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1930 · PDF PAGE 38

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

and is the child of Set-Isis as their Logos or Word uttered by their “Angel”. The card is XX, and 20 is the value of Yod (the Angel or Herald) expressed in full as IVD. S h is the Spiritual congress of Heaven and Earth. But T is the Holy Spirit in action as a “roaring lion” or as the uold Serpent” instead of as an “Angel of Light”. The twins of Set-Isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as m the cases of Mary and the Dove; Leda and the Swan, etc. The car…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 88

Why Jesus Wept

74 WHY JESUS WEPT SIR GRABSON J. Good ! Good ! No chance of heirs failing — ha ! But a word in your ear. This morphia ? SIR HERPES Z. Not a sign of relapse, old friend, and never will be now. Sir Percy is as sound a man as lives in England — I took four other opinions. SIR GRABSON J. None as weighty as your own ! SIR HERPES Z. You are polite, very polite. Where is Carruthers ? SIR GRABSON J. He is away to Windsor — the King (they beat their foreheads eightyseven times upon the ground) knights him to-day. SIR HERPES Z. I knew he had the O.M. and…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 379

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… Kethe: Transiens superהנוע לע ?עשפך prevaricatione 834 835 Brachia Mundiתועורז ?םלוע 836 837 The profuse giver, [Cf. theחח ?לו Egyptian word Tan] [D counted as Final. Vide?הבךםל 277. This z': written] 838 π 839 840 19” fa" Laudes?חולהת 842 843 844 845 נב ?תויתוא Oleum influxus;םש ?עפשה 846 847 848 849 Exitus Sabbazhiיאצומ ?תבש 63 850הלבח My perfectone. (Not written.) Wan [Cant v. z.] Vide 857 Blue; perfection 851 Souls. [I.RQ. 1052et seq.]?זוהחםשב 852 תוצבשמ בהזOccellata Aurea ; Netzach and Had receiving influence from Geburah 853יוז tvi-nan?הר…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 379

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… Kethe: Transiens superהנוע לע ?עשפך prevaricatione 834 835 Brachia Mundiתועורז ?םלוע 836 837 The profuse giver, [Cf. theחח ?לו Egyptian word Tan] [D counted as Final. Vide?הבךםל 277. This z': written] 838 π 839 840 19” fa" Laudes?חולהת 842 843 844 845 נב ?תויתוא Oleum influxus;םש ?עפשה 846 847 848 849 Exitus Sabbazhiיאצומ ?תבש 63 850הלבח My perfectone. (Not written.) Wan [Cant v. z.] Vide 857 Blue; perfection 851 Souls. [I.RQ. 1052et seq.]?זוהחםשב 852 תוצבשמ בהזOccellata Aurea ; Netzach and Had receiving influence from Geburah 853יוז tvi-nan?הר…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…h, 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 God of very God! Iam he that lifteth up Life, and flingeth it afar; I have filled the crystal cup; I have sealed the silver star. I the wingless God that flieth Through my firmamental fane, Iam he that daily dieth…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 116

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…h, 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 God of very God! Iam he that lifteth up Life, and flingeth it afar; I have filled the crystal cup; I have sealed the silver star. I the wingless God that flieth Through my firmamental fane, Iam he that daily dieth…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 205

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ing hell; And thou—recede ! O Hermes! Messenger of inmost thought ! Descend! Abide! Swift coursing in my velns Shoot dazzling pains, The Word of Selfhood integrate of Nought, The Ineffable Amen ! the Wonder wrought. Bring death if life exceed ! Bid thy pale Hermit bleed, Yet Life exude; And Wisdom and the Word of Him

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1902 · PDF PAGE 25

Tannhäuser

…uest. An holy man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him : he bade me not 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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1902 · PDF PAGE 28

Tannhäuser

…contemptuous of the plain. (Why, which is higher ?) I am in despair. Let me essay the Pharaoh and his prayer ! [ Tannh'diiser speaks the Word of Double Power. 26

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1909 · PDF PAGE 104

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…wed and satyr-lipped ; Crushed, as a grape between his teeth, my fears ; Sucked out my life And stamped me with the shame, the monstrous word of wife. VI I will not weep; nay, I will follow him. Perchance he is not far,

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1909 · PDF PAGE 104

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…wed and satyr-lipped ; Crushed, as a grape between his teeth, my fears ; Sucked out my life And stamped me with the shame, the monstrous word of wife. VI I will not weep; nay, I will follow him. Perchance he is not far,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 128

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… am in agony, Typhon ! Who hath disturbed our ageless peace? Threatened our mystery? Isis mzmz Hath borne a child. We are twins. H. What word Insults us ? R. [Springs up.] Lo! I am, the third. H. [Comes forward with the scourge, and forces R. to kneel,] Then bow thee to the two above! [Strikes him twice. Nn. [Comes forward with the vod.| We need no witness of 4 our love. [Strikes him twice. H. Who art thou? N. Whence art thou ? R. -My name Is surely I am that I am. H. Blaspheme not ! [Strikes him twice. N. Lie not! [Strikes him twice. 88

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1913 · PDF PAGE 128

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… am in agony, Typhon ! Who hath disturbed our ageless peace? Threatened our mystery? Isis mzmz Hath borne a child. We are twins. H. What word Insults us ? R. [Springs up.] Lo! I am, the third. H. [Comes forward with the scourge, and forces R. to kneel,] Then bow thee to the two above! [Strikes him twice. Nn. [Comes forward with the vod.| We need no witness of 4 our love. [Strikes him twice. H. Who art thou? N. Whence art thou ? R. -My name Is surely I am that I am. H. Blaspheme not ! [Strikes him twice. N. Lie not! [Strikes him twice. 88

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1905 · PDF PAGE 166

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ld not give that sunny fruit of yours For twenty such frail flowers as Madeline. IT am a man—you mate me with a girl ! CORA. Stop! not a word! My blasphemy to hear, Yours to speak out—when you are told the truth ! ULRIC. What truth? sound. , The truth! hell If but it stand between us and our love ! This word hath first an ugly God curse it to His blackest

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1907 · PDF PAGE 192

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…d our mysteries Quaked at the prescience of these solemnities ? AE ACUS. Child of the earth and heaven, Our spirits thou hast riven With words we must admit, with power of song—whence given? Neither of God nor man, Thy song’s amazing span Hath caused strange joy among the woes Tartarean. RHADAMANTHUS. Never in the centuries Till godlike Heracles Burst the wild bonds, hath mortal found the fatal knees; Nor hath the bitter cry Of worlds in agony Answered the groans of those who weep, and cannot die. MINOS. Iron of heart and strong, We also suffer…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 47

White Stains

…the air, thou offerest nought to me I serve thee, recompensed of hell-fire, More nobly than these others, verily Since none with impious word may mock at thee “ Thou has a guerdon, is it not for hire ? ”

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1899 · PDF PAGE 239

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ombine To wreak swift justice, human and divine? Priests thrive on poison. Carrion Their eager teeth Tear, till the sacramental sun Its sword unsheath, And bid their horrid carnival be done, And smite beneath In their cold gasping valleys, and bid light Break the battalions of the angry night. That sword that smote from Heaven was so keen, Its silver blade No angel’s sight, no fairy’s eye hath seen, No tender maid With subtle insight may behold its sheen With light inlaid ; But God, who forged it, breathed upon its point, And His pure unction d…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 11

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ear, Tremble and visibly fear, Shake the intangible chain that hungereth. That Mother of Mankind Sprang in the thunder-wind ! The strong words bind ~ For evermore, Amen! the keys of Hell and Death. Central, supreme, most formidable Night, Gathered its garments, drew itself apart, Gaunt limbs appear athwart the coprolite Veil of deep agony, display the heart; Even as a gloomy sea, Wherein dead fishes be, Poisonous things, nameless; the eightfold Fear, Misshapen crab and worm, The intolerable sperm, Lewd dragons slime-built stagnant, the foul mer…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 129

Book 4 (Part II)

…AS the Magick Cup is the heavenly food of the Magus, so is the Magick Pantacle his earthly food. The Wand was his divine force, and the Sword his human force. The Cup is hollow to receive the influence from above. The Pantacle is flat like the fertile plains of earth. The name Pantacle implies an image of the All, 07n?ie in paruo; but this is by a magical transformation of the Pantacle. Just as we made the Sword symbolical of everything by the force of our Magick, so do we work upon the Pantacle. That which is merely a piece of common bread sha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 109

The Scented Garden

… of his song the lovely lilt. 1. This is the very same old fable we learnt about the Tower of Babel. 2. Jilt — the Persian has a coarser word — our English “ cockteaser.” But a translator must be allowed both latitude and modesty.

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