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1901 · PDF PAGE 75

The Mother’s Tragedy

… of these dead iniquities, Burn its foul flame out. Are ye not appeased, Even ye, O Powers of Evil, at this shame And sacrilege? And ye, Great Powers of Good, OI

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1901 · PDF PAGE 99

The Soul of Osiris

THE HOLY PLACE. 87 This horror of great darkness. I am come Into this darkness to attain the light : To gain my voice I make myself as dumb : That I may see I close my outer sight : So, I am Here. My brows are bent in prayer ; I kneel already in the Gates of Dawn ; And I am come, albeit unaware, To the deep sanctuary : my hope is drawn From wells profounder than the very sea. Yea, I am come, where least I guessed it so, Into the very Presence of the Three That Are beyond all Gods. And now I know What spiritual Light is drawing me Up to its stoo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 179

The Winged Beetle

… with a strange Circean smile She bends herself and moves With a vile, a calculated wile In the unfamiliar grooves, Whose horror hath so great a guile That her hates pass for loves. Within the gold bars of her rings She grips the god as in a vice.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

John Yarker – In Memoriam

…Illus- trious Brother John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, Honorary Member of the Sovereign Sanctuaries in and for the German Empire, France, Spain, America, Cuba, etc., died on March 20, 1913, EV. at Manchester. Regm'escaz‘ m Pace! We are obliged to the Universal !??/8877405074 for the following Memorial Article: In the death of Brother John Yarker, of Didsbury, Manchester, England, whom the Great Architect of the Universe called from labou…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 282

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…n others, I believe Science would say any object) Scept. That was my method. Myst. Suddenly the object disappears: in its stead arises a great glory, characterised by a feeling of calm, yet of intense, of un- imaginable bliss. Scept. That was my result. But, more re- markable still, the change was not from the consciousness ‘‘I behold a blue pig’’—the object I have ever affected—to ‘‘I behold 1 As represented by Huxley, who, I fancy, spoke from imperfect knowledge of the facts. But vide infra.—A. C. Indeed we are too bold in say-. 3 a glory,” b…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 172

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…adme Hum,” and sleep. p.m. p.m, 4-15-4.45 Dharana on Anahata with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The p.m. p.m, latter sounds like the flight of a great bird in windy weather. 5.50-6.20 Suddhi. When meditating on my bronze Buddha I ob- p.m. p.m. tained a great standing self-luminous but rayless Buddha. 30th. 12.12-12.42 Suddhi. am, am, I passed a bad night, and in the morning my will and control of thought seemed shortened. 8.45-9.15 Suddhi. am. am. Thoughts hopelessly wandering. 9.45-10.29 Dharana on Buddha with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” A am, a.m. much bet…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 172

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…adme Hum,” and sleep. p.m. p.m, 4-15-4.45 Dharana on Anahata with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The p.m. p.m, latter sounds like the flight of a great bird in windy weather. 5.50-6.20 Suddhi. When meditating on my bronze Buddha I ob- p.m. p.m. tained a great standing self-luminous but rayless Buddha. 30th. 12.12-12.42 Suddhi. am, am, I passed a bad night, and in the morning my will and control of thought seemed shortened. 8.45-9.15 Suddhi. am. am. Thoughts hopelessly wandering. 9.45-10.29 Dharana on Buddha with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” A am, a.m. much bet…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 38

Magick Without Tears

… just an excuse for not doing any serious work. I am confirmed in this judgment by your saying: "I don't know if I want to en ter into a great conflict. I need peace." Fortunately you save yourself by adding: "Real peace, that is living and not stagnant ." All life is conflict. Every breath that you draw represents a victory in the struggle of the whole Universe. You can't have peace without perfect mastery of circumstance; and I take it that this is what you mean by "living, not stagnant." But it is of the first consequence for you to summon u…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 70

Jephthah

…hollows weird and white, Toward the sorrow of the snow ; To desolation black and blind They move, and leave us death behind. The Lord is great, the Lord is wise Within His temple to foresee

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1910 · PDF PAGE 159

The World’s Tragedy

…oman-debt To the last mite, the cold grey glutinous sweat — These things, I say, assailed me, bade me pause Praising the goodness of the great First Cause. JOHN Yet all we know His vast benevolence. ISSA Thou hast religion, but no common sense. The cud of wisdom is not duly chewed When whoredom’s whittled with a platitude.

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1914 · PDF PAGE 4

Chicago May

CHICAGO MAY PART I—ROME Drceaner I ‘Tus is my hour of peace; the great sow snores, Blowing out spittle through her blubber lips, ‘Champagne and lust still oozing from the pores. Of her fat flanks; then, let my hate eclipse All other lamps of my pale soul, and flare— A curst star sparking in the strangled air! Her shapeless limbs are sticky with stale sweat; Yet, she would wake if I withdrew, belch hard The ferments of the fodder, turn, and fret This inch that is the ruins of a yard. Is there no sparrow, ram, ass, bull can stay The “ love"—dear …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…low beneath the limes. Then the sombre village, crowned By the castellated ground Where, in cerements of sable, One square tower and one great gable Stood, the melancholy wraith Of a false and fallen faith. Over all, supine, enthralling, The young moon, her faint edge falling To the dead verge of her setting, Saintly swam, her silver fretting All the leaves with light. Afar 187

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1944 · PDF PAGE 15

The Book of Thoth

…w about the formation of language. Nevertheless, the evidence is equally strong that there is something, not a little of something but a great deal of something, a something which excludes all reasonable theories of coincidence, in the correspondence between words and numbers. It is an undeniable fact that any given number is not merely one more than the previ‐ ous number and one less than the subsequent number, but is an independent individual idea, a thing in itself; a spiritual, moral and intellectual substance, not only as much as, but a gr…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 19

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…Illus- trious Brother John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, Honorary Member of the Sovereign Sanctuaries in and for the German Empire, France, Spain, America, Cuba, etc., died on March 20, 1913, E.V. at Manchester. Regudescat in Pace! We are obliged to the Universal Freemason for the following Memorial Article: In the death of Brother John Yarker, of Didsbury, Manchester, England, whom the Great Architect of the Universe called from labour in…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 19

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…Illus- trious Brother John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, Honorary Member of the Sovereign Sanctuaries in and for the German Empire, France, Spain, America, Cuba, etc., died on March 20, 1913, E.V. at Manchester. Regudescat in Pace! We are obliged to the Universal Freemason for the following Memorial Article: In the death of Brother John Yarker, of Didsbury, Manchester, England, whom the Great Architect of the Universe called from labour in…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 52

Why Jesus Wept

…NGELA. If I must — SIR PERCY. You must. ANGELA. Ah love ! (She yields herself up to him. A long pause.) Learn my first lesson ; at these great moments of life, silence is the best. (Aside.) There is a more important one. Had that silly gowk but the wit to lead him — “ à fin — where were I now ? Not a drain on his stores, but a — Professor Spooner, in your next lecture warn the girls to go slow ; it is dangerous as well as cruel to leave a lover standing. SIR PERCY. Oh I have learnt that lesson and a thousand others. ANGELA. You must go now. The…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 102

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… some of his own stock anyway. He wanted me ‘in the deal if it was only for a sovereign, simply because of my luck. _ So off he ran in a great hurry. Lou and I got a car and spent the afternoon in the Bois du Boulogne. It seemed as if the cocaine had taken hold of us with new force, or else it was the addition of the heroin. We were living at the same terrific speed as on that first wild night. The intensity was even more extra- ordinary ; but we were not being carried away by it. In one sense, each hour lasted a fraction of a second, and yet, …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 41

Magick Without Tears

8 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS is to be properly directed . You must find your True Will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. Ra Hoor is the Sun God ; Tahuti is the Egyptian Mercury; Khephra is the Sun at midnight. About your problems : what I have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. You will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. For instance, I don't think you know the first principles of logic. You apparently take up a more or less Christian attitude, …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 351

Magick Without Tears

…cles for obsession. This entity which was the Exempt Adept has been built up in years of unremitting toil, a worthy Workshop wherein the Great Work should be accomplished. It has moreover been sanctified and glorified by the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. So as each Master has his own appointed Work to perform in the world, he is cast down into the Sephira, suitable for that work. If his function is to be that of a warrior, he would find himself in Geburah ; if that of a great poet or composer, in Tiphareth ; and so on. …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 122

White Stains

…of monstrous in our love, our bed, Soothes me with strong desire, Strong but availing nothing—black and red Thy body gleams, as fire Thy great eyes burn, thy lips respire It seems unnatural breath within their tomb. Ah ! the red portals of thy dusky womb, Wherein my loves expire, ’ Twixt thy black breasts to rise, kissed hard by thee Till joy flows full once more, salt river to sweet sea. Fairer than roses are thy swarthy cheeks, Thine hair more sharp than gold ; Purple is warmer than mere red, when seeks My love thy lips to hold. Ah Queen ! th…

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