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1910 · PDF PAGE 314

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…n per quod Solomo constringebat dae- mones, et conclusit . . .” He stopped short, however, seeing that the irrelevant in- terruption had found no echo; and he went on with his narra- tive, moving his arms to the rhythm of his voice, and with his fingers kneading unseen shapes in the air. II “Tue boy comes in later. I want you to realize how beautiful was the little girl. Like a thick thread of scarlet were her lips, comely was her countenance, most pleasing to the sight was her earthly body, a temptation to the Angels her soul. Her eyes express…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 314

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…n per quod Solomo constringebat dae- mones, et conclusit . . .” He stopped short, however, seeing that the irrelevant in- terruption had found no echo; and he went on with his narra- tive, moving his arms to the rhythm of his voice, and with his fingers kneading unseen shapes in the air. II “Tue boy comes in later. I want you to realize how beautiful was the little girl. Like a thick thread of scarlet were her lips, comely was her countenance, most pleasing to the sight was her earthly body, a temptation to the Angels her soul. Her eyes express…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 18

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…erstanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the constraints, accidents, and déceptions of material existence. I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blavatsky some years earlier. “Theosophy”, “Spiritua- lism”, “Occultism”, “Mysticism”, ail involved undesirable con¬ notations. I chose therefore the name. “MAGICK” as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of ail the available terms. I swore to rehabilitate MAGICK, to identify it with my own career; and to compel m…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 148

The Book of Thoth

…itious and aspiring, full of enthusiasm which is often irrational. She never forgets an injury, and the only quality of pa‐ tience to be found in her is the patience with which she lies in ambush to avenge.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 8

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…sposal do not at present suffice for the contemplated advance, and the Chan- cellor consequently appeals for assistance to those who have found in the instructions of the A A a sure means to the end they sought All moneys received will be applied solely for the purpose of aiding those who have not yet entered the circle of the light. 11

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1912 · PDF PAGE 8

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…sposal do not at present suffice for the contemplated advance, and the Chan- cellor consequently appeals for assistance to those who have found in the instructions of the A A a sure means to the end they sought All moneys received will be applied solely for the purpose of aiding those who have not yet entered the circle of the light. 11

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1929 · PDF PAGE 104

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

CHAPTER IX Of Silence and Secrecy : AND OF The Barbarous names of Evocation It is found by expérience (confirming the statement of Zoro- aster) that the most potent conjurations are those in an ancient and perhaps forgotten language, or even those couched in a corrupt and possibly always meaningless jargon. Of these there are several main types. The “preliminary invocation” in the “Goetia” consists principally of corruptions of Greek and Egyptian names. For example, we find “Osorronnophris” for “Asor Un-Nefer”.1 The conjurations given by Dr. De…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 138

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…ave her Some gin as a diuretic. For fifteen years without cessation Did the hissing torrents roll out ; And at the P.M. examination They found she had pissed her soul out. They carved a beautiful chamber-pot On her tomb : and this moral appear did : “ This elegant girl in an hour from her twat Poured more than the Nile in a year did. Through the ages of earth her faultless fame Will never alter nor vary : Stranger, hats off to the honoured name Of Micturating Mary ! ” [140]

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1912 · PDF PAGE 69

Mortadello

…ur eagle swoops, But where’s the use ? The lamb is hidden underground. MORTADELLO. Is it your Doge or dupe I am ? GABRIELE. She shall be found. [He turns to go. SCENE III. A Charnel-House beneath the Convent of the Ursulines. It is a cellar piled with skulls and bones. There is a truckle bed, above which is a wooden crucifix. There is also a prie-Dicu and image of the Virgin, luxurious and decorative, a startling contrast to the simplicity of the rest. MONICA. [Alone at the prie-Dieu.] No news ! No word of Mortadello’s fate ! No hope. To bruise…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 24

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ing their right to be present and vote in this Convocation of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators, and the same having been examined and found to be legal and xxiv

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1913 · PDF PAGE 24

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ing their right to be present and vote in this Convocation of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators, and the same having been examined and found to be legal and xxiv

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1902 · PDF PAGE 13

Tannhäuser

…Egyptian deities," still more that he should show reverence to symbols like the B. V. M. and the Holy Grail. But the most learned and profound students of the Mysteries of the Rosy Cross assure me that it was the special excellence of these mystics that they declined to be bound down by any particular system in their sublime search for the Eternal and the Real. Under these circumstances I have not scrupled to subvert anything that appeared to me to need subverting in the interests, always identical, of beauty and of truth. Anachron- ism may be …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Methods of obtaining these states are to be found in any book on Bhakta Yoga—Swami Vivekananda’s is the best I know of—and in Loyola’s “ Exercitios Espirituales,’ whose discipline and method is, in my opinion, unsurpassed. These phenomena are nearly always tainted with sexuality, and are excessively dangerous from this cause. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place,” and to mix, consciously or unconsciously, either morality or immorality with religion is dirty; and dirt makes disease. The victim becomes a fanatic at the best, at the wors…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX Methods of obtaining these states are to be found in any book on Bhakta Yoga—Swami Vivekananda’s is the best I know of—and in Loyola’s “ Exercitios Espirituales,’ whose discipline and method is, in my opinion, unsurpassed. These phenomena are nearly always tainted with sexuality, and are excessively dangerous from this cause. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place,” and to mix, consciously or unconsciously, either morality or immorality with religion is dirty; and dirt makes disease. The victim becomes a fanatic at the best, at the wors…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 33

Mortadello

… scratch Is mortal. Crime so delicate shall make a match With Mortadello. Filthy hound ! Vile sneering goat ! Soon my bedfellow, this be found thrust through your throat ! The comedy is fierce, is long, is dangerous ; But I am free, but I am strong, am sinuous, Subtle as an asp, implacable as fire or flood, A girl to grasp the crown of hell through wine and blood. Hush ! ’tis the plash of oars. Come, sweet, and bathe me in. Her blood. Come splash me head to feet with scarlet sin ! [She kneels and clasps her hands, raising her voice as the gondo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 443

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ard to the miracles?” “Oh, as many as you like!” And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn an eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic. L 145

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1913 · PDF PAGE 443

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ard to the miracles?” “Oh, as many as you like!” And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn an eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic. L 145

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1907 · PDF PAGE 246

The Star in the West

…ce is the abstract of all relations of co - existence . Time is the abstract of all relations of sequence .” These definitions have been found wanting , chiefly on 1 Absolute Relativism , p . 114 .

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1911 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ady of my life! Who set thy stature as a wood to wave? Whose love begat thy limbs ? Whose wave~washed body swims That nurtured thee, and found herselfa grave?

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1911 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ady of my life! Who set thy stature as a wood to wave? Whose love begat thy limbs ? Whose wave~washed body swims That nurtured thee, and found herselfa grave?

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