol since the beginning of time; and it is in our racial consciousness that although ‘“‘a hair of the dog” will put one right after a spree, it won't do to choke oneself with hair. But with cocaine, all this caution is utterly abroga…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 111

Gargoyles

…uzzle’s grief I did not share Because on earth I did not care. I met a grave philosopher— Had sought most nobly not to err Probing God’s Nature. See his lobes Swell with hell’s torment! Still he probes 103

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1910 · PDF PAGE 107

The Winged Beetle

97 SPORT AND MARRIAGE HOW dream from facts of nature swerves ! As I was shooting my preserves I would not have believed, I swear, How very tame the pheasants were. My spaniel to a setter blushed ; The bird would simply not be flushed. I beat one with a stick quite hard ; He only fluttered half a yard, Scolding me : “ Idiot and brute, Why in the devil don’t you shoot ? ” I turned upon my heel ; the bird Followed me home—it sounds absurd ! [My fault ! for getting the grand slam on Chateau Yquem and cold boiled salmon !] At last in anger, not for …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 17

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

in apprehending the nature of its teaching, to their zeal in spreading the principles of the Order so far as they them- selves understand them, though always with the discretion inseparable from the due guarding of the secrets, and to all those qualities of courage, honour, and virtue without which man is not worthy of that name. 19, The 0.H.O, is only known to members of the VIII? and IX°. The National Grand Master General ad vitam is not approachable as such by any person who has not reached the VP’. All communications should be addressed to …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 130

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…nto a quite ordinary Zebu or Brahman cow, or at the best a two-humped or Bactrian dromedary, in any case, an animal entirely unfitted by nature to carry the money of a cautious backer. Agitated by this circumstance, I was hardly in a condition to realise the nature of the proposals laid before the meeting by Worshipful Brother Feccles, Acting Deputy Grand Secretary General. | But roughly they were to this effect: That we were to lock up all our money and jewellery, except a little small change, as an act of precaution, and Feccles would arrive …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 119

The Book of Thoth

…hed in Our Law, before he may use this Method. For in it is an Implication of our Secret Enlightenment, concerning the Universe, how its Nature is ut‐ terly Perfection. Now every Thought is a Separation, and the Medicine of that is to marry Each One with its Contradiction, as I have shewed formerly in many Writings. And thou shalt clap the one to the other with Vehemence of Spirit, swiftly as Light itself, that the Ecstasy be Spon‐ taneous. So therefore it is expedient that thou have travelled already in this Path of Antithesis, knowing perfect…

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