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1910 · PDF PAGE 12

The World’s Tragedy

… though funereal fling. When Mr. Raven, stung to the quick, had shaken his fist at the Major and yelled : “ Brother, you’re a sinful old man ! ” Mrs. Cameron “ had always known there was something ” and invented a ruined governess. But — oh the laughter of her husband when the telegraph brought the Major’s retort “ Brother, have you no sin ? ” Spoken with an accent of mildness which belied the purple of his face. In short, the Meeting at Oban had split. Mr. Cameron

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1912 · PDF PAGE 93

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…th wide open, his Baedeker limp in his perspiring hand. “ She's riding astride l " The molten madness throbbed in his brain. “ She‘s got man‘s clothes on ! " The shocking truth must out: Theodore Bugg had come to Paris for Pleasure! He had only been able to spare two days, the Sunday and Monday of Whitsuntide. He had travelled by the night boat on Saturday, arriving in Paris on Sunday morning—the first step downward! The air of Paris intoxicated him; the Grands Boulevards ate into his moral fibre like a dragon chewing butter; and though he had no…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 93

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…th wide open, his Baedeker limp in his perspiring hand. “ She's riding astride l " The molten madness throbbed in his brain. “ She‘s got man‘s clothes on ! " The shocking truth must out: Theodore Bugg had come to Paris for Pleasure! He had only been able to spare two days, the Sunday and Monday of Whitsuntide. He had travelled by the night boat on Saturday, arriving in Paris on Sunday morning—the first step downward! The air of Paris intoxicated him; the Grands Boulevards ate into his moral fibre like a dragon chewing butter; and though he had no…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 50

The Sword of Song

…make it plain.” NOTE TO INTRODUCTION 1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AN APPRECIATION BY ALEISTER CROWLEY.* IT is a lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H . Mallock, &c. ) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after all a problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. To me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for Shakespeare what Verrall has done so ably for Euripides. The third tabernacle must be filled; Shaw and “the Human” must have their Superh…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 28

The Book of Thoth

…et title is “The Chil‐ dren of the Voice, the Oracle of the Mighty Gods”, leads from the number 3 to the number 6. The number 6 is the human personality of a man; the number 3 is his spiritual intuition. Therefore, it is natural and significant that the influence of the 3 upon the 6 is that of the intu‐ itional or inspirational voice. It is the illumination of the mind and the heart by the Great Mother. Consider again the card joining the number I to the number 6. This card is called “The High Priestess”, and is attributed to the Moon. The card…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 15

Tannhäuser

… not be pleased with you. Compare on this point Arnold, "India Revisited," 1886, p. 112. So much for the symbology of this, I fear, much-mangled drama. Drama indeed is an altogether misleading term ; monodrama is perhaps better. It is really a series of introspective studies ; not necessarily a series in time, but in psychology, and that rather the morbid psychology of the Adept than the gross mentality of the ordinary man. It may help some of my readers if I say that my Tannhauser is nearly identical in scheme with the " Pilgrim's Progress." L…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 18

Berashith

…he precepts of morality and religion are thus of use, of vital use to us, in restraining the thore violent forces alike of nature and of man. For unless law and order prevail, we have not the necessary quiet and resources for investigating, and learning to bring under our control, all the divergent phenomena of our prison, a work which we undertake that at last we may be able to break down the walls, and find that freedom which an inconsiderate Inversion has denied. ‘The mystical precepts of pseudo-Zoroaster, Buddha, Gankaracharya, Pseudo-Chris…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 86

Why Jesus Wept

… prayer with repeated ‘ you know’s, like the Cairene bore in Marryat’s novel. I AGÉD SISTER, sotto voce. Yes ! it’s all so blesséd and romantic, my dear, thank the Lord ! They were both brought to Jesus on one night, Ascen- sion Day, as the poor PaganI bodies call it, through the minis- tration of Mr. Hogwash, the Baptist minister at Brixton (Mr. Chesterton executes the cake-walk), who they say is a good man, and very much blessed of the dear Lord, my dear, in his ministrations, though of course he has not been brought out of sect2 as yet. II A…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 10

The World’s Tragedy

…is it a type of all logic ? — their simple Yea and Nay became more casuistical than Dens or Escobar, and their strict adhesion to the Commands of the Bible became a mere loosening of the strings of conscience. An irreligious man may have moral checks ; a Plymouth Brother has none. He is always ready to excuse the vilest crimes by quoting the appropriate text, and invoking the name of Christ to cover every meanness which may delight his vain and vicious nature. For the Plymouth Brethren were in themselves an excep- tionally detestable crew. The …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 84

Book 4 (Part I)

…so overwhelming, so out of proportion to the rest of things, that they were freed from all the petty hindrances which prevent the normal man from carrying out his projects. Worrying about clothes, food, money, what people may think, how and why, and above all the fear of consequences, clog nearly every one. Nothing is easier, theoretically, than for an anarchist to kill a king. He has only to buy a rifle, make himself a first-class shot, and shoot the king from a quarter of a mile away. And yet, although there are plenty of anarchists, outragesar…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 111

Mortadello

…throne. 1ST and 2ND MASK. We greet a colleague. 1ST MASK. Sit, develop us your plan. Venice has need of it. 2ND MASK. And more need of a man ! ALESSANDRO. Nay, brothers, by your leave. The train but needs the spark. A day—the flash will cleave the horror of the dark. Do me this honour ; dine with me to-morrow eve. I promise you good wine, and shapely limbs to weave Your dreams to more than dream. Besides, I promise this : You shall know how extreme abject a thing he is. And you may see, perhaps, a drama something apt Of how in his own traps the…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 11

John Yarker – In Memoriam

IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT MAN- CHESTER, WITH Α ΝΟΤΕ ΟΝ ΤΗΕ CIRCUM- STANCES WHICH LED UP ΤΟ ΤΗΕΜ ALTHOUGH the Sovereign Grand Master General departed this life on March 20, 1913, no official notice of the fact was sent out by the senior active officer, the Grand Chancellor General; but a few days after he had received the summons issued in default of such action by the Acting Sovereign Grand Master General, he sent another summons couched in similar terms, calling a special Convocation at Manchester fer 4 p.m., June 28, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT MAN- CHESTER, WITH A NOTE ON THE CIRCUM- STANCES WHICH LED UP TO THEM ALTHOUGH the Sovereign Grand Master General departed this life on March 20, 1913, no official notice of the fact was sent out by the senior active officer, the Grand Chancellor General; but a few days after he had received the summons issued in default of such action by the Acting Sovereign Grand Master General, he sent another summons couched in similar terms, calling a special Convocation at Manchester for 4 p.m., June 28…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT MAN- CHESTER, WITH A NOTE ON THE CIRCUM- STANCES WHICH LED UP TO THEM ALTHOUGH the Sovereign Grand Master General departed this life on March 20, 1913, no official notice of the fact was sent out by the senior active officer, the Grand Chancellor General; but a few days after he had received the summons issued in default of such action by the Acting Sovereign Grand Master General, he sent another summons couched in similar terms, calling a special Convocation at Manchester for 4 p.m., June 28…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 68

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…ma’ajab and ed therein* Eléments. ma’aruf. but male.) Four Wor~ Liberty, i.e. The Hexagram which unités shippers; the free will. God and Man. The cons- four ele- ciousness or Ruach. ments. Parzival as the Child in his widowed mother’s care : Horus, son of Isis and the slain Osiris. Parzival as King & Priest in Montsalvat performing the miracle of rédemp¬ tion; Horus crowned and conquering, taking the place of his father. Christ-Bacchus in Heaven- Olympus saving the world. The Hermit IX Yod (a hand) ÏO V i r g o (an The root of the Alphabet. (H …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 164

The Law is for All

Chapter III * Verses 23—37 165 31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman sh…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 47

John St. John

…evening is, close and hot, with a little fog; and, one may suspect, the air is overcharged with electricity. I will rest quietly with my mantra as Hanged Man, and perhaps sleep for a little. . No sleep—no rest for the wicked! ’Tis curious how totally independent is mantra-yoga of reverie. I can say my mantra vigorously while my thought wanders all over the world; yetI cannot write the simplest sentence without stopping it, unless with a very great effort, and then it is not satisfactory to either party! Meditation—~of the " rational ” sort—on t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 379

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ople who have thrawn themselves into the water in order to escape sea-sickness. It is of Catholicity, such as it is constituted in the Roman Church, that one must say what Voltaire so boldly said of God: “If it did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.” But if a man had been capable of inventing the spirit of charity, he also would have invented God. Charity does not invent itself, it reveals itself by its works, and it is then that one can cry with the Saviour of the world: “ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!” To …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 379

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ople who have thrawn themselves into the water in order to escape sea-sickness. It is of Catholicity, such as it is constituted in the Roman Church, that one must say what Voltaire so boldly said of God: “If it did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.” But if a man had been capable of inventing the spirit of charity, he also would have invented God. Charity does not invent itself, it reveals itself by its works, and it is then that one can cry with the Saviour of the world: “ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!” To …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 274

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…handmaiden, in thine office of gladness. THE PEopLe. So mote it be. (THE SAINTS) Tue Deacon. Lord of Life and Joy, that art the might of man, that art the essence of every true god that is upon the surface of the Earth, continuing knowledge from generation unto generation, thou adored of us upon heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market- places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old…

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