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1912 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…r ‘exalted’ man The Congregation of theלהק ?הוהי Eternal מ”ק :58 Ι59 161 22 Nine Paths of the Inferior Beard ; 14+ x5+...+22= Son of the Right Hand ; pn n. of Benjamin Day Demon of !” Dec. I 51:5Dx'7: Angel ruling "L?לוסומ 162 pm: «163 [vide ne 36:, aאוה םיהלא ?ינרא numerical Temurah of 153] Woman, wife?הנקרנ !64 VT! Ye shall cleave?םיקבדה Outer ; civil, as opposed?ןושח to sacred. [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 342] The Pillars?ם`רמע !65 Strength. [EL iii. 8] u'ptn “ Το make them know."?םשריהל [Ps, xxv. 14] Nehema?המענ NEMO. [Name of Milt]?תיממע Angel of…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 62

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…see that A was not necessarily fashioned in my image. I asked pardon for my blindness, and knelt at the altar, placing my hands upon it, right over left. Then one, human, white, self-shining (my idea after all I), came forth and put his hands over mine, saying: “I receive thee into the Order of the ——." I sank back to earth in a cradle of flame. April 25. Yesterday’s vision a real illumination, since it 22 26. showed me an obvious mistake which I had utterly failed to see. The word in my Kamma- work (in Burma) was Augoeides, and the method Invok…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…r ‘exalted’ man The Congregation of theלהק ?הוהי Eternal מ”ק :58 Ι59 161 22 Nine Paths of the Inferior Beard ; 14+ x5+...+22= Son of the Right Hand ; pn n. of Benjamin Day Demon of !” Dec. I 51:5Dx'7: Angel ruling "L?לוסומ 162 pm: «163 [vide ne 36:, aאוה םיהלא ?ינרא numerical Temurah of 153] Woman, wife?הנקרנ !64 VT! Ye shall cleave?םיקבדה Outer ; civil, as opposed?ןושח to sacred. [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 342] The Pillars?ם`רמע !65 Strength. [EL iii. 8] u'ptn “ Το make them know."?םשריהל [Ps, xxv. 14] Nehema?המענ NEMO. [Name of Milt]?תיממע Angel of…

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1914 · PDF PAGE 23

Chicago May

… does life tremble on so tense a string? Why should so rare an oil as ours anoint ‘The brazen brows of a usurping king? Is it not in our right that you and 1, No more you and I, should be some third thing, given Not by the Gods, nor chance, nor Destiny, But—by what That that is beyond hell and heaven ? Lost, lost, for ever lost we are; I know No word to answer the eternal Why, No spell that may subdue the eternal woe ‘That “ you” are somehow different from 11" Lost, lost! O may not death discover spells? Has not the spasm of dissolution charms?

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1910 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…obes) flitting about, brandishing his tiny sword and spear in a thoroughly warlike manner. “Shun!” said the Great White Spirit. “ By the right, dress! “ Sappers, one pace forward, march ! “ Prepare to stop leak! “ Stop leak !” But the matter was not thus easily settled. After five hours’ strenuous work, the little spirit was exhausted, and the hole apparently no nearer being filled than before. He returned to the Great White Spirit. “ Beg pardon, sir!” he said; ‘but I can’t fill that there ‘ole nohow.” “No matter,” answered the Great White Spir…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…obes) flitting about, brandishing his tiny sword and spear in a thoroughly warlike manner. “Shun!” said the Great White Spirit. “ By the right, dress! “ Sappers, one pace forward, march ! “ Prepare to stop leak! “ Stop leak !” But the matter was not thus easily settled. After five hours’ strenuous work, the little spirit was exhausted, and the hole apparently no nearer being filled than before. He returned to the Great White Spirit. “ Beg pardon, sir!” he said; ‘but I can’t fill that there ‘ole nohow.” “No matter,” answered the Great White Spir…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 121

Little Poems in Prose

…een thrown them, slung their luggage on their backs, and went off. I wanted to know where they lived, so I followed them a long way off, right to the edge of the forest, and only then did I understand that they did not live anywhere. The one said, ‘Shall I undo the tent?’ ‘Lord, no!’ said the other, ‘on a night like this.’ The third said, as he counted up their money, ‘These pigs do not appreciate music, and their women dance like bears. Luckily, be- fore the month is up we shall be in Austria, where the folk are pleasanter.’ “ ‘Perhaps we shou…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 142

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ed these strangers, and to be the tool Of their smooth Hes and monstrous miracles! O break this bondage and cast off their spells ! Five righteous! Thou a righteous man! A jest ! A righteous man-—you always loved me best, And even when lured by lips of wanton girls Would turn away and sigh and touch my curls And slip half-conscious to the old em- brace: And now you will not let me see your face Or hear your voice or touch you. Ah! the hour! Fle moves. Come back, come back, my life’s one flower ! Come back. One kiss before you leave me. So! Stop…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 114

John St. John

…John’s Cross is FAILURE. Marvellous and manifold as are his results, he hath re- nounced them and esteemeth them as dross. . . . This is right, John St. Johnl yet how is it that there is place for the great hunchbacked devil to whisper in thine ear the doubt: Is there in truth any mystic path at all? Is it all disappointmentand illusion ? And the “Poor Thing " John St. John moves off

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1910 · PDF PAGE 201

The Winged Beetle

MR TODD 191 GRANDFATHER. Bitter cold, Charley, for us old people ! Nothing right nowadays ! Oh, my poor leg ! Bitter, bitter cold ! I mind me, more than sixty years ago now—oh dear ! oh dear ! Run and tell Nurse I want my liniment ! Oh dear ! oh dear ! what a wretched world. Sciatics—like rats gnawing, gnawing at you, Charley. CHARLEY. You frighten me, grampa ! Why doesn’t Mr. Carr come and play with me ? GRANDFATHER. He has gone out with your mother. He’ll come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear ! I …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The Winged Beetle

…n your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mis- trust that man Todd ! OSSORY. Thanks : I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir ! OSSORY. Good-bye. MRS. OSSORY [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil ! OSSORY. What, little Delhomme ? MRS. OSSORY. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly ? Todd !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 533

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…preme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are willing to accept our interpretation, THE RIGHT OF DOING ONE’s Duty, we in our turn will take it for a motto, and we shall repeat, without contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 533

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…preme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are willing to accept our interpretation, THE RIGHT OF DOING ONE’s Duty, we in our turn will take it for a motto, and we shall repeat, without contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 53

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…ifle a yawn and to convert it into a smile, and he will forgive me for saying that I find the effect somewhat sinister. But he has every right to be supercilious about it. These are indeed 'old, fond paradoxes to amuse wives in ale-houses.' Since philosophy began, it has always been a favourite game to prove your axioms absurd. You will all naturally be very annoyed with me for indulging in these fatuous pastimes, especially as I started out with a pledge that I would deal with these subjects from the hard-headed scientific point of view. Forgi…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 46

In Residence

…ward English (that’s one to me) way of talking, though his morality is imported and perfectly well known to be as black as jet) But he’s right in the main, though he does so lovingly bleat and so blether,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 15

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

…omplemental to their own natures, and find unexpected help and brotherhood in the whole world wherever they may travel. ‘They obtain the right to sojourn in the secret houses of the O.T.O., permanently or for a greater or lesser period of the year according to their rank in the Order; or, in the case of those of the Fifth and lower degrees, are candidates for invitation to these houses. 5° The Knowledge of the Preparation and Use of the Universal Medicine is restricted to members of the IX°; but it may be admi nistered to members of the VIII? a…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 17

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…e to modify our machines in all sorts of ways which were not altogether foreseen. I wish to thunder forth once more that no questions of right or wrong enter into our problems. But in the stratosphere it is 'right' for a man to be shut up in a pressure-resisting suit electrically heated, with an oxygen supply, whereas it would be 'wrong' for him to wear it if he were running the three miles in the summer sports in the Tanezrouft. This is the pit into which all the great religious teachers have hitherto fallen, and I am sure you are all looking …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 62

John St. John

…so sleepy that I cannot concentrate at all. (I was trying the “Bornless One”) The magic goes well; good images and powerful, but I slack right off into sleep. It’s the hour for heroic measures or else to say : A good night’s rest, and start fresh in the morning! I suppose, as usual, I shall say the first and do the second. Have risen, washed, performed the ritual “Thee I invoke, the Bornless One " physically. The result fair. One gets better magical sight and feeling when one is performing a ritual in one’s Astral Body, so called. For one is on …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…rd in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil! ossory. What, little Delhomme? MRS. ossory. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly? Todd! ossory. Why, whatever do you mean? MRS. ossory. I don’t mean anything but what I say. 215

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1910 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…rd in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil! ossory. What, little Delhomme? MRS. ossory. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly? Todd! ossory. Why, whatever do you mean? MRS. ossory. I don’t mean anything but what I say. 215

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