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1909 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ux, the Light of the Cross.” (viii) With the magical weapon trace the Hexagram of Fire in the East, saying: “Ararita” \ (8989). «+ Which word consists of the initials of a sentence which means “One is His Beginning: 2,One is His Individuality: His Permutation is One.” This hexagram consists of two equilateral triangles, both apices pointing upwards. Begin at the top of the upper 23

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1909 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ux, the Light of the Cross.” (viii) With the magical weapon trace the Hexagram of Fire in the East, saying: “Ararita” \ (8989). «+ Which word consists of the initials of a sentence which means “One is His Beginning: 2,One is His Individuality: His Permutation is One.” This hexagram consists of two equilateral triangles, both apices pointing upwards. Begin at the top of the upper 23

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1909 · PDF PAGE 6

The Holy Books

… and any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23. But Whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all ! 24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty. 25. Divide, add, multiply, and understand. 26. Then said the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all- penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, and her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 8

Rosa Decidua

… like heaven—and heaven’s somehow to earn, No doubt—no way that I know ! Hell’s enough If hell would only burn And silence the one devil-word of love. Ay ! death slinks off. I have a child that claims my life To keep from knowledge of her mother’s fate, To keep from heritage thereof, To shield from the world’s scoff, To watch, stamp out the seeds of madness in her. God ! that hast held me back from hate, Be merciful to me a sinner And ward me, warding her ! As it is written : Excepting Adonai build the house, they labour In vain that build it. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 334

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… But, before dying, the Saviour bequeathed to His children the immortal sign of salvation, Communion. Communion! Common union! the final word of the Saviour of the world! “The Bread and the Wine shared among all,” said He, “this is my flesh and my blood.” 36

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1913 · PDF PAGE 334

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… But, before dying, the Saviour bequeathed to His children the immortal sign of salvation, Communion. Communion! Common union! the final word of the Saviour of the world! “The Bread and the Wine shared among all,” said He, “this is my flesh and my blood.” 36

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1944 · PDF PAGE 156

The Book of Thoth

…. For her crest she wears a swan with open wings. The symbolism of this swan reminds one of the swan in oriental philosophy which is the word AUM or AUMGN, which is the symbol of the entire process of creation.1 She bears a covered cup from which issues a tortoise. This is again the tortoise which in Hindu philosophy supports the elephant on whose back is the Universe. She is dancing upon a foaming sea in which disports himself a dolphin, the royal fish, which symbolizes the power of Creation. The character of the Princess is infinitely graciou…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 208

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… hand seeks the lamen. Once again Fearless I front the awful shape before me, earless I speak his Name. My trembling brain Vibrates that Word of Power. I cry amain: ‘‘Down, Dweller of the Darkness, and adore me! fam thy Master, and thy God! Behold The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold !3 “Jam thy Saviour!” At the kindling word Up springs the dawn-light in the broken bowls ; Up leaps the glittering circle. Then I heard A hoarse shrill voice, as if some carrion bird Shrieked, mightier than the storm that rocks and rolls Through desolation: my Na…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ed to the East of the Altar. Honoured Hiereus, I delegate to you the duty of entrusting the Candidate with the secret signs, grip, grand word and present pass-word of the o°=o° Grade of the Order of the Golden Dawn in the Outer, of placing him between the mystic pillars, and of superintending his fourth and final consecration.” The East of the Altar is the place of the Evil Triad, and he is brought there as though affirming that he will trample upon and cast out his evil persona, which will then become a support unto him, but it must first be c…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ed to the East of the Altar. Honoured Hiereus, I delegate to you the duty of entrusting the Candidate with the secret signs, grip, grand word and present pass-word of the o°=o° Grade of the Order of the Golden Dawn in the Outer, of placing him between the mystic pillars, and of superintending his fourth and final consecration.” The East of the Altar is the place of the Evil Triad, and he is brought there as though affirming that he will trample upon and cast out his evil persona, which will then become a support unto him, but it must first be c…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 139

Oracles

…o fierce a feat may be accomplished, Finds at first in Truth a right foundation, Builds the walls of Rightful Life upon it, Four-square, Word and Act and Aspiration Folded mystically across each other, Crowns that palace of enduring marble With sky-piercing pinnacles of Will-power Rightly carven, rightly pointed ; strengthens [Mind sole centred on the single object] All against the lightning, earthquake, thunder,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 145

The Winged Beetle

…o like heaven—and heaven’s somehow to earn No doubt—no way that I know ! Hell’s enough If hell would only burn And silence the one devil-word of love. Ay ! death slinks off. I have a child that claims my life To keep from knowledge of her mother’s fate, To keep from heritage thereof, To shield from the world’s scoff, To watch, stamp out the seeds of madness in her. God ! that hast held me back from hate, Be merciful to me a sinner And ward me, warding her ! As it is written : Excepting Adonai build the house, they labour In vain that build it. …

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1914 · PDF PAGE 8

Chicago May

… you pollute; And that is why I hate you, prostitute “Make me a baby!" May a cancer gnaw Your womb! A dropsy make your belly burst! ‘The word of “ baby” in your monstrous maw ‘Makes God a liar, and his Chri “And am I really all your very own “And do you love me for myself alone? “And does my darling love his little girl?” Of five and forty years, and fifteen stone| “My love!” “My dovel” “My honey-bee!” “My pearl!” O it were better to leave well alone! Without the words, I might confront the suet ; With them, how is it possible to do it?

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1926 · PDF PAGE 5

Liber Al vel Legis

… and any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23. But Whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all ! 24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty. 25. Divide, add, multiply, and understand. 26. Then said the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all- penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, and her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my …

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1939 · PDF PAGE 57

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…ee by the aesthetic method. And this explains why all the good work on Yoga- alchemy, magick and the rest—not doctrinal but symbolic—the word of God to man, is given in Poetry and Art. In my next lecture I shall endeavour to go a little deeper into the technique of obtaining these results, and also give a more detailed account of the sort of thing that is likely to occur in the course of the preliminary practices. Love is the law, love under will. 4—Tannhäuser, written in Mexico, O.F., August, 1900. See also my Berashith, written in Delhi, Apri…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 126

Oracles

…he brazen hold And far majestic keep Of Djinn, the Lord of elemental light. But he beheld some sight Beyond that city’s joy : his gentle word The old king gently heard. (This king was Zôhra’s father) “ Lord and king Of love’s own city, give me leave to wing A fervid flight to yonder hills of night. Not that my soul is weary of the light And lordship of thy presence : but in tender dream I saw myself on the still stream Where the lake goes toward the mountain wall. These little lives and loves ephemeral Seemed in that dream still sweet : yet eve…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 43

Little Poems in Prose

…nce upon a time it happened to me that I fol- lowed during long hours a mournful old woman of this type; stiff, straight, under a little word- out shawl; she bore herself in all her being with stoical pride. She was evidently condemned by absolute solitude to the habits of a celibate of long standing, and the masculine character of her manners added something mysteriously pi- quant to their austerity. I do not know in what

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1961 · PDF PAGE 19

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 7 z De Natura sua Percipienda (Of Percieving one.s Nature) NDERSTAND, o my Son, in thy Youth, these Words which some wise One, now nameless, spake of old; except ye become as little Children ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. This is to say that thou must first comprehend thine original Nature in every Point, before thou wast forced to bow before the Gods of Wood and Stone that Men have made, not comprehending the Law of Change, and of Evolution Through Variation, and the independent Value of every…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 389

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…The Abyss is empty of being; it is filled with all possible forms, each equally inane, each therefore evil in the only true sense of the word --- that is, meaningless but malignant, in so far as it craves to become real. These forms swirl senselessly into haphazard heaps like dust devils, and each such chance aggregation asserts itself to be an individual and shrieks, "I am I!" though aware all the time that its elements have no true bond; so that the slightest disturbance dissipates the delusion just as a horseman, meeting a dust devil, brings…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 9

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… split in three.? A lesson in anatomy, A sketch of sociology, A tale of love to end. But sce! What stirs the electric flame of eyes? One word—that word. Be destinv’s Inviolate fiat rolled athwart . The clouds and cobwebs of our speech, And image, integrate of thought, This ebony anthem, each to each :— To lie, invulnerable, alone, Valkyrie and hero, in the zone, Shielded by lightnings of our wit, Guarded by fires of intellect Far on the mountain-top, elect Of all the hills divinely lit By rays of moonrise! © the moon! O the interminable tune Of…

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