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1930 · PDF PAGE 65

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…o the being whom he intends to invoke. He banishes ail impurities there- fiom, prevents ail interférence therewith, and proceeds to give life to the subtle substance thus prepared by instilling his soûl. - 185 -

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1904 · PDF PAGE 10

The Sword of Song

…h love’s medicine let’s draught, bolus, globule us ! Wise and succinct bids, I think, Aristobulus.15 Whether my Muse be Euterpe or Clio, Life, Death, and Love are all Batrachomyo16— Machia, what ? ho ! old extinct Alcibiades ? For me, do ut—God true, be mannikin liar !—des ! It’s rather hard, isn’t it, sir, to make sense of it ? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it ?17 Try something easier,18 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find comes in dreams to me. Even as he takes to feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too t…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… might advantageously find material in Brixton or in Bayswater. FELIX. THE SOUL OF THE MOOR. William Rider & Son. 2:. net. “Success meant life! Failurewworse than death, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach ! Dare I attempt the experiment ? " This sounds familiar, but, if memory serves me right, Mr Dion Clayton Calthorpe’s drama continues in this strain,—“ He carefully surveyed his ashen face in the tiny glass suspended over his washhand stand, then, with hasty, trembling fingers, he dipped his leaky shaving-brush into the icy water, …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… might advantageously find material in Brixton or in Bayswater. FELIX. THE SOUL OF THE MOOR. William Rider & Son. 2:. net. “Success meant life! Failurewworse than death, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach ! Dare I attempt the experiment ? " This sounds familiar, but, if memory serves me right, Mr Dion Clayton Calthorpe’s drama continues in this strain,—“ He carefully surveyed his ashen face in the tiny glass suspended over his washhand stand, then, with hasty, trembling fingers, he dipped his leaky shaving-brush into the icy water, …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 182

The Law is for All

…t, the soul of explosives, with a trace of that stifling and suffocating gas which is yet food for vegetable, as it is poison to animal, life. We have here a picture of the average man, of a fool. He has no will of his own, is all things to all men, is void, a repeater of words of whose sense he knows nought, a drifter, both idle and violent, compact partly of fierce passions that burn up both him­ self and the other, but mostly of inert and characterless nonentity, with a little heaviness, dullness, and stupefaction for his only positive quali…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 60

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… brutes belching the fumes of beer; course, ugly parodies of apes. Nature affords no parallel to their degradation. There is no open air life, physical or mental, and there is the ever-abiding sense of sin and shame to obsess these slaves. Nowhere, except in English cities, do these conditions exist. Slum life there is elsewhere, and misery enough; pitiful struggle, monstrous greed and triumphant brutality. But only in England are the people poisoned through and through; elsewhere there is a sense of independence even in the most servile. The R…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 522

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ally stunted and corrupted in every way by savage superstition; his wife, hardly turned thirty, a wrinkled hag of sixty, with no idea of life beyond the gnawing fear for the hereafter and the horrible pleasures of venting her spite on her neighbours and thwarting and persecuting her children; his son, deprived of every boyish amusement, driven to secret indulgence in the most wretched vices, and his sisters (one of them with a voice which would have made her a queen in any civilized capital) thwarted in every innocent aspiration, and their eyes…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 255

Collected Works (Vol. I)

248 TANNHAUSER The living purpose and the mystic life Of lonely seeking for the Grail of God ! I—call you husband? When I said your name, It was to set the task impossible, Ifad they but known it—just as one should say : ‘* Bring down St. Michael: let me marry him !” They knew the angels were too pure; but you, They guessed not how exalted were your hopes; How utterly unselfish, pure, and true, Your great heart beat ! TANNHAUSER (w¢7th bitterness). I hardly knew, myself! (Aszde.) Here is the virgin insight of the truth | Or—cannot purity be bro…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 35

Collected Works (Vol. III)

WHY JESUS WEPT 29 My limbs are pliant ; Sage, to confusion ! My eyesight swims. Problems to solve? Come tome! Come tome! Here is my life! Thee have I sought ! My secret is told— Thou that wast dumb to me, What is your name, Come—I am nought ! O fairest of women? [Striving ever to follow her, he Bosom of gold! faints and falls, The girl Faultless your fame ! stops. An aeon were shame Your beauty to hymn in! MOLLY. Will you be mine, Dear me! The young gentleman’s ill ae and aed only | . a 3eauty divine, too, Whata nice boy it is! I must go and Ho…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 253

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…paths.§ Of these ten Sephiroth the Temple as arranged in the o°=o0° of Neophyte in- cludeth only the four lower Sephiroth in the Tree of Life, viz.: Malkuth, Jesod, Hod, and Netzach, and the outer side of Paro- keth,|| which latter formeth the East of the Temple.” The plan of the Temple as arranged in this grade is shown on the adjoining dia- gram; therein it will be seen that it contains weray Azubis of € ow two pillars or obelisks. These two pillars, enbinst which are respectively in Netzach and Hod, Diacran 3. need careful explanation. Arran…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 253

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…paths.§ Of these ten Sephiroth the Temple as arranged in the o°=o0° of Neophyte in- cludeth only the four lower Sephiroth in the Tree of Life, viz.: Malkuth, Jesod, Hod, and Netzach, and the outer side of Paro- keth,|| which latter formeth the East of the Temple.” The plan of the Temple as arranged in this grade is shown on the adjoining dia- gram; therein it will be seen that it contains weray Azubis of € ow two pillars or obelisks. These two pillars, enbinst which are respectively in Netzach and Hod, Diacran 3. need careful explanation. Arran…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 46

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…d my first lesson in what the religions of the world have discovered long since, that no man who allows a woman to take any place in his life is capable of doing good work. (Similarly, men may be as foolish over dogs as old maids over cats.) A man who is strong enough to use women as slaves and playthings is all right. Even so, there is always a danger, though it is difficult to avoid it. In fact, I don't think it should be avoided. I think a man should train himself to master what are commonly called vices, from maidens to morphia. It is unden…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 398

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that Supernaturalism has to face. The subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined to be the predominant one. Your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof Kiilpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the Vision in all religions. The translator of “Outlines” is Mr. E. B. Titchener. He has succeeded admirably. V. B. NEUBURG. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY. By OswaLD KiLpr. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 5s. An excellent intro…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 398

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that Supernaturalism has to face. The subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined to be the predominant one. Your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof Kiilpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the Vision in all religions. The translator of “Outlines” is Mr. E. B. Titchener. He has succeeded admirably. V. B. NEUBURG. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY. By OswaLD KiLpr. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 5s. An excellent intro…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 7

Moonchild

…e curiously fiat. The mouth was small, a poppy-petal of vermilion, intensely sensuous. The nose was small and rounded, but fine, and the life of the face seemed concentrated in the nostrils. The eyes were tiny and oblique, with strange brows of defiance. A small tuft of irrepressible hair upon the forehead started up like a lone pine-tree on the slope of a mountain; for with this exception, the man was entirely bald; or, rather, clean-shaven, for the scalp was grey. The skull was extraordinarily narrow and long. Again she looked at the eyes. Th…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 105

The Law is for All

…spection, but prin­ cipally by Right Recollection1 2 of the whole phantasmagoria presented to it by experience; for since every event of life is a sym­ bol of part of the structure of the Soul, the totality of experience must be the “Name” of the whole of that part of the Soul which

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1904 · PDF PAGE 127

The Sword of Song

…ting, all is fusion in the spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 321

The Star in the West

… times , O God , you create a state of soul in me so extra ordinary , and you fill me with so intimate a joy , that , if it lasted , all life would be different ... Who shall under stand , who shall express God ? What is it that comes thus by moments to shine into the eyes of my soul and make my heart beat with fear and love ? It is something quite other than myself , and for this reason I am frozen with terror ; it is something identical with myself , and therefore I am kindled with love .1 Similarly John Tauler writes : The more the Bridegroo…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 116

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

fall altogether from the Tree o£ Life and to attain the Towers of the Black Brothers. But We hold that this is not possible for any adept who has truly attained his grade, or even for any rrian who has really sought to help humanity even for a single second x, and that although his aspiration hâve been impure through vanity or any similar imperfections. 5. Let then the Adept who finds the resuit of these méditations unsatisfactory refuse the Oath of the Abyss, and live so that his Karma gains strength and direction suitable to the task at some …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 67

The Law is for All

… misfor­ tune. Crime and insanity, as well as disease and debility, are con­ stantly seen as the direct result of mismanaging the sexual life, either tactically, strategically, or both. The Book of the Law emphasizes the importance of these con­ siderations. The act of love must be spontaneous, in absolute free­ dom. The man must be true to himself. Romeo must not be thrust on Rosaline for family, social, or financial reasons. Desdemona must not be barred from Othello for reasons of race or religion. The homosexual must not blaspheme his nature…

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