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… the adjective “ Hard,” and continued to chop. However, the purport of the discourse—in a highly con— densed form—was as follows. God is good, was the First Postulate of Theophrastus. Hence, all God does is good. Hence, since God made man, He meant man to do good. Hence, man should do good. Agreed. Then, what is good? The necessities of life are good, for otherwise no other good were possible without them. Food is good, shelter is good, all that tends to the health of the individual and the reproduCtion of the species is good. For if not, let f…
1912 · PDF PAGE 126
THE EQUINOX these the only good? No; for these benefits absorb only part of the time and energy of man. Is it good to chop wood? Yes, undoubtedly; but it is also good to render woodcutting in art. Then why should not the woodcutter be an artist? Why should he not chop miracles of carving? The Michael Angelo of Fontainebleau? Why not? What does Browning say? “I want to know the butcher paints, the baker rhymes for his pursuit," and so on. Very well ; then what do you do that is truly good? That is, unnecessarily, supererogatively, and therefore s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 57
…phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul”) (A night of shocking and terrible nightmare.) 24. A again a shade better. 25. A good. Vision more convincing. 26. A still good. 27. A poor (heavy sea). (Off Hoi-How.) 28. A again poor (heavy sea). 29. (At Hongkong). A poor (indigestion). 30. A good : very good. 3i. A fairly good. I. A poor—sleepy. 2, A again poor, in spite of two attempts. 3, A mediocre (left Hongkong per ss. Nippon Mam). (He had sent his wife and child directly by steamer to England.) 4. I foolishly and wickedly put offA…
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Feb. 22. A in p.m. poor (sleepy). n ח 23. A in a.m. poor. A in pm. rather good. 24. A in a.m. pretty good. A in p.m. just on the point of being good. 25. A in a.m. mediocre. Qy. Are all these troubles in Yunnan—Eu due to Abra—melin devils? I ask the Augoeides for “ a sufficient measure of protection." Like an instant answer comes Wilkinson’s letter setting up things. 26. Α sleepy (Baby ill). (He had been watching the child for two days and nights without sleep.) 27. A in a.m. rather good. A in p.m. disturbed. 28. …
1912 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX 5 A better but not good. ,, 6. A better. 7. A still better. 8. A really very good. Ditto in p.m. (Smooth sandy road perhaps helped.) ,, 9. A very poor (horseback, slippery wet sand, and cobbles). ,, 10. A good considering (horseback) ,, n. A poor (evil thoughts). ,, 12. A unconcentrated. ,, 13. A literally against my own will. Beneath contempt. le Effect of ease, etc. (On the 10th he had arrived at Mengtzu, where the Collector of Customs kindly received him, and gave him the first meal and bed he had had since leaving Tengyueh.) ,, 1…
1912 · PDF PAGE 178
…es the sachs, and closes the cache. Then goes to hett, undresses, <gets in, aayusts a large night-cap, and puts out the lights] [Loud/y] Good-night, Jack ! the doors always open : if you hear robbers, run in, my lad, and serve ’em as you served that brute of a Bagstock. ]Αεκ. [Of—very sleepy] Good—night. All right, Father, never fear. MARTIN, Good—night. JACK. [Of—fainter] God-nigh’l [MARTIN composes himself to sleep A pause. Then the door slowly, slowly opens. Audience can see JACK crouching behind andpushing in with infinite caution. HE carrie…
1912 · PDF PAGE 248
…ified or ill dignified, according to the cards next to it on either side. Cards of the same suit on either side strengthen it greatly, for good or evil according to their nature Cards of opposite natures on either side weaken it greatly, for either good or evil. Swords are inimical to Pentacles. Wands are inimical to Cups. Swords are friendly with Cups and Wands Wands are friendly with Swords and Pentacles, If a card fall between two others which are mutually contrary, it is not much affected by either. 206
1912 · PDF PAGE 245
…l, wisdom, adaptation, craft, cunning, or occult wisdom or power. 2. Change, alternation, increase and decrease, fluctuation; whether for good or evil depends on the dignity. 3. Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success. But with very bad dignity it means luxury, dissipation. 4. War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition. 5. Divine wisdom, manifestation, explanation, teaching, occult force voluntarily invoked. 6. Inspiration (passive, mediumistic), motive power, action. 7. Triumph, victory, health (sometimes unstable). 8. Eternal justice. Strength and …
1912 · PDF PAGE 236
…ietness, peacemaking. Kindness, pity, generosity, wantonness, waste, etc., according to dignity. Malkuth of( ?הMatter settled : complete good fortune). Herein the Great Angels?הילשעand?לאהימrule. [This is not such a good card as stated, It represents boredom, and quarrelling arising therefrom; disgust springing from too great luxury. In particular it represents drug- habits, the sottish excess of pleasure and the revenge of nature] XLV THE LORD OF DOMINION Two of Wamis A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping two crosse…
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…oeides.") ,, 17. A though unwell. ,, 18. A though ill. ,, 19. Α some vision with Invocation. ,, 20. A in am. disturbed. A in p.m. rather good. (Henceforward he did it twice daily.) ,, 21. Α.". in am. with M C good (Is M C.‘. Mystic Circumambulation or Magical Cere— mony or ?( in p.m. disturbed by drugs and diarrhoea. A weird effect. ,, 22, A in p.m. poor (ill). I4
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…uggle of πὲhours. ,, 28. Α just a shade better. But my cabin is a little Hell. ,, 29. A shade better; but still very poor. ,, 30. A very good indeed. Renewed the terrible vows of this initiation, and was rewarded by the Divine Kiss. 0 self-glittering one, be ever with mel Amen. ,, 3x. A better than ever yet. Vision quite perfect ; I tasted the sweet kiss and gazed in the clear eyes of that Radiant One. My own face became luminous. June I. A good but interfered with by fatigue. Used much resolution. (And now Fra. Ρ. was to be struck down by an o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 64
…ing. (Compare the doctrine of the two arrows in Liber 418.) 2. Worked hard at day at Comment on?!!!לשLegis.- lamentably little result. A good, considering excessive fatigue. 2623*. (the extra day gained on crossing the 180°.) A good—vision like the Milky Way in texture. 3. A mediocre. 4. A very energetic on my part, intently so, better perhaps than ever before. However (or perhaps because) there was little vision. Indeed, this work of A . .?־requires the Adept to
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THE EQUINOX A goodish: lengthy and reverie-like. Yet my heart is well. I spake it audibly. April 5. A vocalized: goodish. (Knocked sideways by 18 malaria; a sharp attack of shivering.) 6. At Shanghai. A very ethereal. 7. Bowled clean over by fever; spent pm. in bed drunk with Dover’s Powder. Quite sufficiently ill to excuse slackness: e. g. I could not even read a light novel. 8. Feeble but convalescent. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, sa…
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…f the most intense magical work imaginable—a minute of it would represent the equivalent of about twelve hours of Asana.) April 10, A no good (rather tired, especially at night). ,, I I. A very bad indeed: worried. ,, 12. A better, but sleepy. Not by any means good, but more impersonal. ,, 13. A sleepy: in fact dropped off. (He had been doing a magic for a Soror of the Great Order, and exhausted himself.) ,, I4. (Easter Eve). An. mediocre. The Op. of Abramelin being due to commence on Easter Sunday, methinks it would be well to make a certain p…
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… and strong one! I desire thy kisses more than life or death. May 5. A medium. 6. Α tired and excited, yet with great resolution. Vision good. Aimed at passive attitude. 7. A good; starry effect concentrating into a brilliant moonlight in my body. 8. A same effect as yesterday. 9. A poor. (This begins the railway journey from Vancouver.) 10. A poor. Am really worn out. n. A better—much reverie ; vision not acute. 12. A not bad. 13. A purposely done more rapidly than usual. But restful. 25
1912 · PDF PAGE 219
…result apart from the? thing itself.? Very great fundamental force. Executive power,?דוסי because they restore a firm basis. Powerful for good or evil.? Fixed, culminated, complete Force, whether good?תוכלמ or evil. The matter thoroughly and definitely determined.? Ultimating Force.? Follow the particular descriptions of each of the thirty-six cards: with full meanings. Decan-cards are always modified by the other symbols with which they are in contact XXI THE LORD OF STRIPE Five of Wands Two White RadiantAngelic Hands issuant per nubes dex- ter a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 182
…e, man, no offence. [Aside] Louder, louder! they will hear it. CLARK. Well, I’m sure—— SERGEANT. Never be sure! The first great rule of a good officer. JACK. What? What? Ι say no—[louder]—I say no ! Know your own mind and stick to it. Let’s have a song—ah, what do you say? “A policeman's life is not a happy one "? SERGEANT. Why, it’s no trouble; it’s well worth coming across to talk to such a good fellow, and drink a glass of ale like this. JACK. Have some more! Sing, somebody—Clark, you sing. r40
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…culous " Then I am some use after all ! " was his conclusion. “I am indeed SENT to do something.” For whom? For the Universe; no partial good could possibly satisfy his equation. “I am, then, the ‘chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space.’ Very good: and what is the message? What shall I teach men?” And like the lightning from heaven fell upon him these words: “THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSA- TION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL." Just that. No metaphysical stuff about the “higher self ”; a thing that the very villagers of Pu Peng could under- stand. …
1912 · PDF PAGE 290
…OW Own Magazz'ne, which, with consummate impudence, he declared to contain nothing but true stories. These stories are usually about the good little girl who “converts" the horrid, swearing bargee, and the good little boy who brings his ”thoughtless" mother to Jesus. This, being a monthly, brought in another twelve pennies annually from every victim. He also published leaflets which he could sell by the hundred to the kind of idiot that likes to give such things to strangers who have never done it any harm. He had all these things translated int…
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
DOCTOR BOB Dr. B. I only record the effect of the verdict of thejury— twelve good symptoms and true. Mrs. B. I can never forget seeing young Joe Whitney when he came from you. He had the face of alost soul. And the next day the papers had the news that he had shot himself. Dr. B. Well, what of that? He saved himself about four months of the most persistent and horrible torture that the mind of a devil could imagine...... People wonder why doctors are nearly always Atheists I Mrs B. Oh, Bob! Dr. B. In his place I should have done as he did. Dr. …