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1912 · PDF PAGE 207

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…azon-like figure, softer in nature than the Princess of Wands. Her attire is similar. She stands on a sea with foaming spray. Away to her right a Dolphin She wears as a crest a swan with opening wings. She bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues Her mantle is lined with swansdown, and is of thin floating material. Sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. Imaginative, dreamy, at times indolent, yet courageous if roused. When ill dignified she is selfish and luxurious. She rules a quadrant of the heavens …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…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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1912 · PDF PAGE 207

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…azon-like figure, softer in nature than the Princess of Wands. Her attire is similar. She stands on a sea with foaming spray. Away to her right a Dolphin She wears as a crest a swan with opening wings. She bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues Her mantle is lined with swansdown, and is of thin floating material. Sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. Imaginative, dreamy, at times indolent, yet courageous if roused. When ill dignified she is selfish and luxurious. She rules a quadrant of the heavens …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 152

Little Poems in Prose

…e laughed wildly, in mockery of her husband’s bad shooting, he turned sharply towards her and said, “You see that doll down there on the right with its nose in the air and so haughty an expression?— Well, my dear angel, I imagine to myself that it is you,” and he shut his eyes and pulled the trigger. The doll was cleanly beheaded.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 237

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…of ψωμί: Α WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, as before, issuing from clouds and grasping three wands in the centre (two crossed, the third upright). Flames issue from the point of junction. Above and below are the symbols 0 and τ. Established force, strength, realization of hope. Com- pletion of labour. Success after struggle, Pride, nobility, wealth, power, conceit. Rude self-assumption and insolence. Generosity, obstinacy, etc. Binah of ( ?יPride, arrogance, self-assertion) Herein rule the Angels?הישההand?תיממע [This card is much better than as d…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 237

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…of ψωμί: Α WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, as before, issuing from clouds and grasping three wands in the centre (two crossed, the third upright). Flames issue from the point of junction. Above and below are the symbols 0 and τ. Established force, strength, realization of hope. Com- pletion of labour. Success after struggle, Pride, nobility, wealth, power, conceit. Rude self-assumption and insolence. Generosity, obstinacy, etc. Binah of ( ?יPride, arrogance, self-assertion) Herein rule the Angels?הישההand?תיממע [This card is much better than as d…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…AE He makes three crosses on Paten and Cup together. He uncovers the Cup, genuflects, takes the Cup in his left hand and the Host in his right. With the Host he makes the five crosses on the Cup. 1 43 2 hs ky He elevates the Host and the Cup. The Bell strikes. HAGIOS HAGIOS HAGIOS IAO. He replaces the Host and the Cup, and adores. VII OF THE OFFICE OF THE ANTHEM. Tue PRIEST. Thou who art I, beyond all I am, Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 89

Liber Aleph

…nflict. There Victory leapeth shining before us; for who may thwart true Will, which is the Order of Nature Herself? “. . . thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay.” For if that Will be true, its Fulfilment is of a Surety as Daylight following Sunrise. It is as certain as the Operation of any other Law of Nature; it is Destiny. Then, if that Will be obscured, if thou turn from it to Wills diseased or perverse, how canst thou hope? Fool! Even thy Turns and Twists are in the Path to thine appointed End. But thou…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 58

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…y and science, in following an independent route, had brought us to the famous exclamation of Tertullian: "certum est quia ineptum!" How right the Church has been to deny the authority of Reason! 2. We are almost tempted to enquire for a moment what the Church means by 'faith.' St. Paul tells us that faith is 'the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things unseen.' I do not think, then, that we are to imagine this word faith to mean what that lecherous gross-bellied boor, Martin Luther, maintained. The faith of which he speaks is any…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 128

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…ucks. VI When Celia comes, ’tis earthquake’s hour ! The bed vibrates like kettle-drums. It is a grand display of power When Celia comes. Right up her arse my shitty thumbs Increase her rapture. Gentle flower ! Flap go apace our bulging turns. The sea hath swallowed up the tower. Spunk trickles over both our bums In one ecstatic summer shower When Celia comes. VII When Celia’s sick I shit my drawers, Then wipe it up with them, then stick My head therein. The poet scores When Celia’s sick ! The chunks I chew ; the slime so slick I mix with monthl…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ooking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assured Him that it was very good. And indeed it must be admitted that He had every right to crow. With no better basis than the Metaphysical Absolute of the Qabalists he had unthinkably but efficiently formulated Infinite Space, filled the said Space with Infinite Light, con- centrated the Light into a Smooth-pointed Whitehead (not the torpedo) and emanated Himself as four hundred successive intelligences all the way from Risha Qadisha in Atziluth down to where intelligence ends, and England…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ooking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assured Him that it was very good. And indeed it must be admitted that He had every right to crow. With no better basis than the Metaphysical Absolute of the Qabalists he had unthinkably but efficiently formulated Infinite Space, filled the said Space with Infinite Light, con- centrated the Light into a Smooth-pointed Whitehead (not the torpedo) and emanated Himself as four hundred successive intelligences all the way from Risha Qadisha in Atziluth down to where intelligence ends, and England…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 80

Moonchild

… us is concerned. The analogy is quite perfect. Thus, in my guess at your birth-hour — was not that a test? I will do it all day, and be right five times in six. Further, in the event of error, I will show exactly why I was wrong. It's a case where one is sometimes right to be wrong, as I'll explain one day. Then again, your own clairvoyance; I did not tell you that sort of a Thing to look for; yet you saw it under the same form as I did. You shall practice these things daily with Cyril if you like, always checking your results in a way which h…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…oal, Stainless star-rapture of the soul. So the altar-fires fade As the Godhead is displayed. Nay, we stir not. Everywhere Is our temple right appointed. All the earth is faery fair For us. Am I not anointed? The Sigil burns upon the brow At the adjuration—here and now. otympas. The air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. Behold! it beams—it burns—it blooms. oLympas. Master, how subtly hast thou drawn

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1913 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…oal, Stainless star-rapture of the soul. So the altar-fires fade As the Godhead is displayed. Nay, we stir not. Everywhere Is our temple right appointed. All the earth is faery fair For us. Am I not anointed? The Sigil burns upon the brow At the adjuration—here and now. otympas. The air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. Behold! it beams—it burns—it blooms. oLympas. Master, how subtly hast thou drawn

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1929 · PDF PAGE 86

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ly. Students were exempt from the general law and could not be punished for any act which was not mentioned by name in the statues. The brighter spirits would then accordingly search the statues for gaps. It was, for instance, strengstens verboten to tie night-watchmen to lightning conductors during thunderstorms. Eckenstein and his friends waited accordingly for the absence of thunderstorms and then proceeded to tie up the watchmen. He was as thoroughly anglicized as possible. The chief mark of the old Adam was a tendency to professional dogma…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 274

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… to do so if we were really trying to find out a Thing we none of us knew. To help our Deduction about Redemption, too, we find 11M, to brighten or make glad. We also work in another Way. I is the Straight Line or Central Pillar of the Temple of Life; also it stands for Unity, and for the Generative Force. A is the Pentagram, which means the Will of Man working Redemption. O is the Circle from which everything came, also Nothingness, and the Female, who absorbs the Male. The Progress of the Name shows then the Way from Life to Nirvana by means …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 41

Mortadello

…eady cooked for dinner. FILIPPO. [A sturdy good-natured youth.] I am sure If Monica has given her seal and signature To this, it must be right. GIUSEPPE. My hero-worshipper ! But I am just as bad : I pin my faith to her. MATTEO. She has Madonna’s face ; Madonna’s spirit shines Even through her bodily veil, the moon among the pines ! EUPHEMIA. When I was ill last year she came three times to see me S

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1903 · PDF PAGE 18

Alice: An Adultery

…ctet: an equally clear apodosis in the sestet. To use it for narrative is absurd. A series of sonnets for a series of thoughts indeed is right. Rossetti’s “ House of Life ” is the best example of perfection in this art. He knows this well indeed, and achieves superb results now and then. The title sonnet, the 3rd, 4th, 11th, and some others are fine examples of this, though even here is a reference to the facts, a fatal fault in such jewel-work as a sonnet should be, and approaching the abyss of didacticism. Again, he is fatally obscure in many…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 80

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

xiii. On my right hand, Michael. xiv. On my left hand, Auriel; xv. For about me fiâmes the Pentagram, xvi. And in the Column stands the six-rayed Star, xvii-xxi. Repeat (i) to (v), the Qabalistic Cross. The Greater Ritual of the Pentagram The Pentagrams are traced in the air with the sword or other weapon, the name spoken aloud, and the signs used, as illustrated. The Pentagrams of Spirit. Equilibrium of Actives. Name : A H I H (Eheieh) Equilibrium of Passives, Name A G L A (Agla). The signs of the Portai (See illustrations) : Extend the hands …

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