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1912 · PDF PAGE 437

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

LIBER CCCXXXIII NOW READY THE BOOK OF LIES WHICH IS ALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS THE WANDERINGS OR FALSIFICATIONS OF THE ONE THOUGHT OF FRATER PERDURABO WHICH THOUGHT IS ITSELF UNTRUE “Break, break, break At the foot of th; And I would that stones, O Sea! could ‘utter ‘The thoughts that arise in me!" CONTENTS *° 49. WARATAH-BLOSSOMS 2. ‘The Sabbath of the Goat 50. The Vigil of St. Hubert 2, The Cry of the Hawk $1. Terrier Work 3. The Oyster $2. The Bull-Baiting 4. Peaches 33. The Dowser 5. The Battle of the Ants 34. Eaves-Droppings @. Caviar 35. …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 437

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

LIBER CCCXXXIII NOW READY THE BOOK OF LIES WHICH IS ALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS THE WANDERINGS OR FALSIFICATIONS OF THE ONE THOUGHT OF FRATER PERDURABO WHICH THOUGHT IS ITSELF UNTRUE “Break, break, break At the foot of th; And I would that stones, O Sea! could ‘utter ‘The thoughts that arise in me!" CONTENTS *° 49. WARATAH-BLOSSOMS 2. ‘The Sabbath of the Goat 50. The Vigil of St. Hubert 2, The Cry of the Hawk $1. Terrier Work 3. The Oyster $2. The Bull-Baiting 4. Peaches 33. The Dowser 5. The Battle of the Ants 34. Eaves-Droppings @. Caviar 35. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 609

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

LIBER CCCXXXIII NOW READY THE BOOK OF LIES WHICH IS ALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS THE WANDERINGS OR FALSIFICATIONS OF THE ONE THOUGHT OF FRATER PERDURABO WHICH THOUGHT IS ITSELF UNTRUE “Break, break, break At the foot of th And I would that stones, O Sea! could ‘utter ‘The thoughts that arise in me!” CONTENTS 5 49. WARATAH-BLOSSOMS 1, ‘The Sabbath of the Goat 50, The Vigil of St. Hubert 2. The Cry of the Hawk $1. Terrier Work 3. The Oyster $2. The Bull-Baiting 4. Peaches $3. The Dowser 5. The Battle of the Ants 54. Eaves-Droppings 8. Caviar $5. Th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 609

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

LIBER CCCXXXIII NOW READY THE BOOK OF LIES WHICH IS ALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS THE WANDERINGS OR FALSIFICATIONS OF THE ONE THOUGHT OF FRATER PERDURABO WHICH THOUGHT IS ITSELF UNTRUE “Break, break, break At the foot of th And I would that stones, O Sea! could ‘utter ‘The thoughts that arise in me!” CONTENTS 5 49. WARATAH-BLOSSOMS 1, ‘The Sabbath of the Goat 50, The Vigil of St. Hubert 2. The Cry of the Hawk $1. Terrier Work 3. The Oyster $2. The Bull-Baiting 4. Peaches $3. The Dowser 5. The Battle of the Ants 54. Eaves-Droppings 8. Caviar $5. Th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 438

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…—O thou gosling scant of grace! The dream breaks, and Sir Palamede Wakes to the glass of his fool’s face! “ Ah, ’sdeath!” (quod he), “by thought and deed This brute for ever mocketh me. The lance is made a broken reed, The brain is but a barren tree— For all the beautiful Design Is but mine own geometry!” With that his wrath brake out like wine. He plunged his body in, and shattered The whole delusion asinine. All the false water-nymphs that flattered He killed with his resounding curse— O fool of God! as if it mattered! So, nothing better, rat…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 438

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…—O thou gosling scant of grace! The dream breaks, and Sir Palamede Wakes to the glass of his fool’s face! “ Ah, ’sdeath!” (quod he), “by thought and deed This brute for ever mocketh me. The lance is made a broken reed, The brain is but a barren tree— For all the beautiful Design Is but mine own geometry!” With that his wrath brake out like wine. He plunged his body in, and shattered The whole delusion asinine. All the false water-nymphs that flattered He killed with his resounding curse— O fool of God! as if it mattered! So, nothing better, rat…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 172

The World’s Tragedy

…broken reed — a birth unclean, A life sucked up in sordid spleen, A death absurd, most foully wrought To the shape of thy father’s leper-thought. This be thy doom, that thou shalt see The curses that are born of thee ! Thou black bat that hast barred the sun From the sight of man, thou minion Of death and disease, of toil and want, Of slavery, knavery, greed and cant, Of bigotry, murder, hypocrisy — Speak thou the things that are seen of thee ! ISSA Canst thou not save me, Pan, And balk the bestial plan ?

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1929 · PDF PAGE 139

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…remony is bathing and robing, with appropriate words. The bath signifies the removal of ail things extraneous or antagonistic to the one thought. The putting on of the robe is the positive side of the same operation. It is the assumption of the frame of mind suitable to that one thought. A similar operation takes place in the préparation of every instrument, as has been seen in the Chapter devoted to that subject. In the préparation of the place of working, the same considérations apply. We first remove from that place ail objects; and we then …

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1902 · PDF PAGE 113

Tannhäuser

…lan Made by the Ancient One, to keep His power. Limits He set, made space unsearchable Yet bounded, made time endless to transcend Man's thought to comprehend : Builded the Tower Of life, and girded it with walls of hell, The name of Death. This limit in all things Baffles the spirit wings, Chains the swift soul ; for even Death is bound. In its apparent amplitude I saw, I, who have slept through death, have surely found The old accursed law. And death has changed to life. This task alone Shoots to the starry throne : 1 1 1

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1910 · PDF PAGE 217

The Winged Beetle

… evenings how the sun is fine ! How space seems deep ! How roars the heart’s red flood ! I lean toward thee, adoring, queen of mine, And thought I breathed the perfume of thy blood— On summer evenings how the sun is fine ! The night fell thick and thick, a screen of sable ; Mine eyes within the blackness guessed at thine. I drank thy sighs—oh poison comfortable ! Thy feet slept in these brother hands of mine : The night fell thick and thick, a screen of sable.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 277

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ny other occasion had so much time to think --- I am afraid I express it badly. I mean that I was acutely conscious of a few well-marked thoughts, without the usual gradations, sub-thoughts, connections and so forth, that make it hard --- in ordinary life --- to discriminate between conscious and unconscious thought. On this night I was as primitive as an ape. My thoughts stand out stark as stars on a background of utter blackness. I had become, as by an enchanter's spell, the primeval caveman. Perhaps the long strain and horror of the Kangchen…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 111

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE GARDEN OF JANUS Of all these thoughts, the rancid and the rotten, Proved in the end to be my womb Wherein my Lord and lover had begotten A little child To drive me, laughing lion, into the wanton wild! XXV This child hath not one hair upon his head, But he hath wings instead of ears. No eyes hath he, but all his light is shed Within him on the ordered spheres Of nature that he hideth ; and in stead Of mouth he hath One minute point of jet; silence, the lightning path! XXVI Also his nostrils are shut up; for he Hath not the need of any breat…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 111

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE GARDEN OF JANUS Of all these thoughts, the rancid and the rotten, Proved in the end to be my womb Wherein my Lord and lover had begotten A little child To drive me, laughing lion, into the wanton wild! XXV This child hath not one hair upon his head, But he hath wings instead of ears. No eyes hath he, but all his light is shed Within him on the ordered spheres Of nature that he hideth ; and in stead Of mouth he hath One minute point of jet; silence, the lightning path! XXVI Also his nostrils are shut up; for he Hath not the need of any breat…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 483

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ive being. The mem.—Spirit, or the Jakin of Solomon. The scu1n.—Matter, or the column called Boaz. Tue DovusLe LETTERS BETH. Reflection, thought, the moon, the Angel Gabriel, Prince of mysteries. GIMEL. Love, will, Venus, the Angel Anael, Prince of life and death. DALETH. Force, power, Jupiter, Sachiel, Melech, King of kings. KAPH. Violence, strife, work, Mars, Samael Zebaoth, Prince of Phalanges. PE. Eloquence, intelligence, Mercury, Raphael, Prince of sciences. RESH. Destruction and regeneration, Time, Saturn, Cassiel, King of tombs and of so…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 483

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ive being. The mem.—Spirit, or the Jakin of Solomon. The scu1n.—Matter, or the column called Boaz. Tue DovusLe LETTERS BETH. Reflection, thought, the moon, the Angel Gabriel, Prince of mysteries. GIMEL. Love, will, Venus, the Angel Anael, Prince of life and death. DALETH. Force, power, Jupiter, Sachiel, Melech, King of kings. KAPH. Violence, strife, work, Mars, Samael Zebaoth, Prince of Phalanges. PE. Eloquence, intelligence, Mercury, Raphael, Prince of sciences. RESH. Destruction and regeneration, Time, Saturn, Cassiel, King of tombs and of so…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 74

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…me and be my dear, To love me in the spirit without fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be bought! THE TWELFTH DAY. ‘* T grant thou wert not married to my Muse And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair subjects.”’ The Sonnets. I LEARNT at last some sort of …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 137

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ave him food : Nor all too much resents the doom Which brings to dust earth 's myriad brood . Yet child of God , man greatly shares Each thought each passion of his sire , And all the brash of earthly cares Consumes in elemental fire . 118

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1898 · PDF PAGE 50

Jephthah

…s, And pluck his meaning from his subtle words ? AHINOAM. Who shall speak plain enough for such as these To understand? Or so debase his thought As meet their minds, and seem as wisdom’s self? CHORUS. Leave now thy gibing in the hour of joy, And lend sweet wisdom to awaiting ears. Thy voice shall carry it, thy words shall bear Full fruit to-day. Speak only, it is done. AHINOAM. I am grown old, and go not out to wars. But in the lusty days of youth my face Turned from the battle and pursuit and spoil Only to one face dearer than my soul, And my …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 60

The Soul of Osiris

48 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. There is a shallop—how the breakers gallop, Grinding to dust the unresisting shore, A moon-mad thought to wander in the shallop ! Act—think no more ! Pale as a ghost I leave the sounding coast, The waters white with moonrise. I embark, Float on to the horizon as a ghost, Confront the dark. The cadent curve of Dian seems to swerve, Eluding helmcraft : let me drift away Where sea and sky unite their clamorous curve In praise of Day. Is it an edge ? Some spray-bechiselled ledge ? Some sentry platform to an under sky ? Let me…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 20

The Argonauts

12 ARGONAUTAE Hard after? Wilt thou plunge all Thessaly, All Greece, in haste and sudden armament, Fury of thought and frenzy of deed, at once For justice? Wouldst thou be so violent For justice, save in thine own cause, O boy? And wilt thou pity not the happy days And storm-unshatteréd abodes of Greece? JASON. Athena, who is Justice, also is Wisdom: and also “She who buildeth towns.” PELIAS. Think also, I am born of deity. I am inured to majesty; I know How venerable is the sight of kings, And how the serpent Treason writhes beneath The royal …

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