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1909 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… 8| Long | Perilous} Come | Hard 6 |Soon out} Come |Out late out out Journey g| Evil | Med. | Good | Evil Evil | Good Evil |V. good by v Thing Lost 10| Not | Found | Found| Found| Part | Found} Not | Found found found found Lw. e e ee Ste] tlt : Caupa Dracons| > a] : Life, &c. 1| Med. Evil |Veryevil Toler- Evil | Med. | Good | Evil able Money, &. 2 | Good | Evil |Veryevil] Good | Med. |Suffic’nt] Good | Evil Rank, &c. 3| Med. | Evil |Veryevill Med. | Evil |Suffic'nt] Good | Evil Property 4| Good | Evil |Veryevill Med. | Evil |Suffic’nt) Good | …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… 8| Long | Perilous} Come | Hard 6 |Soon out} Come |Out late out out Journey g| Evil | Med. | Good | Evil Evil | Good Evil |V. good by v Thing Lost 10| Not | Found | Found| Found| Part | Found} Not | Found found found found Lw. e e ee Ste] tlt : Caupa Dracons| > a] : Life, &c. 1| Med. Evil |Veryevil Toler- Evil | Med. | Good | Evil able Money, &. 2 | Good | Evil |Veryevil] Good | Med. |Suffic’nt] Good | Evil Rank, &c. 3| Med. | Evil |Veryevill Med. | Evil |Suffic'nt] Good | Evil Property 4| Good | Evil |Veryevill Med. | Evil |Suffic’nt) Good | …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ome | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | Med. | Evil | Good | Mea. | Mea. | Evil | Evil Property 4 | Med. | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med. | Evil | Evil | Mea. Wife, &. 5 | Med. | Med. | Evil |…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ome | Come | Come | Long | Come |Late out| Slow out out out out Journey 9 | Med. | Good | Good | Med. | Soon | Med. | Evil | Slow return Thing Lost 10] Found | Not | Found | Not | Found | Found | Found | Found found found Lw. ee * : 32 Amassto “ : : Life, &o. 1| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med, | Mea. | Evia | Evil Money, &, 2| Good | Med. | Evil | Med. | Mea, | Evil | Evi | Mea. Rank, &, 3 | Med. | Med. | Evil | Good | Mea. | Mea. | Evil | Evil Property 4 | Med. | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med. | Evil | Evil | Mea. Wife, &. 5 | Med. | Med. | Evil |…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 64

The Sword of Song

…handra.56—Anglicé, shot the moon. 388. The subtle devilish omission.87—But what are w e to say of Christian dialectitians who quote “All things work together for good” out of its context, and call this verse “Chris- tian optimism ?” See Caird’s “Hegel.” Hegel knew how to defend himself, though. As Goethe wrote of him : “ They thought the master too Inclined to fuss and finick. The students’ anger grew To frenzy Paganinic.* They vowed they’d make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic : He had sco…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 184

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…nd averages, Are the results of meditation due to auto- hypnosis ? So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer ®!—test its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. ‘ O God,” I prayed, “‘ for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times--what a thumping trout ! (Thi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 35

John St. John

…l try a little longer in the Position of the Hanged Man, although sleep is again attacking me. I am weary, yet content, as if some great thing had indeed happened. But if I lost consciousness— a thing no man can be positive about from the nature of things—it must have happened so quietly that I never knew. Certainly I should not have thought that I had gone on for 25 minutes, as I did. But I do indeed ask for a Knowledge and Conversa- tion of the Holy Guardian Angel which is not left so much to be inferred from the good results in my life and w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…oman, 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 am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…oman, 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 am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 180

Little Poems in Prose

… at ease, I climbed the promon- tory Whence one may contemplate the town outspread— Hospital, brothel, jail, hell, purgatory, Where each thing monstrous rears its pros- pered head! Well know’st thou Satan (ease this woe of mine!) I went not thither useless tears to shed, But an old lecher with’s old concubine, To madden sense on the enormous bitch Whose hellish charm pours youth for me like wine Whether thou sleep in morning’s sheets (dear witch!) Heavy, obscure, and chill; or preen thee, vain, In evening’s veils, with gold embroidery rich.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 521

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…E KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The devil is the giddiness of the intelligence stupefied by the irresolution of the heart. It is a monomania of nothingness, the lure of the abyss; independently of what it may be according to the decisions of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman faith, which we have not the temerity to touch. As to the reproduction of signs and characters by that universal fluid, which we call astral light, to deny its possi- bility would be to take little account of the most ordinary phenomena of Nature. The mirage in the steppes of Russi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 521

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…E KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The devil is the giddiness of the intelligence stupefied by the irresolution of the heart. It is a monomania of nothingness, the lure of the abyss; independently of what it may be according to the decisions of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman faith, which we have not the temerity to touch. As to the reproduction of signs and characters by that universal fluid, which we call astral light, to deny its possi- bility would be to take little account of the most ordinary phenomena of Nature. The mirage in the steppes of Russi…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 235

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…itions can, with a little ingenuity, be reduced to one form or the other.! - Thus, if I say that grass is green, I mean that an external thing is an internal thing: for the grass is certainly not in my eye, and the green certainly zs in it. As all will admit. So, if you throw a material brick at your wife, and hit her (as may happen to all of us), there is a most serious difficulty in the question, ‘‘ At what point did your (spiritual) affection for her transform into the (material) brick, and that again into her (spiritual) reformation ?”’ Sim…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 296

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…as weariness, there was patience, there was alertness. And the room was strangely silent, unsympathetic to her mood. She was the dimmest thing in that gray light. Still she strove. She grew more tense, her mouth tightened, an ugly compression. Her eyes flashed with—was it hate? The soul of the song was now all anguish, all pleading, all despair —ever reaching to some unattainable thing. She choked, a spasmodic sob. She stopped playing; she bit her lips, and a drop of blood stood on them scarlet against their angry purple, like sunset and storm.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 296

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…as weariness, there was patience, there was alertness. And the room was strangely silent, unsympathetic to her mood. She was the dimmest thing in that gray light. Still she strove. She grew more tense, her mouth tightened, an ugly compression. Her eyes flashed with—was it hate? The soul of the song was now all anguish, all pleading, all despair —ever reaching to some unattainable thing. She choked, a spasmodic sob. She stopped playing; she bit her lips, and a drop of blood stood on them scarlet against their angry purple, like sunset and storm.…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 324

Magick Without Tears

…a thousand times better to make every kind of mistake than to slide into the habit of hesitation, of uncertainty, of indecision. For one thing, you acquire also the habit of dishonourable failure; and you very soon convince yourself that "the whole thing is nonsense." Confidence comes from exercise, from taking risks, from picking yourself up after a purler; finding that the maddest gambles keep on coming off, you begin to suspect that there is more than Luck in it; you observe this closely, and there forms, in the dusk dimly, a Shape; very soo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 99

The World’s Tragedy

…NYMPH While the riddle thou hast ree’d Mocks them with its “ Blood suffices ”. ALEXANDER Know ye, bright ones, who I am ? I have slain a thing adored At this altar to its Lord, As a butcher kills a lamb. IST NYMPH That shall be — thou rightly fearest — Till the Balance weigh the Ram. 2ND NYMPH Men shall even slay their dearest For the sake of that slain lamb.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 241

The Star in the West

…riori truth ” ; and as to the laws of cause and effect , [if we accept caus ality , etc. , then we must regard all as truly parts of one thing , perhaps even as aspects of one thing .) And Kant , after a series of analytical arguments , comes to the conclusion that the legitimacy of natural laws " rests on the necessary connection of phenomena in an experience , in other words , on the original laws of the understanding , ” (p . 67 ). The understanding draw ing its laws à priori not from nature , but prescribing them to it . ( But these origina…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 415

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…. This time, to slay it or be slain! Too easy task! The charger gains Stride after stride with little pains Upon the lumbering, flapping thing. He stabs the lamb, and splits the brains Of that majestic-seeming king. He clips the wing and pares the claw— What turns to laughter all his joy, To wondering ribaldry his awe? The beast’s a mere mechanic toy, Fit to amuse an idle boy! 39

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1910 · PDF PAGE 415

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…. This time, to slay it or be slain! Too easy task! The charger gains Stride after stride with little pains Upon the lumbering, flapping thing. He stabs the lamb, and splits the brains Of that majestic-seeming king. He clips the wing and pares the claw— What turns to laughter all his joy, To wondering ribaldry his awe? The beast’s a mere mechanic toy, Fit to amuse an idle boy! 39

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