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1913 · PDF PAGE 466

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ocession had already returned to the choir, the Archbishop was arriving at the railing of the nave: there the passage was too narrow for three people to walk in file; the Archbishop was in front, and the two grand-vicars behind him, always holding the edges of his cope, which was 168

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1913 · PDF PAGE 466

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ocession had already returned to the choir, the Archbishop was arriving at the railing of the nave: there the passage was too narrow for three people to walk in file; the Archbishop was in front, and the two grand-vicars behind him, always holding the edges of his cope, which was 168

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1919 · PDF PAGE 447

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ew taken by Him who has actually attained the Grade of Magus. He says: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It may be those three perfections of my Sambhogakaya Robe, but the fact is that one has reached a stage when the Path becomes almost meaningless. The illusion of Sorrow has been exposed so ruthlessly that one 125

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1930 · PDF PAGE 87

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ht, per- fect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons, next, thrice, noon added, for three moons, afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in continuai ardour, dismissing ail but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.2 For know that the true Formula3 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus : INVOKE OFTEN 4 So may ail men corne at last to the Knowledge and Con…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 115

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…a Pradipika” as follows: When this Kumbhaka has been mastered without any Rechaka or Puraka, there is nothing unattainable by him in the three worlds, He can restrain his breath as long as he likes through this Kumbhaka. He obtains the stage of Raja-Yoga. Through this Kumbhaka, the Kundalini is roused, and when it is so roused the Sushumné is free of all obstacles, and he has attained perfection in Hatha-Yoga.t Of the many Prandy4ma exercises practised in the East the following are given for sake of example. 1. Draw in the breath for four secon…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 115

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…a Pradipika” as follows: When this Kumbhaka has been mastered without any Rechaka or Puraka, there is nothing unattainable by him in the three worlds, He can restrain his breath as long as he likes through this Kumbhaka. He obtains the stage of Raja-Yoga. Through this Kumbhaka, the Kundalini is roused, and when it is so roused the Sushumné is free of all obstacles, and he has attained perfection in Hatha-Yoga.t Of the many Prandy4ma exercises practised in the East the following are given for sake of example. 1. Draw in the breath for four secon…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 271

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ty. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—se- cret, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 257

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1929 · PDF PAGE 75

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…ains energy. In the East he is prevented from dissipating the same. So fortified, he may be received into the order as a néophyte by the three principal officers, thus uniting the Cross with the Triangle. He may then be placed between the pillars of the Temple, to receive the fourth and final consécration. In this position the secrets of the grade are communicated to him, and the last of his fetters is removed. Ail this is sealed by the sacrament of the Four Eléments. It will be seen that the effect of this whole ceremony is to endow a thing in…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 556

Magick Without Tears

…gnis , 446 Theoricus , 427 Theurgy,80 Thomas, J.H., 456 Thomas, James, 173, 451 Thor, Hammer of, 392 Thora, 147 Thoth, 23, 408 , 431,466 Three Baskets of the Dhamma, 385 Tibet, 147,308 Tiger, 221, 222 Tiphareth , 106, 130, 169, 278, 297,310,318 Titanic, 161 Titian, 351 Tohu Bohu, 184 Tom Jones , 265-266 Tories, 461 Totalitarianism, 344 Trance, 57 Trance of Wonder, 199 Transits, 160 Transmutations , 191 Tree of Life, 19, 49 , 105,128 , 395 Treves, Sir Frederic, 442, 444 Trimurti , 275 Trinc, 176 Tripitika , 74, 385 Trismegistus, Hermes, 211 Trot…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 297

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…t of it; if the weight had not been prohibitive, it would have been well worthwhile. This was a slab of granite about fifteen feet long, three broad and three thick, and holes had been bored completely through it by the hoofs of the pack animals, so that the mud was visible clean through the stone. {485} 56 The day after New Year we crossed the Mekong. The river flows through a superb gorge with extremely steep banks. Inscriptions of all kinds were carved on the naked cliffs. I was aware of a very curious sensation in crossing both this river a…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 348

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ing to wear a hat, even in London, to wash, and to wear trousers. Whenever addressed, he wriggled convulsively, and his lips, which were three times too large for him, and had been put on hastily as an afterthought, emitted the most extraordinary laugh that had ever come my way; to these advantages he united those of being extraordinarily well read, over flowing with exquisitely subtle humour, and being one of the best natured people that ever trod this planet. But from the first moment I saw him, I saw far more than this; I read an {562} altog…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 109

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…running very short, when the dressing-gown came to solve the problem. We had only been a few days on the stunt, and what we had got from three or four sniffs, to begin with, meant almost perpetual stoking to carry on. However, that didn’t matter, because we had an ample supply. There must have been a couple of kilograms of either C. or H. in that kimono. And when you think that an eighth of a grain is rather a big dose of H., you can easily ; 95

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1922 · PDF PAGE 22

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…r And: nearly spoilt the flood By drinking all the water. And this he would have done, I really do believe it, But had that mixture been Three parts or more Glen Livet.” The slight figure of a young-old man with a bulbous nose to detract from his otherwise remarkable beauty, spoilt though it was by years of insane passions, came into the café. His cold blue eyes were shifty and malicious. One got the impression of some filthy creature of the darkness—a raider from another world looking about him for something to despoil. At his heels lumbered h…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 52

The Star in the West

…ving come over the starry spheres.' The song of “ The Hours,» 2 and “ Spring , also magnificent , as are the Invocation of Hecate ;' the three Judges ,' and the Furies ; the latter of which is one of the most musical lyrics Crowley has as yet written . The Song of Orpheus flashes and flames as we read it : " 3 are The magical task and the labour is ended ; The toils are unwoven , the battle is done ; My lover comes back to my arms , to the splendid Abyss of the air and abode of the sun . The sword be assuaged, and the bow be unbended ! The labo…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 216

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… Your silence would match theirs awhile ! A Classical Research, (Protectionists may serve if the supply of Hottentots gives out.| I took three Hottentots alive. Their scale was one, two, three, four, five, Infinity. To think of men so I could not bear: a new Colenso I bought them to assuage their plight, Also a book by Hall and Knight On Algebra. . I hired wise men To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One of the Hottentots succeeded. Few schoolboys know as much as he did! The others sank beneath the strain : It broke, not fortified, the …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 287

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…e departure from Bhamo may be said to begin a new phase of my career. Up to this point, I have been able to interweave the strands of my three lives; the lives of the soul, the mind and the body; or, more accurately, in the language of the Cabbala, the Neschamah, the Ruach and the Nephesch. The Hebrew sages have made an admirably simple, significant and accurate classification. The Neschamah is that aspiration which in most men is no more than a void and voiceless longing. It become articulate only when it compels the Ruach to interpret it. The…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 114

The Vision and the Voice

…well polished, and in the centre thereof he shall have placed a triangle of oak-wood, painted with scarlet, and upon this tri- angle the three legs of the censer shall stand. Moreover, he shall copy his invocation upon a sheet of pure white vellum, with Indian ink, and he shall illuminate it according to his fancy and imagination, that shall be informed by beauty. And on the first day of the twelfth week he shall enter the chamber at sunrise, and he shall make his prayer, having first burnt the conjuration that he had made upon the vellum in th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 502

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more marvellous than the great monomania of martyrdom which has made children, and even women, during three hundred years, go to execution as if to a feast? What more magnificent than that enthusiastic faith accorded during so many centuries to the most incomprehensible, and, humanly speaking, to the most revolting mysteries? On this occasion, you will say, the miracles came from God, and one even employs them as a proof of the truth of religion. But, what? heretics, too, let themselves be killed for dogmas, t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 502

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more marvellous than the great monomania of martyrdom which has made children, and even women, during three hundred years, go to execution as if to a feast? What more magnificent than that enthusiastic faith accorded during so many centuries to the most incomprehensible, and, humanly speaking, to the most revolting mysteries? On this occasion, you will say, the miracles came from God, and one even employs them as a proof of the truth of religion. But, what? heretics, too, let themselves be killed for dogmas, t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 243

Magick Without Tears

…ssification, off we jog to the Divine Pymander, who saw, and stated, the quiddity of our query with his accustomed lucidity. He discerns three degrees of Truth; and he distinguishes accordingly: 1. True 2. Certain without error 3. Of all truth. Clear enough, the difference between 1 and 2: ask me the time, I say half-past two; and that's true enough. But the Astronomer Royal is by no manner of means satisfied with any approximation of that kind. He wants it accurate. He must know the longitude to the second; he must have decided what method of …

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