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1905 · PDF PAGE 7

Collected Works (Vol. I)

CONTENTS PAGE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST— Continued IIT. IV. THE NAMELESS QUEST THE REAPER THE Two MINbs THE Two WIspDoMs. THE Two Loves A RELIGIOUS BRINGING-UP THE Law OF CHANGE SYNTHESIS . THr Hoty PLace— THE NEOPHYTE Sin: AN ODE THE NAME THE EVOCATION . THE ROSE AND ‘THE Cross HAPPINESS THE Lorp’s Day CERBERUS. . . THE HIoLyY or HoLigs— . 186 - 193 - 193 - 194 - 194. . 194 . 194 . 196 . 197 - 200 202 . 202 » 202 » 202 THE PALACE OF THE WorRLD. 204 THE MOUNTAIN CHRIST. To ALLAN MACGREGOR . EPILOGUE APPENDIX » 205 . 207 TABLE OF CORRESPONDEN…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 29

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…'s fountain , set aside the throng Of devils , bid your presence fill the room , I cry to you , and call your shadow sweet , I make your name the tenour of my song , Thoralis , Thoralis , Thoralis —

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1904 · PDF PAGE 92

The Argonauts

20 ARGONAUTAE Life is the flaming of that flame. Death is the naming of that name. The forehead of the snake is bright With one immortal star, Lighting her coils with living light To where the nenuphar Sleeps for her couch. All darkness dreams The thing that is not, only seems. That star upon the serpent’s head Is called the soul of man: That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life’s plan. The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought’s abyss of tears and woes. Leave Sirenusa! Even Greece Forget! they are not there! By worship cometh not…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 191

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…and flares Like corpse~lightsglimmering in the gloom Till all’s a blaze, one roar of flame, Death universal, locked and linked :— Aha! one names the awful Name— The twin red planets are extinct. [A flame. [The lamp burn: out, and darkness covers all. [LEADER οι: THE CHORUS setretly removes hell-broth vase.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 191

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…and flares Like corpse~lightsglimmering in the gloom Till all’s a blaze, one roar of flame, Death universal, locked and linked :— Aha! one names the awful Name— The twin red planets are extinct. [A flame. [The lamp burn: out, and darkness covers all. [LEADER οι: THE CHORUS setretly removes hell-broth vase.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 498

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…king, "How I wish I had prawns for lunch!" The thought recurred despite indignant attempts to banish it. An hour or so later, I heard my name shouted. I jumped up and found no trace of the shouter. I knew the voice must come from a boat, and ran up and down the island furiously. Still nothing in sight. It must have been half an hour before we found each other, though looking everywhere, and the island being quite small. Whitehead had brought his wife and her sister with various luxuries to mitigate the austerity of the fare traditionally proper…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 26

Carmen Saeculare

…n and scattered, And Ireland is clear to the Sea ! Green Erin is free ! Hail ! Hail to Thee, Lord of us, Horus ! All hail to the warrior name ! Thy chariots shall drive them before us, Thy sword sweep them forth as a flame. Rise ! Move ! and descend ! I behold Thee, Heaven cloven of fieriest bars, Armed Light ; and they follow and fold Thee, Thine armies of terrible stars. The Powers of Mars ! At the brightness that leapeth before Thee The heavens bow down at Thine ire ; Thick clouds pass to death and adore Thee, Wild hailstones and flashings o…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 124

The Book of Thoth

…, a fool above wisdom? Whom do the hounds of heaven fol‐ low, and the crocodiles of hell await? Aleph, Vau, Yod, Ayin, Resh, Tau, is his name.1 Beneath his feet is the Kingdom, and upon his head the Crown. He is spirit and matter; he is peace and power; in him is Chaos and Night and Pan; and upon BABALON his concubine, that hath made him drunk upon the blood of the saints that she hath gathered in her golden cup, hath he begotten the virgin that now he doth deflower. And this is that which is written: Malkuth shall be uplifted and set upon the …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 77

Ambergris

…e ; Stars in the deep are set ; Written in gold on the day’s grave, “ To love, and to forget ; ” And sea-winds whisper o’er the wave The name of Margaret. A heart of gold, a flower of white, A blushing flame of snow, She moves like latticed moons of light— And O ! her voice is low, Shell murmurs borne to Amphitrite, Exulting as they go. Her stature waves, as if a flower Forgot the evening breeze, But heard the charioted hour Sweep from the father seas, And kept sweet time within her bower, And hushed mild melodies. So grave and delicate and tal…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 25

Liber Aleph

…e with the divided Purpose which is the first Breach in that Fortress of the Soul whose Fall should bring it to the shapeless Ruin whose Name is Choronzon! k

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1899 · PDF PAGE 249

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.’ © We should like to give other examples, but we can only name some of those pieces that seem to us the most remarkable. Such are ‘An II] Dream,’ of which the glowing imagery seizes and holds fast the vagueness of shifting impressions; a ‘ Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile,’ containing some fine lyric flights; ‘ The Initiation,’ and ‘Succubus,’ a record of fearful obsessions in a metre which, in spite of a few unaccountable lapses, we think extremely effective.”—7he M…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 107

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…r with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great piss and po, meant With this regard, their currents corkscrew turn And lose the name of pumpship. Soft you now ! The fair Ophelia ! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. OPHELIA. Good my lord, How does your honour for this many a day ? HAM. I humbly thank you ! Well, well, well. OPH. My lord, I have remembrances of yours That I have longed to redeliver : I pray you now receive them. HAM. No, not I. I never gave you aught. OPH. My honoured lord, you know right well you did. [Lef…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 191

Moonchild

…hristianity. This was done in no spirit of hostility to that religion, but to permit of her being rebaptized into it under Lisa's maiden name. The Turk was next called upon to renounce Islam, and baptized by the name of the Marchese la Giuffria. The American priest next proceeded to confirm [269] them in the Christian religion, and to communicate the Sacrament. Finally, they were married. In this long profanation of the mysteries of the Church the horror lay in the business-like simplicity of the procedure. One can imagine the Charity of a devo…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 126

Tannhäuser

…t all the turmoil, ridiculing it ? You knew the secret symbol of my life, You forced me to that miserable song. The Unknown Minstrel. My name, sir, at your service, is Geschicht. 124

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1898 · PDF PAGE 46

White Stains

… it not for hire ? ” Fame brought a golden crown, bejewelled o’er With precious rubies beyond price, and cried “ The world is young, thy name shall evermore Ring in men’s ears, stately and glorified ” But I, with shuddering lips, to him replied “ Fame is the amaranth that fools desire My soul’s price is beyond thy jewels’ pride Thou has a guerdon, is it not for hire ? ” “ Wealth brought to me a purse, whose glancing gold Mocked the sun’s rays, grown dull as iron rust,

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1898 · PDF PAGE 85

White Stains

…And his great sword within me flame, His breath as hot and quick as fame ; To kiss him and to clasp him tight ; This is my joy without a name, A strong man’s love is my delight. To feel again his love grow grand Touched by the langour of my kiss ; To suck the hot blood from my gland Mingled with fierce spunk that doth hiss, And boils in sudden spurted bliss ; Ah ! God ! the long-drawn lusty fight ! Grant me eternity of this ! A strong man’s love is my delight !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

76 THE EQUINOX THE YOUNG JOHN. I am that I am, the flame Hidden in the sacred ark. I am the unspoken name, I the unbegotten spark. Iam He that ever goeth, Being in myself the Way; Known, that yet no mortal knoweth, Shewn, that yet no mortal sheweth, I, the child of night and day. I am never-dying youth. Iam Love, and I am Truth. I am the creating Word, I the author of the zon ; None but I have ever heard Echo in the empyrean Plectron of the primal pzean! I am the eternal one Winged and white, the flowering rod, I the fountain of the sun, Very G…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

76 THE EQUINOX THE YOUNG JOHN. I am that I am, the flame Hidden in the sacred ark. I am the unspoken name, I the unbegotten spark. Iam He that ever goeth, Being in myself the Way; Known, that yet no mortal knoweth, Shewn, that yet no mortal sheweth, I, the child of night and day. I am never-dying youth. Iam Love, and I am Truth. I am the creating Word, I the author of the zon ; None but I have ever heard Echo in the empyrean Plectron of the primal pzean! I am the eternal one Winged and white, the flowering rod, I the fountain of the sun, Very G…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 51

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…nd of the triumphant Osiris, not forgetting their link in the destroyer Apophis, there remains no secret veiled in Nature. He cries that name of God which throughout History has been echoed by one religion to another, the infinité swelling paean I.A.O. ! 2 1. See “The Book of Lies”, Liber 333, for several sermons to this effect. The whole theory of Death must be sought in Liber CXI Aleph. 2. This name. I. A. O. is qabalistically identical with that of The Beast and with His number 666, so that he who invokes the former invokes also the îatter. …

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1902 · PDF PAGE 25

Tannhäuser

…ot despair. " The Blood of the Osiris " was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) "The life, the tears, the tomb ! " The Love of I sis is its name ! " (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses bloom. For the Three Maries (so he said) were One : Three aspects of the mystic spouse of God, Isis ! This pagan ! " Look towards the Sun " (Quoth he) " And seek a winepress to be trod ; " With Beauty girdled, garlanded, and shod.

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