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1961 · PDF PAGE 128

Liber Aleph

…ge him, and lead him away to crucify him; and the third Day he riseth from among the Dead, and ascendeth into Heaven, and sitteth at the right Hand of God, and cometh to judge the Quick and the Dead. This, o my son, is the History of Everyman unto whom is given a Word. k

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1913 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…His power This equinoctial hour! If there be virtue in the dance, And life abide within the lance, And if the wine within the cup Be the right draught for gods to sup— Then be my sister's music dowered With answering song, and roses showered! [JuLia dances and plays around the corpse. The orchestra Joins after the first few bars, and innumerable roses fall Jrom heaven. A pause, while they watch. Jurta. Alas! no life reposes Beneath the rain of roses! 74

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1913 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…His power This equinoctial hour! If there be virtue in the dance, And life abide within the lance, And if the wine within the cup Be the right draught for gods to sup— Then be my sister's music dowered With answering song, and roses showered! [JuLia dances and plays around the corpse. The orchestra Joins after the first few bars, and innumerable roses fall Jrom heaven. A pause, while they watch. Jurta. Alas! no life reposes Beneath the rain of roses! 74

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1914 · PDF PAGE 13

Chicago May

…he common pleasures pall ‘That man turns to monstrosity and crime. But you have need of none of this at all. ‘You like “what's natural.” Right: for you, in sum, Like Nature's self, abhor a vacuum! Oh, but there's mind! ‘There's folk that have a brain, ‘That need the food of spirit and of heart. There's folk that need love, pity, peace; disdain All that lacks beauty, passion, wit, and art. Yours is a mind that does not hesitate To find a word for such—" degenerate.” Xm It poisons me to think such thoughts: they mar ‘The crystal of my orgasm of h…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 107

Konx Om Pax

… shattered graves. A man (at heart they’re well aware) May love, maybe! can never care. I bore you with an old fool’s prosing? No? I was right, then, in supposing Modern conditions hamper youths Who seek to grasp these simple Truths. But to my yarn. Carlotta lay So sleepy-soft one summer’s day That really I could not resist it. I took the dagger out and kissed it. Like a cat’s tongue that daintily laps, I slipped it in between her paps. At first, of course, the shrieking swerves One’s thought: it irritates the nerves; And out of tone the laughte…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…nt). Herein do?ה`זובand?לאדבמbear rule. XXXIX THE LORD OF DEFEAT Five of Swords Two Rayed Angelic Hands each holding two swords nearly upright, but falling apart of each other, right and left of the card, A third hand holds a sword upright in the centre as though it had disunited them. The petals of the rose, which in the Four had been reinstated in the centre, are torn asunder and falling. Above and below are 9 and m for Decan. Contest finished and decided against the person; failure, defeat, anxiety, trouble, poverty, avarice, grieving after g…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…nt). Herein do?ה`זובand?לאדבמbear rule. XXXIX THE LORD OF DEFEAT Five of Swords Two Rayed Angelic Hands each holding two swords nearly upright, but falling apart of each other, right and left of the card, A third hand holds a sword upright in the centre as though it had disunited them. The petals of the rose, which in the Four had been reinstated in the centre, are torn asunder and falling. Above and below are 9 and m for Decan. Contest finished and decided against the person; failure, defeat, anxiety, trouble, poverty, avarice, grieving after g…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

ACT III SCENE Ι: Twent}! years later. jerusalem. The Caanez't Chamber (ζ} the Grand Trihnnal. A Bishop, as Grand Ingnisitor. On hz's right, RINALDO,‘ now become Grand Master of the Terhþle; on his left the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Beyond these, the Grand Master ef the Knights of St john and the reþresentatz'we ofthe K'ing of jerusalem. Clerhs, Ushers, etc. A military guard. Clericalfunctionaries ofall sorts. Underguard LAYLAH, unveiled, scarred with sword-61415,a stern savage virago. BISHOP. Let the indictment be read. THE CLERK OF…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

ACT III SCENE Ι: Twent}! years later. jerusalem. The Caanez't Chamber (ζ} the Grand Trihnnal. A Bishop, as Grand Ingnisitor. On hz's right, RINALDO,‘ now become Grand Master of the Terhþle; on his left the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Beyond these, the Grand Master ef the Knights of St john and the reþresentatz'we ofthe K'ing of jerusalem. Clerhs, Ushers, etc. A military guard. Clericalfunctionaries ofall sorts. Underguard LAYLAH, unveiled, scarred with sword-61415,a stern savage virago. BISHOP. Let the indictment be read. THE CLERK OF…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 98

Liber Aleph

…rth, make an especial and direct Invocation at thy Mass, before the Introit, formulating a visible Image of this Child, and offering the Right of Incarnation. Fifth, perform the Mass, not omitting the Epiklesis, and let there be a Golden Wedding Ring at the Marriage of thy Lion with thine Eagle. Sixth, at the Con- sumption of the Eucharist accept this Child, losing thy Consciousness in him, until he be well assimilated with thee. Now then do this continuously, for by Repetition cometh forth both Strength and Skill, and the Effect is cumulative,…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 261

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… the camp at six a.m. on the twenty-first. I was now in really mountainous country. The valley was gorgeously wild, it glowed with rich bright grass and masses of marvellous flowers. There was an admirable track. The day was fine and I had views of both Little and Big Kabru (21,290 and 24,015 feet respectively) but Kangchenjunga itself was hidden in clouds. I have rarely enjoyed a mountain walk so thoroughly and my heart was uplifted by the excellence of our prospects. {431} It sang within me. I was already at fourteen or fifteen thousand feet,…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 138

Liber Aleph

…pon our true Path. So therefore Our Law of Thelema is justified also of Biology and of Social Science. It is the true Way of Nature, the right Strategy in the way of man with his Environment, and the Life of his Soul. t

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1909 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

LIBER O (iii) Extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say: “The sign of Osiris Slain.” (See Illustra- tion.) (iv) Raise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left forearm, and say: “The sign of the Mourning of Isis.” (See Illustration.) (v) Raise the arms at an angle of sixty degrees to each other above the head, which is thrown back, and say: ‘“ The sign of Apophis a…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

LIBER O (iii) Extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say: “The sign of Osiris Slain.” (See Illustra- tion.) (iv) Raise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left forearm, and say: “The sign of the Mourning of Isis.” (See Illustration.) (v) Raise the arms at an angle of sixty degrees to each other above the head, which is thrown back, and say: ‘“ The sign of Apophis a…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 52

Mortadello

…m a star ? [Some applaud, others resent, the interruption. The dissension grows gradually to a brawl. A VOICE. Upstart ! 2ND VOICE. He’s right. 3RD VOICE. A quirk ! 4TH VOICE. These dandies are our shame ! 1ST VOICE. Down with proud lords that irk us. 3RD VOICE. What’s the fellow’s name ? 5TH VOICE. No brawling ! 6TH VOICE. Dare you push me ? 7TH VOICE. By our Lady ! 8TH VOICE. There ! There ! 9TH VOICE. Good wine needs no bush. 10TH VOICE. The boaster ! 7TH VOICE. Have a care ! 6TH VOICE. Take that ! MONICA enters, attended by two nuns. MONICA…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 142

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…the end farthest from the window, but in a distant corner ten or twelve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. I set him right way up and he came out of this trance. He was quite unconscious that anything unusual had happened. But he had evidently been thrown there by the mysterious forces generated by Pranayama. There is no doubt whatever about this phenomenon; it is quite common. But the yogis claim that the lateral motion is due to lack of balance and that if one wer…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 21

Alice: An Adultery

…love deliberately, I am quite sure, with reference to his art alone. But if our Editor’s conjecture as to the real cause of his death is right, the fire he played with burnt him at last, and he died of the love he had invoked in play. It is the old-story of the magician strangled by the devil. As to what became of Alice we have no idea, if, indeed, she be after all a real person. In my judgment our poet was perfectly capable of deify- ing an old woman of fifty with a false front and *The results of a lengthy correspondence with some who knew ou…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 9

The God-Eater

…ue sash, a leopara’s skin is over his shoulders, clasped with a golden clasp about his neck. He bears an‘ ankh” in his left hand, in his right a caduceus wand. On his head ts the winged helmet of Mercury, and his sandals are winged also. He is muttering low some fervent prayer, and anon casts incense upon the censer. The low muttering continues for a considerable time, Maurya remaining quite still, as one rapt in her own thoughts. Suddenly, with startling vehemence, the song breaks out.|

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1905 · PDF PAGE 139

Oracles

…d, seeking out its medicine, Finds cessation of desire, and, seeking How so fierce a feat may be accomplished, Finds at first in Truth a right foundation, Builds the walls of Rightful Life upon it, Four-square, Word and Act and Aspiration Folded mystically across each other, Crowns that palace of enduring marble With sky-piercing pinnacles of Will-power Rightly carven, rightly pointed ; strengthens [Mind sole centred on the single object] All against the lightning, earthquake, thunder,

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1911 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…nim impostorl For the infidel swine Lack our spirit divine ; Their crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! Drink, every knight! God and my right! We’ll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-nightl SIR JAMES. Peace to thy ribaldry! Here comes the Preceptor. To saddle! JOCELYN. Why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? SIR JAMES. Who poises in his mind the destinies of Christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool’s face at his elbow. Though he have seen but five-and- twenty summers he is wiser than many a greybeard…

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