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1910 · PDF PAGE 240

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…oss. EUPHEMIA. You swore to love me always. carr. The champagne at the Mena House is not cham- pagne; it is—the cork of it is labelled “ Good intentions.” EUPHEMIA. Then you didn’t mean it? carR [kissing her]. Am I, or am I not—a plain question as between man and man—loving you now? EUPHEMIA. Oh, I know! But I am so worried that every- thing most sure seems all shaken in the storm of it! I was glad—glad, glad!—when that Mr. Todd came in with his news, so that I could have a real good cry. [Very close to him, in a tragic whisper.| Something has …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 240

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…oss. EUPHEMIA. You swore to love me always. carr. The champagne at the Mena House is not cham- pagne; it is—the cork of it is labelled “ Good intentions.” EUPHEMIA. Then you didn’t mean it? carR [kissing her]. Am I, or am I not—a plain question as between man and man—loving you now? EUPHEMIA. Oh, I know! But I am so worried that every- thing most sure seems all shaken in the storm of it! I was glad—glad, glad!—when that Mr. Todd came in with his news, so that I could have a real good cry. [Very close to him, in a tragic whisper.| Something has …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 74

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…t 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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1910 · PDF PAGE 112

The Winged Beetle

…know ? ” “ Why, it’s Captain Fuller that told us so.” “ And how do you know that Fuller was right ? ” “ I’m afraid you’re a wicked man ; Good-night.” While this sort of thing is styled success I shall not count failure bitterness.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 23

Hail Mary

…esires. O Mary ! of Thy Motherhood To all Thy worshippers, Bring us to Thy beatitude Whose sweet impulsion stirs The soul lethargic unto good, The slaves to ministers ! Our Lady, sorrowful and sweet, Thy precious gift bestow ! Thy holy spouse the PARACLETE Breathe down on us below That all the chrism be complete, Thy servants pure as snow ! B 16

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1954 · PDF PAGE 59

Magick Without Tears

26 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Letter I January 27,1944 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It is very good hearing that these letters do good, but rather sad to reflect that it is going to make you so unpopular. Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. Yes, your brain is quite all right; what is wanted is to acquire the habit of pinning things down instantly. (He says 're-incarnation' -now what exactly does he mean by that? He says "it is natur…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 404

Magick Without Tears

…that was how to play the masse shot. He kept on explaining and explaining and demonstrating and demonstrating, and none of it seemed any good. I understood intellectually, well enough; but somehow or other it never came off. Presently he said that he guessed he knew what was the matter. Although I had the whole thing perfect in my mind I had not made the link between my mind, my eye, and my hand, and what I must do was not to go to him for teaching, of which I had had already enough and more than enough. He told me if I went on trying it would …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 48

In Residence

36 BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS And a very good piece of advice it was too (Chorus, please!) The score of life is at Love-all. ENVOI Nothing is like leather. The rhyme is passable—a task by no means small. Though its connection is certainly not obvious—still our cap has lost no feather :— Done it, by Jupiter! We can only say farewell, gentle reader, impressing on you the truth (put in Tennis language because this ballade is all about Tennis) that the score of life is at Love-all.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

In Residence

…ad “ Félise” or any thing That naughty Mr Swinburne scribbles ; The human heart with love enring ; Don’t dig right into it with dibbles! Good luck, my lass, you now your way can see! —I feared she might have taken me to Replenish the unusual vacancy ; And I have other things to see to.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 63

Sir Palamedes

…e shock, and splits, and splits again, Until the baffled warrior sees A myriad myriad swarms of these A-questing over all the plain. The good knight reins his charger in. “ Now, by the faith of Paladin! The subtle quest at last I ken.” Rides off to Camelot to plight The faith of many a noble knight, Sir Palamede the Saracen. 57

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1919 · PDF PAGE 238

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Tribunal. The utmost frankness and good faith between Brethren is essential to the easy and harmonious working of our system, and the Executive Power will see to it that these are encouraged by all possible means, and that breach of them is swiftly and silently suppressed. Love is the law, love under will. Our fatherly benediction, and the Blessing of the All- Father in the Outer and the Inner be upon you. BAPHOMET X°® O.T.O. IRELAND, IONA, AND ALL THE BRITAINS. 224

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1907 · PDF PAGE 112

The Star in the West

…, and kneeling by a Calvary . Act IV again brings our knight before the gaze of the world . He has eaten of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , and has become as a god . He wends his way to the Court of the Landgrave and there meets Elizabeth , “ His far - off baby - love ,” as Venus called her , and whispers to himself , “ Cannot purity be brought to know aught but itself ? ” Herein lies the note of his misfortunes . Purity was but ignorance , and Tannhäuser was now a god , knowing both good and evil : 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 2…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 68

John St. John

5.40. 557- 6.30. 7.10. THE EQUINOX But it has done no good as far as energy is concerned. I’m just as bad or worse than I was on the day which I have called the day of Apophis (third day). The only thing to my credit is the way I’ve kept the mantra going. One thing at least is good; if anything does come of this great magical retirement—which I am beginning to doubt—it will not be mixed up with any other enthusiasm, poetic, venereal, or bacchanalian. It will be purely mystici But as it has not happened yet—- and just at present it seems incredi…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 107

The Argonauts

…This also seems to us no easy task. MEDEA. He sleeps through noon, while others are abroad. ALCESTIS. Let us make haste! Dear queen, how good you are! MEDEA. One thing remember! While you say the spell— Here is the parchment !—let no thought arise In any of your minds! atcestis. [Zo her Sisters.] Remember that ! MEDEA. Else—Ototototoi ! FIRST DANAID. What woe is this? MEDEA. The charm is broken. SECOND DANAID. And our father-—— MEDEA. Lost! DANAIDES. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Ai Ai! MEDEA. Ai Ai! Ai Ai!

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1919 · PDF PAGE 176

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e said he was writing. (Note Apr. 21, 1917. Ha=The Sun; tha=The Moon, as stated in the Hatha-Yoga Pradipiha.) . (Well worked out, method good; but not much of a place to have reached. You should have got more of the book, too. O.M.) Dec. 18th. Note. There is one thing I had intended to mention before. Instead of sleeping deeply, as was my former habit, I have lately noticed quite a change in this respect. Sometimes, though resting, I retain consciousness most of the night. In this state I appear to think very much along the same lines as I do i…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 17

Berashith

…ry, a circumstance which gives room for a fractional amount of freewill. If this be not so, it matters little; for if I find myself in a good state, that merely proves that my destiny took me there, We are, as Herbert Spencer observes, self-deluded with the idea of freewill; but if this is so, norhing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it must appear), then our reason is valid, and we should seek out the right path and pursue it. The question therefore need not trouble us at all. Here, then wesee the use of mo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 7

The Scented Garden

…E HAVE SPENT TOGETHER IN THE SCENTED GARDEN “ ALAIN LUTIY ” TO THE MEMORY OF MY COLLEAGUE “ ALAIN LUTIY ” TRUE FRIEND, POLISHED SCHOLAR, GOOD SPORTSMAN, GALLANT SOLDIER, AND CIVIL GALLANT, I WHO HAVE DONE SO LITTLE TO COMPLETE HIS LABOURS DEDICATE MY SHARE THEREIN ON THIS OCCASION OF OFFERING THEIR RESULT TO THE WORLD.

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1922 · PDF PAGE 294

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… You insist on considering your- selves as naughty children 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 sig…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 53

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ot dumb, Troubling his peace of mind; he shall to perfect knowledge never come. His thoughts concentred, unperplexed his mind renouncing good and ill Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assail! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie Contemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 184

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ain and again the great prophecy: Whenever the dhamma decays, and a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest my- self. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm “Tt is a fallacy,” wrote P., ‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing law; but onlya line of least resistance along which all things move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and so its own selfishness proves its destruction. “We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity imp…

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