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1906 · PDF PAGE 157

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… shade of black, Or Christ (as some have lately tried) | An epileptic maniac, Citing some cases, “ where a dose Of Bromide duly given in time Drags a distemper so morose At last to visions less sublime ; Soft breezes stir the lyre Aeolian, 280 No more the equinoctial gales ; The patient reefs his mental sails ; His Panic din that shocked the Tmolian * Admits a softer run of scales— Seems no more God, but mere Napoleon 285 Or possibly the Prince of Wales” :— Concluding such a half-cured case With the remark ‘“ where Bromide fails !— But Bromide …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 180

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ught 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 see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. Some poetry. There is a Jake * amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break. 420 Oh! the deep brilliance of the lake! The roar of ice that cracks a…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 103

The Star in the West

…ord , whilst the Queen draws from her finger a ring and places it on his . Then when he has left their presence he notices for the first time : There was no jewel in the ring she gave ! for it was the emblem of her total surrender : Oh my pure heart ! Adulterous love began So subtly to identify the man With its own perfumed thoughts . So steals the grape Into the furtive brain - a spirit shape Kisses my spirit as no woman can . I love her - yes ; and I have no escape .? 1 Aceldama , vol . i, p . 2. 2 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 112

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…tions are overcome, the voice of Reason silenced, then will your soul bound forward unhampered upon its chosen course, and for the first time will you experience the extreme delight of being Master of Yourself, and therefore of the Universe. When this is fully attained, when you sit securely in the saddle, then you may enjoy also all those distractions which first pleased you and then angered you. Now they will do neither any more: for they are your slaves and toys. Until you have reached this point, you are not wholly free. You must kill out d…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 324

Magick Without Tears

…ce-beginning with Tarquin and the Sibylline books! -as well as a fact of profane psychology, that if you funk a fence, it is harder next time. If the boy falls off the pony, put him on again at once: if the young airman crashes, send him up again without a minute's avoidable delay. If you don't, their nerve is liable to break for good and all. I am not saying that this policy is invariably successful; your judgment may have misled you as to the necessity of the Operation which loomed so large at the moment. And so on; plenty of room for blunder…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 550

Magick Without Tears

…195,212 Kidneys, defective, 380, 381 King, The, quoted from AL, II, 250,293,294 Kingsford, Anna, 85 King's Scale, 106, 141, 157 Kinks in Time, 192 Kipling, Rudyard, 164,258,442 Kiriloff, 75 Knowledge and Conversation of Holy Guardian Angel, 19, 11 0, 276, 306, 318, 496, 497,502 Knox Om Pax, 426 Krishna, 11 Krishnamurti, 86 Kwa,61 Lamb, 119 Lamen,17 Lao Tse, 40, 206, 228, 233, 236, 237,252 Lapis Lazuli, 78 La Poule aux Rats, 478 Laughter, Trance of, 387 Law of Thelema, 88, 89, 309, 312 Laylah,326 Leech, 482 Left-hand Path, 109, 110, 112, 274 Leg…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 167

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… is black, Void of all cause, all aim ; unkenned, As if I had been dead indeed— All in Christ's name! And I look back, And then and long time after lack Courage or strength to hurl the creed Down to the heaven it sprang from! No! Not this inspires the indignant blow L Poem does not treat of Palz- ontology: nor of poet's youth : nor of Christian infamies. Poet forced tomystic position.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX morality, which could be transmitted as a new gospel for the special use of the Men-Covers of future times, I opened the second book to put down in it some equally useful aphorisms. But as I took my pencil the white, immaculate page appeared covered with brown characters. I had scarcely time enough to read and they had vanished. But I remember what I saw. “You must leave the study of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believ…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX morality, which could be transmitted as a new gospel for the special use of the Men-Covers of future times, I opened the second book to put down in it some equally useful aphorisms. But as I took my pencil the white, immaculate page appeared covered with brown characters. I had scarcely time enough to read and they had vanished. But I remember what I saw. “You must leave the study of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believ…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 255

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. I am : before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head : In me all skies and seas are shaken and eleven : All life and light and love about me shed, Begotten in me, in my moving moven, Are as my tears : all worlds that ever swam As dew of kisses on my lips: I am. 77

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1911 · PDF PAGE 255

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. I am : before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head : In me all skies and seas are shaken and eleven : All life and light and love about me shed, Begotten in me, in my moving moven, Are as my tears : all worlds that ever swam As dew of kisses on my lips: I am. 77

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1911 · PDF PAGE 108

The Vision and the Voice

…e borne her. This is the Daughter of the King. This is the Virgin of Eternity. This is she that the Holy One hath wrested from the Giant Time, and the prize of them that have overcome Space. This is she that is set upon the Throne of Under- standing. Holy, Holy, Holy is her name, not to be spoken among men. For Koré they have called her, and Malkah, and Betulah, and Persephone. And the poets have feigned songs about her, and the prophets have spoken vain things, and the young men have dreamed vain dreams; but this is she, that immaculate, the n…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight 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 Profe…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight 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 Profe…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 22

John Yarker – In Memoriam

…have dele- gated-his parental rights to the defendant. Even assuming, however, that he could do so he was at liberty to revoke it at any time, especially with a view to promote the moral welfare of the boys, and that after the receipt of the said letter the defendant had no authority to keep the boys with herself. In answer to the plaintiff's notice the defendant merely acknow- ledged its" receipt and did nothing more, and the plaintiff believes that she has left the b0ys in England. 11. The cause of the action arose partly at Adyar in the year…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…hing to do with Leadbeater. In spite of this, they were again being allowed to associate with the said Leadbeater, and it was about this time that he heard from other Theoso- phist friends that one Luxman, a personal attendant, had seen C. W. Leadbeater and J. Krishnamurti in the defend- ant’s room-engaged in committing an unnatural offence. On a further remonstrance by the plaintiff, the defendant promised to take the boys away to England, and accordingly x c xxxiii

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1913 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…is house a lady whom everybody but himself and the future saint (for in the whirligigs and revenges and, so to speak, Cochons Volants of time such was to be!) knew to be the absinthe or galette-begotten image in the mind of a French fumiste who had never in his brightest hours hoped to be taken seriously by as much as a rag-picker—people began to wonder what was the truth beneath the stories which West- cott was at such pains to deny. 1 Waite quotes the commonest name in all South India as if it were some- thing too fantastic for belief. 2 Plea…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 253

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

DEAD WEIGHT since. He had wished to go down to posterity as the modern Fludd—and would have done so, only this time there were not eight persons saved. However, this was not the worst. The future saint (as it was written that he should become!) made incursions upon Magic, with the unhappiest results. Fundamentally incom- petent to apprehend the very nature of the question, and utterly incapable of humour, the ingenious Lévi pulled his leg to the limit. The future saint! could see only contradictions in the profundities of the master, and in com…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…hing to do with Leadbeater. In spite of this, they were again being allowed to associate with the said Leadbeater, and it was about this time that he heard from other Theoso- phist friends that one Luxman, a personal attendant, had seen C. W. Leadbeater and J. Krishnamurti in the defend- ant’s room-engaged in committing an unnatural offence. On a further remonstrance by the plaintiff, the defendant promised to take the boys away to England, and accordingly x c xxxiii

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1913 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…is house a lady whom everybody but himself and the future saint (for in the whirligigs and revenges and, so to speak, Cochons Volants of time such was to be!) knew to be the absinthe or galette-begotten image in the mind of a French fumiste who had never in his brightest hours hoped to be taken seriously by as much as a rag-picker—people began to wonder what was the truth beneath the stories which West- cott was at such pains to deny. 1 Waite quotes the commonest name in all South India as if it were some- thing too fantastic for belief. 2 Plea…

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