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1911 · PDF PAGE 95

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…t, riding hard. He bears a fair—haired child across the saddle. Oh, do look! LAYLAH. Is there no messenger? LEDMIYA. It is Achmet! It is good Achmet! 87

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1944 · PDF PAGE 252

The Book of Thoth

…ents. X Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee. The axle moveth not: attain thou that. Change of fortune. (This generally means good fortune because the fact of consultation implies anxiety or discontent.) XI Mitigate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things. Worship the name ———, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, and the name of His House 418.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

The Argonauts

… my tune and my desire! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre! CHORUS. This song is sweeter than the honeycomb. MEDEA. Nearly as sweet as good friends quarrelling. JASON. Look, friends, methinks I see a silvern shape Like faint mist floating on the farthest sea.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 96

Book 4 (Part II)

…wing rime : Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie. He stuck in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said : "What a good boy am I! " In the interpretation of this remarkable poem there is a difference between two great schools of Adepts. One holds that Jack is merely a corruption of John, Ion, he who goes

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1929 · PDF PAGE 377

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…most honest and most honourable way of getting money is to sell one's writings. Yet I still feel there is something very wrong about it. Good work is priceless and bad work is worthless. Besides, even the best writers are tempted to do their worst work by the fact that publishers, as a class, are persuaded that the public prefer rubbish. The fact is that there are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers, "More money for more wor…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… I had read up what I could about him in his book: “Sri Brahma Dhara,” in the preface of which he is praised as follows: “He seeks to do good, he accepts money from no one, and lives a very simple, pure life . . . I. . . was much impressed by his great breadth of mind, his sweet charity, and his loving kindness for every living thing. ... These teachings... breathe love and kindness, and dwell upon the joys of pure clean living.” Forewarned is to be forearmed, and I had read the same type of “ puff” on many a patent pill box! On entering 70, Ma…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… I had read up what I could about him in his book: “Sri Brahma Dhara,” in the preface of which he is praised as follows: “He seeks to do good, he accepts money from no one, and lives a very simple, pure life . . . I. . . was much impressed by his great breadth of mind, his sweet charity, and his loving kindness for every living thing. ... These teachings... breathe love and kindness, and dwell upon the joys of pure clean living.” Forewarned is to be forearmed, and I had read the same type of “ puff” on many a patent pill box! On entering 70, Ma…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… the official paper of the various grades. It includes the Task and Oath of a Probationer. Unpublished. Liber CXCVIL The High History of Good Sir Palamedes the Saracen Knight and of his following of the Questing Beast. 222

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1929 · PDF PAGE 205

Moonchild

…y and so forth, I think it was; anyhow, something perfectly dotty. She was now quite without power to criticize her actions by reason or good sense; the voice of the 'Spirits' was for her the voice of God. So they sent her to the Bank for money, and to the Steamship office for a passage to Europe; and when she got to Liverpool they sent her to London, from London to Paris, from Paris to Genoa. And when she came to Genoa they told her which hotel to choose; and then they sent her out to buy a revolver and some cartridges; and then they told her …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 108

Konx Om Pax

…Why, damn it now! that’s odd. I’m surely in my dotage, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns to ill: Art '5 but a crust o’er Nature’s chasms. Death caught her with his comic spasms. They turned her fairly inside out, Jerking her legs and arms about Like a damned dancing marionette. I could not light my cigarette: I started laughing. Laugh? I laughed— ] rocked my body fore and aft-— I fairly yelledl To crown the event Her wonder at my merriment: That beat the band. I really wonder …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…head tending down to the waters 01 the lake. He is subtle, violent, crafty and artistic; a fierce nature with calm exterior. Powerful for good or evil, but more attracted by the evil if allied with apparent Power or Wisdom. If ill dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. He rules from zo" & to 20° "]. A of v Prince and Emperor of Nymphs or Undines. 164

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1912 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…head tending down to the waters 01 the lake. He is subtle, violent, crafty and artistic; a fierce nature with calm exterior. Powerful for good or evil, but more attracted by the evil if allied with apparent Power or Wisdom. If ill dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. He rules from zo" & to 20° "]. A of v Prince and Emperor of Nymphs or Undines. 164

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1961 · PDF PAGE 130

Liber Aleph

…then his Work becometh Hotchpot, and he is shattered and dispersed in the Abyss. Nor is it better for him if he do this for the supposed Good of another, and for that other is it Evil also in the End of the Matter. For to manifest thine own Division to another, and to deceive him, is but to confirm him in blindness, or Illusion, and to hinder or to deflect him in his Way. Now to do thine own Will is to leave him free to do his own Will, but to mask thy Will is to falsify one of the Beacons by which he may steer his Ship. My son, all division of…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 229

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… our rudder, all alone, and stood Fierce and triumphant in the rising gale, Bent to my sword, and kissed the stinging blood, _ While the good ship leapt free upon the deep, And felt the feet of the resistless flood Run, and the fervour of the billows sweep Under our keel—and we were clean away, _ Laughing to see the foamheads sough and sleep, As we kept pace with ocean all the day And one long night of toil ; until the sun Lit on these cliffs his morning beams that play With our sails’ rent and rifted white, and run Like summer lightning all ab…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 53

Liber Aleph

…he simplest, the Child should be taught not only the Thesis, but also its opposite, leaving the Decision to the Child’s own Judgment and good Sense, fortified by Experience. And this Practice will develop its Power of Thought, and its Confidence in itself, and its Interest in all Knowledge. But most of all beware against any Attempt to bias its Mind on any point that lieth without the Square of ascertained and undisputed Fact. Remember also, even when thou art most sure, that so were they sure who gave instruction to the young Copernicus. Pay R…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 216

Moonchild

…report her success to Douglas, while the lovers went on their honeymoon. The wind blew fresh from the south-west, and Cremers, who was a good sailor, came as near as she ever could to joy as she felt the yacht begin to roll, and pictured the tepid ice-cream heroine of romance in the saloon. Meanwhile, the destroyer, her nose burrowing into the sea hike a ferret slipped into a warren, drove passionately towards Toulon. The keenness and ecstasy of Cyril's face were so intense that Manners rallied him about it. "I thought you were one of the all-m…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 58

Jephthah

…p, and waking served? O horrible distortion of all truth That I must serve thee still. Thy word’s a lie, That if I keep my silence, I do good To her, the milk-white virgin sacrifice, And only smite the bloody father down! A lie, Isay! A lie! Yet—dare I speak, Those eyes upon me, torturing my soul And threatening revenge? His fingers gross, Purple, and horrible, to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat. O Hell! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood, But make not me the devilish minister Of such a…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… etc., only more so. 18. Ditto. Note lack of impatience, perfect satisfac- 21 tion with existing state. . . . . I am still “polarized” a good deal; my “indif- ference” is pronounced.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… etc., only more so. 18. Ditto. Note lack of impatience, perfect satisfac- 21 tion with existing state. . . . . I am still “polarized” a good deal; my “indif- ference” is pronounced.

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1901 · PDF PAGE 23

The Mother’s Tragedy

…is pure heart to that maidenly, And let mine old age grow upon my hair, Finding my happiness in seeing him The all-devoted, and in God’s good pleasure Have little children playing at my knees, That I may listen, in their innocent prayers, For Jesus’ voice. And I will never break The secret of his being to my boy Lest he despise me. This one reticence I think my long-drawn agony may earn, For I will do without a mother’s name If only I may keep a son’s love still! [ Exe. SPIRIT OF TRAGEDY. She will not break an oath so wisely sworn, Unlock her s…

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