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1913 · PDF PAGE 173

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… the lyre is cold , And my heart is lead , and the world seems very old . Dusk falls on the earth , and Apollo no more comes winging His way to me now ; it may be I shall sing not again . Yet to the dream I was true , and I followed the light Till it vanished , and left me in darkness all cold and forlorn ; It may be that is the end ; I know not nor care . If these songs that were wrought in the days of my springtide are fair , Perchance they shall seem to you good in the heart of the night , When you wait for the light that shall come in the w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…th the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we, being dead, shall lose each other never! (111) I turn to mortal love ; imagining Hath made a world that I may wander in; Where Love sits crowned, a blind and wingéd thing, Winged for delight of roving, blind to sin. This temple of Desire is pure and white…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…th the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we, being dead, shall lose each other never! (111) I turn to mortal love ; imagining Hath made a world that I may wander in; Where Love sits crowned, a blind and wingéd thing, Winged for delight of roving, blind to sin. This temple of Desire is pure and white…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 11

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

it is ever possible to manifest in any way whatever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. Equinox VII, p. 5. Liber IL The Message of the Master Therion. Explains the Essence of the new law in a very simple manner. Equinox XI (Vol. III, No. 1), p. 39. Liber III. Liber Jugorum An instruction for the control of speech, action and thought. Equinox IV, p. 9 & Appendix VI of this book. Liber IV. AB A. A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. Part. 1. Mysticïsm — published. 2. Magick (Elementary T…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 100

Liber Aleph

…e of my Speech, for now I am returned to that which I spake aforetime concerning the general Method of love, and thy Development by that Way. n

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1961 · PDF PAGE 110

Liber Aleph

…not cross. And beware most of this Love, because it lieth so close to Will that Dis-ease thereof easily imparteth his Error to the Whole Way of the Magician. t

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…t; for many marry, as Mayhew points out; in fact, Mayhew, in his classic “London Labour and the London Poor” is the only author I know—always excepting Charles Drysdale—who in any way saw the modern London hetaira as she really is. Drysdale in his courageous work, “ The Elements of Social Science,” also points out that the life of the ordinary prostitute is a very much healthier one than that of the average factory girl. The authoress of this work seems to understand this in a way, for in spite of “the awful degradation” which she harps upon, s…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…t; for many marry, as Mayhew points out; in fact, Mayhew, in his classic “London Labour and the London Poor” is the only author I know—always excepting Charles Drysdale—who in any way saw the modern London hetaira as she really is. Drysdale in his courageous work, “ The Elements of Social Science,” also points out that the life of the ordinary prostitute is a very much healthier one than that of the average factory girl. The authoress of this work seems to understand this in a way, for in spite of “the awful degradation” which she harps upon, s…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… 300 copies, Ios. net 50 copies on handmade paper, specially bound, 51, Is. net CONTENTS ROSA Coeli—Abjad‘i—al’ain—The Hermit—The Wizard Way—The Wings—The Garden of Janus—The Two SecretshThe Priestess of Panormita—The Hawk and the Babe—The Duellists—Athor and Asar ———After Judgment—The Five Adorations—Telepathy—TheSwimmer —~The Muse—The God and the Girl—Rosemary—Au BaliDis- appointment—The Octopus—The Eyes of Dorothy—Bathyllus—The Mantra-Yogi—The Poet and his MuseiLilith—Sportand Marriage— The TwinSaThe Convert—The Sorceress—The Child—Clytie— A…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… 300 copies, Ios. net 50 copies on handmade paper, specially bound, 51, Is. net CONTENTS ROSA Coeli—Abjad‘i—al’ain—The Hermit—The Wizard Way—The Wings—The Garden of Janus—The Two SecretshThe Priestess of Panormita—The Hawk and the Babe—The Duellists—Athor and Asar ———After Judgment—The Five Adorations—Telepathy—TheSwimmer —~The Muse—The God and the Girl—Rosemary—Au BaliDis- appointment—The Octopus—The Eyes of Dorothy—Bathyllus—The Mantra-Yogi—The Poet and his MuseiLilith—Sportand Marriage— The TwinSaThe Convert—The Sorceress—The Child—Clytie— A…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 104

Liber Aleph

… so that His Nature is of Dream or Delirium, and thus there may be Illusion. For this Cause I deem it not wholly unwise if thou use this Way of Magick chiefly as a Cordial; that is for the Fortifying of thine own Nature. t

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1905 · PDF PAGE 273

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…nd the Problem is solved. The Rationalist explains this by Inspiration, the superstitious Man by Mathe- matics. I give an Example of the Way in which one works. Let us take IAO, one of the ‘‘ Barbarous Names of Evocation,” of which those who have wished to conceal their own Glory by adopting the Authority of Zarathustra have said that in the holy Ceremonies it has an ineffable Power. But what Kind of Power? By the Qabalah we can find out the Force of the Name IAQ. We can spell it in Hebrew 18° or YN’. The Qabalah will even tell us which is the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

166 THE EQUINOX XIII DEATH THE ways are fixed unto the last abode Of death ; there is no sign-post on that road ; No man hath found it, and no man shall find The secret way under the heavens : blind Is knowledge, for within man’s mortal brain There is an end to thought, an end to pain; And there is death, a cool, gray, silent place, Calm in the afterglow of life; one grace Kept pure and holy, and one sacred thing In the deep centre of the mystic ring Of life, whence all roads lead, a winding path Through plains of dumb despair and sunless wrath…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

166 THE EQUINOX XIII DEATH THE ways are fixed unto the last abode Of death ; there is no sign-post on that road ; No man hath found it, and no man shall find The secret way under the heavens : blind Is knowledge, for within man’s mortal brain There is an end to thought, an end to pain; And there is death, a cool, gray, silent place, Calm in the afterglow of life; one grace Kept pure and holy, and one sacred thing In the deep centre of the mystic ring Of life, whence all roads lead, a winding path Through plains of dumb despair and sunless wrath…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

John St. John

…if I thought it would give Samadhil Now more mantra, though by the Lord I’m getting sick of it. It occurs to me, now that I am seeing my way in the Operation a little more clearly, that one might consider the First Day as Osiris Slain 44, the Second as that of the Mourning of Isis U, the third as that of the Triumph of Apophis V, and to-day that of Osiris Risen X ; these four days being perfect in themselves as a 5°=6° operation (or possibly with one or two more 41

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1910 · PDF PAGE 148

Ambergris

…nor find. O afloat in me curled ! Cry aloud to the world That I and my kisses are kind ! O lover ! O poet ! O maiden To me in my magical way ! Be thy songs with the wilderness laden ! Thy lyre be adrift and astray :— So to me thou shalt cling ! So to me thou shalt sing Of the beautiful law of the day !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 70

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…irious every time. 7. Had a Turker and did A in it, though with great discomfort. 8. Το Nursing Home. Unto thee, Adon-ai, do I commit my way. Unto thee, the Augoeides, unto thee the Self- Glittering One ! Ι put my trust in the power that hath devised me as I am for the achieving of a purpose, the Next Step. A rather bad, but done. Being in bed has cured the eternal headache, and the throat is much better. (The doctors were not sure whether Fra. Ρ. was suffering from cancer or tubercle—pleasing alternative! Probably the real trouble was due to t…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…irious every time. 7. Had a Turker and did A in it, though with great discomfort. 8. Το Nursing Home. Unto thee, Adon-ai, do I commit my way. Unto thee, the Augoeides, unto thee the Self- Glittering One ! Ι put my trust in the power that hath devised me as I am for the achieving of a purpose, the Next Step. A rather bad, but done. Being in bed has cured the eternal headache, and the throat is much better. (The doctors were not sure whether Fra. Ρ. was suffering from cancer or tubercle—pleasing alternative! Probably the real trouble was due to t…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 97

Liber Aleph

… Father Merlin, Frater Superior of the O.T.O., for that by seven Years of Apprenticeship in His School did I discover his most excellent Way of Magick. Be thou diligent, o my son, for in this wondrous Art is no more Toil, Sorrow, and Disappointment, as it was in the dead Aeon of the Slain Gods. n

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1961 · PDF PAGE 105

Liber Aleph

…for its Ease, hath also part in Water. Air ruleth Ethyl Oxide, for it is as a Sword, dividing asunder ever Part of thee, making easy the Way of Analysis, so that thou comest to learn thyself of what Elements thou art compact. Lastly, of the Nature of Earth are the direct Hypnotics, which operate by Repose, and restore thy Strength by laying thee as a Child in the Arms of the Great Mother, I say rather of Her material and physiological Vicegerent. c

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