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Summary of the Case - Chapter 8 - The Equinox of the Gods. Adolescence: Beginnings of Magick - Chapter 2 - The Equinox of the Gods. Adolescence : Beginnings of Magick.

Adolescence: Beginnings of Magick - Chapter 2 - The Equinox of the Gods

The Birth of FRATER PERDURABO. 0○ = 0□ to 4○ = 7□ Having won freedom, he had the sense not to waste any time in enjoying it. The Boyhood of Aleister Crowley - Chapter 1 - The Equinox of the Gods. The Boyhood of Aleister Crowley.

The Boyhood of Aleister Crowley - Chapter 1 - The Equinox of the Gods

At 36 Clarendon Square, Leamington, Warwickshire, England, at 10.50 p.m. on the twelfth day of October, in the Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Year of the vulgar era, was born the person whose history is to be recounted. His father was named Edward Crowley; his mother, Emily Bertha, her maiden name being Bishop. Edward Crowley was an Exclusive Plymouth Brother, the most considered leader in that sect. This branch of the family of Crowley has been settled in England since Tudor times, but is Celtic in origin, Crowley being a clan in Kerry and other counties in the South-West of Ireland, of the same stock as the Breton `de Querouaille' or `de Kerval' which gave a Duchess of Portsmouth to England.

It is supposed that the English branch---the direct ancestry of Edward Alexander Crowley---came to England with the Duke of Richmond, and took root at Bosworth. In 1881 he went to live at The Grange, Redhill, Surrey. On March 5, 1887, Edward Crowley died. The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage - Chapter 4 - The Equinox of the Gods. The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.

The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage - Chapter 4 - The Equinox of the Gods

The Birth of FRATER---------- 5○=6□ A∴A∴ (The Mystic Name of an Adept of this degree is not to be divulged without special reasons for so doing.) The Results of Recession - Chapter 5 - The Equinox of the Gods. The wisest of the Popes, on being shown some miracles, refused to be impressed, remarking that he did not believe in them, he had seen too many.

The Results of Recession - Chapter 5 - The Equinox of the Gods

The result of the Meditation practices and their results, following those of Magick, was to give our student a conception of the Universe which was purely mental. Everything was a phenomenon in mind. He did not as yet see that this conception is self-destructive; but it made him skeptical, and indifferent to whatever happened. You cannot really be impressed by anything which you know to be nothing more than one of your own thoughts. Any occurrence can be interpreted as a thought, or as a relation between two thoughts. It was of such a body that our student had heard in the "Cloud upon the Sanctuary" ; admission to its adyta had been the guiding hope of his life.

At this period of his life he would have scouted the idea as fantastic. The Great Revelation - Chapter 6 - The Equinox of the Gods. The Arising of THE BEAST 666. 9○=2□ It has been judged best to reprint as it stands the account of these matters originally compiled for "The Temple of Solomon the King.

The Great Revelation - Chapter 6 - The Equinox of the Gods

" (Equinox Vol. I, No. VII, pp 357-386.) (The notes for this article were worked out in collaboration with Captain (now Major-General) J.F.C. In opening this the most important section of Frater P.' Such criticism is indeed shallow. However, we must not forget that there are persons so sensitive and so credulous that they are convinced by anything, I suppose that there are nearly as many beds in the world as there are men; yet for the Evangelical every bed conceals its Jesuit. Chapter 7 - The Equinox of the Gods. Remarks on the method of receiving Liber Legis, on the Conditions prevailing at the time of the writing, and on certain technical difficulties connected with the Literary form of the Book.

Chapter 7 - The Equinox of the Gods

This paper was written, independently of any idea of its present place in this Book, by The Beast 666 Himself, in the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily. No further apology is offered for any repetitious of statements made in previous chapters. Certain very serious questions have arisen with regard to the method by which this Book was obtained. For these reasons and many more I am certain, I the Beast, whose number is Six Hundred and Sixty Six, that this Third Chapter of the Book of the Law is nothing less than the authentic Word, the Word of the Aeon, the Truth about Nature at this time and on this planet. On such lines my own "conversion" to my own "religion" may take place, though as I write these words all but twelve weeks of Sixteen years are well nigh past.

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