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1904 · PDF PAGE 46

In Residence

… BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS ridiculous characters of which we hear so much and see so little, is to point out the analogy of lawn-tennis and life in a light and humorous way which even on the most blasé of Freshmen will be unlikely to pall. I will quote you the Walt that was Whitman, the Wilde that was Oscar, the Vincent O’Sullivan, paean | and chant of the classical world, songs from America due to the lyre of the Harte that was Bret. ~ And all these estimable personages, very useful in their way, but to be strenuously opposed if they should endea…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 60

Ambergris

AMBERGRIS 51 Kiss thou my forehead, let thy tender breath Woo me to life, and my desire to death ! I shall be ready for it by-and-by, That sharp initiation, when the whole Body is torn with sundering pangs, and I The very conscious essence of the soul, Am rent with agony, as when the pale Christ heard the shriek of the dividing veil. That awful mystery, its heart torn out, Palpitates on the altar-stone of life : That broken self, that hears the triumph-shout Of its own voice beneath the falling knife, When, like a bad dream changing, swiftly gr…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE AUTUMN WOODS The grave of desolation 1 I am weary Of all things; let me sleep my life away! The breast 01 Fate is pregnant with despair Got on her by the piercing shaft of Time. Ah ! Unborn child of Fate and Time, I am weary Of them that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE AUTUMN WOODS The grave of desolation 1 I am weary Of all things; let me sleep my life away! The breast 01 Fate is pregnant with despair Got on her by the piercing shaft of Time. Ah ! Unborn child of Fate and Time, I am weary Of them that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…rsal chivalry! O banquet of fraternity and equality! When will you be better understood? Martyrs of humanity, all ye who have given your life in order that all should have the bread which nourishes and the wine which fortifies, do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: “This is our flesh and our blood” ? And you, men of the whole world, you whom the Master calls His brothers; oh, do you not feel that the universal bread, the fraternal bread, the bread of the communion, is God ? Retailers of the Crucified On…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rsal chivalry! O banquet of fraternity and equality! When will you be better understood? Martyrs of humanity, all ye who have given your life in order that all should have the bread which nourishes and the wine which fortifies, do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: “This is our flesh and our blood” ? And you, men of the whole world, you whom the Master calls His brothers; oh, do you not feel that the universal bread, the fraternal bread, the bread of the communion, is God ? Retailers of the Crucified On…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Fire pouring forth its beams upon the lower world: Life-giving, Life-producing.” Then Axiokersos, the second Kabir, says: “I am the left-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame: I am Fire, Volcanic and Terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of Earth: Fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of Matter ; fire constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Tri…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Fire pouring forth its beams upon the lower world: Life-giving, Life-producing.” Then Axiokersos, the second Kabir, says: “I am the left-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame: I am Fire, Volcanic and Terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of Earth: Fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of Matter ; fire constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Tri…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 154

The Law is for All

…AI, “I wander.” The idea of “Going” is dreadful to the bourgeois, so that a wanderer is “accursed.” But, me judice,1 2 to settle down in life is to abandon the heroic attitude; it is to acqui­ esce in the stagnation of the brain. I do not want to be comfort­ able, or even to prolong life; I prefer to move constantly from galaxy to galaxy, from one incarnation to another. Such is my inti­ mate individual Will. It seems as thou this “god of War and of Vengeance” is then merely one who shall cause men to do their own Wills by Going as Gods do, ins…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 523

Magick Without Tears

…GICK WITHOUT TEARS particularly serious or as serious as anything can be. But what I have said above amounts really to a regular Rule of Life. Need I add that the prime and essential requisite in all this Work is that you so devote yourself to, and identify yourself with, the Gods, that there is never any doubt in your mind as to what They intend you to do? Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666

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1909 · PDF PAGE 18

Handbook of Geomancy

THE EQUINOX L.w. J. [Rw. Je RW. J. RW. Life, &c. 1} Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil | Good | Med. | Med. Money, &c. 2| Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Good | Med. | Med. Rank, &c, 3| Good | Med. | Med. | V.good} Evil Good | Med. | Hard Property 4| Good | Med. | Med. [V.good| Evil Good | Med. | Med. Wife, &c. 5| Good | Evil Med. |V. good} Evil Good | Good | Med, Sex ofChild 6{ Son 5 5 Dau. 5 Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 |Long &| Death | Death | Asc. Asc. | Health |Perilous} Hard pining Prison 8 Tong Out with} Perilous} Long | Good Come Come Long J…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY e PUELLA seyete fe Life, &c. 1] Med. | Med, | Good | Good | Evil | Med. | Good | Evil Money, &c. 2| Med. | Good | Good | Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Rank, &c. 3| Evil | Good |V.good| Good | Evil | Good | Good | Evil Property 4| Evil | Good | Med. | Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Wife, &c. 5 | Med. | Good | Good | Good Evil Med. | Good | Med. Sex of Child 6] Dau. Son 5 5 5 5 Dau. 5 Sickness 7 | Asc. |Health |Danger-| Asc. | Health| Health| Long | Health ous Prison 8 | Out by| Come | Come | Good | Come | Come | Long …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY e PUELLA seyete fe Life, &c. 1] Med. | Med, | Good | Good | Evil | Med. | Good | Evil Money, &c. 2| Med. | Good | Good | Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Rank, &c. 3| Evil | Good |V.good| Good | Evil | Good | Good | Evil Property 4| Evil | Good | Med. | Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Wife, &c. 5 | Med. | Good | Good | Good Evil Med. | Good | Med. Sex of Child 6] Dau. Son 5 5 5 5 Dau. 5 Sickness 7 | Asc. |Health |Danger-| Asc. | Health| Health| Long | Health ous Prison 8 | Out by| Come | Come | Good | Come | Come | Long …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 69

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…ool O Aleph (an ox) I Air (The con- The free breath. The (The Babe English A, dit ion of Svastika. The Holy Ghost in thc Eg£ more or ail Life, The Virgin’s Womb. Par- on the Lo- less. the impar- zi val as “der reine Thor” tus, Bacchus tial vehicle. who knows nothing. D i p h u e s, S e. x u a 11 y Horus. Christ-Bacchus as etc. undevelop- the innocent babe, pursued ed). Life j by Herod-Héré. Hercules i.e. the or- strangling the serpents. t gan of nos- The Unconscious Self not sible exprès- yet determined in any sion. direction. The Devil XV A y …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 65

The Book of Thoth

…et Venus. This card is. on the face of it, the complement of The Emperor; but her attribu‐ tions are much more universal. On the Tree of Life, Daleth is the path leading from Chokmah to Binah, uniting the Fa‐ ther with the Mother. Daleth is one of the three paths which are altogether above the Abyss. There is further more the alchemical symbol of Venus, the only one of the planetary symbols which comprises all the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. The doctrine implied is that the funda‐ mental formula of the Universe is Love. [The circle touches t…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 113

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…nd golden cluster-woof of flowers ; Forgets itself, content to be Between the moon and sea. No passion stirs their depth, nor moves ; No life disturbs their sweet dead loves ; No being holds a crown or throne; They are, and I in them, alone : Only some lute-player grown star Is heard like whispering flowers afar ; And some divided, single tune Sobs from the sea and moon. Amid thy mountains shall I rise, O moon, and float about thy skies? Beneath thy waters shall I roam, O sea, and call thy valleys home? Or on Daedalian oarage fare Forth in the …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 169

Liber Aleph

…OR FOLLY 157 #a De Dracone quæ est Aquila, Serpens, Scorpio (Of the Drragon which is Eagle, Serpent, Scorpion) HREEFOLD is the Nature of Life, Eagle, Serpent, and Scorpion. And of these the Scorpion is he that, having no Lion of Light and of Courage within him, seemeth to himself encircled by Fire, and, driving his Sting into himself, he dieth. Such are the Black Brothers, that cry: I am I, they that deny Love, restricting it to their own Nature. But the Serpent is the secret Nature of Man, that is Life and Death, and maketh his Way through the…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 182

Little Poems in Prose

…o some long since forgotten poetasters of his day. L. The incident of the Villa Hermosa seems to refer to some incidents in Baudelaire’s life.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 186

Oracles

…idity ; and yet it is impossible to deny that Mr Crowley has a claim to re-cognition as a true poet. Most men who have thought deeply on life’s problems recognize that the current religion of nearly all their fellow men is an idle mockery. The relations of men and women, as well as the constitution of states and families, are based largely on organised lies. We cannot shrink form looking behind the veil, and asking ourselves—What is life at best? Is it materialism and obscenity ? or is it a sickening comedy in which nobody cares whether the con…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 12

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…st heaven, in one sweet lover’s kiss, So sweet, so strong, That with it all my soul should unto him belong. XXIV. An ecstasy to which no life respends, Is the enormous secret I have learned : When self-denial’s furnace- flame has burned Through love, and all the agonising bonds That hold the soul within its shell are turned ‘To water weak ; ‘hen may desires obtain the cypress crown they seek. XXV. Browning attained, I think, when Evelyn Hope Gave no response to his requickening kiss ; In the brief moment when exceeding bliss Joined to her sweet…

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