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1954 · PDF PAGE 438

Magick Without Tears

…n reality based upon subconscious calculation, so that faith has nothing whatever to do with it. If there is any answer to this, I don't know it. After all, that is neither here nor there; there is but one material issue: how to acquire that kind of faith. Suppose we hunt it up in that precious Book of Lies! Any luck? Steeped Horsehair Mind is a disease of semen. All that a man is or mayljds hidden therein. Bodily functions are parts. of the1hachine; silent, unless in dis-ease. But mind, never at ease, creaketh "I." This I persisteth not, poste…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 475

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…iar temper of the United States, whose people, however ignorant and dishonest individually, are always, as a whole, curiously anxious to know the truth and to do justice, this propaganda was infernally dangerous to British interests. I talked to my friends about it. All they could say was that Viereck was personally despicable. Some, like Captain Gaunt, affected to ignore the importance of The Fatherland. Others, even more hopeless from my point of view, seemed to think that they could suppress "The Fatherland" by continuing their lifelong poli…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 23

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…am— The Mahalingam of Shiva (amo Shivaya namaha Aum !) which is all I ever thought it was; all you have to do is to keep swinging hard—I know it’s hook-swinging!—and you get there in the End. Why trouble to swing? First, because you're bound to swing, whether you like it or not; second, because your attention is thereby distracted from those lumbar muscles in which the hook is so very firmly fixed; third, because after all it’s a ripping good game; fourth, because you want to get on, and even to seem to progress is better than standing still. A…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 100

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…enomous as a scorpion! THE CHILD. My father’s crest is a scorpion. LAYLAH. No! Nol it cannot be. I am mad. I hear a strange thing. Now I know what I saw in your face. Child! Child] I am sorry I hurt you. Ι want to be friends with you. Iam all-powerful here. No harm shall come to you] His child] Come and kiss me! [The ehild Shi’ihhs away.] 92

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1911 · PDF PAGE 100

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…enomous as a scorpion! THE CHILD. My father’s crest is a scorpion. LAYLAH. No! Nol it cannot be. I am mad. I hear a strange thing. Now I know what I saw in your face. Child! Child] I am sorry I hurt you. Ι want to be friends with you. Iam all-powerful here. No harm shall come to you] His child] Come and kiss me! [The ehild Shi’ihhs away.] 92

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1913 · PDF PAGE 508

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e remembers that the magi were the masters of primitive civilization, because they were the masters of all the science of their time. To know is to be able when one dares to will. The first science of the practical qabalist, or the magus, is the knowledge of men. Phrenology, psychology, chiromancy, the observation of tastes and of movement, of the sound of the voice and of either sympathetic or antipathetic impres- sions, are branches of this art, and the ancients were not ignorant of them. Gall and Spurzheim in our days have rediscovered phren…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 508

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e remembers that the magi were the masters of primitive civilization, because they were the masters of all the science of their time. To know is to be able when one dares to will. The first science of the practical qabalist, or the magus, is the knowledge of men. Phrenology, psychology, chiromancy, the observation of tastes and of movement, of the sound of the voice and of either sympathetic or antipathetic impres- sions, are branches of this art, and the ancients were not ignorant of them. Gall and Spurzheim in our days have rediscovered phren…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 186

The Law is for All

Chapter III A Verses 61 — 67 187 Such Life and Mind may therefore be utterly different to any­ thing we know of; the “girders” of their souls in other spheres may be other than ours. The above argument is a case of a “girder”; we are bound mentally by our race-experience of the environment in which our own lives flourish. A pioneer choosing a camp must look for wood, water, perhaps shelter, perhaps game. In another planet he might not need any of these. The “girders” which determine the “form” of our souls are therefore limitations to our thoug…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 126

Konx Om Pax

… self alone; Human ethics will not loosen our Astarte’s crimson zone. You will never fit your forehead with your father’s fancy hats: You know more about salvation than the Reverend Robert Rats. Well, you have most certainly met an unpleasant set of people, ex claimed the big man. Can’t we be a bit cheerful for a change? The night wears on: we must part. I think you would like my Gipsy girl, said Denzil, without scruple or difiidence. If she’s a sane clean human being, we shall. So Arthur Gray voiced the general feeling. Without further debate he…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 17

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ho have experienced things of a nature so exalted that no words ever penned could even adumbrate them faintly. The communication of such knowledge, so far as it is at all possible, must be a personal thing ; and we offer it with both hands. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to him the History of the Order and explain the task of the Probationer. For we give to each inquirer a year’s study; m…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 17

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ho have experienced things of a nature so exalted that no words ever penned could even adumbrate them faintly. The communication of such knowledge, so far as it is at all possible, must be a personal thing ; and we offer it with both hands. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to him the History of the Order and explain the task of the Probationer. For we give to each inquirer a year’s study; m…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 451

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank, that Eliphas knew nothing of 153

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1913 · PDF PAGE 451

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank, that Eliphas knew nothing of 153

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1916 · PDF PAGE 6

A Prophet In His Own Country

…ghosts and vampires and werewolves, who cannot read or write, has never travelled beyond the radius of twenty miles from his hamlet, and knows nothing of his country’s affairs, much less of the world’s, could never be so insensible to the facts of human nature as Henry Ford. You could argue with him “til all was blue,” but you would never even begin to persuade him. He would know it was all nonsense, just in the same way as you cannot fool a dog about a tramp. It is true that this instinct is sometimes wrong after all in certain minor matters, …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 30

The Sword of Song

…r than light I flashed, ran to him, And at his holy feet prostrated My head ; then, all my being sated With love, cried “Master ! I must know. Already I can love.” E’en so. The sage saluted me ram, ram,9 lmba p'av kI b'I dam , janI yh sb se m zikl kam hE, vah zavaz , t mhar nam istarae< me< sIne se iloa hE , hmare pas Aap cele , hm dva$ icÄa ke vaSte de<ge . ha< , said I : “I’m game to work through all eternity, Your holiness the Guru Swami !”* Thus I studied with him till he told me bs. 10 He taught the A B C of Yoga : I asked ik vaSte,11 kya …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 43

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…and here in your dear dead father’s name. ANGELA. You stand here, Percy, for yourself—and me. CARRUTHERS. Come down; I am your guardian. Know this ! Without me you do nought, say nought, spend nought. Obey me ! Sir PERCY. Silence, sir, I am your master. Whatever powers my father may have given To you, there's one that I inherit from him ; Namely, to tame the insolent. ( Zverns to ANGELA. Dear wife ! I go, as a tooth torn from a jaw. Txpect I quell this folly in a little while And come again—to Paris, said you, sweet? CARRUTHERS. Leave your mad …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ld, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols for the Unknown; once born, environment, circumstance, position, convention, education, all in their turn come forward to claim us and smother us in their bestial kisses. Yet like the streams and the gutters, the …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ld, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols for the Unknown; once born, environment, circumstance, position, convention, education, all in their turn come forward to claim us and smother us in their bestial kisses. Yet like the streams and the gutters, the …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…d my blood is the blood of the earth. My life is hers, and as she is a spark thrown off from the whirling brilliance of the sun, so do I know myself to be a spark of infinite Godl Seek earth, and heaven shall be added unto you! Back to our mother, drive the shining spade into her wombl Wrinkle her with your furrows, she will only smile more kindly! Let your sweat, the sweat of your toil, which is your passion, drip like benediction from on High upon her; she will render corn and wine. Also your wife shall be desirable in your eyes all the days o…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…d my blood is the blood of the earth. My life is hers, and as she is a spark thrown off from the whirling brilliance of the sun, so do I know myself to be a spark of infinite Godl Seek earth, and heaven shall be added unto you! Back to our mother, drive the shining spade into her wombl Wrinkle her with your furrows, she will only smile more kindly! Let your sweat, the sweat of your toil, which is your passion, drip like benediction from on High upon her; she will render corn and wine. Also your wife shall be desirable in your eyes all the days o…

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