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1910 · PDF PAGE 8

The World’s Tragedy

…to earth. This it will be seen is identically the Catholic position, save that for “ literal ” Rome reads “ Ecclesiastical.” Darby, too, found himself forced into the practical admis- sion that “ literal ” meant Darbeian ; for some of the more obvious contradictions and absurdities in the Bible are too necessary to the practical side of religion to be ignored. Seeing this, they devised an elaborate system of mental water-tight compartments. The contradictions of Old and New Testament were solved by a Doctrine that what was sauce for the Jewish …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 146

Little Poems in Prose

…suppose that you are an authority on strength’; and she would argue the point. “One fine day she took to chemistry, so that henceforth I found a mask of glass between my mouth and hers. With all that, she was very prudish; if at any time I shocked her by a too amorous gesture she writhed like a victim of rape.” “How did that finish?” said one of the three others; “I did not know you were so patient.” “For every evil,” he replied, “God has ap- pointed a remedy. One day I found this Mi- nerva (an-hungered for ideal strength) en- gaged in a privat…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 154

The Winged Beetle

144 IN MEMORIAM We shall once more (for your sake !) Be the men that Shakespeare found us. All our life and lust awake ! All your love and joy surround us Smooth and deadly as a snake ! Thus I build your monument, Happy martyrs, passion-crowned ! Death your holiest sacrament, Life mere garlands that you wound Laughing on your brows, and rent ! Fare ye well, O world-renowned ! Enter into great content !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 41

Book 4 (Part I)

…re will be cramp and fatigue. The student must now set his teeth, and go through with it. The minor sensations of itching, etc., will be found to pass away, if they are resolutely neglected, but the cramp and fatigue may be expected to increase until the end of the practice. One may begin with half an hour or an hour. The student must not mind if the process of quitting the Asana involves several minutes of the acutest agony. It will require a good deal of determination to persist day after day, for in most cases it will be found that the disco…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 49

The Star and the Garter

Found where the fires of laughter lurk; Played with her hair, tangled and matted ; Fell over strict nice conduct’s brink, Gave all she would, and something more. She was an honest little thing, Gave of her best, asked no response. What more could Heaven’s immortal king Censed with innumerous orisons? So, by that grace, I recognized A something somewhere to be prized Somewhat. What portress studies song? My worthy concierge was wrong. 47

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1954 · PDF PAGE 403

Magick Without Tears

…ica. Mineral wealth indeed! He went home rejoicing and took the necessary steps to protect his find. In the course of the formalities he found it necessary to come to London, which he did, and told me the whole story. Unfortunately we end with an anti-climax. The negotiations went wrong; and the property was stolen from under his nose by one of the big alkali firms. However, it was a good mark for Geomancy. I am afraid that all this is a digression. As I indicated above, what you want to know is to be found in the official instruction on the su…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 49

Rodin in Rime

…he tyrant? Six are these, Perfectly sad, and steady, and at ease. Self-slain, they shall save others from the yoke. Seven then are these found faithful unto death; From Calais six; and one from Nazareth. 29

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1905 · PDF PAGE 9

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…aint phantoms that disturb the lake Of magic mirror-land. A star Like to a beryl, with a flake Of olive light Struck through its dull profound, is steadfast in the night. I. I AM quite sane, quite quiet. Sober thought Isas a woof to my mad dreams. My brain Beats to the double stroke; the double strain Warps its gray fibres; all the dream is wrought A spider-tapestry ; the old blood-stain Spreads through the air Some hot contagious growth to slay men unaware, Il. I have discovered God! His ghastly way Of burning ploughshares for my naked feet Li…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 119

Songs of the Spirit

…d white seas for your raiment Your stature immutably stands : My love, with no claim, as a claimant Came seeking out truth in the sands, Found truth, and must place in poor payment this book in your hands. 109

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1910 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…he pit. He longed to tear himself away, and gradually discovered that she had become a necessity to him. He lost pleasure in himself and found none in her; finally he played an old trick and caused a telegram to be sent, calling him away. He swore to return speedily—which he didn’t. He sailed back to Europe, found himself in London, where his first experience caused him to waver between eagerness and self-consciousness. At that time, he met with the adven- ture which I related. A young widow horse-whipped him. Lionel was still very far from his…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…he pit. He longed to tear himself away, and gradually discovered that she had become a necessity to him. He lost pleasure in himself and found none in her; finally he played an old trick and caused a telegram to be sent, calling him away. He swore to return speedily—which he didn’t. He sailed back to Europe, found himself in London, where his first experience caused him to waver between eagerness and self-consciousness. At that time, he met with the adven- ture which I related. A young widow horse-whipped him. Lionel was still very far from his…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 132

The Book of Thoth

…d One. And the barb thereof is the star that thou sawest in the place where was No God. And of them that guarded the star, there was not found one worthy to wield the Arrow. And of them that worshipped there was not found one worthy to behold the Arrow. Yet the star that thou sawest was but the barb of the Arrow, and thou hadst not the wit to grasp the shaft, or the purity to divine the plumes. Now therefore is he blessed that is born under the sign of the Arrow, and blessed is he that hath the sigil of the head of the crowned lion and the body…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 413

Magick Without Tears

…twenty-one. (Some people think that they were right!) But after a couple of years with tutors in the wildest parts of the country, I was found well enough to go to a Public School. They soon found me out! This kidney weakness causes depression and physical cowardice, 380

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1919 · PDF PAGE 143

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…p of the anguish I now suffer. Whatever may have happened in this last three days, the results of my thoughts amount to this. I who have found the heart of the shining triangle, who have indeed become one with the Great White Brotherhood, who have heard the Voice of God in all Its sweetness, who have made that message a part (nay all) of my being, who have held my Beloved in my arms, who have Become my Beloved and lost myself therein, who have for ever given up my lower self, who have conquered Death, who have felt the Pain of the whole World, …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 42

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… a noble hatred, utter, blood-thirsty, virulent, eternal. After years of melancholy and the physical consequences thereof, Lionel Tabard found himself free from his tyrannical parent. He soon forgot her, and, as the Divine Blinkings passed by, his recollection became less and less distinct. He only remembered two facts. She had once, during his sleep, broken a bone of his nose with a poker, because he snored; and, at another time, she had broken in two a valuable riding- crop on his shoulder. Her death pleased him. But his constitution was much…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 42

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… a noble hatred, utter, blood-thirsty, virulent, eternal. After years of melancholy and the physical consequences thereof, Lionel Tabard found himself free from his tyrannical parent. He soon forgot her, and, as the Divine Blinkings passed by, his recollection became less and less distinct. He only remembered two facts. She had once, during his sleep, broken a bone of his nose with a poker, because he snored; and, at another time, she had broken in two a valuable riding- crop on his shoulder. Her death pleased him. But his constitution was much…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 404

Magick Without Tears

… become necessary. When Otto Morningstar was trying (with indifferent success) to teach me how to play French Billiards in Mexico City I found one particular difficulty, and that was how to play the masse shot. He kept on explaining and explaining and demonstrating and demonstrating, and none of it seemed any good. I understood intellectually, well enough; but somehow or other it never came off. Presently he said that he guessed he knew what was the matter. Although I had the whole thing perfect in my mind I had not made the link between my min…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 70

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ce, and replaced, By Law most bountiful and maiden-faced And mother-minded: passing the low bound Of man’s poor law we leapt at last and found Passion ; and passing the dim halls dis- graced Found higher love and larger and more chaste, Acalm sphinx waiting in secluded ground. Hear the sad rhyme ot how love turned to lust, And lust invigorated love, and love’ Shone brighter for the stain it rose above, Gathering roses from the quickening dust ; And faith despoiled and desecrated trust Wore pearlier plumes of a diviner dove. THE FIRST DAY. ‘¢ Wh…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 2

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Worlds, or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook ; _ And of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true content With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Sceptr'd Pall come sweeping by.” Il Penseroso.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 175

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…h, the birth of the divine three principles, the Crestos, in the human soul. The key to this “Unsealing” is the text itself, in which is found the Nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, ιοοο, as applied to the seven principal [ha/era: of the human body, as taught by Greek Yogis, Apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development ofthe Kundalz'nz', and each subject is followed in the text bya commentary in application. Mr Pryse expresses the View that the book is neces…

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