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1909 · PDF PAGE 411

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality rarély to be found in fiction.”

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1906 · PDF PAGE 139

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…t is but an hour. [MAURYA smiles ; leaves her hand a little i his, and so passes out slowly through the open door wrth her eyes fixed in love and trust on him. CRIOSDA Starts up and pulls fiercely at a second lever, and the door clangs to with the same nerve- shattering shock, CRIOSDA Staggers to altar ; and, with his hand on tt, turns towards door. Mouths of God’s mercy ! I would her eyes were bleeding wounds*sin my heart! Ah though! If she were a dog I could not do it. She is my sister—— |Zurns wth a cry to throne and flings up his hands. and…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 593

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes ofself and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed. the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecstatic than anything that has come down to us from the Ages offaith. We are all, ns S…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 593

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes ofself and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed. the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecstatic than anything that has come down to us from the Ages offaith. We are all, ns S…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 373

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…nd occasion was multiple. I wanted to see the man with whom she was living, who had not yet {599} returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her, and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible god. Consider now: The Work whereby I am a Magus began in Cairo (1904) with the discovery of the stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, in which the principal object is the body of our Lady Nuith. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No. VII. Jane Chéron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 32

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…you, M. Davenport !! This smile Is worth a husband. Here, one touch of pink Completes a perfect picture—Are these eyes Dark eno’ to look love or sin, and large (O Atropine !?) to beam forth innocence ! Innocence, a grim jest for sixty years ! Nay, sixty-three ; I lie not to myself ; Else one sins lying ; thus is virtue mixed, A bubbling draught that soon lies still and flat ; While my great lust runs deep and dark, nor changes For all that time can do. What of this boy ? I knew his father ; the man feared me well For all his open laughter; woul…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…he kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with thei a bog of religious poetry, more sublimely eredulous and ersati than, anything that has come down tos fom the Agesoffaith. We are all, as Sainte-…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…he kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with thei a bog of religious poetry, more sublimely eredulous and ersati than, anything that has come down tos fom the Agesoffaith. We are all, as Sainte-…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 440

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…It sets forth the initiated view. The question is: Why does a man become a mason? We ought to cross off the pettier human motives first, love of vanity, of mystery, of display, of make-believe; but the average man in England becomes a mason for as serious a reason as he become a Church member or a theosophist; and the average man is usually most abominably disillusioned. He may join the Craft with some idea of fellowship, because it is a tradition in his family to do so, or because he hopes to find in the Secret of the Mysteries something which…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 26

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…nd ! Godhead immaculate! Swift tongue of fire, Kindled from that immeasurable light The boundless, the immutable. Come forth, My God, my lover, spirit of my heart, Heart of my soul, white virgin of the Dawn, My Queen of all perfection, come thou forth From thine abode beyond the Silences To me the prisoner, me the mortal man, Shrined in this clay : come forth, I say, to me, Initiate my quickened soul; draw near, And let the glory of thy Godhead shine Through all the luminous aethers of the air Even to earth, thy footstool ; unto me Who by these…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 262

Collected Works (Vol. II)

256 SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM pendent thought, of keen ecstasy of love of knowledge, of practical training, that the Buddhasanana Samagama? appeals; it is time that Buddhism reformed itself from within; though its truths be held untarnished (and even this is not everywhere the case), its methods, its organisation, are sadly in need of repair; research must be done, men must be perfected, error must be fought. And if,in the West a great Buddhist society is built up of men of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lies, there is then an awake…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 398

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ss that the perfected man, the Sun, is of dual nature, and his evil twin slays him in his glory. So the triumphant Lord of Heaven, the beloved of Apollo and the Muses is brought down into the dust, and who shall mourn him but his Mother Nature, Venus, the lady of love and sorrow? Well is it if she bears within her the Secret of Resurrection! But even Venus owes all her charm to the swift messenger of the gods, Mercury, the joyous and ambiguous boy whose tricks first scandalize and then delight Olympus. But Mercury, too, is found wanting. Now in…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 178

The Book of Thoth

…he quarrel has actually broken out. This must mean defeat, for the original idea of the Sword was a manifestation of the re‐ sult of the love between the Wand and the Cup. It is because the birth had to express itself in the duality of the Sword and the Disk that the nature of each appears so imperfect. The Five of Disks is in equally evil case. The soft quiet of the Four has been completely overthrown; the card is called Worry. [See Skeat, Etymological Dictionary. The idea is of stran‐ gling, as dogs worry sheep. Note the identity with Sphinx.…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 131

Konx Om Pax

…ngs and new, flinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world, as some stormy petrel shrillyc 'ng to the storm; or sweet notes of love, soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly.’ Captain Fuller’s language is always picturesque, and those who have not read Crowley’s poems could not discover a more enthusiastic cicerone. He insists on the superabundance of the poet’s genius and the diversity of his form, points that find ample accentuation in the course of the work. Crowley has been eminently unconventional, and has not called a spade an …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 220

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… bloom; My subtle life drawn out to thee; to thee ....its moods and meaning cling. I pass from change and thought to peace, ....woven on love's incredible loom, Rose on the breast of the world of spring! How shall the heart dissolved in joy take ....form and harmony and sing? How shall the ecstasy of light fall back to ....music's magic gloom? O China rose without a thorn, O honey-bee ....without a sting!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 594

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… K1EIN. Crown 8vo, 183 pp. Cloth gilt, 2s, 6d. net, Contents in Ercur Views.—Clearing the Approach. The Vision. Mysticism and Symbolism. Love in Action. The Physical Film. Space. e. Creation, “This book is of an importance which I think it would be hard to overrate. ‘The two main religious tendencies, are towards Science and Mysticism, Mr. Klein, writes the two, «> » i i onda fr. Klein undermines our naive belief in Time and ¢, and shows that to perfect knowledge there is only Here and Now. ‘The Universe is a single instantaneous phenomenon. ‘T…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 594

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… K1EIN. Crown 8vo, 183 pp. Cloth gilt, 2s, 6d. net, Contents in Ercur Views.—Clearing the Approach. The Vision. Mysticism and Symbolism. Love in Action. The Physical Film. Space. e. Creation, “This book is of an importance which I think it would be hard to overrate. ‘The two main religious tendencies, are towards Science and Mysticism, Mr. Klein, writes the two, «> » i i onda fr. Klein undermines our naive belief in Time and ¢, and shows that to perfect knowledge there is only Here and Now. ‘The Universe is a single instantaneous phenomenon. ‘T…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 490

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…rth's infinite ills; ....The cordial of man's heart, whose dour distress ....Heals only in immaculate silence According as he knows, and love, and wills. {771} Ay! Thought is grown a geyser-gush of flame Since those two hours this morning when you came, ....When, like a comet swirling to its sun, You strangled me in your Astarte's tress, And wove me into serpent silences. ....Upon your body's loom, Hilarion! My outward journey ended at San Diego. Near the city is Point Loma where lived Katherine Tingley, who with William Q. Judge seceded from t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 9

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… lot of the saved, even on earth, was painted in the brightest colours. It was held that "all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose". Earthly life was regarded as an ordeal; this was a wicked world and the best thing that could happen to anyone was "to go to be with Christ, which is far better". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever. Edward Crowley used to give away tracts to strangers, besides distributing them by thousands thr…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 85

The Book of Thoth

…s, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.” “There is a light before thine eyes, O prophet, a light undesired, most de‐ sirable. “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. “Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fulness of the inspiration; the expi‐ ration is sweeter than death, more rapid and lau…

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