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1919 · PDF PAGE 48

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…his man- ner, and he can best accomplish this by the practices of Liber Thisarb (see Equinox I. VII. 105) or such others as may from one time to another be appointed. It should now be perfectly simple for everybody to under- stand the Message of the Master Therion. Thou must (1) Find out what is thy Will. (2) Do that Will with (a) one-pointedness, (b) detachment, (c) peace. Then, and then only, art thou in harmony with the Move- ment of Things, thy will part of, and therefore equal to, the Will of God. And since the will is but the dynamic aspe…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…must ‘be regarded as of this three-fold nature, Birth, Life and Death, not successive, but one. Those who have reached trances in which ‘time’ is no more will understand better than others how this may be. 20. Bestride the Bird of Life if thou wouldst know. The word “know” is specially used here in a technical sense. Avidya, ignorance, the first of the fetters, is more- over one which includes all the others. With regard to this Swan ‘Aum’ compare the following verses from the “Great Law,” Liber LXV. II. 17-25. Also the Holy One came upon me, a…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 151

Magick Without Tears

…nderstood that the "word of sin is restriction. " It is very curious; they seem to be looking for one another, or for something, all the time, constantly hurrying about. But they knock up against one another and yet will not see one another, or cannot see Qne another, because they are so shut up in their cloaks. And a voice sounds: It is most terrible for the one that hath shut himself up and made himself fast against the universe. For they that sit encamped upon the sea in the city of the Pyramids are indeed shut up. But they have given their …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.-. D .*. and R.R. et A. C.__ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary ; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonised with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc. By a glance at the Tables, anybody conversant w…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.-. D .*. and R.R. et A. C.__ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary ; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonised with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc. By a glance at the Tables, anybody conversant w…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 113

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… The people seemed prosperous and contented; they had not yet been forbidden to amuse themselves when the day's work was over. Till this time I had never been in any reputedly hot country. I was appalled to find New York intolerable. I filled a cold bath, and got in and out of it at intervals till eleven at night, when I crawled, panting, through the roasting streets and consumed ice-water, iced watermelon, ice- cream and iced coffee. "Good God," I said to myself, "and this is merely New York! What must Mexico be like!" I supposed that I was ex…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 147

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ad been charging --- good night! I took the lesson to heart and always carried a double-barrelled rifle ever after. Apart from the extra time needed to lower a single-barrelled rifle and manipulate the lever, which might well cause a fatal delay, there is more than a possibility of a cartridge jamming, which would leave one entirely unarmed. We jogged on wearily to Anuradapura. This discomforts of the coach were great, and the monotony of the view desolating. It was all an endless flat tangle of vegetation. It was delightful to perceive, about …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 30

Konx Om Pax

…t was at the end of them. And now I’m only a little girl, and I’m ever so tired of writing, but I’ll tell you all about the rest another time. Explicit Capitulum Pn'mum val De C ollegio Extemo. PART II I WAS telling you how we started from the Green Palace. There are three passages that lead to the Treasure House of Gold, and all of them are very dreadful. One is called the Terror by Night, and another the Arrow by Day, and the third has a name that people are afraid to hear, so I won’t say. Via P v. Oculus But in the first we came to a mighty t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 356

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…the whole company of fairies were thrown into the sea, dragging Hempie along with them in their descent. And the sea, being rough at the time, overwhelmed them all, so that every one was drowned. When he who had caused the calamity saw what had occurred, he too plunged into the angry water, so as not to survive his friends, and thus perished with them. For a few moments a solitary figure appeared upon one of the rocks. It was the Dwarf of Hey. He gazed at the scene of the catastrophe, chanted a fairy dirge, and then vanished for ever. Such was …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 356

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…the whole company of fairies were thrown into the sea, dragging Hempie along with them in their descent. And the sea, being rough at the time, overwhelmed them all, so that every one was drowned. When he who had caused the calamity saw what had occurred, he too plunged into the angry water, so as not to survive his friends, and thus perished with them. For a few moments a solitary figure appeared upon one of the rocks. It was the Dwarf of Hey. He gazed at the scene of the catastrophe, chanted a fairy dirge, and then vanished for ever. Such was …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 55

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…e. What we had to do was to get married as quickly as we could, and lay in a stock of cocaine, and go away and have a perfectly glorious time for ever and ever. We sent for emergency clothes in the town, and went stalking a parson. He was an old man who had lived for years out of the world. He saw nothing

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1907 · PDF PAGE 252

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…9 The sword is made sharp in our hands, i. 70 The sword that was broken is perfect, iii. 58 The Three Characteristics, ii. 246 The third time bitterly came reason back, ii. 79 The unutterable void of Hell is stirred, i. 185 The valleys, that are splendid, i. 174 The vault of purple that I strove, i. 29 The veil o’ th’ mist of the quiet wood is lifted to the seer’s gaze, iii. 117 The Virgin lies at Bethlehem, ii. 14 The wail of the wind in the desolate land, i. 49 The wandering waters move about the world, i. 96 The wand of Hermes, the caduceus …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 381

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… period. Much of their work still defies explanation, though I and Frater Semper Paratus, an Adeptus Major of A.'. A.'., have spent much time and research upon it and cleared up many obscure points. The fact which stamps this working as sincere is this: over one hundred squares filled with letters were obtained --- in a manner which no one has quite understood. Dee would have one or more of these tables (as a rule 49x49), some full, others lettered only on alternate squares, before him on a writing table. Kelly would sit at what they called the…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 386

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle. We walked steadily to Bou Saâda, invoking the Aethyrs one by one, at convenient times and places, or when the spirit moved me. As a rule, we did one Aethyr every day. We reached Bou Saâda on November 30th; on December 8th we started through the desert for Biskra, which we reached on December 16th, completing the work on the nineteenth. Our adventures will be told later on. By the time I reached Bou Saâda and came to the twentieth Aethyr, I began to understand that these visions were, so t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 36

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…! MOLLY. Farewell ! [ANGELA draws nearer, yel remains concvaled, Sirk PERCY. O but the moon is laggard ! MOLLY. IIard it is! Sirk PERCY. Time matters not. Iam so drunk with love, MOLLY. One kiss, one kiss ! Sirk PERCY. A million! Ay, slack moon, Dull moon, haste, haste ! MOoO.L.Ly Kiss me again, again |

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1910 · PDF PAGE 185

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…n him, hungry and thirsty, slowly devouring its Mother Maya. On the 21st of January, 1902, P. left Calcutta for Burma, where for a short time he again joined Maitrananda. During the month of February he journeyed through the districts about Rangoon visiting many sacred cities and holy men, practising Dhdaran4 on Maitri Bhavana (Compassion) and taking his refuge in Triratna. (The triple jewel of Buddhism- Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.) On the 14th of February he visited Lamma Sayadaw Kyoung and Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, and on the 23rd shipped by S.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 185

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…n him, hungry and thirsty, slowly devouring its Mother Maya. On the 21st of January, 1902, P. left Calcutta for Burma, where for a short time he again joined Maitrananda. During the month of February he journeyed through the districts about Rangoon visiting many sacred cities and holy men, practising Dhdaran4 on Maitri Bhavana (Compassion) and taking his refuge in Triratna. (The triple jewel of Buddhism- Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.) On the 14th of February he visited Lamma Sayadaw Kyoung and Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, and on the 23rd shipped by S.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 14

The Rites of Eleusis

…of the Future. All this is symbolized in the holy rites which we have recovered from the darkness of history, and now in the fullness of time disclose that the world may be redeemed. For the corruptible shall put on incorruptibility, the mortal shall put on immortality ; my adepts shall walk crowned in the Gardens of the World, enjoying the breeze and the sunlight, plucking the roses and filling their mouths with ripe grapes. They shall dance in the moonlight before Dionysus, and delight under the stars with Aphrodite ; yet they shall also dwel…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 43

The Vision and the Voice

…o, the greater is the distance from one grade to another. Tam being slowly pushed backwards down the avenue, out into the wind. And this time Iam caught up by the wind and whirled away down it like a dead leaf. And a great Angel sweeps through the wind, and catches hold of me, and bears me up against it; and he sets me down on the hither side of the wind, and he whispers in my ear: Go thou forth into the world, O thrice and four times blessed who hast gazed upon the horror of the loneliness of The First. No man shall look upon his face and live…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 51

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…re is no such thing as space. I have to keep an appointment at midnight; and not only is my watch stopped, but there is no such thing as time. I wish to make a cannon; and not only have I no cue, but there is no such thing as causality. “This I explain to my wife” (I ! I—Ed.), “and she, ap- parently inspired, says, ‘Shoot it I’ (I suppose she means the reason, but, 01 course, she did not understand a word of what I had been saying. I only told her for the sake 01 formulating my thought clearly in words.) I reply, ‘If I only had a gun.’ This mak…

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