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1913 · PDF PAGE 241

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

BOO TO BUDDHA! Helena, Helena, fiercely fresh, Your flesh flies fervent to my flesh. What sage can dare impugn Man’s immortality? Our godhead swims, immune From death and destiny. Ignored the bubble in the flow Of love eighteen short years ago! Time—I embrace all time As my arm rings your waist. Space—you surpass, sublime, As, taking me, we taste Omnipotence, sense slaying sense, Soul slaying soul, omniscience. 203

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1996 · PDF PAGE 66

The Law is for All

…covery of oxygen, to account for combustion.] It stands plain, even to sceptical reason—indeed, most of all to the sceptic—that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men’s bodies for a generation like Alexander, or their minds for an epoch like Plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. When this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. The ancient Jewish Rabbins knew this, and taught that before Eve was given to Adam, the demon Lilith conceived by t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… sneaked back from Algeria, trembling all over, and began to enjoy the comedy of a lawyer pretending that he could not serve a writ on a man with an address in the telephone directory, who was spending hundreds of pounds on letting the whole world know where to find him. It was perhaps unkind of me not to warn Mr. Cran that he was putting his foot in it. But if I had said a word, the case would have been thrown up; and then where would our advertisement have been? So, even now, I restrict my remarks; there may be some more fun coming. But at le…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… sneaked back from Algeria, trembling all over, and began to enjoy the comedy of a lawyer pretending that he could not serve a writ on a man with an address in the telephone directory, who was spending hundreds of pounds on letting the whole world know where to find him. It was perhaps unkind of me not to warn Mr. Cran that he was putting his foot in it. But if I had said a word, the case would have been thrown up; and then where would our advertisement have been? So, even now, I restrict my remarks; there may be some more fun coming. But at le…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 323

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The man of right is Cain who kills Abel from envy; the man of duty is Abel who dies for Cain for love. And such has been the mission of Christ, the great Abel of humanity. It is not for right that we should dare all, it is for duty. Duty is the expansion and the enjoyment of liberty; isolated right is the father of slavery. Duty is devotion ; right is selfishness. Duty is sacrifice; right is theft and rapine. Duty is love, and right is hate. Duty is infinite life; right is eternal death. If one must fight to conquer rig…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 323

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The man of right is Cain who kills Abel from envy; the man of duty is Abel who dies for Cain for love. And such has been the mission of Christ, the great Abel of humanity. It is not for right that we should dare all, it is for duty. Duty is the expansion and the enjoyment of liberty; isolated right is the father of slavery. Duty is devotion ; right is selfishness. Duty is sacrifice; right is theft and rapine. Duty is love, and right is hate. Duty is infinite life; right is eternal death. If one must fight to conquer rig…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 25

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…g at the same thing might give totally different accounts of what they saw; yet they might each make correct déductions. In looking at a man the first clairvoyant might say : “The lines of force are ail drooping”; the second : “It seems ail dirtv and spotty”; a third; “The Aura looks very ragged.” Yet ail might agréé in deducing that the man was in ill-health. In any case, ail such déductions are rather unreliable. One must be a highly skilled man before one can trust one’s vision. A great many people think that they are extremely good at the b…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 229

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… end on the top of a precipice, whence falling, he shall find himself in bed. Hear wisdom! the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, A man is almost obliged to be in com- munion with God when God is blowing his hat off, drenching him to the skin, whistling through his very bones, scaring him almost to death with a flash of lightning, and so on. When he gets time to think, he thinks just that. In a church all is too clearly the work of man: in the matter of man’s comfort man’s devices are so obviously superior to God’s: so that we compare hats…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 190

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…of Eckenstein, but he shouted to me to wait. Here was a chance to show me in practice what he had always claimed in theory; how easily a man could be pulled out, using only one hand. The man was quite calm; but had given up hope and was committing his soul to Allah. I expect he was mostly worried about the direction of Mecca. We had no need of the coiled rope; the doctor had untied himself from his own rope and left it lying on the snow! The cowardice, incompetence and imbecility of his proceedings remain today as incomprehensible as they were …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 129

The Law is for All

130 The Law is for All 1:34 veils itself from its nature. Thus the vast bulk of humanity is obsessed by an abject fear of freedom; the principal objections hitherto urged against my Law have been those of people who cannot bear to imagine the horrors which would result if they were free to do their own wills. The sense of sin, shame, self­ distrust, this is what makes folk cling to Christianity-slavery. People believe in a medicine just insofar as it is nasty; the meta­ physical root of this idea is in sexual degeneracy of the masochis­ tic typ…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 6

Berashith

…em that they have tried to square their religion with their common sense. The Christians, on the other hand, though they saw whither the Manichean Heresy * must lead, and crushed it, have not officially admitted the precisely similar conclusion with regard to man, and denied the existence of the human soul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblicus, Porphyry, Boehme, and the mystics generally haye of course substantially done so, though occasionally with rather inexplicable reservations, similar to those made in some cases by the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…a (quae circumdat py") tp Mundum) 423 (Ex. xxvii 10, 12.) pvp nd [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 420} 424 Angel L.T.N. of & now 425 [Vide no. 1175] man [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 208] Uy) Auditus myn 426 Servator; salvator yor Medium pn 427 428 The Breakers-in-pieces ; abowys the Qliphoth of Chesed ‘The Brilliant Ones; Angels DYOHwN ofChesed, and of Tiphareth of Briah Turaverunt yaw 429 A lion’s whelp. aS [Gen. xl. 9] Judgment, equity [a)}2 a) pyaw 43° Nephesch, the animal soul of Man Covered with mist ; darkness, Aw) twilight wd) | 45 Membra ppb Full Title of …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…a (quae circumdat py") tp Mundum) 423 (Ex. xxvii 10, 12.) pvp nd [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 420} 424 Angel L.T.N. of & now 425 [Vide no. 1175] man [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 208] Uy) Auditus myn 426 Servator; salvator yor Medium pn 427 428 The Breakers-in-pieces ; abowys the Qliphoth of Chesed ‘The Brilliant Ones; Angels DYOHwN ofChesed, and of Tiphareth of Briah Turaverunt yaw 429 A lion’s whelp. aS [Gen. xl. 9] Judgment, equity [a)}2 a) pyaw 43° Nephesch, the animal soul of Man Covered with mist ; darkness, Aw) twilight wd) | 45 Membra ppb Full Title of …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 110

The Scented Garden

102 Ecstasy stronger than work of man or wrath of God. 3. Surely Oriental exaggeration. A. L. We can- not agree. The member is the Mahalingam, whose dimensions are only to be expressed in astronomi- cal terminology. Ed. 4. Goathair — the “ pashmina ” of Kashmir ; so says Mahbub the Kashmiri ; but I suspect him of patriotism and believe the text to read ‘ pustin ’ [Persian text] a fur peliise spread out as a quilt. (Of course one may cavil at “ quilt ”, which im- plies quilting, not any rug qua rug. But a wounded buffalo is a very mild animal co…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 72

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…nd wave And spirit of the unimagined fire, Begotten on the dishonourable grave Of fallen tyranny, may seek her sire In the pure soul. of Man, her lips may lave In the pure waters of her soul’s desire, Truth: and deep eyes behold thine eyes as deep, Fresh lips kiss thine that kissed her soul from sleep. See Italy, the eagle of all time, Triumphant, from her coffin’s leaden prison, Soar into freedom, seek the heights sublime Of self-reliance, from those depths new- risen, Stirred by the passion of thy mighty rhyme: Eagle, and pheenix: shrill, sha…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 473

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

473 to be a gentleman's. He is homosexual at heart --- though I believe not so in practice --- and conscious of this inferiority, which makes him {747} timid. This is accentuated by a nervous temperament. He has a remarkable gift for epigrammatic phrases, a strong sense of rhythm and a great critical ability, which is masked by his opportunism. His Confessions of a Barbarian is probably the cleverest book ever written by an American about Europe. Some of his poems are so simple and direct that, if they miss sublimity, which may or may not be th…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 38

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…s m the cases of Mary and the Dove; Leda and the Swan, etc. The card is XI, the number of Magick AVD : Aleph the Fool impregnating the woman according to the Word of Yod, the Angel of the Lord ! His sister has seduced her brother Beast, shaming the Sun with her sin; she has mastered the Lion and enchanted the Serpent. Nature is outraged by Magick ; man is bestialized and woman defiled. The conj miction produces a monster; it, affirms régression of types. Instead of a man-God conceived of the Spirit of God by a virgin in innocence, we are asked …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 102

Konx Om Pax

… last you surely come to God. Who is Mr. Jones? asked Denzil. We have heard of him from our friend here already. Mr. Jones, said the big man, is the Unutterable Tao. Mr. Jones, said the doctor, is (on this illusory plane of Maya) one of the wonders of the world. He is never seen or heard, felt or smelt. Nor hath he been at any time tasted of any. Yet he is everywhere; in all, and causer of all, and apart from all. By profession he is a curator in the British Museum; but that is going very low indeed upon the plane of Maya. I have already told y…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 133

Book 4 (Part II)

…ented; so also are the three stages in the history of philosophy, in which the three objects of study were successively Nature, God, and Man. The duality of consciousness is also sometimes represented; and the Tree of Life itself may be figured therein, or the categories. An emblem of the Great Work should be added. But the Pantacle will be im- perfect unless each idea is contrasted in a balanced manner with its opposite, and unless there is a necessary connection between each pair of ideas and every other pair. The Neophyte will perhaps do wel…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 91

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

PERSONS OF THE TRAGEDY ACT ΙΙ LAYLAH, wife of Sidi Omar SLIMAN, her son {ψ Sir Rinaldo de la Chute/[e OTnMAN, AKBAR,?]חלשsom by Sz'di Omar MOHAMMED, FATMA, her aged Nubian nurse LEDMIYA, a young hana'maidm, Μυῖαι}. Other waiting-wamm, Pipe-slaw: ABDUL KHAN, an amat/z. Other eunuch: ACHMET, :ther to Slz'man A?ןממס-?!?גואCHRISTIAN MAIDEN, daughter to Sir Rinaldo de la Chapel/e MESSENGERS THE POPULACE 83

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