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1922 · PDF PAGE 370

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…u. I did go to hell for you. I came out of hell for you. I stopped taking heroin only because I had to fit myself to help you to do your will. That is my will. And when we found out this morning what your will was, I came down here to get the place ready for you to do it. I’m going to keep this place in order for you and assist you as best I can in your work, just as I danced for you, and went to McCall for you, in the days when you were blind. I was blind too about your will, but I always followed my instinct to do what you needed me for, even…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 203

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE SEVENFOLD SACRAMENT My will to watch, my will to pray. Vain is the consecrated vesture; Vain the high and holy gesture; Vain the proven and perfect spell Enchanting heaven, enchaining hell. Unyoked the horses from the car Wherein I waged celestial war: Mine angel sheathes again his sword At the Interdiction of the Lord. Even hell is shut, lest spite and strife Should show my soul a way to life. Hope dies; faith flickers and is gone. Love weeps, then turns its soul to stone. All nearest, highest, holiest things Drop off; the soul must lose h…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 334

The Star in the West

…, dispute the mere beating of the winds with a tattered fan . Religion is bankrupt , philosophy is bankrupt , science is bankrupt , none will be discharged , we must fend for ourselves . .. Hark ! . We are the poets ! We are the children of wood and stream , of mist and mountain , of sun and wind ! We adore the moon and the stars , and go into the London streets at midnight seeking Their kisses as our birthright . We are the Greeks - and God grant ye all , my brothers , to be as happy in your loves ! and to us the rites of Eleusis should open t…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 243

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… ? Think you that He who sees you, and controls, Did not devise it all? The mountains that you loved have taken you, And we who love you will not weep. Shall we begrudge? Your last look saw sky blue; You will be glad to sleep. Your pure names (thine renowned, yours fresh with youth And full of promise) shall be kept Still in our hearts like mirrors of the truth, As if you had not slept.

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1908 · PDF PAGE 82

Amphora

…allow vows and cold, Born hardly to much bitterness, Thy mercy takes effectual hold And granteth them success. Not by our passion or our will The eager suppliant is heard, But by the white ecstatic thrill Of Thy serener word. Accept our prayer, accept our praise, O Thou all praise and prayer above ! O fix our weak and wavering will On Thee, the Queen of Love ! Amen. O 75

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1910 · PDF PAGE 299

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ehold, O men: a Tree deep-rooted— A hundred branches from the mighty Trunk, And on each branch a hundred leaves— An Axe—a Child—a Hand—a Will! Tue Mos. Down with the old tree! Simpcex. [Unperturbed.] And Oh, He, Ho, the Will so powerful! (After one million years the tree fell) See the result: Toys, TOys, TOYs, TOYS! Smwpuicissimus. [Dogmatic.] The Spirit of Persistency unborn. THE Mos. Down with the Lords! IV U 281

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1910 · PDF PAGE 299

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ehold, O men: a Tree deep-rooted— A hundred branches from the mighty Trunk, And on each branch a hundred leaves— An Axe—a Child—a Hand—a Will! Tue Mos. Down with the old tree! Simpcex. [Unperturbed.] And Oh, He, Ho, the Will so powerful! (After one million years the tree fell) See the result: Toys, TOys, TOYs, TOYS! Smwpuicissimus. [Dogmatic.] The Spirit of Persistency unborn. THE Mos. Down with the Lords! IV U 281

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1954 · PDF PAGE 457

Magick Without Tears

…o your own wit of judgment as to the general rules of your own private Code of Morals, what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' for you, that will emerge only from long self-analysis such as is the chief work of the Sword in the process of your Initiation. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1909 · PDF PAGE 35

John St. John

…y be that the morning may bring remembrance of Thee which this consciousness does not now contain. But I swear by Thine own glory that I will not be satisfied with this, that I will go on even unto madness and death if it be Thy will—but I will know Thee as Thou art. It is strange how my cries died down; how I found myself quite involuntarily swinging back to the old mantra that I worked all yesterday. However, I shall try a little longer in the Position of the Hanged Man, although sleep is again attacking me. I am weary, yet content, as if some…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 82

Hail Mary

…allow vows and cold, Born hardly to much bitterness, Thy mercy takes effectual hold And granteth them success. Not by our passion or our will The eager suppliant is heard, But by the white ecstatic thrill Of Thy serener word. Accept our prayer, accept our praise, O Thou all praise and prayer above ! O fix our weak and wavering will On Thee, the Queen of Love ! Amen. O 75

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1937 · PDF PAGE 3

Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government

…the known. 40. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. 42. Thou hast no right but to do thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 57. Love is the law, love under will. CHAPTER II. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No ! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen; who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 58…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 39

Little Poems in Prose

…accuracy to a young she-frog invok- ing the Ideal. If you despise King Log (as I am at present, you know well) beware of King Stork, who will crunch you and swallow you and kill at his pleasure! “Poet as I am, I am not the dupe that you would like to think; and if you weary me too often with your affected complainings I will treat you like a wild woman of the woods or throw you out of the window like an empty bottle.”

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1928 · PDF PAGE 89

Little Poems in Prose

…yst with some young officer, who, on distant shores, has heard his comrades speak of the famous Dorothy; no doubt the simple-minded girl will beg him to describe the Opera ball to her, and ask him if one may go there bare-foot, as one may on the Sunday dances, when the old Kaffir women themselves get drunk and furious with joy, And then again she will ask if the fair ladies of Paris are all more beautiful than she. Dorothy is admired and petted by everyone, and she would be perfectly happy if she were not obliged to put aside copper after coppe…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 21

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…able functions. Again, a boy’s instinct may tell him to go to sea, while his parents insist on his becoming a doctor. In such a case, he will be both unsuccessful and unhappy in medicine.) (8) À Mail v'Iiose conscious will is at odds with îiis True Will is wasting his strengtli. He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently. (Illustration: When Civil War rages in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries. A man with cancei employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the enemy which is…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 75

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…orizon of the mind. (b) An improvement of the control of the mind. 4. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confrontcd by things (ideas or beings) too glorious or too dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of ail that he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion and the prey of madness. Before entering upon any of these practices the student must be in good health, and hâve attained a fair mastery of Asana, Pranayama and Dharana. 5. There i…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 28

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…o earn the right to devote yourself to Yoga proper by arranging for that devotion to be a necessary stage in the fulfilment of your True Will. In Hindustan one is not allowed to become 'Sanyasi'—a recluse—until one has fulfilled one's duty to one's own environment—rendered to Caesar the things which are Caesar's before rendering to God the things which are God's. Woe to that seven months' abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a blank wall in China! Yama and Niyama …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 91

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…tration, or the wi// to hold the mind to certain points. 7. Dhydéna: Meditation, or the outpouring of the mind on the object held by the will. 8. Samadhi: Ecstasy, or Superconsciousness. As regards the first two of the above stages we need not deal with them at any length. Strictly speaking, they come under the headings of Karma and Gnana Yoga, and as it were form the Evangelicism of Yoga—the “Thou shalt” and “ Thou shalt not.” They vary according to definition and sect.* However, one point must be explained, and this is, that it must be rememb…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 91

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…tration, or the wi// to hold the mind to certain points. 7. Dhydéna: Meditation, or the outpouring of the mind on the object held by the will. 8. Samadhi: Ecstasy, or Superconsciousness. As regards the first two of the above stages we need not deal with them at any length. Strictly speaking, they come under the headings of Karma and Gnana Yoga, and as it were form the Evangelicism of Yoga—the “Thou shalt” and “ Thou shalt not.” They vary according to definition and sect.* However, one point must be explained, and this is, that it must be rememb…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 541

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flowed ; calculate audaciously all that will yet be shed before the arrival of the Messianic reign of the Man-God who shall submit at once all passions to powers and all powers to justice. Tuy Kincpom come! For nigh on nineteen hundred years, over the whole surface of the earth, this has been the cry of seven hundred million throats, and the Israelites yet await the Messiah! He said that he would come, and come he will. He came to die, and he has pr…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 541

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flowed ; calculate audaciously all that will yet be shed before the arrival of the Messianic reign of the Man-God who shall submit at once all passions to powers and all powers to justice. Tuy Kincpom come! For nigh on nineteen hundred years, over the whole surface of the earth, this has been the cry of seven hundred million throats, and the Israelites yet await the Messiah! He said that he would come, and come he will. He came to die, and he has pr…

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