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1929 · PDF PAGE 26

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…orning "meeting" (one and {65} a half to two hours). Open-air preaching on Parker's Piece1 (say one hour). Bible reading and learning by heart. Reading of the few books "sanctioned for Sunday" (say two hours). Prayer meeting (called voluntary, but to stay away meant that some sneak in the school would accuse you of something next day) (say one hour). Evening prayer and sermon (say thirty minutes). Preaching of the gospel in the meetingroom (one and a half hours). Ditto on Parker's Piece (say one hour). Prayer before retiring (say half an hour).…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 490

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

490 The wine to comfort all earth's infinite ills; ....The cordial of man's heart, whose dour distress ....Heals only in immaculate silence According as he knows, and love, and wills. {771} Ay! Thought is grown a geyser-gush of flame Since those two hours this morning when you came, ....When, like a comet swirling to its sun, You strangled me in your Astarte's tress, And wove me into serpent silences. ....Upon your body's loom, Hilarion! My outward journey ended at San Diego. Near the city is Point Loma where lived Katherine Tingley, who with W…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 9

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… sending of tracts, etc. For years after his death. As a preacher Edward Crowley was magnificently eloquent, speaking as he did from the heart. But, being a gentleman, he could not be a real revivalist, which means manipulating the hysteria of mob psychology. {40} 2 If troubles arose in the outer world, they were regarded as the beginning of the fulfilment of the prophecies in Daniel, Matthew and Revelation. But it was understood implicitly that England was specially favoured by God on account of the breach with Rome. The child, who, at this pe…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 85

The Book of Thoth

…hall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.” “There is a light before thine eyes, O prophet, a light undesired, most de‐ sirable. “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. “Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fulness of the inspiration; the expi‐ ration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 55

The Book of Thoth

…e possesses horns, and because (in the Eleusinian Mysteries) it is said that he was torn to pieces by the Titans. But Athena rescued his heart and carried it to his father, Zeus. His mother was Demeter; he is thus the fruit of the marriage of Heaven and Earth. This identifies him as the Vau of Tetragrammaton, but the legends of his “death” refer to initiation, which accords with the doctrine of the Devourer. In this card, however, the traditional form is much more clearly expressive of Bacchus Diphues, who represents a more superficial form of …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 233

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…among themselves. I had it in my mind to repeat Burton's journey to Mecca sooner or later. I learnt a number of chapters of the Koran by heart. I never went to Mecca, it seemed rather vieux jeu, but my ability to fraternize fully with Mohammedans has proved of infinite use in many ways. My sheikh was profoundly versed in the mysticism and magic of Islam, and discovering that I was an initiate, had no hesitation in providing me with books and manuscripts on the Arabic Cabbala. These formed the basis of my comparative studies. I was able to fit t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 198

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…; that is to say a conversation which outwardly had but the appearance of the politest small talk, but which inwardly lacerated her evil heart, and burnt into her black bowels as if each word had been a drop of some corrosive acid. She writhed back from him, and then again approached him even more beautiful than she had been before. She was battling for her life now, and no longer for the blood of another victim. If she lost, hell yawned before her, the hell that every once-beautiful woman who is approaching middle age, sees before her; the hel…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 226

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…insidious heresies of Paul. Time passed by, and they bullied Manes and Cerinthus; history repeated itself until it almost knew itself by heart ; finally, at the present day, some hireling parasites of the decaying faith—at once the origin and the product of that decay—endeavour to take advantage of the ‘‘Greek movement” or the ‘‘ Neo-pagan revival” in the vain hope of diverting the public attention from the phalanx of Rationalism—traitorously admitted by Luther, and now sitting crowned and inexpugnable in the very citadel of the faith —to their…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 457

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…he Equinox, and there is an in- troduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell of desolation.”—Times Literary Supplement. “Thereis a resemblance in much of Miss Archer's verse to the sensuous school of English poetry, and it has the same lyrical power. Love in its various forms is the theme of her songs, and she expresses her thoughtsin vivid words. The portrayal of the intensity of personal feeling with an ‘um uarded freedom, is that which a student of Pre-Raphaelite p…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 134

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…cy or ire $ Reach impious hands to his lyre. Determined to die or control Those strings the immortal at last, though the strings of this heart of me bleed. Come life, or come death ; come disdain Or honour from mutable men, I cry in this passionate pain— My blood be poured out in the pen! Euterpe ! Espouse me ! Inspire My life looking up to Thy lyre! Of thy love, thine alone, am I fain! Be with me, possess me, reveal me the melodies never yet given to men. The starry and heavenly wheels, The earth and her glorious dye, The light that the darkne…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 226

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…to grips and he is nearly as hard to kill as the buffalo. One feels, too, rather sorry to kill a bear;one can never forget that he is at heart a friendly fluffy comfortable brute. The wild boar, which one may shoot in Ceylon, as pig-sticking is impossible owing to the nature of the country, is a furious and dangerous quarry, but it gives one a peculiar satisfaction to out him, to stand Right in the wild way of the coming curse Rock-rooted fair with fierce and fastened lips, Clear eyes, and springing muscle and shortening limb --- With chin asla…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 426

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… the Zguinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell of desolation.”— Times Literary Supplement. “There is a resemblance in much of Miss Archer's verse to the sensuous school of English poetry, and it has the same lyrical power. Love in its various forms is the theme of her songs, and she expresses her thoughts in vivid words. The portrayal of the intensity of personal feeling with an unguarded freedom, is that which a student of pre-Raphaelite…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 426

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… the Zguinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell of desolation.”— Times Literary Supplement. “There is a resemblance in much of Miss Archer's verse to the sensuous school of English poetry, and it has the same lyrical power. Love in its various forms is the theme of her songs, and she expresses her thoughts in vivid words. The portrayal of the intensity of personal feeling with an unguarded freedom, is that which a student of pre-Raphaelite…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 598

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… the Zgzinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell of desolation.” —Zimes Literary Supplement, “There is a resemblance in much of Miss Archer's verse to the sensuous school of English poetry, and it has the same lyrical power. Love in its various forms is the theme of her songs, and she expresses her thoughts in vivid words. The portrayal of the intensity of personal feeling with an unguarded freedom, is that which a student of pre-Raphaelite…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 598

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… the Zgzinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell of desolation.” —Zimes Literary Supplement, “There is a resemblance in much of Miss Archer's verse to the sensuous school of English poetry, and it has the same lyrical power. Love in its various forms is the theme of her songs, and she expresses her thoughts in vivid words. The portrayal of the intensity of personal feeling with an unguarded freedom, is that which a student of pre-Raphaelite…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 236

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…en indeed formulate their transcendental conception of the cosmos more or less clearly; they may explain evil as illusion, etc., but the heart of their theory is that the problem of sorrow has been wrongly stated, owing to the superficial or incomplete data presented by normal human experience through the senses, and that it is possible for men, but virtue of some special training (from Asana to Ceremonial Magick), to develop in themselves a faculty superior to reason and immune from intellectual criticism, by the exercise of which the original…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 102

The Book of Thoth

…is better than all things: if under the night‐stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be will‐ ing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I cha…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 451

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… her ally, pathetic. The event has more than justified my vision. I have no detailed knowledge of politics;, but, just as my essay, "The Heart of Holy Russia", told the inmost truth without even superficial knowledge of the facts which were its symptoms, so I possess an immediate intuition of the of the state of a

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1929 · PDF PAGE 110

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…gain I ask you, both for his sake, and that of the Order, not to force me to go further into the subject. This letter struck at the very heart of the moral basis of her conduct. It put her in the position of having initiated people, for years, on false pretences. She could not drop out and say no more about it. The matter had to be thrashed out. My own attitude was unhampered by any ethical considerations. I had seen a good deal of Mathers personally. He was unquestionably a Magician of extraordinary attainment. He was a scholar and a gentleman…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 16

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

16 love with it at once and had it by heart in a few days. But his own earliest effort is more on the lines of the hymnal. Only a few lines remain. Terror, and darkness, and horrid despair! Agony painted upon the once fair Brow of the man who refused to give up The love of the wine-filled, the o'erflowing cup. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging." No wine in death is his torment assuaging. Of this Redhill period there remain also memories of two summers, one in France and Switzerland, the other in the Highlands. The former has left numero…

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