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KE®AAH NB THE BULL-BAITING Fourscore and eleven books wrote I; in each did I expound THE GREAT WORK fully, from The Beginning even unto The End thereof. Then at last came certain men unto me, saying: O Master! Expound thou THE GREAT WORK unto us, O Master! And I held my peace. O generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you from the Wrath that is fallen upon you? O Babblers, Prattlers, Talkers, Loquacious Ones, Tatlers, Chewers of the Red Rag that inflameth Apis the Redeemer to fury, learn firstwhat isWork! and THE GREAT WORK is not so far bey…
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… is GOD; even a Black Triangle is He. In His claws He beareth a sword; yea, a sharp sword is held therein. This Eagle is burnt up in the Great Fire; yet not a feather is scorched. This Eagle is swallowed up in the Great Sea; yet nota feather is wetted. So flieth He in the air,
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…the ascending tongue of prayer. This Interchange, the Double Gift of Tongues, the Word of Double Power—ABRAHA- DABRA!—is the sign of the GREAT WORK, for the GREAT WORK is ac- complished in Silence. And behold is not that Word equal to Cheth, that is Cancer, whose Sigil is 3? 86
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…n that waste. Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd ina world of bliss. Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go. As they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower. See! five footprints of a Camel! V.V.V. V. V.
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…pprentices, instead of making bricks, put the straws in their hair, and think they are Jesus Christ! O sublime tragedy and comedy of THE GREAT WORK!
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… the Dawn! O ye who dwell in the City of the Pyramids beneath the Night of PAN, remember that ye shall see no more light but That of the great fire that shall consume your dust to ashes!
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…of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of the Gods. This Reason and Law is the Bond of the Great Lie. Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations. There is no Silence in that Abyss: for all that men call Silence is Its Speech. This Abyss is also called ‘ Hell,’ and ‘The Many.’ Its name is ‘Consciousness,’ and ‘The Universe,’ among men. But THAT which neither is silent, nor speaks, rejoices therein.
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KE®AAH N THE VIGIL OF ST. HUBERT In the forest God met the Stag-beetle. ‘‘ Hold! Worship me!” quoth God. ‘‘For I am All- Great, All-Good, All-Wise The stars are but sparks from the forges of My smiths ‘Yea, verily and Amen,” said the Stag-beetle, ‘“all this do I believe, and that devoutly.” ‘*Then why do you not worship Me?” ‘Because lam realand you are only imaginary.” But the leaves of the forest rustled with the laughter of the wind. Said Wind and Wood: ‘They neither of them know anything!”
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…ou have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all thatis sensual. - You who hold more skill and more power than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal ‘the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sailin the Company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” — The New Age. **The light wherein he writes is the L.U.X. of that, which first mastering and then tr…
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…aw deep deep deep thy breath, closing thy mouth with thy right forefinger prest against thy lower lip. Then dashing down the hand with a great sweep back and out, expelling forcibly thy breath, cry: AIIO TIANTOC KAKOAAT- MONOC, With the same forefinger touch thy forehead, and say COI, thy member, and say Q ®@AAAE,"4 thy right shoulder, and say ICXYPOC, thy left shoulder, and say EYXAPICTOC; then clasp thine hands, locking the fingers, and cry IAQ. Advance to the East. Imagine strongly a Pentagram, aright, in thy forehead. Draw- ing the hands to…
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…pt? Was not Mohammed forsaken in Mecca, and Jesus in Gethsemane? These prophets were sad at heart; but the chocolate at Rumpelmayer’s is great, and the Mousse Noix is like Nephthys for per- fection. chestnut-pulp, very velvety seductions. Sail Inot toward LAYLAH within seven days? Be not sad at heart, O prophet; the babble of the apes will presently begin. Nay, rejoice exceedingly; for after all the babble of the apes the Silence of the Night. 85
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KE@®AAH OH WHEEL AND—WOA! The Great Wheel of Samsara. The Wheel of the Law [Dhamma]. The Wheel of the Taro. The Wheel of the Heavens. The Wheel of Life. All these Wheels be one; yet of all these the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee con- sciously. Meditate long and broad and deep, O man, upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, mayst thou perceive THAT …
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Alice. An Adultery. China Paper, 21s. Handmade Paper, 5s. Mr. Marcel Schwob, the great French scholar, critic and poet, writes: ‘‘ A little masterpiece.” The God Eater. 2:5. 6d. A satirical drama, teaching that whatever may be the foundation of a religion, we must judge it by its present state. “ The play awakens a curious sense of sympathy. ... —Glasgow Herald. The Star and the Garter. 1s. A popular edition of the greatest love-poem of modern times. The private edition of this wonder- ful poem sold out before publication, and thereis not a sin…
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…Snark’ and ‘Don Quixote’ without the particular individ- ual qualities of either; but, seriously speaking, it is a religious poem, and a great work of art. Again, superficially speaking, it is the master-limerick of a buffoon; again, seriously speaking, it is the epic of the eternal speaker .. . should on no account be missed. Itis a work that superficial criticism might as easily compare to some of the productions of Byron, as overlook with a sneer. I doubt,in fact whether the question of its placein literatureis one to be decided by contempor…
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… veil, and asking ourselves— What is life at best?. Mr. Crowley seems to hold that the worldis reek- ing with rottenness—and he is, to a great extent, right... . These daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we liveina hypocritical 118
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…anity. “Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intention to explain the beauty of the Buddhistic philosophy; he knows a great deal about it; he believes in it.... But Mr. Crowley has got something into his soul stronger even than the beautiful passion of the man who believes in Buddhism ; he has the passion of the man who does not believe in Christianity. He adds one more testimony to the endless series of testimonials to the fascination and vitality of the faith. For some mysterious reason no man can contrive to be 122