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1912 · PDF PAGE 67

Book 4 (Part I)

…gilance) you will soon be able to master the final section. In some people this inhibitory power may flower suddenly in very much the same way as occurred with Asana. Quite without any relaxa- tion of vigilance, the mind will suddenly he stilled. There will be a marvellousfeeling of peace and rest, quite different from the lethargic feeling which is produced by over-eating. It is difficult to say whether so definite a result would come to all, or even to most people. The matter is one of no very great importance. If you have acquired the power of c…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 437

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…c Transeat—— 17. The Swan 66. The Praying Mantis 18. Dewdrops 67. Sodom-Apples 19. The Leopard and the Deer 68, Manna 20. Samson 69. The Way to Succeed—and the Way to Suck 21. The Blind Webster Eggs! 22. The Despot 70. Broomstick-Babblings 23, Skidoo! 71. King’s College Chapel 24. The Hawk and the Blindworm 72. Hashed Pheasant 25, THE STAR RUBY 73. The Devil, the Ostrich, and the Orphan Child 26. The Elephant and the Tortoise 74. Carey Street 27. The Sorcerer 75. Plover’s Eggs 28. The Pole-Star 76. Phaeton 29. The Southern Cross 77. THE SUBLIME…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 437

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…c Transeat—— 17. The Swan 66. The Praying Mantis 18. Dewdrops 67. Sodom-Apples 19. The Leopard and the Deer 68, Manna 20. Samson 69. The Way to Succeed—and the Way to Suck 21. The Blind Webster Eggs! 22. The Despot 70. Broomstick-Babblings 23, Skidoo! 71. King’s College Chapel 24. The Hawk and the Blindworm 72. Hashed Pheasant 25, THE STAR RUBY 73. The Devil, the Ostrich, and the Orphan Child 26. The Elephant and the Tortoise 74. Carey Street 27. The Sorcerer 75. Plover’s Eggs 28. The Pole-Star 76. Phaeton 29. The Southern Cross 77. THE SUBLIME…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 609

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ic Transeat— 17. The Swan 66. The Praying Mantis 18. Dewdrops 67. Sodom-Apples 19. The Leopard and the Deer 68, Manna 20. Samson 69. The Way to Succeed—and the Way to Suck 2. The Blind Webster Eggs! 22. The Despot 70. Broomstick-Babblings 23 Skidoo! 71. King’s College Chapel 24. The Hawk and the Blindworm 72. Hashed Pheasant 25, THE STAR RUBY 73. The Devil, the Ostrich, and the Orphan Child 26. The Elephant and the Tortoise 74. Carey Street 27. The Sorcerer 75. Plovers’ Eggs 28. The Pole-Star 76. Phaeton 29. The Southern Cross 77. THE SUBLIME A…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 609

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ic Transeat— 17. The Swan 66. The Praying Mantis 18. Dewdrops 67. Sodom-Apples 19. The Leopard and the Deer 68, Manna 20. Samson 69. The Way to Succeed—and the Way to Suck 2. The Blind Webster Eggs! 22. The Despot 70. Broomstick-Babblings 23 Skidoo! 71. King’s College Chapel 24. The Hawk and the Blindworm 72. Hashed Pheasant 25, THE STAR RUBY 73. The Devil, the Ostrich, and the Orphan Child 26. The Elephant and the Tortoise 74. Carey Street 27. The Sorcerer 75. Plovers’ Eggs 28. The Pole-Star 76. Phaeton 29. The Southern Cross 77. THE SUBLIME A…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 17

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… But then it dropped off to zero. I had received about 30 cuttings altogether. Then other people began to send me cuttings in a friendly way, and Messrs. Romeike and Curtice maintained a silence and immobility which would have done credit to a first-rate Mahatma. They missed, for example, little things like an editorial par. in “ John Bull,” a full page in “The Sketch,” the “ Daily News,” a page and a quarter in “The Nation,” half a column in the “ Daily Mail.” .. . {I hear you ask, “ How can they make such oversights? Perhaps the Post Office i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 17

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… But then it dropped off to zero. I had received about 30 cuttings altogether. Then other people began to send me cuttings in a friendly way, and Messrs. Romeike and Curtice maintained a silence and immobility which would have done credit to a first-rate Mahatma. They missed, for example, little things like an editorial par. in “ John Bull,” a full page in “The Sketch,” the “ Daily News,” a page and a quarter in “The Nation,” half a column in the “ Daily Mail.” .. . {I hear you ask, “ How can they make such oversights? Perhaps the Post Office i…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 74

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… the long-lying sea? She wakes I Nor dare he creep back to her soul, whence Sleep Has torn aside the mist—hung drapery ; Too strange the way, and steep. ETHEL ARCHER. 66

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1911 · PDF PAGE 74

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… the long-lying sea? She wakes I Nor dare he creep back to her soul, whence Sleep Has torn aside the mist—hung drapery ; Too strange the way, and steep. ETHEL ARCHER. 66

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1930 · PDF PAGE 32

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…drunken damnation to themselves. One may bring down stolen fire in a hollow tube from Heaven, as The Master Therion indeed has done in a way that no other adept dared to do before him. But the thief, the Titan, must foreknow and consent to his doom to be chained upon a lonely rock, the vulture devouring his liver, for a season, until Hercules, the strong man armed by virtue of that very fire, shall corne and release him. The Teitan 1 — whose number is the number of a man, six hundred and three score and six — unsubdued, consoled by Asia and Pan…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 26

Jephthah

…we covered our hair; The voice of the singer was dumb, the voice of the triumph of prayer. But God had pity upon us, Our evil and fallen way; His mercy was mighty on us ; His lips are as rosy as day Broken out of the sea at the sunrise, as fragrant as flowers in May. Our sin was great in His sight: _ We chased from our gates our brother, We shamed his father’s might, We spat on the grave of his mother, We laughed in his face and mocked, looking slyly one to another. But God beheld, and His hand Was heavy to bring us grief; He brought down fire …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 84

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… cares ; Happy songs our love had made Ere the sun had sunk his fire, - In the moonrise fall and fade, And the dregs of our desire Fall away to death ; Tears divide our labouring breath That our sister—O our sister ! Moon and sun and stars have kissed her She must touch the lips of death, Touch the lips whose coldness saith : Thou art clay. Let us fare away, away To the ice whose ocean gray Tumbles on the beach of rock, Where the wheeling vultures mock Our distress with horrid cries, Where the flower relenting dies, And the sun is sharp to slay…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 83

Oracles

… the ear, Woven of silence, moulded in the haunted Houses where dead men linger year by year. I have no fear To tread thy far irremeable way Beyond the paths and palaces of day, Beyond the night, beyond the skies, Beyond eternity’s Tremendous gate ; beyond the immanent miracle. O secret self of things ! I have nor feet nor wings Except to follow far beyond Heaven and Earth and Hell, Until I mix my mood And being in thee, as in my hermit’s hood I grow the thing I contemplate—that selfless Solitude !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 101

The Scented Garden

…rous thing. The dull and boneless devotees of twat— Leave them to grovel ; we are well a-wing. Yet twitch that podex, like the wandering way Of Mars within the everlasting ring.3 So shall my member, like the nightingale,4 Salute thee with melodious twittering. I made thee famous throughout all Iran5 With these the naughty Ghazals that I sing.6 In every caravanserai the boys, As to their lords they fierce or languorous cling, Cry : “ Lov’st thou me, dear master, as Habib Is loved by El Qahar the conquering ? ”

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1912 · PDF PAGE 85

Sir Palamedes

The broad stair winds; he follows it; Dark is the way; the air is blind; Black, black the blackness of the pit, The light long blotted out behind! His sword sweeps out; his keen glance peers For some shape glimmering through the gloom: Naught, naught in all that void appears ; More still, more silent than the tomb! Yet now the good knight is aware Of some black force, of some dread throne, Waiting beneath that awful stair, Beneath that pit of slippery stone. Yea! though he sees not anything, Nor hears, his subtle sense is ’ware That, lackeyed b…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 119

The Sword of Song

…othesis, empiric as it was, and is. But with the growth and gathering-together, classify ing, criticism of our facts, we are well on the way to erect a surer structure on a broader basis. IX. AGNOSTICISM. It should be clearly understood, and well remembered, that throughout all these m edi- tations and ideas, there is no necessary way to any orthodox ontology whatever. As to the way of salvation, we are not to rely on the Buddha; the vicious lie of vicarious atonement finds no place here. The Buddha himself does not escape the law of c ausation…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 51

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ed a whirling Star: I seek Asar. O Nepti, sister! Arise in the dusk From thy chamber of mystery and musk! Come with me, though weary the way, To bring back his life to the rended clay! See! are not these the hands that wove Delight, and these the arms that strove With me? And these the feet, the thighs That were lovely in mine eyes? Lo! I lament. I gather in my car Thine head, Asar. 39

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1910 · PDF PAGE 51

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ed a whirling Star: I seek Asar. O Nepti, sister! Arise in the dusk From thy chamber of mystery and musk! Come with me, though weary the way, To bring back his life to the rended clay! See! are not these the hands that wove Delight, and these the arms that strove With me? And these the feet, the thighs That were lovely in mine eyes? Lo! I lament. I gather in my car Thine head, Asar. 39

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…IONS Liser I.—Liber B Vel Magi. This is an account of the Grade of Magus, the highest grade which it is ever possible to manifest in any way what- ever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. 43

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…IONS Liser I.—Liber B Vel Magi. This is an account of the Grade of Magus, the highest grade which it is ever possible to manifest in any way what- ever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. 43

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