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1910 · PDF PAGE 74

The Scented Garden

…on the just raineth plagues. For thy desertion, Habib, and this thy ingratitude doth El Qahar give praise to the beloved One. 1. Again a long explanation from Mahbub. The soul (he says) falls from 66 [Persian text] to 45 ([Persian text] Adam, man). Then the twofold head

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1910 · PDF PAGE 146

The Scented Garden

138 The relations between the twins of rapture. [persian] Gim My member supporteth thy podex as a rose-tree its flower ; all night long it humbleth and exalteth itself, like the moon, assuaging thy desire. My member cherisheth thy podex, drawing it close ; and hateth it, pressing it away, it heareth all the petition of thy podex, like a maiden enrap- tured by a lute, assuaging thy desire. My member seeth all podices, and judgeth that thy podex alone is beautiful ; just is he therein, and consoleth it with pearly dew, brighter than the eye of a …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 171

Little Poems in Prose

…l. I must confess that I had previously thrown a rapid glance around and made sure that in this deserted suburb I was for a sufficiently long time out of the range of any policemen. Having finally, by a kick in the back hard enough to break his shoulders, knocked down this feeble sexagenarian, I took a big tree branch which was lying on the ground and beat him with all the persistent energy shown by cooks who are trying to make a steak tender. Suddenly—Oh miracle!—Oh joy of the phi- losopher who verifies the excellence of his the- ory!—I saw th…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e: begin with half the minimum dose of the Pharmacopeeia, and if nothing happens within the expected time, double the dose. If you go on long enough, something is nearly sure to happen! IV “The Mind of the Father said Into Three! and immediately all things were so divided.”—ZOROASTER. Let my readers be good enough to remember, then, that what follows concerns myself only. This must excuse the use of the first person, highly improper in a scientific essay, were it not that the personality of the experimenter is perhaps an essential. I cannot ass…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e: begin with half the minimum dose of the Pharmacopeeia, and if nothing happens within the expected time, double the dose. If you go on long enough, something is nearly sure to happen! IV “The Mind of the Father said Into Three! and immediately all things were so divided.”—ZOROASTER. Let my readers be good enough to remember, then, that what follows concerns myself only. This must excuse the use of the first person, highly improper in a scientific essay, were it not that the personality of the experimenter is perhaps an essential. I cannot ass…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 89

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…over his shonlder towards the enemy and another to LAYLAH, rides of, driving the 5151175 into his horse. LAYLAH remains sobbing. After 0 long interval she half-rises, and stretching her arms after him, 60115 broken/y." LAYLAH. Come back! . . . Come back! . . . [5065 again take her more violent/y than ever. She struggles to herfeet, holds out the seorþz'on crest and calls :] Come back! . . . Come backl [She 6011015565 Dead silence. After a little the distant gallofiing of horses is heard. It grows loader and loader. LAYLAH rises, mistress of hers…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 89

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…over his shonlder towards the enemy and another to LAYLAH, rides of, driving the 5151175 into his horse. LAYLAH remains sobbing. After 0 long interval she half-rises, and stretching her arms after him, 60115 broken/y." LAYLAH. Come back! . . . Come back! . . . [5065 again take her more violent/y than ever. She struggles to herfeet, holds out the seorþz'on crest and calls :] Come back! . . . Come backl [She 6011015565 Dead silence. After a little the distant gallofiing of horses is heard. It grows loader and loader. LAYLAH rises, mistress of hers…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 53

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…r introduction than The Bases of Modern Science, by my old and valued friend the late J. W. N. Sullivan. I do not want to detain you too long with quotations from this admirable book. I would much rather you got it and read it yourself; you could hardly make better use of your time. But let us spend a few moments on his remarks about the question of geometry. Our conceptions of space as a subjective entity has been completely upset by the discovery that the equations of Newton based on Euclidean Geometry are inadequate to explain the phenomena …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 76

The Sword of Song

…s ago. 723. Super-consciousness.59—The Christians also claim an ecstasy. B ut they all admit, and indeed boast, that it is the result of long periods of worry and anxiety about the safety of their precious souls : therefore their ecstasy is clearly a diseased process. The Yogic ecstasy requires absolute calm and health of mind and body. It is useless and dangerous under other conditions even to begin the most elementary practices. 742. My Eastern Friend.60—Abdul Hamid, of the Fort, Colombo, on whom be peace. 755. Heart.61— Heart is a trifling m…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE SEER Ir is not to be wondered that the magic strain to which P. had been placed during the last seven months should have long since blossomed into flowers of weird and wonderful beauty. And so we find, as far back as the beginning of November 1899, the commencement ofa series of extraordinary visions as wild and involved as many of those of Blake or St. Francis. But before entering upon these visions, it will be necessary to explain that by a vision we mean as definite a psychological state and as certain and actual a fact to the mental eye…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE SEER Ir is not to be wondered that the magic strain to which P. had been placed during the last seven months should have long since blossomed into flowers of weird and wonderful beauty. And so we find, as far back as the beginning of November 1899, the commencement ofa series of extraordinary visions as wild and involved as many of those of Blake or St. Francis. But before entering upon these visions, it will be necessary to explain that by a vision we mean as definite a psychological state and as certain and actual a fact to the mental eye…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 33

Mortadello

…h Mortadello. Filthy hound ! Vile sneering goat ! Soon my bedfellow, this be found thrust through your throat ! The comedy is fierce, is long, is dangerous ; But I am free, but I am strong, am sinuous, Subtle as an asp, implacable as fire or flood, A girl to grasp the crown of hell through wine and blood. Hush ! ’tis the plash of oars. Come, sweet, and bathe me in. Her blood. Come splash me head to feet with scarlet sin ! [She kneels and clasps her hands, raising her voice as the gondola approaches. Dear Christ, preserve me from the lusts of ev…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 158

The Book of Thoth

…to demonstrate the close technical parallelism which identifies Chinese thought and experience with that of the West. For the meaning is long continuance: “perseverance in well‐doing, or continuously acting out the law of one’s be‐ ing”, as Legge puts it in his note on the hexagram; and this seems incongruous with the Qa‐

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1910 · PDF PAGE 42

The World’s Tragedy

…n the street ! ” — I could not blame them. On the whole, too, I cannot see that I have left much unsaid in the proem — which was written long ago when I lived, as will be obvious from the style, in Paddington. I will therefore beg my readers to proceed to the same and thence to the work itself ; and leave the Bal Bullier and his Dorothy to their glad work of restoring the victim of Bri- tish stupidity — else why these miles of preface ? — weary Aleister Crowley, to his Pagan rapture.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…erlasting flame, Shaming desire, and burning up the fear Of the world! O thou! I call thee by thy name Most secret! Yea! I smite the age-long year Of man’s deliverance! And thy steeds I tame With the word of the sun-god! And the molten bar * Merci, nor.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…erlasting flame, Shaming desire, and burning up the fear Of the world! O thou! I call thee by thy name Most secret! Yea! I smite the age-long year Of man’s deliverance! And thy steeds I tame With the word of the sun-god! And the molten bar * Merci, nor.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 432

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… the gate of human passions. By “human passions” must be understood every kind of attraction, not merely gross appetites—which have been long ago conquered, not by excluding, but by regulating them. On the plane of mind itself all is in order; everything has been balanced by its opposite. 53. Thou hast now conquered Mara and his furious host. The seeker has now passed through the Abyss where dwells Choronzon whose name is Legion. All this must be studied most carefully in Liber 418. 54. Thou hast removed pollution from thine heart and bled it f…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 114

Little Poems in Prose

…es turned towards the fatal wardrobe, I saw, with disgust mingles with horror and anger, that the nail remained fixed in the wall with a long piece of rope still hanging to it. I darted forward rapidly to tear down these last traces of the catastrophe, and as I was going to throw them out of the open window the poor woman seized my arm and said to me in a voice too earnest to resist, “Oh Sir, leave me that; I beg you, I beseech you.” Her despair had doubtless, it seemed to me, so disturbed her brain that it had begotten a ten- derness for the i…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 331

Magick Without Tears

…hicle. Presumably, he will make some sort of preparation while still alive. It seems that I personally must have taken this Oath quite a long while ago; for the Incarnations which I actually remember leave very few gaps to be filled in the last dozen centuries or so. Now, dear sister, I don't like this letter at all, and I am sorry that I had to write it. For most of these statements are insusceptible of proof. And yet I feel their truth much more strongly than I have ventured to express. How many times have I warned you against 'feelings'? Lov…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 31

John St. John

…been shockingly under the power of Tamas, the dark sphere. But that is clearly a fatigue-effect from having worked so hard. Oh Lord, how long? The Mantra still ripples on. I am so far from the Path that I have a real good mind to get Maryt to let me perform the Black Mass on her 31 midnight. I would 29

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