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1911 · PDF PAGE 40

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…Down-going of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra- Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Day! 4. Lastly, at Midnight, let him greet the Sun, facing North, giving the sign of his grade. And let him say in a loud voice : Hail unto Thee who art Khephra in Thy hiding, even unto Thee who art Khephra in Thy silence, who travellest over the Heavens in Thy bark at the Midnight Hour of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra- Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 28

Book 4 (Part I)

… of many adventures that may come to you ; but it is one of the most typical. By this time your hours of meditation will fill most of the day, and you will probably be constantly having presenti- ments that something is about to happen. You may also be terrified with the idea that your brain may be giving way ; but you will have learnt the real symptoms of mental fatigue, and you will be careful to avoid them. They must be very carefully distinguished from idleness! At certain times you will feel as if there were a contest between the will and th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ver hate, but the lukewarm He spueth forth from His mouth. Duty is to live, were it but for an instant! It is fine to have reigned for a day, even for an hour! though it were beneath the sword of Damocles, or upon the pyre of Sardanapalus ! But it is finer to have seen at one’s feet all the crowns of the world, and to have said, “I will be the king of the poor, and my throne shall be on Calvary.” There is one man stronger than the man that slays; it is he who dies to save others. There are no isolated crimes and no solitary expiations. There ar…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ver hate, but the lukewarm He spueth forth from His mouth. Duty is to live, were it but for an instant! It is fine to have reigned for a day, even for an hour! though it were beneath the sword of Damocles, or upon the pyre of Sardanapalus ! But it is finer to have seen at one’s feet all the crowns of the world, and to have said, “I will be the king of the poor, and my throne shall be on Calvary.” There is one man stronger than the man that slays; it is he who dies to save others. There are no isolated crimes and no solitary expiations. There ar…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 55

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…reth children may rejoice, and the babe catch life with both hands. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (MARRIAGE) The DEACON. Upon ail that this day unité with love under will let fall success; may strength and skill unité to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty. (DEATH) (Ail standy Head erecty Eyes open.) The DEACON. Term of ail that liveth, whose name is inscrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE END) The DEACON. Unto them from whose eyes the veil of life 355

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1944 · PDF PAGE 112

The Book of Thoth

…elvet of the midnight sky, and the maiden of the dance represents the issue from this, yet through this, to the Eternal. This card is to‐day as bright and glowing as any in the Pack.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 186

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ave 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 tuime’s insufferable stress Than that ot matter. On, thou puny verse ! 660 Weak tide of rhyme! Anot…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 248

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…p—ossory doesn’t turn. ossory. I can’t see him, Thomas. [Zurns.] I beg your pardon, Mr. Todd. The fact is, I’m damnably worried over pay-day. I really don’t know you well enough to ask you, perhaps, but the fact is, I’ve a good sound business proposi- tion which I must put before some one, and I believe you're the very man to help me. Now. (Topp takes him by the shoulder and whispers in his ear. Why, really, that is good of you—damned good of you! Why, damme, sir! you’re a public benefactor. Come, let us arrange the preliminaries-—— [They go ou…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 248

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…p—ossory doesn’t turn. ossory. I can’t see him, Thomas. [Zurns.] I beg your pardon, Mr. Todd. The fact is, I’m damnably worried over pay-day. I really don’t know you well enough to ask you, perhaps, but the fact is, I’ve a good sound business proposi- tion which I must put before some one, and I believe you're the very man to help me. Now. (Topp takes him by the shoulder and whispers in his ear. Why, really, that is good of you—damned good of you! Why, damme, sir! you’re a public benefactor. Come, let us arrange the preliminaries-—— [They go ou…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 39

The World’s Tragedy

… without very serious attention. In the first place, my predecessor Shelley was so natu- rally gentle that his Prometheus can be read to-day by our young ladies without their ever suspecting that he was getting at God. Nietzsche on the other hand is very obscure, very super- ficial, very philosophical, and he did not write English. I have been trained in a harder school than Shelley ; and so my little finger is thicker than my father’s loins. He went and “ trod the glaciers of the Alps ” — the Mer de Glace ; I broke the record by my 68 days on …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 47

Mortadello

OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 29 I who have served with you may take worship to-day. Swear fealty one and all before me at my knees. Flare out, my banner, winds adore me, utmost seas Carry my galleons, conquest kneel, a vassal cowed, Kings follow fawning at my heel, a cringing crowd. My fame be blazoned through the world, a ruddy Mars, And climb in incense scimitar-curled to storm the stars ! Your homage, gentlemen. The oath upon my sword. ALL. We swear to follow and obey thee as our lord. THE DOGE. ’Tis sworn. Retire, and one by one re-entering Unma…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 42

The Sword of Song

…minds ! So mote it be ! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace him oiled and cleaned By the Egyptian Pantheon, The same thing by another name. Thus when of late Egyptian Gods Evoked ecstatic periods In verse of mine, you thought I praised Or worshipped them—I stand amazed. I merely wished to chant in verse Some aspects of the Universe, Summed up these subtle forces finel…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 183

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…r minds! So mote it be! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace him oiled and cleaned By the Egyptian Pantheon, The same thing by another name. Thus when oflate Egyptian Gods Evoked ecstatic periods In verse of mine, you thought I praised Or worshipped them—I stand amazed. I merely wished to chant in verse Some aspects of the Universe, Summed up these subtle forces finely…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 179

The Star in the West

…se oneself through the vicious and the virtuous , to reside , as Adonis did , six months with Proserpine , and six with Venus , to be as day and night , winter and summer , is no easy path to tread ; and if it be necessary for the initiate to gaze on the back parts of Jahveh , it is, however , most certainly not necessary for him to kiss the hind quarters of the goat of Mendes , or to revel in the secret orgies of the Agapae ; for the tempting of man is but the temper ing of the metal .' The flower which springs from the dunghill assimi lates i…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 284

The Star in the West

…ve and a negative formulate Zero , so these twain were as one yelping pack of jackals , who prowl by night fearing the brightness of the day . Huxley aptly sums up the standpoint an Agnostic should take in the following : If a piece of lead vere to remain suspended of itself in the air , the occurrence would be a “ miracle " in the sense of a wonderful event , indeed ; but no one trained in the methods of science would imagine that any law of nature was really violated thereby . He would simply set to work to investigate the conditions under wh…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 202

The Winged Beetle

192 MR TODD OSSORY. I want to say a word, girlie, about young Del- homme. Er—well, we all grow older, you know—one day—er—ah ! Nice young fellow, Delhomme ! EUPHEMIA. I refused him twenty minutes ago, father. OSSORY. What ? How the deuce did you know what I was going to say ? Bless me, I believe there may be some- thing in this psychic business after all ! EUPHEMIA. Yes, father, I feel I have strange powers ! OSSORY. But look here, girlie, why did you refuse him ? Reculer pour mieux sauter is all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice wh…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 177

The Star in the West

… Genesis , who was the author of Wisdom .? And the serpent said unto the woman , Ye shall not surely die : For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof , then your eyes shall be opened , and ye shall be as gods , knowing good and evil .- Gen . iii, 4, 5. It was only by casting off God , and breaking away from the essentially bestial quality of unreason , that man paradoxically assumed Godhood . Eliphas Lévi .חישמsame asשחנ

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1910 · PDF PAGE 31

The Scented Garden

…irit, three and one : But if they esoterically are read My equal name shall glitter out instead. Yes ! we must not sing hymns to Pan to- day : we must pretend to be German professors, with a keen scientific interest in these very re- markable phenomena which look so much like madness, and which our own perfect sanity and the effulgence (possibly a shade alto) of our dis- creet and legal passion for our Limburger-tainted hausfrau hide from our fuller comprehension. As is right, therefore : In nomine v. Krafft-Ebing, v. Schrenk-Notzing, et Havelo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 21

The World’s Tragedy

… the moun- tains, where my tutors could not follow me, and where delightful peasant girls could and did follow me — God bless them ! One day I had a difference of opinion with a tutor, in the course of which he fell from a rock into a loch (whose name I forget) near Forsinard. Memory fails to recall the actual cause of dispute ; but I think I had thrown his fishing-rod into the loch, and thought that it was expedient for him to try and retrieve it. The same night he found me in the heather with Belle Mc. Kay the local beauty (God bless her !), …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 486

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nderstood better than Dupuis and Volney the symbolic worship of the sun. In his hymn to the king, Helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian has ideas of the Supreme God, that the Christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the Church, who were his contemporaries, and his adversar…

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