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1961 · PDF PAGE 143

Liber Aleph

…) HEREFORE consider this again in a Figure, that thy Mind is as the Marshal of an Army, to observe the Dispositions of the Enemy, and to order his own Forces rightly, according to that Information; but he hath no will, only Obedience to the Word of his King to outwit and to overcome the Opposite. Nor doth that King make War by his own Whim, if he be wise and true, but solely because of the Necessity of his Country, and its Nature, whereof he is but Executive Officer and Interpreter, its Voice as the Marshal is its Arm. Thus then do thou underst…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 184

The World’s Tragedy

THE GREY NIGHT. I3I AGRIPPA She must have An order from the prefect. MIRIAM, to a bystander. Knave Wilt earn a penny ? Beg this grace, For the death-dews stand on the bloodless face. IST BYSTANDER What is the name of the criminal ? A GREEK DISCIPLE FROM ALEXANDRIA Say, Logos, or Homoiousios ! JOHN Nay, Fool! Homoousios — lippis et nota ! THE GREEK Homoiousios, with the iota !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 517

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES in order to lead astray the understanding, are as real as photographic images. One could not see what does not exist. The phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of the waking, are then real images which exist in the light. There exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations. But we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucina- tions. If the images attracted by diseased brains are in some sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as real as they receive them? These images projected by the complete …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 517

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES in order to lead astray the understanding, are as real as photographic images. One could not see what does not exist. The phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of the waking, are then real images which exist in the light. There exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations. But we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucina- tions. If the images attracted by diseased brains are in some sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as real as they receive them? These images projected by the complete …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 447

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

447 The plan promised excellently. The working expenses of the Order were almost negligibly small. We were therefore able to allow members to borrow in case of necessity up to the total amount of their fees and subscriptions; to give them a month's holiday for less than a week would have cost an outsider; to save them all medical, legal and similar expenses; to solve the problem of rent, and so on. We offered all the fabled advantages of socialism without in any way interfering with individual dignity and independence. I can hardly be blamed fo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS These few preliminary remarks may be sufficient for those who desire information concerning our order; to those who feel themselves capable to apply for admission, further instructions will be given. Address all communications to The Grand Secretary General, M..M.’.M.-., c/o THE Equinox, 33 Avenue Studios, 76 Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W. THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE (Translated from the original French) Was lately pronounced at Brunswick (Lower Saxony) where PRINCE .........-. ts GRAND MASTER of M., by COUNT T., at …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 25

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER in due order, Bro. W. Henry Quilliam, 33°, 90°, 96°, called the Convocation to order, and called upon Brother Crowley, 33°, 90°, 95°, to read the summons calling this Convocation. This was duly done, and a copy of such summons so there read is set out in extenso in the minutes hereinafter written. On the motion of Bro. W. Henry Quilliam, seconded by Bro. Aleister Crowley, 33°, 90°, 95°, the Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservator, 33°, 90°, 95°, Bro. Henry Meyer, of 25 Longton Grove, Sydenham, S.E., County of…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS These few preliminary remarks may be sufficient for those who desire information concerning our order; to those who feel themselves capable to apply for admission, further instructions will be given. Address all communications to The Grand Secretary General, M..M.’.M.-., c/o THE Equinox, 33 Avenue Studios, 76 Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W. THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE (Translated from the original French) Was lately pronounced at Brunswick (Lower Saxony) where PRINCE .........-. ts GRAND MASTER of M., by COUNT T., at …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 25

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER in due order, Bro. W. Henry Quilliam, 33°, 90°, 96°, called the Convocation to order, and called upon Brother Crowley, 33°, 90°, 95°, to read the summons calling this Convocation. This was duly done, and a copy of such summons so there read is set out in extenso in the minutes hereinafter written. On the motion of Bro. W. Henry Quilliam, seconded by Bro. Aleister Crowley, 33°, 90°, 95°, the Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservator, 33°, 90°, 95°, Bro. Henry Meyer, of 25 Longton Grove, Sydenham, S.E., County of…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 177

Little Poems in Prose

come to the city in order to gambol for an hour around a beautiful bitch, a little careless about her toilet, but proud and grateful. And they are all very exact, without pocket- books, notes, or portfolios. Do you know lazy Belgium, and have you admired—as I have—all those vigorous dogs that attach themselves to the butcher’s, baker’s, or dairyman’s cart, and show by their triumphant barks the proud pleasure which they experience in rivalling horses? Here are two who belong to a yet more civi- lized order; let me introduce you to the acro- bat…

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1943 · PDF PAGE 4

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

There is no doubt as to the identity of the tyrant, the aggressor, nor as to the identity of his friends, his dupes, his tools. The Order has suffered defeat in Madrid, Shanghai, Lidice, Athens, War- saw, Paris. It has won with Britain, Stalingrad and Bataan. We fight in Russia, the Pacific, the Aleutians, and in every place where tyranny and oppression exist, unto the end of tyranny and oppression. Whoso is loyal to the Axis is a traitor to the Order. Whoso is indifferent, or in compromise, is a slacker of the Order. Whoso is not in battle, or…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 520

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul, is only preserved in the order of Nature. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it. Then, instead of being guided and preserved by reason, one is abandoned to the fatalities of the ebb and flow of magnetic light. The magnetic light devours ceaselessly, because it is always creating, and because, in order to produce continually, one must absorb eternally. Thence come homicidal manias and temptations to commit sui…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 520

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul, is only preserved in the order of Nature. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it. Then, instead of being guided and preserved by reason, one is abandoned to the fatalities of the ebb and flow of magnetic light. The magnetic light devours ceaselessly, because it is always creating, and because, in order to produce continually, one must absorb eternally. Thence come homicidal manias and temptations to commit sui…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 33

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

himself as a pure vehicle for the influence of the order to which he aspires. He must then décidé upon the critical adventure of our Order ; the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments. He can- not remain indefinitely an Exempt Adept; he is pushed onward by the irrésistible momentum that he has generated. Should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is none the less thrust forth into the Abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the Third Order, as a Babe in the womb of our Lady Bab…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 4

The Rosicrucian Scandal

SUMMARY OF PERSONS REI N THE DIALOGUE, Maries Self-appointed “Heal” of the oe de Sure * Rosicrucian Order.” cas Perjured shyster:® Tenple WE Brreiwoe. . Homeopathic doctor, ee W. F. pe Wexp Festox. Edilor of “The LookingGlass." Turf trickster wall warned off since profes: sional blackmailer to the nobility and entry Dx. Wysw Westeorr «Coroner, sorcerer, ele. Dupe and sitio Si, Gade Re of Mathers. Aunisran CeowLay ©. Esdupe and victim of Mathers,

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1909 · PDF PAGE 253

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING THE TEMPLE «The Templeas arranged in the o° = 0° Grade of Neophyte of the order of the G.-. D.-:. in the Outer is placed looking towards the 7° of MM’ (J.H.V.H.) in Malkuth of Assiah. That is, that as ? and i answer unto the Sephiroth Chokmah and THE VEIL OF THE SANCTUARY. Binah in the Tree,* unto Aba and Aima,t Paint of * Rending through whose knowledge that of Kether — may be obtained; even so, the sacred rites “Toe Wail of Nevptbys mba weih of te of the Temple may gradually, and as it were Bates in spite of the…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 253

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING THE TEMPLE «The Templeas arranged in the o° = 0° Grade of Neophyte of the order of the G.-. D.-:. in the Outer is placed looking towards the 7° of MM’ (J.H.V.H.) in Malkuth of Assiah. That is, that as ? and i answer unto the Sephiroth Chokmah and THE VEIL OF THE SANCTUARY. Binah in the Tree,* unto Aba and Aima,t Paint of * Rending through whose knowledge that of Kether — may be obtained; even so, the sacred rites “Toe Wail of Nevptbys mba weih of te of the Temple may gradually, and as it were Bates in spite of the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 19

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS These few preliminary remarks may be sufficient for those who desire information concerning our order; to those who feel themselves capable to apply for admission, further instructions will be given. Address all communications to The Registrar, M..M...M, c/o THE EgUINox, 3 Great James Street, Bedford Row, W.C. THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE (Dum/alea? from the "igitut! French) Was lately pronounced at Brunswick (Lower Saxony) where PRINCE ........... is GRAND MASTER of M, by COUNT T., at the Initiation of his Son. “I congratu…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 19

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS These few preliminary remarks may be sufficient for those who desire information concerning our order; to those who feel themselves capable to apply for admission, further instructions will be given. Address all communications to The Registrar, M..M...M, c/o THE EgUINox, 3 Great James Street, Bedford Row, W.C. THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE (Dum/alea? from the "igitut! French) Was lately pronounced at Brunswick (Lower Saxony) where PRINCE ........... is GRAND MASTER of M, by COUNT T., at the Initiation of his Son. “I congratu…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 107

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…untain Christ", "The Rosicrucian" and others, it is evident that my ambition was not to become superior to the rest of mankind except in order that I might redeem them. I quote: The Oath of the Beginning. I, Perdurabo, Frater Ordinis Roase Rubeae et Aureae Crucis, a Lord of the Paths in the Portal of the Vault of the Adepts, a 5° = 6ř of the Order of the Golden Dawn; and an humble servant of the Christ of God; do this day spiritually bind myself anew: By the Sword of Vengeance: By the Powers of the elements: By the Cross of Suffering: That I wi…

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