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1944 · PDF PAGE 24

The Book of Thoth

…stant practice what they mean to him. It does not even follow that he will arrive at the same ideas. This will not mean that one mind is right and the other wrong, because each one of us has his own universe all to himself, and it is not the same as anybody else’s universe. The moon that A. sees is not the moon that B., standing by him, sees. In this case, the difference is so infinitesimal that it does not exist in practice; yet there is a difference. But if A. and B look at a picture in a gallery, it is very much not the same picture to both,…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 108

The Book of Thoth

…on of Osiris. Below him the graves were opening, the dead rising up. There were three of them. The central one had his hands raised with right angles at the elbows and shoulders, so as to form the letter Shin, which refers to Fire. The card therefore represented the destruction of the world by Fire. This was accomplished in the year of the vulgar era 1904, when the fiery god Horus took the place of the airy god Osiris in the East as Hierophant (see Atu V). At the begin‐ ning, then, of this new Aeon, it is fit to exhibit the message of that ange…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 17

Berashith

…ters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it must appear), then our reason is valid, and we should seek out the right path and pursue it. The question therefore need not trouble us at all. Here, then wesee the use of morals and of religion, and all the rest of the bag of tricks. All these are methods, bad or good, for extricating ourselves from the universe. Closely connected with this question is that of the will of God. People argue that an Infinite intelligence must have been at work on this cosmos. I reply No! ‘Ther…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 31

The Scented Garden

…(possibly a shade alto) of our dis- creet and legal passion for our Limburger-tainted hausfrau hide from our fuller comprehension. As is right, therefore : In nomine v. Krafft-Ebing, v. Schrenk-Notzing, et Havelock Ellis, Amen. The Holy Trinity (invoked above) have brought within the knowledge of the English-speaking races all those facts connected with ‘ sexual perversion ’ (in its infinite variety) which occur in the diseased. The late Sir Richard Burton has informed us of all that need be known on the subject in the matter of its historical,…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 185

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…he best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard a7 acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say! I practice then, with conscious…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…get out of its way!” “Impossible! My feet are caught in brambles that cling ever closer. Ah! Help! Help! There is the great stone coming right upon me!” “Well, there it is!” said the other laughing, throwing the pillow at his head in order to wake him. A terrible cry, suddenly strangled in his throat, a con- vulsion, a sigh, then nothing more. The practical joker gets up, pulls his comrade’s arm, calls him ; in his turn, he becomes frightened, he cries out, people come with lights... the unfortunate sleep-waker was dead. 126

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1913 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…get out of its way!” “Impossible! My feet are caught in brambles that cling ever closer. Ah! Help! Help! There is the great stone coming right upon me!” “Well, there it is!” said the other laughing, throwing the pillow at his head in order to wake him. A terrible cry, suddenly strangled in his throat, a con- vulsion, a sigh, then nothing more. The practical joker gets up, pulls his comrade’s arm, calls him ; in his turn, he becomes frightened, he cries out, people come with lights... the unfortunate sleep-waker was dead. 126

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1919 · PDF PAGE 392

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… with, even to the smallest extent, in any way, and therefore all action is not truly cause, but effect. In another sense Zoro- aster is right when he says “Theurgists fall not so low as to 7O

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1906 · PDF PAGE 165

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…e, That He was damned and I was God! Ay! Let him rise and answer me. Ethical and That false creative Deity, eloquent de- Whence came his right to rack the Earth Christian Cos- With pangs of death,” disease, and birth : mogony. No joy unmarred by pain and grief: Insult on injury heaped high In that quack-doctor infamy The Panacea of—Belief ! Only the selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of cr…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 103

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…en us; before I could sweep them away the Knights had rolled over Sidi Omar and my brothers —the whole wing was destroyed. I rallied the right on the centre, and—why, mother, you‘re not listening! LAYLAH [ta/king his swam’]. This sword killed your father. Listen! Sidi Omar was not your father. Your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for tokens [She takes the jewelled scorpion from her þraut,] I took it for hate and revenge; wherein I lied, for I loved him, and Ilove him. God has punished mylie, making you—the tok…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 103

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…en us; before I could sweep them away the Knights had rolled over Sidi Omar and my brothers —the whole wing was destroyed. I rallied the right on the centre, and—why, mother, you‘re not listening! LAYLAH [ta/king his swam’]. This sword killed your father. Listen! Sidi Omar was not your father. Your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for tokens [She takes the jewelled scorpion from her þraut,] I took it for hate and revenge; wherein I lied, for I loved him, and Ilove him. God has punished mylie, making you—the tok…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 475

Magick Without Tears

…," women's clubwomen (espeically in U.S.A.), "Methody," golfers, dog-lovers; you can't find one body without its 'natural' enemies. It's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, 442

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1909 · PDF PAGE 66

John St. John

…stral body "—damn it! isn’t there a term for it free from L. . . . -pro- stitution? (One speaks of “les deux prostitutions”; so it’s all right.) My Sein—Laeca, then—what would happen if I forced my Scin—Laecato become a Whirling Dervish? I couldn’t get giddy, because my Semi- cireular canals would be at rest. I must really try the experiment. [Scin-Laeca. See Lord Lytton’s ”Strange Story.“—ED.] I will now devote myself to sleep, willing Adonai. Lord Adonai, give me deep rest like death, so that in very few hours I may be awake and active, full …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…f Christ: he had callosities on his hands, and wore the work- man’s blouse; with clay he kneaded epics. He twisted together the sword of right and the sceptre of duty; and upon this column of gold and steel he placed the creative sign of love. One day, in a great popular assembly, he went down into the road with a piece of bread in his hand which he broke and distributed, saying: ‘‘ Bread of God, do thou make bread for all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” An…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…f Christ: he had callosities on his hands, and wore the work- man’s blouse; with clay he kneaded epics. He twisted together the sword of right and the sceptre of duty; and upon this column of gold and steel he placed the creative sign of love. One day, in a great popular assembly, he went down into the road with a piece of bread in his hand which he broke and distributed, saying: ‘‘ Bread of God, do thou make bread for all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” An…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 28

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…returned, “don't lie to me. He's not gone to Royston; he's got cancer, and is too upset to come.” “Whatever next?” said the nurse. “It's right he can’t come, and I was going to tell you he had gone to Roys- ton; but I never heard nothing about no cancer.”

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1912 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…OICE [Angrily and loudly] Open the door at once, or we must break it down. I don't wish to disturb you, Mr. Adams, but I think it’s only right to say—— [Confused 'z/oiees interrupt. JACK 11114065 the bolts, JACK. Certainly, certainly, neighbour, glad to see you. I was half asleep when you knocked, and woke up main cross, as the saying is. [THEY file in.] Why, sergeant, come in! What’s happened now? Robbery? Not here, while [ m guardian. Remember Bagstock, sergeant? Hal Hal Ha! I 38

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1912 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…OICE [Angrily and loudly] Open the door at once, or we must break it down. I don't wish to disturb you, Mr. Adams, but I think it’s only right to say—— [Confused 'z/oiees interrupt. JACK 11114065 the bolts, JACK. Certainly, certainly, neighbour, glad to see you. I was half asleep when you knocked, and woke up main cross, as the saying is. [THEY file in.] Why, sergeant, come in! What’s happened now? Robbery? Not here, while [ m guardian. Remember Bagstock, sergeant? Hal Hal Ha! I 38

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1910 · PDF PAGE 127

The Scented Garden

…sult to the Mul- lah ; (2) feared stoning if he signed it. The strong- est argument for its genuineness is that the secret key-letter is right ; if we canceled the ode it would make nonsense of all the following ones. Unless indeed, this ode replaces a genuine one. For which there is not a jot or tittle of evidence. 2. This is the boldest attack on orthodoxy that we have met in Eastern literature. The paternity of Islam — its divine origin — is said to be uncer- tain ; the character of Mohammed, its mother, is vilified, the suggestion being tha…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 196

Liber Aleph

…th his own Path and his own Law, and there is no Art in Magick but to seek out that Path and that Law, that he may pursue the one by the right Used of the Other. It shall be that one cometh unto thee, desiring Amen-Ra (I speak in a Figure or Exemplar) another Asi, a third Hoor-Pa-Kraat; or again, one seeketh Instruction in Obeah, and his Fellow in Wanga; and of all these not one in Ten Thousand shall be aware of his true Way. For albeit our last step is one for all, yet his next stem is particular to each. Therefore is the Preparation of a Stud…

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