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1904 · PDF PAGE 55

In Residence

…dead. The springtime of our youth is fled, And Summer comes too fierce and dry. With pale cheek and averted head The time is come to say Good-bye. On Life’s rough road we travel fast ; Some to be great, and some to wed. We are small men, the world is vast ; With our desires God is not fed. Some wield gold swords, or steel, or lead ; Some lose good heart, lay weapons by. Each lies in his own self-made bed. The time is come to say Good-bye. May God defend us from the blast, And smooth our path, and keep our head ! Be with us when we stand aghast,…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 111

Orpheus

Stir once, move once, rise once, Eurydice! Be good to me! Rise once.—O sleep not! Listen! Is not all Nature my thrall ? Once only: be not dead, Eurydice ! Be good to me! I love you—be not dead !—rise up and say “TI feigned, I lay Thus so you kissed me”—O Eurydice, Be good to me! There is not one sweet sigh of all the old sighs— Open your eyes! Not one warm breath of the young breast: no sleep Could be so deep. The last pale lotus opens to the skies. Open your eyes ! Lift the blue eyelids under the deep lashes Till one light flashes! Wake with o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 196

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…I’m doing it.” Seem quite to have forgotten what very long times I used to do. White tri- 10 m. 20 breaks. angle [This about harmonic of good; 20 m. 10 breaks is a good per- formance,] Apas-Akasa [Very difficult: slightest noise is utterly disturbing.] 10.55am. Intam. RedCross 6m. 7 breaks. [But it is to be observed that a break may be of varying length. I doubt if this was as good as White Triangle supra.] 11.44am. 11.56am. Whitetri- 12m. 10 breaks, angle [Above observation perhaps unimportant, as limit of variability is more or less constant …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 196

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…I’m doing it.” Seem quite to have forgotten what very long times I used to do. White tri- 10 m. 20 breaks. angle [This about harmonic of good; 20 m. 10 breaks is a good per- formance,] Apas-Akasa [Very difficult: slightest noise is utterly disturbing.] 10.55am. Intam. RedCross 6m. 7 breaks. [But it is to be observed that a break may be of varying length. I doubt if this was as good as White Triangle supra.] 11.44am. 11.56am. Whitetri- 12m. 10 breaks, angle [Above observation perhaps unimportant, as limit of variability is more or less constant …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 63

Mortadello

…; some say it’s the Princess ; I can’t see anyone ; there’s hundred lies, no less. Look, here’s the nice young Count Alonzo. SHACKABACK. Good, my sons. I will ask him myself : I lent him money once. Enter ALONZO. Good-day, my dear good lord. I pray you, what’s the news ? ALONZO. Why, nothing that can touch the pockets of the Jews. SHACKABACK. Oh dear, oh dear, you do not understand our ways. ALONZO. No, that I don’t. SHACKABACK. Why, see, whatever happens lays A train of powder—puff it goes—and someone pays ! N

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1913 · PDF PAGE 504

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX God and the devil are the ideals of absolute good and evil. But man never conceives absolute evil, save as a false idea of good. Good only can be absolute; and evil is only relative to our ignorance, and to our errors. Every man, in order to be a God, first makes himself a devil; but as the law of solidarity is universal, the hierarchy exists in hell as it does in heaven. A wicked man will always find one more wicked than himself to do him harm; andwhen the evil is at its climax, it must cease, for it could only continue by the anni…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 504

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX God and the devil are the ideals of absolute good and evil. But man never conceives absolute evil, save as a false idea of good. Good only can be absolute; and evil is only relative to our ignorance, and to our errors. Every man, in order to be a God, first makes himself a devil; but as the law of solidarity is universal, the hierarchy exists in hell as it does in heaven. A wicked man will always find one more wicked than himself to do him harm; andwhen the evil is at its climax, it must cease, for it could only continue by the anni…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 22

The Goetia

…pirits, and used them in general things, whereby he obtained great fame. (2) THE SECOND ParT is a Book of Spirits, partly Eviland partly Good, which is named THEURGIA- GoreTiA, all Aérial Spirits, etc. (3) THe Tuirp PaRT is of Spirits governing the Planet- ary Hours, and what Spirits belong to every degree, of the Signs, and Planets in the Signs. Called the PAULINE ART, etc. (4) THE FourtTH ParT of this Book 1s called ALMADEL OF SoLomon, which con- taineth those Spirits which govern the Four Altitudes, or the 360 Degrees of the Zodiac. These tw…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 237

The Book of Thoth

…F DISKS The number Nine, Yesod, inevitably brings back the balance of Force in fulfilment. The card is ruled by Venus in Virgo. It shows good luck attending material affairs, favour and popularity. The disks are arranged as an equilateral triangle of three, apex upwards, close to‐ gether; and, surrounded at some distance by a ring, six larger disks in the form of a hexagon. This signifies the multiplication of the original established Word‐by the mingling of “good luck and good management”. The three central disks are of the magical pattern as …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The Winged Beetle

MR TODD 179 DELHOMME. Good morning, Mr. Ossory. Anything I can do, of course ; anything I can do. OSSORY. Thank you, my dear lad. Anything you can do, of course—I will let you know at once. By the way, you haven’t asked her yet, I suppose ? DELHOMME. Not yet, sir. I am rather diffident : I do not care to precipitate affairs. OSSORY. Well, I am really very anxious to see her future assured. And you know our proverb, “ The early bird catches the worm.” [Points to him, and over his shoulder to her.] There’s our scientific friend, eh ? DELHOMME. Oh…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 476

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

100 THE HIGH HISTORY OF GOOD Thief of my arms, my crest, my quest, My name, now meetest thou thy shame. See, with this whip I lash thee back, Back to the kennel whence there came So false a hound.” ‘Good knight, in sooth,” Answered Sir Palamede, “not I Presume to assert the idlest truth ; And here, by this good ear and eye, I grant thou art Sir Palamede. But—try the first and final test If thou or I be he. Take heed!” He backed his horse, covered his breast, Drove his spurs home, and rode upon That knight. His lance-head fairly struck The barre…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 476

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

100 THE HIGH HISTORY OF GOOD Thief of my arms, my crest, my quest, My name, now meetest thou thy shame. See, with this whip I lash thee back, Back to the kennel whence there came So false a hound.” ‘Good knight, in sooth,” Answered Sir Palamede, “not I Presume to assert the idlest truth ; And here, by this good ear and eye, I grant thou art Sir Palamede. But—try the first and final test If thou or I be he. Take heed!” He backed his horse, covered his breast, Drove his spurs home, and rode upon That knight. His lance-head fairly struck The barre…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…the adept more peaceably. With the rotten Sephardi pointing—blasphemers! And here! don’t you blaspheme, youngfeller my lad. You’ve got a good woman: make the most of her." " A great woman, perhaps.” “A good woman. In the next siege of Paris I hope I shall not have to boil your head; I prefer thick soup. A good woman. A sister of the Silver Star, my good goat] ” "I do not understand, master I ” “You never will, I think. Ο generation of vipers! Ο prosy princoxl Ο coxcomb of Kafoozelum I " ”I beg your pardon, sirl You know she failed in the abyss?…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…the adept more peaceably. With the rotten Sephardi pointing—blasphemers! And here! don’t you blaspheme, youngfeller my lad. You’ve got a good woman: make the most of her." " A great woman, perhaps.” “A good woman. In the next siege of Paris I hope I shall not have to boil your head; I prefer thick soup. A good woman. A sister of the Silver Star, my good goat] ” "I do not understand, master I ” “You never will, I think. Ο generation of vipers! Ο prosy princoxl Ο coxcomb of Kafoozelum I " ”I beg your pardon, sirl You know she failed in the abyss?…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 140

The Star in the West

THE MOTHER 133 kiss , then is it also good to know where kisses may lead to . We have already seen them rising upward from youth through the passion of maturity , concrete and abstract , earthly and spiritual ; now let us turn about and descend the slippery road of lust , so essential to the basic knowledge of the good . Among the extraordinary antipathies and sym pathies of the human mind , few are so startling as the frequent attraction of contraries . Good attracts bad , and bad good , in the love - history of life over and over again shall …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 174

Little Poems in Prose

L IN PRAISE OF GOOD DOGS I HAVE never blushed, even in the presence of the young writers of my age, for my admira- tion for Buffon. But to-day it is not the soul of this painter of the stately side of Nature that I wish to call to my aid. Much more readily would I address myself to Sterne, and say to him, “Descend from Heaven or rise towards me from the Elysian Fields to inspire me with a song in favour of good dogs, of poor dogs, which shall be worthy of thee, sentimental jester, incomparable jester. Come back astride that famous ass which eve…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 122

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX OBJECT MEDITATED UPON. TIME, REMARKS, Pendulum* (E).t ry Good as regards plane kept by the pendulum; but thoughts wandered. Winged-Globe. ry The result was pretty good. Tejas-Vayu (E): >, Fair. Ankh ¢ (a green). ry Not bad. Pentagram (E). ry Rather good. The L. I. L§ (E). ry Burning till extinct. Rather good, but oil level descended very irre- gularly,|| Cross. ry Result fair. Cross. 10m. 15s, Three breaks, Isis1 (E). 18 m. 30s. Five breaks. A very difficult prac- tice, as Isis behaved like a living object.** Winged-Globe. 29 m. Sev…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 122

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX OBJECT MEDITATED UPON. TIME, REMARKS, Pendulum* (E).t ry Good as regards plane kept by the pendulum; but thoughts wandered. Winged-Globe. ry The result was pretty good. Tejas-Vayu (E): >, Fair. Ankh ¢ (a green). ry Not bad. Pentagram (E). ry Rather good. The L. I. L§ (E). ry Burning till extinct. Rather good, but oil level descended very irre- gularly,|| Cross. ry Result fair. Cross. 10m. 15s, Three breaks, Isis1 (E). 18 m. 30s. Five breaks. A very difficult prac- tice, as Isis behaved like a living object.** Winged-Globe. 29 m. Sev…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 79

The Book of Lies

…he stability of earth. If, as Iam not, I were free to choose, How Buddhahood would battle with The Booze! My certainty that destiny is ‘*good”’ Rests on its picking me for Buddhahood. Were I a drunkard, I should think I had Good evidence that fate was ‘‘bloody bad.”

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1913 · PDF PAGE 534

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Axiom II To will evil, is to will death. A perverse will is a begin- ning of suicide. Axiom III To will good with violence, is to will evil, for violence produces disorder, and disorder produces evil. Axiom IV One can, and one should, accept evil as the means of good; but one must never will it or do it, otherwise one would destroy with one hand what one builds with the other. Good faith never justifies bad means; it corrects them when one undergoes them, and condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess al…

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