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1909 · PDF PAGE 92

John St. John

…zz' [dild/La illa Hua ! But what shall be my " considerations” for this week? I am so absolutely become as a pantomorphous Iynx that all things look alike to me; there are just as many pros and cons to Pranayama as to Ceremonial, etc. etc., —and the pros and cons are so numerous and far- reaching that I simply dare not start discussing even one. I can see an endless avenue in every case. In short, like the hashish-drunkard in full blast, I am overwhelmed by the multitude of my own magical Images. I have become the great Magician—Mayan, the Make…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 203

The Winged Beetle

…OSSORY. Very decent young fellow, little Delhomme. I can borrow half a million from him if I want it ; but I don’t care to unless—unless things—unless you—— EUPHEMIA. I’m the goods, am I ? You old bear ! OSSORY. I know, Phemie, I know. It’s those damned bulls on Wall Street ! How could I foresee—— EUPHEMIA. At least you might have foreseen that I was not a bale of cotton. OSSORY. But I shall be hammered, my dear child. We shall all have to go to the workhouse ! EUPHEMIA. [coldly]. I thought mamma had three thou- sand a year of her own. OSSORY. …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 9

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…e whatever that the invocation should be “right”. There are a thousand different wavs of compassing the end proposed, so far as external things are concerned. The whole secret may be summarised in these four words: “Enflame thyself in praying.” 1 The mind must be exalted until it loses consciousness of self. The Magician must be carried forward blindly by a force which, though. in him and of him, is by no means that which he in his normal State of consciousness calls I. Just as the poet, the lover, the artist, is carried out of himself in a Cre…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 77

The Book of Thoth

…cal idea; but Nature is exact. This card represents the sign of Libra, ruled by Venus; in it Saturn is exalted. The equi‐ librium of all things is hereby symbolized. It is the final adjustment in the formula of Tetra‐ grammaton, when the daughter, redeemed by her marriage with the Son, is thereby set up on the throne of the mother; thus, finally, she “awakens the Eld of the All‐Father.” In the greatest symbolism of all, however, the symbolism beyond all planetary and Zo‐ diacal considerations, this card is the feminine complement of the Fool, f…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 150

The Star in the West

… In flower fashion ; The Rose of Dew , the Rose of Love and Night , The Rose of Silence , covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things Beheld in the mirror of truth , The Rose indifferent to God's gesture , The Rose on moonlight wings 1 Rosa Mundi , vol . iii , p . 52 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 54 .

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1912 · PDF PAGE 96

Book 4 (Part I)

…t relegate many less exalted states to the class of Dhyana. Patanjali enumerates a number of these states: to perform these on different things gives different 1 The vulgarism and provincialism of the Buddhist canon is infinitely repulsive to all nice minds; and the attempt to use the terms of an ego-centric philosophy to explain the details of a psychology Whose principal doctrine is the denial of the ego, was the work of a mischievous idiot. Let us unhesitatingly reject these abominations, these nastinesses of the beggars dressed in rags that …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 55

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…. (THE PRINCIPLES) The DEACON. Mysterious energy triform, mysterious Matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division ; the interplay of which things weave the dance of the Veil of Life upon the Face of the Spirit, let there be harmony and beauty in your mystic loves, that in us may be health and wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Liberty; let each pursue his Will as a strong man that rejoiceth in his way, as the course of a Star that blazeth for ever among the joyous company of Heaven. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (BIRTH) …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 64

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 52 Aw De Harmonia Animæ cum Corpore (Of the Harmony of the Soul with the Body) LL Things are interwoven. The most spiritual Thought in thy Soul (I speak as a Fool) is also a most material Change in Blood or Brain. Anger maketh the Blood acid; Hate poisoneth Mother’s milk; even as I showed formerly in reverse, how Disturbance of physical Function altereth the States of Consciousness. Now no Man doubteth the Power of the Will of Man, whether it be his love that begetteth Children or causes wars wherein many Men be slain, wheth…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 23

The Book of Thoth

…y multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural.” These ideas of Being, Thought and Bliss constitute the minimum possible qualities which a Point must possess if it is to have a real sensible experience of itself. These corre‐ spond to the numbers 9, 8 and 7. The first idea of reality, as known by the mind, is therefore to conc…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 186

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… mode of my own mind. Objectivity of But then you argue, and with sense ; 645 universe not ‘‘T have this worthy evidence discussed. That things are real, since I cease The painter’s ecstasy of peace, And find them all unchanged.” To-day I cannot brush that doubt away ; 650 It leads to tedious argument Uncertain, in the best event : Unless, indeed, I should invoke The fourth dimension, clear the smoke Psychology still leaves. This question G55 Needs a more adequate digestion. Yet I may answer that the universe Of meditation suffers less From tui…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 75

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE 45. Go thou unto the outermost places and subdue all things. 46. Subdue thy fear and thy disgust. Then—yield! 47. There was a maiden that strayed among the corn, and sighed; then grew a new birth, a narcissus, and therein she forgot her sighing and her loneliness. 48. Even instantly rode Hades heavily upon her, and ravished her away. 49. (Then the scribe knew the narcissus in his heart; but because it came not to his lips, therefore was he shamed and spake no more.) 50. Adonai spake yet again with V.V.V.V.V. and sai…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 332

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… “Mind” we should include all phenomena of Mind, including Samadhi itself. Any phenomenon has causes and produces results, and all these things are below the “REAL.” By the REAL is here meant the NIBBANA- DHATU. 5. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer. For— This is a corollary of Verse 4. These texts may be inter- preted in a quite elementary sense. It is of course the object of even the beginner to suppress mind and all its manifesta- tions, but only as he advances will he discover what Mind means. Io

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1954 · PDF PAGE 192

Magick Without Tears

…ve been right ; so, considering that the statistics I made many years ago showed me to have been right 109 times out of 120, I think two things are fairly near probation ; firstly , I am not guessing- that doesn't matter 159

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1954 · PDF PAGE 282

Magick Without Tears

…e blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom . ... I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you . Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour with…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 125

The Star in the West

… nucleus of all true patriotism , greater than power , wealth , or dominion , and that is motherhood : Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to - day Their motherhood . 1 This is the condition of the England of to - day : “ O England ! England , mighty England falls !” because she no longer knows how to bear Englishmen . Wealth cries for luxury , and luxury sniffs at the hem of lust , and lust rises o’er us a vampire kite to drink dry the blood of our veins . The two great ideals of our country , as Geoffrey M…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 215

The Star in the West

…ghtness , The whole world bursts into splendour at his shining . Kathaka Upanishad , v, 15 . The veil of Maya shrouds the true aspect of things ; it cuts off the outer from the inner world , rendering the former esoteric , and the latter exoteric . This idea of the All as the One , is magnificently described in 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 183 . The Argonauts , iv, vol . ii, p . 110 .

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1910 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…te the purification of the striver, the attainment of the state of “stainless deeds,” to the great love wherein he must now enshrine all things. In detail the differ- ences between Buddhism and the Yoga are verbal; in essence, man, at this stage, becomes the lover of the World, and love is the wand of the Magician, that wand which conquers and subdues, vivifies, fructifies and replenishes the worlds, and like the Caduceus of Hermes it is formed of two twining snakes. V. Right Livelihood. Up to this stage man has been but a disciple to his Holy …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…te the purification of the striver, the attainment of the state of “stainless deeds,” to the great love wherein he must now enshrine all things. In detail the differ- ences between Buddhism and the Yoga are verbal; in essence, man, at this stage, becomes the lover of the World, and love is the wand of the Magician, that wand which conquers and subdues, vivifies, fructifies and replenishes the worlds, and like the Caduceus of Hermes it is formed of two twining snakes. V. Right Livelihood. Up to this stage man has been but a disciple to his Holy …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 202

The Winged Beetle

…, father—— OSSORY. I have everything to do with it. The fact is, my child—here ! I’ll make a clean breast of it. I’ve been gambling, and things have gone wrong. Only temporarily, of course, you understand. Only temporarily. But—oh, if I had only kept out of Fidos !

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1930 · PDF PAGE 73

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… Ascertain for how long you can keep silence. 8. Investigate any other capacities and aptitudes which may occur to you. 9. Let ail these things be carefully and conscientiously recordedj for according to your powers will it be demanded of you. VIL A Course of Reading. 1. The object of most of the foregoing practices will not at first be clear to you; but at least (who will deny it?) they hâve trained you in détermination, accuracy, introspection, and many other qualities which are valuable to ail men in their ordinary avocations, so that in no …

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