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1913 · PDF PAGE 546

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nt to put a premium on wretchedness. For whom do you take me? Do you think I am a rascal like yourself? .. .” And yet another :— “By the way, old fellow, could you lend me a thousand pounds? I want to seduce an honest woman.” ‘Ah! that is bad, but I can never refuse anything to a friend. Here they are. When you have succeeded you might give me her address.” That is what is called in England, and elsewhere, the manners of a gentleman. “The man of honour who is out of work steals, and does not beg!” replied, one day, Cartouche to a passer-by who …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 357

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… 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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1913 · PDF PAGE 546

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nt to put a premium on wretchedness. For whom do you take me? Do you think I am a rascal like yourself? .. .” And yet another :— “By the way, old fellow, could you lend me a thousand pounds? I want to seduce an honest woman.” ‘Ah! that is bad, but I can never refuse anything to a friend. Here they are. When you have succeeded you might give me her address.” That is what is called in England, and elsewhere, the manners of a gentleman. “The man of honour who is out of work steals, and does not beg!” replied, one day, Cartouche to a passer-by who …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 407

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e PATH; its foot in mire, its sum- mit lost in glorious light Nirvanic. And now I see the ever- narrowing Portals on the hard and thorny way to Gnydana.” This continues a vision which resembles, only too pain- fully, the coloured prints of the Broad and Narrow Ways so familiar to those unfortunates whose business takes them through Paternoster Row. 11. Thou seest well, Lanoo. These Portals lead the aspi- rant across the waters on “to the other shore.” Each Portal hath a golden key that openeth its gate; and these keys are: The expression “the o…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 201

Liber Aleph

… it were Conflict, should I turn thither. But let every man become perfect in his own Work, not heeding the Rebuke of another, that some Way not his own is more Noble, or Profitable, but being constant in mindfulness concerning his Business. b

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1912 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX biggest coward in the world in a tight enough corner, and he'll show his teeth, and very likely win out. (He coughs.) By the way, have a look at this throat, will you? There's a little chronic irritation somewhere. Dr. F. \Vhy, of course. [T,/ze ὗε}! rings. Dr. Β. Α patient, hang it all! I must leave you to talk to Nan. Send ’em along! [He goes info consulting—roomnnd close: Με door. Mrs. Β. He's set on this telling the truth. Dr. F. 011, it‘s wrong: I know it’s wrong. There's always a chance in the most hopeless cases. Mrs. B. Can’…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX biggest coward in the world in a tight enough corner, and he'll show his teeth, and very likely win out. (He coughs.) By the way, have a look at this throat, will you? There's a little chronic irritation somewhere. Dr. F. \Vhy, of course. [T,/ze ὗε}! rings. Dr. Β. Α patient, hang it all! I must leave you to talk to Nan. Send ’em along! [He goes info consulting—roomnnd close: Με door. Mrs. Β. He's set on this telling the truth. Dr. F. 011, it‘s wrong: I know it’s wrong. There's always a chance in the most hopeless cases. Mrs. B. Can’…

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1916 · PDF PAGE 4

A Prophet In His Own Country

… big man, a really big man, six foot three in height, broad and well- proportioned. The entire impression is of bigness. And as should always be the case with homo sapiens, the most important part of the impression is given by the head. Such a brow is only seen in the world’s greatest thinkers. Mr. Stuart was born in 1864 in Brooklyn, N.Y. His father, John Stuart, was a Captain of the 51st and Lieutenant Colonel of the 63rd New York Volunteers. His is the perfect and ideal type, fast disappearing, of the aristocratic American. Mr. Stuart was ed…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 453

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…hisattvas, and therefore, as there shall not be a single grain of dust which shall not attain to Buddhahood, every existing thing is ina way a Bodhisattva. But of course in practice the term is confined to these special incarnations of the only Buddha of whom we have any such record. It is, therefore, ridiculous to place Srotapatti as a Soul of inferior grade to Bodhisattva. Buddha did not become a Srotapatti until seven incarnations before he attained to Buddhahood. The last part of the verse and the long note (of which we quote the gist) are …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 62

Moonchild

…he Order dispersed, one to one task, one to another. Presently Simon and Cyril, Cybele and Lisa were together alone. The old man led the way to a cell cunningly hidden in the wall. There they took seats. Lisa la Giuffria recognized that the critical moment of her life was come upon her. [90]

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1961 · PDF PAGE 196

Liber Aleph

…or again, one seeketh Instruction in Obeah, and his Fellow in Wanga; and of all these not one in Ten Thousand shall be aware of his true Way. For albeit our last step is one for all, yet his next stem is particular to each. Therefore is the Preparation of a Student that seeketh Our Holy Order of A∴A∴most general, informing his Mind of all known Methods, so that his Will may select among these by Instinct: then after, as a Probationer, he practiseth those which he hath preferred, and by the Examination of his Record after the Period appointed th…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 408

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…r. The roof, made of boughs weighted with big stones and made tight with mud, was half broken through. A giant stone hung imminent, half-way fallen. All day we waited for the rain to stop falling in the place "where it never fell". Night came and the blizzard redoubled its violence; but the shelter allowed us a little sleep until the mud dissolved and the roof became a sieve. The rest of the night was a shower-bath. In the morning there was no great sign of improvement. I had to kick the camel driver into action and chase the camels with my own…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 121

John St. John

…en he wished every pigeon in the world at the devil? Now this wish has never really arisen in John St. John ; however bad he feels, he always feels that Attainment is the only possible way out of it. This is the good Karma of his ten years’ constant striving. Well, in the upshot, he will get back to Work at once, and hope that his few hours in the world may prove a true strategic movement to the rear, and not a euphemism for rout! There are further serious considerations to be made concerning Adonai. This title for the Unknown Thought was adopt…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…iousness, Reality and unreality.* All these are vain attempts to obscure the devotee’s mind into believing in that Origin he could in no way understand, by piling up symbols of extravagant vastness. All, as with the Qabalists, was based on Zero, all, save one thing, and this one thing saved the mind of man from the fearful palsy of doubt which had shaken to ruin his brave certainties, his audacious hopes and his invincible resolutions. Man, slowly through all his doubts, began to realize that if indeed all were MAyéA, a matter of words, he at l…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…iousness, Reality and unreality.* All these are vain attempts to obscure the devotee’s mind into believing in that Origin he could in no way understand, by piling up symbols of extravagant vastness. All, as with the Qabalists, was based on Zero, all, save one thing, and this one thing saved the mind of man from the fearful palsy of doubt which had shaken to ruin his brave certainties, his audacious hopes and his invincible resolutions. Man, slowly through all his doubts, began to realize that if indeed all were MAyéA, a matter of words, he at l…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 190

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…t or leave it. Note, pray thee, verse 41 of this chapter: “Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house; all must be done well and with business way.” This is very clear instruction indeed. There is to be a modern centralized business organization at the Kaaba— which, We think, does not mean Boleskine, but any conve- nient headquarters. Note, pray thee, in verse 42 of this chapter the injunction: “Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not over- 178

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1919 · PDF PAGE 334

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ctice one concentrates upon a given thing, re- jecting this outer appearance and arriving at that ideal, which of course will not in any way resemble any of the objects which are its incarnations. It is with this in view that the verse tells us that the Soul must be united to the Silent Speaker. The words “Silent Speaker” may be con- sidered as a hieroglyph of the same character as LOGOS, 378, or the Ineffable Name. 12. For then the Soul will hear and will remember. The word “hear” alludes to the tradition that hearing is the organ of Spirit, j…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 44

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

[42] CAPITULUM V It is a singular circumstance, continued the Archbishop, leading the way across the piles of dung with which the devoted camel had adorned the floor, that no poet has yet adequately sung the passion which exists in such luscious splendour between the “ Ship of the Desert ” and the wild Be- dawi. Leila, the juicy-cunted nigger nockstress who took my first spunkings as I told you in Chapter III, used to see a great deal of the business when she was first brought up from her home by the Nyanza to serve the vices of George G....n a…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 100

Book 4 (Part I)

…earch has determined the 1 It is rather a breach of the scepticism which is the basis of our system to admit that anything can be in any way better than another. Do it thus: “ A. is a thing that B. thinks ‘holy.’ It is natural therefore for B. to meditate on it. ” Get rid of the ego, observe all your actions as if they were another’s, and you will avoid ninety-nine per cent. of the troubles that await you.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 37

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…s theology is given in Liber CCXX, AL vel Legis which forins Part IV of this Book 4. Hence I can only outline the matter in a very crude way; it would require a separate treatise to discuss even the true meaning of the terms employed, and to show how The Book of the Law anticipâtes the recent discoveries of Frege, Cantor, Poincaré, Russell, Whitehead, Einstein and others. I

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