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1911 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON she said, "oh! Iknow the type. Name of a tigress . . . and she rattled off a story of a stag—hunt at Fontainebleau in which the Cornish girl had played the principal, an incredible part. The cafe pricked up its ears, and dissolved in laughter at the culminating impossibility. But Edgar Rolles only frowned. “ I am sorry for Ida," he said slowly. " If your story were true I should be glad; but she is only the painter with his palette mixing paints: she never gives her soul up to the canvas. Tigress ? yes : but not the …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON she said, "oh! Iknow the type. Name of a tigress . . . and she rattled off a story of a stag—hunt at Fontainebleau in which the Cornish girl had played the principal, an incredible part. The cafe pricked up its ears, and dissolved in laughter at the culminating impossibility. But Edgar Rolles only frowned. “ I am sorry for Ida," he said slowly. " If your story were true I should be glad; but she is only the painter with his palette mixing paints: she never gives her soul up to the canvas. Tigress ? yes : but not the …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 6

The Law is for All

…e commentaries to his closest friend (and later literary executor) Louis Umfraville Wilkinson (1881-1966). Wilkinson wrote under the pen-name Louis Marlow, and like Crowley, was a member of the small English expatriate community in New York during the First World War. Wilkinson was an English man of letters in the best sense; he not only wrote, and wrote well, but lived a literary life 7

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1906 · PDF PAGE 175

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…tellectual prism The spiritual Syllogism. We know what fools (only) call Whether or Divine and Supernatural not spirit and And what they name material tinct, Tet us in Are really one, not two, the line vestigate the By which divide they and define fundamental necessities of Being a shadowy sort of test ; thought. A verbal lusus at the best, At worst a wicked lie devised To bind men’s thoughts ; but we must work With our own instruments, nor shirk Discarding what we erstwhile prized ; Should we perceive it disagree With the first-born necessity.…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 36

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…hexagram, with the sigil of % or v. To banish reverse the hexagram. In all cases use a conjuration first with Ararita, and next with the name of the God corresponding to the planet or sign you are dealing with. The Hexagrams pertaining to the planets are as in plate on preceding page. 2. These rituals should be practised until the figures drawn appear in flame, in flame so near to physical flame that it would perhaps be visible to the eyes of a bystander, were one present. It is alleged that some persons have attained the power of actually kind…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 36

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…hexagram, with the sigil of % or v. To banish reverse the hexagram. In all cases use a conjuration first with Ararita, and next with the name of the God corresponding to the planet or sign you are dealing with. The Hexagrams pertaining to the planets are as in plate on preceding page. 2. These rituals should be practised until the figures drawn appear in flame, in flame so near to physical flame that it would perhaps be visible to the eyes of a bystander, were one present. It is alleged that some persons have attained the power of actually kind…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 9

The Vision and the Voice

…ed me to the South and lo! a great lion as wounded and perplexed. He cried: I have conquered! Let the Sons of Earth keep silence; for my Name is become as That of Death! When will men learn the Mysteries of Creation? How much more those of the Dissolution (and the Pang of Fire)? I turned me to the West and there was a great Bull; White with horns of White and Black and Gold. His mouth was scarlet and his eyes as Sapphire stones. With a great sword he shore the skies asunder, and amid the silver flashes of the steel grew lightnings and deep clou…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 353

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… wy Uncus focarius—fire-shovel §*5)99 Book “BD Pares; a word written onthe D "5 wall at Belshazzar’s feast. [Vide Dan. v. 28] There; The Name py

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1912 · PDF PAGE 353

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… wy Uncus focarius—fire-shovel §*5)99 Book “BD Pares; a word written onthe D "5 wall at Belshazzar’s feast. [Vide Dan. v. 28] There; The Name py

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 19. That stélé they shall call the Abomination of Deso- lation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718. 20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again. 21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this. 22. The other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. Iam the visible object of worship; the others are secret;…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 19. That stélé they shall call the Abomination of Deso- lation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718. 20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again. 21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this. 22. The other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. Iam the visible object of worship; the others are secret;…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

The Writing On the Ground

… will take the proper steps to crush the perpetrator. The title-page discloses, as might be expected, both the title of the book and the name of the author. The former is “ Poémes,”, and the latter is Lord Alfred Douglas.

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1922 · PDF PAGE 77

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…on the face of the man who had spoken. I recognised him instantly, though I had not seen him since we were at school together. The man’s name was Elgin Feccles. He had been in the mathematical sixth when I was in the lower school. In my third term he had become head prefect ; he had won a scholarship at Oxford—one of the best things going. Then, without a moment’s warning, he had 63

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1913 · PDF PAGE 256

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…eiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand and eye Framed thy fearful syntaxy ?” He also disliked puns on his name and allusions to his personal appearance—his close resemblance to the excellent foreman printer at the Ballantyne Press was a constant source of irritation—also to his style of dress, which proved in- 218

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1913 · PDF PAGE 256

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…eiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand and eye Framed thy fearful syntaxy ?” He also disliked puns on his name and allusions to his personal appearance—his close resemblance to the excellent foreman printer at the Ballantyne Press was a constant source of irritation—also to his style of dress, which proved in- 218

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1919 · PDF PAGE 215

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…all that is best in him. 5. The authority of the O.T.O. is concentrated in the O.H.O. (Outer Head of the Order), or Frater Superior. The name of the person occupying this office is never dis- closed except to his immediate representatives. 6. The Authority of the O.H.O. in all English-speaking countries is delegated by charter to the Most Holy, Most Illustrious, Most Illuminated, and Most Puissant Baphomet X° Rex Summus Sanctissimus 33°, 90°, 96°, Past Grand Master of the United States of America, Grand Master of Ireland, Iona, and All the Brit…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 421

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…casion for trouble. 32. Be of sure foot, O Candidate. In Kshanti’s essence bathe thy Soul; for now thou dost approach the Portal of that name, the gate of fortitude and patience. We now come to the third gate. Notice that this is a further confusion of the Portal with the Key. As previously said, patience here implies rather self-control, a refusal to accept even favours until one is ready for them. 33. Close not thine eyes, nor lose thy sight of Dorje (the Svastika);Méra’s arrows ever smite the man who has not reached Vairaga. 99

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1911 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE DANGERS OF MYSTICISM alleged copyright; we find another so sensitive that the mention of his name by the present writer induces an attack οί epileptic mania; if such are really “united with " or ”absorbed in ” God, what of God? We are told in Galatians that the fruits of the Spirit are peace, love, joy, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; and somewhere else, “ By their fruits ye shall know them.” Of these evil-doers then we must either think that they are dishonest, and have never attained at all, or that they …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE DANGERS OF MYSTICISM alleged copyright; we find another so sensitive that the mention of his name by the present writer induces an attack οί epileptic mania; if such are really “united with " or ”absorbed in ” God, what of God? We are told in Galatians that the fruits of the Spirit are peace, love, joy, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; and somewhere else, “ By their fruits ye shall know them.” Of these evil-doers then we must either think that they are dishonest, and have never attained at all, or that they …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…מרב Bread (Ps. xxxviii. 25)םהל ?=םלה, by metathesis. [K.D. L.C.K. p- 50°] Angel of 2 s,?לאהבמ The Influence from Kether?אלומ Salt?הלמ The name of a Giant?אזע "79 Boaz, one of the Pillars 01 the?זעב Temple of Solomon Die?עונ Angel or 8 5. ‘mm Iachin, one of the Pillars of?ץהאי the Temple of Solomon 3rd W?טיט Conjunction, meeting, union?הרע Union ,' an assembling?דעו 3° GOD 01 Jesod-Malkuth 01”הי ?ינרא Briah Foundation ”?רוט Universal, general?ללכ Throne. [Exod. xvii. 16] DD DDf !l— 81 eons?ם"לא 1. [Ex. xxiii. πο]?יכנא Anger, wrath; also noseףא

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