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1907 · PDF PAGE 15

Konx Om Pax

…miracles still happen) is a truism to an actress. We must go further, and perceive both sides of the question; then will open to us that world where there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, of which the great enemy of his age’s morality has so eloquently spoken. If in the jungle two elephants fight lustily, he shall do little who champions either; rather snare both, tame both, ride both, as the charioteer of the Tarot with the opposing sphinxes, black and white. Nor, 0 man, believe thou that finality is anywhere to be reached in words. I…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 84

Konx Om Pax

…lop individual genius without considering whether in their opinion its fruition will tend to the good or evil of their country or of the world; for who are they to interfere with a soul whose balance has been crowned by the most holy Tao? “ The masters shall be great men among men; but among great men they shall be friends. “ Since equilibrium will have become perfect, a greater than Napoleon shall arise, and the peaceful shall rejoice thereat; a greater than Darwin, and the minister in his pulpit give open thanks to God. “ The instructed infide…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 22

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon. Of course the world forces us all to compromise with our environment to some extent, and we only waste our strength if we fight pitched battles for points which are not worth a skirmish. It is only a faddist who refuses to conform with conventions of dress and the like. But our sincerity should be Roman about things that really matter to us. And I am still in doubt, as I write these words, as to how far it is right to emplo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 348

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… covered head and colossal stature.” This, to my mind, establishes the Identity of Mrs. Gordon with Mr. J. M. Robertson. A.C. OLD AS THE WoRLD. By J. W. BRODIE-INNES. 6s, Rebman. A rattling good novel, with hundreds of incidents on every page, a hero and heroine who seldom talk in anything meaner than capitals, and a happy ending: “Wherever you are, there is my kingdom,” he murmured, as he folded his beloved close against his heart. Mr. Brodie-Innes belongs to what one may call the Exoteric Occult School 330

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1910 · PDF PAGE 348

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… covered head and colossal stature.” This, to my mind, establishes the Identity of Mrs. Gordon with Mr. J. M. Robertson. A.C. OLD AS THE WoRLD. By J. W. BRODIE-INNES. 6s, Rebman. A rattling good novel, with hundreds of incidents on every page, a hero and heroine who seldom talk in anything meaner than capitals, and a happy ending: “Wherever you are, there is my kingdom,” he murmured, as he folded his beloved close against his heart. Mr. Brodie-Innes belongs to what one may call the Exoteric Occult School 330

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1922 · PDF PAGE 180

Diary of a Drug Fiend

166 The Diary of a Drug Fiend The morphine has certainly done me a world of good. I am quite myself. I feel it by the way I am writing this entry. I have a quiet impersonal point of view. I have got back my sense of proportion. I can think of things consecutively and I feel physically much stronger, but I’ve got very sleepy again... . Joy! Cockie has just come in full of good news. He looks fine—as fine as he feels. He had a sample from a pediar he met in the Wisteria. It’s absolutely straight stuff. Pulled him round in a second. There are two …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 321

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…s written three thousand years ago, and even the name of the woman who wrote that poem, albeit it is one of the most famous poems in the world, is lost. But there are the shepherds saluting each other to-day as they did then. MANTA PEI said Heracleitus, ‘all things flow.’ And everything that tries to escape that law, that relies on its strength, that becomes nigid, that endeavours to calla halt, is broken up by the irresistible waves of time. We think steel stronger than water; but we cannot build a ship to resist its

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1922 · PDF PAGE 345

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ue of grass leads to a gully which is filled by the wall of the old city which crowned the rock two thousand years or more ago, when the world was less arid and the population could depend on rainfall instead of having to cluster in the neighbourhood of springs and streams for its water. King Lamus tied himself on the middle of a rope with Dionysus at one end and Hermes at the other; while we, under the guidance of Cypris and Athena, toiled up the goat track which made a zigzag on the grassy tongue. Their party attacked the rock buttress on our…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 396

Magick Without Tears

…ting of the genuineness of the vision? It seems to me much simpler to say that these Angels are "real" individuals, although living in a world of whose laws we have no conception ; and that, in order to communicate with us, they make use of the symbolic forms appropriate; employ, in short, the language of the Astral Plane. After all, it's only fair; for that is precisely what we do to them when we invoke them. Ha! Ha! Ha! I suppose you think you've caught me out in an evasion there! Not so, dear child, not so: this state of affairs is nothing s…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 35

The Law is for All

…ht, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. Commentary: All this talk about “suffering humanity” is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one’s own psychology to one’s neighbour. The Golden Rule is silly. If Lord Alfr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 250

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…id pleasure in conspiring against a husband, especially if he be a father. They take advantage of his preoccupation with his work in the world to conceive and execute every kind of criminally cunning abomination. The belief in witchcraft was not all superstition; its psychological roots were sound. Women who are thwarted in their natural instincts turn inevitably to all kinds of malignant mischief, from slander to domestic destruction. I am afraid that my adventures have lost me the citizenship of the world. Alastor is my name, the Spirit of so…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 238

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ther by means of Peter or the pains of the body, or the sights and sounds of nature. Nature.is under a curse because of sex, and so this world is in the power of the Evil One. But I am chosen to redeem it, and the Holy Spirit overshadows me and sends angels to guard me. That is how we got rid of the servants. Peter suddenly attacked me. He got me down, and put his knee on my chest, and tried to strangle me. But the angel smote him suddenly, and all his muscles relaxed and he rolled over. His eyes were wide open, but I could only see the whites.…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 401

Magick Without Tears

… production. All this my Disciple, of course, knew, and on arriving in Johannesburg he said to himself "Well, here I am in a part of the world where the earth teems with gold and diamonds. I will procure the necessary funds for The Equinox and various

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1954 · PDF PAGE 149

Magick Without Tears

…ot found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what day a flower shall bloom? And thou shalt give thy wisdom unto the world, and that shall be thy garden. And concerning time and death, thou hast naught to do with these things. For though a precious stone be hidden in the sand of the desert, it shall not heed for the wind of the desert, although it be but sand. For the worker of works hath worked thereupon; and because it is clear, it is invisible; and because it is hard, it moveth not. All these words are heard by everyone t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 194

Magick Without Tears

…is no doubt the case, the crash and massacres of 1939 e.v. and later in the one did not take place in the other. All the seaports of the world naturally come under one of the three watery signs; but we do not find that an affliction of Pisces, which hits Tunis , should do no harm to all the other harbours similarly ruled. This brings us to the first Big Jump in the steeplechase of the whole science. We hear of thousands of people being killed at the same time (within an hour or two, perhaps a minute or two) by earthquake, shipwreck, explosion, …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 1

A Career for an Essay

…ciety, whieh undertakes to publi ‘the winning essay at its own expense, on terms of half-profts - 5. The competition. is open to all the world, Comptting essays mast be written in 6, Essays may be sent in at any time vp to August 1905. The time may be extended i “no suitable essay has ben received up to that date 7- Competitors will ot be kept fn suspense. Any essay sent in wll be read at once, and returned within Steen days if unsuitable. Incase of any competitor requiting more time than that allowed, itis open to him to forward part of hi MS,…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 23

The Heart of the Master

…pon the Earth being come in the year of the foundation of the Theosophical Society, I took upon myself, in my turn, the sin of the whole World, that the Prophecies might be fulfilled, so that Mankind may take the Next Step from the Magical Formula of Osiris to that of Horus. And mine Hour being now upon me, I proclaim my Law. The Word of the Law is ¸ µ»· ¼±. Given in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea An XX Sol in 3° Libra die Jovis by me ¤Ÿ œ • “‘ ˜ —¡ ™Ÿ › Ÿ“Ÿ£ ‘ ™© Ÿ£ ˜ µ»· ¼± Having read these words with deep attention eleven times, I bes…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 39

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…al of a posse of con- stables or a naval contingent, did I plunge upon that flabby doodle-sack : but the champion pizzle- skinner of the World was not to be toyed with by a boy of not yet eight years old ! The mouth thank- less swallowed all my hoarded spendings and asked, shrieked, yelled, for more. On the sixteenth day I was feeling weak toward morning, and the [37]

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1922 · PDF PAGE 318

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…e I’m going to be a very busy man. In fact, it’s rather lucky that I’ve acquired the habit of starting for three years’ trips around the world at three minutes notice.” ‘It was half an hour before tea was ready. Lou and I sat on the sofa, shaken and sore by what we had

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1922 · PDF PAGE 332

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…inly much more convenient to have our drinks and cigarettes on the floor than on a table. We found out that we had always gone about the world with a subconscious fear of knocking things over. I began to understand why a picnic on the grass gives such a sense of freedom. It was the absence of a worry which had annoyed us none the less because we had not been aware of it. Sister Athena stretched herself out on a folding chair, also very low. It was no trouble for her to pick up her glass from the ground. “ About what you asked,” she began, ‘“‘ i…

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