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KE®AAH OZ THE SUBLIME AND SUPREME SEP- TENARY IN ITS MATURE MAGICAL MANIFESTATION THROUGH MAT- TER: AS IT IS WRITTEN: AN HE- GOAT ALSO
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…tis asort of enchanted variety entertainment. I must not fail however to draw attention to one of the two fine plays that hap- pen to be written in prose. ‘ The Ghouls’ is possibly the most ghastly death-dance in English literature. If Oscar Wilde had written it (but he could not have) every one would know it. It is the very pith and marrow of terror. Cynical it may be, indecent it may be, but I defy the lord of dreams to send any more plutonian nightmare to haunt our mortal sleep.” —Poetry Review. There is no more room to add all the other
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KE@AAH MIT MULBERRY TOPS Death is the veil of Life, and Life of Death; for both are Gods. This is that which is written: ‘‘A feast for Life, and a greater feast for Death!” in THE BOOK OF THE LAW. The blood is the life of the individual: offer then blood!
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…u feed at thy pleasure. Resemble all that surroundeth thee; yet be Thyself—and take thy pleasure among the living. This is that which is written—Lurk !—in The Book of The Law.
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1913 · PDF PAGE 136
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…m.”—Occult Re- VIEW. *‘Ttis impossible to read ... without being impressed by the essential truth and beauty of the author’s spirit . .. written not as tasks are written, but from the fulness of the heart, passionately. In ‘ Sir Palamedes’ we have the history of a holy quest so treated that the theme becomes reconciled to ‘*The High History of Good Sir Palamedesis something between ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ and ‘Don Quixote’ without the particular individ- ual qualities of either; but, seriously speaking, it is a religious poem, and a great wo…
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… ‘‘ virtue.” The qualities which have made a man, a race, a city, a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty of failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! The Englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. All moral codes are worthless in themselves: yet in every zew code there is hope. Pro- vided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because it is fulfilled. The dead dog floats with the stream ; in puritan France the best women are …
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… love have lost; and how may 1 regain? I must have money to get to America. O Mage! Sage! Gauge thy Wage, or in the Page of thine Age is written Rage! O my darling! We should not have spent Ninety Pounds in that Three Weeks in Paris! . 2. ee we ew wwe eee ewe Slash the Breaks on thine arm with a pole- axe!
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…argoyles. 35. 6d. This book contains Mr. Crowley’s finest lyrics. Konx om Pax. Ios. The most remarkable treatise on the mystic path ever written. ** Yours alsois the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion thatis to be.” “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret 124
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…ng and satire. In light and quaint or graceful verse all philosophical systems are discussed and dismissed. The second part of the book, written in prose, deals with possible means of research, ye) that we may progress from the unsatisfactory state of the sceptic to a real knowledge, founded on I2I
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…lept. . His initials I. B. M. are the initials of the Three Pillars of the Temple, and add to 52, 13% 4, BN, the Son. . This chapter was written to clarify xe-:3, of which it was the origin. FRATER PERDURABO perceived this truth, or rather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at ‘“‘Au Chien qui Fume.” - HIMOG is a Notariqon of the words Holy Illumi- nated Man Of God. . 2.@., Food suitable for Americans, . Turbulence is here specially used to suggest ‘‘tour- billon.” . ‘The méme raths outgrabe.”—Lewis Carrol. But ‘“‘méme” is Parisian slang…
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…as if he were Crippen. And we have treated Mr. Aleister Crowleyin much the same way. Yet Mr. Crowleyis one of our few real poets. He has written thingsin ‘Ambergris’ which will never die. Some years ago a little book of verse appeared, called ‘Amphora,’ which being anony- 129 i
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…ilogue is beautiful and con- tenting.” —Litevary Guide. **Mr. Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet; his ‘Soul of Osiris,’ written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than his Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhistic mood; but this also, though very affected, is very interest- ing. But the main fact about it is, that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. “Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intention to explain the beauty of the Buddhistic philosop…
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