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1911 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ur pains. This woman isn‘t a witch at all. But she was a better and braver soldier than any of their knights, so when they caught her at last—there you are! URCHIN. She’s a Saracen, isn’t she? ISAAC. Yes. If we only had a Jewess now-a—days like her! There was Deborah once, and Jael, and Judith. But the glory is departed, boy, the glory is departed. URCHIN. I’m a Saracen, you know ISAAC. You’re a heavy little old Man of the Sea ! URCHIN. The flames are creeping up her body now, Oh I I’m so angry ; I’m so angry. ISAAC. You mustn’t be angry, or you…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ur pains. This woman isn‘t a witch at all. But she was a better and braver soldier than any of their knights, so when they caught her at last—there you are! URCHIN. She’s a Saracen, isn’t she? ISAAC. Yes. If we only had a Jewess now-a—days like her! There was Deborah once, and Jael, and Judith. But the glory is departed, boy, the glory is departed. URCHIN. I’m a Saracen, you know ISAAC. You’re a heavy little old Man of the Sea ! URCHIN. The flames are creeping up her body now, Oh I I’m so angry ; I’m so angry. ISAAC. You mustn’t be angry, or you…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 554

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e whose reactions always crush everything which is unbalanced. The love of evil and the formal adhesion of the will to injustice are the last efforts of the expiring will. Man, what- ever he may do, is more than a brute, and he cannot abandon himself like a brute to fatality. He must choose. He must love. The desperate soul that thinks itself in love with death is still more alive than a soul without love. Activity for evil can and should lead back a man to good, by counter- stroke and by reaction. The true evil, that for which there is no reme…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 554

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e whose reactions always crush everything which is unbalanced. The love of evil and the formal adhesion of the will to injustice are the last efforts of the expiring will. Man, what- ever he may do, is more than a brute, and he cannot abandon himself like a brute to fatality. He must choose. He must love. The desperate soul that thinks itself in love with death is still more alive than a soul without love. Activity for evil can and should lead back a man to good, by counter- stroke and by reaction. The true evil, that for which there is no reme…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 137

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ied paths:—Spiritualism, Faithism and other Isms on the one hand, and ‘The Europe,’ ‘The Leicester,’ and ‘The Cosy Corner’ on the other: last, but not least, into Mar- riage, a difficult thing to put on one side and perhaps best left onthe other. Having then plunged wholeheartedly into this 129

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1954 · PDF PAGE 382

Magick Without Tears

…"O.k. oke; I'm yer bloke." F. Marion Crawford, a Victorian novelist, now (I think deservedly) obsolescent, though I saw one of his books last week on the shelves of a tuppenny shark-library,' wrote a tale Mr. Isaacs based on the life of one Mr. Jacobs, the Indian Rothschild of two generations ago, financing princes, little wars-everything. One night in Bombay the burden of his wealth broke his nerve; he stood at the window of his hotel, and flung masses of money to the mob. Soon after came a stranger, and said to him, "You have insulted the fou…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 12

The Law is for All

…in his life. I am myself persuaded that there are intelligences and powers not normally accessible to any of the senses, and that in the last hundred years such forms of energy have been discovered, or re­ discovered. Study of the text of this Book has confirmed my belief that in certain rare circumstances communication between such intelligences and human beings is possible. The same study may well lead others to the same conclusion. I would direct the 11:11 13

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1906 · PDF PAGE 176

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…lay, conjuring. “ Proceed !” Nay! Pll go back. The exposition Above, has points. But simple fission Has reproduced a different bliss, At last a heterogenesis! — | The metaphysics of these verses Is perfectly absurd. My curse is No sooner in an iron word I formulate my thought than I Perceive the same to be absurd © (Tannhauser). So for this, Sir, why! Your metaphysics in your teeth ! _ Confer A. Crowley, “ Berashith.” But hear! The Christian is a Dualist ; 230 235 240 245 250 255 265

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1913 · PDF PAGE 473

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e occult sciences. They were talking of the gvimoive of Honorius. “ Now-a-days, it is impossible to find it,” said the mer- chant. “ The last that I had in my hands I sold to a priest for a hundred francs.” “ A young priest? And do you remember what he looked like 2?” “Oh, perfectly, but you ought to know him well yourself, 175

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1913 · PDF PAGE 473

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e occult sciences. They were talking of the gvimoive of Honorius. “ Now-a-days, it is impossible to find it,” said the mer- chant. “ The last that I had in my hands I sold to a priest for a hundred francs.” “ A young priest? And do you remember what he looked like 2?” “Oh, perfectly, but you ought to know him well yourself, 175

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1904 · PDF PAGE 35

The Sword of Song

…ay, conjuring. “Proceed !” Nay ! I’ll go back. The exposition Above, has points. But simple fission Has reproduced a different bliss, At last a heterogenesis ! The metaphysics of these verses Is perfectly absurd. My curse is No sooner in an iron word I formulate my thought than I Perceive the same to be absurd (Tannhäuser). So for this, Sir, why ! Your metaphysics in your teeth ! Confer A. Crowley, “Berashith.” But hear ! The Christian is a Dualist ; 230 235 240 245 250 255 260 265 Recapitulation of principal cos- mic theories. Bard check- mate…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 111

John St. John

…nd—- O! everything l—then, too, the thoughts which are closer yet to the great Enemy, the sense of separate- ness ; that sense itself at last—~50 O. M. withdrew from the conflict for a moment so that the duty of this Record done might leave him free for the fight. It may have been a snare—~may the Lord Adonai keep him in the Path. Adonai! Adonai! (P.S.—Add that the “ultra-violet” or “astral” light in the room was such that it seemed bright as daylight. He hath never seen the like, even in the ceremony which he performed in the Great Pyramid of Gi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 129

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ollesAyou may call me Monkshood.” “ What—the Edgar Rolles ? ” “ As ever is." "Oh, they’ll hang you! They’ll certainly hang you! for that last book of yours. . . . But you shall hang here first.” Her long white fingers went to her neck, like a cuttle—fish feeling for its prey. Her eyes closed: her throat worked convulsively for a moment. Rolles too leaned back, pale with excitement. He drank the fresh air. Then, like a man shot, he lifted himself and fell forward, his head in the nest of her bosom. “ Please sit up and behave sensibly, Mr Rolles ! "…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slippery steep, And narrow verge of crag~like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance— These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his lengt…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 129

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ollesAyou may call me Monkshood.” “ What—the Edgar Rolles ? ” “ As ever is." "Oh, they’ll hang you! They’ll certainly hang you! for that last book of yours. . . . But you shall hang here first.” Her long white fingers went to her neck, like a cuttle—fish feeling for its prey. Her eyes closed: her throat worked convulsively for a moment. Rolles too leaned back, pale with excitement. He drank the fresh air. Then, like a man shot, he lifted himself and fell forward, his head in the nest of her bosom. “ Please sit up and behave sensibly, Mr Rolles ! "…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slippery steep, And narrow verge of crag~like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance— These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his lengt…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 178

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… Audience can see JACK crouching behind andpushing in with infinite caution. HE carries a dark lantern. This goes on for a long while; at last he warilyputs his head in, withdraws it, and again puts it in slightly advanced, with I36

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1912 · PDF PAGE 178

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… Audience can see JACK crouching behind andpushing in with infinite caution. HE carries a dark lantern. This goes on for a long while; at last he warilyputs his head in, withdraws it, and again puts it in slightly advanced, with I36

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1913 · PDF PAGE 103

Book 4 (Part II)

… his eyes were so enlarged that the entire eye seemed black. (I tremble so and have such a quaking feeling inside, simply in thinking of last night, that I can't form letters.) Then quite slowly the entire room filled with a thick yellow light (deep golden, but not l)rilliant. I mean not dazzling, but soft). Fra. P. looked like a person I had never seen but seemed to know quite well —his face, clothes and all were of this same yellow. I was so disturbed that I looked up to the ceiling to see what caused the light, but could only see the candles…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 440

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ed to write a com- plete commentary on the extremely mystical works of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. Please note the two lines of dots for the last paragraph of this verse. It is that final scene of Parsifal, which words are unfitted to express. 71. Henceforth thy way is clear right through Virya gate, the fifth one of the Seven Portals. Thou art now on the way that leadeth to the Dhyana haven, the sixth, the Bodhi Portal. 72. The Dhyana gate is like an alabaster vase, white and transparent; within there burns a steady golden fire, the flame of Pragn…

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