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1907 · PDF PAGE 325

The Star in the West

… once . Lo , time and space lie crouching at my feet . Joy ! joy ! when I would revel in a rapture , I plunge into myself and all things know . 1 Epilogue , vol . ii, p . 283 . 2 I. N. R. I.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 9

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…h we search ourselves for a thought to match the word, and fail, yet we have Berkeley’s perfectly convincing argument that (so far as we know it) existence must mean thinking existence or spiritual existence. Here then we find our Zs¢ to imply Cogitatur,; and Berkeley’s arguments are “‘irrefragable, yet fail to produce conviction” (Hume) because the Cogitatur, as we have shown, implies Zs¢. Neither of these ideas is simple ; each involves the other. Is the division between them in our brain a proof of the total incapacity of that organ, or is t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 128

The Book of Lies

… of Mr. Crowley’s ‘ Tannhauser’ to the Attic monotone of the Master (Swinburne).” This rare pamphlet is almost exhausted. As most people know, Berashith is the first word of the book of Genesis, and the essay contains a complete solu- tion of the Problem of Creation, which has baffled all brains less astute and profound than our author’s. The essay has since been reprinted with added references and elucidation of some of the more abstruse propositions ; this edition is, therefore, of interest only as an Z£ditio princeps. Ahab, etc. 55. A compan…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 199

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…us prophets of evil! Every time we came back to the resolution to stop, they pulled us off the rock. “It’s beyond human power.” But they know which side their breaq’s buttered. It’s their game to discourage their dupes. But they had over-played their hand. They had painted their picture in too crude colours. They revolted us. Again, the effect of Mabel’s death, and the fact that our supplies were so short, combined to drive us into the determination to stop at whatever cost. | We struggled savagely hour by hour. There were moments when the abst…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 133

Magick Without Tears

…y represent an attempt to run away from reality, a dispersion of energy and a corruption of moral strength. His business is, firstly, to know himself; secondly, to order and control himself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic lines little by little. The rest is only leather and prunella. There is, however, a sense in which the service of humanity is necessary to the completeness of the Adept . He is not to flyaway too far. Some remarks on this course are given in the note to the nex t verse. The student is also advised to take note of…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 319

The Star in the West

…and dread symbols of the dead , and lit the same triple flame of glory , losing himself in that poetic vision of rapture , so entirely unknown in the prosaic East . And curious to say , that while the East was applying mechanical means to attain a divine illumination , the West arrived at a similar position on the circumference of ity , by a diametrically opposite road ; applying the whole of her artificial faculties to a perfecting of her material needs — hence the growing triumphs of the West . ... “ And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 179

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e division into two is the method of multiplication of the Amceba, the lowest, simplest, and most absolute form of physical life that we know. The Dual Power of Nature is the Great Mother of the Worlds. Again, to draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our Mother. Behold in her the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two. Light and Dark- ness, Flux and Reflux, Ebb and Flow—these are her manifested Powers in Nature—where also she binds the Great Waters to her Will. Now in the Vetziratic Attribution is the second number,…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 179

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e division into two is the method of multiplication of the Amceba, the lowest, simplest, and most absolute form of physical life that we know. The Dual Power of Nature is the Great Mother of the Worlds. Again, to draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our Mother. Behold in her the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two. Light and Dark- ness, Flux and Reflux, Ebb and Flow—these are her manifested Powers in Nature—where also she binds the Great Waters to her Will. Now in the Vetziratic Attribution is the second number,…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 133

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…hild added a dog's fidelity and trust. Professor Zircon was a happy old man ; 116 called her his Chloride of Gold. Muriel means salt, you know, he would explain to the fellows at the Club, and salt is a compound of hydrochloric or muriatic acid—I wonder if we shall produce a little Zirconium Chloride! At this jest thus elaborated he was wont to laugh seven times a week; and trot happily back to his house in Kensington for dinner. Seven times a week he would let himself in through the laboratory and pretend surprise when he found Muriel reading a…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 133

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…hild added a dog's fidelity and trust. Professor Zircon was a happy old man ; 116 called her his Chloride of Gold. Muriel means salt, you know, he would explain to the fellows at the Club, and salt is a compound of hydrochloric or muriatic acid—I wonder if we shall produce a little Zirconium Chloride! At this jest thus elaborated he was wont to laugh seven times a week; and trot happily back to his house in Kensington for dinner. Seven times a week he would let himself in through the laboratory and pretend surprise when he found Muriel reading a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…l not look at Him.” “Look at Him, I wish it.” She opens her eyes, her pupils expand; she is terrifying. “What do you see?” “T should not know how to say it. . . . Oh for pity’s sake awaken me!” 124

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1913 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…l not look at Him.” “Look at Him, I wish it.” She opens her eyes, her pupils expand; she is terrifying. “What do you see?” “T should not know how to say it. . . . Oh for pity’s sake awaken me!” 124

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1919 · PDF PAGE 426

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…misleading, as she explains further on in verse 70 —“Each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its reward in time.” 41. For know, that the ETERNAL knows no change. Here again we have one subject “THE ETERNAL”, and one predicate “the knower of no change”; the Hindu state- ment identical with the Buddhist, and the identity covered by crazy terminology. X=A says the Hindu, Y=A says the Buddhist. X=Y is furiously denied by both, although these two equations are our only source of information about either X or Y. Metaphysics has always …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 136

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… the false little harlot! The eternal emptiness 01 things, the unbreakable solitude of life, struck a chill to his marrow. How was he to know that only by uttermost surrender of the self to the Beloved can that curse be broken ? 94

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1912 · PDF PAGE 136

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… the false little harlot! The eternal emptiness 01 things, the unbreakable solitude of life, struck a chill to his marrow. How was he to know that only by uttermost surrender of the self to the Beloved can that curse be broken ? 94

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…not there again. 21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this. 22. The other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. Iam the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride are they: and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. 23. For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings of red wine: then oil of Abram…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…not there again. 21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this. 22. The other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. Iam the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride are they: and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. 23. For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings of red wine: then oil of Abram…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 228

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… service without recompense, are to be honoured as hosts. 20. In case of the sickness of any Brother, it is the duty of all Brethren who know him personally to attend him, to see that he want for nothing, and to report if necessary his needs to the Lodge, or to Grand Lodge itself. 21. Those Brethren who happen to be doctors or nurses will naturally give their skill and care with even more than their customary joy in service. 22. All Brethren are bound by their fealty to offer their service in their particular trade, business, or profession, to …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 221

The Star in the West

…ence have up to the present apprehended things per nos , from this day forward they will , under the atheistic theurgy of Crowleyanity , know things per se . The Ultima Thule of our rigorous journey will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds , and the mixed drinks of the stumbling Scoto -German Bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of Iacchus . The above may be symbolized as follows : | The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii , p. 176 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 314

The Star in the West

…experience it is certain that in Dhyana the Ego is rejected .” This is absolutely true of Berkeley when in the Dia logues he writes : To know every thing knowable is certainly a perfection ; but to endure , or suffer , or feel anything by sense , is an imperfection . The former , I say , agrees to God , but not the latter . God knows or hath ideas ; but the ideas are not conveyed to Him by sense as ours are . . 2 God to him is a mahayogi . It is absolutely true of Hume , but Hume , studiously avoiding the word God , could find no helpmeet to fi…

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