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1996 · PDF PAGE 7

The Law is for All

… a specialist. The result is that, even in his lighter work, there are often certain references and words which the general reader would find unintelligible and there­ fore disconcerting; references and words that might irritate him and “put his back up” because they would make him feel ignorant, exciting that famous “inferiority complex.” “Oh!” says Crowley, “but he can always look it out in a dictionary.” What a revealing remark! If you write only for people who habitually use dictionaries, your sales can never be very large. But Crowley does…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 14

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…urns to know, but may not tell, Whether thy leaves, by autumn breezes driven, Fly far away beyond the immutable ; Whether thy soul shall find its home in heaven, Or dart far-flaming through the vaults of hell— To him that loveth much is much _for- given. Farewell! 1 A volume which was never issued. MSS. and proofs have been carefully destroyed. Several of the poems in this volume are taken from that, viz. pp. 6-19. TWO SONNETS IN PRAISE OF A PUBLISHER, WHO SOUGHT TO INFECT OUR YOUTH © WITH HIS NOXIOUS WARES. The ordure of this goat, who is call…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 182

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Truth,” in which we find the following; “After some eight hours’ discipline by Pranayama arose ‘The Golden Dawn.’ “While meditating, suddenly I became conscious of a shoreless space of darkness and a glow of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by dull bars of slate-blue cloud arose the Dawn of Dawns. In splendour not of earth and its mean sun, blood-red, rayless, adamant, it rose, it rose! Carried out of myself…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 182

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Truth,” in which we find the following; “After some eight hours’ discipline by Pranayama arose ‘The Golden Dawn.’ “While meditating, suddenly I became conscious of a shoreless space of darkness and a glow of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by dull bars of slate-blue cloud arose the Dawn of Dawns. In splendour not of earth and its mean sun, blood-red, rayless, adamant, it rose, it rose! Carried out of myself…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 131

Moonchild

…e old knowledge was revised and made secure; it was finally published in a sort of periodical encyclopedia (already almost impossible to find, such was the demand for it) entitled The Equinox. Now in the science of antiquity, much classification depended upon the planets. Those things which were hot and fiery in their nature, lions, and pepper, and fevers, were classed under the Sun or Jupiter or Mars; things swift and subtle under Mercury; things cold and heavy under Saturn, and so forth. Yet the principles of most of the planets appeared in v…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 123

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…twined; Breath desires breath and hand imprisons hand ; Breezes cool faces, rosy with the brand Of long sweet kisses; sun shall dawn and find Two lovers who have passed the land Of sleep—-and found Death kind. MAN’S HOPE. Ere fades the last red glimmer of the sun ; Ere day is night, when on the glittering bar The waves are foaming rubies, and afar Streaks of red water, gold on the horizon, On summer ripples rhythmically run ; Ere dusk is weaned, there sails on silver car From the expectant East, the evening Star ; And all the threads of sorrow …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 48

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX CAPTAIN MARGARET. By JOHN MASEFIELD. Thomas Nelson. 74. I bought this book thinking to find a jolly pirate yarn. Instead, in a style recalling now Bart Kennedy now Hall Caine, the meanderings and maunderings of a crew of ill-assorted sexual degenerates. And I wasted sevenpence on this nauseous nastiness! THE PorcH. Vol I, No.1. THE OVERSOUL. By RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 21, Cecil Court, W.C. 3a. “The Porch” promises to be a delightful addition to our periodical literature. Its first number gives in clear type on a nice page the magnifice…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 48

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX CAPTAIN MARGARET. By JOHN MASEFIELD. Thomas Nelson. 74. I bought this book thinking to find a jolly pirate yarn. Instead, in a style recalling now Bart Kennedy now Hall Caine, the meanderings and maunderings of a crew of ill-assorted sexual degenerates. And I wasted sevenpence on this nauseous nastiness! THE PorcH. Vol I, No.1. THE OVERSOUL. By RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 21, Cecil Court, W.C. 3a. “The Porch” promises to be a delightful addition to our periodical literature. Its first number gives in clear type on a nice page the magnifice…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 96

Moonchild

…st was in the air; Cyril led Lisa within. A special set of rooms had been prepared [138] for their reception; but Lisa was displeased to find that they had been arranged entirely with reference to feminine tastes and

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1906 · PDF PAGE 101

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…tent even to sweep a stable out ! Glorious task !—I shall return anon. JASON. Nay, follow not! The Goddess were dis- pleased, Coming, to find our greatest hero gone. THESEUS. This is the midmost hour of day. JASON. Arise, All heroes, circling round the sacred stone In beautiful order and procession grave, While our chief priest, our mightiest in song, The dowered of Phoebus, great Oecager’s heir, Invokes that glory on the sacrifice That kindles all its slumber into life And vivid flame descending on the wheel And chariot of lightning, licking u…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 12

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…As high a meed As his who first begot sweet music on a reed. XXX, And O! my music is so poor and thin! I am poor Marsyas?; where shall I find A wise Olympas and a lover kind To teach my mouth to sing some secret sin, Faint, fierce, and horrible; to tune my mind, And on a reed Better beloved to bid me discourse at his need P 1 Aubrey Beardsley. The dream is au- thentic. 2 Marsyas, a Satyr, inventor of the pastoral flute; Olympas, his favourite pupil. It will be Seen that the names are carelessly transposed.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 223

Moonchild

…ould aid the illusion. Supposing that there was already trouble or suspicion, this subterfuge [314] would serve; once in Paris, he could find out how the land lay, and act accordingly. He gave orders to the captain to make for Catalonia. The voyage was

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1929 · PDF PAGE 237

Moonchild

…d her in a few words of the horror on the roadside. "Go!" he said, "take that girl, Douglas's last victim, for your maid. Go to America; find the Child of the Moon. There may, or there may not be, other tasks for us to do; I know not — time will show." "I will, I will," she cried, "I will go now, quickly. Kiss me first!" Once again the tears gathered in the magician's [333] eyes; he understood, more deeply than he had ever done, the Sorrow of the Universe. He saw how utterly incompatible are all our human ideals with the Laws of Life. He took h…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 92

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… destruction of his point of view on any subject, and even that of his innate conception of the forms and laws of thought. 1 Thus he may find that his Angel consider his “business” or his “love” to be absurd trifles; also that human ideas of “time” are invalid, and human “laws” of logic applicable only to the relations bctween illusions. Now the Angel will make contact with the Adept at any point that is sensitive to His influence. Such a point will naturally be one that is salient in the Adept’s character, and also one that is, in the proper s…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 22

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…eaven A little cloud grew near, all thunder-riven, Searred by the lightning, torn of ravaging wind 3 Upon it sate the herald, who should find The home of Aphrodite, and should bring A message from high Zeus. ‘The mighty king Had bidden him to speed. nigh And hushed the Jast faint echoed melody With silver waving. As the messenger Of mighty Zeus descending unto her We stood before her, and called loud her name, Wrapped in a cloud of amber-scented flame Befitting his high office ; but his word, Too terrible for mortals, passed unheard Itis wings …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 36

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…, which is worth knowing con- sidering that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at eleven shillings. JECF. [Yet we find Vivekananda, at the end of his life, complaining, in a private letter to a friend, that his reputation for holiness prevented him from going “on the bust.” Poor silly devil!—Ep.] 24,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 36

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…, which is worth knowing con- sidering that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at eleven shillings. JECF. [Yet we find Vivekananda, at the end of his life, complaining, in a private letter to a friend, that his reputation for holiness prevented him from going “on the bust.” Poor silly devil!—Ep.] 24,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… that it shelters. To work! over the garden wall, and with Romeo cry: Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. * Kathaka Upanishad, 5, 15. 135

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1910 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… that it shelters. To work! over the garden wall, and with Romeo cry: Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. * Kathaka Upanishad, 5, 15. 135

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1929 · PDF PAGE 31

Moonchild

…explained wearily, "the wonder being in the fact of the animal being able to do it at all. But I would venture to add that for my part I find wonder amply satisfied by a single exhibition of this kind; to fall into a habit appears to me utterly out of accord with the views of the late John Stuart Mill on Liberty." Lisa always found herself whirled about like a Dervish by the strange twists which her lover continued to give to his conversation. Monet-Knott had told her in London of his famous faux pas at Cannon Street Station, when the railway o…

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