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1944 · PDF PAGE 141

The Book of Thoth

…, he is the “Dying God”, redeeming his Bride in the hour, and by the virtue, of his murder. The Princesses represent the Hé final of the Name. They represent the ultimate issue of the original Energy in its completion, its crystallization, its materialization. They also repre‐ sent the counter‐balancing, the re‐absorption of the Energy. They represent the Silence into which all things return. They are thus at the same time permanent and non‐existent. An audit of the equation 0=2. The Princesses have no Zodiacal attribution. Yet evidently they r…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 236

Magick Without Tears

…of temperature in fever; but nearly always it implies a condition preferable to "low. " Applied to the 'self, it becomes a sort of trade name; nobody tells me if he means Khu, or Ba, or Khabs, or Ut of the Upanishads, or Augoeides of the Neo-Platonists, or Adonai of Bulwer-Lytton, or-here we are with all those thrice-accurs't alternatives. There is not, cannot be, any specific meaning unless we start with a sound skeleton of ontogenic theory, a well-mapped hierarchy of the Cosmos, and define the term anew. Then why use it? To do so can only cau…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 64

Why Jesus Wept

…he milk.) There, there ! what have you been crying for ? MOLLY. O sir ! GLENSTRAE. I am the Marquis of Glenstrae, my pretty wench. If my name and fortune can serve you — there, there ! I never could bear to see a pretty lass cry.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 361

Magick Without Tears

… The stupid coincidence angered me, and yet some irresistible instinct compelled me to take out my note book and pencil and jot down the name written over the gate- Villa Caldarazzo . Idly I added up the letters. Their sum struck me like a bullet in my brain. It was 418, the number of the Magical Formula of the Aeon, a numerica hieroglyph of the Great Work. Ab-ul-Diz had made no mistake. My recognition of the right place was not to depend on a mere matter of trees, which might be found almost anywhere. Recognition beyond all possibility of doub…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 82

The Star and the Garter

…and girt about with Love! (© Sun at midnight! in thy Bark ‘The cynocephali proclaim Thy effulgent deity, and mark ‘The adorations of thy name In seemly stations one by one, As thou encirclest blinder poles ‘Than Khem or Ammon showed the sun In one-eyed sight of secret goals.

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1938 · PDF PAGE 21

The Heart of the Master

…of the next Word, and to maintain or to restore the virtue of the Word then current. And on the unfurled portion of the chart I read the names of certain of these Brethren, and the Words as one was uttered after the other. But some I could not read, because the characters were strange. These: FU-HSI. After a great space (with few names and those illegible) LAO-TZE, GAUTAMA, ZERDUSHT, PYTHAGORAS, DIONYSUS, OSIRIS. These were sent forth at the same time—and Dionysus under several diverse forms—to enlighten Six Great Civilizations, about to be dra…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 17

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

… from the due guarding of the secrets, and to all those qualities of courage, honour, and virtue without which man is not worthy of that name. 19, The 0.H.O, is only known to members of the VIII? and IX°. The National Grand Master General ad vitam is not approachable as such by any person who has not reached the VP’. All communications should be addressed to the Grand Secretary General, and all cheques drawn in favour of the Grand Treasurer General. Issued by Order, a “fe L. Barnursr, 1X° Grand Secretary General. Imprimatur_ fj) BAPHOMET X° Nih…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 212

Diary of a Drug Fiend

198 The Diary of a Drug Fiend What’s-his-name in The Wrong Box when he had to have a false death certificate, and wanted a “ venal doctor.” It annoyed me that it was daylight, and I didn’t know where to go. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there came the name and address of the man who had helped Billy Coleridge out of her scrape. It was a long way off, and I was horribly tired. I was hungry, but the thought of lunch made me sick. I felt that people were looking at me strangely. Was it the scar by my eye? I bought a thick veil. The girl looked surpris…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 58

The Goetia

… on as followeth ; it being a constraint : THE CONSTRAINT. I po conjure thee, O thou Spirit N., by all the most glorious and efficacious names of the Most GREAT AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE Lorp Gop oF Hosts, that thou comest quickly and without delay from all parts and places of the earth and world wherever thou mayest be, to make rational answers unto my demands, and that visibly and affably, speaking with a voice intelligible unto mine understanding as aforesaid. I conjure and constrain thee, O thou Spirit N., by all the names aforesaid ; and in add…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 12

Rosa Inferni

…el may whirl again, That some dull devil in my ear may show me : “ For John the Baptist’s head—so danced Salome ! ” ? VIII HEN, in God’s name forbear ! It does not matter. Life, death, strength, weakness, are but idle chatter. Nothing is lost or gained, we know too well. For heaven thy balance as an equal hell. We discard both ; an infinite Universe Remains ; we sum it up—an infinite curse. So—am I man ? I lack my wife’s embrace. Am I outworn ? I see the harlot’s face. Is the love better and the knowledge worse ? Shall I seek knowledge and coun…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 79

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…ind it well worth his while to seek out these ideas in detail, and develop the technique of their application. There is also the Gnostic Name of the Seven Vowels, which gives a musical formula most puissant in évocations of the Soûl of Nature. There is moreover ABRAXAS; there is XNOUBIS; there is MEITHRAS; and indeed it may briefly be stated that every true name of God gives the formula of the invocation of that God.1 It would therefore be impossible, even were it désirable, to analyse ail such names. The general method of doing so has been I. …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 48

Gargoyles

…prise him, kiss his weary will Into the last repose, profounder power Than life could compass. Now I tax my skill To find another holier name, some flower 38

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1909 · PDF PAGE 70

777

54 TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCES Figure. Nature. Name, Divination and Spiritual Meaning. es Pe) 57 a A of A | Sun Flexibility, penetration, vacillation, wind, wood, ae &e. a a Es : 58 | os om V of V | Toi . Pleasure, help from friends, still water. Pe! es as ee 9 |= mms) A of w | Hwan Dissipation, dispersion, turning to evil. es a en — a GO | ams om | 7 Of V | Kieb . Joints of body, regular division. es as a es 61 | as oo A of w | Kung fa. Inmost sincerity. as ee es Ge es oe 62 | ae L\ of VW | Hsiao Kwo. Non-essential, success of trifles, a wounded …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 151

The Winged Beetle

141 THE CIRCLE AND THE POINT THE CIRCLE I AM the Holy Queen of Heaven ! Eternal matter is my name. The veiléd star, the crowned eleven. These are my soul, as thou my flame, O wingéd globe of serpents twined, O sun of glory in my skies ! O subtle spirit of my mind ! O ardent rapture of mine eyes ! Thou secret centre, motion, rest :— Come to my breast ! Come to my breast ! THE POINT I am the Lord of Heaven, and I Am secretly arrayed and robed In all the azure abyss of sky By serpents wingéd, wound and globed. Thou art the Infinite of space, Thou …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 177

The Law is for All

…The Law is for All “Mary inviolate” is to be “torn upon wheels” because tearing is the only treatment for her; and rv, “a wheel,” is the name of the feminine principle.1 It is her own sisters who are to punish her for the crime of denying Her nature, not men who are to redeem her, since, as above remarked, it is man’s own false sense of guilt, his selfishness, and his cowardice, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. Let him attend to his own particular business, to redeem hims…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 91

The Argonauts

…up this love of peace and bliss, The starry soul of wine, Destruction’s formidable kiss, The lamp of the divine: This shadow of a nobler name Whose life is strife, whose soul is fame ! I rather will exalt the soul Of man to loftier height, And kindle at a livelier coal The subtler soul of Light. From these soft splendours of a dream T turn, and seek the Self supreme. This world is shadow-shapen of The bitterness of pain, Vain are the little lamps of love! The light of life is vain! Life, death, joy, sorrow, age and youth Are phantoms of a furth…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 7

Handbook of Geomancy

…TIONS OF GEOMANTIC FIGURES TO PLANETS, ZODIAC, AND RULING GENII 10 |Gzom.| Latitia Joy, laughing, healthy, bearded Sian | Ex) pig, | SEX Name AND MzANING Grnius RULER /Pianez| pA M. Puer Malchidael Bartzabel 3 Boy, yellow, beardless wile F Amissio Asmodel Kedemel | 9 Loss, comprehended without 0 M. Albus Ambriel | Taphthartha- 4 White, fair rath id oly rR Populus Muriel | Chashmodai |p People, congregation M. Fortuna Major Verchiel Sorath RA Greater fortune, greater aid, © safeguard entering Sol oR Conjunctio Hamaliel | Taphthartha- Miv] es Con…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 62

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…- Pelasgian hands The sand was warm and fine . I have forgotten whence I came , Or what my home might be , Or by what strange and savage name I called that thundering sea .

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1996 · PDF PAGE 43

The Law is for All

…f the Shang Dynasty (c. 1025 B.C.E.). Her sex drive is credited with its downfall.] 3 [Queen Elizabeth the First, 1533-1603.] 4 [The pen-name of of the French author Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804-1876).] 5 [The pen-name of the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880).] 6 [For examples see E. A. Petroff, Medieval Women’s Visionary Litera­ ture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).] 7 See “Liber CL, De Lege Libellum,” Cap. IV, in Equinox 111(1). [See Works Cited.] It is to be well noted that the Great Wome…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 26

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…Ones. Before the gods Thy music moves, coequal, coeterne, Thou, Lord of Light and Life and Love! Come forth ! I call thee in the holiest name of Him Lord of the Universe, and by His Name, Osiris perfected through suffering, Glorious in trial: by His Holy Name, Jesus, the Godhead passing through the gates Of Hell, that even there the rescuers Might find the darkness, and proclaim the light ; For I invoke thee by the sacred rites And secret words of everlasting power: By the swift symbol of the Golden Dawn And all its promise, by the Cross of Fir…

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