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1961 · PDF PAGE 56

Liber Aleph

…aw himself from a like Danger, cast out forever from the Mountain of Salvation; and Parsifal, who yielded not, able to exercise the true Power of Love, and thereby to perform the Miracle of Redemption. Of this also have I myself written in my Poema called Adonis. It is the same with Food and Drink, with Exercise, with Learning itself, the Problem is ever to bring the Appetite into right Relation with the Will. Thus thou mayst fast or feast; there is no Rule than that of Balance. And this Doctrine is of general Acceptation among the better Sort …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 93

The Sword of Song

…lohim. The Chariot. Four hundred and eighteen. Five are one, and six are diverse, five in the m idst and three on each side. The Word of Power, double in the Voice of the Master. Ain Elohim. Four sounds of four force. O the Snake hath a long tail ! Amen. Ain Elohim. Sudden death: thick darkness: ho ! the ox ! One, and one, and one: Creater, Preserver, Destroy er, ho ! the Redeemer ! Thunder-stone: whirlpool: lotus-flower: ho ! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 257

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… decisions may however be made to the Supreme Council. “The Sixth Degree is an executive or military body, and represents the tem- poral power of the Supreme and Holy King. Each member is amenable to military discipline. Singly or in concert with his comrades, each Knight is vowed to enforce the decisions of authority. “The Grade of Grand Inquisitor Commander follows. Here every member has the right to a seat on the Grand Tribunal, which body decides all disputes and complaints which have not been composed by the Chapter of Rose Croix or the Lo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 389

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…d with the fact that I had to cross the Abyss consciously, understanding its nature; for when I had passed through it there was in me no power to perceive. I knew no more than this --- a negative idea --- that its power was to dissipate me into dead dust. Now being bidden to cross it consciously, I asked the Angel, "Is there not one appointed as a warden?" I meant my Holy Guardian Angel, for whose Knowledge and Conversation I had abandoned all. The answer: "Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani". I knew that even my holiest, mine inmost self, might not …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 68

Oracles

…ere 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 Fire, And by the Gleaming Symbol : by the Rose And Cross of Light and Life : the holy Ankh, The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold. By these I say, Come forth ! My holy Spouse,

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1905 · PDF PAGE 86

Orpheus

…the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong laughing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion : then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefold : the humour changes as his child Calls him first “father” ; sense of strength divine Fills him; then man’s work in the world, and wild Efforts to fame: then steadier in the shrine Burns …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 139

Liber Aleph

… or guarded for its Appeal to thine Ideal, or cut off in thy fear thereof. For the Proof of its Virtue lieth in the Manifestation 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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1909 · PDF PAGE 42

777

… Attributions of the Coin, Disc, or Pantacle Suit [Diamonds]. Sword Suit [Spades]. 0 Pee . The Root ofthe Fowers of Earth . The Bo Scam. Powers of Air . ., | 1 Qk .2/ of iD 1 The Lord of Harmonious Change w in = | The Lord of Peace restored . 2 3 in Wa Material Works . h in —ASorrow . . 3 © in 83 Earthly Power .| U in Rest from Strife . 4 & in & | Material Trouble . | ? in <1 Defeat . .| 8 wy in UY Material Success . | % in <2 Bamed Success . | 6 h in & 3 Success Unfulfilled . D in %*3 Unstable Effort . a 2 ©) in MR! Prudence . Y in It Shortene…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 157

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…nce 0 ye Servants of Mercy, Movel Appear! Sing praises unto the Creator; and be mighty amongst us. For that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our Comforter! [Invokes the Angle of V of A in the tablet of A The Queen of the Thrones of Ain] THE EIGHTH KEY BAZODEMELO i ta pi-ripesonu olanu Na-zodavabebe ox. Casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho IAD. Soba miame tarianu ta lolacis Abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. Irejila cahisa da das pa—aox busada Caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacu…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 157

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…nce 0 ye Servants of Mercy, Movel Appear! Sing praises unto the Creator; and be mighty amongst us. For that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our Comforter! [Invokes the Angle of V of A in the tablet of A The Queen of the Thrones of Ain] THE EIGHTH KEY BAZODEMELO i ta pi-ripesonu olanu Na-zodavabebe ox. Casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho IAD. Soba miame tarianu ta lolacis Abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. Irejila cahisa da das pa—aox busada Caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacu…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 79

Konx Om Pax

…rb 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 hand, and called out the Indians, and annexed his per sonal property for relics, and otherwise followed the customs o…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ift as that of the Queen) and enduring. It is, there- fore, symbolized by a Figure borne in a Chariot, and clothed in Armour. Yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in Motion by his Father and Mother. The Four Princesses are the Knaves of the Tarot Pack; The Four Princesses or figures of Amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon Horses, nor seated upon Thrones, nor borne in 157

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1912 · PDF PAGE 199

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ift as that of the Queen) and enduring. It is, there- fore, symbolized by a Figure borne in a Chariot, and clothed in Armour. Yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in Motion by his Father and Mother. The Four Princesses are the Knaves of the Tarot Pack; The Four Princesses or figures of Amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon Horses, nor seated upon Thrones, nor borne in 157

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1905 · PDF PAGE 112

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… and passion furled Its pure wings, and abased itself, and bore Fetters impure, and stooped, and was no more. But resurrection’s ghastly power grew strong, And Lust was born, adulterous with Wrong, The Child of Lies; so man was blinded still, Garnered the harvest of abortive ill, For wheat reaped thistles, and for worship wrought A fouler idol of his meanest thought : A monster, vengeful, cruel, traitor, slave, Lord of disease and father of the grave, A treacherous bully, feeble as malign, Intolerable, inhuman, undivine, With spite close girded…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 39

Mortadello

…21 MONICA. Who knows ? Dive ! Bear it heedfully. ORLANDO. And whither ? MONICA. To my house. Here ! take my ring. I go to concentrate my power. My sworn allies must know. I join you in an hour. I will make time to-night, though death lurked in the curtain. An hour for our delight, make one dream sure and certain ! Though all else fail, one hour shall spell supreme success, The bee drink of the flower, strength link with loveliness. ORLANDO. Torrents of ravening blood poured from the desolate steeps, Tumultuous fever of flood from the mountain t…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 248

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… will I know the spell.) I am warned. begone. VENUS. I swear I will not let thee! Thinkest thou So long I have held thee not to have the power To hold thee still by charm, or love, or force? Fool, for I hate thee! I will have thy life! TANNHAUSER., Where is the cavern in the mountain side, The accurséd gateway of this house of Hell? VENUS. Thou canst not find it! Fool! TANNHAUSER. And yet I will. 1 Which would have given her power to use his body as an habitation, according to legend. VOL. I. VENUS. Meanwhile my chant shall tremble in the air, …

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1943 · PDF PAGE 5

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

…ryone that holdeth himself holy. It is I, not another, that willeth your whole Freedom, and the arising within you of full Knowledge and Power. Behold! the Kingdom of God is within you, even as the Sun standeth eternal in the heavens, equal at midnight and at noon. He riseth not: he setteth not: it is but the shadow of the earth which concealeth him, or the clouds upon her face. Let me then declare unto you this Mystery of the Law, as it hath been made known unto me in divers places, upon the mountains and in the deserts, but also in great citi…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 107

Little Poems in Prose

perstition, and acknowledged to me that he had never had fear as to his own power but once; and that was one day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his col- leagues, bawl from the pulpit, “Dearly beloved brethren let us never forget when we hear boasts of progress and light that the cleverest stratagem of the devil is to persuade us that he does not exist.” His recollection of this famous orator natu- rally led us to the subject of Universities, and my strange companion assured me that he did not consider it beneath him in many case…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 175

Liber Aleph

…eepest Ego, that is, a Being separate from the Universe; and his is the Root of the while Mystery of Evil. For he hath in him the Magick Power, which if he use not, he is self-poisoned, even as any Organ of the Body that refuseth its Function. So then his Cure is in his Ally the Lion, that feareth not the Crocodiles, nor hideth himself, but leapeth eagerly forward. The Path of the Mystic hath this Pitfall; for though he unite himself with his God, his Mode is to withdraw from that which him seemeth is not God. Whereby he affirmeth and confirmet…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 49

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…grass by magic spell Are suddenly around me. And above I hear the voice my visions know so well : ‘Well striven all this day against the power of Hell!” I know these mercies still diviner grow Each day I strive. But should I sit and rest One hour of dawn, and cry, ‘‘I will not go Another step without more sleep,” that blest' Dove flies away, the fountains are re- pressed, 1 J,e,, to serve as a direction. The grass is withered, and the angry sky Rages more fierce that day, and from the crest Of black foul mountains comes a bitter cry: ** He that…

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