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1904 · PDF PAGE 16

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…convalescence. The verses which composed the “ Bromo Book ” are due to many occasions. Some are mere exercises in me- tre. If he heard a new form of rhyme, as in the “ Sailor ashore,” he would compose in it, and, lest [12]

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1906 · PDF PAGE 13

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ss sky ; Moon silvers blue ; Breeze is content to die; Lightly falls dew. Calm after strain and stress Now to our weariness Brings love anew. Peace brings her balm to us, Lying as amorous Still, and as true, Linked by new mystery, Lovers confessed. A sigh Sobs to the happy sky, ‘* Sorrow, go to!” <oTTS PITY——” —Forp,! BLow on the flame ! The charcoal’s vaporous fume Shall hide our shame ! Come, love, within the gloom ! For one last night, sweet sister, be the same ; Come, nestle with me in sweet Death’s hot womb! Two sunny eyes! And this is all…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 64

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…to explain their lack of manliness. Nothing would suit her mood but that we should dine up there in the room, so that she could wear the new kimono and dance for me at dinner. We ate gray caviare, spoonful by spoonful. Who cared that it was worth three times its weight in gold ? It’s no use calling me extravagant; if you want to blame any one, blame the Kaiser. He started the whole fuss ; and when I feel like eating gray caviare, I'm going to eat gray caviare. We wolfed it down. It’s silly to think that things matter. Lou danced like a deliriou…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 359

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…hought that filled my consciousness. Basil did not answer, and as we walked down the hill together I began to explain my ideas about the new helicopter. Almost without knowing it, we had reached the door of the large house which the Abbey used for a refectory, and we sat down on the stone seats which lined its north-eastern wall, and gazed over the marvellous prospect. The refectory was set on a steep slope. The ground fell sharply away from below our feet. On the left, the great rock towered even more tremendously than on the other side; and o…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 226

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 219 by unthinking things are thought to have a natural subsistence of their own distinct from being perceived by spirits . This ... is the very root of Scepticism ... For how can it be known that the things which are perceived are conformable to those which are not per ceived , or exist without the mind . ” ? Shortly before arriving at this conclusion , he had already stated that as “ the infinite divisibility of matter ” was now uni versally allowed by the most approved and consider able philosophers , hence it follows that there …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… being fully obeyed, as will be evident upon the publication of Part IV of Book 4. We now return to the diary. On September 24 we find a new password for the forthcoming Equinox—4 dio. Its sublime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, for I write now in a Holy Book of my Holy Pilgrimage to the Sun.” In fact, he left London for Paris on November 10, attended only by a single Chela. He arrived at Algiers on the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from which point…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… being fully obeyed, as will be evident upon the publication of Part IV of Book 4. We now return to the diary. On September 24 we find a new password for the forthcoming Equinox—4 dio. Its sublime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, for I write now in a Holy Book of my Holy Pilgrimage to the Sun.” In fact, he left London for Paris on November 10, attended only by a single Chela. He arrived at Algiers on the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from which point…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 533

Magick Without Tears

… the '0' to the '2'; in other words it is complete extraversion . The aspiring Magician only analyses himself for the purpose of finding new worlds to conquer. His first objective is the astral plane; its discovery, the classification of its tenants, and their control. All his early practises therefore are devoted to exploring the worlds which surround (if you choose, or if you prefer-are contained in) the object of sense. If there is a tree in your garden, you want to find out whether that tree is occupied by a nymph or a nat, and if so, what …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 305

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…mine of information.’ —Tve Academy. | «A well-furnished store of information for students of the occult arts and sciences.” —Ligikt, THE NEW GOD AND OTHER ESSAYS. By Ratpu Suirtey, Editor of “The Occult Review.” Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 248 pp., 3s. 6d. net. CONTENTS ‘The New God—Prophets and Prophecies—Prophecies and Anticipations—Julian the Apostate—Mystical Christianity—The Perfect Way—Relationship of Christianity to Gnostic Faiths—Early Christian Evidences— Founders of Orthodox Christianity—Friedrich Nietzsche—The Strange Case of Lurancy Venn…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 305

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…mine of information.’ —Tve Academy. | «A well-furnished store of information for students of the occult arts and sciences.” —Ligikt, THE NEW GOD AND OTHER ESSAYS. By Ratpu Suirtey, Editor of “The Occult Review.” Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 248 pp., 3s. 6d. net. CONTENTS ‘The New God—Prophets and Prophecies—Prophecies and Anticipations—Julian the Apostate—Mystical Christianity—The Perfect Way—Relationship of Christianity to Gnostic Faiths—Early Christian Evidences— Founders of Orthodox Christianity—Friedrich Nietzsche—The Strange Case of Lurancy Venn…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 83

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…r is appeased and they swallow it with the first blush of reawakening desire. “ Katie ” ea- gerly reverses his position to prepare for a new embrace ; but Monty whispers to the Captain : “ Darling, I can bear it no longer ; come back ! ” [83]

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1907 · PDF PAGE 17

The Star in the West

…d take our fill ; for he has unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , singing old songs and new , Alinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world , as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm ; or sweet notes of love , soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly . Here are the jewels of Heaven , of Havilah , and of Eden , with not a little of the fire of Hell , the flames of Gehenna , and the darkness of Dûat . If we look for pyramids and colossi disappointment will be our lot ; we can…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 332

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 325 I trust that the explanation will enable many students who have hitherto , by a puerile objectivity in their view of the question, obtained no results, to succeed ; that the apology may impress upon our scornful men of science that the study of the bacillus , should give place to that of the baculum , the little to the great-how great , one only realises when one identifies the wand with the Mahalingam , up which Brahma flew at the rate of 84,000 yojanas a second for 84,000 mahakalpas , down which Vishnu flew at the rate of 84,…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 196

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ing in the evening, and shining in the night. Have you got this idea clearly in your minds? You have stepped out of the Old Zon into the New. : Now let us consider what has happened. In order to get this mental picture of the ever-shining Sun, what did you do? You identified yourself with the Sun. You stepped out of the consciousness of this planet; and for a moment you had to consider yourself as a Solar Being. Then why step back again? You may have done so involuntarily, because the Light was so great that it seemed as Darkness. But do it aga…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 132

Magick Without Tears

…one with. So, they are always talking in superlatives, and are hard put to it when the facts catch up with them, and they have to invent new superlatives. Instead of saying that there are bricks of various sizes, and specifying those sizes, they have a brick and a super-brick, and "one" brick, and "some" brick; and when they have got to the end they chase through the dictionary for some other epithet to brick, which shall excite the sense of wonder at the magnificent progress and super-progress-I present the American public with this word-which…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 284

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…e. On the other hand, we were brought very sharply up against ourselves by the efforts of the hairdresser and the haberdasher. The smart new dressing-gowns

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1954 · PDF PAGE 140

Magick Without Tears

WOOLLY POMPOSITIES 107 acquisition of new ideas. It is the difference between a man trying to pick a smut out of his wife's eye with clumsy greasy fingers coarsened by digging drains, and an oculist furnished with a speculum and all the instruments exactly suited to the task. Yet another point. Besides getting rid of the emotions and sensations which cloud the thought, the fact that you are constantly asking yourself "Now, in which drawer of which cabinet does this thought go?" automatically induces you to regard the system as the important fac…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 143

Magick Without Tears

…all between the White and the Black Adept in similar case, it is that the one, working by "love under will" achieves a marriage with the new idea, while the other, merely grabbing, adds a concubine to his harem of slaves. The about-to-be-Black Brother constantly restricts himself; he is satisfied with a very limited ideal; he is afraid of losing his individuality-reminds one of that "Nordic" twaddle about "race-pollution." "Now, Master!" (What reproach in the tone of your voice!) All right, all right! Keep your hair on!-I know that is the preci…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 408

Magick Without Tears

POWER AND AUTHORITY 375 elected a cobbler, as it could, it would not empower the New Fellow to perform a boiling-point determination, or read a Vernier. In our own case, though Our authority is at least as absolute as that of the Pope and the Church of Rome, it does not confer upon me any power transferable to others by any act of Our will. Our own authority came to Us because it was earned, and when We confer grades upon other people Our gift is entirely nugatory unless the beneficiary has won his spurs. To put it in a slightly different form …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 410

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…bearing it. It has no conscience. It leaps. It has no consideration for any- thing but its own purpose. Again and again this symbol in a new sense will recur as the type of the ideal. It isa symbol 88

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