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1922 · PDF PAGE 18

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…, utterly spoilt by the war (even if I had had the money) for going on with my hospital, I had developed an entirely new psychology. You know how it feels when you are fighting duels in the air, you seem to be detached from everything. There is nothing in the

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1922 · PDF PAGE 381

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…om the contamina- tion of ideas and desires alien to my essential function in the universe, but inspired me to dynamic ecstasy. I do not know how long we sat under the stars. A deep eternal peace sat like a dove, a triple tongue of flame upon our souls, which were one soul for ever. Each of our lives was one, individual, and eternal, but each possessed its necessary and intimate relation with the other, and both with the whole universe. I was moreover aware that our terrific tragedy had been necessary, after all, to our attainment. ‘““Except a …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 203

Moonchild

…rience into words. One can at best describe phenomena with a sort of cold and wooden accuracy, or suggest ecstasy by very vagueness. You know that line 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' It means nothing, if you analyse it; but it gives the idea of something, though one could never say what. What you saw, my beloved Iliel, bears about the same ratio to what I have said as what I have said does to what Sister Clara saw: or, rather, was. Moral: when Sister turns we all turn. I have now apologized, though inadequately, for inflicting my bad…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 8

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…” “I knew it!” exclaimed Duguesclin enthusiastically. Bevan began to dislike this conversation exceed- ingly. Did this man—this criminal—know who he was? He knew he was a J.P., that his mother was alive, and now his Masonic dignities. He distrusted this Frenchman more and more. Was the story but a pretext for the demand of a loan? The stranger looked prosper- ous and had a first class ticket. More likely a black- mailer; perhaps he knew of other things—say that affair at Oxford—or the incident of the Edgware Road—or the matter of Esme Holland. …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 3

Magick Without Tears

BOOKS BY ISRAEL REGARDIE o What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn o Mysticism, Psychology and Oedipus - with C.S. Hyatt and J. Marvin Spiegelman o An Interview With Israel Regardie - with Christopher S. Hyatt o The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic 0 The Golden Dawn Tapes - Series I o The Golden Dawn Tapes - Series II 0 The Golden Dawn Tapes - Series III o The Eye in the Triangle 0 The Legend of Aleister Crowley o The Tree of life 0 The Tree and the Egyptian Gods o Energy, Prayer and Relaxation 0 The Lazy Man's Guide to Relaxation o Geom…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 89

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…, “ that the mere sight of me — or would it be the smell ? I’ll write a book about it and try to make up my mind that way. Poor girl ! I know it won’t [89]

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1929 · PDF PAGE 172

Moonchild

… me a small service." "Bat it up!" said Mr. Butcher. "I would buy an Illustrated Edition of O. Henry in nineteen parts." Douglas did not know that Americans dread book agents more than rattlesnakes; but he gathered [242] that his guest would acquiesce in any reasonable suggestion. "I am informed that you are — or were — a Priest of the Roman Church. "Peter is my middle name," admitted the 'Rosicrucian,' "and that's no jolly." "But — apart from questions of nomenclature for the moment, if you will pardon me — you are a priest of the Roman Church…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 55

Magick Without Tears

…idea, etc." Then you go on: "The invoking of a supersensible Being is impossible to me as yet." The impudence! The arrogance! How do you know, pray madam? (Dial numbers at random: the results are often surprisingly delightful!) Besides, I didn't ask you to invoke a supersensible (what a word!! Meaning?) Being right away, or

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1954 · PDF PAGE 345

Magick Without Tears

…ion. Suppose he argues: "To hell with my integrity, to hell with my spiritual development: I don't give a hoot what happens to me: all I know is that I can help the Order, and I'm jolly well going to do it." Who is going to balance that entry in his Karmic account? Might not even his willingness to give up his prospects of advance justify his title to go forward? The curious, complex, obscure and formidable path that he has chosen may quite conceivably be his best short cut to the City of the Pyramids! I have known strange, striking cases of si…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 279

Magick Without Tears

…as my own. There doesn't seem any impossibility about these bundles of Sankhara being shared by two or more persons. We certainly do not know enough of what actually takes place to speak positively on any such point. Don't lose any sleep over it. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1996 · PDF PAGE 183

The Law is for All

184 The Law is for All “the royal”: these are the men whose nature is kingly, the men who “can.” They know themselves born rulers, whether their halidom1 be Art, or Science, or aught else soever. 1 [A holy place or sanctuary.] “the lofty”: these are the men who, being themselves high­ hearted, endure not any baseness. 59. As brothers fight ye! Commentary: Fight! Fight like gentlemen, without malice, because fighting is the best game in the world, and love the second best! Don’t slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 254

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ssages in the book in our opinion quite unsuit- able for the perusal of the white maidens of England, to whom it is dedicated. We do not know whether the poet is an up- holder of ‘Art for Art’s sake,’ which means that it is better to — paint an immoral picture well than to paint a moral picture badly. If this is the case, we would counsel him to abandon this dangerous fallacy, and.to devote his undoubted genius to the task of becoming a great poet in the true sense of the word. He can do so if he will."—7he Cambridge Magasine. 8

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1910 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…tinue again . . . and by uttering the sound Zoom, let him forcibly draw up through the contraction of the Apana Vayu the germ cells... . Know Vindu to be moon-like, and the germ cells the emblem of the sun; let the Yogi make their union in his own body with great care.t I am the Vindu, Shakti is the germ fluid; when they both are combined, then the Yogi reaches the state of success, and his body becomes brilliant and divine. Ejaculation of Vindu is death, preserving it within is life. . . . Verily, verily, men are born and die through Vindu. . …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…tinue again . . . and by uttering the sound Zoom, let him forcibly draw up through the contraction of the Apana Vayu the germ cells... . Know Vindu to be moon-like, and the germ cells the emblem of the sun; let the Yogi make their union in his own body with great care.t I am the Vindu, Shakti is the germ fluid; when they both are combined, then the Yogi reaches the state of success, and his body becomes brilliant and divine. Ejaculation of Vindu is death, preserving it within is life. . . . Verily, verily, men are born and die through Vindu. . …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 93

Magick Without Tears

…whole of my study; in Diagram 2 that absence-of-dog is no longer there; so one or more of them must have got in somehow. That's that ; I know it may be a little difficult at first; fortunately there is a different way- the Chinese way- of stating the theorem in very much simpler terms. S. The Chinese, like ourselves, begin with the idea of "Absolute Nothing." They "make an effort, and call it the Tao" ; but that is exactly what the Tao comes to mean, when we examine it. They see quite well, as we have done above, that merely to assert Nothing i…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 48

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…he regrettable incident of impulsive humanitarianism above recorded, my associations with Beachy Head possess a charm which I have never known in any other district of England. My climbs there fulfilled all my ideals of romance, and in addition I had the particularly delightful feeling of complete originality. In other districts I could be no more than primus inter pares. On Beachy Head I was the only one --- I had invented an entirely new branch of the sport. For a number of weeks I slept in a Mummery tent on one of the traverses. It was my fi…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 232

Magick Without Tears

…he ranging of one's facts, and the fitting of them into an organised structure. The tenn "sati" suggests an identification of Being with Knowledge-see The Soldier and the Hunchback! (The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 1). So far as it applies to the Magical Memory, it lays stress on some such expedient, very much as is explained in Liber Thisharb (Magick, pp. 415-422). This is a case where "clean thinking" is most absolutely helpful. The truth is of exquisite texture; it blazons the escutcheon of the Unity of Nature in such delicate yet forceful colours …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 185

The Law is for All

186 The Law is for All Modern thought, even that of the shallowest, is compelled by Aiwaz to confirm His Law, without knowing what it is about. For instance: “God’s wind from nowhere which is called the Will; and is man’s only excuse upon this earth,” was written by so triv­ ial a Fat Man as Gilbert Keith Chesterton in The Flying Inn.1 1 [G. K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn (1914), ch. 17.] 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. Commentary: Note that Heru-ra-ha is not merely a particu…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 118

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ney. I joyfully accepted Wilson's proposal. "Bring your five hundred right along," I said, "and I'll go and put {208} the job through. I know you're too busy to leave the city." He agreed and returned an hour later, not with the cash, but with his partner. They apologized profusely for mistaking me for a mug. "Look here," said McKee, "the innocence of your face is a fortune. I know a rich man here who is crazy on gambling. You shall rook him at Brazilian poker. (In this game one backs one's hand as in ordinary poker, but the hands are of two ca…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 521

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…fectly well what was my breaking strain and they deliberately pushed me beyond my limit for several excellent reasons. They wanted me to know the extent of my capacity to endure; and thereby, of course, to increase that capacity in the future by showing me that even when I thought I had broken the chain it held by invisible links as firmly as ever and was, in fact, unbreakable; for it is an essential element of my being to be pledged to the performance of the Great Work. They also taught me by this means the {822} consequences of any such error…

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