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1910 · PDF PAGE 32

The World’s Tragedy

…an, Michael Angelo, Leonardo, and a host of others — even unto this hour. But of this hour I will not speak. I am now collecting a great body of evidence similar to that which Herr Harden has gathered in Germany, and invol- ving an even higher class of society. Not in the least to show the corruptions of that class ; but to proclaim sodomy as an aristocratic virtue, which our middle class had better imitate if they wish to be smart. If I have not already published the correspondence in my possession between the late Duke of Clarence and « Boy M…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…me to-night? BISHOP. Thanks, good Grand Master. FIRST TORTURER. My lord, I think I heard a sigh. PHYSICIAN. Only a natural motion of the body, by your 101

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1911 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…me to-night? BISHOP. Thanks, good Grand Master. FIRST TORTURER. My lord, I think I heard a sigh. PHYSICIAN. Only a natural motion of the body, by your 101

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1912 · PDF PAGE 78

Mortadello

…ive heart, send my soul naked to its Lord. Ay ! but the sweat of blood that stands upon my brow ! Die—but not yet—more torture brands my body now, Pangs fierce and fierce as thine—they eat me up with pain. Fangs pierce and pierce, poison runs riot in every vein,

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1912 · PDF PAGE 49

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING joined him by night in the magical body. And on one night— " Had long colloquy with Golden Hawk; invited——(the Adept) and learnt that the Great Work was to create a new Universe. Whence severe self-criticism.” This at the end of his journey. Yet during this journey We find that he had written down the secrets of the Mystic Path in a myterious MS., which few indeed have been privi- leged to see. In Calcutta he was very busy. He had been attacked by armed robbers, and, slaying two of them, was, in the then political …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 49

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING joined him by night in the magical body. And on one night— " Had long colloquy with Golden Hawk; invited——(the Adept) and learnt that the Great Work was to create a new Universe. Whence severe self-criticism.” This at the end of his journey. Yet during this journey We find that he had written down the secrets of the Mystic Path in a myterious MS., which few indeed have been privi- leged to see. In Calcutta he was very busy. He had been attacked by armed robbers, and, slaying two of them, was, in the then political …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 108

The Book of Thoth

…of the new Aeon to earth. The new card is thus of necessity an adaptation of the Stélé of Re‐ vealing. Around the top of the card is the body of Nuith, the star‐goddess, who is the category of unlimited possibility; her mate is Hadit, the ubiquitous point‐of‐view, the only philosophi‐ cally tenable conception of Reality. He is represented by a globe of fire, representing eternal energy; winged, to show his power of Going. As a result of the marriage of these two, the child Horus is born. He is, however, known under his special name, Heru‐ra‐ha.…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 182

Book 4 (Part II)

…hment, one would go raving about the w^orld trying to " save " people. Sleep would not be possible until the horror of the mind left the body exhausted. Otherwise, one must be morally insane. Which of us can sleep if one we love is in danger of mere death? We cannot even see a dog drown without at least interrupting all our business to look on. Who then can live in London and reflect upon the fact that of its seven million souls, all but about a thousand Plymouth Brethren will be damned? Yet the thousand Plymouth Brethren (who are the loudest i…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 164

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ould confront even the Guardian of the Threshold of that Ordeal. One would imagine that in order to be suitable for such Initiation, the body and mind must be completely representative of the whole of the Cosmos, a perfect microcosm. The Mind of such an one must perfectly comprehend every phase of the Universe without exception. It must, in the most real intellectual sense, be equally “ The buffet and the ear.” As it is written, “A man of like passions as we are.” It is not possible here or elsewhere, nor is it particularly desirable, to enlarg…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 164

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ould confront even the Guardian of the Threshold of that Ordeal. One would imagine that in order to be suitable for such Initiation, the body and mind must be completely representative of the whole of the Cosmos, a perfect microcosm. The Mind of such an one must perfectly comprehend every phase of the Universe without exception. It must, in the most real intellectual sense, be equally “ The buffet and the ear.” As it is written, “A man of like passions as we are.” It is not possible here or elsewhere, nor is it particularly desirable, to enlarg…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 17

Collected Works (Vol. II)

THE CANNIBALS Il Of measured pulses quickened with the blood Of that desire which pours its deadly flood Through soul and shaken body; scarce a thought, But sense through spirit most divinely wrought To perfect feeling ; only through the lips Electric ardour kindles, flashes, slips Through all the circle to her lips again, And thence, unwavering, flies to mine, to drain All pleasure in one draught. sigh ; No change of breast; love’s posture perfectly Once gained, we change no more. The fever grows Hotter or cooler, as the night wind blows Fresh…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 248

Collected Works (Vol. II)

244 myseia that he is the very nobody to whom I now refer. Meditation is then the means; but only the supreme means. The agony column of the 7zmes is the supreme means of meeting with the gentleman in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing a straw, who was at. the soirée of the Carlton Club last Monday night; no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cow- elephant desiring her bull in the jungles of Ceylon. Meditation is not within the reach of every one; not all possess the ab…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… emergency to members of lower degrees. In the V° all members are pledged to bring immediate and perfect relief to all distress of mind, body, or estate, in which they may find any of their fellows of that degree. In the higher degrees the Bonds of Fraternity are still further strengthened. The Order thus affords a perfect system of insurance against every misfortune or accident of life. Members of the IX° become part proprietors of the Estates and Goods of the Order, so that the attain- ment of this degree implies a return with interest of the…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 194

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…en one, whom I have found, thou art ravished By the phallus of Time, of Time that pierceth thee So keenly that thou art torn, thy virgin body A prey to the lust of Time! Oh, bitterness ! Oh, threefold sadness! I have found thee now Too late, too late, too late. I am weary of flesh; It burns me now I have lost thee! I sicken of time, It sears me, sears me! Now, no longer unknown, I have found thee, the harlot goddess. Why camest thou not When thou wast pure as I, a new-purged soul Weary for a space from the lusts of the world, set free From the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… It is certain that in diluting beyond measure, or in coagulating suddenly, the plastic medium of a subject, it is possible to loose the body from the soul. It is sometimes sufficient to arouse a violent anger, or an overmastering fear in anyone, to kill him suddenly. The habitual use of magnetism usually puts the subject who abandons himself to it at the mercy of the magnetizer. When communication is well-established, and the magnetizer can produce at will slumber, insensibility, catalepsy, and so on, it will only require a little further effo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…t owed their own immunity from prosecution. The authorities held an inquest, and death was attributed to the rupture of an aneurism. The body, anyhow, bore no trace of violence; they had it buried, and there was an end of the matter. Here is another anecdote which we heard from a travelling companion. Two friends were staying in the same inn, and sharing the same room. One of them had a habit of talking in his sleep, and, at that time, would answer the questions which his com- rade put to him. One night, he suddenly uttered stifled cries; his c…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 194

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…en one, whom I have found, thou art ravished By the phallus of Time, of Time that pierceth thee So keenly that thou art torn, thy virgin body A prey to the lust of Time! Oh, bitterness ! Oh, threefold sadness! I have found thee now Too late, too late, too late. I am weary of flesh; It burns me now I have lost thee! I sicken of time, It sears me, sears me! Now, no longer unknown, I have found thee, the harlot goddess. Why camest thou not When thou wast pure as I, a new-purged soul Weary for a space from the lusts of the world, set free From the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… It is certain that in diluting beyond measure, or in coagulating suddenly, the plastic medium of a subject, it is possible to loose the body from the soul. It is sometimes sufficient to arouse a violent anger, or an overmastering fear in anyone, to kill him suddenly. The habitual use of magnetism usually puts the subject who abandons himself to it at the mercy of the magnetizer. When communication is well-established, and the magnetizer can produce at will slumber, insensibility, catalepsy, and so on, it will only require a little further effo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 424

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…t owed their own immunity from prosecution. The authorities held an inquest, and death was attributed to the rupture of an aneurism. The body, anyhow, bore no trace of violence; they had it buried, and there was an end of the matter. Here is another anecdote which we heard from a travelling companion. Two friends were staying in the same inn, and sharing the same room. One of them had a habit of talking in his sleep, and, at that time, would answer the questions which his com- rade put to him. One night, he suddenly uttered stifled cries; his c…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 38

The Star in the West

…nt is keen as floral wine , Inviting me , and love , to death.2 Also the following is charming in its simplicity : She has a lithe white body , slim And limber , fairy - like , a snake Hissing some Babylonian hymn Tangled in the Assyrian brake .3 1 Tannhäuser , vol . I, p . 252 . 2 The Star and the Garter , vol . iii, p . II . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 10 .

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