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1910 · PDF PAGE 341

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE THREE WORMS “Tam her heart, her ordinary, commonplace woman’s heart. Commonplace! Ah! nothing is so mysterious as the common- place, for it is only Subtlety sleeping and holding its hands a little while. A country clod is more interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was e…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 101

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…illet in the ceiling. He lost consciousness and fell. His head struck the grate where yet smouldered the ashes of the photograph. It was three months before he recovered, and then with only half a face to face the world with. He still thinks that Gertrude gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus." But he is wrong; the boys have their aesthetic reasons for the name. Gertrude in any case is much too busy to bother her head about him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Mane…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 101

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…illet in the ceiling. He lost consciousness and fell. His head struck the grate where yet smouldered the ashes of the photograph. It was three months before he recovered, and then with only half a face to face the world with. He still thinks that Gertrude gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus." But he is wrong; the boys have their aesthetic reasons for the name. Gertrude in any case is much too busy to bother her head about him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Mane…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 7

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…sation from Rome. Crowley himself squandered a lot of cash in one way or another. But he never fell so far as to waste a farthing on the three-card trick, or the three-God trick. He has also the clearest visualization of some of the people who surrounded him in the first six years of his life, which were spent in Leamington and the neighborhood, which he has never revisited. In particular, there was an orange-coloured old lady named Miss Carey who used to bring him oranges. His first memory of speech is his remark. "Ca'ey, onange"1; this, howev…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 168

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…dable Pigeon- Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am found Attacking nothing. Here’s the ground, Pistols, and coffee—three in one, (Alas, O Rabbi Schimeon !) But never a duellist—mno Son, No Father, and (to please us most) Decency pleads—no Holy Ghost ! All vanish at the touch of truth, A cobweb trio—-like, in sooth, 705 710 716 7 to fon] 725 730 735 740

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1909 · PDF PAGE 21

Handbook of Geomancy

…il,delay,bi Evil, exc. to fortify a place Good in Saturnian questions, otherwise evil Evil Good, only for melancholy Receive a letter in three days; evil| Very evil Evil Very evil Evil in all Evil, save for hid treasure Much anxiety Rather good 155

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1913 · PDF PAGE 432

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… nothing stirred, but suddenly, the pencil was thrown to the other end of the room. The gentleman stooped, took the paper, and saw there three qabalistic signs which nobody understood. Mr. Home (alone) appeared, on seeing them, to be very much upset, and even frightened ; but he refused to explain himself as to the nature and significance of these characters. The investigators accord- ingly kept them, and took them to that Professor of High 134

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1913 · PDF PAGE 432

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… nothing stirred, but suddenly, the pencil was thrown to the other end of the room. The gentleman stooped, took the paper, and saw there three qabalistic signs which nobody understood. Mr. Home (alone) appeared, on seeing them, to be very much upset, and even frightened ; but he refused to explain himself as to the nature and significance of these characters. The investigators accord- ingly kept them, and took them to that Professor of High 134

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1919 · PDF PAGE 446

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX acquired, like to the Bodhisattvas twain, upon the span of all three worlds. The same doctrine is still further detailed, but I cannot give the authority by which Blavatsky speaks of Kwan-shi- yin as a Bodhisattva. It will become abundantly evident in the comment to verse 97 that Blavatsky had not the re- motest idea as to what a Bodhisattva was and is. But it is quite true that you have to shed light in the manner indi- cated if you are going to live the life of a Magus. 82. Know that the stream of superhuman knowledge and the Deva…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 16

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…n so poisoned by romance that he saw nothing that he can remember. The scenery was merely a setting for silly daydreams of Roderick Dhu! Three other episodes of the Redhill period are pertinent; not that they are in themselves very significant, save that two of them exhibit Alick in the character of a normally mischievous boy with some skill in playing upon other people's psychology. But they illustrate the singular environment. A frequent guest at The Grange was an old gentleman named Sherrall, whose vice was castor oil. Edward Crowley was in …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…Atman? That the thing which we perceive and experience is not * Deussen, “The Philosophy of the Upanishads,” p. 40. See also Berkeley's “Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.” 53

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1910 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…Atman? That the thing which we perceive and experience is not * Deussen, “The Philosophy of the Upanishads,” p. 40. See also Berkeley's “Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.” 53

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1911 · PDF PAGE 31

The Vision and the Voice

… stone. AIN EL HajeEL. November 26, 1909. 2-3.25 p.m. THE CRY OF THE 23RD AETHYR, WHICH Is CALLED TOR In the brightness of the stone are three lights, brighter than all, which revolve ceaselessly. And now there isa spider's web of silver covering the whole of the stone. Behind the spider’s web is a star of twelve rays; and behind that again, a black bull, furiously pawing up the ground. The flames from his mouth increase and whirl, and he cries: Behold the mys- tery of toil, O thou who art taken in the toils of mystery. For I who trample the ea…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 449

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…given over to debauch which is sterile, will end at once for lack of mothers. Modesty is the acceptance of maternity.” The hand with the three large fingers closed expresses the negation of the ternary, and the affirmation of the natural forces alone. The ancient hierophants, as our learned and witty friend Desbarolles is about to explain in an admirable book which is at present in the press, had given a complete résumé of magical science in the human hand. The forefinger, for them, represented Jupiter; the middle finger, Saturn; the ring- fing…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 449

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…given over to debauch which is sterile, will end at once for lack of mothers. Modesty is the acceptance of maternity.” The hand with the three large fingers closed expresses the negation of the ternary, and the affirmation of the natural forces alone. The ancient hierophants, as our learned and witty friend Desbarolles is about to explain in an admirable book which is at present in the press, had given a complete résumé of magical science in the human hand. The forefinger, for them, represented Jupiter; the middle finger, Saturn; the ring- fing…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 138

Moonchild

…r fated Perfection: for by this was all created. [196] O marvel of miracle! O magic mode! All things adapted to one circling code! Since three parts of all wisdom I may claim, Hermes thrice great, and greatest, is my name. What I have written of the one sole Sun, His work, is here divined, and dared, and done."

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1910 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE THREE WORMS “Much have I looked upon—I, the now crawling, damp and sightless evidence of her sight. “Tam her eyes. “Empires shone in me: suns set, moons arose, and were drowned like lovely naiads in the waters of the sky. I knew wild flowers so beautiful, that one dared not touch them lest their beauty start to mere ugly life. “T am that quiver of fragile and delicious expectation that shone in the virgin eyes of her when .. . O happy hour! “Tam that greediness, that terrible woman’s greediness, fierce as drought, relentless as Death, which…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE THREE WORMS “Much have I looked upon—I, the now crawling, damp and sightless evidence of her sight. “Tam her eyes. “Empires shone in me: suns set, moons arose, and were drowned like lovely naiads in the waters of the sky. I knew wild flowers so beautiful, that one dared not touch them lest their beauty start to mere ugly life. “T am that quiver of fragile and delicious expectation that shone in the virgin eyes of her when .. . O happy hour! “Tam that greediness, that terrible woman’s greediness, fierce as drought, relentless as Death, which…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 44

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…he Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. 36

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1911 · PDF PAGE 44

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…he Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. 36

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