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1910 · PDF PAGE 315

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…, the more they gave the child her proper place. But it must not be inferred that little Ljubov was either worshipped or freed from such menial works as children of her age are called upon to perform. Nor did her playmates realize her superiority. The alleged miracles and the reported cases of healing were heard of some ten years after her death, when eye-witnesses had all departed from this world. Yet, of course, they were possible, quite possible, quite. Til “ALL of you, suckling babes, have read the Russian tale of the Man who bought souls—o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 102

The Scented Garden

…brightness sufficient to wake me, who am the soundest of sleepers. Thus seen for the first time it is a stu- pendous and astounding phenomenon. 3. i.e. with a circular motion. The art of working the hips in coition, called by the Romans Ars Cris- sandi (Ars Cevendi in the case of a boy. Ed.) is in the East as complex and profound as that of mu- sic. It requires as much study as theology, and much practice as billiards. 4. An hardly obvious analogy. Boccoccio’s use of it is a curious coincidence. 5. Persia. Not to be confused with [Persian text]…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 127

The Book of Lies

…_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the side of a mind concerned with idle merriment [sic!] there is certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout, and Nuit, and Ra, and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the English mind to lend themselves to pious exhilaration. Mr. Crowley says in the same poem: ‘The burden is too hard to bear; I took too adamant a cross; This sackcloth rends my soul to wear, My self-denial is as dros…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 170

Magick Without Tears

…bly cover one hundredth part of the groundwork of this Art. The best tuition is that of trained and consecrated experts ; next , that of men and women of natural genius. C. Original Research: This should be based upon the broadest possible knowledge, and the deepest understanding of the same; and upon the results of the scope and intensity of one's practice. But exceed! exceed! (AL , II : 71) But always unto Me. (AL,I:5l)

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1910 · PDF PAGE 121

The Scented Garden

… his sons. He re- proaches her, saying : Am I not the maker superior to whom I made ? (quoting, I fancy, the Q’uran). She replied than women might lawfully treasure the poem and press it to their hearts, but that it would be highly scandalous if they treated the poets in that manner. 3. We are not inclined to regard the “ if ” as sceptical, but as a strong form of affirmation. “ As sure as Allah exists, He exists not only in temples made by men for His worship, but in all the beauty He has created.” This at least is the line of defence attempte…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…dure, The grave’s most holy peace is ever sure, We fall asleep and never wake again ; Nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh, Whose elements dissolve and merge afresh In earth, air, water, plants, and other men. We finish thus ; and all our wretched race Shall finish with its Cycle, and give place To other beings, with their own time-doom Infinite aeons ere our kind began ; Infinite æons after the last man Has joined the mammoth in earth’s tomb and womb. We bow down to the universal laws, Which never had for man a special clause Of cruelty or kin…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…dure, The grave’s most holy peace is ever sure, We fall asleep and never wake again ; Nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh, Whose elements dissolve and merge afresh In earth, air, water, plants, and other men. We finish thus ; and all our wretched race Shall finish with its Cycle, and give place To other beings, with their own time-doom Infinite aeons ere our kind began ; Infinite æons after the last man Has joined the mammoth in earth’s tomb and womb. We bow down to the universal laws, Which never had for man a special clause Of cruelty or kin…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 573

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…her secrets. To be a long time young, or even to become young again, that is what would appear desirable and precious to the majority of men. Is it possible? We shall examine the question. The famous Count of Saint-Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended to be over eighty. Ninon de !l’Enclos, in her very old age, was still a young, beautiful and seductive woman. She died without having grown old. Desbarrolles, the ce…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 573

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…her secrets. To be a long time young, or even to become young again, that is what would appear desirable and precious to the majority of men. Is it possible? We shall examine the question. The famous Count of Saint-Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended to be over eighty. Ninon de !l’Enclos, in her very old age, was still a young, beautiful and seductive woman. She died without having grown old. Desbarrolles, the ce…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 200

Liber Aleph

…ok of the Law that the Law is for all, so that thou shalt in no wise err if thou establish it as the formula of the Æon, universal among Men. Also, even for them that are fitted to advance in our Light, there is Order and Diversity in Function, as regardeth their Work in our Sublime Brotherhood, Thus, it might well be that, in a Profess-House of the Temple, or College of the Holy Ghost, each Knight or Brother might severally attain Experience of every Trance, unto the Perfection of all Illumi- nation; yet by this there ought not to arise Confus…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 135

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…When virgin I came to him stainless, When love was a pleasure and painless ! _ What Destiny dreams and discovers Sur. a. : The fragrance men know for a lover's? | Peace turned into laughter and tears, ‘Borne down the cold stream of the years ! CALLIOPE, ORPHEUS. CALLIOPE. IN the days of the spring of my being, When maidenly bent I above Ant. a. The head of the poet, and, seeing Orpuegus Not love, was the lyre of his love ; ° When laurels I bore to the harper, O mother, O queen many-minded, When bays for the lyrist I bore, | More beauty than bea…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 169

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ers, let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one Creature equal with another. The reasonable Creatures of the Earth, and Men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling—places, let them forget their Names. The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. His buildings, let them become Caves for the beasts of the Field! Confound her understanding with darkness! For why? it repenteth me that I have made Man. One while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an Harlot, and the dwel…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 169

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ers, let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one Creature equal with another. The reasonable Creatures of the Earth, and Men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling—places, let them forget their Names. The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. His buildings, let them become Caves for the beasts of the Field! Confound her understanding with darkness! For why? it repenteth me that I have made Man. One while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an Harlot, and the dwel…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, since the object of faith is outside the universe of reason. If one asks me :—‘‘Is there a God?” I reply, “I believe it.” “But are you sure of it?”—“If I were sure of it, I should not believe it, I should know it.” The formulation of faith is to agr…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 313

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, since the object of faith is outside the universe of reason. If one asks me :—‘‘Is there a God?” I reply, “I believe it.” “But are you sure of it?”—“If I were sure of it, I should not believe it, I should know it.” The formulation of faith is to agr…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 13

The Banned Lecture

…sfully, and that they had a nasty way of arranging for protection with people who were too powerful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. So the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. I was in Venice just before the war, when Halley’s comet was around, and although the Pope himself sprinkled holy water over the comet, …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 103

In Residence

AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL g1 ever been presented to the astounded consciousness of mortal men. Quickly overrunning the civilized world, it has penetrated (auspice Teucro) into the very remotest steppes of Central Asia, the wildest savannahs of the American prairie, where dog and oyster burble in plethoric harmony among the verdant shoots of cactus and coyote, where the giant Appomattox rolls in sulky majesty to the red bays of the Pacific. The Society formed to exploit this unheard- of invention is, naturally, of a most secret nature: perhaps…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…rlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18, Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18, Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e door of the tavern and revile the guests. 13. The guests dally upon couches of mother-of-pearl in the garden; the noise of the foolish men is hidden from them. 14. Only the inn-keeper feareth lest the favour of the king be withdrawn from him. 15. Thus spake the Magister V.V.V.V.V. unto Adonai his God, as they played together in the starlight over against the deep black pool that is in the Holy Place of the Holy House beneath the Altar of the Holiest One. 16. But Adonai laughed, and played more languidly. 17. Then the scribe took note, and was…

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