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1961 · PDF PAGE 43

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 31 Ae De Lege Motus (Of the Law of Motion) ONSIDER, o my Son, that Word in the Call or Key of the Thirty Aethyrs: Behold the Face of your God, the Beginning of comfort, whose Eyes are the Brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the Government of the Earth, and her unspeakable Variety! And again: Let there be no Creature upon her or within her the same. All here Members let them differ in their Qualities, and let there be no Creature equal with another. Here also is the Voice of true Science, crying aloud: V…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 4

Mr. Crowley and The Creeds

… the canonical Buddhist doctrine and that of modern Agnostics. None of these deal with Christianity at all, save for a chance and casual word. I look forward with pleasure to a new History of England, in which it will be pointed out how the warlike enthusiasm aroused by the Tibetan expedition led to the disastrous plunge into the Boer War ; disastrous because he separa- tion of the Transvaal which resulted therefrom left us so weak that we fell an easy prey to William the Conqueror. Our Novelist should really make a strong effort to materialise…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 274

Collected Works (Vol. I)

APPENDIX 267 is WM, a Circle or Orbit; WW, to seethe or boil; and some other Words, which we will neglect in this Example, though we should not dare to do so if we were really trying 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…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 35

The Holy Books

61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; and he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal and it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who s…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 85

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…d done By one more Brother of the Sun ! Master, the shriek of a great bird Blends with the torrent of the thunder. It is the echo of the word That tore the universe asunder. Master, thy stature spans the sky. Verily; but it is not I. The adept dissolves—pelle phantom form Blown from the black mouth of the storm. It is another that arisesl The result of this upon Frat Ρ. seems to have been tremendous. On the very next day the last sacrifice was made.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 85

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…d done By one more Brother of the Sun ! Master, the shriek of a great bird Blends with the torrent of the thunder. It is the echo of the word That tore the universe asunder. Master, thy stature spans the sky. Verily; but it is not I. The adept dissolves—pelle phantom form Blown from the black mouth of the storm. It is another that arisesl The result of this upon Frat Ρ. seems to have been tremendous. On the very next day the last sacrifice was made.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 201

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…of grace or goal, Beggared of all its wealth, bereft Of all its images, unweft Its magic web, its tools all broken, Its Name forgot, its Word unspoken,

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1929 · PDF PAGE 174

Moonchild

…e. My little essay ended: `So Science offers her virgin head to the caress of Magick.' The editor thought `virgin' rather a `suggestive' word, and replaced it by 'maiden'." "You remind me of a curate we had over at Grimthorpe Ambrose. 'Leg' has for many years been a not quite proper word; when the terrible necessity of referring to it arose, the polite ass replaced it by 'limb.' "The refined sensibility of our curate perceived the indelicacy of saying 'limb,' since every one knew that it meant 'leg'; so he wrapped it up in the decent obscurity …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 26

The Scented Garden

…ace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself. There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space : there a word is heard which has no syllables : thence there breathes a perfume which no breezes waft away : there food is always savoured and never eaten : there are embraces which never ask to end...” 3. The few who still suppose that Omar Khayyam was a libertine should read the exposition of Book XI of this Purana. 4. Manes (Mani) the heresiarch was of course a Persian. 5. I cannot agree that such a moment necessari…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 34

Liber Al vel Legis

61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; and he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal and it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who s…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 83

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…Lux, the Light of the Cross”. (VIII). With the magical weapon trace the Hexagram of Fire in the East, saying, “ARARITA” (KJïniOtf). This word consists of the initiais of a sen¬ tence which means “One is His beginning : One is His Individuality : His Permutation is One.” Phis hexagram consists of two équilatéral triangles, both apices pointing upwards. Begin at the top of the upper triangle and trace it in a dextro-rotary direction. The top of the lower triangle and trace it in a dextro-rotary direction. The top of the lower should coincide with…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 14

Jephthah

…d and rejected and lost to sight; But we desire him, a holy bird, And we turn eyes to the hollow hills ; For God is strong, and His iron word Mocks at the gods of the woods and rills. For .our God is as a fire That consumeth every one That is underneath the sun, And our uttermost desire Must abase, with rent attire, Souls and bodies to His throne, Where above the starry choir Stands the jasper, where alone Palest seraphim respire

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1901 · PDF PAGE 39

The Soul of Osiris

…ld Pale body that was ripe and red. Only, her head, her palms, her feet, I kissed all night, and did not eat. So, and not otherwise, the word Of God was utterly fulfilled. So, and not otherwise. I heard Her spirit cry, by death not stilled : “ My sin is perfect in thy blood, And thou and I have conquered God.” Now let me die, at last desired, At last beloved of thee my queen ; Now let me die, with blood attired, Thy servant naked and obscene ; To thy white skull, thy palms, thy feet, Clinging, dead, infamous, complete. Now let me die, to mix my…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 5

The Holy Books

… 18. Burn upon their brows, 0 splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them ! 20. The key of the rituals is in the Secret word which I have given unto him. 4

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1910 · PDF PAGE 35

Ambergris

… above Close to me (why should they fear me ?) May I believe it—that love Brings his bright spirit so near me That, should I whisper one word—Shelley’s swift spirit would hear me ?

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1905 · PDF PAGE 156

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…RUS. The silence of the awaiting soul asleep ! RATOUM. The murmur of the fountain of my life! CHORUS. The whole dead universe awaits the Word. RATOUM. Now is the hour of life ; my voice leaps up In the dim halls of death, and kindling flame Roars like the tempest through forgetfulness. This is my son, whose father is my son, From my own womb complete and absolute, And in this strong perfection of myself Stands the triumphant power of my desire, Manifest over self, and man, and god ! For in the sacred coffin lies his corpse Who shall arise at th…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 21

Tale of Archais

…ught her trembling, as a tender bride At the first kiss ; he caught her, and compelled Her answer, in his arms securely held. And she no word might say, her red lips quailed,

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1914 · PDF PAGE 14

Chicago May

…t it blots out myself and you; it flows Impersonal, ecstatic; at the touch Of language,it is broken up. God knows How, when He spake the Word, the Absolute Burst—hence Chicago. Would He had been mute! No, by the Lord! This hate is a pure joy Like everything that’s pure . . . (the great sow snores/) That's the catastrophe that breaks the boy! n in sleep this hoariest of whores Maintains her reputation. Keep away ‘The breath of scandal from Chicago May! xiv T nicknamed you Chicago May because ‘Your husband was a broker in the “Pi And mother calle…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 4

Liber Al vel Legis

… 18. Burn upon their brows, 0 splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them ! 20. The key of the rituals is in the Secret word which I have given unto him. 4

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1954 · PDF PAGE 158

Magick Without Tears

…ou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You ask me what is, at the present time, the greatest obstacle to human progress. I answer in one word: NOISE. You will recall that in Yoga the concise compendium of Initiated Instruction is: Sit still Stop thinking Shut up, and Get out. The second of these postulates the third; for one can neither think nor stop thinking with all that row going on. Then again, the Fourth Power of the Sphinx is Silence; on this subject I must refer you to Little Essays Toward Truth (No. 14, p. 75). We are really trying to …

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