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1912 · PDF PAGE 89

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…d Samadhi —presumably Atmadarshana—for we find this entry.) Dec. 7. D. D. S. writes from Samadhi—Dhatu. (Dhatu—literally “ element "—is a word chosen to avoid such implications as would be conveyed by “place," “state," and such words.) ,, 8. D. D. S. still in Samadhi. ,, 10. D. D. S. dined with me. He thinks my attain- ment makes me a Master of the Temple. He goes even further and says that I am the Master—the Logos—the next Buddha. . . . This (apparently some ceremonyof Rose Croix) purifies and consecrates me, so that I feel “I am the Master " q…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 89

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…d Samadhi —presumably Atmadarshana—for we find this entry.) Dec. 7. D. D. S. writes from Samadhi—Dhatu. (Dhatu—literally “ element "—is a word chosen to avoid such implications as would be conveyed by “place," “state," and such words.) ,, 8. D. D. S. still in Samadhi. ,, 10. D. D. S. dined with me. He thinks my attain- ment makes me a Master of the Temple. He goes even further and says that I am the Master—the Logos—the next Buddha. . . . This (apparently some ceremonyof Rose Croix) purifies and consecrates me, so that I feel “I am the Master " q…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 535

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…the will says, ‘‘ Let the world be as I will to see it!” and the intelligence sees it as the will has willed. This is the meaning of the word, “ So be it,” which confirms acts of faith. Axiom XI When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one’s blood, one’s life, one’s intelligence, and one’s reason, without ever satisfying them. Axiom XII To affirm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. Axio…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 535

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…the will says, ‘‘ Let the world be as I will to see it!” and the intelligence sees it as the will has willed. This is the meaning of the word, “ So be it,” which confirms acts of faith. Axiom XI When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one’s blood, one’s life, one’s intelligence, and one’s reason, without ever satisfying them. Axiom XII To affirm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. Axio…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 11

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…rebus, which not even you will be able to understand unless you have all the pieces—and the key. Mind you engrave upon your memory every word I say.’ “The following day: ‘Do you remember the taking of the old mill by the Prussians in ‘70? My difficulty is that I must give you the skeleton of the puzzle, which I can’t do in words. But watch the line of my spade and my heelmarks, and take a copy.’ “I did this with the utmost minuteness of accuracy and obtained this figure. At my autopsy,” said Dugues- clin, dramatically, “this should be found eng…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 528

Magick Without Tears

…l leave it to you to construct your series of syllogisms yourself from the arguments of this letter. In your main question the operative word is "valuable." Why, I ask, in my turn, should you consider your time valuable? It certainly is not valuable unless the universe has a meaning, and what is more, unless you know what that meaning is-at least roughly-it is millions to one that you will find yourself barking up the wrong tree. First of all let us consider this question of the meaning of the universe. It is its own evidence to design, and tha…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 34

Jephthah

…n my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lips must wreathe smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpose toward The blood of enemies, in horrid …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 108

Ambergris

…he High Host Of Heaven, mystic, rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows) How every word awakes its own reward In a thought akin to thee, a shadow of thee ; And every tune evokes its musical Lord ; And every rime tingles and shakes in me The filaments of the great web of love. 19. O Rose all roses far above In the garden of God’s roses, Sorrowless, thornless, passionate Rose, that lies Full in the flood of its own sympathies And makes my life one tune that curls and closes On its won self del…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…e world know where to find him. It was perhaps unkind of me not to warn Mr. Cran that he was putting his foot in it. But if I had said a word, the case would have been thrown up; and then where would our advertisement have been? So, even now, I restrict my remarks; there may be some more fun coming. But at least there’s a prophet loose! Some anonymous person wrote Cran, Cran, McGregor’s man, Served a writ, and away he ran

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…e world know where to find him. It was perhaps unkind of me not to warn Mr. Cran that he was putting his foot in it. But if I had said a word, the case would have been thrown up; and then where would our advertisement have been? So, even now, I restrict my remarks; there may be some more fun coming. But at least there’s a prophet loose! Some anonymous person wrote Cran, Cran, McGregor’s man, Served a writ, and away he ran

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1922 · PDF PAGE 2

Poetica Erotica

… the breeze, And pure and perfect in her eyes, Burn magical virginity’s Sweet intermittent sorceries. ‘When the slow wind from her sweet word In all their conchéd ears is heard. And like the slumber of the seas, There murmur through the holy trees The kisses of the goddess keen, And sighs and laughters caught between. For, swooning at the fervid lips Of Artemis, the maiden kisses Sob, and the languid body slips Down to enamelled wildernesses. Fallen and loose the shaken tresses; Fallen the sandal and girdling gold, [arg]

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1954 · PDF PAGE 312

Magick Without Tears

…e to accident, misfortune, and the like. The answer is that it depends on the Angel-for the purposes of this letter I propose to use the word 'angel' to include all sorts of disembodied beings, from demons to gods-in all cases, they are objective; a subjective 'angel' is different from a dream only in non-essentials. Now, some angels are actually emanations of the elements, planets, or signs to which they are attributed. They are partial beings in very much the same way as are animals. They are not microcosms as are men and women. They are almo…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 63

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…hou Shilling Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save ! ” IB “Thou Ibis, secret solitary Bird, inviolate Wisdom, whose Word is Truth, creating the World by its Magick!” ThIAF “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” (The conception is of Air, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Bird, “the Holy Ghost”, of a Mercurial Nature.) Hear me, and make ail Spirits subject unto Me 5 so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth, on dr…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 230

The Book of Thoth

…ess. In the Yî King, Sol in Capricornus is represented by the Second Hexagram, Khwan, which is the Female Principle. Compare the English word Queen, Anglo‐Saxon Cwen, old Mer‐ cian Kwoen. Cognate are Icelandic Kvan, Gothic Kwens, woman. The Indo‐ Germanic type is g (w)eni and the Sanskrit root GwEN. Note also Cwm, coombe, and agnate words, meaning an enclosed valley, usually with water running from it. Womb—possibly a softened form?

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1910 · PDF PAGE 102

Ambergris

…stone of the Royal Arch of Sex ; Unsolved the ultimate x ; The virginal breeding breeze Was yet of either unstirred ; Unspoken the Great Word. 7. Then on a sudden, we knew. From deep to deep Reverberating, lightning unto lightning Across the sundering brightening Abyss of sorrow’s sleep, There shone the sword of love, and struck, and clove The intolerable veil, The woven chain of mail Prudence self-called, and folly known to who May know. Then, O sweet drop of dew, Thy limpid light rolled over and was lost In mine, and mine is thine. Peace, ye …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 37

Mortadello

… and small That I am free to bet it will not pinch at all. It is but this : next week sees Mortadello wed. You will be kind to speak—few words, but friendly said, And in St. Mark’s, at Countess Magdalena’s side, You cancel your account in giving him his bride. ORLANDO. God’s wounds ! MONICA. Forgive my friend ; he is distraught. GABRIELE. I weigh His words : I comprehend more than I care to say. [To ORLANDO.] Be of good cheer, in sooth ; there’s much in what they say. Though love runs rarely smooth, yet love will find a way. [To MONICA.] And so…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 49

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there is none beside. O brothers mightier than my mightiest word In the least sob that stirred Your lyres, bring me, me also to the end ! Be near to me, befriend Me in the moonlit, moonless deeps of death, And with exalted breath Breathe some few flames into the embers dull Of these poor rhymes and leave them beautiful. “SABBE PI DUKKHAM.” (Zverything 1s Sorrow.) A LESSON FROM EURIPIDES. Written in Lamma Sayadaw Kyoung, Akyad. ILAUGHTER in the faces of the people Runni…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 52

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…n my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lips must wreathe smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpose toward The blood of enemies, in horrid …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 47

In Residence

…er comes and don’t go neither, [This line is neither grammar nor rhyme, I'm afraid ; it’s my mistake entirely, I took a perfectly absurd word to begin with, and after getting as far as this it would be a pity to turn back; the rhymes’ll get worse for certain, so don’t be surprised if they do, but I haven’t lost hope of sticking to grammar yet.] It is goodly and glad to see Gilbert express his poetic regret. I can find nothing better to add than that the son of Kish was Saul :— Good Gilbert’s forgotten again! The piece of advice he had in his mi…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 217

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…iological, containing allusions to a whole group of phenomena, which those who have begun meditation will recognise. Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic key to an entire line of philosophical argument. If the reader chooses, in short, he will find the entire mass of Initiated Wisdom between the covers of this unpretending volume.

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