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1904 · PDF PAGE 31

The Goetia

…rumpets sounding. He knoweth all things hidden, and can discover Treasure, and tell all things Past, Present, and to Come. He can take a Body either Human or Aérial, and answereth truly of all Earthly things both Secret and * In some of the older Codices this word is left out, in others it is indistinct, but appears to be ‘‘horse,” so I have put the word horse within brackets above.-—TrRans. [The Quartos have ‘‘ass,”—ED.| 17

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1909 · PDF PAGE 255

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… the Tempter, Accuser and Punisher of the Brethren. Wherefore is he frequently represented in Egypt with the head of a Water-Dragon, the body of a Lion or Leopard, and hindquarters of a Water-Horse. He is the administrator of the Evil Triad, whereof the members are: Apophrasz. The Stooping Dragon. Satan-Typhon. The Slayer of Osiris. Besz. The brutal power of demoniac force. * A document which by some of the members of the G .-. D .-. was considered to be forged. It purported to be signed by S.D.A. and others, and authorised the founding of the …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 255

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… the Tempter, Accuser and Punisher of the Brethren. Wherefore is he frequently represented in Egypt with the head of a Water-Dragon, the body of a Lion or Leopard, and hindquarters of a Water-Horse. He is the administrator of the Evil Triad, whereof the members are: Apophrasz. The Stooping Dragon. Satan-Typhon. The Slayer of Osiris. Besz. The brutal power of demoniac force. * A document which by some of the members of the G .-. D .-. was considered to be forged. It purported to be signed by S.D.A. and others, and authorised the founding of the …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 47

Moonchild

…he goes beyond my understanding every time. I'm an amateur, and a rotten amateur at that." "Let me explain!" said Simple Simon. "If everybody did his Will, there would be no collision. Every man and every woman is a star. It is when we get off our orbits that the clashes come. Now if a Thing gets off its orbit, and comes into my sphere of attraction, I absorb it as quietly as possible, and the stars sing together again." "Whew!" said Cyril, and pretended to wipe the sweat from his brow. "But weren't you in danger from that devilish Thing?" aske…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 57

The Goetia

…ezeton.” ? Or “ Tzabaoth.” * In some “ By the Seat of Adonai” or “‘ By the Throne of Adonai.” In these conjurations and elsewhere in the body of the text I have given the divine names as correctly as possible. AI

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1905 · PDF PAGE 215

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… the sun-ripped snows, Where icy fingers grip the overbold Son of their secrets, and like springes close On his choked throat and frozen body— Nay | That death were twilight, and the gate of Day ! No death ye bring as his, that grips the flag In desperate fingers, and with bloody sword Flames up the thundering breach, while bastioned crag, , Glacis, and pent-house belch their mon- strous horde Of hideous engines shattering—this strife Clears the straight road of Glory and of Life ! Nay: but the hateful death that stings the soul Into rebellion …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 295

The Law is for All

…90,119 biology 69,143,145,146,162 bisexual deities 30 Black Brothers 128,182 error of the 90 black dragon 152 Blake, William 102,138,142 body of light 126 bondage and discipline 42 Bouguereau, Adolphe 112 bourgeoisie 36,49, 72,73.75,97,117, 155 Brahms, Johannes 75 Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme 139 Bronte, Emily 44 Buddha 53,133,151 Buddhism 96.169,170 Bulaq Museum 160 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, Zanoni 111 Buriats 85 Burton, Richard Francis 84 Butler, Samuel, the elder 133 Butler, Samuel, the younger 162 Cain 184 Cairo 150 Caligula 65 Calypso 171 casual…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 128

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…o Forlorn to Paphos, wrapt in urgent woe, Her hair funereal swathing her fallen form, Its wind-swept horror holding him ; his white Torn body blushing through tempestuous night. So breaks the life in hell, the year in storm. BALZAC, GIANT, with iron secrecies ennighted, Cloaked, Balzac stands and sees. Immense disdain, Egyptian silence, mastery of pain, Gargantuan laughter, shake or still the ignited Stature of the Master, vivid. Far, affrighted, The stunned air shudders on the skin. In vain The Master of ‘‘ La Comédie Humaine ”’ Shadows the de…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 36

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…R.P.A. disliked our reviews of their sewerage. The said reviews were, however, written by one of the most prominent members of their own body. Rather like Epaminondas and the Cretans! Anyhow, the “Guide” has wittily retorted on us that our reviews are “valueless.” What a sparkler! What a crusher! A.C. BHaktTI-YoGa. (Udvodhan Series.) By SWAMI VIVEKANANDA. 12 Gopal Chandra Neogi’s Lane, Baghbazar, Calcutta. 8 annas. If Swami Vivekananda was not a great Yogi he was at least a very great expounder of Yoga doctrines. It is impossible here to convey…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 36

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…R.P.A. disliked our reviews of their sewerage. The said reviews were, however, written by one of the most prominent members of their own body. Rather like Epaminondas and the Cretans! Anyhow, the “Guide” has wittily retorted on us that our reviews are “valueless.” What a sparkler! What a crusher! A.C. BHaktTI-YoGa. (Udvodhan Series.) By SWAMI VIVEKANANDA. 12 Gopal Chandra Neogi’s Lane, Baghbazar, Calcutta. 8 annas. If Swami Vivekananda was not a great Yogi he was at least a very great expounder of Yoga doctrines. It is impossible here to convey…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…til 12.28. During this time did my Lord Adonai begin to manifest within me, so that my being was wrapped away in bliss ineffable. And my body was filled with rapture of His coming until the cry burst from my lips “My Lord and my God.” There are no words to describe Thee, my Beloved, though I yet tremble with the joy of Thy presence, yet do I feel that this is but the beginning of the reflection of Thee. O God, wrap me utterly away, beyond even this Bliss. Let me be utterly consumed in Thine Essence. Amen. 154

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1996 · PDF PAGE 48

The Law is for All

…e of Thelema are not the slaves of Love, “love under will” is the Law. We refuse to regard love as shameful and degrading, as a peril to body and soul. We refuse to accept it as the surrender of the divine to the animal; to us it is the means by which the animal may be made the Winged Sphinx which shall bear man aloft to the House of the Gods. We are then particularly careful to deny that the object of love is the gross physiological object which happens to be Nature’s excuse for it. Generation is a sacrament of the physical Rite, by which we c…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 73

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…make a trial of her love?”’ 1 Henry VI, I wAs most weary of my work: the mind Shuddered at all the wonders it had written, And the whole body by the spirit smitten Groaned : so I went and left my love behind, Danced the gross “ hula,”’! hardly disinclined, By a new lust emphatically bitten ; And so in flames at harlot glances litten I sought that solace I shall never find. 1 The indecent dance of the South Sea Islands, Fool! not to tell her. Triple fool to fly The sunny glance, the moonlight medi- tation, For even the light of heaven. Flow much…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 143

Moonchild

… rite; it had been made somewhat in the shape of an old- fashioned keyhole, a combination of circle and triangle.[202] In the centre the body of Gates, his head toward the north, was laid; Arthwait stood on one side with the Grimoire in one hand, and a lighted taper of black wax in the other. On the opposite side was Abdul Bey, holding the goat in leash, and bearing the sickle which Vesquit was to use as the principal magical weapon of the ceremony. The doctor was himself the last to enter the circle. In a basket he had the four black cats; and…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 56

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…pierce the mask of night— Ina man work lifts his eyelids, but his dreams lend eyes their light. So dreams and days are wed, And soul and body lie Ambrosial in Love's bed. See, heaven with stars is spread-— So glad of life am I If an angel came to call me I am sure I would not die. A RONDEL. THe wail of the wind in the desolate land Lifts voice where the heaven lies pallid and blind ; Sweeps over the hills from the sea and the sand The wail of the wind. The earth gives a bleak echo back, and behind Lurk sorrows and sins in the grasp of a hand, A…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 81

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…s re- born. The child slept elsewhere that she might sleep well. Therefore, not fearing anything, I came ; _ Lit my love’s candle at her body’s flame, And fought not with the fevers now that swell Our burning lips and bosoms, until shame Nearly surrendered the sweet citadel. THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY. ‘*T think the devil will not have me damned . . he would never else cross me thus.” Merry Wives of Windsor. Tus time she set her will against mywill ; Swore that she would not come: in my despair I half believed her an enchantress fair Cruel as hell an…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 49

Moonchild

…I. Quick! can't we save her?" But the sculptor burst into lamentation: he was incapable of anything but tears. He flung himself upon the body of his model, and wept passionately. Cyril gritted his teeth; the girl was on the borderland. "Master!" he cried, in a terrible voice. "In a case of this kind," said Simple Simon, who was standing unperceived within a foot of him, "where Nature has been outraged, an attempt made to interfere violently with her laws, it is permissible to act — or rather, to counteract just so much as is necessary to restor…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 71

The Law is for All

… in hand. But love is an art no less than Rembrandt’s, a science no less than Lister’s. The mind must make the heart articulate, and the body the temple of the soul. The animal instinct in man is the twin of the ape’s or the bull’s. Yet this is the one thing lawful in the code of the bourgeois. He is right to consider the act, as he knows it, degrading. It is, indeed, for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dig­ nity of man or of the majesty of the God within him. So is the

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1904 · PDF PAGE 32

The Goetia

…halt wear, etc. (23.) Aimw—The Twenty-third Spirit is Aim. He is a Great Strong Duke. He appeareth in the form of a very handsome Man in body, but with three Heads; the first, like a Serpent, the second like a Man having two Stars on his Forehead, the third like a Calf. He rideth on a Viper, carrying a Firebrand in his Hand, wherewith he setteth cities, castles, and great Places, on fire. He maketh thee witty in all manner of ways, and giveth true answers unto private matters. He governeth 26 Legions of Inferior Spirits ; and his Seal is this, …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 11

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ware gross pleasure—the delight Of fools: the ecstasy, the trance of love— Life’s atom-bonds must strain—aye, and must move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. XVII. Iam unworthy. In the House of Pain There are ten thousand shrines. Each one enfolds A lesser, inner, more divine, that holds A sin less palpable and less profane. The inmost is the home of God. Te moulds Infinity, The great within the small, one stainless …

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