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1909 · PDF PAGE 8

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

… Buddhist may find it easy to image an act without an agent; I am not so clever. It may be possible for a sane man; but I should like to know more about his mind before I gave a final opinion. But apart from purely formal objections, we may still inquire: Is this Cogétatur true? Yes; reply the sages; for to deny it implies thought; Negatur is only a sub-section of Cogitatur. This involves, however, an axiom that the part is of the same nature as the whole; or (at the very least) an axiom that Ais A. Now, I do not wish to deny that 4 is 4, or ma…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 127

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…tle girl,” he said kindly. "Trust me; I will prove you and justify you. Afterwards I ” “ Do you think ?—now—?" she began indignantly. “I know it,” said he. “ In the grey light, to—morrow, we will talk." She suddenly felt chill and afraid. “ I am not ready,” she said; “I am not worthy . . .” " It is to prove you worthy,” said he, “ that I was sent to you.” " Well, God aid me,” said the girl. She was serious and almost sobbing, her face drawn and white beneath its paint. Her emotion added piquancy to her voluptuousness, pathos to her brute appeal…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 127

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…tle girl,” he said kindly. "Trust me; I will prove you and justify you. Afterwards I ” “ Do you think ?—now—?" she began indignantly. “I know it,” said he. “ In the grey light, to—morrow, we will talk." She suddenly felt chill and afraid. “ I am not ready,” she said; “I am not worthy . . .” " It is to prove you worthy,” said he, “ that I was sent to you.” " Well, God aid me,” said the girl. She was serious and almost sobbing, her face drawn and white beneath its paint. Her emotion added piquancy to her voluptuousness, pathos to her brute appeal…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 182

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…t. CLARK. Well, I’m sure—— SERGEANT. Never be sure! The first great rule of a good officer. JACK. What? What? Ι say no—[louder]—I say no ! Know your own mind and stick to it. Let’s have a song—ah, what do you say? “A policeman's life is not a happy one "? SERGEANT. Why, it’s no trouble; it’s well worth coming across to talk to such a good fellow, and drink a glass of ale like this. JACK. Have some more! Sing, somebody—Clark, you sing. r40

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1912 · PDF PAGE 182

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…t. CLARK. Well, I’m sure—— SERGEANT. Never be sure! The first great rule of a good officer. JACK. What? What? Ι say no—[louder]—I say no ! Know your own mind and stick to it. Let’s have a song—ah, what do you say? “A policeman's life is not a happy one "? SERGEANT. Why, it’s no trouble; it’s well worth coming across to talk to such a good fellow, and drink a glass of ale like this. JACK. Have some more! Sing, somebody—Clark, you sing. r40

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1919 · PDF PAGE 445

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…universe is found, then everything is joy. The prop- osition is quite as universal. 80. If thou would’st have that stream of hard-earn’d knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should’st not leave it to become a stagnant pond. Here we have the same thesis developed with unexpected force. So far from the Path being repose, the slightest slackening turns it stagnant. 81. Know, if of Amitabha, the “Boundless Age,” thou would’st become co-worker, then must thou shed the light 123

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1904 · PDF PAGE 73

The Sword of Song

…consciousness exists.” He denies the assertion of duality: he has no datum to assert the denial of duality. I have. Consciousness, as we know it, has one essential quality: the opposition of subject and object. Reason has attacked this and secured that complete and barren victory of convincing without producing conviction.* It has one quality apparently not essential, that of ex- ceeding impermanence. If we examine what we call steady thought, we shall find that its rate of change is in reality inconceivably sw ift. To consider it, to watch it,…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 480

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ther disgusted when my own solicitors sent me half a page of ravings about myself and asked the explanation of my crimes. They must have known that {757} 1. John Bull, Christmas number, 1919. 2. I wrote this in January 1922, when Mr Bottomley was prosecuting Mr Bigland for criminal libel, and the magistrate made this remark. there was hardly one statement which was true in fact. The article was full of careless blunders about matters within their knowledge. But that was not what worried me. I kept on saying to myself, "Why only half a page?" Th…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 96

John St. John

…Restaurant. Ordered 6 oysters, Rable de Lievre poivrade puree de marrons, and Glace “ Casserole” with a small bottle of Perrier Water. I know the New Ritual down to the end of the Con- fession. It was hard to stop the mantra—the moment my thought wandered, up it popped 1 I shall add Cafe Cognac Cigare to this debauch. I continue learning the Ritual. I will return and humble myself before the Lord

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1910 · PDF PAGE 104

Ambergris

…sh Since my redemption, that is vocal at all, For I am wrapt away from light and call In the sweet heart of the red rose. My spirit only knows This woman and no more ; who would know more I, I am concentrate In the unshakable state Of constant rapture. Who should pour His ravings in the air for winds to whirl, Far from the central pearl Of all the diadem of the universe ? Let God take pen, rehearse Dull nursery tales ; then, not before, O rose, Red rose ! shall the beloved of thee, Infinite rose ! pen puerile poetry That turns in writing to vil…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 101

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… true as steel; and yours are chill and watery. But you have your father’s temper, and his silence, and his will. THE CHILD. What do you know of my father? LAYLAH. Nothing. I only jested ; Ι wanted to try you, to hear what you would say. Tell me about your mother. THE CHILD. She was a fair and noble lady. She died when I was born. LAYLAH. Thank Godl THE CHILD. I do not understand LAYLAH. Oh I will your father say, “ Ι do not understand ? ” What am 1? Yet I gave him my greatest gift—and I have yet a greater gift to give him—and I have a gift tha…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 101

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… true as steel; and yours are chill and watery. But you have your father’s temper, and his silence, and his will. THE CHILD. What do you know of my father? LAYLAH. Nothing. I only jested ; Ι wanted to try you, to hear what you would say. Tell me about your mother. THE CHILD. She was a fair and noble lady. She died when I was born. LAYLAH. Thank Godl THE CHILD. I do not understand LAYLAH. Oh I will your father say, “ Ι do not understand ? ” What am 1? Yet I gave him my greatest gift—and I have yet a greater gift to give him—and I have a gift tha…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 262

The Star in the West

…Ain Soph ! Above the Crown Kether , the first Sephirah , is the (7*X), i.e. , Ain , the No - Thing . “ It is so named be cause we do not know , that which there is in this Principle , because it never descends as far as our ignorance , and because it is above Wisdom itself ." 3 “ Not only does the Qabbalah repudiate the adage · Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol , i, pp . 104 , 105 . 2 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 258 . s Zohar , iii, fol . 2886 ( Meyer ).

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1911 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ike her! There was Deborah once, and Jael, and Judith. But the glory is departed, boy, the glory is departed. URCHIN. I’m a Saracen, you know ISAAC. You’re a heavy little old Man of the Sea ! URCHIN. The flames are creeping up her body now, Oh I I’m so angry ; I’m so angry. ISAAC. You mustn’t be angry, or you'll never be fat. URCHIN. I don't wan’t to be fat. I wan’t to kill all the people. ISAAC. Well, well, you shall one day, if you’re good. URCHIN. Yes, I will. [06

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1911 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ike her! There was Deborah once, and Jael, and Judith. But the glory is departed, boy, the glory is departed. URCHIN. I’m a Saracen, you know ISAAC. You’re a heavy little old Man of the Sea ! URCHIN. The flames are creeping up her body now, Oh I I’m so angry ; I’m so angry. ISAAC. You mustn’t be angry, or you'll never be fat. URCHIN. I don't wan’t to be fat. I wan’t to kill all the people. ISAAC. Well, well, you shall one day, if you’re good. URCHIN. Yes, I will. [06

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1954 · PDF PAGE 251

Magick Without Tears

…:.: "The method of science-the aim of religion." Here the word 'aim' and the context help the definition; it must mean the attainment of Knowledge and Power in spiritual matters-or words to that effect: as soon as one selects a phrase, one starts to kick holes in it! Yet we both know perfectly well all the time what we do mean. But this is certainly not the sense of the word in your question. It may clear our minds, as has so often happened, if we examine it through the lens of dear old Skeat. Religion, he says, Latin: religio, piety. Collectin…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 382

Magick Without Tears

…of banks with them. Grimly I prognosticated Twenty-Nine. And it was so. "Nice work!" you charmingly remark; "but hardly what I sought to know." Patience, child! 1. No money-lender in the drunkenness of guilt plus the delirium of cocaine fortified by buckets of hashish would dare dream of getting such interest on his capital as these vampires. 349

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1906 · PDF PAGE 176

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…s- mic theories.. Bard check- mates himself. Consciousness and Christi- anity. , Dhyana and Hinduism. Sammasa- madhi and Buddhism. — You know for me the soul is nought “6 Save a mere phantom in the thought, That thought itself impermanent, Save as a casual element With such another may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity, But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state. (Ask chemists else!) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same ” Or else the prey of putrefaction…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ich I have optimis- tically named Scientific Iluminism. But at least for the present we have not arrived so far. In my own case I should know fairly well what to do, well enough to get my little “loosening of the girders of the soul” at a guess twice in five times, perhaps more. Not surely enough to guarantee results to other people without a lengthy series of experiments, still less to recommend them to try for themselves, unless under skilled supervision. My present appeal is to recognised physiologists and psychologists to increase the numbe…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ich I have optimis- tically named Scientific Iluminism. But at least for the present we have not arrived so far. In my own case I should know fairly well what to do, well enough to get my little “loosening of the girders of the soul” at a guess twice in five times, perhaps more. Not surely enough to guarantee results to other people without a lengthy series of experiments, still less to recommend them to try for themselves, unless under skilled supervision. My present appeal is to recognised physiologists and psychologists to increase the numbe…

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