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1911 · PDF PAGE 103

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… line. There was a mess of varlets between us; before I could sweep them away the Knights had rolled over Sidi Omar and my brothers —the whole wing was destroyed. I rallied the right on the centre, and—why, mother, you‘re not listening! LAYLAH [ta/king his swam’]. This sword killed your father. Listen! Sidi Omar was not your father. Your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for tokens [She takes the jewelled scorpion from her þraut,] I took it for hate and revenge; wherein I lied, for I loved him, and Ilove him. Go…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 155

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…f now, boy! I am busy. I must twiddle—twiddle—twiddle." Edgar bowed and went. He could not trust himself to speak: the Love that was the whole being of the Brother melted the snow of his soul. He loved. Not Ida, not the world, not anything. It was pure love, love without object, love as love is in itself. He did not love; he was Love. But he strode straight back to Ida Pendragon. Before she left her bed, they were married. A week later they drove through the cool swift air to the South; and there, among the vines, they learnt how—once in a cent…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 408

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…s ; the perturbation caused by a sick person wins over to itself the more sensitive natures; a circle of illusions is established, and a whole crowd of people is easily dragged away thereby. Such is the history of strange apparitions and popular prodigies. Thus are explained the miracles of the American mediums and the hysterics of table-turners, who reproduce in our own times the ecstasies of whirling dervishes. The sorcerers of Lapland with their magic drums, and the conjurer medicine-men of savages arrive at similar results by similar procee…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 408

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…s ; the perturbation caused by a sick person wins over to itself the more sensitive natures; a circle of illusions is established, and a whole crowd of people is easily dragged away thereby. Such is the history of strange apparitions and popular prodigies. Thus are explained the miracles of the American mediums and the hysterics of table-turners, who reproduce in our own times the ecstasies of whirling dervishes. The sorcerers of Lapland with their magic drums, and the conjurer medicine-men of savages arrive at similar results by similar procee…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 88

The Book of Thoth

…f the limbs and of the head. The air above the surface of the water is also green, infiltrated by rays of the white light of Kether. The whole figure is suspended from the Ankh, another way of figuring the formula of the Rose and Cross, while around the left foot is the Serpent, creator and destroyer, who operates all change. (This will be seen in the card which next follows.) It is notable that there is an apparent increase of darkness and solidity in proportion as the redeeming element manifests itself; but the colour of green is the colour o…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 475

Magick Without Tears

73 "Monsters," Niggers, Jews Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. As you say, "Every man and every woman is a star" does need some attention to the definition of "man" and "woman." What is the position, you say, of "monsters"? And men of "inferior" races, like the Veddah, Hottentot and the Australian Blackfellow? There must be a line somewhere, and will 1 please draw it? You make me feel like Giotto! There is one remark which 1 must make at the beginning. It's some poet or other, Tennyson or Kipling, 1 think (I forget wh…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 45

The Sword of Song

… question furled. But, surely, (let me corner you !) You wish the painter-mood were true! To leave the hateful world, and see Perish the whole Academy ; So you remain for ever sated, On your own picture concentrated ! Objectivity of universe not discussed. Preferability of concentration- state to the normal. 630 635 640 645 650 655 660 666 670

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1907 · PDF PAGE 221

The Star in the West

…ect --the excluded middle - consciousness , and what may be called super -consciousness ; and to attain this end Crowley has applied the whole of his Pyrrhonic - Iconoclasm to break down the vulgar Ideal ism of Theology , as well as the vulgar Realism of the empirical Sciences . There's the true refuge of the wise ; To overthrow the Temple guards, Deny reality . In fact to crush and annihilate by means of a sceptical theurgy the rational fifth -Monarchism of the Scientific cults . Philosophy and Science have up to the present apprehended things…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…est way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of them if they said I had to die to—morrow. Dr. F. Quite right. [DR. BOB‘S (Be/L SERVANT 6711665 and flows JANE z'm‘o eoizszz/lz‘ng—roo/IL] Dr. F. I’ll be with you in a moment, Jane. (Jane mods and smiles and goes in.) Take my word {or it, Will, there‘s always hope. I’ll see you at the Club at 8 o'clock. W. S. Right you are ! (Seriously (md þathelimlly) And thank you so much for—lying to me I 72

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…est way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of them if they said I had to die to—morrow. Dr. F. Quite right. [DR. BOB‘S (Be/L SERVANT 6711665 and flows JANE z'm‘o eoizszz/lz‘ng—roo/IL] Dr. F. I’ll be with you in a moment, Jane. (Jane mods and smiles and goes in.) Take my word {or it, Will, there‘s always hope. I’ll see you at the Club at 8 o'clock. W. S. Right you are ! (Seriously (md þathelimlly) And thank you so much for—lying to me I 72

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1919 · PDF PAGE 215

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Grand Secretary General. There are many other officers, but they do not concern those to whom the present manifesto is addressed. 8. The whole of the Knowledge dispersed among the bodies mentioned in paragraph 2 has been sifted and concen- trated in the following degrees. 201

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1929 · PDF PAGE 152

Moonchild

…ration of the longing of the magicians. The physical signs were equally unmistakable. By night a faint blue luminosity radiated from the whole enclosure, visible to the natural eye; and to one seated in the garden, darting scintillations, star-sparkles, would appear, flitting from flower to flower, or tree to stone, if he kept as still and sensitive as one should in such a garden. And on the rightly tuned and tempered ear might fall, now and again, vague snatches of some far-off music. Then there were pallid perfumes in the air, like suggestion…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 28

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…oud our love. The sympathy between us grew even subtler and stronger, but only as it grows between all men and women who love with their whole hearts, and love unselfishly. IV We returned to Cambridge in October, and Arthur threw himself vigorously into the new year's work. Then I fell ill, and the hope we had indulged was disap- pointed. Worse, the course of the illness revealed a con- dition which demanded the most complete series of op- erations which a woman can endure. Not only the past hope, but all future hope, was annihilated. It was du…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 28

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… mother. It then finds itself a Magister Templi. — (Master of the Temple) : whose functions are fully described in Liber 418, as is this whole initiation from Adeptus Exemptus. See also “Aha!”. His principal business is to tend his “garden” of disciples, and to obtain a perfect understanding of the Universe. He is a Master of Samadhi. 232

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1907 · PDF PAGE 305

The Star in the West

…on of subject and object remains impregnable .' This state of relationship is either a very high stage of Dhyâna or Samâdhi itself , the whole quintessence of the five senses reflecting their full glory on the mirror of their own quiescence : the sun raised to the power of a quintillion flaming on the surface of an in finite facetless diamond . There is a lake amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break . Oh ! the deep brilliance of the lake ! The roar of ice that cracks and goes Crashing within the water ! Glows The pale pure water , …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 59

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…e! CHORUS. Glory and worship unto Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! (These words are to jorm the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any fart thereof shall be set to musicy which may be as elaborate as art can. But even should other mthems be authorised by the Father of the Church, this shall hold its place as the first of its kindy the father of ail other s b) VIII. Of the Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Eléments. (The PRIEST takes the Paten between the index and médius of the right hand. The PRIESTESS clasps the Cup in he…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 96

The Star in the West

…he lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth , within a dull , stale , tired bed , Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops , Got ' tween asleep and wake ? In “ Jephthah ” we find an almost identical rendering of the above , concerning the children of free love : 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 101 .

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1919 · PDF PAGE 453

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… well, O Bodhisattva— Compassion speaks and saith: “Can there be bliss when all that lives must suffer? Shalt thou be saved and hear the whole world cry?” Now thou hast heard that which was said. Again we descend to the anti-climax of a somewhat mawkish sentimentality. Again we find the mistake of duality, of that opposition between self and others which, momentarily destroyed even in the most elementary periods of Samadhi, is completely wiped out by progress through 131

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1906 · PDF PAGE 256

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…al explanation, conform- able to the waking man, which the dreamer would indignantly reject. Suppose, however, a dream so vivid that the whole waking man is abased before its memory, that his consciousness of it appears a thousand times more real than that of the things about him; suppose that his whole life is moulded to fit the new facts thus re- vealed to him ; that he would cheerfully re- nounce years of normal life to obtain minutes of that dream-life; that his time sense is uprooted as never before, and that these influences are permanent…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 271

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ravel,” and I had only to direct my thoughts strongly toward a particular part of the world previously to swallowing my bolus to make my whole fantasia in the strongest possible degree topographical. There are two facts which I have verified as universal by repeated experiment, which fall into their place here as aptly as they can in the course of my narrative. First: At two different times, when body and mind are apparently in precisely analogous states, when all circumstances, exterior and interior, do not differ tangibly in the smallest resp…

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