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1911 · PDF PAGE 129

The Vision and the Voice

…e Book of Thoth), of the Aeon that is passed. And in the Book of Enoch was first given the wisdom of the New Aeon. And it was hidden for three hundred years, because it was wrested untimely from the Tree of Life by the hand of a desperate magician. For it was the Master of that Magician who overthrew the power of the Christian church; but the pupil rebelled against the master, for he foresaw that the New (z.e., the Protestant) would be worse than the Old. But he understood not the purpose of his Master, and that was, to prepare the way for the …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 147

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… reaction, and a bad one a bad one. This presupposes a code of morals, furnished by what?* We cannot call it Atman, Conscience, * Twenty-three centuries later Kant falling over this crux postulated his “twelve categories,” or shall we say “emanations,” and thereby started revolving once again the Sephirothic Wheel of Fortune. 131

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1910 · PDF PAGE 147

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… reaction, and a bad one a bad one. This presupposes a code of morals, furnished by what?* We cannot call it Atman, Conscience, * Twenty-three centuries later Kant falling over this crux postulated his “twelve categories,” or shall we say “emanations,” and thereby started revolving once again the Sephirothic Wheel of Fortune. 131

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1911 · PDF PAGE 36

The Vision and the Voice

…e birth of form. I am encircled by an immense sphere of many-coloured bands; it seems it is the sphere of the Sephiroth projected in the three dimensions. This is the birth of death. Now in the centre within me is a glowing sun. That is the birth of hell. Now all that is swept away, washed away by the table. It is the virtue of the table to sweep everything away. It is the letter I in this Aethyr that gives this vision, and L is its purity, and N is its energy. Now everything is confused, for I invoked the Mind, that is disruption. Every Adept …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 128

The Vision and the Voice

…nd its balance is in Beauty, and therefore have they who sought only beauty come nearest to the truth. For the beauty receiveth directly three rays from the supernals, and the others no more than one. So, therefore, they that have sought after majesty and power and victory and learning and happiness and gold, have been discomfited. And these sayings are the lights of wisdom that thou mayst know thy Master, for he isa Magus. And because thou didst eat of the Pome- granate in hell, for half the year art thou concealed, and half the year revealed.…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 304

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e decisions of faith in the name of science is to prove that one understands neither science nor faith: in fine, the mystery of a God of three persons is not a problem of mathematics; the incarnation of the Word is not a phenomenon in obstetrics; the scheme of redemption stands apart from the criticism of the historian. Science is absolutely powerless to decide whether we are right or wrong in believing or disbelieving dogma; it can only observe the results of belief, and if faith evidently improves men, if, moreover, faith is in itself, consid…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 304

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e decisions of faith in the name of science is to prove that one understands neither science nor faith: in fine, the mystery of a God of three persons is not a problem of mathematics; the incarnation of the Word is not a phenomenon in obstetrics; the scheme of redemption stands apart from the criticism of the historian. Science is absolutely powerless to decide whether we are right or wrong in believing or disbelieving dogma; it can only observe the results of belief, and if faith evidently improves men, if, moreover, faith is in itself, consid…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 464

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… proportion; so that to every crisis he can bring only the intense impulsive energy of instinct. In 1912 I took it into my head to write three essays on American art and literature, past, present and future. I only completed the first, which is published in the English Review. It aroused a hurricane across the Atlantic and, hard as it is to believe, the echoes have not yet died away. Within the last twelve months it was violently attacked by one of America's best poets, Robert Haven Schauffler. I make a point of mentioning the fact. He accused …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 243

The Star in the West

…rom his empiric hose into the cool comfort of that watery ocean Hume had attempted to shadow in the palm of his hand . Then behind these three gallant knights clat tered along their no less gallant esquires : Fichte , Schelling , and Hegel , and in the distance , lost in the dust of Reason , stand the present - day yokels of

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1909 · PDF PAGE 375

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ould prove of any utility, in their turn, I should feel myself proud and most happy to describe at length the life I am now leading with three sailors, a dog, a musician, a box whose value I am learning every day to appreciate more and more, and our carrier-pigeons, in a distant island. I must begin methodically and give a systematic account of mylife here. Itrust that the Authority presiding over our destinies will look upon me as the most logical of all men. As the surroundings play an important part in our life, my first duty is to describe …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 375

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ould prove of any utility, in their turn, I should feel myself proud and most happy to describe at length the life I am now leading with three sailors, a dog, a musician, a box whose value I am learning every day to appreciate more and more, and our carrier-pigeons, in a distant island. I must begin methodically and give a systematic account of mylife here. Itrust that the Authority presiding over our destinies will look upon me as the most logical of all men. As the surroundings play an important part in our life, my first duty is to describe …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 227

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…lden cup with rubies round the brim. And always more inscriptions. And there was a little wand of ebony with a twisted flame at the top; three tongues, gold, silver, and some metal we'd never seen before.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 424

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…LIBER CD analyses the Hebrew alphabet into seven triads, each of which forms a Trinity of sympathetic ideas relating respectively to the Three Orders comprised in the A.'. A.'.. It is really an attempt to find a Periodic Law in the system. LIBER CDLXXIV. The Book of the Mouth of the Abyss or of Knowledge. A course of study in philosophy is prescribed as a preliminary. The aspirant having assimilated all existing systems, he is instructed how to analyse the nature of the reason itself and thus how to cross the Abyss on the Intellectual Plane. Ha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ay where he remained for but a few days before his return journey to Europe. Arriving in Egypt he remained in that ancient land for some three weeks, somehow feeling that it was here that he should find what he had so long now been seeking for in vain. But realizing the hopelessness of waiting in any definite country or city, without some clue to guide him to his goal, he left Egypt at the beginning of November and continued his journey back to England only to break it again at Paris. In this city he remained until April the following year 173

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1910 · PDF PAGE 336

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…d oppressive beauty from some poet’s brain, like the passion flower or the fuchsia. In the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, there are three worms, sweet, clean, wavy, little maggots that will one day carry all the charm and delight of the dead back into the world again, will quicken and nourish seeds and roots, so that in the pink glamour of an April almond tree, the glory of the dead woman’s hair shall be returned again. One of these creatures is poised over her mouth, which again, to vulgar and unseeing eyes, looks ugly, though it is reall…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ay where he remained for but a few days before his return journey to Europe. Arriving in Egypt he remained in that ancient land for some three weeks, somehow feeling that it was here that he should find what he had so long now been seeking for in vain. But realizing the hopelessness of waiting in any definite country or city, without some clue to guide him to his goal, he left Egypt at the beginning of November and continued his journey back to England only to break it again at Paris. In this city he remained until April the following year 173

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1910 · PDF PAGE 336

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…d oppressive beauty from some poet’s brain, like the passion flower or the fuchsia. In the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, there are three worms, sweet, clean, wavy, little maggots that will one day carry all the charm and delight of the dead back into the world again, will quicken and nourish seeds and roots, so that in the pink glamour of an April almond tree, the glory of the dead woman’s hair shall be returned again. One of these creatures is poised over her mouth, which again, to vulgar and unseeing eyes, looks ugly, though it is reall…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 263

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…who has realised the fact that depends from that understanding, namely that all the constituents of being are by nature endowed with the Three Character- istics of Sorrow, Transitoriness, and Absence of any immortal principle or Atma—such a one is said to be Sammaditthi, to hold right views, and the term has come to mean one of the Buddhist Faith. We may not have taken the other and higher steps on the Noble Eightfold Path; but must have rea- lised those Four Truths and their sequential three Characteristics. He who has attained Sammaditthi has…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 79

The Goetia

…sabe dDo- burning in fire of earth, in them Iehevohe and exalted in power in ypaunesa Dooainu Dau, Cetragrammaton, Anaphareton, oD these three names, Tetragrammaton Anaphaxeton, JPrimeumaton, Dl adarepanu ilasa gabe babalonu Ig. pujo-sodumedi Primeumaton, I cast thee down, O wicked spirit N. unto the seas perejela od salabaiotza, Das abaramiji pujo-babalonu gabé das ge- of fire and sulphur which are prepared for the wicked spirits that Dorebesa, nore-madarida, pa-iotsa kakatreji basasjinu z0diz0Darasa ; obey not, the sons ofiniquity, to remain …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 139

The Star in the West

…es of them both were opened , and they knew that they were naked ” : THIS IS VICE . Know Thyself , Be Thyself , Honour Thyself , are the three greatest commandments we can follow . This truth , universal and in its totality , Crowley thunders forth midst sunshine and lightning . If, it is good to

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