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1912 · PDF PAGE 268

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

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1913 · PDF PAGE 48

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… the Eguinox and all the rest of it area dishonest device of Aleister Crowley’s to pile up an enormous fortune in a few months. With the three-and-a-half millions sterling he has made he will now retire to Paris,1 and emulate Nero, Caligula, Vitellius, Messalina, Heliogabalus and others. It may be a relief to some to learn that there is no such person as Aleister Crowley. He is probablya sun-myth. 1 A very wicked city in Atheistic France,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 48

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… the Eguinox and all the rest of it area dishonest device of Aleister Crowley’s to pile up an enormous fortune in a few months. With the three-and-a-half millions sterling he has made he will now retire to Paris,1 and emulate Nero, Caligula, Vitellius, Messalina, Heliogabalus and others. It may be a relief to some to learn that there is no such person as Aleister Crowley. He is probablya sun-myth. 1 A very wicked city in Atheistic France,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 4

The Writing On the Ground

… ‘To play one part supremely well. On all time's tablets there are few Who make a first-rate show of two, While those who perfectly play three We knew not, until you were he. For what were lovelier on the lawn Than you, pearl-naked to the dawn, Wrapped in a scarlet dressing-gown Not thirty miles from London town, The " observed of all observers ""—save That Scotland Yard, serene and suav When trouble came, went tramping by ; Closed one, and winked the other eye. How pleasantly you must have smiled: ““T left them, and I left them wild Though cer…

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1916 · PDF PAGE 4

A Prophet In His Own Country

in possessing a Prophet of the first class: Mr. Henry Clifford Stuart. Imagine to yourself a big man, a really big man, six foot three in height, broad and well- proportioned. The entire impression is of bigness. And as should always be the case with homo sapiens, the most important part of the impression is given by the head. Such a brow is only seen in the world’s greatest thinkers. Mr. Stuart was born in 1864 in Brooklyn, N.Y. His father, John Stuart, was a Captain of the 51st and Lieutenant Colonel of the 63rd New York Volunteers. His is th…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 347

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… probability coming to earth with a bump. We had found ourselves repeatedly out of breath during the ascent, though it had only occupied three- quarters of an hour, and we should certainly never have reached the top without recourse to heroin. But all the time we were lost in amazement at the behaviour of the boys; their independence, their fearlessness, and their instinctive economy of force. We had no idea that it was possible for children of that age to achieve, even physically, what they had done, apparently without effort. And as for their…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 62

Moonchild

… — you are a candidate." [89] Suddenly conscious of herself, she blanched, and became rigid in her chair. Simon Iff bade farewell to the three guests; Cyril and Sister Cybele conducted them to the boat, and bade them God-speed. The other brethren of the Order dispersed, one to one task, one to another. Presently Simon and Cyril, Cybele and Lisa were together alone. The old man led the way to a cell cunningly hidden in the wall. There they took seats. Lisa la Giuffria recognized that the critical moment of her life was come upon her. [90]

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1904 · PDF PAGE 70

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

… at a single mo- ment. Before the woman fainted, the overseer gave the word to stop. She was a young and modest girl, and at his signal, three huge negroes bounded upon her. Heedless of her cries and tears they plunged their reeking arse openers into her dainty

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1910 · PDF PAGE 122

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…. I. L§ (E). ry Burning till extinct. Rather good, but oil level descended very irre- gularly,|| Cross. ry Result fair. Cross. 10m. 15s, Three breaks, Isis1 (E). 18 m. 30s. Five breaks. A very difficult prac- tice, as Isis behaved like a living object.** Winged-Globe. 29 m. Seven breaks. Result would have been much better but for an epi- cene eunuch with an alleged flute. My mind revolved various methods of killing it. Tejas-Akasa. 18 , Seven breaks. R.R. et A. C.tt 19 ,, Seven breaks. Pendulum. roy After 3 m. lost control and gave up. Winged-G…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 122

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…. I. L§ (E). ry Burning till extinct. Rather good, but oil level descended very irre- gularly,|| Cross. ry Result fair. Cross. 10m. 15s, Three breaks, Isis1 (E). 18 m. 30s. Five breaks. A very difficult prac- tice, as Isis behaved like a living object.** Winged-Globe. 29 m. Seven breaks. Result would have been much better but for an epi- cene eunuch with an alleged flute. My mind revolved various methods of killing it. Tejas-Akasa. 18 , Seven breaks. R.R. et A. C.tt 19 ,, Seven breaks. Pendulum. roy After 3 m. lost control and gave up. Winged-G…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 433

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e double horizontal line, two oblique lines, like a V upside down. The second character represented a Grand Hierophant’s cross, with the three hierarchical cross-bars. This symbol, which dates from the remotest antiquity, is still the attribute of our sovereign pontiffs, and forms the upper extremity of their pastoral staff. But the sign traced by the pencil had this particularity, that the upper branch, the head of the cross, was double, and formed again the terrible Typhonian V, the sign of antagonism and separation, the symbol of hate and et…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 433

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e double horizontal line, two oblique lines, like a V upside down. The second character represented a Grand Hierophant’s cross, with the three hierarchical cross-bars. This symbol, which dates from the remotest antiquity, is still the attribute of our sovereign pontiffs, and forms the upper extremity of their pastoral staff. But the sign traced by the pencil had this particularity, that the upper branch, the head of the cross, was double, and formed again the terrible Typhonian V, the sign of antagonism and separation, the symbol of hate and et…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE shrine where the Graal is exalted. He kisses the Book of the Law three times, opens it, and places it upon the super-altar. He turns West. Tue Deacon. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Lib- erty in the name of IAO. Tue ConGrEGATION. Love is the law, love under will. The Deacon goes to his place between the altar of incense and the font, faces east, and gives the step and sign of aMananda Brother. All imitate him. THE DEACON AND ALL THE PEOPLE. I believe i…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 346

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…. They die, and then are heard no more. The first four are comparatively easy to obtain, and many people can hear them at will. The last three are much rarer, not necessarily because they are more difficult to get, and indicate greater advance, but because the protective en- velope of the Adept is become so strong that they cannot pierce it. The last of the seven sometimes occurs, not as a sound, but as an earthquake, if the expression may be per- mitted. Itis a mingling of terror and rapture impossible to describe, and as a general rule it com…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 234

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…e has to be a token, because she changes her size so much. Sometimes she is a tiny thing, not up to my knee, and sometimes she is two or three times as high as the North Tower. Peter and I are covered with blood. We came out of the circle before the Devil had gone, and he scratched us all to pieces. Luckily we got back before he killed us, but we lost consciousness and woke up a long while later. That's why we can’t remember what happened. 220

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1930 · PDF PAGE 45

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…table emblem. On each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with counter- charges in black and white. Below it should be the dais of three steps, in black and white squares. Above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the Stélé of Revealing in reproduction, with four candies on each side of it. Below the stélé is a place for the Book of the Law, with six candies on each side of it. Below this again is the Holy Graal, with roses on each side of it. There is room in front of the Cup for the Paten. On each side beyond the roses are two great …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 127

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… the Lord of the Word Abrahadabra, and Glory unto Him that hath given us the Symbol of the Ankh, and of the Cross within the Circle ! 1. Three are the Beasts wherewith thou must plough the Field; the Unicom, the Horse, and the Ox. And these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by One Whip. 2. Now these Beasts run wildly upon the earths and are not easily obedient to the Man. 3. Nothing shall be said here of Cerberus, the great Beast of Hell that is every one of these and ail of these, even as Athanasius hath foreshadowed. For this …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 179

Liber Aleph

…on. Third, from the Mother are the Lovers in the Path of the Twins, for Intellectual Wholeness, and for Adjustment to Environment. These Three are from this Superna and complete the Theorick of thy Work. After this, in the Praxis and Executive thereof thou hast the Hermit as an Influence from the Sphere of Jupiter in the Path of the Virgin, for Secrecy, and for Concentration, and for Prudence. Lastly, from the Sphere of Mars, travelleth Justice in the Path of the Balance, for good Judgment, and Tact, and Art. O my Son, in this Chapter is more w…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 134

Collected Works (Vol. III)

128 ORPHEUS How wayward, how feeble the child Three watched from the stars at his birth; Erato the fierce and the mild ; Polymnia grave ; and the girth Broad-girdled of gold and desire, Melpomene’s terrible lyre, That lifts up her life in the wild, The star-piercing pean, and floats in mid- ether, and sinks to the earth. These three of the Muses were mine; They nurtured and knew me and kissed. Erato was hidden in wine; Polymnia dawned in the mist: Melpomene shone in the pyre Ofterrors that burned in her lyre; But all of their passion divine I l…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 14

Berashith

…jected that our whole system of numbers, and of manipulating them, is merely a series of conventions. When I say that the square root of three is unreal, know quite well that it is only so in relation to the series 1, 2, 3eetc., and that is equally unreal if] make the /3, = 250 the members of a ternary scale. But this, theoretically true, is practically absurd. IfI mean “the number of a, b, and c”, it does not matter ifI write y3 or *y50; theidea is a definite one; and it is the fundamental ideas of consciousness of which we are treating, and t…

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