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1901 · PDF PAGE 39

The Soul of Osiris

…feet, Clinging, dead, infamous, complete. Now let me die, to mix my soul With thy red soul, to join our hands, To weld us in one perfect whole, To link us with desirous bands. Now let me die, to mate in hell With thee, O harlot Jezebel.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 66

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…onnets of exceedingly unequal power, a perfectly heartless introduction (some fools would call it pathetic),! and, as a synthesis of the whole, an impression of profound sad- ness and, perhaps, still deeper joy, were my reward. Together with a feeling that the writer must have been a philosopher of the widest and deepest learning and penetration, and a recret that he showed no more of it in his poetry. First and last, I stood amazed, stupefied; so stand [I still. Dramatic propriety forbade me seeing him again; he was alone when he started. Let …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 140

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… do the following. With your hands upon your knees and your head straight, take in a breath in measured time inwards and concentrate the whole of your thought on that breath as it flows into your lungs, cutting away all other thoughts that may arise at the time; then exhale the breath, still keeping your thought fixed on it. Do this for some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, and mark down in your diary the number of ‘breaks,’ or any result. The whole of this practice must be per- formed rhythmically and harmoniously. The Second Exercise. As …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 17

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

PRAMONSTRANCE A MANIFESTO OF THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The Preemonstrator of the A.. A.. wishes it to be known that the period of silence, which (according to the Rule of the Order) lasts during every alternate five years, will end at the Equinox of Spring in the year 1919 of the vulgar era. He wishes to call attention to the general principles of the Great White Brotherhood, which is also known as the Primarily, this Body exists for the purpose of conferring Initiation. Secondarily, It prepare…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 158

Magick Without Tears

14 Noise Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You ask me what is, at the present time, the greatest obstacle to human progress. I answer in one word: NOISE. You will recall that in Yoga the concise compendium of Initiated Instruction is: Sit still Stop thinking Shut up, and Get out. The second of these postulates the third; for one can neither think nor stop thinking with all that row going on. Then again, the Fourth Power of the Sphinx is Silence; on this subject I must refer you to Little Essays Toward Truth (No. 14, p…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 280

Magick Without Tears

…ues wherewith a man is cursed, Take my word for it, woman is the worst! (The World's Tragedy) Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The eternal antagonism between the sexes is mere illusion. As well suppose the male the enemy of the female screw. Understand the spiritual reality of each, grasp their magical formulae; the sublime necessity of the apparent opposition will be apparent. The ultimate of Woman is Nuit; that of Man, Hadit. The Book of the Law speaks very fully and clearly in both cases. I quote the principal pas…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 84

The Sword of Song

…. “I know, O Arahats, that y ou do not need this instruction : but m y words will not stay here : they will go forth and illum inate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, w here Arahats do not grow on every tree. Little brothers, the night is fallen : it were well to sleep.”

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1929 · PDF PAGE 85

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… by any such inexplicable incident as the abandonment of the room, though I have sometimes failed to find the expected girl. Talking the whole matter over with my guide, philosopher and friend, Frater O.P.V., he finds the whole story extraordinarily gripping. He finds the situation nodal for the spirit of romance. An extraordinary number of vital threads or "nerves" of romance. He attaches great significance to the failure of Eckenstein to keep the appointment. It seems to him as if the whole business were a sort of magical ordeal, that Eckenst…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… horror’s blank Sickening from the stinking soul ! The voice from the shrine. Cut his navel, flank to flank! Tear the bowels out; be the whole Burnt to ashes on the centre! Black oblivion blot him! Ban Every trace that might re-enter Any memory of man! [The sentence ts executed. The voice from the west. The mountains are all covered; the rain roars Now on a sea that hath no shores! The voice from below. Haste! the ship slips into the foam. Haste! leave the hapless home! [JULIAN and Jovian bear the body of joun down the steps of 69

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1913 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… horror’s blank Sickening from the stinking soul ! The voice from the shrine. Cut his navel, flank to flank! Tear the bowels out; be the whole Burnt to ashes on the centre! Black oblivion blot him! Ban Every trace that might re-enter Any memory of man! [The sentence ts executed. The voice from the west. The mountains are all covered; the rain roars Now on a sea that hath no shores! The voice from below. Haste! the ship slips into the foam. Haste! leave the hapless home! [JULIAN and Jovian bear the body of joun down the steps of 69

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1929 · PDF PAGE 241

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ight to say what anyone else shall or shall not do with his or her body. Establish this principle of absolute respect for others and the whole nightmare of sex is dispelled. Blackmail and prostitution automatically lose their raison d'ętre. The corrupting influence of hypocrisy breaks like a rotten reed. The sweating of "female labour cheapened by prostitution" (as Bernard Shaw says) becomes impossible. I have written at considerable length in recent years on the ethical, as well as on the cosmographical problems solved by the Law of Thelema. I…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 16

The God-Eater

…riospa. [Solemnly.| No ! Stop ! ask no more! There lies the awful crux. Blind are fate’s eyes, and pinioned are will’s wings. In you the whole chance lies. Maurya. In me? CRIOSDA. In you. Maurya. _ I will do all to win ! CRIOSDA. Do all? Maurya. Do all. Crrospa. Ah then! No, no, it is not yet enough. Not definite yet. Stop! fool, shall I hint and ruin all with a word? Backwards or forwards, the blow goes home either way. [Looks at her with keen fierce eyes.] Ah ! Maurya. [4 little frightened.| Come, O my brother ! It is time to go. | Criospa. N…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 187

The Winged Beetle

… turning his face to the audience, smiles as if at some secret jest. The actor should study hard to make this smile sig- nificant of the whole character, as revealed in the complete play ; for TODD does not develop through, but is explained by, the plot. TODD goes out ; OSSORY follows, and returns in a minute. There is no sound in the room but that of EUPHEMIA’S sobs. OSSORY [returning, throws himself into a chair near the door]. Dear me ! dear me ! Poor, poor Henry ! DELHOMME. In the very flower of his life. ...

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1919 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…l these Orders to recombine and centralize their activities, even as white light, divided in a prism, may be recomposed. It embodies the whole of the secret knowledge of all Orien- tal Orders; and its chiefs are initiates of the highest rank, and recognized as such by all capable of such recognition in every country in the world. In more remote times, the constituent originating assem- blies of the O.T.O. included such men as: Fohi Hippolytus Laotze Merlin Siddartha Arthur Krishna Titurel Tahuti Amfortas Ankh-f-n-khonsu Percivale Herakles Moshe…

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1937 · PDF PAGE 3

Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government

…every woman is a star. 10. Let my servants be few and secret: they shall rule the many and the known. 40. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. 42. Thou hast no right but to do thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 57. Love is the law, love under will. CHAPTER II. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No ! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen; who sorroweth is not of us. 20.…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 41

The Mother’s Tragedy

THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY 27 Remembrance that there was a God. I say I see the whole bright universe a tomb, With creeping spectres moving in the mist, Some suffocating poison that was air. O Pheedra! lend me of thy wickedness, Lest I go mad to contemplate myself ! I choke—I grope—TI fall! What name is this That strikes my spirit as a broken bell Struck by some devilish hammer? In my brain Reverberates some word impossible. O I am broken on the wheel of death ; My bones are ground in some infernal mill ; My blood is as the venom of a snake, Striking…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 95

Moonchild

…ack, with a great sword, like his brother guard at the Profess-House in Paris, stood bowing before them. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I enter the house." With these words Cyril Grey assumed possession. "Lead me to Sister Clara." The man turned and went before them down a long corridor which opened upon a stone terrace, flagged with porphyry. A circular fountain in the middle had, for its centre a copy of the Venus Callipyge in black marble. The parapet was decorated with statues of satyrs, fauns, and nymphs. The woman who c…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 87

The Soul of Osiris

… And oh ! the quest : half won—incredible ? I am so brave, and pure—folk love me well. But oh ! my life, my being ! That is dead, And my whole soul—a whirlwind out of hell !

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1907 · PDF PAGE 103

Konx Om Pax

…r not them that kill the body, But rather them that hurt the soul: My soul with your disdain is bloody; Your stripes are none to make me whole. Could you but see my vitals torn, My nerves on rack, my tortured spirit— Of all the ills to mortals born This is the sorest to inherit. If you could see the branded token Of your invisible whip, the scars Of your intangible knife, the unspoken Agonies, silent as the stars! Then you should count the agéd lines That wrinkle up my boy’s blithe beauty :~— The Judge of all the Earth divines My wrongs and you…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 122

The Scented Garden

…fortunately in the keyletter we have a certain check on this particular series. Major Lutiy wrote his note under the idea of issuing the whole in a single vo- lume. Ed.)

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