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1919 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…into indigence have a right to the direct assistance of the Order up to the full amount of fees and subscriptions paid by them up to the time of appli- cation. This will be regarded as a loan, but no interest will be charged upon it. That this privilege may not be abused, the Grand Tribunal will decide whether or no such appli- cation is made in good faith. THIRD HOUSE 46. Members of the Order will be permitted to use the Library in any of our Profess-Houses. 47. Circulating Libraries will presently be established. 48. Brethren who may be trave…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 97

Magick Without Tears

… the profane. Religion, on the contrary, seeks to ignore the laws of 1. A few amendments-very few-have been necessitated by the lapse of time. 64

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1961 · PDF PAGE 202

Liber Aleph

…ce in Light) OW shall they measure our Statue and our Success by that Canon of Relation and Illusion, and their ignorance of our Nature? Time is but Sequence, and a moment of Light outweigheth an Age of Darkness. What is Happiness but the Issue of the Harmony of our Con- sciousness with our Truth, and the Conformity of Will with Action? To the Initiate is Certainty of his Fulfilment, which to the Profane is but the Effect of Hazard, and he feareth to lose what he loveth, or thinketh he loveth. But we, loving only in Light, suffer not by Fear or…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 205

Liber Aleph

… Cosmic Sacrament, it seeketh a new Vehicle in the appointed Way, and indwelleth the Fœtus of a Child, and quickeneth it. And if at this Time the mind of its Former Tabernacle yet cling to it, then is there Continuity of Character, and it may be Memory between the two Vehicles. This is, briefly and without Elaboration, the Way of Asar in Amenti, according to mine Opinion, of which I say not: This is the Truth. c

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1909 · PDF PAGE 26

John St. John

…good at all. Think I’ll get up and have 8.32. 9.0. 9.25. 10. 38. 10.40. a Turker. Am up, havingread my letters. Continuingmantra all the time in a more or less conscious way. Wrote my letters and started out. Have reached the Café de la Paix, walking slowly with my mantra. I am'beginningto forget it occasion- ally, mispronouncing some of the words. A good sign! Now and then I tried sending it up and down my spine, with good effect. I will drink a cup of coffee and then proceed to the Hammam. This may ease my limbs, and afford an opportunity for…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 113

John St. John

…e of the Ceremony Itself. And this mystical perfume of Adonai is like pure Musk, but infinitely subtilised— far stronger, and at the same time far more delicate. (P.S.—-Doubt has arisen about this perfume, as to whether there was not a commonplace cause. On the balance of the evidence, carefully considered, one would pronounce for the mystic theory.) One should add a curious omen. On sitting down for the great struggle (11.14) John St. John found a nail upon the floor, at his feet. Now a nail is Vau in Hebrew, and the Tarot Trump corresponding to…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 245

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse! can’t you tell me of a good doctor? For oh! for oh! [Ae looks about him fearfully; his voice sinks to a thrilled whisper] I am so afraid—afraid to die! Is there nobody——. [Enter tovp, and stands by his chair, layinghis hand on the old man’s shoulder. He looks up. I wish you were a doctor, Mr. Todd. You have such a soothing touch. Perhaps you are a doctor? I can get nobody to do me any good. [ropp …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 245

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse! can’t you tell me of a good doctor? For oh! for oh! [Ae looks about him fearfully; his voice sinks to a thrilled whisper] I am so afraid—afraid to die! Is there nobody——. [Enter tovp, and stands by his chair, layinghis hand on the old man’s shoulder. He looks up. I wish you were a doctor, Mr. Todd. You have such a soothing touch. Perhaps you are a doctor? I can get nobody to do me any good. [ropp …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…onarola burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the Christian religion ? Are not the Pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of Caiaphas? If any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and love, will they listen? In rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of the Pharaohs, Moses inaugurated the reign of the Father. In breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, Jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of God. When the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…onarola burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the Christian religion ? Are not the Pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of Caiaphas? If any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and love, will they listen? In rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of the Pharaohs, Moses inaugurated the reign of the Father. In breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, Jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of God. When the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break,…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 278

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…osses over the Paten, the Cup, and himself. He strikes his breast. All repeat this action. Hear ye all, saints of the true church of old time now es- sentially present, that of ye we claim heirship, with ye we claim communion, from ye we claim benediction in the name of IAO. 264

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1944 · PDF PAGE 131

The Book of Thoth

…, for this is their most potent spell. “Yet of their own poison do they perish, and in their lonely fortresses shall they be eaten up by Time that hath cheated them to serve him, and by the mighty devil Choronzon, their master, whose name is the Second Death, for the blood that they have sprinkled on their Pylon, that is a bar against the Angel Death, is the key by which he entereth in.”

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1929 · PDF PAGE 18

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…e entered on an entirely new phase. The change was radical. Within three weeks of his return to school he got into trouble for the first time. He does not remember for what offence5, but only that his punishment was diminished on account of his bereavement. This was the first symptom of a complete reversal of his attitude to life in every respect. It seems obvious that his father's death must have been causally connected with it. But even so, the events remain inexplicable. The conditions of his school life, for instance, can hardly have altere…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 66

The Goetia

…hy keeping, and de- liver it unto us quietly: Hallii. Hra. And answer all such questions as we may demand without any defect now at this time. AN EXPLANATION OF SOLOMON’S TRIANGLE. Anephezeton. Thou great God of all the Heavenly Host: Primeumaton. Thou Who art the First and Last, let all spirits be subject unto us, and let the Spirit be bound in this triangle, which disturbs? this place : Michael. By Thy Holy Angel Michael, until I shall discharge him. (HERE ENDETH THIS First Book oF THE LEMEGETON, WHICH IS CALLED THE GOETIA.) ' Evidently meani…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 95

John St. John

…n, now you knowl You are plain John St. John, and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the Threshold; and remember this time to mortify that self-satisfaction! G0 at it more reverently and humbly—oh, you dog, how I loathe you for your Vileness! To have risen so high, and—now—to be thus fallen ! The question arises: how to mortify this self-satisfac- tion? Asceticism notoriously fosters egoism ; how good am I to go without dinner] How noble I What renuncia- tionl On the other hand, the good wine in one says: “A fine fellow I have…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 187

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…entirety the third Symbol in the numerical evolution. Before proceeding to a detailed analysis, and following the Process of Creation by Time (¢.e., beginning at the first letter, and so proceeding), let me point out a few general facts. First as to the number of letters in each word, which converted into figures stands thus: 4. 3. 5. 2. 5. 3.6. (Hebrew direction). In the midst is 2, by Tarothe Central Will : and this two- lettered word is nx. On either side of this is the pair of figures 35—53, balanced one against the other: as though symboli…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 187

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…entirety the third Symbol in the numerical evolution. Before proceeding to a detailed analysis, and following the Process of Creation by Time (¢.e., beginning at the first letter, and so proceeding), let me point out a few general facts. First as to the number of letters in each word, which converted into figures stands thus: 4. 3. 5. 2. 5. 3.6. (Hebrew direction). In the midst is 2, by Tarothe Central Will : and this two- lettered word is nx. On either side of this is the pair of figures 35—53, balanced one against the other: as though symboli…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 106

Ambergris

…way ! 15. Let there then be obscurity in this ! There is an after rapture in the kiss. The fire, flesh, perfume, music that outpaced All time, fly off ; they are subtle : there abides A secret and most maiden taste ; Salt, as of the invisible tides Of the molten sea of gold Men may at times behold In the rayless scarab of the sinking sun ; And out of that is won Hardly, with labour and pain that are as pleasure, The first flower of the garden, the stored treasure That lies at the heart’s heart of eternity. This treasure is for thee. 16. O ! but…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 12

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…las ever to the belief . Critics —middle aged critics especially — will find much amiss with them ; and the fault as usual will lie with Time at least as much as with Thyrsis , with the critic 's years as with the singer 's lack of them : Our feelings lose poetic flow Soon after thirty years or so : Professionising modern men Thenceforth admire what pleased them then (I am writing far from books and quote the author of Ionica from treacherous memory ). In the hey - day of the Elizabethan drama in the year that gave birth to Hamlet , middle - ag…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 6

The Banned Lecture

…ose causes are infinite, and each one of them is to a certain extent an efficient determining cause. Take a quite simple matter like the time of year. If it had been winter instead of summer, the

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