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1907 · PDF PAGE 85

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…not employ the strength I have. DENYS. Oh, hang me now, and have done with it ! ALAIN. No haste. An hour of life is always— an hour. And though one half that time is nigh lapsed already, yet—if you will give me your word of honour to do nothing desperate, and to await my return before you fling yourself from the window,—or, as I guess, —on the pikes of my retainers, I will with- draw myself and them that you may talk in greater privacy with the Lady Blanche. I fought at Arcy, and know what wonders may happen in an hour. [DENYS ‘furas bitterly, …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

Alexandra

…hem bedward Alone, alike. XXXII So Roger, Sam, Tom, Unus, Victor, Willie, Xenocrates, Yeo, Zeno, frown on fun, Disdain, delight, cry : “ Though you think us silly, A.R. or none ! ” The line “ Alone, alike ” resembled too nearly “ Aloft, alone ”, in the famous Diamond Jubilee Ode. Hence the whole passage had to go.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 58

Clouds Without Water

…ur dead universe Their frenzy rolled; henceforth no prince or power Should lift the sterile strength of that one curse Even to bring one thought to birth one hour. For now we knew; ” it is a lonely thing To sit supreme upon the single throne; ” But being come thus far, goes glittering: " It is a lovely thing to be alone! ” Silence! Beware to speak the fatal word That might inweave our two-ply with a third ! IX Wherefore again in sexless sanctity The mighty lingam rears its stilled sublime; The mighty yoni spreads its chastity Against the assaul…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 139

Liber Aleph

…tion of its Power to survive, and to reproduce itself after its Kind. Nurse not the Weakness of any man, nor swaddle and cosset him, not though he were Poet or Artist because of his Value to thy Fancy, for if thou do this, he shall grow in his Infirmity, so that even his Work for which thou lovest him, shall be enfeebled also. s

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…and distorted. (Imagination had been excited by reading Ludlow’s “ Hasheesh—Eater.”) A in afternoon tired and sleepy. A . '. not so bad, though most {rightfully tired, A poor in vision. There has been no good work for a long While. Why?

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1912 · PDF PAGE 287

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ve always erred by generalizing from too few facts. Into this trap fell even the author of the injunction, " De mortuis nil nisi bonum," though one may concede that it was excusable, even creditable, in him to have been unable to foresee my Uncle. Born, as will presently become clear, in the earliest years of the reign of Queen Victoria, his genius quickly developed, He had that simplicity of vision, that flashing insight, which stamps the highest types of intelligence. When only six years old, while meditating on the increasing difficulty οἳ ear…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…and distorted. (Imagination had been excited by reading Ludlow’s “ Hasheesh—Eater.”) A in afternoon tired and sleepy. A . '. not so bad, though most {rightfully tired, A poor in vision. There has been no good work for a long While. Why?

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1912 · PDF PAGE 287

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ve always erred by generalizing from too few facts. Into this trap fell even the author of the injunction, " De mortuis nil nisi bonum," though one may concede that it was excusable, even creditable, in him to have been unable to foresee my Uncle. Born, as will presently become clear, in the earliest years of the reign of Queen Victoria, his genius quickly developed, He had that simplicity of vision, that flashing insight, which stamps the highest types of intelligence. When only six years old, while meditating on the increasing difficulty οἳ ear…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 79

Konx Om Pax

…or was his reception less than a triumph. So athletic a nation as the Japanese still were could not but honour so superb an achievement, though it cost them dear, inasmuch as the Navy League (by an astute series of political moves) compelled the party in power to treble the Navy, build a continuous line of forts around the sea-coast, and expend many billions of yen upon the scientific breeding of a more voracious species of shark than had hitherto infested their shores. So they carried Kwaw shoulder-high to the Yoshiwara, and passed him the glad…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 15

One Star in Sight

…would refuse to swerve from Its system; the Aspirant would be compelled to remain at the Barrier until he succeeded in breaking it down, though a new incarnation were necessary to permit him to do so. But no technical failure of any kind soever could necessarily prevent him from accomplishing the Two Critical Tasks, since the fact of his incarnation itself proves that he has taken the Oath which entitled him to attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, and the annihilation of this Ego. One might therefore be an Adeptu…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 165

The Winged Beetle

… weaken, From some anointed sceptre, fiery dew For this appointed, that my soul win through ? Nay ! all we know not anything. Yet raise, Though we must throw our hearts to feed its blaze, The aspiring flame, the passionate glow, the bloom Whose root is shame, whose fruit the trackless tomb. I wail “ I know not,” louder and livelier Who laugh, and go not, shaveling sinister !

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1961 · PDF PAGE 117

Liber Aleph

…thers. All that stagnateth is thereof, and thence cometh not Stability, but Putrefaction. Endure not thou the static Standards either in Thought or in Action. Resist not even the Change that is the Rottenness of Choronzon, but rather speed it, so that the elements may combine by Love under Will. Since the Black Brothers and their Cults set hemselves against Change, do thou break them asunder. Yea, though of bad come worse, continue in that Way; for it is as if thou didst open an Abscess, the first Effect being noisome exceedingly, but the last …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…but the date assigned agrees with criticisms as the book now stands. We must defer to the superior knowledge of this modern “ Unveiler,” though personally I am inclined to accept the views of those early Fathers who assign the authorship to Cerinthus, and also the later German critics, who believe that the first three chapters and the last have been added by a later hand, and other portions altered to agree with the Scriptures held to be orthodox. Οι’ course this, if it were so, does not effect in any way the views of Mr Pryse, but rather streng…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 173

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…but the date assigned agrees with criticisms as the book now stands. We must defer to the superior knowledge of this modern “ Unveiler,” though personally I am inclined to accept the views of those early Fathers who assign the authorship to Cerinthus, and also the later German critics, who believe that the first three chapters and the last have been added by a later hand, and other portions altered to agree with the Scriptures held to be orthodox. Οι’ course this, if it were so, does not effect in any way the views of Mr Pryse, but rather streng…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 47

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 35 Aq De Libertate Mentis (Of Liberty of the Mind) HERE shall be no Property in Human Thought. Let each think as he will concerning the Universe; but let none seek to impose that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this World or any other World. Look now, though I enkindle thee to Effort in thy Way, yet it is the Way of thy Will, and I say not even that thou dost well to hasten therein, for the whole Matter lieth in thy Will, and to force thyself against thy Nature would be an Obstacle to thy Passage. Bu…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 174

Liber Aleph

…Crocodiles that are therein. Now, o my Son, mark thou well this that I will write for thine Advertisement and Behoof, that this Silence, though it be Perfection of Delight, is but the Gestation of thy Lion, and in thy Season thou must dare, and come forth to the Battle. Else, were not this Practice of Silence akin to the Formula of Separateness of the black Brothers? t

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1906 · PDF PAGE 126

Collected Works (Vol. II)

120 THE ARGONAUTS CHORUS, So fearful is the wrath divine, That once aroused it shall not sleep, Though prostrate slaves before the shrine Pray, praise. do sacrifice, and weep. Ten generations following past Shall not exhaust the curse at last. From father unto son it flees, An awful heritage of woe. Wives feel its cancerous prodigies Invade their wombs; the children know ' The inexpiable word, exhaust Not by a tenfold holocaust. Thus let mankind abase in fear Their hearts, nor sacrilege profane ‘The awful slumber of the seer, The dread adytum o…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 31

Clouds Without Water

…ts sterile death across my soul, and chills All hope of life even from the rare sad seeds It blows from sunnier vales and happier hills, Though at the best they be but worthless weeds. I stand — I scan the infinite horizon Of hopeless hope — yet I must travel on.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 95

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…Theodore Bugg. He nearly bolted from the shop. An English voice—it was almost Discovery ! “ Kelker shows, " he muttered doggedly enough, though his head hung lower than ever. “Kelker shows tray sho. Voo savvy ?—tray tray sho—par propre I " The shopman, not yet old enough to master his disgust at the familiar incident, brought forward several books of photographs “ Perhaps Monsieur will find there what he requires," he said coldly. Furtively and hurriedly, his glance divided between the forbidden book and the shop-door, his only safeguard from in…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 95

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…Theodore Bugg. He nearly bolted from the shop. An English voice—it was almost Discovery ! “ Kelker shows, " he muttered doggedly enough, though his head hung lower than ever. “Kelker shows tray sho. Voo savvy ?—tray tray sho—par propre I " The shopman, not yet old enough to master his disgust at the familiar incident, brought forward several books of photographs “ Perhaps Monsieur will find there what he requires," he said coldly. Furtively and hurriedly, his glance divided between the forbidden book and the shop-door, his only safeguard from in…

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