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1902 · PDF PAGE 112

Tannhäuser

The work of man, and all his pomp and power, Deface them : shatter the aspiring tower ! Let all his houses be as caves and holes, Unto the Beast I give them. And their souls — Lift up the shadowy hand !— Confound with darkness them that understand ! For why ? Me, the Most High, It doth repent Me, having made mankind! Let her be known a little while, and then A little while a stranger. Dumb and blind, Deaf to the Light and Breath of Me be men ! She is become an harlot's bed, the home And dwelling of the fallen one ! Arise ! Ye heavens, ye lower …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 17

Ahab and Other Poems

…, miffGapey, footlefs, auck: One, like a arkd Affpriay joWer? Shame on He potter FeaBy (it, Af Fe wFenge Gis oy yor (AIR, TSHat marred a Work Sp Cack of Wit, QS5p heaping infamp and ik On He alwadp mined clap, Shame on tHe poter, Hoy, S fap! QGut What cies Caughing Sesebel ? Soornful of me as alt fer ers, Mor foornful as Be Coke fer Well! : « Good Bing, His rage of douse difofers Ee longzgio (caret! Ae Hy mind A Cittte Har turks feGind. 9

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1961 · PDF PAGE 89

Liber Aleph

…End. But thou art not sprung of a Slave’s Loins; thou standest firm and straight; thou dost thy Will; and thou are Chosen, nay, for this Work wast thou begotten in a Magick Bed, that thou shouldst make Man free. d

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1904 · PDF PAGE 127

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…es. My cock doth stand : my spunk doth flow When Celia pisses. V When Celia tucks, my giant tool Goes in and out with mighty clucks : My work’s cut out, sir, as a rule When Celia fucks. Worn by prolonged attempts on ducks, Weary of goats and boys, I school With rods the unwilling slave : it plucks [129]

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…icit. Infernus, et os vulvae. . . . —Prov. xxx. 16. Tue Great White Spirit stretched Himself and yawned. He had done an honest six days’ work if ever a man did; yet in such physical training was He from His lengthy “cure” in that fashionable Spa Pralaya that he was not in the least fatigued. It was the Loi du Répos Hebdomadaire that had made Him throw down His tools. “ Anyway, the job’s finished!” He said, looking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assured Him that it was very good. And indeed it must be admitted that He had every ri…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…icit. Infernus, et os vulvae. . . . —Prov. xxx. 16. Tue Great White Spirit stretched Himself and yawned. He had done an honest six days’ work if ever a man did; yet in such physical training was He from His lengthy “cure” in that fashionable Spa Pralaya that he was not in the least fatigued. It was the Loi du Répos Hebdomadaire that had made Him throw down His tools. “ Anyway, the job’s finished!” He said, looking round Him complacently. Even His critical eye assured Him that it was very good. And indeed it must be admitted that He had every ri…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 2

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

tional articles in which it claimed, from a motive of public duty, to reveal the truth about the life and work of Aleister Crowley, explorer, drama- tist, poet, philosopher and artist. These articles were a mass of lies. Not only were they wholly false in spirit— the essential truth, in every matter of importance, being simply suppressed—but, except for such statements as were harmless in themselves or trivial, they were wholly false in the letter also. Two of these lies are so indefensible in point of fact, and so repugnant to every principle …

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1924 · PDF PAGE 14

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…mong his colleagues three ladies who have been noble and unselfish enough to renounce their professional careers in order to help in his work. These ladies are not British subjects, but your editor has identified them quite clearly to their professional, family, and private circles in England and America. He has been vile enough to accuse them, without one conceivable atom of justification, of practising public prostitution in foreign cities. “Whenever he needs money, and can- not get it from fresh victims, he sends them on the streets of Paler…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 78

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 66 Bn De Conformitate Magi (Of the Conformity of a Magician) EE to it therefore, o my Son, that thou in thy Working dost no Violence to the whole Will of the All, or to the Will common to all those Beings (or By-comings) that are of one general Nature with thee, or to thine own particular Will. For first of all thou art necessarily moved toward the One End from thine own Station, but secondly thou art moved toward the End proper to thine own Race, and Caste, and Family, as by Virtue of thy Birth. And these are, I may say it,…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 63

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…lly inévitable for a Magician to re- organize the structure of certain éléments before proceeding to his operation proper. Although such work is technically witch- craft, it must not be regarded as undesirable on that ground, for ail operations which do not transmute matter fall strictly speaking under this heading. The real objection to this formula is not inhérent in its own nature. Witchcraft consists in treating it as the exclusive préoc¬ cupation of Magick, and especially in denying to the Holy Spirit his right to indwell His Temple.1 I. T…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 276

The Book of Thoth

… Disk, of Pantacte Swit The Root of the Powers of Air. . The Root of the Powersof Earth w in & Peace in v5 Change 2 hh in + Sorrow Sin w Work 3 A in = Truce © in ¥ Power 4 @ in 2a Defeat ¥in ¥ Worry 8 ¥ in => Science we in 8 Success 6 we in x2 Futility h in Failure 7 2 in it Interference © in Ww Prudence 8 in 1 Cruelty 2 in ty Gain 9 Oim o Run Bin we Wealth 10

1905 · PDF PAGE 274

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ying to find out a Thing we none of us knew. To help our Deduction about Redemption, too, we find 11M, to brighten or make glad. We also work in another Way. I is the Straight Line or Central Pillar of the Temple of Life; also it stands for Unity, and for the Generative Force. A is the Pentagram, which means the Will of Man working Redemption. O is the Circle from which everything came, also Nothingness, and the Female, who absorbs the Male. The Progress of the Name shows then the Way from Life to Nirvana by means of the Will: and is a Hierogly…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 177

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…d a brave sad heart grow glad again 155 And mock the riddle that the dead Sphinx saith. When I am dead, remember me for this That I bade workers work, and lovers kiss; Laughed with the Stoic at the dream of pain, And preached with Jesus the evangel—bliss. When I am dead, think kindly. Frail my song, *Twas the poor utterance of an eager tongue; I stutter in my rhyme—my heart was full Of greater longings, more divinely wrung By love and pity and regret and trust, © High hope from heaven that God will be just, Spurn not the child because his mind …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 13

The God-Eater

II Maurya. You fear? Am I in fault? Is Maurya maid The foe to Maurya goddess? CRIOSDA. Ah, indeed ! Maurya. Is not the work nigh ready? [Criospa grips his caduceus, which he has dropped, and presses it savagely to his breast. Then, with a mingled burst of Sevocity and joy, dashes Maurya aside to the ground, reaches his hand towards the empty throne, apostrophizing it, and cries with a strident laugh :| CRIOSDA. Ay, to-night ! [4 spasm overcomes him and he falls prone.] Maurya. Criosda! You areill, ill! Help! [He is silent; she unclasps the leop…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 218

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…reat chamber where the sarcophagus is. Thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. He shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. We will kiss thy painted face, O Sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us Time. And yet I fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon and slowly pull down upon him the House of Man. DuNSANY. 208

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1909 · PDF PAGE 218

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…reat chamber where the sarcophagus is. Thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. He shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. We will kiss thy painted face, O Sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us Time. And yet I fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon and slowly pull down upon him the House of Man. DuNSANY. 208

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1912 · PDF PAGE 217

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…les: I each of others. ? l w Material Gain 9 of Pentacles. 2 "I. Illusionary Success 7 ,, Cups. 3. a. Defeat 5 ,, Swords. 4. τ Perfected Work 4 ,, Wands. 5 s Love 2 ,, Cups. Or in τ 5?".עin. : 2 Cups: I each of others. E5 I. ₪ Wealth 10 of Pentacles. 2. : Swiftness 8 ,, Wands. 3. :: Earned Success 6 ,, Swords. 4. 8 Material Trouble 5 ,, Pentaclesi 5. as Abundance 3 ,, Cups. Or in 8 π "y : & two Pentacles: [ of each of the others. )כ I. & Peace Restored 2 of Swords. 2. 1 Great Strength 9 ,, Wands. 3. m Unstable Effort 7 ,, Swords. 4. 8 Material …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 217

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…les: I each of others. ? l w Material Gain 9 of Pentacles. 2 "I. Illusionary Success 7 ,, Cups. 3. a. Defeat 5 ,, Swords. 4. τ Perfected Work 4 ,, Wands. 5 s Love 2 ,, Cups. Or in τ 5?".עin. : 2 Cups: I each of others. E5 I. ₪ Wealth 10 of Pentacles. 2. : Swiftness 8 ,, Wands. 3. :: Earned Success 6 ,, Swords. 4. 8 Material Trouble 5 ,, Pentaclesi 5. as Abundance 3 ,, Cups. Or in 8 π "y : & two Pentacles: [ of each of the others. )כ I. & Peace Restored 2 of Swords. 2. 1 Great Strength 9 ,, Wands. 3. m Unstable Effort 7 ,, Swords. 4. 8 Material …

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1924 · PDF PAGE 3

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…ay be morally indistinguishable from murder. 3. This state of affairs constitutes a menace of unprecedented gravity against the life and work of every individual citizen, and against the very foundations of public morality. The allegation that a man has been imprisoned as a white slaver is as vitally damaging as any that can be made. — 3 —

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1929 · PDF PAGE 323

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…r. Yesterday's vision a real illumination, since it showed me an obvious mistake which I had utterly failed to see. The word in my Kamma work (in Burma) was Augoeides, (a subsequent entry implies that the word was "given" me directly from the unseen world) and the method Invoking Often. Therefore a self-glittering One, whether my conscience approves on not, whether my desires fit or not, is to be my guide. I am to invoke often, not to criticize. Am I to lose my grade of Babe of the Abyss? I cannot go wrong, for I am the chosen one; that is the …

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