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1903 · PDF PAGE 6

Berashith

…ame you will, infinite in all directions and in all categories—to deny one is to destroy the entire argument and throw us back on to our old Dvaitistic bases. * The concey of the Hexagram, ion of Satan as a positive evil force; the lower triangle

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1912 · PDF PAGE 29

Book 4 (Part I)

I5 Almost always, the moment that one becomes conscious of this, it stops, and the dreary old struggle between the cowboy will and the buckjumper mind begins again. Like every other physiological process, consciousness of it implies disorder or disease. In analysing the nature of this work of controlling the mind, the student will appreciate without trouble the fact that two things are involved—the person seeing and the thing seen—the person knowing and the thing known; and he will come to regard this as the necessary condition of all conscious…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 230

The Book of Thoth

…pricornus is represented by the Second Hexagram, Khwan, which is the Female Principle. Compare the English word Queen, Anglo‐Saxon Cwen, old Mer‐ cian Kwoen. Cognate are Icelandic Kvan, Gothic Kwens, woman. The Indo‐ Germanic type is g (w)eni and the Sanskrit root GwEN. Note also Cwm, coombe, and agnate words, meaning an enclosed valley, usually with water running from it. Womb—possibly a softened form?

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1954 · PDF PAGE 84

Magick Without Tears

…has happened to me, more than once or twice, that really important correspondences have come, as by a flashlight, when I was padding the old hoof. You will have noticed that in this curt exposition I have confined myself to Gematria, the direct relation of number and word, omitting any reference to Notariqon, the accursed art of making words out of initials, like (in profane life) Wren and Gestapo and their horrid brood, or to Temurah, the art of altering the position of the letters in a word, a sort of cipher; for these are almost always frivo…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 384

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX at my forwardness. AsI was going to address them an awful feeling passed over me. My old fancy took possession of my brains again, and I imagined myself made of flesh and bones. I began to suffer as if my body had in reality become stiff and benumbed. Happily it was enough for me to turn and see the coffin, and my delusion fled. Moreover, I noticed that I had forgotten one of the most important things. The very colour of the coffin ought to have told the truth to me long ago. Of course I was now of a dark brown complexion, almost bl…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 384

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX at my forwardness. AsI was going to address them an awful feeling passed over me. My old fancy took possession of my brains again, and I imagined myself made of flesh and bones. I began to suffer as if my body had in reality become stiff and benumbed. Happily it was enough for me to turn and see the coffin, and my delusion fled. Moreover, I noticed that I had forgotten one of the most important things. The very colour of the coffin ought to have told the truth to me long ago. Of course I was now of a dark brown complexion, almost bl…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

Mortadello

…rink his Holiness, and get the business done. 2ND MASK. A pretty sort of mess you have just missed, my son ! LORENZO. Oh here’s the good old Pope, long may he live and reign ! And when he dies, I hope he may rise again. [All but MORTADELLO drink saying “ The Pope.” 2ND MASK. Easy, lad, easy. But, my lord, you do not drink ! MORTADELLO. It seems I’m bound to shut my mouth—but may I think ? 1ST MASK. What do you mean ? MORTADELLO. I mean—I will not tell you what. Pass round the wine. God’s teen ! Am I the Doge or not ? Here’s to the Pope ; I fear…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 138

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX she forgot the obvious corollary of removing the flower from her dress. She was nestled in the arm-chair when the old analyst tiptoed into the room and clapped his hands over her eyes. “ Who is it?” said he gaily. "Why, you're Jack from Alaska, of course," she answered, laughing. “ Guess again ?" And the child guessed the German Emperor, and Lewis Waller, and everyone else she could think of. “Wrong.” “Wrong.” “Wrong.” "Why,“ she cried, jumping up and facing him, “ it's Professor Zircon! The last person in the world I should have exp…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 138

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX she forgot the obvious corollary of removing the flower from her dress. She was nestled in the arm-chair when the old analyst tiptoed into the room and clapped his hands over her eyes. “ Who is it?” said he gaily. "Why, you're Jack from Alaska, of course," she answered, laughing. “ Guess again ?" And the child guessed the German Emperor, and Lewis Waller, and everyone else she could think of. “Wrong.” “Wrong.” “Wrong.” "Why,“ she cried, jumping up and facing him, “ it's Professor Zircon! The last person in the world I should have exp…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 109

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…as those We wandered by, sweet sisters of the rose, That perfect night before we fled, we two Who were so silent down that avenue Grown golden with the moonlight, who should be No longer two, but one; nor one, but three. And now it is the spring, the ice is breaking, The waters roar, the winds their wings are shaking To sweep upon the northland ; we shall sail Under the summer perfume of the gale To some old valley where the altars steam Before the gods, and where the maidens dream Their little lives away, and where the trees Shake laughing tre…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 25

Ambergris

16 AMBERGRIS What boots the weariness of olden time Now, when old age, a tempest-fury, lowers ? Up to high God beyond the weary land The days drift mournfully ; His hoary hand Gathers them. Is it so ? My Foolish rime Dreams they are links upon an endless band. The planets draw in endless orbits round The sun ; itself revolves in the profound Black wells of space ; the comet’s mystic track By the strong rule of a closed curve is bound. Why not with time ? To-morrow we may see The circle ended—if to-morrow be— And gaze on chaos, and a week bring …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 218

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… thing I remember is that I was walking feverishly, almost running, up Sloane Street. I hada feeling of being pursued. Was it true, that old Greek fable of the Furies? What had I done? What had I done? , My fingers worked spasmodically on the little amber- tinted bottle of poison. I wanted to get away from every one and everything. I didn’t know where I was going. I hated Peter from the depths of my soul. I would have given anything in the world—except the heroin—to be able never to see him again. But he had the money, why shouldn’t we enjoy ou…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 140

John St. John

…f it takes me! 1.25. The exquisite beauty of the women in the Restaurant 1127 1.30 3.17 11.15 138 . what John St. John would have called old hagsl . My soul is singing. . . my soul is singing! . It matters nothing what I do . . . everything goes infinitely, incredibly right ! “The Lord Adonai is about me as a Thunderbolt and as a Pylon and as a Serpent and as a Phallus.” . . . » Have had a long talk on Art with B . " The master considers himself always a student.” So, therefore, whatever one may have attained, in this as in Art, there is always …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 68

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…Then he questioned me, saying: What lieth above the ark? And I answered him: The house of the silver ray, that is lighted by the ray of gold. ᾽ He: How many roofs hath the ark? [ : One. He: Thou must pass through this one. Yet thou lookest eagerly upon the four walls of the ark. 1.- I seek a door. He: The door is in the roof. 1: Lead me to it, I pray thee! He: Fix thine eyes upon it. |: Sir, I will. Yet I pray thee to tell me thy name. He: Thou didst know it of old, didst thou not? I: The son of the mountain? He: The Stone of the Crossways. [: …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 68

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…Then he questioned me, saying: What lieth above the ark? And I answered him: The house of the silver ray, that is lighted by the ray of gold. ᾽ He: How many roofs hath the ark? [ : One. He: Thou must pass through this one. Yet thou lookest eagerly upon the four walls of the ark. 1.- I seek a door. He: The door is in the roof. 1: Lead me to it, I pray thee! He: Fix thine eyes upon it. |: Sir, I will. Yet I pray thee to tell me thy name. He: Thou didst know it of old, didst thou not? I: The son of the mountain? He: The Stone of the Crossways. [: …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 4

The Banned Lecture

… what assumption was he to make about the existing knowledge of the audience ? He adopted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old hand at the game ; and was told “ You must do one of two things. You may assume that they know everything, or that they know nothing.” Thomas Henry thought it over, and decided that he would assume that they know nothing. I think that merely shows how badly brought up he must have been ; and explains how it was that he became a dirty little atheist, and repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. No !…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 217

Magick Without Tears

…psy-tUIVY if you have to ask me for the secrets of Fascination! Altogether tohu-bohu and the Temurah Thash raq! So much for a display of Old-World Courtly Manners; actually rubbish, for you might very well be fascinating without knowing how you worked the trick. In fact, I think that is the case ninety-nine times in a hundred. Besides, I read your letter carelessly; I overlooked the phrase in which you mention that you use the word as Levi did; i.e., to cover all those types of "miracle" which depend on distracting the attention of, or otherwis…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 145

The Star in the West

…is mind , and all the love he lavished on the body of the living woman turns to a lust for her cadaver : 1 The spirit filled me . And behold ! I saw her dead stare to the skies . I came to her , she was not cold , But burning with old infamies . On her incestuous mouth I fell , And lost my soul for Jezebel . They cast her forth on Naboth's field Still living , in her harlot's dress ; Her belly stript , her thighs concealed , For shame's sake and for love's no less . Night falls ; the gaping crowds abide No longer by her stiffening side . “ Ah !…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 64

Clouds Without Water

…nd let you? I was strong — I was so strong I might have bid you die With one swift arrow from my quiver, song. Now you are over me; you hold me here; You grip my flesh till bleeding bruises start; You threaten me with — can I name the fear ? IT always knew you never had a heart. God! whoamI1? My Lola, speak tome! Tell me you love me; tell me — Lam dazed With something terrible and strange I see Even in the mouth that kissed, the lips that praised. You leer above me like a brooding fiend Waiting to leap upon a babe unweaned. — 102 — {Il Kiss me …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 235

Magick Without Tears

…e and aristocratic, and even posh or Ritzy; but if you bestow these names upon every male child, the effect tends to diminish. Gimme the old spade, I've got to go digging again. 1. 'Higher.' Here we fall straight into the arms of Freud . Why 'higher'? Because in a scrap it is easier to strangle him if you are on top. When very young children watch their parents in actu coitus, a circumstance exceedingly usual almost anywhere outside England, and even here where houseroom is restricted, the infant supposes that his mother, upon whom he depends e…

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