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1944 · PDF PAGE 166

The Book of Thoth

…eir own affairs, or of taking an intelligent interest in anything outside them. They are churlish, surly, and jealous (in a dull sort of way) of what they instinctively realize is the

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1907 · PDF PAGE 68

The Star in the West

…riggling serpent . She bids him seek Zeus , and leaves the rest to him . " To the lascivious shade of Ida's deep recesses ” he wends his way : So fair , her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters , though he knew His drowning body drowned her image too. " There he , or now she , meets the great god wander ing through the green trees and the cool groves , as Jahveh was wont once to do . Amidst those shades of Ida , where Paris adjudged the prize of beauty , over looking the blue Hellespont …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 221

The Star in the West

…urney will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds , and the mixed drinks of the stumbling Scoto -German Bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of Iacchus . The above may be symbolized as follows : | The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii , p. 176 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 242

The Star in the West

…is usual and indeed unavoidable without our Critique ; then an unexpected conflict arises , never to be quelled in the ordinary dogmatic way , because both theses and antitheses can be demonstrated by equally evident , clear and irresistible proofs ... and the Reason thus sees itself at issue with itself , a state over which the sceptic rejoices , but which must plunge the critical philosopher into reflection and disquiet .” [ Thus another turning in the road of Crowleyanity has been passed , another milestone has been lost in the distance , a …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 22

John St. John

…er in complete armour of silver advancing with sword and shield—at whose sight that dragon, not daring to abide the shock, flees utterly away. Lunch, 3 Garibaldis and 3 Gaufrettes. Wrote two letters. Going out walk with mantra. This walk was in a way rather a success. I got the good mantra effects, e.g., the brain taking it up of its own accord ; also the distaste for everythingbut Adonai became stronger and stronger. But when I returned from a visit to B e on an errand of comradeship—b; hours’ talk to cut out of this mantra-yoga—I found all sor…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…m to feel things. Look here, dec., I'm on for a night with the Indians. I‘ll have forgotten about it myself by to-morrow That’s the best way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of them if they said I had to die to—morrow. Dr. F. Quite right. [DR. BOB‘S (Be/L SERVANT 6711665 and flows JANE z'm‘o eoizszz/lz‘ng—roo/IL] Dr. F. I’ll be with you in a moment, Jane. (Jane mods and smiles and goes in.) Take my word {or it, Will, there‘s always hope. I’l…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…m to feel things. Look here, dec., I'm on for a night with the Indians. I‘ll have forgotten about it myself by to-morrow That’s the best way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of them if they said I had to die to—morrow. Dr. F. Quite right. [DR. BOB‘S (Be/L SERVANT 6711665 and flows JANE z'm‘o eoizszz/lz‘ng—roo/IL] Dr. F. I’ll be with you in a moment, Jane. (Jane mods and smiles and goes in.) Take my word {or it, Will, there‘s always hope. I’l…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 421

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…of course, the first of the pylons through which one passes in the Egyptian system. It is important then to arrange one’s life in such a way that one never al- lows one thing to interfere with another, and one never makes trouble for oneself. The method given in “Thien Tao” is the best to employ. 31. Fear, O Disciple, kills the will and stays all action. If lacking in the Shila virtue—the pilgrim trips, and Karmic pebbles bruise his feet along the rocky path. The objection to fear is not only the obvious one. Fear is only one of the things whic…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 436

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…say. So on this higher plane you must reach a quintessence of thought, of which all thoughts are perhaps debased images, but which in no way partakes of anything concerning them. 62. Thou hast to reach that fixity of mind in which no breeze, however strong, can waft an earthly thought within. Thus purified, the shrine must of all action, sound, or earthly light be void; e’en as the butterfly, o’ertaken by the frost, falls lifeless at the threshold—so must all earthly thoughts fall dead before the fane. Again another phase of this task. Complete…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 276

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…as already there; and had fallen asleep again, said Lala, only a few minutes before she left. I could not help feeling a dislike for the way in which everything was being managed for me. I must have shown something of this in my manner. Lala, after bundling me into the automobile which I had driven to Barley Grange on that first tremendous night, began to turn the conversation so as to answer my unspoken resentment. She made a pleasant little excuse for not offering me the steering-wheel. I knew too well that I couldn't have driven that car a h…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 9

The Banned Lecture

qeard, of whom, even were he real, we know nothing much beyond that he reacted in the most manly way to the problem of domestic infelicity. A moment’s digression ; in fact, the main point. What is the most precise and most atrocious charge that is made against him ? That he sacrificed, in the course of Alchemical and magical experiments, a matter of 800 children ? I submit that, a priori, this sounds a little improbable. Gilles de Rais was the lord of a district whose population could not have been very extensive, and even in that age of slaver…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 467

Magick Without Tears

…sity, and come to the Knowledge of Form. For this Mathematics is as it were the last Veil before the Image of Truth, so that there is no Way better than our Holy Qabalah, which analyseth all Things soever, and reduceth them to pure Number; and thus their Natures being no longer coloured and confused, they may be regulated and formulated in Simplicity by the Operation of Pure Reason, to thy great Comfort in the Work of our Transcendental Art, whereby the Many become One. Sequitur (2) Classica My son, neglect not in any wise the study of the Writ…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 225

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… awoke, and behold it was a dream. Then I too lit my pipe, and meditated. “TI cannot see,” thought I, “that the situation will be in any way amended, even if we agree to give them votes.” ETHEL Ramsay. 207

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1910 · PDF PAGE 225

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… awoke, and behold it was a dream. Then I too lit my pipe, and meditated. “TI cannot see,” thought I, “that the situation will be in any way amended, even if we agree to give them votes.” ETHEL Ramsay. 207

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1910 · PDF PAGE 36

The World’s Tragedy

…except of course in the case of bereavement. Just look at your Christian when he gets his modicum of manhood. He will not take the manly way, because (a) he is afraid of hurting the modesty of the poor girl (who is simply aching for him) ; (b) he is afraid of catching some disease : (c) he might get her into trouble ; (d) what will the neighbours say ? ; (e) suppose she said no, what a fool

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1911 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… Special Supplement, pp. 119 5994). Of these the most characteristic sign is their exclusive— nessi “We are the men.” “ Ours is the only Way.” “All Buddhists are wicked," the insanity of spiritual pride. The Magician is not nearly so liable to fall into this fearful mire of pride as the mystic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… Special Supplement, pp. 119 5994). Of these the most characteristic sign is their exclusive— nessi “We are the men.” “ Ours is the only Way.” “All Buddhists are wicked," the insanity of spiritual pride. The Magician is not nearly so liable to fall into this fearful mire of pride as the mystic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Wom—out(’l shameless)Beggars |`?ם`כ Ox-goad?רמל A circuit ; roundabout J‘JD All the way, constantly?רע Hues, colours, complexions?ינלוג Lucifer, the Herald Sun?לליה [Vide K. of S,, fig. 53] ”?לשוכ A lamenting, wailing?הלל The Pleiades?המיכ Night; by night?הליל NUIT,THE STAR GODDESS?םיוב Secret, put away ; a hiding-?ןויבה place Rest, peace nl'l‘J Slave, servant?ךנע Frayed ny: The river Gihon. [Gem ii. 13]?ןוחיג Ονἁτῆσννἰπς. [Ps. :»(₪. 5] [WI Towers, citadels?לדגמ The Influence from Kether?לזמ Strength; 3 he-goat?יע There are 78 ca…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Wom—out(’l shameless)Beggars |`?ם`כ Ox-goad?רמל A circuit ; roundabout J‘JD All the way, constantly?רע Hues, colours, complexions?ינלוג Lucifer, the Herald Sun?לליה [Vide K. of S,, fig. 53] ”?לשוכ A lamenting, wailing?הלל The Pleiades?המיכ Night; by night?הליל NUIT,THE STAR GODDESS?םיוב Secret, put away ; a hiding-?ןויבה place Rest, peace nl'l‘J Slave, servant?ךנע Frayed ny: The river Gihon. [Gem ii. 13]?ןוחיג Ονἁτῆσννἰπς. [Ps. :»(₪. 5] [WI Towers, citadels?לדגמ The Influence from Kether?לזמ Strength; 3 he-goat?יע There are 78 ca…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 357

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… the progressive church, and the stationary church. One is active, the other is passive: one has mastered the nations and governs them always, since kings fear it; the other has submitted to every despotism, and can be nothing but an instrument of slavery. The active church realizes God for men, and alone believes in the divinity of the human Word, as an interpreter of that of God. What after all is the infallibility of the Pope, but the auto- cracy of intelligence, confirmed by the universal vote of faith? In this case, one might say, the Pope…

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