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1922 · PDF PAGE 161

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…orning. I can’t understand why a long sleep like that doesn’t refresh one. We're both absolutely fagged. Cockie said a meal would put us right, and he rang down for breakfast in bed. But when it came, we couldn’t either of us eat it. I remember what Haidée said about the spiritual life. We were being prepared to take our places in the new order of Humanity. It’s perfectly right that one should have to undergo a certain amount of dis- comfort. You couldn’t expect anything else. It’s nature’s way. ... We picked ourselves up with five or six goes …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 247

The Book of Thoth

… front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left. 2. Cut each pack again to the left. 3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left. 4. Find the Significator. If it be in the Yod pack, the question refers to work, business, etc.; if in the Hé pack, to love, marriage, or pleasure;, if in the Vau pack, to trouble, loss, scan‐ dal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the Hé final pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. Tell the Querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divinati6n. 6. If right, spread out the p…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 161

The Book of Thoth

…so, no blame is incurred (line 6); the conditions of True Will have been satisfied, and the issue is compensated by the feeling that the right (however unfortu‐ nate) course has been adopted. Such people acquire intense love and devotion from the most unexpected quarters.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 429

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…e séance threw a glaring light on this point. Eusapia was sitting at the end of a table with her back to the cabinet. Virakam was on her right, I on her left. It was my business to make sure that she did not kick and to keep hold of her left writs. After a short time the fun began in the customary manner by the curtain of the cabinet bulging and finally falling across Eusapia's left arm and my right. I could thus see into the cabinet, that is, into the corner of the room, by turning my head. Now, Eusapia was supposed to have a third arm, an ast…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 477

Magick Without Tears

…ess. We all want a big bruvver to tell of him! Hence the Gods and the Classes. It's fear at the base of the whole pyramid of skulls. How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes. And so, whenever we find one Man who has no fear like Ibsen's Doctor Stockmann or Mark Twain's Colonel Grainger that strolled out on his balcony with his shotgun to face the mob that …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 91

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…d form. I was perfectly able to do anything required, but the idea of doing it didn’t appeal. I thought a bath and a shower would put me right; and I certainly felt a very different man by the time I had got my clothes on. , When I came back into the sitting-room, I found Lou dancing daintily round the table. She went for me like a bull at a gate; swept me away to the couch and knelt at my side as I lay, while she overwhelmed me with passionate kisses. She divined that I was not in any condition to respond. “You still need your nurse,” she laug…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 222

Magick Without Tears

…the end farthest from the window, but in a distant corner ten or twelve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. I set him right way up, and he came out of his trance. He was quite unconscious that anything unusual had happened. But he had evidently been thrown there by the mysterious forces generated by Pranayama. There is no doubt whatever about this phenomenon; it is quite common. But the Yogis claim that the lateral motion is due to lack of balance, and that if one we…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 143

Magick Without Tears

…individuality-reminds one of that "Nordic" twaddle about "race-pollution." "Now, Master!" (What reproach in the tone of your voice!) All right, all right! Keep your hair on!-I know that is the precise term used in The Vision and the Voice, to describe the Great White Brother or the Babe of the Abyss, but to him it means victory; to the Left-Hander it would mean defeat, ruin devastating, irremediable, final. It is exactly that which he most dreads; and it is that to which he must in the end come, because there is no compensating element in his i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 32

The Winged Beetle

…te his silly tricks. And stranger still, their prospects so enlarged That one by one the patients were discharged. God asked him by what right he interfered ; He only laughed into his elfin beard.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…tier than the Sun , To whom the cherubs sing , A strong archangel , known of none , Comes crowned and conquering . An angel stands on my right hand With strength of ocean 's wrath ; Upon my left the fiery brand , Charioted fire , smites forth ; Four great archangels to withstand The furies of the path .

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1922 · PDF PAGE 158

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… Drug Fiend . Cockie came back for lunch with a very long face. Mr. Wolfe gave him a good talking-to about money. Well, that’s perfectly right. We had been going the pace. Cockie wanted to take me out and buy me some jewellery to replace what was stolen; but I wouldn’t let him, except a new watch and a wedding ring. I’ve got a horrid feeling about that. It’s frightfully unlucky to lose your wedding ring. I feel as if the new one didn’t belong to me at all. We had a long talk about Gretel being away. We tried one or two places, but they wouldn’t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 77

Konx Om Pax

…se who had failed in examinations wrote appalling diatribes against the folly of the educa tional system. The trouble was that they were right; the government was well enough in fact, but in theory had hardly a leg to stand on. In view of the growing clamour, the official classes were perturbed; for many of their number were intelligent enough to see that a thoroughly irra tional system, however well it may work in practice, cannot for ever be maintained against the attacks of those who, though they may be secretly stigmatized as doctrinaires, c…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 79

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…ce upon you and give you peace : both now and for evermore, Amen ! He made the sign of the Cross, spat in my left eye, and spunked in my right ; then ushered me to the door with courtly politeness. At the gate he impressed a loving kiss upon my arsehole, and gave a final but business-like frig to my weary yard. I passed out : the great Churchman was but a memory in my life. [77]

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1904 · PDF PAGE 116

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…roved “ a mere scum-pit Your cunt is, and as for your rump, it Is all out of tune ! ” She laughed “ yer baboon ! Yer don’t like it ? All right ! yer can lump it ! ” V There was a young lady named Rose Who filled not one po, but twelve poes With piss, sweat, and come, Thick slime from her bum, And snot from her bloody old nose. VI There was an American whore Whose cunt was a festering sore. She caulked it with pitch Till the bloody old bitch Was A1 at Lloyds’ evermore. But with earthly success not content, She grew pious — to Heaven she went. So…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 61

Gargoyles

…rrow with heat We abode (as we glode) on the river. Every arrow he launched from his seat, From the white inexhaustible quiver, Smote us right through, Smote us and slew, As we rode on the rapturous river. Sweet sleep is perfection of love. To die into dreams of my lover, To wake with his mouth like a dove Kissing me over and over. Better sleep so Than be conscious, and know How death hath a charm to discover. 53

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1899 · PDF PAGE 12

Tale of Archais

…er earth ; Surge, a sea of fiery waves, Through the continent of graves, Bringing all the dead to birth ; Rage, a warrior-band, to bring Right and truth to everything, Burning sorrow into mirth, Cradling, like a child, delight Born from the Cimmerian darkness of the hollow womb of Night, By the father of the gods, And the seasons’ periods To Eternity, the ocean flooded with the river, Light Ouranos ! Wave wide thy pinions Azure in the azure air, Over the serene dominions That our love has made so fair : Hark, O Heaven ! Hail thy sister, Earth, …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 139

Magick Without Tears

…ars a leopard-skin, and the spots suggest the Sun. Also, Sol is Lord of Leo: so there you are! pink leopards are exactly what you have a right to expect! Until you have practiced this method, all day and every day, for quite a long while, you cannot tell how amazingly your mnemonic power increases by virtue thereof . But be careful always to range the new ideas as they come along in their right order of importance. It is not unlike the system of keys used in big establishments, such as hotels. First, a set of keys, each of which opens one door,…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 187

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

….ΚΖ The First and the Last “WIIAT thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the Seven Abodes which be in Aushiah.” “And I saw in the Right Hand of Him that Sate upon the Throne a Book, sealed with Seven Seals." “ Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the Seals thereof? " S.V.M.B.O.L.A, £— THE FRONTISPIECE CONSISTS of a Crux Ansata, which is a form of the Rosy Cross One arm is scarlet, with the symbols of Leo and the Wand in emerald green. Another is blue with Eagle and Cup in orange. VIII K 145

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1912 · PDF PAGE 187

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

….ΚΖ The First and the Last “WIIAT thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the Seven Abodes which be in Aushiah.” “And I saw in the Right Hand of Him that Sate upon the Throne a Book, sealed with Seven Seals." “ Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the Seals thereof? " S.V.M.B.O.L.A, £— THE FRONTISPIECE CONSISTS of a Crux Ansata, which is a form of the Rosy Cross One arm is scarlet, with the symbols of Leo and the Wand in emerald green. Another is blue with Eagle and Cup in orange. VIII K 145

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1913 · PDF PAGE 127

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ther 's need I know no more than you . THE AGES OF MAN . W E children in our crowded home W Had little food to eat, Our breeding was the right to roam And scavenge in the street ; My brothers died , my sister died , And I grew all accurst , With pigeon breast, with surly pride, With hunger and with thirst. When I was twenty years of age I earned my pound a week , I ate and drank the princely wage And almost I grew sleek : And then I married me a wife Who made ten shillings more ; So rich we were we thought that life Was easy for the poor . 108

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