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1954 · PDF PAGE 492

Magick Without Tears

…From a certain world came an infinite wail.) That falling petal seemed to the little ones a wave to engulph their continent. 37. So they will reproach thy servant, saying: Who hath set thee to save us? 38. He will be sore distressed. 39. All they will understand not that thou and I are fashioning a boat of Mother-ofPearl. We will sail down the river of Amrit even to the yew groves of Yama, where we may rejoice exceedingly. 40. The joy of men shall be our silver gleam, their woe our blue gleam-all in the Mother-of-pearl. And again, Cpo I: 50-52 …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 49

Mortadello

…wonder you beguile. Oh ! I know well where you have been, false friend ! LUCREZIA. False friend ? How shall I spell it ? ZELINA. How you will. Beware the end ! LUCREZIA. I am sorry. Say what wrong I’ve done you. ZELINA. You don’t know ? Who stole away my Sandro ? LUCREZIA. Yours ! Three years ago. Is it a crime ? Go take your mirror ; you will see The work of time—blame him instead of blaming me ! ZELINA. Cat ! LUCREZIA. You wear badly. Paint conceals the sallow skin. What hides how sadly falls the flesh was fair within ? ZELINA. So you’re the …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 35

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…ot to be disheartened by failure, or too much encouraged by success, in any one practice or set of practices. What you are doing is what will be of real value to you in the end j and that is, developing a character, creating a Karma, which will give you the power to do your Will. IV Divination is so important a bran ch of Magick as almost to demand a separate treatise. Genius is composed of two sidesj the active and the passive. The power to execute the Will is but blind force unless the Will be enlightened. At every stage of a Magical Operatio…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 356

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX railway platform in the Kingdom, the White Slave Traffic will continue to flourish the more it is persecuted, and become more criminal and degrading than ever. Money is not the basis of this so-called evil,as suggested, and public indigna- tion will not work a cure any more than public indignation against the Metropolitan Water Board will stop people drinking water. We must cease globe-polishing virtue and sand-papering vice. Away with our moral Monkey Brand and our ethical Sapolio, and back to a little genuine common-sense elbow-gr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 356

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX railway platform in the Kingdom, the White Slave Traffic will continue to flourish the more it is persecuted, and become more criminal and degrading than ever. Money is not the basis of this so-called evil,as suggested, and public indigna- tion will not work a cure any more than public indignation against the Metropolitan Water Board will stop people drinking water. We must cease globe-polishing virtue and sand-papering vice. Away with our moral Monkey Brand and our ethical Sapolio, and back to a little genuine common-sense elbow-gr…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 100

The Law is for All

…of their being “poor and sad” proves them to be “shadows,” who “pass & are done.” The “lords of the earth” are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coro­ nets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one’s lordship is to know what one’s true Will is, and to do it. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. Commentary: A god living in a dog would be one who was…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 307

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…f the second child, she had nearly miscarried and nearly died. “How then,” thinks he to himself, “can I clear myself once and for all? I will make up to my wife. I will pull out the pathetic stop. I will make mischief between her and her lover. I will forge tele- grams, and do anything else that may be necessary. But I will get her to go over to England. That will put an end to the child, and very likely to her too, and then perhaps Paira Mull will take at least one of the children—his own—off my hands. Narada, too, is not legally my child.at a…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 71

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…te, the natural Osiris, to identity with himself. But in the new Aeon the Hierophant is Horus (Liber CCXX, I 49) therefore the Candidate will be Horus too. What then is the formula of the initiation of Horus ? It will no longer be that of the Man, through Death. It will be the natural growth of the Child. His expériences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. Their hieroglyph is the Pool: the innocent and impotent Harpocrates Babe becomes the Horus Adult by obtaining the Wand. “Der reine Thor” seizes the Sacred Lance. Bacchus becomes Pan. Th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…own demonstrates and reveals the unknown. To under- stand this science, is to see God. The author of this book, as he finishes his work, will think that he has demonstrated it. Then, when you have seen God, the hierophant will say to you:—“ Turn round!” and, in the shadow which you throw in the presence of this sun of intelligences, there will appear to you the devil, that black phantom which you see when your gaze is not fixed upon God, and when you think that your shadow fills the sky,—for the vapours of the earth, the higher they go, seem to…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…own demonstrates and reveals the unknown. To under- stand this science, is to see God. The author of this book, as he finishes his work, will think that he has demonstrated it. Then, when you have seen God, the hierophant will say to you:—“ Turn round!” and, in the shadow which you throw in the presence of this sun of intelligences, there will appear to you the devil, that black phantom which you see when your gaze is not fixed upon God, and when you think that your shadow fills the sky,—for the vapours of the earth, the higher they go, seem to…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 84

Rodin in Rime

… deep Glowing cascades of hair; she combs her hair With subtle ecstasy, electric sweep Of unimaginable joy; let life and death Pass; she will comb, and comb, and will not care. 06

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1912 · PDF PAGE 425

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE POETRY REVIEW For AUGUST contains an exhaustive survey of Modern French Poetry by F. S. FLINT This will be the first of a series of issues?רו dealing from time to time with Contemporary? Foreign Poetry. The next, appearing in October, will be de-? [ר voted to American Poetry. Several articles have? been promised by well-known American writers.? Copies may be obtained through booksellers, price Sixpence net, or direct from the publishers, Sevenpence, post free. Annual Subscriptlon, Flve Shllllngs (155 22 6.) post free. The St. Catherine Pres…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 425

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE POETRY REVIEW For AUGUST contains an exhaustive survey of Modern French Poetry by F. S. FLINT This will be the first of a series of issues?רו dealing from time to time with Contemporary? Foreign Poetry. The next, appearing in October, will be de-? [ר voted to American Poetry. Several articles have? been promised by well-known American writers.? Copies may be obtained through booksellers, price Sixpence net, or direct from the publishers, Sevenpence, post free. Annual Subscriptlon, Flve Shllllngs (155 22 6.) post free. The St. Catherine Pres…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 519

Magick Without Tears

…Training is more immediately practical than digging up our Corpora Quadragemina and planting them in a Monkey's Medulla just to see what will come of it. So put down that bread-knife! Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1996 · PDF PAGE 42

The Law is for All

Chapter I A Verse 41 43 reason why she should not be the ideal hausfrau, if that chance to be her will. But society has no right to insist upon that standard. It was, for practical reasons, almost necessary to set up such tabus in small communities, savage tribes, where the wife was nothing but a general servant, where the safety of the people depended upon a high birth-rate. But today woman is economically inde­ pendent, becomes more so every year. The result is that she instantly asserts her right to have as many or as few men or babies as sh…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 154

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

that I desire her. Such a flaw is enough to bring the whole operation to naught, just as no effort of Will can make oil mix with water. I may work “naturally” by wooing, of course. But, magically, I may attack her astrally so that her aura becomes uneasy, respond- ing no longer to her lover. Unless they diagnose the cause, a quarrel may resuit, and the woman’s bewildered and hungry Body of Light may turn in its distress to that of the Magician who has mastered it. Take a third case of this class 2. I wish to recover my watch, snatched from me i…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 157

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…tand ; I owe my wealth to Him , and without shame, Have therefore always followed His command , And every sabbath glorified His Name. He will not scrutinize , nor question why ; But trust my general plan . If He, anew , Perchance may need to fight, utility , Not glory , will incite Him thereunto . Lo, in His service all my life is spent Creating righteous labour , which is bread : (Lazarus enters . He loves me well , and I am confident He will receive my soul when I am dead . 138

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1910 · PDF PAGE 79

The Scented Garden

… see the joke. 8. Shahrava was a despot who forced leather money into circulation. The passage means accord- ing to Mahbub that El Qahar will not use a leather dildo, but his own stalwart member, upon the po- dex of Habib ; but I prefer to think that he simply means “ I will not beat thee ” i.e. with leather thongs. In all countries beating is jestingly spoken of as “ payment.” Besides, the whole ode concerns active punishment, not mere deprivation of plea- sure. (See note to XII. Ed.)

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1910 · PDF PAGE 186

The World’s Tragedy

… dagger into the belly of the Greek disciple from Alexandria. The dirt comes out. To the Bystander, Say Homoousios ! PUBLIUS Surely they will While his logic is backed with such surgical skill. TWO BYSTANDERS We fly to do as you desire us. JOHN And bring me up a clean papyrus ! These chapters will make of no account The ridiculous sermon on the mount. Where was I ? With twelve aeon-chains Somewhere revolving in these brains; Synoches, teletarchs, iynges, All turning as smoothly as if on hinges :

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1901 · PDF PAGE 22

The Mother’s Tragedy

… The trifles that shall make it master yet Of the strong soul that bade itself forget. CORA. Let me not shrink! Truth always purifies. I will go through those twe impossible Actual years. The city was itself; Hard thinking if hard drinking—sober-sides! One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something, found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer. And J lay— A storm of weeping swept across my frame— Till the polite, the hateful manager Led me to face a na…

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