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1919 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… deal to uproot some of the tares in the mind of the tyro aforesaid, which Madame Blavatsky was apparently content to let grow until the day of judgment. But that day is come since she wrote this Book; the New Zon is here, and its Word is Do what thou wilt. It is certainly time to give the order: “Chautauqua est delenda.” Love is the law, love under will.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 124

The Winged Beetle

… There—good-bye the last time ! Now, please ! Luck’s ease is threes. What a kiss ! what a squeeze ! Dot the i’s ! cross the t’s ! Half a day’s a vast time ! Tragedies, Comedies, Pantomime and pastime !

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1909 · PDF PAGE 35

Clouds Without Water

Xx XI To-morrow is the day when Christ our Lord Were you a shop-girl and myself a clerk, Rose from the dead; therefore, the shopsare shut. Things might be better — we could surely meet Men may get drunk, or syphilized, or bored, With due umbrellas in the dripping Park Robbed, murdered, or regenerated — but ! And decorously spoon upona seat. But they must not get letters, be amused, This is the penalty one pays for rank Or do a thing they want to do till Monday; And fortune ! Ah, my Lola, I am dying Whence comes the universally-diffused And mad …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX The dusk is fallen ; there is no more green ; The day is past, and love and life are fled: Out from my window in the night I lean To hear the waiting ghosts of hours long dead. But, being dead, they dwell at rest in me, Turned into song by love’s strange alchemy. Wherefore I sing of things long past and dead; Wherefore I murmur foolishly in sleep; The old, old pain still throbbing through my head In dreams of desert valleys, mountains steep, With winding paths ; hot suns and scorching plains. There is a fire unquenched within my bra…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX The dusk is fallen ; there is no more green ; The day is past, and love and life are fled: Out from my window in the night I lean To hear the waiting ghosts of hours long dead. But, being dead, they dwell at rest in me, Turned into song by love’s strange alchemy. Wherefore I sing of things long past and dead; Wherefore I murmur foolishly in sleep; The old, old pain still throbbing through my head In dreams of desert valleys, mountains steep, With winding paths ; hot suns and scorching plains. There is a fire unquenched within my bra…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 58

The Star in the West

…ophy and mysticism , as a singer of lyrics and love -songs Aleister Crowley remains unsurpassed , unrivalled , among the host of present-day poets . His thoughts are as subtle , his imagination as gorgeous , his melodies as charming as those of Shelley himself ; soft as a summer breeze , fresh as the dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic lust . So closely interwoven in spirit are the true lyrics with the remainder of his amatory poetry , that it would be dangerous to attempt to separate them , an…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 41

Book 4 (Part I)

…the process of quitting the Asana involves several minutes of the acutest agony. It will require a good deal of determination to persist day after day, for in most cases it will be found that the discomfort and pain, instead of diminishing, tend to increase.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 319

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The great week of creation has been imitated by human genius, divining the forms of nature. Every day has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of God! Sublime dream which explains the mysteries of India, and justifies all symbolisms! The lofty conception of the man-God corresponds to the creation of Adam, and Christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. We wait for the worship of the brid…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 319

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The great week of creation has been imitated by human genius, divining the forms of nature. Every day has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of God! Sublime dream which explains the mysteries of India, and justifies all symbolisms! The lofty conception of the man-God corresponds to the creation of Adam, and Christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. We wait for the worship of the brid…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 11

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…to twenty-eight places of decimals. “But hardly had he laid down these bold outlines of his scheme when interruption came. On the fourth day of our intercourse he signalled only ‘Wait. Watch me!’ again and again. “In the evening he manoeuvred to get to the rear of the line of convicts, and only then dragged out ‘There is a traitor, a spy. Henceforth I must find a new means of communicating the details of my plan. I have thought it all out. I shall speak in a sort of rebus, which not even you will be able to understand unless you have all the pi…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 91

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…HAH. 69 He hath given and taken away, hath made us and broken; He hath made the blue and the gray, the sea for a token ; He hath made to-day and to-morrow ; the winter, the spring; He bringeth us joy out of sorrow ; Jehovah is King. [Exeunt. Jephthah ts left standing with white set face. Presently tears come into his eves, and he advances, and kneels at the altar. THE END.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 36

Alice: An Adultery

MARGARET The moon spans Heaven’s architrave ; Stars in the deep are set ; Written in gold on the day’s grave, “ To love, and to forget ; ” And sea-winds whisper o’er the wave The name of Margaret. A heart of gold, a flower of white, A blushing flame of snow, She moves like latticed moons of light— And O ! her voice is low, Shell-murmurs borne to Amphitrite, Exulting as they go. 14

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1912 · PDF PAGE 85

Mortadello

…n. Hollo there, Governor ! Come out and wag a chin ! [THE GOVERNOR appears at the window. GOVERNOR. My witty Sandro ! What’s the time o’ day with you ? ALESSANDRO. Past prick o’ noon, I fear. And you ? GOVERNOR. The hour of dew. I never felt such heat. ALESSANDRO. A devilish hot day. Well, thank the Lord, the beach is not so far away. Come off with me and bathe. GOVERNOR. My God, you must be mad. I can’t leave. If you knew the trouble I have had ! ALESSANDRO. What ! the Princess has tantrums ? GOVERNOR. No ; beyond belief Far worse. The trouble…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

July 22 23, Turning to A was turning to sleep, as too often 32 װ THE EQUINOX . Thoughts ofA happens. 24. A day off, apparently. (This means that there is 25 no entry in the original diary. It does not imply that nothing was done, only that nothing was worthy record, or that such record was omitted. Note the “apparently,” as of surprise.) . A bad day. (Going out of Nursing Home.) 26. Went down to stay with D. D. S. 27 . Here we have a most extraordinary entry, which needs explanation and illustration. Fra. Ρ. was cruCified by Fra. D. D. S., and o…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 352

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…Ice; crystal wea Gullet 12) A) Formation ny Visio Splendoris AIA ANN Gomorrah mpy The Number of Servitors of Abra- 316 Melin Sub-Princes Day Demon of 3% Dec. Y INW) Ligatus win Green Pay JESU w A bundle, handful “py Visitans iniquitatem py TPB Aporrhea sp [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 54] RY To worship, bow down nnw 7317 Day Demon of 3*4 Dec. & spb) [Vide Ps. xcvii. 11] oy Arida mwa Iron (Ch.) binp Hoariness nw 318 Labrum lavacri, et basio 43) “VD eius A copse, bush me 36 “ Boy,” Name of Enoch, and ws of Metatron A Duke of Edom. [Vide DY Liber 777, p. 2…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

July 22 23, Turning to A was turning to sleep, as too often 32 װ THE EQUINOX . Thoughts ofA happens. 24. A day off, apparently. (This means that there is 25 no entry in the original diary. It does not imply that nothing was done, only that nothing was worthy record, or that such record was omitted. Note the “apparently,” as of surprise.) . A bad day. (Going out of Nursing Home.) 26. Went down to stay with D. D. S. 27 . Here we have a most extraordinary entry, which needs explanation and illustration. Fra. Ρ. was cruCified by Fra. D. D. S., and o…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 352

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…Ice; crystal wea Gullet 12) A) Formation ny Visio Splendoris AIA ANN Gomorrah mpy The Number of Servitors of Abra- 316 Melin Sub-Princes Day Demon of 3% Dec. Y INW) Ligatus win Green Pay JESU w A bundle, handful “py Visitans iniquitatem py TPB Aporrhea sp [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 54] RY To worship, bow down nnw 7317 Day Demon of 3*4 Dec. & spb) [Vide Ps. xcvii. 11] oy Arida mwa Iron (Ch.) binp Hoariness nw 318 Labrum lavacri, et basio 43) “VD eius A copse, bush me 36 “ Boy,” Name of Enoch, and ws of Metatron A Duke of Edom. [Vide DY Liber 777, p. 2…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 249

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… the chill canal with manifold Lays of clear morning ; never grow afraid When he dips down beyond the far flat land, Know never more the day and night apart, . Know not where frost has laid his iron hand, Save only that it fastens on my heart ; Save only that it grips with icy fire These veins no fire of hell could satiate; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.’ © We should like to give other examples, but we can only name some of those pieces that seem to us the most remarkable. Such are ‘An II] Dream,’ …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 402

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…rnal loss. Q. Can one repair a fault? a. Yes; by expiation. Q. What is expiation ? A. Working overtime. Thus, because I was lazy yester- day, I had to do a double task to-day. Q. What are we to think of those who impose on them- selves voluntary sufferings? A. If they do so in order to overcome the brutal fascination of pleasure, they are wise; if to suffer instead of others, they are generous; but if they do it without discretion and without measure, they are imprudent. Q. Thus, in the eyes of true philosophy, religion is wise in all that it o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 402

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rnal loss. Q. Can one repair a fault? a. Yes; by expiation. Q. What is expiation ? A. Working overtime. Thus, because I was lazy yester- day, I had to do a double task to-day. Q. What are we to think of those who impose on them- selves voluntary sufferings? A. If they do so in order to overcome the brutal fascination of pleasure, they are wise; if to suffer instead of others, they are generous; but if they do it without discretion and without measure, they are imprudent. Q. Thus, in the eyes of true philosophy, religion is wise in all that it o…

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