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1961 · PDF PAGE 85

Liber Aleph

…dencies and Operations, with the Keys to their Portals. Nor did He leave any Part of His Work unfinished, unless it be that accomplished three hundred Years ago by Sir Edward Kelly, of whom I also come, as thou knowest. t

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1939 · PDF PAGE 39

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…. It is only in No. 10 that we get the manifested universe, which is thus shown as the result of the Yoga of the other forces, the first three letters of the name, the active elements, fire, water and air. (These are the three 'mother letters' in the Hebrew alphabet.) The last element, earth, is

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1907 · PDF PAGE 43

Konx Om Pax

THE WAKE WORLD 23 more beautiful than anything, and along it my own dear lover passes to my bridal chamber. Then there are the three ways to the Holy House of the old King, the way by which he is joined with the new Fairy Prince, where dwells a moonlike virgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet thoughts and pure kisses. And there is the way by which I always go to the King, my Father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 20

The God-Eater

…ic stature, is dis- covered seated C. The scene represents a lonely hill-top covered with stones. A little coarse grass grows in places. Three great menhirs stand up C. Moonlight.| Rupua. The rune of the breath. The saga of death. The secret of earth. The beginning of birth. The speech of woe. Ho! Ho!

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1919 · PDF PAGE 28

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers oF LiFe, by General Forlong. An invaluable text- book of old systems of initiation. THREE D1aLocueEs, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of subjective idealism. Essays or Davin Hume. The Classic of Academic Scep- ticism. First Principies, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism. PROLEGOMENA, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics. Tue Canon. The best text-book of Applied Qabalah. Tue Fourtu Dimension, by H. Hinton. The text-book on this subject. Tue Essays or THomas Henry H…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 512

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… for having built a dam right across the lake, to the detriment of navigation! This spasm of energy continued without abatement for some three weeks, after which I gradually recovered the balance of my normal faculties. The effect of my operations was now to increase the energy of each of them, but in reasonable proportion. I was now able to begin my proposed magical research. In order to erect the temple of the New Aeon, it appeared necessary to make a thorough clearance of the rubbish of its ruined predecessors. I therefore planned and execut…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 10

Jezebel

… bastard blood Quailed, but his violent soul withstood. He blenched, and then with eyes of flame, “ Who is on my side ? Who ? ” he said. Three eunuchs, passionless, grown tame, Grinned from behind her laughing head.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 23

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…o the Lord of the Word Abrahadabra, and Glory unto Him that hath given us the Symbol of the Ankh, and of the Cross within the Circle! 1. Three are the Beasts wherewith thou must plough the Field; the Unicorn, the Horse, and the Ox. And these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by One Whip. 2. Now these Beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the Man. 3. Nothing shall be said here of Cerberus, the great Beast of Hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as Athanasius hath foreshadowed. For this …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 23

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…o the Lord of the Word Abrahadabra, and Glory unto Him that hath given us the Symbol of the Ankh, and of the Cross within the Circle! 1. Three are the Beasts wherewith thou must plough the Field; the Unicorn, the Horse, and the Ox. And these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by One Whip. 2. Now these Beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the Man. 3. Nothing shall be said here of Cerberus, the great Beast of Hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as Athanasius hath foreshadowed. For this …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 412

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…pi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself into three branches of splendour. A breath blows round the earth, and vivifies in innumer- able forms all parts of animated substance.” (HyMN Il—Synesius.) Mesmer saw in elementary matter a substance indifferent to movement as to rest. Submitted to movement, it is volatile; fallen back into rest, it is fixed; and he did not understand that movement is inherent in the first substance; that it results, not from its i…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 412

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…pi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself into three branches of splendour. A breath blows round the earth, and vivifies in innumer- able forms all parts of animated substance.” (HyMN Il—Synesius.) Mesmer saw in elementary matter a substance indifferent to movement as to rest. Submitted to movement, it is volatile; fallen back into rest, it is fixed; and he did not understand that movement is inherent in the first substance; that it results, not from its i…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 7

An Appeal to the American Republic

…st agonising hour, And east and west have thundered with red war. We freed us from the slavery of Spain, And laid upon the main Our hand three centuries back—and ye have struck again. 5

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1904 · PDF PAGE 87

Why Jesus Wept

…SIR HERPES ZOSTER, M.D. SIR GRABSON JABBS, Q.C. SIR HERPES Z. Yes, indeed, a most fortunate event. The children weigh 46 lbs between the three of them. All boys ! I. Godly for “ are in love with one another ”.

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1930 · PDF PAGE 13

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…truction for attainment by the direct destruction of thoughts as they arise in the mind. Equinox VI, p. 9. Liber XVII. Liber LA.O. Gives three methods of attainment through a willed sériés of thoughts. Unpublished. It is the active form of Liber CCCLXI. Liber XXL The Classic of Purity, by Ko Hsuen. A new translation from the Chinese by the Master Therion. Unpublished. Liber XXV. The Ritual of the Star Ruby. An improved form of the lesser ritual of the Pentagram, Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies, pp. 34 & 35. Also Appendix VI of this book. Libe…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 353

Magick Without Tears

…The importance is that they actually determine one's line of conduct in critical situations. It seemed therefore a good idea to give you three examples from The Spirit of Solitude: and here they are! The first extract refers to the "miraculous" discovery of the MS of Liber AL some years after I had deliberately "lost" it. The second, to the finding of a villa suited to the Work. The third to my rescue from a state of despair. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 320

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1944 · PDF PAGE 34

The Book of Thoth

…e nearest approach to Reality which is shown in this system. The number 4, for instance, is not so specially the result of adding one to three, or squaring two, or halving eight. It is a thing in itself, with all sorts of moral, sensible, and intellectual qualities. It symbolises such ideas as Law, Restraint, Power, Protection and Stability. In the Qabalistic system the original idea is Zero,1 which appears under three forms, rather as (in Chinese philosophy) the Tao becomes manifested little by little through the Teh, or as (in the best of the…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 238

Collected Works (Vol. II)

232 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS the bulk of cases one should certainly abstain from destroying life, that is, wantonly and wilfully : but I cannot drink a glass of water without killing countless myriads of living beings. If you knew as I do, the conditions of existence: struggle deadly and inevitable, every form of life the inherent and immiti- gable foe of every other form, with few, few exceptions, you would not only cease to talk of the wickedness of causing death, but you would perceive the First Noble Truth, that no existence can be free fr…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 222

The Star in the West

…terms of science ; and the whole is encircled by the ring of AGNOSTICISM , beyond which philo sophy as philosophy cannot penetrate . The three circles of Mysticism , Hylo - Idealism (Idealism and Realism ), and Agnos ticism ; or Magic , Science , and Philosophy, are all bisected by the PYRRHONISTIC Line of doubt which alone vanishes in the circumference of CROWLEYANITY . This is the outer circle of all , forming , with the Pyrrhonistic Line , a perfect Yin and YANG ; itself the unutterable T A O.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 50

Moonchild

…was clad from neck to knee in a single black robe, without sleeves. From his belt hung a heavy sword with a cross-hilt. This man held up three fingers. Simon Iff again nodded, and led his guests to the room on the left. Here were the three guests indicated by the gesture of the guard. Lord Antony Bowling was a familiar friend of the old mystic. He was a stout and strong man of nearly fifty years of age, with a gaze both intrepid and acute: His nose was of the extreme aristocratic type, his mouth sensual and strong. [72] Cyril Grey had nicknamed…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 10

One Star in Sight

…ority of the Teaching and Governing Adept is the basis of all orderly work.) To attain the Grade of Adeptus Exemptus, he must accomplish Three Tasks; the acquisition of absolute Self-Reliance, working in complete isolation, yet transmitting the word of his superior clearly, forcibly and subtly; and the comprehension and use of the Revolution of the wheel of force, under its three successive forms of Radiation, Conduction and Convection (Mercury, Sulphur, Salt; or Sattvas, Rajas, Tamas), with their corresponding natures on other planes. Thirdly,…

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