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1954 · PDF PAGE 375

Magick Without Tears

…n its scope, is but a parasite on its own dam until the fusion is complete. So, when a woman is "so good," "so devoted to her daughter," God help the daughter! She is never allowed to think for herself in the minutest matters ; she is bound hand and foot remorselessly to the routine of her "decent Christian home"; a wageless kitchen-slut. No hope of escape unless the mother's vampirism takes the form of seIling her off to the highest bidder . Need it be added that the "good mother" is usually quite unaware of all this, will read these simple st…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 62

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…imilarly, when we have gained as much know- ledge of the First Cause as we have of small-pox, we shall no longer de/ieve in a Benevolent God or otherwise, but shall, at least partially, know and understand Him as He is or is-not. “T can’t learn this!” is the groan of a schoolboy and not the exclamation of a sage. No doctor who is worth his salt will say: “I can’t tackle this disease”; he says: “I well tackle 50

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1910 · PDF PAGE 62

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…imilarly, when we have gained as much know- ledge of the First Cause as we have of small-pox, we shall no longer de/ieve in a Benevolent God or otherwise, but shall, at least partially, know and understand Him as He is or is-not. “T can’t learn this!” is the groan of a schoolboy and not the exclamation of a sage. No doctor who is worth his salt will say: “I can’t tackle this disease”; he says: “I well tackle 50

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1922 · PDF PAGE 239

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… who I was? He wanted some H. badly; finding it gone, made him want it insanely. He took one of the packets and began to chew it. “Thank God,” he said, ‘it’s quite bitter. There must be a lot in the dress.” | I was shivering and faint. I got another packet, and put it in my mouth. He went wild and clutched me by the hair, and forced open my jaws with his finger and thumb. I struggled and kicked and scratched ; but he was too strong. He got it out and put it in his own mouth. Then he hit me in the face as I sat. I went flat and limp, and began t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 228

Magick Without Tears

…s to what the author means, or thinks he means, or is trying to persuade one that he means. Try something simple: "The soul is a part of God." Now then, when he writes "soul" does he mean Atma, or Buddhi, or the Higher Manas, or Purusha, or Yechidah, or Neschamah, or Nephesch, or Nous, or Psyche, or Phren, or Ba, or Khu, or Ka, or Animus or Anima, or Seele, or what? But even this very plain word "part." Does he mean to

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1954 · PDF PAGE 387

Magick Without Tears

…n AL, III : 59: Significant, perhaps, that this and a restatement of Thelema came immediately before "There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat, lightening the girders of the soul." (AL III: 61) And this is "As brothers fight ye!" Perhaps the Aeon may give birth to some type of warfare "under Queensbery rules" so to say. A baptism of those who assert their right to belong to the Master class. Something, in short, not wholly dissimilar from the jousts of Feudal times. But on such points I should not care to adventure any very…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 123

The Law is for All

124 The Law is for All bounded by death; and his spy-glass is smeared with the idea of sin. The New /Eon proclaims Man as Immortal God, eternally active to do His Will. All’s Joy, all’s Beauty; this Will we celebrate. In this verse we see how the awakening leads to ordered and purposeful action. Joy and Beauty are the evidence that our func­ tions are free and fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first nig…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 119

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… of fears ! Thus will I bring Black Ares to honour, Draw the black sting Of the serpent upon her ! How foolish to fight With the warrior God Who brings victory bright Or defeat with a nod, Who standeth to smite With a spear and a rod! Here is the woman, Thinking no evil, Wielding the human By might of a devil ! But I will mock her With cunning design, In my malice lock her. The doom is divine ! MEDEA. Ai! Ai! This rankles sorely in my mind That Pelias should wander, free to slide His sidelong looks among our courtiers Ripe ever for some mischie…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 12

The Rites of Eleusis

…y one. But this religious ecstasy takes place in the highest centres of the human organism ; it is the soul itself that is united to its God ; and for this reason the rapture is more overpowering, the joy more lasting, and the resultant energy more pure and splendid, than in aught earthly. In ritual, therefore, we seek continually to unite the mind to some pure idea by an act of will. This we do again and again more and more passionately, with more and more determination, until at last the mind accepts the domination of the Will, and rushes of …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 86

The Book of Thoth

…nuchs guard Her with drawn swords; No man may come nigh unto Her. In Her wine‐cup are seven streams of the blood of the Seven Spirits of God. Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She rideth. The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head of a Poet: the head of an Adulterous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr: and the head of a Lion‐Serpent. Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it is This is the Seal upon the Ring that is on the Forefinger of IT: and it is the Seal upon the Tombs of them whom She hath slain,.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 71

The Sword of Song

THE SWORD OF SONG 64 149. Ra.26—The Sun-God. 149. Nuit.27—The Star-Goddess. 152. Campbell.28—“The waters w ild w ent o’er his child, And he was left lamenting.” 152. The Ibis Head.29—Characteristic of Tahuti. 157. Roland’s crest.30—See “Two poets of Croisic,” xci. 159. A jest.31—See above : Ascension Day. 162. A mysterious way.32— “ God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants His foodsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.” Intentional species ? 171. The old hymn.33—This hymn, quoted I fear with some failure of memory—I…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 247

Collected Works (Vol. III)

242 INDEX OF FIRST LINES GIANT, with iron secrecies ennighted, iii. 122 Glory and praise to thee, O Satan, ii, 18 God, I have rowed! iii. 28 God of the golden face and fiery forehead, ii. 22 Gone to his Goddess! the poor worm’s asleep, 1, 239 Good bends and breathes into the rosy shell, lll, 120 Go to the woodlands, English maid, i. 7 Great Liberator, come again, ii. 3 Green and gold the meadows lie, i. 24 HA! HA! Inthe storm I ride, ii. 136 Hail, child of Semelé! iii. 205 Hail! Hail! Hail! ii. 130 Hail, O Dionysus! Hail! iii. 203 Hail, sweet m…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 357

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…Neuburg either. He took it absolutely to heart; he would never be able to get over having insulted the fairest and dearest and purest of God's creatures. Of course he would never speak to me again either. I let him suffer for two or three days, then one afternoon I went across to his hotel and told him that this nonsense had gone on long enough; and it was time for him to learn something of life; I told him the facts. He regarded them as outrageous lies. I pointed out a hundred indications that they were true, but he was absolutely convinced of…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…Zohar III,” beginning of paragraph. She’- meneeh, fol. 36a, + It is fully realized that outside the vastness of the symbol this “Fall of God” is as impertinent as it is unthinkable. 57

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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…Zohar III,” beginning of paragraph. She’- meneeh, fol. 36a, + It is fully realized that outside the vastness of the symbol this “Fall of God” is as impertinent as it is unthinkable. 57

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1954 · PDF PAGE 166

Magick Without Tears

… not ever unto me"; and it is emphasized and fortified with a threat. The offender is no longer in free enjoyment of the caresses of the Goddess of Love; he is cast out into the penal constraint of the merciless and terrible God of Chapter 111.1 " ... Be goodly therefore; dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will ... " This refers to the technique of the art; it will be explained later in this essay. "With whom ye will." This repeats what has been sai…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 491

Magick Without Tears

… if an objection it be) people like Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, the Mikado, et hoc genus omne, are loyal emissaries of the Masters, or the gods! Well, why not? An analogy, once more. In the Christian legend we find God (omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent) employing Judas, Pilate and Herod, no less than Jesus, as actors in the Drama which replaced Isis by Osiris in the Great Formula. Perfectly true; but this fact does not in any way exculpate the criminals. It is no excuse for the Commandants of Belsen and Buchenwald that they were acting under o…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 169

The Law is for All

…le globe outside Islam and Christianity. 1 [Din means religion in Arabic, in the sense of the obligation “reason­ ing” creatures have to God, with a sense of a debt to be discharged.] 2 [Four, not six, in the context of Crowley’s present discussion.] 3 [Crowley’s usual authority for etymology was Walter Skeat, who gives *mer (not *mr) as the “Indogermanic” (Indoeuropean) root underly­ ing death-words, giving as an example the Sanskrit mr-ta. Skeat was actually skeptical of a connection between death and sea, deriving the latter from the Teutoni…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 58

Konx Om Pax

…ld he—in error—speak, the more must he appear a liar to those of his fellows who hear his voice. For he speaks, as beholding the Face of God; they hear, as idols the work of men’s hands that have ears and hear not, neither have they any understanding. Therefore, have the chance words of Adepts been ill-heard through the ages; therefore, has the world run red with blood because the Adepts have spoken Truth,

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1906 · PDF PAGE 211

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…vere shocks. To see one’s ‘‘ Obliga- tion” printed in the Dezly Mail/// Luckily, I have no nerves. 4g. <TH CTA Wete.9—** Thou, as I, art God (for this is the esoteric meaning of the common Hindu salutation), A long road and a heavy price! To know isalways a difficult work .. . Hullo! Bravo! Thy name (I have seen) is written in the stars. Come with me, pupil! I will give thee medicine for the mind.” * The Phallus of Shiva the Destroyer. It is really identical with the;Qabalistic ‘‘ Middle Pillar” of the ‘* Tree of Life.” t An imaginary laiy to w…

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