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1919 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…hey have also a secret meaning for initiates. 3. The Order is international, and has existing branches in every civilized country of the world. 4. The aims of the O.T.O. can only be understood fully by its highest initiates; but it may be said openly that it teaches Hermetic Science or Occult Knowledge, the Pure and Holy Magick of Light, the Secrets of Mystic attain- ment, Yoga of all forms, Gnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakta Yoga and Hatha Yoga, and all other branches of the secret Wisdom of the Ancients. In its bosom repose the Great Mysteries; it…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 83

Ambergris

…es Her body’s thirst of love. This night no dewfall from the blue !— Unless my Alice be the dew. This night O never dawn shall crest The world of wakening, Because my lover has my breast On hers for dawn and spring. This night shall never be withdrawn— Unless my Alice be the dawn.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 79

The World’s Tragedy

26 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. THE LAMB I oppose ; I wish to enter A minority report. THE VULTURE You are out of order, sir. THE LAMB I shall get my own back later In the Theatres of London Where a show of legs decides. THE DOVE By the way — THE VULTURE These sleeping women Are no good to us, of course ? THE DOVE No indeed ! I want a creature Very different to that, THE VULTURE Well, you’ll have a job to find one.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 160

The World’s Tragedy

…t, but fixed in every feature Of Mistress Smirking Whore, our Mother Nature, Whose filthy dugs our poisoned kisses suck. Pah ! the whole world is just a mass of muck. JOHN Wait, master ! that’s a Phrase.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 181

The World’s Tragedy

I28 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. AGRIPPA See, the foul Black thing that sits with sneer and scowl Over his head. PUBLIUS What now ? Beshrew Me, but its face is like a Jew ! YAUGH WAUGH Butch ! The game is fairly started. I will back to night and chaos. — Ha ! Hoo ! Formlessly presiding Over the ruined earth. Ga ! Ga ! Ab — ab — ab — ab — ab — He flies off. ISSA Behold ! He hath forsaken me. The doom is fixed, but my spirit is free From his loathsome company.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 233

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…t, no matter at what cost, to ‘*true Wisdom and perfect Happiness.” So may all happen! KANDY, CEYLON, Sepé. 1901. PERSONS CONCERNED. THE WORLD OF GODS. IsIs. HATHOOR. THE WORLD OF MEN. TANNHAUSER,. ELIZABETH. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL. THE LANDGRAVE., WOLFRAM, BERTRAM, HEINRICH, A SHEPHERD Boy. PILGRIMS, FORESTERS, COURTIERS, ETC. \a t the Court of the Landgrave. THE WORLD OF DEMONS. THE EVIL AND AVERSE HATHOOR, CALLED VENUS, TANNHAUSER. ACT I. ‘‘ Therefore we are carefully to proceed in Magic, lest that Syrens and other monsters deceive us, which li…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… revolutionised, again and again, the philosophies of mankind. The analogy is a perfect one. By meditation we obtain the vision of a new world, even as the world of micro- organisms was unsuspected for centuries of thinking— thinking without method—bricks without straw! Just so, also, the masters of meditation have erred. They have attained the Mystic Vision, written long books about it, assumed that the conclusions drawn from their vision were true on other planes—as if a microscopist were to stand for Parliament on the platform “ Votes for Mi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… revolutionised, again and again, the philosophies of mankind. The analogy is a perfect one. By meditation we obtain the vision of a new world, even as the world of micro- organisms was unsuspected for centuries of thinking— thinking without method—bricks without straw! Just so, also, the masters of meditation have erred. They have attained the Mystic Vision, written long books about it, assumed that the conclusions drawn from their vision were true on other planes—as if a microscopist were to stand for Parliament on the platform “ Votes for Mi…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 137

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ES, whom I shall usually men- tion by the motto V.I.O., which he took on becominga Pro- bationer of the A..A.., made his entry into this World by the usual and approved method, on April 2nd 1886 E.V., having only escaped becoming an April Fool by delaying a day to summon up enough courage to turn out once more into this cold and uninviting World. Having been oiled, smacked and allowed to live, we shall trouble no further about the details of his career until 1906, when, having reached the age of 20 years, he began to turn his attention toward t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 527

Magick Without Tears

…come nightmares of self-contradiction. This is as it should be.) In Magick, on the contrary, one passes through the veil of the exterior world (which, as in Yoga, but in another sense, becomes 'unreal' by comparison as one passes beyond,) one creates a subtle body (instrument is a better term) called the Body of Light; this one develops and controls; it gains new powers as one progresses, usually by means of what is called 'initiation'; finally, one carries on almost one's whole life in this Body of Light, and achieves in its own way the master…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… and the general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57

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1909 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… and the general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57

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1910 · PDF PAGE 145

The World’s Tragedy

92 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Whose windy letch hath blown me out Like a rich man with flatulence and gout ! THE HAG Ho ! stanch thy throttle ! Come forth ! She delivers her. O jest insane ! For all this pious pain Naught but an old brass bottle ! GOVINDA Maybe it holds the two and seventy Jinn That Solomon screwed in. ALEXANDER More like, the wine that Dionysus spilled From Cyprus grapes distilled. CHAU We lose our wagers ? It may be Best to unscrew it, and to see.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 26

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…HE EQUINOX It is my misfortune and not my fault that I am bound to deliver this elementary Message. “ Man has two sides; one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.” We must pardon Browning his bawdy jest; for his truth is ower true! But it is your own fault if you are the world instead of the beloved; and only see of me what Moses saw of God! It is disgusting to have to spend one’s life jetting dirt in the face of the British publicin the hope that in washing it they may wash off the acrid grease of their commercialism, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 169

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

I SEARCHED the world for life; at length I came Unto a gateway I could not pass through; And then I turned, calling upon the name Of you. And so you came to me: each dawn was new, And every sunset was a scarlet flame, And noon was glorious in gold and blue. So now I care not for my mystic shame; Love brings no fears, and life gives nought to rue, So I may sing unto the love and fame Of you. 131

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1913 · PDF PAGE 169

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

I SEARCHED the world for life; at length I came Unto a gateway I could not pass through; And then I turned, calling upon the name Of you. And so you came to me: each dawn was new, And every sunset was a scarlet flame, And noon was glorious in gold and blue. So now I care not for my mystic shame; Love brings no fears, and life gives nought to rue, So I may sing unto the love and fame Of you. 131

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1912 · PDF PAGE 348

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…37] Angel of 3" Dec. boa) Gratia, benevolentia ayo 278 Angels of Jesod, and of pan Binah of Briah—Cherubim Passing over way The Material World ysuysn Doi 279 Leprosy. [Vide K.D. yD L.C.K. p. 495] [7 40, the Squares on the walls of 280 the Vault. See Equinox I. 3. p. 222] Qliphoth of 18 pra A record (Ch.) wot Angel of the Wood of the y’ World of Assiah The Letters of Judg- 3y¥3533:0:5 ment: the 5 letters having a final form Archangel of Malkuth pada Citizenship vy

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1912 · PDF PAGE 348

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…37] Angel of 3" Dec. boa) Gratia, benevolentia ayo 278 Angels of Jesod, and of pan Binah of Briah—Cherubim Passing over way The Material World ysuysn Doi 279 Leprosy. [Vide K.D. yD L.C.K. p. 495] [7 40, the Squares on the walls of 280 the Vault. See Equinox I. 3. p. 222] Qliphoth of 18 pra A record (Ch.) wot Angel of the Wood of the y’ World of Assiah The Letters of Judg- 3y¥3533:0:5 ment: the 5 letters having a final form Archangel of Malkuth pada Citizenship vy

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1904 · PDF PAGE 74

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

greatest luck in the world, her monthlies had come on that very morning. Ay ! Lad, we dined well. Why should I dwell upon that night ? Four in a bed, we drenched the sheets again and again. Not Leila herself could give me half the rapture I ex- perienced from my sister and mother when they laid themselves out to give me a real good birthday, especially when my father, honest man ! Came to the rescue in his bluff hearty old English fash- ion. Ah ! [72]

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1941 · PDF PAGE 11

Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War

Though ruin wash the world in blood, Though death devour, though time decay, Let but our hearts hold brotherhood, And this they shall not take away. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. Stand! and join hands! and let us sing! Shake out Old Glory to the Skies! With heart and hand defiant fling Our purpose against Destiny’s. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. Amen.

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