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1929 · PDF PAGE 54

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…n writer thoroughly conversant with pessimism who is very opti- mistic. But the new facts which I here submit over- thrown the whole argument; they cast a sword of infi- nite weight on that petty trembling scale. 2. This is my general complaint, and that of all research students on the one hand and imaginative writers on the other. We can only express a new idea by combining two or more old ideas, or by the use of metaphor; just so any number can be formed from two others. James Hinton had undoubtedly a perfectly crisp, simple, and concise idea…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 125

Konx Om Pax

… God and death and hate I swear That man shall rise, shall understand. I swear by this my lucid Eye, By all the freedom I have won, That men shall learn to love and doubt, Put faith and slavery to the rout, And eagle-pinioned even as I Soar to the splendour of the sun! All right! all right! said the doctor, rather testily. But you want everybody to use your methods. Hurrah for Huxley! Down with Jesus! By heaven, your tyranny will soon be as bad as that of Rome or Geneva. Every man must find his own way to freedom. Let me read to you about my mad…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 351

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… the dead ! Why do you always impress upon your offspring the bloody sigil of the knife? God no longer wishes to separate you from other men; be our brethren, and eat with us the consecrated Bread of peace on altars that blood stains never. The law of Moses is accomplished: read your books and understand that you have been a blind and hard-hearted race, even as all your prophets said to you. You have also been a courageous race, a race that per- severed in strife. Children of Israel, become the children of God: Under- stand and love! God has wi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 351

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… the dead ! Why do you always impress upon your offspring the bloody sigil of the knife? God no longer wishes to separate you from other men; be our brethren, and eat with us the consecrated Bread of peace on altars that blood stains never. The law of Moses is accomplished: read your books and understand that you have been a blind and hard-hearted race, even as all your prophets said to you. You have also been a courageous race, a race that per- severed in strife. Children of Israel, become the children of God: Under- stand and love! God has wi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 137

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…Let me tell my story!’ I replied, ‘and you shall judge— for, whoever you may be, I feel your power and truth.’ “*T am Eliphaz Levi Zahed—men call me the Abbé Constant,’ returned the other. “©The great magician?’ “«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But ma…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 137

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…Let me tell my story!’ I replied, ‘and you shall judge— for, whoever you may be, I feel your power and truth.’ “*T am Eliphaz Levi Zahed—men call me the Abbé Constant,’ returned the other. “©The great magician?’ “«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But ma…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 126

The Star in the West

…ning the royal palace of Persepolis , and after his death married Ptolemy , King of Egypt ; and was it not at the feet of Lais that such men as Demosthenes and Diogenes were to be found ? Was it not also Catullus who sang to the fickle Lesbia : Give me kisses thousand fold , Add to them a hundred more ; Other thousands still be told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadf…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 220

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 213 fundamentally they at heart are one . The former hav ing postulated an eternal “ creator , ” a something out of something - God ; the latter postulated an eternal creation ,” a something for ever something — Matter . “ The mere terrestrial -minded man Knows not the things of God , nor can Their subtle meaning understand ? ” say , although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions , God .? A sage ,I Then under the daedal wand of Newton and Berke ley , Science disclosed the fact that Matter is Hylo Zoic-a fact already suppos…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 181

Book 4 (Part II)

169 it. There is no harm in a man's experimenting with opium-smoking or feeding on nuts; but the moment he ceases to examine, to act from habit and without reflection, he is in trouble. We all of us eat too niucli, l)ecause people, liveried and obsequious, have always bustled up five times daily with six months' provisions, and it was less trouble to feed and be done with it, than to examine the question whether we were hungry. If you cook your own food, you soon find that you don't rook more or less than you want; and health returns. If, howev…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 469

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…of our anguish. Eliphas Levi had been swept out of the church by the crowd. He had come out by the right-hand door. Almost at the same moment the left-hand door was flung violently open, and a furious group of men rushed out of the church. This group was whirling around a man whom fifty arms seemed to hold, whom a hundred shaken fists sought to strike. This man later complained of having been roughly handled by the police, but, as far as one could see in such an uproar, the police were rather protecting him against the exasperation of the mob. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 469

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…of our anguish. Eliphas Levi had been swept out of the church by the crowd. He had come out by the right-hand door. Almost at the same moment the left-hand door was flung violently open, and a furious group of men rushed out of the church. This group was whirling around a man whom fifty arms seemed to hold, whom a hundred shaken fists sought to strike. This man later complained of having been roughly handled by the police, but, as far as one could see in such an uproar, the police were rather protecting him against the exasperation of the mob. …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 53

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpétuai radiance hearten us to continuai labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE LORD) The DEACON. Lord secret and most holy, source of light, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and mighty within us, force …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 183

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 171 #x De Via Propria Feminis (Of the Path Proper to Women) T is indeed easy for a Woman to obtain the Exper- ience of Magick, in a certain Sort, as Visions, Trances, and the like; yet they take not Hold upon Her, to transform Her, as with Men, but pass only as Images upon a Speculum. So then a Woman advanceth never in Magick, but remaineth the same, rightly or wrongly ordered according to the Force that moveth Her. Here herefore is the Limit of Her Aspiration in Magick, to abide joyous and obedient beneath the Man t…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 85

The Book of Thoth

… who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 123

The Star in the West

…on the pudibonderie of the English . Society is but a gaping and toothed gin , as he well shows in “ The Honourable Adulterers ” where women , the frailer sex , are the unfortunate victims . Man made God , and God made woman out of one of man's wretched little ribs . Regardless of manners , man sucks the wretched little bone as he would the leg of a chicken , tears off the flesh and casts it into the bin . The masses are but sheep , following the bell - wether convention ; deprive them of their initial , and they become neither lambs nor tigers…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 150

The Star in the West

…re us crowned , naked , and wonderful . Neither Alice nor Archais , neither Ratoum nor Cora , neither Venus nor Isis , yet the woven filament of all these glowing petals into one flaming Rose of glory ; in whose sceptred - heart burns the white phallus of God , and whose jewelled crown is crimson with the lips of the passionate daughters of Men . Rose of the World ! Red glory of the secret heart of Love ! Red flame , rose - red , most subtly curled Into its own infinite flower , all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion , Its f…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 49

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ly degene- rate 50 percent. in strength withina fewdays. Some samples may be totally inert. This fact has led to the almost total abandonment of the use of the drug in medicine. Further, the personal equation counts for much. Allan Bennett in Chancery Lane had on one occasion taken suffi- cient Conium (hemlock) to kill forty men without the smallest result of any kind. In KandyI had (for the first time in my life) taken two hundred and twenty-five drops of Laudanum in five hours, also with no more result than would have been produced by ten dro…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 49

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ly degene- rate 50 percent. in strength withina fewdays. Some samples may be totally inert. This fact has led to the almost total abandonment of the use of the drug in medicine. Further, the personal equation counts for much. Allan Bennett in Chancery Lane had on one occasion taken suffi- cient Conium (hemlock) to kill forty men without the smallest result of any kind. In KandyI had (for the first time in my life) taken two hundred and twenty-five drops of Laudanum in five hours, also with no more result than would have been produced by ten dro…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 86

The Scented Garden

…aware of the wisdom of my tutor, who bade me weary not of the length of the Book4 ; but bade me praise the compassion of Allah, who made men evil that He and they might rejoice together at the end.5 It is indeed the fact, O gazelle-eyed boy, that thy podex is excessively wide ; but my member can fill it, pressing in to its length till the sun and moon are at rest upon the snow-hills. This (thou wilt remember) was not the case before thou didst for- sake me. Thou mayest doubtless ask shy, if such were the case, I did not cause thee to be violent…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 64

Liber Aleph

…sciousness. Now no Man doubteth the Power of the Will of Man, whether it be his love that begetteth Children or causes wars wherein many Men be slain, whether it be his Eloquence that moveth a Mob or his Vanity that destroyeth a People. Only in all such Cases we understand how Nature worketh, through known Laws physical or psychical. That is, there is a State of unstable Equilibrium, so that one Machine setteth another in Motion as soon as the first Disturbance ariseth. Therefore, it is not proper to regard all Consequence of a Will as its Effe…

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