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1904 · PDF PAGE 76

The Sword of Song

…iological, containing allusions to a whole group of phenomena, which those who have begun meditaiton will recognise. Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic key to an entire line of philosophical argument. If the reader chooses, in short, he will find the entire mass of Initiated Wisdom betw een the covers of this unpretending volume.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 9

Alexandra

…ful mutual thanks to God if I shall . . . (I do not know what futuam can mean. (Look up your Latin Dic., though I admit it is an unusual word in this con- nection, and may seem unjustifiable to those who have not seen my cl... O.C. (MS. illegible. Printer))) . . . thee in bed. I will not be a bad Cassandra. (i.e. a prognosticatress of calamity.) Alexan- dra ! Alexandra ! 2. Cancelled passage : verse III. “ Will not some hero, loyal, leal, and true,” (Men fainting cried) “ the accursed chromo take ? ” The nation took the chromo, queen, and you, …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 30

The World’s Tragedy

…sness of guilt. (So even with Keats’ Gadfly and Sharing Eve’s Apple ; Browning’s bawdy jests in Pippa Passes, the Ring and the Book, One Word More, La Saisiaz and elsewhere ; cleaner, truly, than the furtive eroticism in Prometheus Unbound. Shelley was more consciously under the curse of Jesus.) It is this consciousness of sin which is to my mind the essen- tially Christian attitude. It is this which inspires the out- cry against art and simple pleasures ; these swine nose eve- rywhere for filth, and grunt with shocked glee when they find it. A…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 56

Mortadello

…he high Princess, the bride who brings ! Make way ! MONICA. All health and happiness to all men here to-day ! With homage to the Doge my word is well begun. Next to the most high prince invulnerable, his son. Last, to the lords who by their attitude applaud This day of burial to faction, feud, and fraud. God and his blessed Son and Holy Ghost attest Their sanction and their seal on whom we boast our best, When in the sacred bonds of Hymen he is wed To her we boast our fairest. Tyranny is dead In this great hour. For me—my day of force is done ;…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 89

Book 4 (Part II)

… the Alchemist." The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the King's Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all ' Liber LXI, the book given to those who wish to become Probationers of A.-. A...

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1910 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…od to catch them in, my boy. Iknow! I know! I've been a bit of a dog in my time. [Shakes hands as they go out. DELHOMME [vefurning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil! ossory. What, little Delhomme? MRS. ossory. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly? Todd! ossory. Why, whatever do you mean? MRS. ossory. I don’t mean anything but w…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…od to catch them in, my boy. Iknow! I know! I've been a bit of a dog in my time. [Shakes hands as they go out. DELHOMME [vefurning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil! ossory. What, little Delhomme? MRS. ossory. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly? Todd! ossory. Why, whatever do you mean? MRS. ossory. I don’t mean anything but w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… world! O thou! I call thee by thy name Most secret! Yea! I smite the age-long year Of man’s deliverance! And thy steeds I tame With the word of the sun-god! And the molten bar * Merci, nor.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… world! O thou! I call thee by thy name Most secret! Yea! I smite the age-long year Of man’s deliverance! And thy steeds I tame With the word of the sun-god! And the molten bar * Merci, nor.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 352

Magick Without Tears

…of ttaining some special end. It is when it produces eructations f spiritual pride, and satisfied vanity, that it is poisonous . e Greek word means an athlete; and the training of an thlete is not mortification of the body. Nor is there any rule hich covers all circumstances. When men go "stale" a few ays before the race, they are "taken off training ," and fed ith champagne. But that is part of the training . Observe, 00, that all men go "stale" sooner or later; bnormal , and must be stopped as soon as its object is ttained. Even so, it too of…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 107

Liber Aleph

…ll, not as a Seal passively but with true Recreation in a Microcosm thereof. And this is a God alive and puissant to create, and He is a Word of Magick wherein thou mayst read Thyself with all thine History and all hy Possibility. Also as to thine Eagle, is not this chosen by Nature Herself by Her Way of Attraction, without which harmony Æsthetic and Magnetic thy Lion is silent, and inert, even as Achilles before his Rage in his Tent. Now also herefore I charge thee, o my Son, to partake constantly of his Sacrament for it is proper to all Virtu…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 208

Liber Aleph

…said aforetime by the Mouth of Eliphas Levi Zahed, knowing thyself Omnipotent, and thine Habitation Eternity. O my Son, attend well this Word, for it is an Heirloom, and a Ring of Ruby and Emerald in thine Inheritance. h

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1996 · PDF PAGE 154

The Law is for All

The Third Chapter 1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut. 2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit! 3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them. Commentary: The God of Vengeance is in Greek O AAAZTQP, Aleister. For some reason which I have not been able to trace, this God became Alastor, the Desert Daemon of the Rabbins, then later the “Spirit of Solitude” of Shelley.1 The…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 406

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ed will modifies at our pleasure the plastic medium and the acts of that person. One magnetizes by radiation, by contact, by look, or by word. The vibrations of the voice modify the movement of the astral light, and are a powerful vehicle of magnetism. The warm breath magnetizes positively, and the cold breath negatively. A warm and prolonged insufflation upon the spinal column at the base of the cerebellum may occasion erotic phenomena. If one puts the right hand upon the head and the left hand under the feet of a person completely enveloped w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 406

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ed will modifies at our pleasure the plastic medium and the acts of that person. One magnetizes by radiation, by contact, by look, or by word. The vibrations of the voice modify the movement of the astral light, and are a powerful vehicle of magnetism. The warm breath magnetizes positively, and the cold breath negatively. A warm and prolonged insufflation upon the spinal column at the base of the cerebellum may occasion erotic phenomena. If one puts the right hand upon the head and the left hand under the feet of a person completely enveloped w…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 97

Magick Without Tears

…orical-ideological exposition will be this-Magick is the Science of the Incommensurables. This is one of the many restricted uses of the word; one suited to the present purpose. It is particularly to be noted that Magick, so often mixed up in the popular idea of religion, has nothing to do with it. It is, in fact, the exact opposite of religion; it is, even more than Physical Science, its irreconcilable enemy. Let us define this difference clearly. Magick investigates the laws of Nature with the idea of making use of them. It only differs from …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 116

Magick Without Tears

…cal secrets of wisdom to, isolated men of science throughout Europe. This movement is generally known by the name of Rosicrucianism. The word arouses all sorts of regrettable correspondences; but the adepts of the Society have never worried themselves in the least about the abuse of their name for the purposes of charlatanism, or about the attacks directed against them by envious critics. Indeed, so wisely have they concealed their activities that some modem scholars of the shallower type have declared that no such movement ever existed, that i…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 46

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…That all might carve within that golden space If one grief came—and still the people pass, And since the city first began None wrote one word thereon till one—a man Witty in spite of happiness—wrote there : ‘*T grieve because the tablet is so fair And still stands bare, There being none to beautify the same _ With the moon-curved Arabian character.” Whereat the king, ‘‘ Thy grief itself removes In its own cry its cause.” And thence there came Soft laughter that may hardly stir The flowers that shake not in the City of Loves. (For so men called …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 311

The Star in the West

…me tedious visitor Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away . I think I hear the Word you say !! Others attain to a certain degree of illumination , and then stumble , seeking such occult powers as clairvoyance and clairaudience : Received the gift -- the Holy Ghost ; Such gift implying , as I guess , This very super - consciousness . Miracles follow as a dower ; But ah ! They used the fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act .? 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, pp . 178 , 179 …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 54

John St. John

…eel that I almost thought myself to be “that wise one ” who “can balance himself on his thumb.” Sleep is con- quered right away from the word “jump.” Indeed, if Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees ; then surely : Satan flees, exclaiming “ Damn !" When any saint starts Pranayam ! So happy, indeed, was I in the practice that I devoted myself by the Waiting formula to Adonai ; and that I got to " neighbourhood—concentration” is shewn by the fact that I several times forgot altogether about Adonai, and found myself saying th…

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