1961 · PDF PAGE 82
Liber Aleph
…uintessence is in this one Word Anatta, because this is not only the foundation and the Result of his whole Doctrine, but the Way of its Work. w
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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…usual quality. Miss Archer’s Poems are both mystical and realistic, and they bear traces of having been to some extent influenced by the work of Mr. Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.”—T,. Ps Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work.. . .Miss Ethel Archer misses everything. Thereis no élan in the work. She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which sheis burdened, …
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1904 · PDF PAGE 32
Why Jesus Wept
18 WHY JESUS WEPT. None, not the wisest, may foretell. I fear A moment’s mischief may destroy these years Of grave solicitude, their work. This boy Thinks his grey father dead. These words (tapping a letter) shall speak Even from the tomb. These words shall be obeyed By force of ancient habit : these give me Supreme authority to exercise By stealth, not overt till the hour be come When madness seats herself upon the lad, And he turn serpent on his friends. But no ! There is too strong a discipline of sense, Too cool a brain, too self-controlled…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 183
The Book of Thoth
…f the card. There is another view to consider, that this is the last of all the cards, and therefore represents the sum total of all the work that has been done from the beginning. Therefore, in it is drawn the very figure of the Tree of Life itself. This card, to the other thirty‐five small cards, is what the twenty‐first Trump, The Universe, is to the rest of the Trumps.
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1899 · PDF PAGE 240
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
… of Liberty. Freedom shall burgeon like a rose, While in the sky A new white sun with ardour glows On Liberty. Men shall sing merrily at work as those Who fear no more to die— Ay! and who fear no more at last to live Since man can love and worship and forgive. Then on these heights of Caucasus A fire shall dwell, Pure as the dawn, and odorous Of bud and bell; A flower of fire, a flame from Heaven to us. All triumph to foretell, A glory of unspeakable delight, A flower.like lightning, adamant and white. There needs no more or sun or sea Or any l…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 536
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
THE EQUINOX Axiom XVII To suffer is to work. A great sorrow suffered is a pro- gress accomplished. Those who suffer much live more than those who do not suffer. Axiom XVIII Voluntary death from devotion is not suicide; it is the apotheosis of the will. Axiom XIX Fear is nothing but idleness of the will, and for that reason public opinion scourges cowards. Axiom XX Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you. Say to sorrow: “I will that you be a pleasure, more even than a pleasure, a happiness.” Axiom XXI A chain of iron is easie…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 536
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
THE EQUINOX Axiom XVII To suffer is to work. A great sorrow suffered is a pro- gress accomplished. Those who suffer much live more than those who do not suffer. Axiom XVIII Voluntary death from devotion is not suicide; it is the apotheosis of the will. Axiom XIX Fear is nothing but idleness of the will, and for that reason public opinion scourges cowards. Axiom XX Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you. Say to sorrow: “I will that you be a pleasure, more even than a pleasure, a happiness.” Axiom XXI A chain of iron is easie…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 231
Collected Works (Vol. III)
…e Visible Image of the Invisible. Thus by a living chain religion lived—in the Mysteries of Eleusis. Further, recognising that the Great Work was henceforth to be secret, a worship of caverns and midnight groves and catacombs, no more of open fields and smiling bowers, they caused to be written in symbols by one of the lesser initiates the whole Mystery of Godliness, so that after the renaissance those who were fitted to the Work might infallibly discover the first matter of the Work and even many of the processes thereof. Such writings are tho…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 120
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)
erform the Great Work by the formula of Régénération. To trike with the hand on the dagger déclarés that one demands he use of the dagger as a tocl to extena one’s executive power. The reader will recall how Siegfried smote Nothung, the sword of Need, upon the lance of Wotan. By the action Wagner, who was instructed how to apply magical formulæ by one of the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general objec…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 364
Magick Without Tears
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 331 matters, and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice, and she did not insist. My object in calling on this second occasion was multiple: I wanted to see the man with whom she is living, who has not yet returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her; and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible God.…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 426
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
…usual quality. Miss Archer's poems are both mystical and realistic, and they bear traces of having been to some extent influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . .. Miss Fthel Archer misses everything. There is no an in the work. She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burdened…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 426
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
…usual quality. Miss Archer's poems are both mystical and realistic, and they bear traces of having been to some extent influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . .. Miss Fthel Archer misses everything. There is no an in the work. She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burdened…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 598
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…usual quality. Miss Archer's poems are both mystical and realistic, and they bear traces of having been to some extent influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . . . Miss Ethel Archer misses everything. There is no é/an in the work, She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burde…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 598
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…usual quality. Miss Archer's poems are both mystical and realistic, and they bear traces of having been to some extent influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . . . Miss Ethel Archer misses everything. There is no é/an in the work, She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burde…
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1905 · PDF PAGE 221
Collected Works (Vol. I)
…ant, comet or I was born fighter. Think you then my task meteor : . ‘** The dog returneth to his vomit : the ancient is done, £ whore My work, my Father’s work for men, the rising sunf 1 A mountain on Loch Ness, opposite the 1 This is the heraldic description of Crowley's | poet's home. crest. 2 England. * Crowley, an Irishman, was passionately attached to the Celtic movement, and only abandoned it when he found that it was a mere mask for the hideous fe:itures of Roman Catholicism. 214
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1898 · PDF PAGE 54
Songs of the Spirit
…s the stars in adamantine band, And yearns towards the children of His mind. I left their summer and their dewy strand To pass a life of work, alone, unkind, To fight a way toward heaven, mute, desolate and blind. The dusty desert glimmers in the night, A solitary palm-tree shades the well ; I am alone, a weary eremite Striving the secrets of the stars to tell, And every blade of grass that makes the dell Is counted and divined by me, who stare With eyes half blinded by the fires of Hell That my wild brain imagines everywhere, Roaring and ragin…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 105
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…ouths with smiles : If you were thrall to chancre And I were page to piles ! If you were fuckings lady And I were lord of buggery, Wed work electric handles To dildos, sticks, and candles. Till testicles kept hey-day In vulvas greasy snuggery : If you were fuckings lady And I were lord of buggery. If you were queen of spending And I were lord of spunk, Wed fuck for days together And oil your chamois-leather, And teach my tool a bending. Arid prove your twat a skunk, If you were the queen of spending And I were lord of spunk. EPILOGUE If I …
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1930 · PDF PAGE 37
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)
…They must acknowledge that “The Word of the Law is 0EAHMA and that “Love is the Law, love under Will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. 2 He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with ail the energy, courage, and ability that he can command. This applies especially to the work of extending the Law in the world, wherein his proof is his ow…
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1902 · PDF PAGE 146
Tannhäuser
…d . . . morbid unpleasantness of Mr Crowley's taste." " Much to attract and not a little to repel. A very singular and striking piece of work . . . undoubted power and originality . . . vigorous mastery and daring conception . . . we are compelled to read even where the subject matter fails to attract . . . several glaring crudities and much banality." " An unusual number of gory phantoms." "A trifle ludicrous and monotonous." " A riot of words without much thought at the back of them . . . windy and boyish in over-emphasis . . . very respectab…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 11
777
… ideas still crowd in chains? But we digress. The last attempts to tabulate knowledge are the Kaddala Denudata of Knorr von Rosenroth (a work incomplete and, in some of its parts, prostituted to the service of dogmatic interpretation), the lost symbolism of the Vault in which Christian Rosenkreutzis said to have been buried, some of the work of Dr. Dee and Sir Edward Kelly, some very imperfect tables in Cornelius Agrippa, the “Art” of Raymond Lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric Theosophists, and of late years the knowle…
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