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1911 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… that seemed longer than many lives the sun of heaven broke in andsmotemineeye, so that I fellbackwardnighfainting. But he bade me be 01 good cheer and return to the task. I obeyed; andbeholdl againthe sun,and behind the sun aglimpse 01 one appointed equally to be hidden and to be seen, each as may be fitting. But the brightness of the sun and its heat dazzled me and scorched me. My members refused to obey; and I slid back- ward into the great stream that was here so icy cold, and it refreshed me and comforted me. Now then I was minded to enter …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 148

The Vision and the Voice

…s than straight, well-proportioned, rather large nostrils. Full of vitality, the whole thing. Not very tall, rather slim and graceful; a good dancer. There is another girl behind her, with sparkling eyes, mis- chievous, a smile showing beautiful white teeth; an ideal Spanish girl, but fair. Very vivacious. Only her head is visible, and now it is veiled by a black sun, casting forth dull rays of black and gold. Then the disk of the sun is a pair of balances, held steady; and twined about the central pole of the balance is the little green poison…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…INOX expectations be deceived. You are the son of a M. who glories in the profession; and for your zeal and attachment, your silence and good conduct, your father has already pledged his honour. “You are now, as a member of this illustrious order, introduced a subject of a new country, whose extent is boundless. . Pictures are opened to your view, wherein true patriotism is exemplified in glowing colours, and a series of transactions recorded, which the rude hand of Time can never erase. The obligations which influenced the first Brutus and Man…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 430

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…of a bourgeois criticism, which denies everything which it does not yet know how to explain to itself. Facts are inexorable, and genuine good faith should never fear to examine them. The explanation of these facts, which all traditions obsti- nately affirm, and which are reproduced before our eyes with tiresome publicity, this explanation, ancient as the facts themselves, rigorous as mathematics, but drawn for the first time from the shadows in which the hierophants of all ages have hidden it, would be a great scientific event if it could obtai…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 436

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…described in detail. There is in Paris a writer named Mr. Madrolle, who is, to say the least of it, a bit eccentric. He is an old man of good family. He wrote at first on behalf of Catholicism in the most exalted way, received most flattering encouragements from ecclesiastical authority, and even letters from the Holy See. Then he saw Vintras; and, led away by the prestige of his miracles, became a determined sectarian, and an irreconcil- able enemy of the hierarchy and of the clergy. At ‘the period when Eliphas Levi was publishing his Dogme et…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 456

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…of a colossal ox. But he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. Eliphas, who is an epicure in magic, was delighted with this find. In the nineteenth century, a real sorcerer of the middle ages, a remarkably innocent and convinced sorcerer, a sorcerer who had seen Satan under the name of Adonai, Satan dressed like a respectable citizen, and Astaroth in his true diabolical form! What a supreme find fora museum! What a tre…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 550

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…is /egion,; in their turn they reign despotically over the fluid souls of the flocks that are confided to their care: consequently their good-will or ill-will makes their cattle prosper or die; and this influence of animal sympathy can be exercised by them upon human plastic mediums which are ill defended, owing either to a weak will or a limited intelligence. Thus are explained the bewitchments which are habitually made by shepherds, and the still quite recent phenomena of the Presbytery of Cideville. Cideville is a little village of Normandy,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…INOX expectations be deceived. You are the son of a M. who glories in the profession; and for your zeal and attachment, your silence and good conduct, your father has already pledged his honour. “You are now, as a member of this illustrious order, introduced a subject of a new country, whose extent is boundless. . Pictures are opened to your view, wherein true patriotism is exemplified in glowing colours, and a series of transactions recorded, which the rude hand of Time can never erase. The obligations which influenced the first Brutus and Man…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 430

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…of a bourgeois criticism, which denies everything which it does not yet know how to explain to itself. Facts are inexorable, and genuine good faith should never fear to examine them. The explanation of these facts, which all traditions obsti- nately affirm, and which are reproduced before our eyes with tiresome publicity, this explanation, ancient as the facts themselves, rigorous as mathematics, but drawn for the first time from the shadows in which the hierophants of all ages have hidden it, would be a great scientific event if it could obtai…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 436

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…described in detail. There is in Paris a writer named Mr. Madrolle, who is, to say the least of it, a bit eccentric. He is an old man of good family. He wrote at first on behalf of Catholicism in the most exalted way, received most flattering encouragements from ecclesiastical authority, and even letters from the Holy See. Then he saw Vintras; and, led away by the prestige of his miracles, became a determined sectarian, and an irreconcil- able enemy of the hierarchy and of the clergy. At ‘the period when Eliphas Levi was publishing his Dogme et…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 456

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…of a colossal ox. But he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. Eliphas, who is an epicure in magic, was delighted with this find. In the nineteenth century, a real sorcerer of the middle ages, a remarkably innocent and convinced sorcerer, a sorcerer who had seen Satan under the name of Adonai, Satan dressed like a respectable citizen, and Astaroth in his true diabolical form! What a supreme find fora museum! What a tre…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 550

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…is /egion,; in their turn they reign despotically over the fluid souls of the flocks that are confided to their care: consequently their good-will or ill-will makes their cattle prosper or die; and this influence of animal sympathy can be exercised by them upon human plastic mediums which are ill defended, owing either to a weak will or a limited intelligence. Thus are explained the bewitchments which are habitually made by shepherds, and the still quite recent phenomena of the Presbytery of Cideville. Cideville is a little village of Normandy,…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 60

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…an one. I had taken a thousand pounds in cash from London, thinking as I did so how jolly it was to be reckless. We were going to have a good time, and damn the expense! I thought of a thousand pounds as enough to paint Paris every colour of the spectrum for a quite in- definitely long period; but at the end of the week the thousand pounds was gone, and so was another thousand pounds for which I had cabled to London; and we had absolutely nothing to show for it except a couple of dresses for Lou, and a few not very expensive pieces of jewellery…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 126

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…g discomfort. He had outraged every principle of probity and probability; but he was justified, provided that his primary postulate held good. I could think {220} of only one way of putting him to the test. It concerned an episode at which Allan Bennett was present. Allan, and he alone, could confirm the account which Mathers had given me. If he did so, Mathers was vindicated; if not, it was fatal to his claims. It seems absurd to travel eight thousand miles to ask one question --- a childish question into the bargain! --- but that was what I d…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 377

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…re of them. “God exists; there is only one God, and He punishes those who do evil,” said Moses. “God is everywhere; He is in us, and the good that we do to men we do it to God,” said Jesus. “ Fear” is the conclusion of the dogma of Moses. “Love” is the conclusion of the dogma of Jesus. The typical ideal of the life of God in humanity is incarnation. Incarnation necessitates redemption, and operates it in the name of the reversibility of solidarity,? or, in other words, of universal communion, the dogmatic principle of the spirit of charity. To …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 377

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…re of them. “God exists; there is only one God, and He punishes those who do evil,” said Moses. “God is everywhere; He is in us, and the good that we do to men we do it to God,” said Jesus. “ Fear” is the conclusion of the dogma of Moses. “Love” is the conclusion of the dogma of Jesus. The typical ideal of the life of God in humanity is incarnation. Incarnation necessitates redemption, and operates it in the name of the reversibility of solidarity,? or, in other words, of universal communion, the dogmatic principle of the spirit of charity. To …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 270

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…s, come !] First, God made heav’n, earth: Earth gauche, void; deep, dark. God's Ghost stirred sea, God said ‘ Light!" "Twas. ‘Saw light, Good, split off dark, call’d light ‘day,’ dark ‘night.’ Eve, Morn, day I. ‘Said, ‘‘’Twixt wets be air, split wets !"’ ‘Madeair, split wets ‘neath air, wets top air; so. Call’d air ‘heav'n.’ Eve, morn, day II. ‘Said, ‘* Low wets, Cling close, show earth.” So. ‘Call’d dry ‘earth,’ wet ‘sea.’ Rubbed hands, smacked lips, said ‘ good.’ [Here John was seized By order of Augustus. He maintained, In spite of the imper…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 161

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… to get hold of the beast or to pin him with the boathook, thought his struggles were gradually ceasing, but nothing we could do was any good; little by little he slid off the shallow into the deep water and sank. After hunting about for twenty minutes we gave the affair up as a bad job. Rowing slowly up the stream, we soon caught sight of another fine beast, though not quite so big as the one we lost. I took, however, an extraordinarily careful shot at it and had the good luck to smash its spine. Everyone thought I had missed, but I swore that…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 157

The Star in the West

…e bestial woman , beaten by her mates , In utter fear broke down the bar of reason ; Shrieked , crawled to die ; delirium abates By some good chance her terror in its season , Her ravings picture the cessation of Such life as she had known : her mind conceives A God of Mercy , Happiness and Love ; Reverses life and fact : and so believes .' This last line practically contains the fundamental basis of all religion . Man finding that Nature was but 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 179 .

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1910 · PDF PAGE 285

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE HASHEESH EATER of producing muscular weakness, yet the universal law of constantly accelerating diabolisation of visions held good as much in my case as in any others; but a thing of horror once experienced became a «ria & dei, an inalienable dower of hell; it was certain to reproduce itself in some—to God be the thanks if not in all—future visions. I had seen, for instance, in one of my states of ecstasy, a luminous spot on the firmament, a prismatic parhelion. In the midst of my delight of gazing on it, it had transferred itself mysteriou…

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