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1910 · PDF PAGE 336

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…h frail seeds of countless existences, and is become a very factory and warehouse of Life Itself. Another worm is coming out of the dead right eye of the woman, coined, as it were, like a little pink amethyst from the stuff of her brain. And yet another peers from the mysterious 318

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1910 · PDF PAGE 336

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…h frail seeds of countless existences, and is become a very factory and warehouse of Life Itself. Another worm is coming out of the dead right eye of the woman, coined, as it were, like a little pink amethyst from the stuff of her brain. And yet another peers from the mysterious 318

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1910 · PDF PAGE 41

The Scented Garden

…openly boast of you as a dam clever bugger, by God ! He had half the boys in London, and when they started to black- mail him, he turned right round like that (gesture) before you could say “ knife ”, by God ! and didn’t they get beans, by God ! But could I fight an English election ? How would my chiefs in the army look at it, when it came to the actual point of choosing one of two men for promotion ? What price that fat tutor- ship ? There are dozens of weak innocent fools in Lon- don at this hour who, making these reflections, paid the first…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 324

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…The Diary of a Drug Fiend up the hill in an extremely business-like manner, looking back from time to time to make sure that we were all right. Dionysus seemed to think it his business to entertain us with an account of the various objects along the road. “ That’s the nice man’s house down there,” he said, “T’ll take you to lunch with him if you promise to behave properly. And that’s where the doat-woman lives,” he went on, apparently assured by our guarantees of proper conduct. The solemnity of the elder boy and the rollicking disposition of t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 209

Magick Without Tears

…s tails off-and perks up in so doing-with confession of Ambition, and considerations of what you must leave over to your next life. Very right! but all that is covered by your general programme. It is proper to assimilate these ideas with the fundamental structure of your mind: "Perhaps I had better leave 'The Life and opinion of Battling Bill, the Ballarat Bruiser' till, shall we say, six incarnations ahead" - But perhaps you have acquired that already. No, better still, concentrate on the Next Step! After all, it is the only one you can take,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 21

John Yarker – In Memoriam

… of undue influence. In any case, if the defen- dant is unfit to be entrusted with the guardianship of the minors, the plaintiff’s natural right as the guardian will again arise, inasmuch as the letter, if valid in law, was only a sur— render of the rights in favour 0f the defendant alone, The plaintiff’s delay in taking action against the defendant has been due only to the faith which until recently he shared with many other persons that the defendant was semi—divine, and that the plaintiff was exceptionally fortunate in getting the defendant to…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 134

The Book of Lies

‘¢. . . This work has only to come under the notice of the right people to be sure of a ready sale. In its author’s words, it represents ‘an attempt to systematisealike the data of mysticism and the results of comparative religion,’ and so far as any book can succeed in such an attempt, this book does succeed ; that is to say, it condenses in some sixty pages as much information as many an intelligent reader at the Museum has been able to collect in years. The book proper consists of a table of ‘Correspondences,’ and is, in fact, an attempt to …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 385

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. If religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one’s knees before the heroism of his courage. Voltaire would be the Messiah of good sense, the Hercules destructor of fanati- cism. . . . But he laughed too much to understand Him who said: “ Happy are they who weep,” and the philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears. Voltaire parodied the Bible, dogma and worsh…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 385

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. If religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one’s knees before the heroism of his courage. Voltaire would be the Messiah of good sense, the Hercules destructor of fanati- cism. . . . But he laughed too much to understand Him who said: “ Happy are they who weep,” and the philosophy of laughter will never have anything in common with the religion of tears. Voltaire parodied the Bible, dogma and worsh…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

The Writing On the Ground

…; but, worse than all, the poem called “ Two Loves,” beginning with the celebrated quotation from Shakespeare—‘ My better angel is a man right fair, my worse a woman tempting me to ill.” In a vision the “poet” sees two people; the first is joyous, and sings; the second walks aside :— “He is full sad and sweet, and his large eyes Were strange with wondrous brightness, and staring wide With gazing ; and he sighed with many sighs That moved me, and his cheeks were wan and white Like pallid lilies, and his lips were red Like poppies, and his hands …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 190

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…des frissons me torturent horriblement.) Eckenstein, punctiliously putting his left hand behind his back, pulled the coolie out with his right, though entirely unaided by the man himself. He had made up his mind to die and rather resented our interference! On the twenty-sixth my eyes were better and I felt quite well on the morning of the twenty- seventh. I had discovered that Wessely, before he left the camp, had stolen the bulk of our emergency rations, which consisted mostly of selbst-kocher which contained delicacies dear to the Czech palat…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 2

Guide to the Walks & Climbs Around Arolla

…owards the middle of the ice-fall. Turning sharply to the left under the first big ice cliff we passed round it and bore somewhat to the right, climbing one per- pendicular wall without much difficulty. At about the level of the top of the rock rib which divides the N. and S. branches of the glacier we found our way barred by an undercut ice cliff, which at its only assailable point rose some 14 (20) feet above the detached serrac on which we were standing. Standing on this serrac and leaning over the inter- vening crevasse the second man was a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 37

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…f undue influence. In any case, if the defen- dant is unfit to be entrusted with the guardianship of the minors, the plaintiff's natural right as the guardian will again arise, inasmuch as the letter, if valid in law, was only a sur- render of the rights in favour of the defendant alone. The plaintiff's delay in taking action against the defendant has been due only to the faith which until recently he shared with many other persons that the defendant was semi-divine, and that the plaintiff was exceptionally fortunate in getting the defendant to…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 37

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…f undue influence. In any case, if the defen- dant is unfit to be entrusted with the guardianship of the minors, the plaintiff's natural right as the guardian will again arise, inasmuch as the letter, if valid in law, was only a sur- render of the rights in favour of the defendant alone. The plaintiff's delay in taking action against the defendant has been due only to the faith which until recently he shared with many other persons that the defendant was semi-divine, and that the plaintiff was exceptionally fortunate in getting the defendant to…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 69

The Vision and the Voice

…ted the blood, and said: xabuges, nabapss, uabapic, nabapds, nabapss, xeebcrpes. And the second Adept has been testing the muscles of my right arm and shoulder, and he says: fortis, fortis, fortis, fortis, fortis. 67

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1919 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… many discordant affections, as also the bond of habit, and these also must he conquer. In our holiest Book it is written: “Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay.” Write it also in your heart and in your brain: for this is the key of the whole matter. Here Nature herself be your preacher: for in every phe- nomenon of force and motion doth she proclaim aloud this truth. Even in so small a matter as driving a nail into a plank, hear this same sermon. Your nail must be hard, smooth, fine-pointed, or it will not…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 270

Diary of a Drug Fiend

256 The Diary of a Drug Fiend ' “T believe you're right, Basil,” she said. ‘ But if | you take that bottle away from us, the responsibility lies with you.” “Ts that calculated to frighten me?” he answered smiling, and rose to his feet. He dropped the bottle to the ground, and stamped his heel deliberately on it. “Now,” he said, ‘‘let’s get down to business,’’ |_resuming his seat. The fumes of the acid enveloped the table. “* Hydrocyanic acid,” he remarked, ‘is an excellent pick-me-up when absorbed into the system in this diluted form, but to ta…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 127

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…silver-white the hair—set upon the deformed body of a dwarf. Hairy hands and twisted arms, a hunched back and bandy legs; in the gnarled right hand a terrible whip, the carved jade handle blossoming into a rose of fine cords, shin- ing with silver—sharp, three-cornered chips of silver! The whole dripped black with blood. Upon the angel face stood asneer, a snarl,a malediction. The effect upon one’s sense of something beyond the ordinary was, too, heightened by her costume; for though the summer was at its height she was clad from head to foot i…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 127

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…silver-white the hair—set upon the deformed body of a dwarf. Hairy hands and twisted arms, a hunched back and bandy legs; in the gnarled right hand a terrible whip, the carved jade handle blossoming into a rose of fine cords, shin- ing with silver—sharp, three-cornered chips of silver! The whole dripped black with blood. Upon the angel face stood asneer, a snarl,a malediction. The effect upon one’s sense of something beyond the ordinary was, too, heightened by her costume; for though the summer was at its height she was clad from head to foot i…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 146

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e scientifically, but since he is not even a Neophyte of the A..A..., he won- ders if They will recognise him as qualified to demand the right to know and spread Their teachings. He determines in any case to reduce the wants of the Ego as a separate being as far as possible, by forgetting self in his efforts to do all he can for others according to the Light he has obtained. He found however that the destruction of the Ego was not thus easily accomplished at the first assault. Nevertheless he learned, not from books but from experience, that th…

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