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1929 · PDF PAGE 46

Moonchild

…sort of shapeless mass, dark-red," she said after a pause. "Now watch!" cried Iff. He took several steps into the garden, and raised his right hand. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!" [66] he proclaimed in such a voice as once shook Sinai. Then he threw the rest of the dittany in the direction of the Thing. "By all the powers of the Pentagram!" shouted Cyril Grey; "he's deliberately making a magical link between it and Lisa." He bit his lip, and cursed himself in silence; he knew he had been startled out of prudence. Simon Iff h…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 17

The Heart of the Master

Dissolve the Pearl in the Wine-cup: drink, and make manifest the Virtue of that Pearl! XV. With thy right Eye create all for thyself, and with the left accept all that be created otherwise! XVI. Break down the fortress of thine Individual Self, that thy Truth may spring free from the ruins! XVII. Use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the Phoenix! XVIII. Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning! XIX. Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 405

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… themselves with magnetism are reproached. Q. What conditions are required in order to magnetize properly? A. Health of spirit and body; right intention, and discreet practice. Q. What advantageous results can one obtain by discreet magnetism ? A. The cure of nervous diseases, the analysis of presenti- ments, the re-establishment of fluidic harmonies, and the rediscovery of certain secrets of Nature. Q. Explain that to us in a more complete manner. A. We shall do so in the third part of this work, which will treat specially of the mysteries of …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 405

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… themselves with magnetism are reproached. Q. What conditions are required in order to magnetize properly? A. Health of spirit and body; right intention, and discreet practice. Q. What advantageous results can one obtain by discreet magnetism ? A. The cure of nervous diseases, the analysis of presenti- ments, the re-establishment of fluidic harmonies, and the rediscovery of certain secrets of Nature. Q. Explain that to us in a more complete manner. A. We shall do so in the third part of this work, which will treat specially of the mysteries of …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 144

Oracles

…but follow eager vanities. To whom in Truth the Truth is known, Falsehood in falsehood doth appear, To them the Path of Truth is shewn ; right aspirations are their sphere ! An ill-thatched house is open to the mercy of the rain and wind. So passion hath the power to break into an unreflecting mind. A well-thatched house is proof against the fury of the rain and wind. So passion hath no power to break into a rightly-ordered mind. * Alternative reading !— Who is not free from dirty taint, and temperate and truthful ain’t, He should not wear the …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 388

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…roused and held by the sheer merit of the writing, and the publishers believe they have found in Catherine Cotton a writer with just the right gifts of wit, sympathy, and understanding. DOMENICO H, M. Anderson This is the story of a Cardinal of Rome, a member of one of the great noble families. In his youth something had happened which had thrown a shadow over his life. There are three great crises in his life, one of them due to this shadow, one to the contrast between his conscience and his ambition, and the third when, an exile in England, h…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 95

The Book of Thoth

… has been the so constant theme of these essays. The im‐ portant word in the injunction is the central word RECTIFICANDO; it implies the right leading of the new living substance in the path of the True Will. The stone of the Philosophers, the Universal Medicine, is to be a talisman of use in any event, a completely elastic and completely rigid vehicle of the True Will of the alchemists. It is to fertilize and bring to manifested Life the Orphic Egg. The Arrow, both in this card and in Atu VI, is of supreme importance. The Arrow is, in fact, th…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 15

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…lves perfectly simple; but they have been completely overlaid by the sinister activities of priests and lawyers. There is no question of right or wrong in any abstract sense about any of these problems. It is absurd to say that it is 'right' for chlorine to

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1904 · PDF PAGE 17

The Argonauts

…bent with lies And gilded with most specious promises, Cunningly angled for old Chiron’s grace To catch me yet. Athena hears me swear To right all this—nay, answer me before Anger get all the spoil of me, and drink Thy life-blood in one gulp! Descend that dais!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 48

The Winged Beetle

…F JANUS Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe Of glory ; of how One most white Withdrew that Whole, and hid it in the lobe Of his right Ear, So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear. XI Yea ! and the end revealed a word, a spell, An incantation, a device Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault ; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must m…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 11

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

…mus Sanctissimus (Supreme and Most Holy King). to, Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an indefeasible right to the TII°, Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body concerned, ‘The O. T. O., although an Academia Masonica, is not ‘a Masonic Body so far as the craft degrees are concerned in the sense in which that expression is usually understood in England, and therefore in no way conflicts with, or infringes the just privileges of, the United Grand Lodge of England, 10

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1919 · PDF PAGE 216

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…mmus Sanctissimus (Supreme and Most Holy King). g. Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an indefeasible right to the III’. Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body concerned. The O.T.O., although an Academia Masonica, is not a Masonic Body so far as the ‘secrets’ are concerned in the 202

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1954 · PDF PAGE 259

Magick Without Tears

…-20-40, and Dhyana comes instantly . When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm. I guess that's about what I think. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1904 · PDF PAGE 82

In Residence

…c fits,’ ’e ses, ‘An’, though their lives I’m sure to save, Yet each ’ll carry, Ill confess, A ruin’ stummick to ’is grave.’ An’ ’e were right as soon as not: A ruin’ stummick ’tis they’ve got.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 301

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ff-clinging pine, That night of delight You were mine, you were mine! You were mine, Ο my saint, My maiden, my mate, By the might of the right Of the night of our fate. Though Ι fall, though I faint, Though I char, though I choke, By the hour of our power I invoke, I invoke! Z 123

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1911 · PDF PAGE 301

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ff-clinging pine, That night of delight You were mine, you were mine! You were mine, Ο my saint, My maiden, my mate, By the might of the right Of the night of our fate. Though Ι fall, though I faint, Though I char, though I choke, By the hour of our power I invoke, I invoke! Z 123

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1901 · PDF PAGE 19

Carmen Saeculare

…! Its end, how glorified ! O Spirit of Illimitable Light ! O Thou with style and tablet ! Answer me In that dread pomp of Triumph and of Right, The awful day : my witnesses are Ye That I have said in all men’s sound and sight The things that are to be. 17

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1911 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… idleness, from your follies. 8. But I bring you joy to your pleasure, peace to your languor, wisdom to your folly. 9. All that ye do is right, if so be that ye enjoy it. 10. I am come against sorrow, against weariness, against them that seek to enslave you. 19

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1911 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… idleness, from your follies. 8. But I bring you joy to your pleasure, peace to your languor, wisdom to your folly. 9. All that ye do is right, if so be that ye enjoy it. 10. I am come against sorrow, against weariness, against them that seek to enslave you. 19

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1912 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…c Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping a heavy club, which has three branches in the colours, and with the sigils, of the scales. The Right— and Left—hand branches end respectively in three Flames, and the Centre one in {our Flames: thus yielding Ten : the Number of the Sephiroth, Two-and-twenty leaping Flames, or Yodh, I53

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