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1913 · PDF PAGE 51

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ek not to set them apart , each has station in love . Love me and understand me , sympathy give me and passion , Give me a place in your mind , give me a place in your heart . Long life lies before us, years of living together ; Reason is not enough . Kiss me , beloved , again . 32

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1929 · PDF PAGE 138

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…llan taught me the principles of Yoga; fundamentally, there is only one. The problem is how to stop thinking; for the theory is that the mind is a mechanism for dealing symbolically with impressions; its construction is such that one is tempted to take these symbols for reality. Conscious thought, therefore, is fundamentally false and prevents one from perceiving reality. The numerous practices of yoga are simply dodges to help one to acquire the knack of slowing down the current of thought and ultimately stopping at altogether. This fact has n…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 49

Songs of the Spirit

“ Within my heart one slow sweet whisper stole Consuming and destroying all my soul Lest, if the pure cold mind should conquer it, I might not know, although it still were sweet. “ My pure desires arose and cast out love That flew away, most like a wounded dove, Only the drops were mine its bosom bled, Now the last time it hovers by my head : “ Now the last time I turn and go to her.” The violet smiled at him : his fingers fair Plucked the sweet blossom to his breast ; his eyes Mused like delight, and like desire were wise. There was a maiden l…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 18

Rosa Coeli

…That they might suck the milk of your perfection Unto them, that the world’s ear might be won, The world’s heart melted now, The world’s mind drawn from its dejection, By the sure fact that not in idle dream But sole in sense supreme Certainly visible and tangible 13 T

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1912 · PDF PAGE 6

Mortadello

…g on Maeter- linck’s method of obtaining atmosphere ; but this went all awry. With regard to the matter of my proposed master- piece, my mind was perfectly clear. It must look like a Monticelli ; it must smell like Musc ambré ; it must feel like July and August of 1911 in Paris ; and above all it must taste like the Truffles au Champagne of the Café Riche. How it sounded didn’t matter so much. Well, there were difficulties. One cannot taste Truffles T

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1944 · PDF PAGE 278

The Book of Thoth

…e as in trade winds.) Air of Air Clouds—steady conveyors of water. Water of Air Vibrations—bulk unmoved, spiritualized to reflect Ruach (mind). { Earth Fire of Earth Mountains—violent pressure (due to gravitation). Air of Earth Plains—steady bearing of life. Water of Earth Fields—quiet, spiritualized to bear vegetable and animal life. In each case the Cardinal sign represents the Birth of the Element, the Kerubic sign its Life, and the Mutable sign its Passing Over towards the ideal form proper to it; i.e. to Spirit. So also the Princesses in t…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 44

Songs of the Spirit

Lay them together, breast to maiden breast, Limb linked with limb, and lips to pallid lips, So beautiful in death—the moth o’ th’ mind Tells the grief-numbed senses ’tis but sleep— See ! the pale glimmer of a ghostly arm Flashes a spot of light !—Ah ! weary day ! ’Tis but the flickering of the candle-light And the unmanning sorrow of the heart That lends the reins to fancy’s charioteer. Lay them together, let us leave them there ! There comes a vision to my mortal eyes Of things immortal. Hark ! the growing swell Of some wild clarion through th…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 108

The Mother’s Tragedy

…What joy of youth Lifted her nostril to respire the wind ? What pride of being? What triumphal truth Acclaimed her queen to her imperial mind ? I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above; My body quivered, eager to be torn, Stung by the snake of some convulsive love! The leopard changed his spots; for in me leapt The mate, the tiger. Murderous I sprang Across the mellow earth: my senses swept, One torrent flame, one soul-dissolving pang. How queenly bent her body to the grip! How lithe it slips, her bosom to …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 25

The Soul of Osiris

…E PROFANE. 13 The agony of extreme joy, And horror of the infinite blind Passions that sear us and destroy, Rebuilding for the deathless mind A deathless body, whose alloy Is gold and fire, whose passions find The tears of their caress a dew, Fiery, to make creation new. This agony and bloody sweat, This scarring torture of desire, Refine us, madden us, and set The feast of unbegotten fire Before our mouths, that mingle yet In this ; the mighty-moulded lyre Of many stars still strikes above Chords of the mastery of love. This subtle fire, this …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 42

The Argonauts

…d head to the heart! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life depart! Till the Eye that was blind Be a lamp to my mind! Coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, Absorbed in the sense of the Snake! Stir, leave the flower-throne, and up-flying Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake! Then crown me and cling! Flash forward—and spring! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ;

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1909 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must make—Men spin

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1909 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must make—Men spin

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1930 · PDF PAGE 92

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…périence might indeed be the proof of perfection. If the Adept is to be any wise conscious of his Angel it must be that some part of his mind is prepared to réalisé the rapture, and to express it to itself in one way or another. This involves the perfection of that part, its freedom from préjudice and the limita¬ tions of rationality so-called. For instance: one could not receive the illumination as to the nature of life which the doctrine of évolution should shed, if one is passionately persuaded that humanity is essentially not animal, or con…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 139

The Soul of Osiris

… HOLIES. 127 O Wisdom-crowned Ta-hu-ti, lend Thy magic : let my light extend ! I cannot comprehend one truth. My sight is biased, and my mind— One snake-skin thought is of its youth ; Grows old, and casts the slough behind. O Themis, Lady of the plume, Shed thy twin godhead in the gloom ! How ugly is this life of mine ! How slimes it in the terrene mud ! Clouds hide the beauty all-divine, The moonlight has a mist of blood. O Hathoor, Lady of the West, Take thy sad lover to thy breast ! Even the perfumes of the dawn Intoxicate, deceive the soul.…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 87

In Residence

…NIVERSITY 75 It’s a pity that they'll plough me, for I should have made my mark at last, If I only became master of a College; My mighty mind was bound to have dispelled the dark at last, That covers all the rudiments of knowledge. I should not have been expected in that station to produce a thought, Or do anything but drawa little salary; And I would one day eventually most graciously let loose a thought On some subject such as Maeterlinck or Malory. But good-bye to thoughts of greatness amid men of Major Schol. degree! It’s the first step tha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 116

Ambergris

AMBERGRIS 107 OTHER LOVE SONGS Helene Could ivory blush with a stain of the sunset on high- lands Of snow : could the mind of me span The tenderness born of the dew in immaculate is- lands Virgin of maculate man : Could I mingle the Alps and Hawaii ; Strath Ness and Aapura and Bai ; Kashmir and Japan : Could lilies attain to the life of the Gods : could a comet Attain to the calm of the moon : I would mingle them all in a kiss, and draw from it The soul of a sensitive tune. All lovers should hear it and know it : not needing the words of a poet…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 27

Liber Aleph

…om to thy Heart, o my Son, that in this Practice, whether Things Seen and Heard be Truth and Reality, or whether they be Phantoms in the Mind, abideth this Supreme Magical Value, namely: Whereas the Direction of such Journeys is consciously willed, and determined by Reason, and also unconsciously willed, by the true Self, since without It no Invocation were possible, we have here a Cooperation of Alliance between the Inner and the Outer Self, and thus an Accomplishment, at least partial, of the Great Work. And therefore is Confusion or Terror i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ein is neither Earth nor Water time naught save the Brahman was. Then ‘In the beginning Desire arose in it, which was the primal germ of Mind.” Where did that desire come from, if the Brahman was the All, and the Unchangeable. .. . Again, if the Brahman was the All, and was perfect, then what was the object of this emanation of a Sorrow- filled Universe?” The Vedantist would naturally answer to this: “To put it in another way; you say that the Universe will go to Nibbana, and that at one time naught save Nibbana will be. Then in the end Desire …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ein is neither Earth nor Water time naught save the Brahman was. Then ‘In the beginning Desire arose in it, which was the primal germ of Mind.” Where did that desire come from, if the Brahman was the All, and the Unchangeable. .. . Again, if the Brahman was the All, and was perfect, then what was the object of this emanation of a Sorrow- filled Universe?” The Vedantist would naturally answer to this: “To put it in another way; you say that the Universe will go to Nibbana, and that at one time naught save Nibbana will be. Then in the end Desire …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 74

Moonchild

Electricity at Oxford, it is useless for me to take the mind of a Hottentot. (Cyril sighed a doubt.) "I'm going to digress for a moment. Look at the finished product, the soul 'incarnated,' as we may call it. There are three forces at work upon it; the soul itself, the heredity and the environment. A clever soul will therefore be careful to choose the embryo which seems most likely to be fairly free in the two latter respects. It will look for a healthy stock, for parents who will, and can, give the child every chance [106] in life. You must re…

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