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1912 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…to the consulting-mom, while MRS. BOB goes aut L.] Dr. F. This is an exceptional case, old man. I do hope you won‘t frighten her. Dr. B. Great God! always the same old story. They never come to me until the rest of you have finished them, and then it’s my candid opinion you want. Then you get it, by Heaven ! and instead of blaming yourselves, or the patient, or the disease, you blame me. \Vhy don’t you give me a chance? Why don’t you bring them while there 2'5 hope? You all look upon me as the undertaker—Doctor Doom'em, isn’t it ?—because you ar…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…your conduct in life correspond with the principles of M., my remaining years will pass away with pleasure and satisfaction. Observe the great example of our ancient masters, peruse our history and our constitutions. The best, the most humane, the bravest, and most civilized of men have been our patrons. Though the vulgar are strangers to our works, the greatest geniuses have sprung from our order. The most illustrious characters on earth have laid the foundation of their most amiable qualities in M. The wisest of princes, SOLOMON, planned our …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 108

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…s just that I want to talk to you about. Dr. F. You don't mean to say you mind ? Mrs. B. Mind ! It's driving me mad. Dr. F. But he’s the greatest consultant we have ; nobody ever comes to him while there's a chance anywhere else. Mrs. Β. Yes; but whatever other drugr he gives them, he never gives them hope. Dr. F. But they come for his opinion. Mrs. B. And don’t want to know it. Dr. F. Perhaps it would be better if they didn't. Mrs. B. That's it; that's what's driving me mad. I see them come here one after another, some cheerful, others despera…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…to the consulting-mom, while MRS. BOB goes aut L.] Dr. F. This is an exceptional case, old man. I do hope you won‘t frighten her. Dr. B. Great God! always the same old story. They never come to me until the rest of you have finished them, and then it’s my candid opinion you want. Then you get it, by Heaven ! and instead of blaming yourselves, or the patient, or the disease, you blame me. \Vhy don’t you give me a chance? Why don’t you bring them while there 2'5 hope? You all look upon me as the undertaker—Doctor Doom'em, isn’t it ?—because you ar…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…towards this second death by a fatal gravitation; the one drags the other, as the divine Michel Angelo has made us see so clearly in his great picture of the Last Judgment; they are clinging and tenacious like drowning men, and free spirits must struggle energetically against them, that their flight may not be hindered by them, that they may not be pulled back to Hell. This war is as ancient as the world; the Greeks figured it under the symbols of Eros and Anteros, and the Hebrews by the antagonism of Cain and Abel. It is the war of the Titans …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…towards this second death by a fatal gravitation; the one drags the other, as the divine Michel Angelo has made us see so clearly in his great picture of the Last Judgment; they are clinging and tenacious like drowning men, and free spirits must struggle energetically against them, that their flight may not be hindered by them, that they may not be pulled back to Hell. This war is as ancient as the world; the Greeks figured it under the symbols of Eros and Anteros, and the Hebrews by the antagonism of Cain and Abel. It is the war of the Titans …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 94

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…r through the city. 61. I too am the Soul of the desert; thou shalt seek me yet again in the wilderness of sand. 62. At thy right hand a great lord and a comely; at thy left hand a woman clad in gossamer and gold and having the stars in her hair. Ye shall journey far into a land of pesti- lence and evil; ye shall encamp in the river of a foolish city forgotten; there shall ye meet with Me. 88

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1922 · PDF PAGE 90

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…air of the dog. So I rolled out of bed and crawled across to the H. and took one little sniff, and sat on the floor till it worked. It’s great stuff when you know the ropes. It picked me up ina minute. So I had a bath, and got these things on. I’m still a bit all in, You know we did overdo it, didn’t we, Cockie ? ”’ “You bet,” I said feebly. “I’m glad I’ve got a nurse.” “ Right-o,” she said, with a queer grin. “ It’s time for your majesty’s medicine.” She went over to the bureau, and brought me a dose of heroin. The effect was surprising! I had…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 92

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…rd the next below or above. These are: 1, the Kether; 2, MDIM, Chokmah, Wisdom; 3, ;33°3, Binah, Understanding, often, symbolized as the great Sea; 4, IDM, Chesed, Mercy (or mionety, Gedulah, Magnificence); 5, 7T"3)33, Geburah, Strength; 6, MTMNDNM, Tiphereth, Beauty; 7, MY3, Netzach, Victory; 8, “}}j1,,Hod, Splendour; 9, “}}D’, Jesod, the Foundation ; and 10, mp, Malkuth, the Kingdom. In the Tetragram ;})j}', translated in our Bible “ Jehovah” or “the Lord,” the last nine Sephiroth are summed up. The first also contains the idea of existence, …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 108

The Star in the West

…an easy way !? But this cannot be . The dice are in God's lap , and in him alone rests the Ultimate goal . In “ Tannhäuser ' we find the great dual power of redemption , the inter minglings of the powers of Virtue and Vice . In him , as in the hero of “ The Nameless Quest , " they wage an eternal contest , it not being till he has passed through the Venusberg of mental and physical lust , that he attains the graal of his hopes and aspirations : O God , Thy blinding beauty , and the light Shed from Thy shoulders , and the golden night 1 Tannhäus…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 100

Ambergris

…erfect pleasures, radiating far Up and up yet to where thy sacred star Burned in its brilliance : thence the storm was shed A passion of great calm about this head, This head no more a poet’s ; since the dream Of beauty gathered close into a stream Of tingling light, and, gathering ever force From thine own love, its unextended source, Became the magic utterance that makes Me, Dissolving self into the starless sea That makes one lake of molten joy, one pond Steady as light and hard as diamond ; One drop, one atom of constraint intense, Of eleme…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…s, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines. . . . To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul. “At my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.* “O Keshara,” cries Arjuna, “enjoin in me this terrible action!” This will TO WILL. To tur…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 142

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…hat inscrutable Nibbana where things in themselves cease to exist and with them the thoughts which go to build them up. Ignorance is the greatest of all Fetters, and, “he who sins inadvertently,” as Nagasena said, “has the greater demerit.” Enquiring into the particular nature of Ignorance Buddha discovered that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had three main branches, namely: Lobha, Dosa and Moha; Craving, Passion and the Delusion of Self, and that these three forms of Ignorance alone could be conquered by right understanding the Three G…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…s, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines. . . . To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul. “At my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.* “O Keshara,” cries Arjuna, “enjoin in me this terrible action!” This will TO WILL. To tur…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 142

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…hat inscrutable Nibbana where things in themselves cease to exist and with them the thoughts which go to build them up. Ignorance is the greatest of all Fetters, and, “he who sins inadvertently,” as Nagasena said, “has the greater demerit.” Enquiring into the particular nature of Ignorance Buddha discovered that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had three main branches, namely: Lobha, Dosa and Moha; Craving, Passion and the Delusion of Self, and that these three forms of Ignorance alone could be conquered by right understanding the Three G…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 290

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…tionally foolish magicians who have tried to use a sword long since rusted. Wagner illustrates this point very clearly in Stegfried. The Great Sword Nothung has been broken, and it is the Vili

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1913 · PDF PAGE 290

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…tionally foolish magicians who have tried to use a sword long since rusted. Wagner illustrates this point very clearly in Stegfried. The Great Sword Nothung has been broken, and it is the Vili

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1919 · PDF PAGE 385

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…d from flaming like the noonday Sun upon the snow-capped mount of purity eternal, then choose, O Neophyte, a humbler course. There are a great many people who not only are without marked capacity, but are obviously without any capacity at all, for attainment even on a very modest scale. The ques- tion then arises as to whether they can ‘be any good.’ Unless they are made to do something, they are likely to slip back rather than to make progress. Fortunately, there is a way through which they can make sure of acquiring the capacity in their next…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 24

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…E TESTAMENT OF MAGDALEN BLAIR PART I I IN my third term at Newnham I was already Profes- sor Blair's favourite pupil. Later, he wasted a great deal of time praising my slight figure and my piquant face, with its big round grey eyes and their long black lashes; but the first attraction was my singular gift. Few men, and, I believe, no other women, could approach me in one of the most priceless qualifications for scientific study, the faculty of apprehending minute differences. My memory was poor, extraordinarily so; I had the ut- most trouble to…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 462

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… been born of intellectually developed families. The conditions of genius are not accurately known. But we may divide the class into two great groups; those in whom the development is a system of degeneration, and those who, though sometimes exhibiting the most exquisite fruition, fail to attain full development and achieve the work of which they should be capable through their frailty. The men whose achievement is uniform are always constitutionally robust; despite all difficulties they attain a great age and produce continuously. Rodin, Brown…

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