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1905 · PDF PAGE 11

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e laughs, with anguish in Ilis eyes. NIX. These little common sins may lead my lust To more deceitful vices, to the deeds At whose sweet name the side of Jesus bleeds In sympathy new-nurtured by the trust Of man’s forgiveness that his passion breeds— These petty crimes ! God grant they grow intense in newer, worthier times ! XX. Yet—shall I make me subject to a pang So horrible? O God, abase me still ! Break with Thy rod my unrepentant will, Lest Hell entrap me with an iron fang ! Grind me, most high Jehovah, in the mill That grinds so small ! …

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1939 · PDF PAGE 39

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…tragrammaton. This formula covers the entire universe of magical operations. The word usually pronounced Jehovah is called the Ineffable Name; it is alleged that when pronounced accurately its vibrations would destroy the universe; and this is indeed quite true, when we take the deeper interpretation. Tetragrammaton is so called from the four letters in the word: Yod, Hé, Vau, and Hé. This is compared with the relations of a family—Yod, the Father, Hé, the Mother; Vau, the Son; and the final Hé, the Daughter. (In writing she is sometimes distin…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 151

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…es Uncalled and unheard, No song that rejoices OF beast or of bird, No sound of my children sublime, But the spirit of time. Fear is his name, Nor flickers nor dies His blackening flame. Beware, were thou wise ! Not him shalt thou hail from the dusk with thy breath ; His name—it is Death! My seasons and years, Shalt thou traffic with these? Art thou Fate? Are her shears Asleep or at ease? Though Time were no more than the shape of thy glass— Beware ! let him pass ! ORPHEUS. Not these do I fear, O Earth, for their peace. I cry till they hear O’e…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 21

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…e years before, on the platform at Redhill with my father, I had seen on the bookstall Across Patagonia by Lady Florence Dixie. The long name fascinated me; I begged him to buy it for me and he did. The name stuck and I decided to be King of Patagonia. Psycho-analysts will learn with pleasure that the name of my capital was Margaragstagregorstoryaka. "Margar" was derived from Margaret, queen of Henry VI, who was my favourite character in history. This is highly significant, as indicating the type of woman that I have always admired. I want her …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 32

The Soul of Osiris

…ight : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends ; I thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at The Name, Without a warder roused from sleep ; I pass, with face of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (For even my tears are tears of fire, For loathing, madness, and desire.) Ah God ! the traps for fervent feet ! The morrow beaconed, and I came By where the golden groves of wheat In summer glories fiercely flame ; To those white courts, by princes trod, Where Ahab sat, and mocked at God. Where…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 78

Ambergris

…ep, “ To love—and to forget ! ” Still sombre whispers from the deep Sob through night’s golden net, And waft upon the wings of sleep The name of Margaret.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 143

Ambergris

… Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light ; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name. For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and I to-morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create

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1898 · PDF PAGE 24

Jephthah

…ll the lofty flight that fancy And the strong urgement of a tune discover. Be thou our judge, as Joshua long ago. JEPHTHAH. Swear by the Name unspoken that the truth Flashes between the lips that tremble thus! Ye love me not; ye fear me; ye might thrust Some petty obstacle before my hands When I would grasp your promise, and betray Your faith for fear of me. I read thy thoughts, Old man; I trust no word of thine, but these Full-hearted mourners, them will I believe Upon their oath most solemn and secure. _ But take thou warning now, I shall not…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 29

Tale of Archais

…ss with the rosy shoon Stooped o’er the silver surface of the moon To touch his brow with slumber, like a kiss Whose dreams perfused the name of Archais, Till the sweet odour dulled his brain, and sleep Loosened his limbs, most dreamless and most deep. The mosses serve him for a bed ; the trees Wave in the moonlight, daughters of the breeze ; Hardly the pleasant waters seem to shake, And only nightingales, for slumber’s sake, Lull the soft stars and seas, and matchless music make. And now the sun is risen above the deep,

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1901 · PDF PAGE 100

The Soul of Osiris

88 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. THE NAME. ACRED, between the serpent fangs of Pain, Ringed by the vortex of the hurricane, Lurks the abyss of fate : the gloomy cave, Sullen as night, and sleepy as a wave When tempest lowers and dare not strike, gapes wide, Vomiting pestilence ; the deadly bride Of death, Despair, grins charnel-wise : the gate Of Hope clangs resonant : and starless Fate Glowers like a demon brooding over death. Monstrous and mute, the slow resurgent breath Spreads forth its poison : the pale child at play Coughs in his gutter ; the hard …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 72

Why Jesus Wept

…nd little fool. I hate you. From the hour you kissed that village drab, I hated you. I wanted your youth, your strength, your life, your name on my list, your scalp at my girdle. Enough ! Do you under- stand ? These friends will teach you. May I never see your pale pasty face again ! [She spits at him and goes.) SIR PERCY, half rises and falls back. Oh ! oh ! It is impossible. Lord Marquis, you are a good man. Tell me, it is a hideous dream. GLENSTRAE. No dream, my boy. You are the hundredth she has treated after this fashion. But cheer up now.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 50

The Winged Beetle

…ectric that made spin the universal Wheel. XVIII With that a goat came running from the cave That lurked below the tall white cliff. Thy name ! cried I. The answer that he gave Was but one tempest-whisper—“ If ! ” Ah, then ! his tongue to his black palate clave ; For on Soul’s curtain Is written this one certainty that naught is certain ! XIX So then I caught that goat up in a kiss, And cried Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Then all this body’s wealth of ambergris (Narcissus-scented flesh of man !) I burnt before him in the sacrifice ; For he was su…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

LI BER TZADDI VEL HAMVS HERMETICVS SVB FIGVRA XC ο. In the name οἷthe Lord of Initiation, Amen. x. I fly and I alight as an hawk : of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. 2. I swoop down upon the black earth ; and it gladdens into green at my coming. 3. Children of Earth ! rejoice l rejoice exceedingly ; for your salvation is at hand. 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterablejoy. 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness. 6. I am not com…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

LI BER TZADDI VEL HAMVS HERMETICVS SVB FIGVRA XC ο. In the name οἷthe Lord of Initiation, Amen. x. I fly and I alight as an hawk : of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. 2. I swoop down upon the black earth ; and it gladdens into green at my coming. 3. Children of Earth ! rejoice l rejoice exceedingly ; for your salvation is at hand. 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterablejoy. 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness. 6. I am not com…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…rce of the Spirit, acting in, and binding together, the Four Scales of each Element: and answering to the Dominion of the Letters of the Name in the Kether of each. They represent the Radical Forces. The Four Aces are said to be placed on the North Pole of the Universe wherein they revolve, governing its revolution; and ruling as the connecting link between Yetzirah and the Material Plane or Universe. I THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE Are of Wands A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping a heavy club, which has three bra…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…rce of the Spirit, acting in, and binding together, the Four Scales of each Element: and answering to the Dominion of the Letters of the Name in the Kether of each. They represent the Radical Forces. The Four Aces are said to be placed on the North Pole of the Universe wherein they revolve, governing its revolution; and ruling as the connecting link between Yetzirah and the Material Plane or Universe. I THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE Are of Wands A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping a heavy club, which has three bra…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 3

The Banned Lecture

…e at work ! What trash will come flying from Jew, Moor and Turk. When, goosequill, thy reign o’er the world is abolished ? Goose—ominous name ! With a goose woe began : Quoth Huss—which means “ goose ” in his idiom un- polished— “ Ye burn now a Goose: there succeeds mea Swan Ye shall find quench your fire ! ” Fust. I forsee such a man. (Browning.)

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1929 · PDF PAGE 182

Moonchild

…ing out in race-remembrance of marriage by capture. But more dangerous even than such ideas were many which she learned to group under a name which one of them gave her. It was not a name that one can transcribe in any alphabet, but it was exactly like a very short slight cough, hardly more than a clearing of the throat, a quite voluntary cough of the apologetic type. She had only to make this little noise, and immediately a certain landscape opened before her. She was walking on a narrow ribbon of white path that wound up a very gentle slope. …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 41

Jephthah

…fair and free. For on the vast expanses of the wold I hear the feet of gold, And over all the skies I see a flame That flickers with Thy Name. Therefore, because Thou hast hid Thy face, and yet Given me not to forget The foaming cloud that shaped itself a rose, Whose steady passion glows Within the secretest fortress of my heart, Because, my God, Thou Art, And I am chosen of Thee for this folk, To break the foreign yoke, Therefore, Existence of Existence, hear! Bend low Thine holy ear, And make Thyself, unseen, most terrible To these fierce fie…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 150

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…trates a star! Her hands caressing the black earth, Her sweet lithe body arched for love, Her feet a Zephyr to the flowers, She calls my name—she gives the sign That she is mine, supremely mine, And clinging to the infinite girth My soul gets perfect joy thereof Beyond the abysses and the hours; So that—I kiss her lovely brows; She bathes my body in perfume Of sweat . . . O thou, my secret spouse, Continuous One of Heaven! illume

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