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1909 · PDF PAGE 65

John St. John

᾽ΙΟ. JOHN ST. ]ΟΗΝ οί weather, fog, blizzard, blight, by night or day, I know within 5" (usually within 2°) the direction in which I faced when I left that tent or hut. And if I happen to have observed its compass bearing, of course I can deduce North by mere judgment of angle, at which I am very accurate. Further, I keep a mental record, quite unconsciously, of the time occupied on a march ; so that I can always tell the time within five minutes or so without consulting my watch. Further, I have another automatic recorder which maps out distanc…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e lives and struggles evermore Through countless shapes continually at war, By countless interactions interknit: If one is born acertain day on earth, All times and forces tended to that birth, Not all the world could change or hinder it. Ι7

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1911 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…e lives and struggles evermore Through countless shapes continually at war, By countless interactions interknit: If one is born acertain day on earth, All times and forces tended to that birth, Not all the world could change or hinder it. Ι7

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1913 · PDF PAGE 459

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…hreatened you? Was it at your own house, or elsewhere? The voice said nothing about that. I decided to wait for sunrise; and immediately day dawned, I ran, and here I am.” “Thanks, friend,” said the magus, holding out his hand ; “ Astaroth is a stupid joker; all that happened last night was a little blood to the head. Now, I am perfectly well. Be assured, then, and return to your work.” Strange as may be the facts which we have just related, there remains for us to unveil a tragic drama much more extraordinary still. It refers to the deed of bl…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 472

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… trial took place with all the frightful vicissitudes with which every one is familiar, and the accused was condemned to death. The next day, Eliphas read in a legal newspaper the account of this unheard-of scene in the annals of justice, but a cloud passed over his eyes when he came to the description of the accused: “ He is blond.” 174

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1913 · PDF PAGE 459

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…hreatened you? Was it at your own house, or elsewhere? The voice said nothing about that. I decided to wait for sunrise; and immediately day dawned, I ran, and here I am.” “Thanks, friend,” said the magus, holding out his hand ; “ Astaroth is a stupid joker; all that happened last night was a little blood to the head. Now, I am perfectly well. Be assured, then, and return to your work.” Strange as may be the facts which we have just related, there remains for us to unveil a tragic drama much more extraordinary still. It refers to the deed of bl…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 472

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… trial took place with all the frightful vicissitudes with which every one is familiar, and the accused was condemned to death. The next day, Eliphas read in a legal newspaper the account of this unheard-of scene in the annals of justice, but a cloud passed over his eyes when he came to the description of the accused: “ He is blond.” 174

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1916 · PDF PAGE 2

A Prophet In His Own Country

… one who possesses these things can call for anything he likes in payment for them, and be sure of getting it. But the financiers of the day avoid all consideration of the enormous calamity threatened by the present situation. They are only excited by perfectly trivial and temporary events, such as small movements in the value of stocks. It never occurs to them that the most trifling shifts in the real economic situation may reduce the value of stocks to nothing a tall. The history of finance has always been the history of more or less desperat…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

The Banned Lecture

…be a surgeon you must have corpses to dissect. For at that time, it will be remembered, hospitals were not as flourishing as they are to-day, and it was very difficult to find living people whom you could cut up to see what came of it. The surgeon was, in fact, not understood at all, except in the one way which such people were capable of understanding ; i.e., as the body-snatcher. The rest of his proceedings were perfectly mysterious to them. You notice that even Charles Dickens—who may yet go down to history for having wished to prosecute Hol…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 204

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…in's bust of Henley describes the man and the interview rather than the sculpture. Cloistered seclusion of the galleried pines Is mine today; these groves are fit for Pan --- O rich with Bacchus frenzy and his wine's Atonement for the infinite woes of man! And here his mighty and reverend high priest Bade me good cheer, an eager acolyte, Poured the high wine, unveiled the mystic feast ... Roast lamb and an excellent Chablis which had been sent to him by Lord Northcliffe --- thus does the poet transfigure conceptions apparently commonplace. I wa…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 53

The Star in the West

…h with fiery light ; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name . For I am Yesterday , and I To-day, and I to -morrow , born Now and again , on high , on high Travelling on Dian's naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods , and all the kin of Breath . I come from the sequestered state ; My birth is from the House of Death . I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather , and my wings the world enfold . I alight in mighty splendour from the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 189

The Star in the West

…o and Francesca rise before us , an everlasting answer to the eternal word of Love . Nay ? kiss in double death -pang , if dare ! Or one day I will strangle you within My heavy hair !? Slowly , and solely through temptation can man be purified . Burns, who was possessed with the happiest knack of striking the nail full on the head , driving it home at one blow , describes this well in his “ Address to the Unco Gude " : What's done we partly may compute But kenna what's resisted . It is this resistance alone which sanctifies man , body and soul …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 263

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ns of the East as possessing powerful stimulant and narcotic properties; throughout Turkey, Persia, Nepaul, and India it is used at this day among all classes of society as an habitual indulgence. The forms in which it is employed are various. Sometimes it appears in the state in which it exudes from the mature stalk, as a crude resin; sometimes it is manufactured into a conserve with clarified butter, honey, and spices; sometimes a decoction is made of the flowering tops in water or arrack. Under either of these forms the method of administrat…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 263

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ns of the East as possessing powerful stimulant and narcotic properties; throughout Turkey, Persia, Nepaul, and India it is used at this day among all classes of society as an habitual indulgence. The forms in which it is employed are various. Sometimes it appears in the state in which it exudes from the mature stalk, as a crude resin; sometimes it is manufactured into a conserve with clarified butter, honey, and spices; sometimes a decoction is made of the flowering tops in water or arrack. Under either of these forms the method of administrat…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 19

Berashith

17 The Hindu method is really mystical in the truest sense; for, as I have shown, the Atman is not infinite and eternal: one day it must sink down with the other forces. But by creating in thought an infinite Impersonal Personality, by defining it as such, all religions except the Buddhist, and as I believe, the Qabalistic, have sought to annihilate their own personality. The Buddhist aims directly at extinction; the Hindu denies and abolishes his own finity by the creation of an absolute, As this cannot be done in reality, the process is illus…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 24

The Sword of Song

ASCENSION DAY 17 Tending to final bliss—to stir Some life to better life, this pain Is needful : that I grant again. Did they at last in glory live, Satan and Judas69 might forgive The middle time of misery, Forgive the wrong creation first Or evolution’s iron key Did them—provided they are passed Beyond all change and pain at last Out of this universe accurst. But otherwise ! I lift my voice, Deliberately take my choice Promethean, eager to rejoice, In the grim protest’s joy to revel Betwixt Iscariot and the Devil, Throned in their midst ! No …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 44

The Sword of Song

…; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories ? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to seek your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know ! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard or acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush awa…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 258

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… the Himalayas the perils of a journey to South Ealing are as nothing: had they been everything, he would still have come. It was half a day later that the writer arrived, owing to his Daimler backfiring, missing a dead-centre, and eventually trying to climb a tree on Clapham Common. After being announced, he was ushered into the death- 220

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1913 · PDF PAGE 258

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… the Himalayas the perils of a journey to South Ealing are as nothing: had they been everything, he would still have come. It was half a day later that the writer arrived, owing to his Daimler backfiring, missing a dead-centre, and eventually trying to climb a tree on Clapham Common. After being announced, he was ushered into the death- 220

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1929 · PDF PAGE 201

Moonchild

…is is what really happened last night — only there's no such thing as time. This is what you should have seen, and what you will see one day, if you cling to the highest in you." He drew a note-book of white vellum from his pocket, and began to read. "The whirlwind of the Eagle and the Lion! The Tree upon the Mountain that is Zion! The marriage of the Starbeam and the Clod! The mystic Sabbath of the Saints of God! Bestride the Broomstick that is God-in-man! Spur the rough Goat whose secret name is Pan! Before that Rod Heaven knows itself unjust…

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