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1929 · PDF PAGE 225

Moonchild

…siness. My business is to divine the thoughts of the enemy, and — oh Lord! how long? — to get the powers that be to understand that I am right. Considering that they needed eight million marching men to persuade them that Bloody Bill meant war, I fear that my task may be no sinecure." He went to the barracks, where a military automobile was waiting for him, and told the chauffeur, with bitter wit, to go out to meet General Cripps. [317] As to Lisa and the Turk, it was twenty-four hours before they were set

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1929 · PDF PAGE 36

Moonchild

…compliment to you, for she is one of the two nicest women in London; but I would have faced a thousand deaths to get there." [53] "It is right to be so stern about a trifle?" "Keeping one's word is no trifle. False in one, false in all. Can't you see how simple it makes life for me, never to have to worry about a decision, always to be able to refer everything to a simple standard, my Will? And can't you see how simple it makes life for you, to know that if I once say a thing, I'll do it?" "Yes. I do see. But, oh, Cyril, what agony I passed thr…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 278

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… hand, which is now open to you, is the thirty-first, which leads from the 1° = 10° of Zelator to the 3° = 8° of Practicus. Take in your right hand the Pyramid of Flame, and follow your guide Axiokersa § the Kabir, who leads you through the path of fire. In this ritual the Three Cabiri are made to represent the triangle of fire, thus: Axieros, the first Kabir, says: “I am the apex of the Triangle of Flame: I am the Solar * See 777, cols, cxii,, cxiii,, p. 23. t+ See 777, col. xlix., p. 15. t See 777, col. xlix., p. 15 and note p. 41. § This int…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 278

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… hand, which is now open to you, is the thirty-first, which leads from the 1° = 10° of Zelator to the 3° = 8° of Practicus. Take in your right hand the Pyramid of Flame, and follow your guide Axiokersa § the Kabir, who leads you through the path of fire. In this ritual the Three Cabiri are made to represent the triangle of fire, thus: Axieros, the first Kabir, says: “I am the apex of the Triangle of Flame: I am the Solar * See 777, cols, cxii,, cxiii,, p. 23. t+ See 777, col. xlix., p. 15. t See 777, col. xlix., p. 15 and note p. 41. § This int…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 107

The Book of Thoth

… their ancestors, but bewil‐ dered by their own uncertainty of foothold. It must be the task of the pioneers of the new Aeon to put this right.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 17

Moonchild

…be something in the evolution of language besides a monkey-trick of metaphysical [27] abstractions; whether, in short, men have not been right to

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1996 · PDF PAGE 300

The Law is for All

…,63,64.68,71,84. 85, 153,161,169-170 Thelemic 163 religious ecstasy 84 85 Rembrandt 72,112 repression 44.51,128,148 revolution 85,86,128 right apprehension 127 rights, human 185 rishis 133 “Ritual of the Equinox” (Golden Dawn) 47 rituals 38.40,79,123,158.184 of the /Eon of Osiris 89 92 Rockefeller, John D. 115 Rome 42.161 Romeo 54,68 Rosaline 68 Rosy Cross 93,166 Rozhdestvenskii, Z.P. 181 Ruach 119 Rubens, Peter Paul 111 Russell, Bertrand 34,80,81 Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy 80 Russia 85 Sabines, rape of the 161 Sacher-Masoch, Leopo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 210

Moonchild

… of patience. She played the game with no thought of the victory; and this is half the secret of playing most games of importance. To do right for its own sake is Righteousness, though if you apply this obvious truth to Art the Philistine calls you names, and your morals in question. Cremers was a genuine artist in malice. She was not even glad when she had harmed a friend and benefactor, however irreparably; nothing could ever make her glad — but she was contented with herself on such occasions. She felt a sort of sense of duty done. She denie…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 205

Moonchild

…n't think I'm a woman like that!" "All women are like that." She bit her lips; but her good sense showed her that his main principle was right. If she had only been able to stifle the formless promptings which were so alluring and so dangerous! But as she could not live wholly on the heights of aspiration, so also she could not live on the safe plains of earth-life. The voices of the swamp and the cavern called to her continuously. And so the external reconciliation had no deep root. For a few weeks she was better and healthier in body and mind…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 83

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…izdes to floor and sobs] and the name I have borne stainless in peace and war for more than threescore years, you forfeited not only the right to question my designs, but that of looking me in the face. I ama tenderer man than your father —he would have spat on you and thrust you from his door. But married you shall be, and that to-night. [Zzrxs fo DENYS.] And you, Monsieur, will best serve her if you save her. What devil have I saddled your life with that you look at me so black? [ Zurns on his heel and exit, A short stlence of embarrassment. …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 158

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…th is men- tioned. This occurred to me and was carried out before by first Illumination; this serves as a confirmation that I was on the right track. I should have no doubt mentioned these meditations more fully at the time.! I have often won- dered how I got into the state I then experienced, and this copy of Taz Equinox has revived the memory and gives instruction for obtaining, no doubt, a very much fuller result, only I shall have to work with a big W. June 12, 1911. On Saturday night, in bed I attempted “thinking backwards” and successfull…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 246

The Book of Thoth

…knowledge or judgment of his character rather than dwelling on his physical characteristics. 2. Take the cards in your left hand. In the right hand hold the wand over them, and say: I invoke thee, I A O, that thou wilt send H R U, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this Secret Wisdom, to lay his hand invisibly upon these consecrated cards of art, that thereby we may obtain true knowledge of hidden things, to the glory of thine ineffable Name. Amen. 3. Hand the cards to Querent, and bid him think of the question attentively, and …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 321

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Malone. Shaw has not the strength of character to avow (even in a ficti- tious work) that a woman can assert what is evidently her first right without undergoing phantastic penalties, although there are to-day thousands of women in every country who have told morality to go to its father, the devil, as Shaw so bombastically tells it todo. The phantoms which confront the free man are really just hollow turnips in churchyards. Take poor Ambrose, for example. He occu- pies one of the most important positions in New York City. He lives his own life…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ue of every work of art, and that is why critics are such a hang-dog race of marmots. But speaking as a marmot, which is, after all, the right of marmots, Article 1 in the Magna Charta of marmots, I may say that Chekhov was yery much better when he was not think- ing of Kopecks. He has turned out a dreadful lot of bad work under the lash of the publisher. But at his best, in stories like The Witch, he is unsurpassed. One feels a positive anguish that one has not met that witch! Even a Gladys Belasco or a Léa de L’ame Morte—or Del Amor?—can hard…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 171

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…te. This he agreed to; he was allowed to hide it as he chose. I gave up all hopebut in bringing ofi'the 9to ! chance 01 my medium’s being right, The sceptic kept both eyes on me all the time ; iii stirred a finger, he was up in arms, I did keep my back to the mantelpiece, but there was no way of writing down the number. But it was just at that point that my sceptic’s magnificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the numbe…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 171

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…te. This he agreed to; he was allowed to hide it as he chose. I gave up all hopebut in bringing ofi'the 9to ! chance 01 my medium’s being right, The sceptic kept both eyes on me all the time ; iii stirred a finger, he was up in arms, I did keep my back to the mantelpiece, but there was no way of writing down the number. But it was just at that point that my sceptic’s magnificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the numbe…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 10

The Book of Thoth

…ntroduced to him a skilled artist, Frieda Harris, who, though she had little or no previous knowledge of the Tarot, possessed in her own right the Essential Spirit of the book. Together they bent their energies to the formidable task of preparing the 78 cards of the Book of Thoth.

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1996 · PDF PAGE 301

The Law is for All

…d by Ra-Hoor-Khuit 189 each point the center of 106 each star the center of 25 error or concept of fixed center 91 identity with mind 82 right apprehension of 127 structure of 81 vampires 62,126 venereal disease 52,56,172.177 Venus 53,171 Victoria, Queen 113 Victorians 161 Virgo 78 visions beatific vision 79 “Star-Sponge” vision 27,79-83,88, 89 vision of wonder 79 Wagner, Richard, Parsifal 29 wand 30 war 26,37,155,181 Way of the Tao 105,108 Wells, H.G., The Time Machine 162 Wilde, Oscar 55 Wilhelm I, Kaiser of Germany 181 will 40,45,63,95,96.10…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 15

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…t and abundant might, Filled with the phantom desire to free - Body and soul from the sound and sight Of a world and a God that doth not right. O thy dark daughters! their breasts are slack, . Their lips so large and as poppies red ; They lie in a furious barren bed ; They lie on their faces ; their eyelids lack Tears, and their cheeks are as roses dead ; 0 White are their throats, but upon the back Red blood is clotted in gouts of black.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 137

Moonchild

…orth rays of darkness. The ancient was dressed in grey rags; his long unkempt hair and beard had lacked a barber for many a day. But his right arm was wholly bare, and around it was coiled a serpent, gold and green, with a triple crown sparkling with ruby, sapphire, and with it he was engraving a great square tablet of emerald. [195] She watched him for some time; when he had finished, he went away with the staff, and the lamp, and the tablet, to the sea shore. Along the coast he proceeded for some time, and came at last to a cave. Iliel follow…

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