1902 · PDF PAGE 92
Tannhäuser
…or my sense. Wolfram. He has passed through some unimagined test, Or undergone some sorrow. Leave it so ! I saw high grief upon him, and new love ! 90
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Orpheus
… ;— What song may be sung, or what tune may be told, or what word may be said? All tropical scent, Blossom-kindled perfume, Love-colours new-lent By the infinite womb, Gold subtlety blent With the scarlet bloom ;— Shall ye in my melody live? Shall my song be not rather your tomb? Most musical moves The head of the corn ; Strong glorious loves Of its being are born. 59
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1922 · PDF PAGE 4
Poetica Erotica
…! O bid these strangers go; Turn to my lips till their cup overflow; * * * * * * make delight the minister of pain, pain the father of a new delight, a lamp of torture for the night to be borne without a cry eEEEij 5 a i i i PESyOsEE>ortenEenaluptrieAERfe4:aids 901)
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1944 · PDF PAGE 70
The Book of Thoth
… the Book of the Law, verse xi, reads: “Let the woman be girt with a sword before me.” This woman represents Venus as she now is in this new aeon; no longer the mere vehicle of her male counterpart, but armed and militant. In this sign the Moon is “exalted”; her influence is represented not only by the woman, but by the nine nails. It is impossible at the present time to explain this card thoroughly, for only the course of events can show how the new current of initiation will work out. It is the aeon of Horus, of the Child. Though the face of …
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1899 · PDF PAGE 197
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…d scarce a tinge of sadness To sanctify it all. Then we may yet, together, Indwell the land of bliss ; In blue unclouded weather By some new Salmacis. A land where Love engages Life sweeter than the sage’s, Where cling we through the ages In one immortal kiss.
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1954 · PDF PAGE 491
Magick Without Tears
…prefer to reincarnate in the regular way, only taking care to waste no time in Amennti, but to get back to the Old Bench and pick up the New Tools with the minimum of delay. By having attained the Freedom of "Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness" "we are blessed; and bless" by refusing to linger therein, but shouldering once more "Atlantean the load of the too vast orb of" the Karma of Mankind. This hypothesis does at least make intelligible Their action in riding for a fall instead of preventing it. It ma…
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1996 · PDF PAGE 11
The Law is for All
…er, and Robin Mathews. Diana Molinari and William E. Heidrick performed the data entry. Samuel Weiser, Inc. kindly provided films of the new photography of the Stèle of Revealing and the ms. of The Book of the Law from the Weiser edition of Crowley’s Magick (Book 4, Parts I-IV). Christopher Hyatt and Nicholas Tharcher of New Falcon Publications deserve thanks for honoring Crowley’s wishes by issuing this edition. For his inspiration I would like to thank Frater Altzba, the founder of 93 Publishing, who first published Crowley’s commentaries ove…
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1898 · PDF PAGE 93
White Stains
THE BLOOD-LOTUS 87 The scents fulfil, they permeate all lips, all arteries, and fire New murmured music on the lyre that throbs the horrors they create. Omniscient blossom ! Is thy red slack bosom fresher for my kiss ? Are thy loves sharper ? Hast thou bliss in all the sorrows of the dead ? Why art thou paler when the moon grows loftier in the troublous sky ? Why dost thou beat and heave when I press lips of fire, hell’s princeliest boon, To thy mad petals, green and gold like angels’ wings, when as a flood God’s essence fills them, and the blo…
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1903 · PDF PAGE 89
Alice: An Adultery
…tone No whit in this way : then that stubborn stone My heart grew tears : we were good friends again. Therefore at night I added nothing new : Only a little while I lay with her And with mere kisses sucked her soul away, And made my banquet of immortal dew, Demanding nothing but to minister To her desire until the dawn grew grey. 69
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1913 · PDF PAGE 238
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…player with the next lowest card, and so on, till every one has had his opportunity. This rule applies even to the second challenge, the new challenger taking two cards on putting up the pool. 200
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1913 · PDF PAGE 238
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…player with the next lowest card, and so on, till every one has had his opportunity. This rule applies even to the second challenge, the new challenger taking two cards on putting up the pool. 200
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1954 · PDF PAGE 278
Magick Without Tears
…mportant than all the rest put together, from the point of view of the A :. A: .. You swear to refuse all the "rewards," to acquire your new vehicle without a moment's delay, so that you may carry on your work of helping Mankind with the minimum of interruption. Like all true Magical Oaths, it is certain of success. So then we have a man not only very well prepared to reincarnate at once-this means about six months after his death, for his vehicle will be a foetus about three months old, but to extirpate more deliberately all impressions that m…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 247
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
…Aces are always strong cards. Great power and force. Riches, success. Swiftness, rapidity, Unexpectedmeetings. Knights, in general, shew news. Authority, influence. Powerful friends. Meetings with the great. Rank and honour. New ideas or plans. Society of the young. Anxiety, responsibility. Buying and selling (commerce). Added responsibilities. Much correspondence. Much news. Much journeying. 205
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1912 · PDF PAGE 247
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
…Aces are always strong cards. Great power and force. Riches, success. Swiftness, rapidity, Unexpectedmeetings. Knights, in general, shew news. Authority, influence. Powerful friends. Meetings with the great. Rank and honour. New ideas or plans. Society of the young. Anxiety, responsibility. Buying and selling (commerce). Added responsibilities. Much correspondence. Much news. Much journeying. 205
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1930 · PDF PAGE 80
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)
…ly it will drown sooner or later, unless it learns to swim. Organisms being to a certain extent elastic, they soon adapt themselves to a new environment, provided that the change is not so sudden as to destroy that elasticity. Now a change in environment involves a repeated meeting of new conditions, and if you want to adapt yourself to any given set of conditions, the best thing you can do is to place yourself cautiously and persistently among them. That is the foundation of ail éducation. The old-fashioned pédagogues were not ail so stupid as…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 44
The Winged Beetle
…ppiness afloat upon The ripples of your muscular body, bright As mother-of-pearl may be in Gods own sight When He would found His whole new heaven thereon ! Thence, would my body were One Eye, to con Your face, the rosy lotus of delight ! I would dip deep my beak into the flower And pluck your tongue, its ruby heart, and shower All my lifes love upon you, swift as Springs ! And I would lift you on my pinions To light and heat more splendid than the suns, Mistress !Woes me ! for I have not these wings.
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1899 · PDF PAGE 252
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…ce work. The story also seems to have been suggested by another of the poet’s poéms. It is a version of the Lamia legend, with, however, new modifications. A fair youth, Charicles, loves a maiden of evil birth. Her doom it is that when she yields to love she will change into a snake. She yields to Charicles, and her meta- morphosis is as well described as anything in the poem: ‘And lo! there came to pass the dreadful fate Her lips had shuddered out ; her pulses bate Their quick sweet movement ; on the ground she lies Struggling, and rending Hea…
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1902 · PDF PAGE 72
Tannhäuser
…esh pleasure hourly filled the crystal cup. Shalt thou find wine so comely and so keen, So fresh with life to fill each aching vein With new electric fervour ? Will she be My equal ? She is mortal and a child. Her arms are frail and white. Her lily cheeks Could never take thy kiss. Thy love would shock, Repel. I scorn to say her love were less Than mine : I tell thee that she could not love Thee even at all as thou wouldst understand. Tannhauser. So certain art thou ? Let me go to her, Try, and come back ! Venus. No doubt of that success ! A ch…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 177
The World’s Tragedy
…it shews. Enough ! I leave thee, man, To hide me in the secret place of Pan Beneath the fallen groves Arcadian. He fades away, as if the new light, making the filth visible, made him invisible. ISSA I am nailed here too fast : — I strain in agony aghast ; For I have blotted out the sun From the sight of everyone.
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1898 · PDF PAGE 117
Songs of the Spirit
…ide dying, Or pestilence risen from rain ; So thoughts are that perish for lying and rise not again. Blue waves in the summer uncrested, New homes for the fair and the free, Bright breezes in forest-leaves nested, Sweet birds in the flowering tree ; So thoughts that by truth have been tested sing down to the sea. But weak as the flowers of summer Are the flowers that float on my stream ; My song-birds to others are dumber Than voices half heard in a dream ; My muse, louder gods overcome her, the eyes of them gleam. The sorrow that woke me to si…
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