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1910 · PDF PAGE 50

The Scented Garden

… and skinny body ; the head is huge and a goat’s ; the arms long and skinny. IGURIM — Has a crocodile’s head, a smooth fish’s body, with white belly. Long is its tail and tape-ring, and it hath no feet, but brownish fins. AKIUM — Is a long-bodied black sphinx. DORAK — Is a very misshapen monkey, of slate co- lour. The hands are very human, as also the ears. The body like a woman. TACHAN — A red pelican’s head, a shrunken brown four-legged body. IKONOK — A very black toad with bright red eyes and much gold on his salient points. KEMAL — A big bi…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 15

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…s with a new move invented by himself. It consists of playing K R B Sq, instead of Castles, in the Muzio Gambit, the idea being to allow White to play P Q 4 in reply to Q B 3. In 1885 Alick was removed from St. Leonards to a school kept by a Plymouth Brother, an ex- clergyman named H. d'Arcy Champney, M.A. It is a little difficult to explain the boy's psychology at this period. It was probably determined by his admiration for his father, the big, strong, hearty leader of men, who swayed thousands by his eloquence. He sincerely wished to follow …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 140

The Star in the West

…d this : Have they divined This simplest spirit - bond , The joy of some bad woman's deadly kiss ;? In the “ Lesbian Hell ” we see those white unsated women , and in “ The Fatal Force ” one so flushed with lust , that she has become blind to reality : Then said the goddess : “ I indeed am pure In my impurity ; immaculate In misconception ; maiden in my whoredom ; Chaste in my incest , being made a god Through my own strength .? Thus she spoke to the assembled princes and peoples of Egypt , when sixteen seasons past she sat crowned , naked , exu…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 46

777

…ith gryphon’s wings. .@. : ayb595 16 Stock-dove with sore throat . -wW. -» YY 17 Dromedary. .. . . J 8. . by 18 Cruel ancient, with long white hair and beard, rides a pale horse, . ? . - 7) 19 with sharp weapons (x) Thrush. (2) Man with sharp sword seemeth to answer in|. . @ . . prea | 20 burning ashes or coals of fire . . Beautiful woman, with duchess crown tied to her waist, riding . 2 . ~ NDS | 22 great camel oo Lion on horse, with serpent’s tail, carries in right hand two yy. . yr 94 hissing serpents Child with angel’s wings rides a two-hea…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 297

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ierce-fantastic, than aught mortal. And this? This real loss of a real chastity? This degradation not of the body, but of the soul? This white-hot curling flame—ice cold about her heart? This jagged lightning that tore her? This tarantula of slime that crawled up her spine? She felt the blood running from her breasts, and its foam at her mouth. Then suddenly the lights flamed up, and she found herself standing—reeling—her head sagging on his arm. Again he whispered in her ear. In his left hand was a little ebony box, a dark paste was in it. He …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 297

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ierce-fantastic, than aught mortal. And this? This real loss of a real chastity? This degradation not of the body, but of the soul? This white-hot curling flame—ice cold about her heart? This jagged lightning that tore her? This tarantula of slime that crawled up her spine? She felt the blood running from her breasts, and its foam at her mouth. Then suddenly the lights flamed up, and she found herself standing—reeling—her head sagging on his arm. Again he whispered in her ear. In his left hand was a little ebony box, a dark paste was in it. He …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 76

John St. John

12.17. 12.43. 74 THE EQUINOX me! I am as a little white dove tremblingupon Thine altar, its throat stretched out to the knife. I am as a young child bought in the slave-market . . . and night is fallen! I await Thee, Ο my Lord, with a great longing, stronger than Life; yet am I as patient as Death. There was a certain Darwesh whose turban a thief stole. But when they said to him, “ See ! he hath taken the road to Damascus !" that holy man answered, as he went quietly to the cemetery, “I will await him here ! " So, therefore, there is one place,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 162

Book 4 (Part II)

…k Book. If you abandon even for an hour the one purpose of your life, you will find a number of meaningless scratches and scrawls on the white vellum; and these cannot be erased. In such a case, when you come to conjure a demon by the power of the Book, he will mock you; he will point to all this foolish writing, more like his own than yours. In vain will you continue with the subsequent spells; you have broken by your own foolishness the chain which would have bound him. Even the calligraphy of the Book must be firm, clear, and beautiful; in t…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 105

The Vision and the Voice

…ethyrs sounds like a song of ecstasy and triumph; every phrase in it has a secret meaning of blessing.) The Shew-stone is of soft lucent white, on which the Rose- Cross shows a brilliant yet colourless well of light. And now the veil of the stone is rent with a clap of thunder, and I am walking upon a razor-edge of light suspended over the Abyss, and before me and above me are ranged the terrible armies of the Most High, like unto those in the 11th Aethyr, 103

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1944 · PDF PAGE 88

The Book of Thoth

…Grace‐at the terminations of the limbs and of the head. The air above the surface of the water is also green, infiltrated by rays of the white light of Kether. The whole figure is suspended from the Ankh, another way of figuring the formula of the Rose and Cross, while around the left foot is the Serpent, creator and destroyer, who operates all change. (This will be seen in the card which next follows.) It is notable that there is an apparent increase of darkness and solidity in proportion as the redeeming element manifests itself; but the colo…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… to follow, thought I. Though of a slightly dark complexion, they were none the less remarkably pretty, and very near the finest type of white womanhood. Alas! their beauty was a trap, their sweet voices were meant to delude me; the sirens had been sent by those who could not but mean persecution against me. I found this out as soon as I understood them. They wanted my flowers. With a supple and harmonious gesture, they suggested that I should let them have the mystical roses. As soon as I perceived their intentions I felt the most intense impu…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… to follow, thought I. Though of a slightly dark complexion, they were none the less remarkably pretty, and very near the finest type of white womanhood. Alas! their beauty was a trap, their sweet voices were meant to delude me; the sirens had been sent by those who could not but mean persecution against me. I found this out as soon as I understood them. They wanted my flowers. With a supple and harmonious gesture, they suggested that I should let them have the mystical roses. As soon as I perceived their intentions I felt the most intense impu…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 96

The Scented Garden

…se be pleased to bestow rupees upon (his) slave ! ” is adequately answered by any sum from a halfpenny upwards. 2. Kaffur means Camphor, white wax, and is a lucus a non lucendo insult given to unusually black slaves. 3. Though both Mohammedans and Jews are circumcised, there is a difference in the technique of the operation which would enable an expert to tell at a glance to which religion a man belonged. It is alleged by some that the toughening and har- dening of the glans penis which results from the operation predisposes to sodomy, inasmuch…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 156

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…n Saint John ; And, that hill being shelled, doth swear His forces never had been there. I got disgusted, called a parley, (Here comes a white-flag treachery !) Asked: “ Is there anything you value, Will hold to?” He laughed, “‘ Chase me, Charlie !” But seeing in his mind that I , Would not be so converted, ‘* Shall you,” He added, “ grope in utter dark? The Book of Acts and that of Mark Are now considered genuine.” I snatch a Testament, begin Reading at random the first page ;— He stops me with a gesture sage : “You must not think, because I s…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 441

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…avant’s head. Some days afterwards, the qabalist Eliphas was awakened very early in the morning by an unknown visitor. It was a man with white hair, entirely clothed in black; his physio- 143

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1913 · PDF PAGE 441

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…avant’s head. Some days afterwards, the qabalist Eliphas was awakened very early in the morning by an unknown visitor. It was a man with white hair, entirely clothed in black; his physio- 143

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1909 · PDF PAGE 129

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…he pavement of the court. There wasa crash, but no cry, no groan. Iwent to the balcony. She lay still, as the living do not lie, and her white hair was blackening, lapped by a congealing stream. “T withdrew into the room. Since I have learnt that any death brings with it a strange sense of relief. There is a certain finality. La comédie est jouée—and one turns with new life to the next business. “The golden child had never stirred. But now she crouched lower, and fell to soft, sweet crying. “«Your mother is dead,’ I said abruptly. ‘ May I offer…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 129

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…he pavement of the court. There wasa crash, but no cry, no groan. Iwent to the balcony. She lay still, as the living do not lie, and her white hair was blackening, lapped by a congealing stream. “T withdrew into the room. Since I have learnt that any death brings with it a strange sense of relief. There is a certain finality. La comédie est jouée—and one turns with new life to the next business. “The golden child had never stirred. But now she crouched lower, and fell to soft, sweet crying. “«Your mother is dead,’ I said abruptly. ‘ May I offer…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 130

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…punishment. In a sense, it was bad boxing. The tenth round showed Joe Marie awake at last. He led repeatedly, and thrice got home on the white man‘s face. Ida was rubbing her body against Edgar’s like a cat. 122

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1911 · PDF PAGE 130

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…punishment. In a sense, it was bad boxing. The tenth round showed Joe Marie awake at last. He led repeatedly, and thrice got home on the white man‘s face. Ida was rubbing her body against Edgar’s like a cat. 122

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