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1910 · PDF PAGE 152

The Scented Garden

…f the method and aim. 53. Actuated by mercy for my devotees, I shall now explain the Vajroli Mudra, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most secret among all the secrets. 54. Even while following all his desires, and without conforming to the regulations of Yoga, a

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1912 · PDF PAGE 90

Book 4 (Part I)

…e gains further experience, when Dhyana is no longer a shock, when the student has had plenty of time to make himself at home in the new world, this conviction will become absolute.1 ᾽It should be remembered that at present there are no data for determining the

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1913 · PDF PAGE 218

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…, and, ravishing thee, Bear thee, unknowing, back to the heart of things, The dim, black centre whence sprang Love and Fire Who made the world, and made all suns and worlds, Tearing the thing I now make manifest From the heart of the silent god? Oh, wherefore strive? Art thou not still content to die, sweetheart? Or wilt thou seek me still through all the lives

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1913 · PDF PAGE 218

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…, and, ravishing thee, Bear thee, unknowing, back to the heart of things, The dim, black centre whence sprang Love and Fire Who made the world, and made all suns and worlds, Tearing the thing I now make manifest From the heart of the silent god? Oh, wherefore strive? Art thou not still content to die, sweetheart? Or wilt thou seek me still through all the lives

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1929 · PDF PAGE 18

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…er into the thick of the press of human life. I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a définition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their soûls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, dépend upon MAGICK and the right compréhension and right application thereof. I. DEFINITION. MAGICK is the Science and Art of causing Ch…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 281

Magick Without Tears

… the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. (28-30) Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. (32) 1. Dictated: "the unfragmentary non-atomic fact of my universality ..…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 201

The Winged Beetle

…I mind me, more than sixty years ago now—oh dear ! oh dear ! Run and tell Nurse I want my liniment ! Oh dear ! oh dear ! what a wretched world. Sciatics—like rats gnawing, gnawing at you, Charley. CHARLEY. You frighten me, grampa ! Why doesn’t Mr. Carr come and play with me ? GRANDFATHER. He has gone out with your mother. He’ll come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear ! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse ! can’t you tell me of a good d…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

Book 4 (Part II)

…are not de- pendent upon this principal will are so many leakages ; they are like fat to the athlete. The majority of the people in this world are ataxic; they cannot co- ordinate their mental muscles to make a purposed movement. They have no real will, only a set of wishes, many of which contradict others. The victim wobbles from one to the other (and it is no less wobbling because the movements may occasionally be very violent) and at the end of life the movements cancel each other out. Nothing has been achieved; except the one thing of which…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… you wonder from the skies, And star-lit lilies, and pale, purple roses; Roses; still roses ; still the intoxication Of the scent of the world; the virgin still unborn To this riot of life, this sensuous crash of things, This fulsome fever fretting out her life.” So! It is said! No more may I unveil The mystery! The way is hidden from me. I know not; but the aching dream still stays, Burning me up to death; the cool, strong death, Even death I shall slay in the cool, strong colonnades: I shall bear the Rose of life to the heart of death. And de…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… you wonder from the skies, And star-lit lilies, and pale, purple roses; Roses; still roses ; still the intoxication Of the scent of the world; the virgin still unborn To this riot of life, this sensuous crash of things, This fulsome fever fretting out her life.” So! It is said! No more may I unveil The mystery! The way is hidden from me. I know not; but the aching dream still stays, Burning me up to death; the cool, strong death, Even death I shall slay in the cool, strong colonnades: I shall bear the Rose of life to the heart of death. And de…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 93

The Scented Garden

…is esteemed highly as incense. The passage may mean : “ I will float heavenward on the perfume of my adoration, being insulated from the world by my love (or the Holy Spirit) under That Tree.” i.e. the Tree of Life.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 46

In Residence

…o pall. I will quote you the Walt that was Whitman, the Wilde that was Oscar, the Vincent O’Sullivan, paean | and chant of the classical world, songs from America due to the lyre of the Harte that was Bret. ~ And all these estimable personages, very useful in their way, but to be strenuously opposed if they should endeavour to put their oar into morals, religion, or more important still, politics, say as with one voice (of course we do not insinuate any charge of plagiarism) in other words, substantially this, that is to say of course it must b…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 40

The Sword of Song

…nce asssumed In the soul’s splendour ! Hear is peace ; Here earnest of assured release. Here is the formless all-pervading Spirit of the World, rising, fading Into a glory subtler still. Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates, and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival. Peace ! Peace ! Silence of peace ! O visionless abode ! Cease ! Cease ! Through the dark veil press on ! The veil Is rent asunder, the stars pale, The suns vanish, the moon drops, The chorus of the spirit stops, But one note swells. Mightiest souls Of bard and music ma…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 15

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

…ts central Sun, 3° They mect those persons most complemental to their own natures, and find unexpected help and brotherhood in the whole world wherever they may travel. ‘They obtain the right to sojourn in the secret houses of the O.T.O., permanently or for a greater or lesser period of the year according to their rank in the Order; or, in the case of those of the Fifth and lower degrees, are candidates for invitation to these houses. 5° The Knowledge of the Preparation and Use of the Universal Medicine is restricted to members of the IX°; but …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: “This is our flesh and our blood” ? And you, men of the whole world, you whom the Master calls His brothers; oh, do you not feel that the universal bread, the fraternal bread, the bread of the communion, is God ? Retailers of the Crucified One! All you who are not ready to give your blood, your flesh and your life to humanity, you are not worthy of the Com- munion of the Son of God! Do not let His blood flow upon you, for it would brand your forehead ! Do not approach yo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 443

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… details with regard to the miracles?” “Oh, as many as you like!” And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn an eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic. L 145

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1913 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: “This is our flesh and our blood” ? And you, men of the whole world, you whom the Master calls His brothers; oh, do you not feel that the universal bread, the fraternal bread, the bread of the communion, is God ? Retailers of the Crucified One! All you who are not ready to give your blood, your flesh and your life to humanity, you are not worthy of the Com- munion of the Son of God! Do not let His blood flow upon you, for it would brand your forehead ! Do not approach yo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 443

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… details with regard to the miracles?” “Oh, as many as you like!” And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn an eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic. L 145

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1954 · PDF PAGE 156

Magick Without Tears

…racted to the Solar System. 2. The Child experiences Birth. 3. The Man experiences Life. 4. He experiences Death . 5. He experiences the World beyond Death. 6. This entire cycle of Point-Events is withdrawn into Annihilation . In the O.T.O. these successive stages are represented as follows : l. 0° 2. 1° 3. W 4. IW 5. IV 6. P.1. (Minerval) (Initiation) (Consecration) (Devotion) (Perfection, or Exaltation) (Perfect Initiate) Of these Events or Stations upon the Path all but three (11°) are single critical experiences . We, however, are concerned…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 302

The Law is for All

… of 174-177 oppression of, by men 42,53,172- 178,180-181 political power of 128 souls of 172.180 wonder, vision of 79 work, value of 162 World War I 188 yoga 46,116 yoni 29 Zeus 30 Zeus Arrhenothelus 30 zodiac 93 double loop in the 78

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