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1911 · PDF PAGE 67

The Vision and the Voice

…d the column of fire is dancing among the pillars. Now it seems that the fire is but the skirt of the dancer, and the dancer is a mighty god. The vision is over- powering. Iv St 65

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1913 · PDF PAGE 349

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…l be judged by history, and one will write upon a mighty tomb of ruins: “Here ends the parricide century! The century which murdered its God and its Christ!” In war, one has the right to kill, in order not to die: but in the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your great…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 349

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…l be judged by history, and one will write upon a mighty tomb of ruins: “Here ends the parricide century! The century which murdered its God and its Christ!” In war, one has the right to kill, in order not to die: but in the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your great…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 52

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…urselves whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose radiance, enlightening the worlds, is also the breath that maketh every God even and Death to tremble before thee — by the Sign of Light appear thou glorious upcn the throne of the Sun. Make open the path of création and of intelligence between us and our minds. Enlighten our understanding. Encourage our hearts. Let thy light crystallize itself in our blood, fulfilling us of Résurrection. A ka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu nur af an nuteru! The PRIESTESS. There is no law beyond…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 242

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…e the Magical Formula of the planet is to change all moral sanctions and the result is bound to appear disastrous. The Cult of The Dying God introduced by Dionysus destroyed the Roman virtue and smashed the Roman culture. (Possibly the introduction of the worship of Osiris in an earlier epoch was primarily responsible for the decay of Egyptian civilization.) The nature of Horus being "Force and Fire", his aeon would be marked by the collapse of humanitarianism. The first act of his reign would naturally be to plunge the world into the catastrop…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 178

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… caress Of Buddha’s “ Maya fashioned it.” # My mind seems ready to agree ; But still my senses worry me. Nor can I see what sort of gain God finds in this creating pain ; Nor do the Vedas help me here. Why should the Paramatma cease ” From its eternity of peace, Develop this disgusting drear System of stars, to gather again Involving, all the realm of pain, Time, space, to that eternal calm? Blavatsky’s Himalayan Balm * Aids us no whit—if to improve Thus the All-light, All-life, All-love, By evolution’s myrrh and gall, It would not then have be…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 6

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…elation between the two ideas is unthink- able; causality is itself unthinkable; it depends, for one thing, upon experience—and what, in God’s name, is experi- 114

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1910 · PDF PAGE 308

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…e: “Chup vaho! tum suar ke bachcha ho!” With gleaming eyes, and foaming lips, and arms flung wildly into the air,—there stood the Indian God, the 666th incarnation of Haram Zada, stung to the very marrow of his bones by this bitterest insult. Beside himself with fury he sprang up, murder written on every line of his face; tried to leap across the table—and fell in an epileptic fit. As he did so, I shut the door in his face. Aum. Sam Harpy. 290

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1910 · PDF PAGE 308

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…e: “Chup vaho! tum suar ke bachcha ho!” With gleaming eyes, and foaming lips, and arms flung wildly into the air,—there stood the Indian God, the 666th incarnation of Haram Zada, stung to the very marrow of his bones by this bitterest insult. Beside himself with fury he sprang up, murder written on every line of his face; tried to leap across the table—and fell in an epileptic fit. As he did so, I shut the door in his face. Aum. Sam Harpy. 290

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1911 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…AH. Silence, thou blotchy spider! Thou baboon of ugliness ! Mother of curses! [Four eunuch: bring in the corpse of the 6051 MOHAMMED. Ah God ! my youngest, my own delicate darling! Lay him by his sire ! [She goes down and bends 01187 hint] Was not this arm too tender to bear a sword ? Why would he go to the battle? He was made for luting and the zephyr. His eyes were larger and lovelier than the gazelle’s ! His eyebrows were blacker than the kohl upon mine eyelids. Alas, my baby | My young one, my tender one! . . . Is there tidings, girl? LEDMI…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…AH. Silence, thou blotchy spider! Thou baboon of ugliness ! Mother of curses! [Four eunuch: bring in the corpse of the 6051 MOHAMMED. Ah God ! my youngest, my own delicate darling! Lay him by his sire ! [She goes down and bends 01187 hint] Was not this arm too tender to bear a sword ? Why would he go to the battle? He was made for luting and the zephyr. His eyes were larger and lovelier than the gazelle’s ! His eyebrows were blacker than the kohl upon mine eyelids. Alas, my baby | My young one, my tender one! . . . Is there tidings, girl? LEDMI…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 158

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ken them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss, for this AEthyr is holy ground. Herein no forms appear, and the vision of God face to face, that is transmuted in the Athanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. And the Beatific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There is no more knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this is the Palace of Understanding: for thou art one with t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 295

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams of man, but according to the mathematics of God. Mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revela- tions, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. Who has given us this power? We do not fear to reveal it to our readers. There exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the Hebrews attribute to Enoch, the Egyptians to Thoth or to Hermes Trisme…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 158

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ken them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss, for this AEthyr is holy ground. Herein no forms appear, and the vision of God face to face, that is transmuted in the Athanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. And the Beatific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There is no more knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this is the Palace of Understanding: for thou art one with t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 295

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams of man, but according to the mathematics of God. Mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revela- tions, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. Who has given us this power? We do not fear to reveal it to our readers. There exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the Hebrews attribute to Enoch, the Egyptians to Thoth or to Hermes Trisme…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…4. Only the inn-keeper feareth lest the favour of the king be withdrawn from him. 15. Thus spake the Magister V.V.V.V.V. unto Adonai his God, as they played together in the starlight over against the deep black pool that is in the Holy Place of the Holy House beneath the Altar of the Holiest One. 16. But Adonai laughed, and played more languidly. 17. Then the scribe took note, and was glad. But Adonai had no fear of the Magician and his play. For it was Adonai who had taught all his tricks to the Magician. 18. And the Magister entered into the …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 15

The Banned Lecture

…nt. But there was another treasure that the peasant was afraid to lose, the dearest treasure of all, his children. As little boys, thank God, have a habit of straying in search of adventure and getting lost in the process, which is good for their souls, the peasant naturally has moments of serious disquietude as to whether some- thing terrible can have happened to little Tommy. Very Good. All we have to do is to play on the alarm. We put into his mind that little Tommy (who turns up all right, if rather muddy, half an hour later) has almost cer…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 37

The Star in the West

…irlpool gulphs . My veins are full , Throbbing with fire more potent than all wine , All sting of fleshly pangs and pleasures . Oh ! The god is fast upon my back ; he rides My spirit like a stallion ; for I hate The awful thong his hand is heavy with ." Again , in “ The Nameless Quest ": Then surged the maddening tide Of my intention . Onward ! Let me run ! Thy steed , O Moon ! Thy chariot , O Sun ! Lend me fierce feet , winged sandals , wings as wide As thine , O East wind ! And the goal is won ! 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . Songs of the …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 41

777

…ighty warrior in his chariot, 5 | mo | armed and crowned Murrain . 5°= 6° Adeptus Minor. . & . A majestic king, a child, a cru- 6 cified god Flies. . . .| 4°= 7 Philosophus. . . f . A beautiful naked woman . 7 Lice . 3°= 8° Practicus. bs An Hermaphrodite 8 a) Frogs a°= 9" Theoricus . . . } 6 ¢ A beautiful naked man, very 9 P strong r°=r109 Zelator . Water ened {d= o! Neophyte \ y \ A seuss woman crowned and| 10 CXXIX. CXXVIII. CXXVII.* Pairs ofAngels ruling Meaning of Col. CKXVII. Seven Heavens of 0 so Seay Seng House of Giory, made of pearls .…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 178

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast One—Blessed be He !—even the Holy Sephiroth. And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring Godhead. As it is written, “Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers” (Zoroaster). But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical * enumera- tion and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble…

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