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1913 · PDF PAGE 46

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…his fair drunkenness, with no head-heaviness or drowsiness, but with eyes and body fresher even than when they came to the banquet, they take their stand at dawn, when, catch- ing sight of the rising sun, they raise their hands to

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1913 · PDF PAGE 46

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…his fair drunkenness, with no head-heaviness or drowsiness, but with eyes and body fresher even than when they came to the banquet, they take their stand at dawn, when, catch- ing sight of the rising sun, they raise their hands to

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1916 · PDF PAGE 3

A Prophet In His Own Country

… Mr. Wilson to the presidency were based entirely on the fact that he was not a professional politician. In the same way, in England, to take a recent example, Edward VII was trusted and respected by the people principally because he had won the Derby. The instinct of democracy is always sound; its mistakes are due to that instinct being overlaid by the partial development of its intellect, which too often leads it wrong. But in moments of calm it invariably distrusts the appeals which are made to its cupidity of its cowardice; and it much pref…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 49

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…nce must match the scarlet of the Robe. Its texture should be velvetf) Be the Serpent thy crown, O thou PRIEST of the LORD! Kneeling she takes the Rance between her open handsy and runs them up and down upon the shaft eleven timesy very gently. Be the LORD présent among us! Ail give the Hailing Sign. The PEOPLE : So mote it be. IV. Of the Ceremony of the opening of the Veil. The PRIEST. Thee therefore whom we adore we also invoke. By the power of the lifted Lance! He rais es the Rance. Ail repeat Hailing Sign. A phrase of triumphant music. The …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ining works to sacred reason.” Why was I born in England, not in Wales? Why were my parents just who they were and not others? Why did I take to climbing, not to cricket? 76

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1909 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ining works to sacred reason.” Why was I born in England, not in Wales? Why were my parents just who they were and not others? Why did I take to climbing, not to cricket? 76

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1910 · PDF PAGE 268

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…te, with the one exception mentioned; memery could not efface the traces of my having passed through a great mystery. No. I never should take it again. I did not know myself; I did not know hasheesh. There are temperaments, no doubt, upon which this drug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. With me this was never the case. Opium and liquors fix them- selves as a habit by becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. The lassitude which succeeds their exaltation demands a ren…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 268

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…te, with the one exception mentioned; memery could not efface the traces of my having passed through a great mystery. No. I never should take it again. I did not know myself; I did not know hasheesh. There are temperaments, no doubt, upon which this drug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. With me this was never the case. Opium and liquors fix them- selves as a habit by becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. The lassitude which succeeds their exaltation demands a ren…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 96

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… He will protect me, I know. LAYLAH. Imp! Be silent! How you startled me! And now I look at you—what is it? what is it? You frighten me. Take her away—there, with the pipe-slaves. [FATMA takes Με chi/d dawn stage to the pipe-Slaves. 88

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1911 · PDF PAGE 131

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…yhaemoglobin in our blood. It is the same idea. Do we express sympathy for the fallen? Havewe a stop—the- war party? On the contrary, we take good care that these 123

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1911 · PDF PAGE 96

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… He will protect me, I know. LAYLAH. Imp! Be silent! How you startled me! And now I look at you—what is it? what is it? You frighten me. Take her away—there, with the pipe-slaves. [FATMA takes Με chi/d dawn stage to the pipe-Slaves. 88

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1911 · PDF PAGE 131

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…yhaemoglobin in our blood. It is the same idea. Do we express sympathy for the fallen? Havewe a stop—the- war party? On the contrary, we take good care that these 123

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1929 · PDF PAGE 416

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…m a phenomenal mode of expressing his spiritual reality. The circumstances, therefore, of his life are uniformly adapted to his work. To take another analogy. The world appears to the lawyer quite otherwise than it does to the carpenter, and the same event occurring to the two men will suggest two quite different trains of thought and lead to two quite different results. My own errors of judgment, due to the annihilation of my ego and the consequent lack of leadership felt by my body and mind, produced their own immediate effect. I did not yet …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 453

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ve no longer either force or courage. O Master, I conjure you, you who need only say one word, make one sign, and the spirits will obey, take pity upon me, and restore to me what I have lost !” “Give me your grimoive/” said Eliphas. “What name used you to give to the spirit who appeared to you?” “T called him Adonai.” “ And in what language was his signature ?” “T do not know, but I suppose it was in Hebrew.” “ There,” said the Professor of Transcendental Magic, after having traced two words in the Hebrew language in the beginning and at the en…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 453

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ve no longer either force or courage. O Master, I conjure you, you who need only say one word, make one sign, and the spirits will obey, take pity upon me, and restore to me what I have lost !” “Give me your grimoive/” said Eliphas. “What name used you to give to the spirit who appeared to you?” “T called him Adonai.” “ And in what language was his signature ?” “T do not know, but I suppose it was in Hebrew.” “ There,” said the Professor of Transcendental Magic, after having traced two words in the Hebrew language in the beginning and at the en…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 72

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…s you can subsist without food or drink before your working capacity is seriously interfered with. 3. Ascertain how much alcohol you can take, and what forms of drunkenness assail you. 372 —

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1904 · PDF PAGE 22

The Sword of Song

… common Christian’s view ! This is my point ; the world lies bleeding :— (Result of sin ?)—I do not care ; I will admit you anywhere ! I take your premises themselves And, like the droll deceitful elves They are, they yet outwit your plan. I will prove Christ a wicked man. Free will. Herbert Spencer. If there is free will how can there be pain or damnation ? not-Self being an illusion. Self or not-Self real? Chute d’Icare. I have pity : had Christ any ? The Sheep and the Goats. 500 505 510 515 520 525 530

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1906 · PDF PAGE 124

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…y thy decree? MEDEA. Nay ! MADNESS. | Safer is it to admit to these Fools—charge the child with lack of fortune ! MEDEA. Yea! I bade her take a waxen shape, carved well To look like the old man ALCESTIS. Nay! nay! the Sire Himself we stole on sleeping —— CHORUS. Hewn apart ! Ai Ai! MEDEA. I said not thus ! ALCESTIS. I am so wild, Bewildered with these tears. ACASTUS. Enough of this ! It is the malice of that sorceress Disguised —she well knows how. CHORUS. Thus, thus it is! We know the witch’s cunning. JASON. Dogs and fools! For this ye die. MA…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 70

John St. John

…l, waking nicely at convenient hours, sleeping at suitable times, keeping itself to itself . . . an admirable body. Then why shouldn’t I take it out and give it the best dinner Lavenue can serve? . . . Provided that it doesn’t stop saying that mantra! It would be so easy to trick myself into the belief that I had attained! It would be so easy to starve myself until there was " visions about”! It would be so easy to write a sun-splendid tale of Adonai my Lord and my lover, so as to convince the world and myself that I had found Him! With my poet…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 208

The Star in the West

…rkeley returns , through the objection , back to the causa sui , or better , ratio sui of Spinoza , the spiritual twin of Locke . I have taken some little trouble to arrive at this one isolated conclusion , that the Realism of the scholastic philosophers , the materialism of the classical and modern sages , and also , if we choose to extend our scheme , Nominalism , Conceptualism , Theism , Positiv ism , Spiritualism ( Malebranche ), Agnosticism ( Spen cer ), all and one , with all the other isms , may , with the slightest trouble in the world …

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