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1909 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…rain, which fell heavily, had apparently not the slightest effect in cooling his heated brain. As I passed him I spoke: “What a wretched night!” The sound of my voice startled him. He seized my arm and hurried me towards the lamp-post. Then he stared at me for a long time, and, speaking slowly, hammering every syllable in my ear, while the rain continued its monotonous lamentation, he began: “T should be very much surprised if this were not the cover I am waiting for. No fallacies will induce me to free you now that at last I have found you. I …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 558

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…sense is a true insanity; the man who does not, first of all, obey justice no longer belongs to himself; he walks without a light in the night of his exist- 260

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1913 · PDF PAGE 558

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…sense is a true insanity; the man who does not, first of all, obey justice no longer belongs to himself; he walks without a light in the night of his exist- 260

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1913 · PDF PAGE 18

The Rosicrucian Scandal

land So and So have been to my flat and passed the night” 1 Suggest that the names mentioned were those of mutual friends of Crowley and Berridge, men beyond suspicion, Maries. It may have been so. Sconrio, K.C, Andthat Crowley added, implicitly or explicitly: “ts that any reason for making such abominable charges?” Maruins. Perhaps. Scorpio, K.C, I must ask you to remember that Crowley was brought up among the Plymouth Brethren, and thatat this time he nad no more knowledge of the world than most boys of 16, He swallowed your yarns easily enou…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 204

The Star in the West

…that all things are a unity , that no con tradiction can or does exist , and that there is a universal harmony ; then , as that terrific night engulfs all and envelops us , O children of the Day ! Let us rise up with the whole dawn of our understanding , encircle and an nihilate this dismal unity , and conglobe all into a per fect nothingness , an ineffable bliss — attainment is ours . It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego - Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own Non - Ego - Skandhas are alone…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…atest. The Fire is not defiled by the altars of the Ghebers, nor is the Moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the Queen of Night. 20. Thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious dia- mond among cloudy diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass. Only the eye of the just merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single thee out and glorify thee before men. 21. But thou shalt heed none of this. Thou shalt be ever the heart, and I the serpent will coil close about thee. My coils shall never relax throughout the o…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 149

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…hed about in a drawer and produced a telegram. He handed it over to me. It was addressed to Laroche. “Urgent bisnes oblige live for Roma night. Pay bill packup join me Museo Palace Hotel Napls in time to cach miday train. Pendragon.” The words were mostly mis-spelt ; but the meaning was clear enough. Some one must be playing a practical joke. Probably that paragraph in the paper was part of the same idea. So I supposed Laroche was in the hotel in Naples wondering why we didn’t turn up. “But where's our luggage ?’”’ cried Lou. “Why,” said the ma…

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1947 · PDF PAGE 10

The Last Ritual

…hin us, force of energy, fire of motion ; with diligence let us ever labour with thee, that we may remain in thine abundant joy. Lady of night, that turning ever about us art now visible and now invisible in thy season, be thou favourable to hunters, and lovers, and to all men that toil upon the earth, and to all mariners upon the sea. Lord of Life and Joy, that art the might of man, that art the essence of every true god that is upon the surface of the Earth, continuing knowledge from generation to generation, thou adored of us upon heaths and…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 180

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develop reason. After long years, too, in thy season Bloom, Concentration’s midnight flower ! 405 After much practice to this end I gain at last the long sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, - But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one 410 Thing at a time — suppose, the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !) ® And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends, Division, 415 Thought, wisdom, drop away. I…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 157

The Star in the West

…, producing Superstition ; Superstition , Cruelty ; Cruelty , all the tigerish longings of the day and the hoggish gratifications of the night . Pessimism is necessarily the foundation of all re ligion ; for if man were normally optimistic he would not have conceived such a hierarchy of tyrants as that of his gods . The man who formerly cut himself with flints before a lump of stone or clay , is in no way more foolish than he who prays to an omnipotent con ception ; the former was jealous and exacting , and so is the latter , the former a thing…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 122

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…judge, made out. There might be profit, and there would assuredly be pleasure. They waved, the one an airy, the other a courteous, good- night to grand old Frédéric, and went out. The old man was nimble as a kitten; he had all the 112

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1909 · PDF PAGE 122

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…judge, made out. There might be profit, and there would assuredly be pleasure. They waved, the one an airy, the other a courteous, good- night to grand old Frédéric, and went out. The old man was nimble as a kitten; he had all the 112

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1954 · PDF PAGE 324

Magick Without Tears

… determined nod; ''I'm watched, I'm helped; I'll do my bit; the rest will come about without my worrying or meddling. And so it is. Good-night. 666

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1906 · PDF PAGE 167

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony To make the rest look light. Abides The thick sepulchral changeless shape Shapeless, continuous misery Whereof no smoke-wreaths might escape To show me whither lay the end, Whence the beginning. All is black, Void of all cause, all aim ; unkenned, As if I had been dead indeed— All in Christ's name! …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ght of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the laboratory and timely return with a bottle of chloroform. The Professor dined alone that night; at the very outset of the battle Muriel had fled in tears to the little room in VValham Green where she lived under the alleged guardian- ship of a most paunchy ex—dresser. No other incident disturbed the ripples of their harmless, petty liaison. Even the earlier rumours of the brother in Alaska had died down to folk-lore The Professor had never got away from his work in time to hear her play the fiddle ;…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ght of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the laboratory and timely return with a bottle of chloroform. The Professor dined alone that night; at the very outset of the battle Muriel had fled in tears to the little room in VValham Green where she lived under the alleged guardian- ship of a most paunchy ex—dresser. No other incident disturbed the ripples of their harmless, petty liaison. Even the earlier rumours of the brother in Alaska had died down to folk-lore The Professor had never got away from his work in time to hear her play the fiddle ;…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 26

The Sword of Song

…not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony To make the rest look light. Abides The thick sepulchral changeless shape Shapeless, continuous misery Whereof no smoke-wreaths might escape To show me whither lay the end, Whence the beginning. All is black, Void of all cause, all aim ; unkenned, As if I had been dead indeed— All in Christ’s name !…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 39

The Sword of Song

…But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develop reason.45 After long years, too, in thy season Bloom, Concentration’s midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time—suppose, the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !)46 And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends. Division, Thought, wisdom, drop away. I see The absolut…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 55

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. To me! 49

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1922 · PDF PAGE 293

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… my distress While the sorrows of others thrill through you |! I love you because my life’s lost in your being ; You burn for me all the night long, and on seeing Me, jest at your tears—and allot mine! Because you elude me, a wave of the lake, Because you are danger and poison, my snake, Because you are mine, and are not mine!” Just as she had finished, Elsie arrived from Barley Grange with our trunks. Maisie and Lamus said they would leave us to unpack, and went off. She and Lala dropped in from time to time in the course of the next five days…

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