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1907 · PDF PAGE 18

Konx Om Pax

…e, I have precious little use For empty-headed Athenians. The birds I have snared shall all go loose; They are empty-headed Athenians. I thought perhaps I might do some good; But it 's ten to one if I ever should— And I doubt if I would save, if I could, Such empty-headed Athenians. So (with any luck) I shall bid farewell To the empty-headed Athenians. For me, they may all of them go to hell, For empty-headed Athenians. I hate your idiot jolts and jars, You monkeys grinning behind your bars I'm more at home with the winds and the stars Than wit…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 71

John St. John

…e! How I wish I had written them! Having drunk a citron presse and watched the poker game at the Dome for a little, I now return home. I thought to myself, “Let me chuck the whole thing overboard and be sensible, and get a good night’s rest"—and perceived that it would be impossible. I am so far into this Operation that pausing to cast one last glance back O’er the safe road—’twas gone !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 192

The Winged Beetle

…And we can’t possibly go to the dear Duchess on Friday ! CARR. [almost in tears]. Forgive my seeming callousness ! On my honour, I never thought of that. “ Sunt lachrymae rerum.” [A nurse and a footman appear. The latter wheels GRANDFATHER out of the room, using the greatest care not to shake him. GRANDFATHER. Oh, my sciatica ! You careless scoun-

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1912 · PDF PAGE 104

Book 4 (Part I)

…ine our- selves as suddenly recognizing that this universal blazeis darkness; not 1 Here the dictation was interrupted by very prolonged thought due to the difficulty of making the image clear. Virakam.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ut all is intensified and de- sires become actions and have effect in friends and loved ones. No one has been able to prove the power of thought and we are not able to prove that we do some things but when we find that the things we think and wish for are taking place then we realize that our thought has had some power even though we did not speak or act. I have no interest whatever that the things said do not match with what I believed in the past. One must tell things as they find them and not as they wish they were.” O tempora, o mores! Let …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 19

The Poem

… impossible! Esmé! Esmé! it is a pity you cannot always sleep so, and never wake up to the cruel sorrow of yesterday. Ah me! When we all thought to be so happy. And in a month he would have married her: in a day he would have finished the poem. What a wonderful poem it was! One could hear, above the angels that sang, the voice of God in that awful music that made his lines quiver and shimmer like live coals. And the end was to have been so perfect: there was on the last passage of his work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awai…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 124

The Star in the West

…” he strongly urges union between Great Britain and the United States . That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the womb of thought , And all the bygone days be held as things of nought . Are we not weary of the fangéd pen ? Are we not friends , and men ? Let us look frankly face to face — and quarrel then !" Strongly advocating fraternity between the two great nations , he vehemently deprecates “ The hireling quillmen and the jingo crowd .” In a poem called “ A Valentine " in " Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic " —though a footnote…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 61

Clouds Without Water

…ast, and eagle’s wings ! You are my riddle, and the answer sinks Below the deep essential base of things, Rises above the utmost brim of thought And bubbles over as impatient song. Yet ‘ We are one ” is all, and allis naught; And this one “ one”, and “all”, and “naught " The whole content of our imagining, [shall throng The great arcanum in the adytum hid From men, and though we carve or kiss or sing, The Sphinx is dumb, and blind the Pyramid. ~~ Now our affairs are ordered perfectly. Give me your mouth, your mouth, and let us die! - — GQ) — “I

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1912 · PDF PAGE 72

Mortadello

54 MORTADELLO Speeding upon the darkmans road to their fell work ! I have seen such. LUCREZIA. So is my thought. How should I speak To you, all love of lilies wrought ? MONICA. Give me your cheek I’ll kiss your fear away, sweet girl. I’ll whisper things Subtler than basilisks that furl and fold their wings Over the serpent-heart. I guess your heart’s desire. Bend to me closer. Whisper yes. LUCREZIA. My brain’s afire. MONICA. Then whisper. LUCREZIA. I dare not. MONICA. Oh dare ! LUCREZIA. My friend ! MONICA. Ah yes ! She whose black envy would n…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 178

Little Poems in Prose

…f only the republic who, too much occupied with the happiness of men, had time to think of the honour of dogs. And how many times have I thought that there was perhaps somewhere—who knows af- ter all?—to recompense so much courage, so much patience, so much toil, a special Paradise for the good dogs, the poor dogs, the sorry and unfriendly dogs. Does not Swedenborg say that there is one for Turks and another for Dutchmen? The shepherds of Virgil and Theocritus ex- pected as the prize of their successive songs a good cheese, a flute by the best …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 11

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…a very simple manner. Equinox XI (Vol. III, No. 1), p. 39. Liber III. Liber Jugorum An instruction for the control of speech, action and thought. Equinox IV, p. 9 & Appendix VI of this book. Liber IV. AB A. A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. Part. 1. Mysticïsm — published. 2. Magick (Elementary Theory) — published. 3. IVIagick in Practice and Theory (this book). 4. The Law. Not yet completed. Liber VI. Liber O Vel Manus et Sagittæ. Instructions given for elementary study of the Qabalah, Assumption of God forms…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 14

White Stains

…not seem to have been greatly appreciated by the wife at least ; one fine morning she was found to be enceinte. The foolish father never thought of the hypothesis which commends itself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second Messiah ! He took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emis- sary of Herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into Egypt ! Like most religious maniacs, he never

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

John St. John

…Am sitting on the brink of the big fountain in the Luxembourg. This deadness of the whole system continues. To explain. Normally, if the thought be energetically directed to almost any point in the body, that point is

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1909 · PDF PAGE 122

John St. John

… read some of THE Books to induct myself again into the Work. Therefore will I kindle the holy Incense, and turn myself again to the One Thought.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 135

Liber Aleph

…well as to deceive thyself, albeit for a Moment; else were thy Sport savourless. Then, and thou have one point of Weakness in thee, that Thought of thine may incarnate, and destroy thee. Verily, the wise Enchanter is sure beyond Doubt of his Charm ere he toy with a Fanged Cobra; and thou will knowest that this Peril of Division in thy Self is the only one that can touch thee. For all other Evil is but Elaboration of this Theme of Choronzon. Praise therefore thy sweet Stepmother my con- cubine, the Holy and Adulterous Olun; and thine own Mother …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 138

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… impossible! Esmé! Esmé! it is a pity you cannot always sleep so, and never wake up to the cruel sorrow of yesterday. Ah me! When we all thought to be so happy. And in a month he would have married her: in a day he would have finished the poem. What a wonderful poem it was! One could hear, above the angels that sang, the voice of God in that awful music that made his lines quiver and shimmer like live coals. And the end was to have been so perfect: there was on the last passage of his work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awai…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…g forth. [Videno. 770] DYOMIWE The Voice of the Chief 937 ANIIN Seer Sister Mins The Holy One; Sodomite wpa Work mwy Angel of 10 C. movy Thought, meditation awn A pledge paw Olive mt Arca, (Noah’s Ark) mAvn (Note 4+1+8=13) Boleskine powdia Peccatum. (Est femina nmson Lilith impia) Kheth, a fence mn Servans misericordiam “IDM “W¥\) “The Word of the MINYNOND Aeon.” [Vide Liber 418] 413 414 415 416 417 418

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1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…g forth. [Videno. 770] DYOMIWE The Voice of the Chief 937 ANIIN Seer Sister Mins The Holy One; Sodomite wpa Work mwy Angel of 10 C. movy Thought, meditation awn A pledge paw Olive mt Arca, (Noah’s Ark) mAvn (Note 4+1+8=13) Boleskine powdia Peccatum. (Est femina nmson Lilith impia) Kheth, a fence mn Servans misericordiam “IDM “W¥\) “The Word of the MINYNOND Aeon.” [Vide Liber 418] 413 414 415 416 417 418

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

Book 4 (Part II)

…he larynx receives the nourish- ment needed by the breath. The two-petalled lotus of the pineal gland receives the nourishment needed by thought, while above the junction of the cranial structures is that sublime lotus, of a thousand and one petals, which receives the in- fluence from on high; and in which, in the Adept, the awakened Kunda- lini takes her pleasure with the Lord of All. All these lotuses are figured by the Magick Cup. In man they are but partly opened, or only opened to their natural nourishment. In fact it is better to think of…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… found it, and no man shall find The secret way under the heavens : blind Is knowledge, for within man’s mortal brain There is an end to thought, an end to pain; And there is death, a cool, gray, silent place, Calm in the afterglow of life; one grace Kept pure and holy, and one sacred thing In the deep centre of the mystic ring Of life, whence all roads lead, a winding path Through plains of dumb despair and sunless wrath. There is one holy spot under the skies Kept sacred from the screaming herd : there lies The silent singer, and the dreamer …

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