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1905 · PDF PAGE 200

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…nending kiss, The mutual pang that shudders through and through, . Repeated and repeated, as the light Can build a partial palace of the day, So, in our anguish for the infinite, One moment gives, the other takes away. (I, the mere rhymer, she, the queen of rhyme, As sweeps her sickle in the falling wheat, Her body’s sleek intoxicating time, The music of the motion of her feet !) I swoon in that imperial embrace— Lay we asleep till evening, or dead? I knew not, but the wonder of her face Grew as the dawn and never satiated. She knew not in her …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 76

The Sword of Song

NOTES 69 688. Christ.56—See Shri Parananda, “Com- mentaries on Matthew and John.” 695. Direction x.57—Vide supra, “Ascension Day.” 710. Steel-tired.58 For Dunlop people did not know Those nineteen hundred years ago. 723. Super-consciousness.59—The Christians also claim an ecstasy. B ut they all admit, and indeed boast, that it is the result of long periods of worry and anxiety about the safety of their precious souls : therefore their ecstasy is clearly a diseased process. The Yogic ecstasy requires absolute calm and health of mind and body. It…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 237

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… Emily, do get a gentler footman. Oh! Oh! Nobody cares for the poor old man. I am thrown on the dust-heap. Oh, Emily, may you suffer one day as I suffer! Oh! Oh! Oh! [The nurse comes forward and soothes him. NURSE. You must really be more careful of my patient, Thomas. tTHomas. I humbly beg pardon, miss. I think the balls is gritty, miss. I'll ile em to-morrow. GRANDFATHER. There, you see, Nurse is the only one thatlovesme. I should like to marry you, Nurse, eh? And cut ’em all out? MRS. ossoryY. [Glares at Nurse in silence, not trusting her- s…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 237

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… Emily, do get a gentler footman. Oh! Oh! Nobody cares for the poor old man. I am thrown on the dust-heap. Oh, Emily, may you suffer one day as I suffer! Oh! Oh! Oh! [The nurse comes forward and soothes him. NURSE. You must really be more careful of my patient, Thomas. tTHomas. I humbly beg pardon, miss. I think the balls is gritty, miss. I'll ile em to-morrow. GRANDFATHER. There, you see, Nurse is the only one thatlovesme. I should like to marry you, Nurse, eh? And cut ’em all out? MRS. ossoryY. [Glares at Nurse in silence, not trusting her- s…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 319

Magick Without Tears

…" Conduct of a Pupil Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here pops up Zola again-this time he says J'Accuse! To-day's Hexagram for me is No. X. Li, the Tiger: and the Duke of Chau comments on the last line as follows: "The sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune." O.K.; Let's! I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torment-and so yo…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 18

John St. John

…(11.47.) Home—undressed—robed —attended to toilet-cut cross of Blood once more to affirm mastery of Body— sat down at 11.49 and ended the day with 10 Prana- yamas, which caused me to perspire freely, but were not altogether easy or satisfactory. 16

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1912 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…דב Sojourned, dwelt?רוג Honour; a King of Edom;?ררה the Supernal Benignity Oppressed?םרז Σ (ιA20) 2 ! 0 Adam Primus. [Vide no.?ךהרא 607] Day Demon of 1” Dee. π?ראמ Choice?רהנ Pass on, fly?הרב To decide, determine?רזג Το dwell; circle, cycle; gene»?רוד ration To conceive?הרה A joining of words; ineanta-?רבה tions; to conjoin; a brother A sword?ברה Angel of 1“ Dec. VS?ז'נםמ Naaman {by} [Vide oEAHMA]נ ?ץ:ע: Punctata?טידרקב π 2 1 ι [Worthy]?רחבא A lion?ירא Strong?ךובנ A flash; lightning?הראה 26 A girdle?רגה A flood; Jeor?ראי “Fear,” the fear of theארי…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…דב Sojourned, dwelt?רוג Honour; a King of Edom;?ררה the Supernal Benignity Oppressed?םרז Σ (ιA20) 2 ! 0 Adam Primus. [Vide no.?ךהרא 607] Day Demon of 1” Dee. π?ראמ Choice?רהנ Pass on, fly?הרב To decide, determine?רזג Το dwell; circle, cycle; gene»?רוד ration To conceive?הרה A joining of words; ineanta-?רבה tions; to conjoin; a brother A sword?ברה Angel of 1“ Dec. VS?ז'נםמ Naaman {by} [Vide oEAHMA]נ ?ץ:ע: Punctata?טידרקב π 2 1 ι [Worthy]?רחבא A lion?ירא Strong?ךובנ A flash; lightning?הראה 26 A girdle?רגה A flood; Jeor?ראי “Fear,” the fear of theארי…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 31

John St. John

…oint of Enthusiasml People will most assuredly smile at this exalted mystic; his life seems made up of sleep and love-making. Indeed, to-day I have been shockingly under the power of Tamas, the dark sphere. But that is clearly a fatigue-effect from having worked so hard. Oh Lord, how long? The Mantra still ripples on. I am so far from the Path that I have a real good mind to get Maryt to let me perform the Black Mass on her 31 midnight. I would 29

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1912 · PDF PAGE 32

Book 4 (Part I)

18 enabled to persist through the usual persecution, and founded a religion to which even to—day one man in every eight belongs. The history of Christianity shows precisely the same remarkable fact. Jesus Christ was brought up on the fables of the “ Old Testament,” and so was compelled to ascribe his experiences to “Jehovah,” although his gentle spirit could have had nothing in common with the monster who was always commanding the rape of virgins and the murder of little children, and whose rites were then, and still are, celebrated by human sa…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 42

Book 4 (Part I)

… which naturally is rather cramped and awkward, and in which slight changes are not sufficient to bring ease. Otherwise, for the first few days, the student may even imagine that he has conquered the position. In fact, in all these practices their apparent simplicity is such that the beginner is likely to wonder what all the fuss is about, perhaps to think that he is specially gifted. Similarly a man who has never touched a golf club will take his umbrella and carelessly hole a putt which would frighten the best putter alive. In a few days, howev…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 97

Magick Without Tears

…originally called The Three Schools of Magick. (Don't be cross, please, because it is not in the form of a personal letter!) There is to-day much misunderstanding of the meaning of the term 'Magick'. Many attempts have been made to deftne it, but perhaps the best for our present purpose of historical-ideological exposition will be this-Magick is the Science of the Incommensurables. This is one of the many restricted uses of the word; one suited to the present purpose. It is particularly to be noted that Magick, so often mixed up in the popular …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 144

The Star in the West

…trayed , and doomed Already , I arose and went , And wrestled with myself, consumed With passion for that sacrament Of shame . From that day unto this My cheek desires that hideous kiss. Her hate , her scorn , her cruel blows , Fill my whole life , consume my breath ; Her red - fanged hatred in me glows , I lust for her , and hell , and death . I see that ghastly look , and yearn Toward the brands of her that burn .? Sleep shuns him , and his parched throat thirsts for the blood of her veins , “ Aching with all the pangs of night ”; his vision …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 113

John St. John

1 1.49. 12.17. 12.55. JOHN ST. JOHN of the Stars from Her paps ; yea, the Milk of the Stars from Her paps." The Ten/14 Day Now that the perfume of the incense is clearly away, one may most potently perceive the Invoked Perfume of the Ceremony Itself. And this mystical perfume of Adonai is like pure Musk, but infinitely subtilised— far stronger, and at the same time far more delicate. (P.S.—-Doubt has arisen about this perfume, as to whether there was not a commonplace cause. On the balance of the evidence, carefully considered, one would pronoun…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…e return to the Diary—— Oct. 2. (Fra. Ρ. has now retired into the Adytum of God- nourished Silence to some purposel We tran- scribe this day‘s entry; it is probably most important to us. The rest of the year's entries are nearly all of the same kind.) The Stooping Dragon—the Floor of the . . . Vide Alexandra. The Critical Converse. 36

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1912 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…e return to the Diary—— Oct. 2. (Fra. Ρ. has now retired into the Adytum of God- nourished Silence to some purposel We tran- scribe this day‘s entry; it is probably most important to us. The rest of the year's entries are nearly all of the same kind.) The Stooping Dragon—the Floor of the . . . Vide Alexandra. The Critical Converse. 36

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1913 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA Herald the day! Aha! Aha! Aha! Ho! Dance in the secret dances of the night, In the mystic windings of the mossy ways Of eld! Oh! let the silence break, break, break At the birth of man from out the universe ! Hail to the Lord of the Sun, and the Sacred Rose! Master of space and time, thou subject god !|— Master of space and time! From the Underworld I speed upon the Way! Ho! Jupiter! Iam Mercury, the little light-heeled god, The summoner of the stars at choiring-time, When they sing thine earth, thine earth, thy sun-child. Yea! From…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…d by the synagogue? Was not Savonarola burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the Christian religion ? Are not the Pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of Caiaphas? If any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and love, will they listen? In rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of the Pharaohs, Moses inaugurated the reign of the Father. In breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, Jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of God. When the last ideals fall, when the last mater…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ROSA IGNOTA Herald the day! Aha! Aha! Aha! Ho! Dance in the secret dances of the night, In the mystic windings of the mossy ways Of eld! Oh! let the silence break, break, break At the birth of man from out the universe ! Hail to the Lord of the Sun, and the Sacred Rose! Master of space and time, thou subject god !|— Master of space and time! From the Underworld I speed upon the Way! Ho! Jupiter! Iam Mercury, the little light-heeled god, The summoner of the stars at choiring-time, When they sing thine earth, thine earth, thy sun-child. Yea! From…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…d by the synagogue? Was not Savonarola burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the Christian religion ? Are not the Pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of Caiaphas? If any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and love, will they listen? In rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of the Pharaohs, Moses inaugurated the reign of the Father. In breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, Jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of God. When the last ideals fall, when the last mater…

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