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1954 · PDF PAGE 260

Magick Without Tears

…nce, one sinologist calls it "Reason"; another, "The Way"; another "Tat" or "Shiva". These are all true in one sense or another. My own "White Hope" (see The Book of Thoth) is to identify it with the Qabalistic Zero. This last attribution is useful, as I will show presently, for hard practical reasons; it is an assumption which indicates the method of the Old Wise One who approaches the Tao. As you know, the supreme classic of this subject is The Tao Teh King; and I must suppose that you have read this in at least one of the several translation…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 70

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…llowed us to see all that was going on, and at a sign from my father the head overseer brought forward a fattish young girl with a quite white skin. She yelled aloud for mercy, but it was no good. In a trice she found herself tied up to a triangle, and a lusty black was snipping great lumps out of her back with his whip. We raved in unison to her shrieks, and in one explosive foam of lust, jetted our family fountains at a single mo- ment. Before the woman fainted, the overseer gave the word to stop. She was a young and modest girl, and at his s…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 88

The Star in the West

…ple , and fascinating as the following two : One kiss , like snow , to slip , Cool fragrance from thy lip To melt on mine ; One kiss , a white - sail ship To laugh and leap and dip · Alice , an Adultery , vol . ii, p . 66 . G

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1909 · PDF PAGE 192

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ernal, and n also is », Lamb of God and Dawn of the Life of the Year. Wherefore in them lieth concealed and hidden, not alone the Divine White Brilliance of the Three Supernals (xin, wrtp,, W732), but even also that Gleaming Glory which partaketh of the Redness, and which cometh from the Bornless Age, which is beyond Kether. As it is writtten in Ancient Hindu Scripture, ‘In the beginning Desire, TANHA, arose in It: which was the Primal Germ of Mind.” Now in the Aryan Mythology Tanha, Desire, was the God of Love, Kama ; whereof the symbolic tint…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 192

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ernal, and n also is », Lamb of God and Dawn of the Life of the Year. Wherefore in them lieth concealed and hidden, not alone the Divine White Brilliance of the Three Supernals (xin, wrtp,, W732), but even also that Gleaming Glory which partaketh of the Redness, and which cometh from the Bornless Age, which is beyond Kether. As it is writtten in Ancient Hindu Scripture, ‘In the beginning Desire, TANHA, arose in It: which was the Primal Germ of Mind.” Now in the Aryan Mythology Tanha, Desire, was the God of Love, Kama ; whereof the symbolic tint…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 234

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…se he can’t do without me. , My own spiritual guide is named Keletiel. She is a wonderful being, wears peacock blues and greens. She has white wings like a swan, and carries a sheaf of many-coloured flowers. She has long, loose, black curling hair down to her waist. There is a golden band round her forehead, studded with sapphires, with her name on it. I can always tell her by this. There has to be a token, because she changes her size so much. Sometimes she is a tiny thing, not up to my knee, and sometimes she is two or three times as high as …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 15

The Sword of Song

…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 no 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 say St.…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 104

The Star in the West

…again every nerve in him cries , “ halt ” : at last he reaches the land of lost ideals : The plain is covered with a many dead . Glisten white bone and salt - encrusted head , Glazed eye imagined , a crystal built . And see ! dark patches , as of murder spilt . Ugh ! “ So my fellows of the quest are sped ! Thou shalt be with them : onward , if thou wilt !”3 He sees in the distance the pillar : Quaintly shaped and hued , It focussed all the sky and all the plain To its own ugliness and yet as he looked again he saw it in another form : A shapele…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… strides on with hasty step, and by the summer of this year—1898—we find P. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the outer darkness of Illusion. From the cloudless skies of Mysticism he ru…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… strides on with hasty step, and by the summer of this year—1898—we find P. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the outer darkness of Illusion. From the cloudless skies of Mysticism he ru…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 34

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…VER THE TOP! It was only about a quarter of an hour before we reached “The Dog’’; but the time passed heavily. I had been annexed by the white maggot. Her presence made me feel as if I were already a corpse. It was the limit. But I think the ordeal served to bring up in my mind some inkling of the true nature of my feeling for Lou. The Smoking Dog, now ingloriously extinct, was a night club decorated by a horrible little cad who spent his life pushing himself into art and literature. The dancing room was a ridiculous, meaningless, gaudy, bad im…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 53

777

…W Ap? oF orn AWN TMI) TN Nw TON xdpw WN xbp moyp on HIN JIN DDN IN wy DyNy The Small Point. The Profuse Giver. The Primordial Point. The White Head. Amen. Lux occulta. Mirum occultum. Inscrutable Height. Long of Nose. Long of Face. The Ancient of Days. (Also name of seven inferiors !) VAN WN AN YDINYT NP NY NWID NDINY DIY IN MDT NOY wry OOD NN dy son noo aw Existence of Existences. Ancient of Ancient Ones Holy Ancient One. Lux simplicissima. Concealed of the Con- cealed. The Head. Lux interna. The Most High. He. The Head which is Not. LinE 2.—C…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…th his first kiss; his arms crushed her into his mouth as a boy might crush some golden grape; the majesty of his passion clove her with white-hot steel; her life rushed headlong down the steeps of annihilation. Yet in her rose the awful dawn of a new life, vast and 189

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1909 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…th his first kiss; his arms crushed her into his mouth as a boy might crush some golden grape; the majesty of his passion clove her with white-hot steel; her life rushed headlong down the steeps of annihilation. Yet in her rose the awful dawn of a new life, vast and 189

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1913 · PDF PAGE 445

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nds of wounded and bleeding hosts are found upon our altars. The sacred stigmata appear to all who wish to see them. The hosts, at first white, slowly become marked with characters and hearts in blood. ... Must one believe that God abandons the holiest objects to the false miracles of the devil? Should not one rather adore, and believe that the hour of the supreme and final revelation has arrived?” Abbé Charvoz, as he thus spoke, had in his voice that sort of nervous trembling that Eliphas Levi had already noticed in the case of Mr. Madrolle. T…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 445

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nds of wounded and bleeding hosts are found upon our altars. The sacred stigmata appear to all who wish to see them. The hosts, at first white, slowly become marked with characters and hearts in blood. ... Must one believe that God abandons the holiest objects to the false miracles of the devil? Should not one rather adore, and believe that the hour of the supreme and final revelation has arrived?” Abbé Charvoz, as he thus spoke, had in his voice that sort of nervous trembling that Eliphas Levi had already noticed in the case of Mr. Madrolle. T…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 118

The Vision and the Voice

…rk, the right half light, and at the bottom thereof is a certain blackness, of three divergent columns. And it seems as if the black and white halves were the halves of a door, and in the door is a little key-hole, in the shape of the Astrological symbol of Venus. And from the key-hole issue flames, blue and green and 116

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1913 · PDF PAGE 446

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…could not have been applied from without, for the imbibed colouring matter had left the particles adhering to the exterior surface quite white. The appearance of the phenomenon was the same on both sides. The Master of Magic was seized with an involuntary trembling. This emotion did not escape the old vicar, who having once again done adoration and closed his reliquary, drew from his pocket an album, and gave it without a word to Eliphas.... There were copies of all the bleeding characters which had been observed upon hosts since the beginning …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 446

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…could not have been applied from without, for the imbibed colouring matter had left the particles adhering to the exterior surface quite white. The appearance of the phenomenon was the same on both sides. The Master of Magic was seized with an involuntary trembling. This emotion did not escape the old vicar, who having once again done adoration and closed his reliquary, drew from his pocket an album, and gave it without a word to Eliphas.... There were copies of all the bleeding characters which had been observed upon hosts since the beginning …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

777

…f the Holy Guardian Angel or of | Mag. Sulph. 10 Adonai Divination . . fll Miracles of Healing, Gift of Tongues, Know- | Mercury. 12 The White linet, Clairvoyance, Divination 13 by Dreams Love-philtres . 14 Power of Consecrating Things 15 The Secret of Physical Strength . 16 Power of being in two or more places at one 17 Powes of Castiag Beckan tments. 18 Power of Training Wild Beasts . 19 Invisibility, Parthenogenesis, Initiation (?) . 20 Power of Acquiring Political and other Ascen- 21 Works of Justice and Equilibrium . 22 The Great Work, Tal…

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