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1905 · PDF PAGE 51

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…t be the breeze that ‘*Q soul contemplative of distant things, Who hast a poet’s heart, even if thy pen Be dry and barren, who dost hold Love dear, Speed forth this message on the fiery wings Of stinging song to all the race of men: That they have hope ; for we are happy here.” 1 The ‘‘ Voice” is that of Lord Tennyson, whose rooms were in this court.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 214

Moonchild

…s to the bourgeois, and makes his heroes of millionaires' sons, has never yet created a character, and never will. Well, when the People love a burglar, and hate a judge, there's something wrong with the judges." "But what are you doing here, in a world-crisis?" [300] "I'm over here to buy Italy. Bowling bought Belgium, you know, some time back. He was thick with Leopold, but the old man had too much sense to deal. He knew he would be the first to go smash when the war came. But Albert pocketed the good red gold without a second thought; that's…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 193

Moonchild

… the final and absolute Union with the creator, and it is also the Pylon of the Temple of Life, even in the material world, for Death is Love. Certainly the wife of Douglas felt the presence of that vile thing evoked from Tartarus. Its chill struck through to her bones. Nothing had so torn her breast as the constant refusal of her husband to allow her to fulfil her human destiny. Even her prostitution, since it was forced upon her by the one man she loved, might be endured — if only — if only — But always the aid of Balloch had been summoned; a…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 158

Collected Works (Vol. I)

THE FATAL FORCE ISI RATOUM. I have loved thee ever; I have made thee god. S’AFI. I hate myself, and therefore I hate thee. RATOUM. J am still goddess, still desire thy love. That leper lies : thou art indeed a god. S'AFI, Iam a god to execute my will. [Zhreatens her with hts dageer. RATOUM. Mercy! Thou canst not strike a woman down! S’AFI. So! The thin casing of the godhead rots, Mere mummy-cloth: the rotten corpse within, Dust and corruption! Iam still the god, And gods slay women: therefore I slay thee. RATOUM. Then thou shalt see me once aga…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 44

The Goetia

…declare the Secret Counsels of any one ; for he knoweth the Thoughts of all Men and Women, and can change them at his Will. He can cause Love, and show the Similitude of any person, and show the same by a Vision, let them be in what part of the World they Will. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits ; and this is his Seal, which wear thou, etc. (72.) ANDROMALIUS.—The Seventy-second Spirit in Order is named Andromalius. He is an Earl, Great and Mighty, appearing in the Form of a Man holding a Great Serpent in his Hand. His Office is to bring back bo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 118

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…it bend a fatuous knee To a fantastic deity. What crest or chrism were so good To work as Art, the crown upon Work’s brow? Thy will with love endued Lift up this loftier Parthenon| Thine art the consecrative oil To hallow us the Tower of Toil ! LA BELLE HEAULMIERE. AGE and despair, poverty and distress Bend down the head that once was blithe and fair. Embattled toward the ancient armouress Age and despair! Where is the force of youth? The beauty where? What two-edged memory of some lost caress Lurks in the sorrowful pose and _ lingers theree So…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 176

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ed for, missed, etc. This shows how I went astray. I find however that the word actually adds to 607=Adam Primus. But 6 plus 7=13 Unity, Love, and The Tarot Trump is DEATH, and this is what he said he was writing. (Note Apr. 21, 1917. Ha=The Sun; tha=The Moon, as stated in the Hatha-Yoga Pradipiha.) . (Well worked out, method good; but not much of a place to have reached. You should have got more of the book, too. O.M.) Dec. 18th. Note. There is one thing I had intended to mention before. Instead of sleeping deeply, as was my former habit, I ha…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 182

Moonchild

love. And she understood, in some sub-current of thought, why Suffragettes forced men to use violence upon them; it is but a repressed sexual instinct breaking out in race-remembrance of marriage by capture. But more dangerous even than such ideas were many which she learned to group under a name which one of them gave her. It was not a name that one can transcribe in any alphabet, but it was exactly like a very short slight cough, hardly more than a clearing of the throat, a quite voluntary cough of the apologetic type. She had only to make th…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 170

The Law is for All

…he symbol.) Clearly, at last, the Enemy is this Shutting up of things. Shutting the Door is preventing the Operation of Change, i.e., of Love. The objection to Calypso, Circe, Armida, Kundry, and Co. is that one is liable to be shut up in their Gardens. The whole of the Book of the Dead is a device for opening the closed vehi­ cles, and enabling the Osiris to go in and out at his pleasure. On the other hand, there seems to be a Sealing Up, for a def­ inite period, in order to allow the Change to proceed undis­ turbed. Thus Earth lies fallow; th…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 172

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…drag him with caresses wan Into the [louse of Wrong.! Another : ? how the women grew Like vines of tender grape, And how they laughed as lovers do, And took a lover’s shape, And how men sought them, free to woo— elo leave them, no escape! Another :* how a golden cup A golden girl would pour, And whoso laughed and drank it up Grew wise and warrior : But whoso stayed to smile and sup Returned—ah, never more! And yet again 4—a river steep, A maiden combing light, [ier hair’s enchantment—she would weep And sing for love’s delight, Until the listene…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 189

Moonchild

…lf to such moral crimes as render their perpetrator callous and insensible to all such emotions as men naturally cherish; in particular, love.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 420

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… her prayers are worth More than our steel, more than our gold, that bind the earth. 5. After the first foot: Bow down to the Cross! His love purge thee! His Passion save thee! {670}

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1907 · PDF PAGE 183

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… of thy storm, And night falls faster ere thine eyes appear Glittering through the mist. O face of woman unkissed Save by the dead whose love is taken ere they wist ! Thee, thee I call! Odire one! O divine! I, the sole mortal, seek thy deadly shrine, Pour the dark stream of blood, A sleepy and reluctant river Even as thou drawest, with thine eyes on mine, To me across the sense-bewildering flood That holds my soul for ever ! The night falls back ; The shadows give place; The threefold form Appears in the black, As a direful face Half seen in th…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 105

Moonchild

…ell enough that the weak strand in the Butterfly- net was Lisa's untrained mind. Its white-hot flame of enthusiasm, radiating passionate love, was too active to assail directly, even could they have succeeded in communicating with it. But they were content to watch and wait for the reaction, should it come, as they knew it must ultimately do. Eros finds Anteros always on his heels; soon or late, he will be supplanted, unless he have the wit to feed his fire with the fuel of Friendship. In the meanwhile, it was the best chance to work upon the m…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 36

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…A fool also is full of words.” Ecclesiastes. DEDICATION To J. L. BAKER. THE vault of purple that I strove To pierce, and find unchanging love, Or some vast countenance! above All glory of the soul of man, Baffled my blind aspiring gaze With sunlight’s melancholy rays, And closed with iron hand the ways That sunder space, divide the days with fiery fan. Thine was the forehead mild and grave That shone throughout the azure nave Where Monte Rosa’s silence gave The starry organ’s measured sound. Where for an altar stood the bare Mass of Mont Cervin…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 190

Moonchild

… of the system of the Black Lodge; in higher grades the pupil took on the manipulation of subtler forces. Douglas' own use of his wife's love to vitriolize her heart was considered by the best judges as likely to become a classic. The inner circle, the fourteen men about Douglas himself and that still more mysterious person to whom even he was responsible, a woman known only as "Annie" or as "A.B.", were sealed to him by the direst of all bonds. Needless are oaths in the Black Lodge; honour being the first thing discarded, their only use is to …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 75

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…. CHORUS. The large pale limbs of the earth are tanned With the sun and the sea and the yellow sand ; And the face of earth is dark with love Of the lords of hell and the spirits above That move in the foggy air of night, And the spirit of God, most like a dove, Hovers, and lingers, and wings his flight, Spurned and rejected and lost to sight ; But we desire him, a holy bird, And we turn eyes to the hollow hills; For God is strong, and His iron word Mocks at the gods of the woods and rills. For our God is as a fire That consumeth every one That…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 134

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e souls Than so to strive and fighting fall? Think you that He who sees you, and controls, Did not devise it all? The mountains that you loved have taken you, And we who love you will not weep. Shall we begrudge? Your last look saw sky blue; You will be glad to sleep. Your pure names (thine renowned, yours fresh with youth And full of promise) shall be kept Sul in our hearts for monuments of truth, As if you had not slept. EPILOGUE. HORACE, in the fruitful Sabine country, Where the wheat and vine are most abun- dant, Where the olive ripens in t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 140

Moonchild

…piness of any other person as an outrage and affront upon her. Every thought in her mind was a curse — against God, against man, against love, or beauty, against life itself. She was a combination of the witch-burner with the witch; an incarnation of the spirit of Puritanism, from its sourness to its sexual degeneracy and perversion. Douglas put the broken glass to his mouth, and gulped down a bumper of whisky. Then he offered the bottle to his visitor. She refused by saying that it "played hell with the astral body," and asked her host to give…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 274

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…t all our Meanings! Every one shows that the Name, if it has any Power at all, and that we must try, has the Power to redeem us from the Love of Life which is the Cause of Life, by its masculine Whirlings, and to gladden us and to bring us to the Bosom of the Great Mother, Death. Before what is known as the Equinox of the Gods, a little while ago, there was an initiated Formula which expressed these Ideas to the Wise. As these Formulas are done with, it is of no Consequence if I reveal them. Truth is not eternal, any more than God; and it would…

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