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1907 · PDF PAGE 288

The Star in the West

…... “ On the other hand , no conceivable event however extraordinary is impossible ." 2 Thus all changeability is uncertainty , from the Gods and the Suns which we worship , to the kisses we shower on our loved ones ' lips ; as Crowley sings : Why must despair to madness drive The myriad fools that fear to die ? God's but a fervid phantom drawn Out of the hasty - ordered hive Of thoughts that battle agony In the melancholy hours of dawn . When vital force at lowest ebbs Anæmic nerves weave frailest webs.3 And the five senses stand naked and shi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 64

Clouds Without Water

… here; You grip my flesh till bleeding bruises start; You threaten me with — can I name the fear ? IT always knew you never had a heart. God! whoamI1? My Lola, speak tome! Tell me you love me; tell me — Lam dazed With something terrible and strange I see Even in the mouth that kissed, the lips that praised. You leer above me like a brooding fiend Waiting to leap upon a babe unweaned. — 102 — {Il Kiss me at least! We always were good friends — Kiss me for old times’ sake — Kiss me just once! I know this ends — as every sweet thing ends! But — sa…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 12

John St. John

… ofthe grades from 0° =o°to7": 4°. Then did I take upon myself the Great Obligation as follows : I. I, O.M. &c., a member of the Body of God, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole Universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: II. that I will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the Order: III. that I will understand all things : IVA that I will love all things: ᾽ V. that I will perform all things and endure all things: VI. that I will continue in the Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy Guardian Angel: VII…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 140

The Scented Garden

…ex-joy, and missing love all good ye miss. Come, O Habib, thy podex close on El Qahar’s enamoured tool ! Though we mistake the world and God, at least is no mistake in this. 1. After this ode the “ secret key-number ” breaks down. It is said that there are five odes missing. But no doubt need therefore be cast upon the genuineness of the following odes. Some weight is to be given to the contention that there can be only 42 odes, neither more nor less, for mystical reasons. Their Persian dress I cannot learn ; but the Egyptians knew 42 Gods who …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 270

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…on [ EEL. I‘m sorry, Jeannie. An' I‘ll be agude mon tae ye, lass. AWL. That's better. Now, meenister, the Blessing. MEEK. In the name 0‘ God, I declare ye lawful man an’ wife. [He join: their hand: mul Nesse: litem.] AWL. An’ no more private still, Elder, an’ no more bribes fra distillers l BEL. Ay! I mean it. AWL. Guid. Now, lass, run off wi‘ him, lest he ['a' into the snare o' the ’ Hoor 0’ Babylon again ; an’ this time for his soul's ill 1 [All laugh, EEL goes ofwith JEANNIE. AWL. Noo, lads an' lasses a’l Prayer i' th' morning, an' thanksgiv…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 270

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…on [ EEL. I‘m sorry, Jeannie. An' I‘ll be agude mon tae ye, lass. AWL. That's better. Now, meenister, the Blessing. MEEK. In the name 0‘ God, I declare ye lawful man an’ wife. [He join: their hand: mul Nesse: litem.] AWL. An’ no more private still, Elder, an’ no more bribes fra distillers l BEL. Ay! I mean it. AWL. Guid. Now, lass, run off wi‘ him, lest he ['a' into the snare o' the ’ Hoor 0’ Babylon again ; an’ this time for his soul's ill 1 [All laugh, EEL goes ofwith JEANNIE. AWL. Noo, lads an' lasses a’l Prayer i' th' morning, an' thanksgiv…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 129

The Book of Lies

…hina 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 single copy to be had at…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… them this glad word. 77. O be thou proud and mighty among men! 78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man ; and the name of thy house 418. 79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star! [VER. 68.—Harden, not Harder, as the MS. indicates. The memory of DCLXV1 says, though with diffidence, that the former ts correct.…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… them this glad word. 77. O be thou proud and mighty among men! 78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man ; and the name of thy house 418. 79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star! [VER. 68.—Harden, not Harder, as the MS. indicates. The memory of DCLXV1 says, though with diffidence, that the former ts correct.…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 137

Konx Om Pax

…me to him in more abstract conditions of mind that we find him in a higher state. He says: I have dreamed life a circle or a lineI Called God and Fate and Chance and Man divine. I know not all I sat , but through it all Mark the dim hint oly ultimate sunshine. Naturz’r CalI.—And how many others have said great things, yet knew not all they said! Was there ever a poetical would-be unraveller of that skein of mystery, wherein life and death and nature work together, who could explain half of what he said? No; because it was not he who said those t…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 17

Jezebel

…almer rivers flow And birds less passionate invoke the spring Or seek their loves with weaker, wearier wing. Turn back from safety ! Let God’s rivers pour Brimstone and fire, and all his fountains roar Lava and hail of hell upon my head, So be he leave us altogether dead,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 101

Ambergris

…O ! hear me not ! I die ; I am borne away in misery of dumb life That would in words flash forth the holiest heaven That to the immortal God of Gods is given, And, tongue-tied, stammers forth—my wife ! 4. I am dumb with rapture of thy loveliness. All metres match and mingle ; all words tire ; All lights, all sounds, all perfumes, all gold stress Of the honey-palate, all soft strokes expire In abject agony of broken sense To hymn the emotion tense Of somewhat higher—O ! how highest !—than all Their mystery : fall, O fall, Ye unavailing eagle-fli…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…s and disenchantments. Through this his vision fades; even his hunger dies away unless he be indeed Elect. But in the end it may be that God shall send him the other half of that Token 108

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1911 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…s and disenchantments. Through this his vision fades; even his hunger dies away unless he be indeed Elect. But in the end it may be that God shall send him the other half of that Token 108

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1913 · PDF PAGE 57

Book 4 (Part II)

… of the world. That of the Old Man of the Mountains was perhaps the next best. The defect in Loyola's system is that the General was not God, and that owing to various other considerations he was not even necessarily the best man in the Order. To become General of the Order he must have willed to become General of the Order; and because of this he could be nothing more. To return to the question of the development of the Will. It is always something to pluck up the weeds, but the flower itself needs tending. Having crushed all volitions in ours…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…een thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maze how can I understand? 184

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1913 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…een thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maze how can I understand? 184

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1919 · PDF PAGE 37

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ook are too loose to find place in the Class D publications. Instructions are given for elementary study of the Qaba- lah, Assumption of God-forms, Vibration of Divine Names, the Rituals of Pentagram and Hexagram, and their uses in protection and invocation, a method of attaining astral vis- ions so called, and an instruction in the practice called Rising on the Planes. Lrper IX. Lrper E Vet ExercitioruM. This book in- structs the aspirant in the necessity of keeping a record. Suggests methods of testing physical clairvoyance. Gives instruction…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 204

Liber Aleph

…de Question of me concerning Death, and this is my Opinion, of which I say not: this is the Truth. First in the Temple called Man is the God, his Soul, or Star, individual and eternal, but also inherent in the Body of Our Lady Nuith. Now this Soul, as an Officer in the High Mass of he Cosmos, taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhabiteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And his Tabernacle is Subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse reacting to every Stimulus or Impression. If then the mind be attached co…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 228

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…mbia, share it, The shame and the stain? In the name of your Freedom I claim it, Your power in the cause of the free! In the name of our God as I name it, ! . 1 Kruger, however, fulfilled his threat to | AMEN! I demand it of ye, drive the English into the sea. Only Jews and | Man’s freedom! Arise and proclaim it, Chinamen have survived the struggle; as the The song of the sea! fox in the contest between the lion and the bear, recorded by Aesop.—A. . Time will show whether Crowley’ S cynicism | S.S. PENNSYLVANIA, is justified, July 4, 1900. Your…

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