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1912 · PDF PAGE 176

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…t so when I were young, lad. The world gets worse as we get older, Jack. JACK. Nonsense, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m thinkingadrop 'ud do ye good now, Jack.…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 57

The Star and the Garter

…ither, shore Of far unstained eternity ! There we will rest. Beware! Beware! For I am young, and you are fair. Nay! Iam old in this, you know! Ah! heart of God! I love you so! 55

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1904 · PDF PAGE 51

Why Jesus Wept

…hy drugs are — expensive, but well worth the money. (Aloud) Nay ! but I will go. You have shamed me enough. Go ! Go ! SIR PERCY. Nay ! I know better of a sudden. It is you that I love ! He would kiss her. She draws away. ANGELA. False, fickle wretch ! SIR PERCY. I will ! I will ! ANGELA. No ! No ! SIR PERCY. Yes, I was a fool, an ass, a brute. A village girl ! ANGELA. Blood will have blood, they say. SIR PERCY. You are my equal, Angela ! You shall be mine, mine, mine ! ANGELA. If I will not ?

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1929 · PDF PAGE 17

Moonchild

…se. Nothing that any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize it with knowledge of all kinds, improve its powers of expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem poets, our one-picture painters, have merely failed to perfect themselves as instruments. The Genius who wrote The Ancient Mariner is no less sublime than he who wrote The Tempest; but Coleridge had some incapacity to catch and express the tho…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 187

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…By some such means—lI have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . . * oe . tions. eus in Christ did attain in every deed ; machina. Pon- Yet, being an illiterate man, tius Pilate as a Not his to balance or to scan, Surrey Magis…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 427

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… universal Soul of Nature. This Soul of Nature here spoken of is of course imagined as something entirely contrary to anything we really know of Nature. In fact, it would be difficult to dis- tinguish it from a pious fiction. The only reason that can be given for assuming the Soul of Nature to be pure, calm, kind, and all the other tea-party virtues, is Lucus a non lucendo. To put it in some kind of logical form, the Mani- fested is not the Unmanifested; therefore the Manifested is that which the Unmanifested is not. Nature, as we know it, is s…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 37

White Stains

…reck Of thy dear life on Wedlock’s piteous sands ; Love’s all in all, link on the golden bands Forged in heaven without flaw or fleck. I know thine answer by these amorous hands That touch me thus to tempt me, by the kiss Whose sudden passion burns upon my neck Thy heart clings to me in perfect “ Yes ! ”

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1904 · PDF PAGE 14

The Argonauts

ARGONAUTAE JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great Aeson’s heir. MEN. We learn good news, most enviable sir; That Aeson hath such grand inheritance. JASON. You have grown fat beneath an evil rule. Your period is at hand. Go, one of you, And drag the impious wretch before my sight! MEN. Aeson? Thy father? JASON. Play not with my wrath! My mood is something dangerous. MEN. Dangerous sir, 1 go indeed, to bring some danger more Hither. JASON. Poltroonery dislikes t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 421

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ard,” quoth he, “ And by thy venerable age I charge thee this my riddle ree.” Then said that gentle eremite: “This task is easy unto me! Know then the Questing Beast aright! One is the Beast, the Questing one: And one with one is two, Sir Knight! Yet these are one in two, and none Disjoins their substance (mark me well !), Confounds their persons. Rightly run Their attributes: immeasurable, Incomprehensibundable, Unspeakable, inaudible, 45

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1910 · PDF PAGE 421

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ard,” quoth he, “ And by thy venerable age I charge thee this my riddle ree.” Then said that gentle eremite: “This task is easy unto me! Know then the Questing Beast aright! One is the Beast, the Questing one: And one with one is two, Sir Knight! Yet these are one in two, and none Disjoins their substance (mark me well !), Confounds their persons. Rightly run Their attributes: immeasurable, Incomprehensibundable, Unspeakable, inaudible, 45

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1913 · PDF PAGE 269

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…r kind people are to him. Here are two cases, accurately taken from the book, but rendered in dialogue. I. In class: MASTER. What do you know of Gustavus Adolphus ? BOY [wzth gloomy pride that he knows all about G. A.], R—r—r—gr! MASTER. Come now, surely you don’t mind telling us something about him. BOY [stung to madness by this senseless torture}. 1 know ail about Gustavus Adolphus. MASTER. Well, that’s splendid. Let’s see now, who was he? BOY [beyond himself] Tyrant! Monster! Brute! White slaver! Mar— con—ee! IT. In the family circle: JOHN […

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1913 · PDF PAGE 269

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…r kind people are to him. Here are two cases, accurately taken from the book, but rendered in dialogue. I. In class: MASTER. What do you know of Gustavus Adolphus ? BOY [wzth gloomy pride that he knows all about G. A.], R—r—r—gr! MASTER. Come now, surely you don’t mind telling us something about him. BOY [stung to madness by this senseless torture}. 1 know ail about Gustavus Adolphus. MASTER. Well, that’s splendid. Let’s see now, who was he? BOY [beyond himself] Tyrant! Monster! Brute! White slaver! Mar— con—ee! IT. In the family circle: JOHN […

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1930 · PDF PAGE 28

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… Let the Adept be armed with his Magick Rood [and provided with his mystic Rose]. In the centre, let him give the L.V.X. signs; or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of N.O.X. being the signs of Puer, Vir, Puella, Mulier. Omit the sign I.R. Then let him advance to the East and make the Holy Hexagram, saying: Pater et Mater unus deus Ararita. Let him go round to the South, make the Holy Plexagram. and say: Mater et Filins unus deus Ararita. Let him go round to the West, make the Holy Hexagram …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 252

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…My lord, Your cousin. Is my face so changed with care, My body shrunken with my suffering (That was not ever of the body) so? WOLFRAM. I know you, my old friend! Our chiefest bird ! Sweetest of singers ! TANNHAUSER. No, the naughty one! HEINRICH. Tannhauser! Yes! you dead. And we have thought LANDGRAVE. Friends, will you swear to him? HEINRICH. Yes, yes, ‘tis he! WOLFRAM. I know the blithe look in the sober eyes ! LANDGRAVE, Changed verily. It was most urgent, cousin, I were assured of your identity. — Three weeks the couriers scour the land fo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 108

The Winged Beetle

…ce, And the word go out : No quarter ! But I shall hold thee—so While the boys and maidens dance About the shambles of slaughter ! III I know thee who thou art, The inmost fiend that curlest Thy vampire tongue about Earth’s corybantic heart, Hell’s warrior that whirlest The darts of horror and doubt !

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1911 · PDF PAGE 39

The Vision and the Voice

…ing tastes in my mouth, very rapidly one after the other. Salt, honey, sugar, assafoetida, bitumen, honey again, some taste that I don’t know at all; garlic, something very bitter like nux vomica, another taste, still more bitter; lemon, cloves, rose- leaves, honey again; the juice of some plant, like a dandelion, I think; honey again, salt, a taste something like phosphorus, honey, laurel, a very unpleasant taste which I don’t know, 37

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1922 · PDF PAGE 66

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… Drug Fiend And that’s really very much the same spirit. “ Heart of my heart, come out of the rain, Let’s have another go of cocaine.” I know I don’t count when it comes to poetry, and the distinguished authoress can well afford to smile, if it’s only the society smile, and step quietly over my remains. But I really have got the spirit of the thing. “ Always go on till you have to stop, Let’s have another sniff, old top!” No, that’s undignified. “Carry on! over the top!” would be better. It’s more dignified and patriotic, and expresses the idea…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 243

Magick Without Tears

… exaltation, a dithyramb, a Paean} No good here. For what you want is a penny plain pedestrian prose Probability-Percentage. You want to know what the Odds are when I say "certain." A case for casuistry? At least, for classification. It depends rather on one's tone of voice? Yes, of course, and as to the classification, off we jog to the Divine Pymander, who saw, and stated, the quiddity of our query with his accustomed lucidity. He discerns three degrees of Truth; and he distinguishes accordingly: 1. True 2. Certain without error 3. Of all tru…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 437

Magick Without Tears

…d a beautiful maid. "Where are you going so meek and holy?" "I'm going to temple to worship Crowley. " "Crowley is God then? How did you know?" "Why. it's Captain Fuller that told us so. " "And how do you know that Fuller was right?" "I'm afraid you're a wicked man; good-night. " While this sort of thing is styled success I shall not count failure bitterness. Sometimes, note well! they are even frank about it, and say plainly that there would be no merit in it if there were any reasonable basis for it! This position is at the worst both honest …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 180

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…fibre yet unshaken, while it wreaks In one sharp song the agony of weeks, And all my soul and body understands. The music changes, and I know that here, In these new melodies, a tongue of fire Leaps at each waving of the silver spear; And all my sorrow dons delight’s attire Because the gate of Heaven is so near, And I have comprehended my desire.

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