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1904 · PDF PAGE 108

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…And then the frigging schoolboy, with his scrotum And shining gland, his spend mere slime of snail Unwilling from the tool. And then the lover Fucking like a furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ bottom. Then a soldier Full of stiff spunk and bollocked like the bull, Jealous of sapphists, sudden and quick to come, Seeking the bubble gonorrhea Even in the bitch’s mouth. And then the justice In fair round belly soaked with mercury With stand severe, and fuck of formal type, Full of wise tricks and modern aids to love ; And so he let…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…eal attitude to him ts listlessness bordering on aversion, but constrained by politeness; he mistakes tt for modesty striving with young love.) DELHOMME. Good morning, Mr. Ossory. Anything I can do, of course; anything I can do. 214

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1910 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…eal attitude to him ts listlessness bordering on aversion, but constrained by politeness; he mistakes tt for modesty striving with young love.) DELHOMME. Good morning, Mr. Ossory. Anything I can do, of course; anything I can do. 214

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1961 · PDF PAGE 135

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 123 Dr De Periculo Iocorum Amoris (Of the Peril of the Sports of Love) ET be thou heedful, o my son, for this Art is set upon a Razor’s Edge. In our Blood is this great Pox of Sin, whose Word is Restriction, as Inheritance of our Sires that served he Slave-Gods. Thou must be free in the Law of Thelema, perfectly one with thy true Self, singly and wholly bound in hy true Will, before thou durst (in Prudence) invoke the Name of Choronzon, even for thy good Sport and Phantasy. It is but to pretend, thou sayst; and that …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 10

Collected Works (Vol. III)

4 THE STAR AND THE GARTER Or be our lonely haunt the sand Of the Sahara: let us go Where some oasis, subtly planned For love, invites the afterglow ! There let us live alone, except Some bearded horseman, pennoned, ride Over the waste of ochre, swept By wind in waves, and sit beside Our tent a little, bring us news Of the great world we have lost for—this ! What fool exclaims—‘‘to lose!”? To lose ? Ay ! earth and heaven for one small kiss ! But he shall sing beside our fire The epic of the world’s desire; How Freedom fares, how Art yet revels S…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF MARS Το defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory! [SCORPIOþ/ays in awordame * BRO. ARIES. Hail to Thee that sailest heavenwardsl Hail to Thee in whose eye is a Flame of Fire! Hail, Lord of the Destroying Army! MARS. Hail, brethren. BRO. ARIES. Hail unto Thee, that hast fought at th…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF MARS Το defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory! [SCORPIOþ/ays in awordame * BRO. ARIES. Hail to Thee that sailest heavenwardsl Hail to Thee in whose eye is a Flame of Fire! Hail, Lord of the Destroying Army! MARS. Hail, brethren. BRO. ARIES. Hail unto Thee, that hast fought at th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 84

Mortadello

…When, as I guess, survival of all, she reigns alone, A sun that brooks no rival of stars about his throne. [He makes a fierce gesture of love and of ambition, and strides vigorously away. SCENE II. Without the prison. The window of THE GOV- ERNOR’S room overlooks the quay, which is approached on the left by a bridge, behind which is seen the Bridge of Sighs. ALESSANDRO. The clouds are charged with fire. I think the time is come. To loose the lightning flash. LORENZO. Our lion drugged and dumb Stirs in his torpor ; let him rise and shake his man…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 108

Book 4 (Part II)

…s. Those two planets are male and female —and thus reflect the Wand and the Cup, though in a much lower sense. The hilt is of Venus, for Love is the motive of this ruthless analysis — if this were not so the sword would be a Black Magical weapon. The pommel of the Sword is in Death, the guard extends to Chesed and Geburah; the point is in jNIalkuth. Some magi make the three spheres of lead, tin, and gold respectively; the moons are silver, and the grip contains quicksilver, thus making the Sword symbolic of the seven planets. But this is a phan…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…emple of the silent grave. One knowledge and one truth: one thing alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, one love, one death; and Death at last Is master of all life to be, far passed

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…emple of the silent grave. One knowledge and one truth: one thing alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, one love, one death; and Death at last Is master of all life to be, far passed

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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

The Writing On the Ground

THE WRITING ON THE GROUND. Surely anything short of Honesty in Love and Friendship is intolerable—and unthinkable—un- forgivable. Dishonesty in business and politics we are, alas, used to by daily association, but the meanest money- grabber has some respect for Friendship. Yet we have all recently been shocked by a striking and terrible example of the lowest depths ever reached by any human being in meanness and disloyalty to afriend; that friend unable to defend himself, gone beyond these petty strifes and falsehoods. We are left to resent it …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 1

Poetica Erotica

…feasts in valleys iron-bound, Desolate crags, and barren ground;— There in the strong storm-shaken grove Swings the pale censer-fire for love. The foursquare altar, rightly hewn, And overlaid with beaten gold, Stands in the gloom; the stealthy tune Of singing maidens overbold Desires mad mysteries untold, With strange eyes kindling, as the fleet Implacable untiring feet ‘Weave mystic figures manifold That draw down angels to behold The moving music, and the fire Of their intolerable desire. For, maddening to fiercer thought, The fiery limbs req…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 66

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

AThOR-e - BAI, - (3 “ i hou Goddess of Beauty and Love, whom Satan, beholding, desireth!” ABRAIT uIhe Fathers, male-female, desire Thee! ” (The conception is of Earth, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Hippopotamus * 1 of a Venereal nature.) Hear IVfe. and make ail Spints subject unto ]Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether: upon The Earth and under the Earth: on dry land and in the Water: of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire: and every Spell and Scourge of God may be Spirit. aMale-Female Spints!” aMale-Female Sires!” a…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 234

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…bade me not despair. An holy ‘* The Blouu of the Osiris !”” was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) ‘‘The life, the tears, the tomb ! ‘¢The Love of Isis is its name!” (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses bloom. For the Three Maries (so he said) were One: Three aspects of the mystic spouse of God, Isis! This pagan! ‘‘ Look towards the Sun”? (Quoth he), ‘‘and seek a winepress to be trod; ‘With Beauty girdled, garlanded, and shod. ‘* Thus,” riddled he, ‘‘ thy heart shall know its Peace !” Let be! I ride upo…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 45

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…float through all the palaces of God. O now to join them rise the armies vast Of the lone spirits of the empty tomb, And there I see the lovers piteous Splendidly flash within the silver sphere Of light, and there I lose them at the last Most wonderfully passed within the veil Of Time ; caught up into the Infinite. Lay them together. And the hollow hill Shall echo me ‘‘ together,” and the sky, And the wide sea, and all the fragrant air, Shall linger in the tumult of the dawn. Lay them together. And thestill small voice Shall whisper ‘‘ Peace,” …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 199

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…hrough that melancholy long Month of despair: she won my life from death. Ah God ! she won that most reluctant breath Out of corruption: love! ah ! love is strong ! What waters quench it? King Shalomeh saith. 1 Hebrew form of Solomon. See Canticles viii. 6, 7.

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1939 · PDF PAGE 11

Eight Lectures on Yoga

… as he called them. 'Everything is Sorrow'; and 'The cause of Sorrow is Desire.' By the word 'Desire' he meant exactly what is meant by 'Love' in The Book of the Law which I quoted a few moments ago. 'Desire' is the need of every unit to extend its experience by combining with its opposite. (14) It is easy enough to construct the whole series of arguments which lead up to the first 'Noble Truth.' Every operation of Love is the satisfaction of a bitter hunger, but the appetite only grows fiercer by satisfaction; so that we can say with the Preac…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…es, myriad roses bloom In the silence. Oh! the world’s great Rose uncloses Her petals still, to the Nothingness of doom. Last Rose! Last love! Last night thou camest to me, A silver dream under a sapphire sky; The winds of the world ran ever and ever through me, Until, at last, the end: then did I lie In dream, and dream that made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…es, myriad roses bloom In the silence. Oh! the world’s great Rose uncloses Her petals still, to the Nothingness of doom. Last Rose! Last love! Last night thou camest to me, A silver dream under a sapphire sky; The winds of the world ran ever and ever through me, Until, at last, the end: then did I lie In dream, and dream that made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet …

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