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1913 · PDF PAGE 74

Book 4 (Part II)

… of whims; but once organization has taken place it is sacred. As Blake says: "Everything that lives is holy"; and hence the creation of life is the most sacred of tasks. It does not matter very much to the creator what it is that he creates; there is room in the universe for both the spider and the fly. It is from the rubbish-heap of Choronzon that one selects the material for a god ! This is the ultimate analysis of the Mystery of Redemption, and is possibly the real reason of the existence (if existence it can be called) of form, or, if you …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 282

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…row/ey. Comte’s Philosophy as Rectified by Schopen- hauer—Fuller. Contemporary Psychology—Crow/ey. Evolution from Nebula to Man—Fudller. Life of John Dee—Fudler. Little Books of Selections of the Children of the Light—Crowley. Meister Eckhart’s Sermons—Crowley. Outlines of Psychology: Introduction to Philosophy—Weuburg. 244 E.J. Wieland E. J. Wieland. Bunco. E. le Roux. Ethel Archer— Ethel Archer. John Yarker— John Yarker, 33”, 90°, 97°. E. Whineray, M.P.S.— E. Whineray, M.P.S. Herbert Close— Meredith Starr. Mary Bey— Mary dEste. Elizabeth Gwen…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 282

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…row/ey. Comte’s Philosophy as Rectified by Schopen- hauer—Fuller. Contemporary Psychology—Crow/ey. Evolution from Nebula to Man—Fudller. Life of John Dee—Fudler. Little Books of Selections of the Children of the Light—Crowley. Meister Eckhart’s Sermons—Crowley. Outlines of Psychology: Introduction to Philosophy—Weuburg. 244 E.J. Wieland E. J. Wieland. Bunco. E. le Roux. Ethel Archer— Ethel Archer. John Yarker— John Yarker, 33”, 90°, 97°. E. Whineray, M.P.S.— E. Whineray, M.P.S. Herbert Close— Meredith Starr. Mary Bey— Mary dEste. Elizabeth Gwen…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 35

Hail Mary

… seven sacraments deliver That so Thy sorrows may not sting ! O lead us upward to the river Of our anointed King ! With these desires my life be laden ! These two adore, my soul ! and sing ! Mary, Thou mildest mother-maiden, Thy SON, the Holy King ! Amen. 28

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1912 · PDF PAGE 17

Sir Palamedes

…of his knightly oath, And careless of his kingly name. Befooled and cuckolded, the king Is yet the king, the king most high ; And on his life the hinges swing That close the door of chivalry. *Sblood! shall it sink, and rise no more, That blaze of Time, when men were men? That is thy question, warrior Sir Palamede the Saracen ! II

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1912 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… cost me, I that was old. So hush ! I give you this leaf to keep— Seel I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ; 'Tis a tract on The Simple Life and Sleep ; You will wake, and remember, and understand. VICTOR B. NEUBURG‘

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1912 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… cost me, I that was old. So hush ! I give you this leaf to keep— Seel I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ; 'Tis a tract on The Simple Life and Sleep ; You will wake, and remember, and understand. VICTOR B. NEUBURG‘

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1929 · PDF PAGE 90

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…lly misleading. One of the great tests of the genuineness of any recollection is that one remembers the really important things in one’s life, not those which mankind commonly classes as such. For instance, iUeister Crowley does not remember any of the décisive events in the life of Eliphas Levi. He recalls intimate trivialities of childhood. He has a vivid recollection of certain spiritual crises; in particular, one which was fought out as he paced up and down a lonely stretch of road in a fiat and desolate district. He remembers ridiculous in…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 60

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… and beautiful strong boys, and bearded men like gods, and golden things, and bright desires with wings, all beauties, and all truths of life poets have ever prized. .So showed the microscope, this agéd strife between all forms: but seen afar, seen well drawn in a focus, synthesised, the whole was sorrow and despair; agony biting through the fair; meanness, contemptibility, enthroned; all purposeless, all unatoned; all putrid of an hope, all vacant of a soul. I called upon its master, as who should call on God. Instead, arose a shining form, sw…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 317

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…oul and obscene a phrase. Yet these things happen every day. The sun turns sick in heaven to behold them. Yet we do not see his anguish. Life which involves such possibilities of infamy and horror as ‘marriage with a Canadian’ must surely be some atrocious species of damnation; the reward of infinite iniquity. But humanity has become so callous, so anzsthetic to any proper feeling, that many people may even fail to see the high seriousness and noble purpose of such statements as the above. The degradation of humanity has gone so far that marria…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 34

Jephthah

… doubtful sound Of prophecy, but fix it in my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lips must wreathe smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpos…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 65

Clouds Without Water

…e trick — when from your lips I see a thin chill stream of stark black blood Trickling, the stream ofhate that glows and grips My lesser life within its sickening flood. Be pitiful, and end your cruelty ! Suck out the life of me, that I may die! an { O.f —— V O brooding vampire, why art thou arisen? Why art thou so unquiet in the tomb? Why hasthy corpse burst brilliant out of prison ? Whence get the lips their blood, the cheeks their bloom? Is there no garlic I may wear against thee ? No succour in the consecrated Host? ~ Nay, if thou slay not …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 179

Book 4 (Part II)

…row,' and so represents the aspiration itself; it is the arrow that cleaves the rainbow. This arrow is "Temperance" in the Taro; it is a life equally balanced and direct which makes our work possible; yet this life itself must be sacrificed! In the burning up of these things arise in our imagination those terrifying or alluring phantasms which throng the " Astral Plane." This smoke represents the " Astral Plane," which lies between the ( . j ' Note that there are two arrows: the Divine shot downward, the human upward. I The former is the Oil, t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 323

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…Duty is devotion ; right is selfishness. Duty is sacrifice; right is theft and rapine. Duty is love, and right is hate. Duty is infinite life; right is eternal death. If one must fight to conquer right, it is only to acquire the power of duty: what use have we for freedom, unless to love and to devote ourselves to God? If one must break the law, it is when law imprisons love in fear. “He that saveth his life shall lose it,” says the Holy Book; ‘‘and he who consents to lose it will save it.” Duty is love; perish every obstacle to love! Silence, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 587

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…hristianity only brought light and heat into the universal temple by causing to descend therein the spirit of charity, which is the Very Life of God Himself. EPILOGUE Thanks be unto thee, O my God, that thou hast called me to this admirable light!__ Thou, the Supreme Intelligence and the Absolute Life of those numbers and those forces which obey thee in order to people the infinite with inexhaustible creation! Mathematics proves thee, the harmonies of Nature proclaim thee, all forms as they pass by salute thee and adore thee! Abraham knew thee,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 323

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…Duty is devotion ; right is selfishness. Duty is sacrifice; right is theft and rapine. Duty is love, and right is hate. Duty is infinite life; right is eternal death. If one must fight to conquer right, it is only to acquire the power of duty: what use have we for freedom, unless to love and to devote ourselves to God? If one must break the law, it is when law imprisons love in fear. “He that saveth his life shall lose it,” says the Holy Book; ‘‘and he who consents to lose it will save it.” Duty is love; perish every obstacle to love! Silence, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 587

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…hristianity only brought light and heat into the universal temple by causing to descend therein the spirit of charity, which is the Very Life of God Himself. EPILOGUE Thanks be unto thee, O my God, that thou hast called me to this admirable light!__ Thou, the Supreme Intelligence and the Absolute Life of those numbers and those forces which obey thee in order to people the infinite with inexhaustible creation! Mathematics proves thee, the harmonies of Nature proclaim thee, all forms as they pass by salute thee and adore thee! Abraham knew thee,…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 268

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ic Word ! (That once begot in me the Venusberg) And lo! that light was darkness—in the , face Of That which gleamed above. And verily My life was borne on the dark stream of death Down whirling aeons, linked abysses, columns Built of essential time. © And lo! the light Shed from Her shoulders whom I dimly saw ; Crowned with twelve stars and horndd as the moon; Clothed with a sun to which the sun of earth Were tinsel; and the moon was at Her feet 1— A moon whose brilliance breaks the sword of song Into a million fragments ; so transcends Music, …

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