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1912 · PDF PAGE 93

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…d-boy to biggest retail grocer in the Midlands. Twenty-eight years of wedded happiness had left him with a clear conscience, a five- year old grave to keep in order “To the memory of my beloved relict," as he had written until the clerk suggested a trifling alteration, and a strapping daughter just turned twenty. I wish I could stop here. But there is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodore Bugg had forgotten all about England, and what she is, and how he had made her. Or if the good work was going on, it was subconscious. He was standing by t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 32

Collected Works (Vol. III)

26 WHY JESUS WEPT I the bright Deva! of the golden sphere ; I the swift spirit of the primal fire :— All theseI am, not will be. O blind ape! All these are shapeless ; thou art but a shape, A blind, bad-blooded bat! Ugh! Ugh! The snake Wriggling to death amid his burning brake Is wiser, holier, lordlier. Open, page Of the old Rabbi | * tell me of the mage; Of him who would; of him who dared and did ; Of him who feared and failed; of him who. fell ; One peéring .lightwards through a coffin-lid, One aching heavenwards—and achieving hell! O let me…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 201

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…D Warrior riding upon a black horse with flaming mane and tail: the horse itself is not winged. The rider wears a winged helmet (like the old Scandinavian and Gaulish helmet) with a Rayed Crown, a corslet of scale- mail and buskins of the same, and a flowing scarlet mantle. Above his helmet, upon his cuirass, and on the shoulder- pieces and buskins, he wears as a crest a winged black horse's head. He grasps a club with flaming ends, some- what similar to that in the symbol of the Ace of Wands, but not so heavy, and also the sigil of his scale is s…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 201

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…D Warrior riding upon a black horse with flaming mane and tail: the horse itself is not winged. The rider wears a winged helmet (like the old Scandinavian and Gaulish helmet) with a Rayed Crown, a corslet of scale- mail and buskins of the same, and a flowing scarlet mantle. Above his helmet, upon his cuirass, and on the shoulder- pieces and buskins, he wears as a crest a winged black horse's head. He grasps a club with flaming ends, some- what similar to that in the symbol of the Ace of Wands, but not so heavy, and also the sigil of his scale is s…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 386

Magick Without Tears

…nunciation in AL, I: 41-42! As to property in general, the Book lays down no law. So far as one can see, it seems to adhere to "the good old rule, the simple plan that they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can." Now then, as to war. You need hardly have asked the question; the whole Book is alive with it; it thrills, it throbs, 353

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1909 · PDF PAGE 56

John St. John

3.6. 3.32. 7-7- 8.10. 8.45. 8.50. 54 THE EQUINOX momentary pause which this causes, some old habitual thought (to-night my mantra) rises up. A case of the Closure followed by the Moving of the Previous Question. Oh Lord! when wilt Thou carry a Motion to Adjourn, nay, to Prorogue, nay! to Dissolve this Parliament? I am not sleepy; yet will I again compose myself, devoting myself to Adonai. Again woke and continued mantra. I ought to have made more of it at 7.7; I went off again to sleep ; the result is that I am rather difficult to wake again. Ho…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…he winds, As the droning oceans call to the listening skies; The hills stand dark and deep in steadfast gloom ; Twilight is slain by the old black, wandering god. Summer is buried. There is no more light. But in the breast of the world there stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their imm…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…he winds, As the droning oceans call to the listening skies; The hills stand dark and deep in steadfast gloom ; Twilight is slain by the old black, wandering god. Summer is buried. There is no more light. But in the breast of the world there stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their imm…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 274

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market- places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto men, Laotze and Siddartha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, Dionysus, Mohammed and To Mega Therion, with these also Hermes, Pan, Priapus, Osiris and Melchizedek, Khem and Amoun and Mentu, Heracles, Orpheus and Odysseus; with Ver- gilius, Catullus, Martialis,…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 513

Magick Without Tears

…ks' holiday between the shows. She was, or had been, the mistress of a Minister with 'Peuple' ideas, though he was an aristocrat of very old vintage; and he helped her to have her daughters brought up in one of the most exclusive convents in France.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 80

The Star in the West

…N 73 Childbirth sobered me . I loved the child , the only human love I ever tasted , and I sacrificed The popularity , the infamy, Of my old life ; I sought another world . I “ got religion " -how I hate the phrase ! So jest the matron newspapers . ... For I will do without a mother's name If only I may keep a son's love still ! ' It is not here that we can enter on the fearful tragedy of these short dozen pages , suffice it to say , that it was that of Phædra and Hippolytus , the sexes however being reversed . Shamed , insulted by her son , sh…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 47

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TABLE V (continued) 3I CLVIII. CLVII. Magical Images of Col. CLVII. Goetic Demons, &c. (Succedent). Old man, riding a crocodile and carrying a goshawk Je. NAN | 15 Great Lion . .@§. »- 2WY| 16 Accompanied by 4 noble kings and great troops a - YYAIS | 17 ‘¢Like a Xenopilus” . . 2 . VD) 3| 18 An archer in green oo . sxvb 19 Viper (or) Human, with teeth and 2 horns, and with asword . . 3 and co) ~ . . Yw5 1 20 Lion faced man riding a bear, carrying a viper. Trumreter . ©) . -Pwen | 22 Man with 3 heads—a serpent’s, a man’s (having two stars on his …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 2

Alexandra

EDITORIAL NOTE Pleesm ! said my (Diaper’s, not Mrs Cox’s] sloppy slavey one brilliant November morning of last year, as the orangegold clouds of deliciously perfumed mist stole, in spite of the Eighth com- mandment, down my chimney in Fleet Street ; [of course Diaper does not live in a chimney : she has a deevie flat there and the flat has a chimney, two chimneys, in fact, O.C.) myav thister litafir ? Woman ! I replied sternly, whence came it ? My practised eye had already detected the inde- scribable cachet of a treasure trove — bene trovato, …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 52

John St. John

…Adeptus Major. The only thing to do in short is to go steadily on, with a little extra courage and energy—no harm in that !— on the same old lines. The Winding of the Way must necessarily lead me just where it may happen to go. Why deliberately go off to Geburah? Why not aspire direct by the Path of the Moon—Ray unto the Ineffable Crown? Modesty is misplaced here! Very good. Then how aspire? Who is it that standeth in the Moon-Ray? The Holy Guardian Angel. Aye! Ο my Lord Adonai, Thou art the Beginning and the End of the Path. For as Thou?התאtho…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 105

Ambergris

…, ignore. The people hear ; Then, be the people smitten of grey Fear, It is no odds ! 13. I have seen the eternal Gods Sit, star-wed, in old Egypt by the Nile ; The same calm pose, the inscrutable, wan smile On every lip alike. Time hath not had his will to strike At them ; they abide, they pass through all. Though their most ancient names may fall, They stir not nor are weary of Life, for with them even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, we know ; let, then, the writing go ! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the ce…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX The old enchanted palace of the will Is thine, and god-like dreams of Eld are thine, Of the Underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, Beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. Ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee | Fallen to idle sleep, and borne within The temple of Mind, the soul of Night is laid Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX The old enchanted palace of the will Is thine, and god-like dreams of Eld are thine, Of the Underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, Beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. Ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee | Fallen to idle sleep, and borne within The temple of Mind, the soul of Night is laid Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 57

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…at crosses over the Paten, the Cup and Himself. He strikes his breast. AU repeat this action.) Hear ye ail, saints of the true church of old time now essentially présent, that of ye we claim heirship, with ye we claim communion, from ye we claim bénédiction in the name of IAQ. (He mahes three crosses on Paten and Cup together. He uncovers the Cup, genuflectSy tahes the Cup in his left hand and the Host in his right. With the host he makes the five crosses on the Cup b) + i +3 +2 +5 +4 (He elevates the Host and the Cup.) (The Bell strikes.) Anos…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 253

Magick Without Tears

…est; yea, further, we have a Master of the Temple-and is not his Motto Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici? and yet we find him fussing like an old hen over the most trivial of troubles ; we find him wrapped in the lacustrine vapours of Avernus, fretting himself into a fever about imaginary misfortunes at which no normal person would do more than cast a contemptuous glance, and get on with the job. Yes, although you can scarcely evade indictment for unnecessarily employing the language of hyperbole , I see what you mean. Yet the answer is adequate; th…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 113

Liber Aleph

… bewildered. And this other Woman stirreth my true Nature in its Depth, so that I will not call it Love. For the Voice of Love I know of old; but this other Woman speaketh in a Tongue whereof I have no Understanding. k

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