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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…iden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible intoxication; a furious madness. It is the vertigo of fatality seeking new victims; the cannibal drunkenness of Saturn who wishes to 1 Not the sculptor.—TRANS. s2 259

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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…iden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible intoxication; a furious madness. It is the vertigo of fatality seeking new victims; the cannibal drunkenness of Saturn who wishes to 1 Not the sculptor.—TRANS. s2 259

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1930 · PDF PAGE 71

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…the old aeon) the Hierophant is the perfected Osiris, who brings the candidate, the natural Osiris, to identity with himself. But in the new Aeon the Hierophant is Horus (Liber CCXX, I 49) therefore the Candidate will be Horus too. What then is the formula of the initiation of Horus ? It will no longer be that of the Man, through Death. It will be the natural growth of the Child. His expériences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. Their hieroglyph is the Pool: the innocent and impotent Harpocrates Babe becomes the Horus Adult by obtaining…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 458

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Imperial 1r6mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or or any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Poems sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Tue TrrumpPH oF Pan, includes THe RoMANCE or OLIVIA VANE. The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbere…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 27

The Sword of Song

…: The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“New Birth” you’ll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary sphere And flies in the direction “x.” (There lies the fourth dimension.) Vex My soul no more with mistranslations From Genesis to Revelations, But leave me with the Flaming Star,75 Jeheshua (See thou Zohar !)76 And thus our formidable Pigeon-77 Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am found Attacking nothing. Here’s the ground…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 291

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…oy the gods. The dwarf Mime tries uselessly to mend it. When Siegfried comes he makes no such error. He melts its fragments and forges a new sword. In spite of the intense labour which this costs, it is the best plan to adopt. Levi completely failed to capture Catholicism; and his hope of using Imperialism, his endeavour to persuade the Emperor that he was the chosen instrument of the Almighty, a belief which would have enabled him to play Maximus to little Napoleon’s Julian, was shattered once for all at Sedan. It is necessary for the reader t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 291

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…oy the gods. The dwarf Mime tries uselessly to mend it. When Siegfried comes he makes no such error. He melts its fragments and forges a new sword. In spite of the intense labour which this costs, it is the best plan to adopt. Levi completely failed to capture Catholicism; and his hope of using Imperialism, his endeavour to persuade the Emperor that he was the chosen instrument of the Almighty, a belief which would have enabled him to play Maximus to little Napoleon’s Julian, was shattered once for all at Sedan. It is necessary for the reader t…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 80

The Sword of Song

…n; and her song was ever of love and death and music from beyond. “And one day as she sang thus the deep truth stole into being and she knew the Noble Truths. So she turned her flute to the new song, when—horror !—there was a mosquito in the flute. ‘Tootle ! Tootle !’ she began. ‘Buzz! Buzz!’ went the mosquito from the very vitals of her delicate tube. “Indra was not unprovided with a disc.1 Alas ! Jehjaour, art thou already in the toils ? She had only lived eight months. IX. “ ‘How y ou bungle !’ growled Ganesha. ‘Fortunately we are better off…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 427

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Inperial 16mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Porms sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Tue Trtumpx oF Pan, includes THE Romance oF OuiviaA VANE, The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbered…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 427

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Inperial 16mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Porms sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Tue Trtumpx oF Pan, includes THE Romance oF OuiviaA VANE, The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbered…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 75

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ow where I was going, but I was on the way. I was thus quite ready for the perception of the First Noble Truth, but also for an entirely new current to influence my life. Towards the end of the October term I met a man named Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt. He was an M.A., ten years older than myself, and had merely come up to Cambridge to dance for the F.D.C. (Footlights Dramatic Club). I saw him only once or twice that term, but corresponded with him from abroad during the Christmas vacation. The result was the establishment of the first intim…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 294

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 287 release the imprisoned “ I. ” When once these powers are released from the earthy grasp of the understand ing , and the Ego sloughs its outward empirical skin , we then become mystics ; nevertheless , “ If any man say , I love God , and hateth his brother , he is a liar . For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth , how can he love God whom he seeth not .” So the mystic's work lies here in life , and the greatest and most divine mystics have probably been those whose naïveté of soul was such , that they knew not that they…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…good conduct, your father has already pledged his honour. “You are now, as a member of this illustrious order, introduced a subject of a new country, whose extent is boundless. . Pictures are opened to your view, wherein true patriotism is exemplified in glowing colours, and a series of transactions recorded, which the rude hand of Time can never erase. The obligations which influenced the first Brutus and Manlius to sacrifice their children to the love of their country are not more sacred than those which bind me to support the honour and repu…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 456

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… Astaroth in his true diabolical form! What a supreme find fora museum! What a treasure for an archzologist! “My friend,” said he to his new disciple, “I am going to help you to find what you say you have lost. Take my book, observe the prescriptions of the ritual, and come again to see me in a week.” A week later he returned, but this time the workman declared that he had invented a life-saving machine of the greatest importance for the navy. The machine is perfectly 158

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1913 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…good conduct, your father has already pledged his honour. “You are now, as a member of this illustrious order, introduced a subject of a new country, whose extent is boundless. . Pictures are opened to your view, wherein true patriotism is exemplified in glowing colours, and a series of transactions recorded, which the rude hand of Time can never erase. The obligations which influenced the first Brutus and Manlius to sacrifice their children to the love of their country are not more sacred than those which bind me to support the honour and repu…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 456

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… Astaroth in his true diabolical form! What a supreme find fora museum! What a treasure for an archzologist! “My friend,” said he to his new disciple, “I am going to help you to find what you say you have lost. Take my book, observe the prescriptions of the ritual, and come again to see me in a week.” A week later he returned, but this time the workman declared that he had invented a life-saving machine of the greatest importance for the navy. The machine is perfectly 158

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1907 · PDF PAGE 204

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 197 down to Hell . He may become spontaneously , in the twinkling of an eye , a St. Francis preaching to his little sisters the birds , or Egg - Nogg who persists in a state of abnormal flatulency , because he considers himself identical with a bottle of ginger - beer . The state of illumination above mentioned is by no means an easy one to attain to , and the study of philosophy alone helps us , if we follow it under the shaded light of a critical scepticism ; for as a chemist reduces his compounds to their component parts , and t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 298

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 291 scenes . trampled by Bacchic feet , so to-day we find once again the farces of Aristophanes redacted on the grand stage of the world on which the great actors have played their part , and have retired behind the So once more , much to the joy of little children , the little Rationalias , the little Secularias , the harlequinade has again begun . Sinbad has sailed away with all his treasure ; Aladdin has departed , and has not forgotten to take with him his wonderful lamp . No more Jinn are to be unbottled from their sleep of a …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 322

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…d wondered... . Presently he had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensa- tions, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he known of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us!) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great Goddess (her name be rapidly ut…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…d wondered... . Presently he had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensa- tions, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he known of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us!) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great Goddess (her name be rapidly ut…

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