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1913 · PDF PAGE 482

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX works, and we confine ourselves to the special study of the Qabalah among the Hebrews. The Logos, or the Word, being according to the initiates of that science the complete revelation, the principles of the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 482

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX works, and we confine ourselves to the special study of the Qabalah among the Hebrews. The Logos, or the Word, being according to the initiates of that science the complete revelation, the principles of the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; th…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 28

The Stratagem and Other Stories

side. “What is it, Magdalen?” he cried, anxiety in every word. I closed my eyes. “Make gestures!” said I. (He was directly between me and the sun.) He obeyed, wondering. “You are——you are”——I stammered——“no! I don't know what you are doing. I am blind!” He sawed his arm up and down. Useless; I had be- come absolutely insensitive. We repeated a dozen ex- periments that night. All failed. We concealed our disappointment, and it did not cloud our love. The sympathy between us grew even subtler and stronger, but only as it grows between all men and…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 87

The Sword of Song

APPENDIX II 80 that word, and wiping his blade he kissed it and went on, knowing that his luck should now be ill. And ill it was, for a tem ple was set up in his way , and there he saw the grisly Goat enthroned. But he knew better than to judge a goat from a goat’s head and hoofs. And the first week he s acrificed to that goat 1 a crown every day. The second a p hallus. The third a silver vase of blood. The fourth a roy al sceptre. The fifth a sword. The sixth a heart. The seventh a garland of flowers. The eighth a grass-snake. The ninth a sick…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 198

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…d but the appearance of the politest small talk, but which inwardly lacerated her evil heart, and burnt into her black bowels as if each word had been a drop of some corrosive acid. She writhed back from him, and then again approached him even more beautiful than she had been before. She was battling for her life now, and no longer for the blood of another victim. If she lost, hell yawned before her, the hell that every once-beautiful woman who is approaching middle age, sees before her; the hell of lost beauty, of decrepitude, of wrinkles and …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 83

John St. John

…s. Now all is at peace; the power of the river, no more a torrent. The Concourse of the Forces has become the Harmony of the Forces; the word Tetragrammation is spoken and ended ; the holy letter Shin is descended into it. For the roaring God of Sinai we have the sleeping Babe of Bethlehem. A fulfilment, not a destroying, of the Law. Am at home again. I will lie down in the Position of the Hanged Man, and await the coming of my Lord. Arisen again to go out to dinner. Iwas half-asleep some of the time. Dinner—Hers d’GEuvre—Tripes a la Mode de Cae…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 404

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencilled valleys And dewy dells in a golden air” is a very decent word-picture of the great mountain. But a Man would have felt his muscles tighten; and the lust to match his force against the stern splendour of those glittering ridges would have sent him hot-foot after rope and axe. A great artist would rarely see so tremendous a vision as that of a mountain without emotion of terror and wonder and rejoicing. Tennyson sees it as a mere sight—he ticks it off in his Baedeker.…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 404

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencilled valleys And dewy dells in a golden air” is a very decent word-picture of the great mountain. But a Man would have felt his muscles tighten; and the lust to match his force against the stern splendour of those glittering ridges would have sent him hot-foot after rope and axe. A great artist would rarely see so tremendous a vision as that of a mountain without emotion of terror and wonder and rejoicing. Tennyson sees it as a mere sight—he ticks it off in his Baedeker.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 184

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…s not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and so its own selfishness proves its destruction. “We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity implies stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.” So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva had started whirl- * Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his Essay ‘Eleusis,’ Crowley suggests that the world’s history may roughly be divided into a continuous succession of periods, each embracing three distinct 168

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1910 · PDF PAGE 184

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…s not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and so its own selfishness proves its destruction. “We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity implies stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.” So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva had started whirl- * Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his Essay ‘Eleusis,’ Crowley suggests that the world’s history may roughly be divided into a continuous succession of periods, each embracing three distinct 168

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1913 · PDF PAGE 546

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…who is out of work steals, and does not beg!” replied, one day, Cartouche to a passer-by who asked alms of him. It is as emphatic as the word which tradition associates with Cambronne, and perhaps the famous thief and the great general both really replied in the same manner. It was that same Cartouche who offered,.on another occasion, of his own accord and without it being asked of him, twenty thousand pounds to a bankrupt. One must act properly to one’s brothers. Mutual assistance is a law of nature. To aid those who are like ourselves is to a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 546

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…who is out of work steals, and does not beg!” replied, one day, Cartouche to a passer-by who asked alms of him. It is as emphatic as the word which tradition associates with Cambronne, and perhaps the famous thief and the great general both really replied in the same manner. It was that same Cartouche who offered,.on another occasion, of his own accord and without it being asked of him, twenty thousand pounds to a bankrupt. One must act properly to one’s brothers. Mutual assistance is a law of nature. To aid those who are like ourselves is to a…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 147

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…lations shone ; Numberless aeons brought us hither ; Niumberless aeons beckon us on. The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger; The world awaits a Word of Truth. Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger ! Evoke the age’s awful youth! To arms against the inveterate wrong ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Sand-founded reels the House of Faith ; Up screams the howl of ruining sect ; Out from the shrine flits the lost Wraith ; ‘God hath forsaken Ilis elect !” Confusion sweeps upon the throng— Awak…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 124

The Book of Thoth

…ll the double phenomena are only two ways of looking at a single phenomenon; and the single phenomenon is Peace. There is no sense in my words or in my thoughts. “Faces half‐formed arose.” This is the meaning of that passage; they are attempts to interpret Chaos. But Chaos is Peace Cosmos is the War of the Rose and the Cross. That was a “half‐formed face” that I said then. All images are useless. Yea, as in a looking‐glass, so in thy mind, that is backed with the false metal of lying, is every symbol read averse. Lo! everything wherein thou has…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…mad, do you see? Listen to me, Jane. Jane. Oh, I'm trying to. Dr. F. He says the same thing to everybody—it's his mania. Don't believe a word of it. Jane No, no. [She collapses again. DR. BOB ref/flees !eleþhone receiver, ano! 6017185 forward. He and DR. FIELDING tarry JANE aut L. Outer hell. SERVANT ushers ih 11 !111181111 Eli/er L. MRS. B013 iii a state of 7/10/8111 exeilemezzfl Mrs. B. Go! go! Why will you stay in this house of death ? (The Patient mohifeSis surprise.) Go! go! I say. My husband can see no more patients to—day. [She shows him o…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…mad, do you see? Listen to me, Jane. Jane. Oh, I'm trying to. Dr. F. He says the same thing to everybody—it's his mania. Don't believe a word of it. Jane No, no. [She collapses again. DR. BOB ref/flees !eleþhone receiver, ano! 6017185 forward. He and DR. FIELDING tarry JANE aut L. Outer hell. SERVANT ushers ih 11 !111181111 Eli/er L. MRS. B013 iii a state of 7/10/8111 exeilemezzfl Mrs. B. Go! go! Why will you stay in this house of death ? (The Patient mohifeSis surprise.) Go! go! I say. My husband can see no more patients to—day. [She shows him o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…regenerated universe will be the body of God. And bodies and souls, and form and thought, and the whole universe, will be the light, the word, and the permanent and visible revelation of God. Amen. So be it. 1 It is amusing to remark that this very symbol is characteristic of the Greek Church which he has been attacking. Levi should have visited Moscow.— TRANS. 63

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1913 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…regenerated universe will be the body of God. And bodies and souls, and form and thought, and the whole universe, will be the light, the word, and the permanent and visible revelation of God. Amen. So be it. 1 It is amusing to remark that this very symbol is characteristic of the Greek Church which he has been attacking. Levi should have visited Moscow.— TRANS. 63

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1904 · PDF PAGE 70

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…ks, and in one explosive foam of lust, jetted our family fountains at a single mo- ment. Before the woman fainted, the overseer gave the word to stop. She was a young and modest girl, and at his signal, three huge negroes bounded upon her. Heedless of her cries and tears they plunged their reeking arse openers into her dainty

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1913 · PDF PAGE 58

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…edge of death. 7. Iam the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. ‘Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. 8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. g. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. 10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. 11. I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger. 12. Because of me in Thee which thou knewest…

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