1961 · PDF PAGE 132
Liber Aleph
…herefore thine Heart, o my son, in the Waters of the Great Sea, and enkindle it with the Fire of the Holy Ghost. For his is His peculiar Work of Sanctification. n
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Confessions of Aleister Crowley
431 his client by the nose into the most absurd actions. This prima materia of the work need not be the pure gold of confidence. It is {684} quite sufficient if the client is morally and mentally unstable from fear, credulity, anxiety, desire or even natural uncertainty --- this last being, of course, an evident condition of any serious consultation whatever. Give him something to work on and little by little one is bound to fall into his line of thought, after which it is child's play to turn every incident to advantage. The client will come a…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 97
Mortadello
…MORTADELLO. The devil may have wrought This miracle on you. MONICA. And on St. Francis too ! Between the false and true theres wisdoms work to do. MORTADELLO. Well, this I know for sure, you are possessed. MONICA. Possessed ? Ay, there lies many a lure of perfume in my breast. MORTADELLO. Ha ! did Orlando sin with you ? I guessed aright. MONICA. Have you no wage to win ? Days wont to follow night. MORTADELLO. Cynic as wanton. MONICA. Well ? Come, you are cold, you are cold ! MORTADELLO. She-devil sprung from hell ! Where is that bosoms gold…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 6
Cambridge Poets 1900–1913
PREFACE . M Y thanks are due (1) to the authors , who have so V generously placed their work at my disposal ; (2) to Sir Arthur Quiller - Couch , King Edward VII . Professor of English Literature , for his introduction ; and to him , and to Mr . Frank W. Stokoe , scholar of Caius College , for very helpful criticism and advice ; (3) to Miss Vere Cochran , Librarian of Girton College , who lent me a number of books that I should not otherwise have seen ; (4) to the editors of the following papers for kind permission to reprint poems which have a…
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1905 · PDF PAGE 140
Oracles
…ture And destroy the House of pain for ever, Leave its laughter and its tears, and shatter All the causes of its mockery, master All the workings of its will, and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style “ Cessation ” ; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, “ …
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1910 · PDF PAGE 9
Rosa Decidua
… to wail Its monotone through high, low, fast and slow. It has been like a secret cancer, Forcing all servants of the life to give Their work to the usurper ; all its themes assail The main word Life ; they build their archipelago Of poison in each sea where life was holy. Their questions have no answer, But all’s converted to the abominable Soul-sickening thing that one is tied to. This is I Just as God in His Nature, wholly Involved therein, its tune, its motive, its quintessence. There were no meaning in Spring’s aspen spell, Where man’s sol…
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1911 · PDF PAGE 177
The Vision and the Voice
…ved and the A.E. rejected. 14. The Shrine of Darkness. Final initiation into grade of M.T. 13. The emergence of Nemo into the world; his work therein. This is the first mystery revealed to a M.T. 12. The Second Mystery: the cup-bearer of Babalon the beautiful. The Holy Grail manifested to the M.T., with the first knowledge of the Black Brothers. 11. Now cometh the Frontier of the Holy City; the M.T. is taken into the Abyss. 10. The Abyss. 9. The M.T. hath passed the Abyss, and is led to the Palace of the Virgin redeemed from Malkuth unto Binah.…
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1961 · PDF PAGE 65
Liber Aleph
…r subtle Nature is wholly lost to them. Learn then, o my Son, this Mystery of conomy, and apply it faithfully and with Diligence in thy Work. b
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1929 · PDF PAGE 318
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…g sight in the feet; strong and the Immortal Fire!" (Thus performed, the invocation means about half an hour of the most intense magical work imaginable --- a minute of it would represent the equivalent of about twelve hours of Asana.) Despite the distracting influence of the varied adventures described in the last chapter, I stuck steadily to my practice. On leaving Hong Kong, however, being once again a lonely Wanderer of the Waste, I did feel freer to analyze myself. I thought the necessity of defining the words that I used more closely. The…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 185
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
…the Hand of Him who Is Thou hadst a torch to lume my lips to song ; Thou hast a cooler fountain for my thirst, Lest my young love should work thy fame a wrong ; So the grape’s veins in purple ardour burst, And opiates in bloomless gardens throng, And Life, a moon, wanes fast; But to thy garden richer buds belong And hardier flowers, and Love, a deathless sun, Flames eager to the last, And young desires in fleeter revels run, And Life revives, and all the flowers rejoice, Bird and light butterfly have made their choice, Creation hymns its God wi…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 146
The Winged Beetle
… to wail Its monotone through high, low, fast and slow. It has been like a secret cancer, Forcing all servants of the life to give Their work to the usurper ; all its themes assail The main word Life ; they build their archipelago Of poison in each sea where life was holy. Their questions have no answer, But alls converted to the abominable Soul-sickening thing that one is tied to. This is I Just as God in His Nature, wholly Involved therein, its tune, its motive, its quintessence. There were no meaning in Springs aspen spell, Where mans sol…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 463
Magick Without Tears
…t something, you should first know what is there. Here astrology ought to give useful hints ; its indications give the mind something to work on. Experience makes "confirmation strong as Holy Writ" ; but beware of a priori. Do not be dogmatic; do not insist in the face of disappointment. Astrology in education is useful as geology is to the prospector ; it tells you the sort of thing to look for, and the direction in which to explore . There are, however , two main lines of teaching which are of universal value to normal children ; it is hardly…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 194
Book 4 (Part II)
…book. Liber LXV. The principal point of this grade is that the Probationer has a master appointed, whose experience can guide him in his work. He may select any practices that he prefers, but in any case must keep an exact record, so that he may discover the relation of cause and effect in his working, and so that the A.*. A.\ may judge of his progress, and direct his further studies. After a year of probation he may be admitted a Neophyte of the A.". A.'., and receive the secret holy book Liber VIL These are the principal instructions for prac…
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1919 · PDF PAGE 41
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…Vet Lecis Sub Figura CCXX. as delivered by XCIII. unto DCLXVI. This book is the foundation of the New A£on, and thus of the whole of our Work. Lizer DCCCXIII. Ver Ararita Sub Figura DLXX. This book is an account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity, and Beyond. 35
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1930 · PDF PAGE 61
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)
…n your minds and comfort your hearts and sustain your bodies. -f- The LORD bring you to the accomplishment of your true wills, the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. {He goes outy the DEACON and Children followingy into the tomb of the West.) Music. (Voluntary.) NOTE: The PRIESTESS and other officers never partake of the sacramenty they being as it were part of the PRIEST himself. NOTE : Certain secret formules of this Mass are taught to the PRIEST in his ordination. — 361 —
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1944 · PDF PAGE 170
The Book of Thoth
…o imply the planning involved in agriculture. In his right hand he bears an orbed sceptre sur‐ mounted by a cross, a symbol of the Great Work accomplished; for it is his function to bring forth from the material of the element that vegetation which is the sustenance of the Spirit itself. The character denoted by this card is that of great energy brought to bear upon the most solid of practical matters. He is energetic and enduring, a capable manager, a steadfast and per severing worker. He is competent, ingenious, thoughtful, cautious, ‘trustwo…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 71
Moonchild
…Cybele had called her. "Brother Cyril!" the old mystic had said, "I shall go on — I shall even put more than the necessary care into the work — as if this were victory and not defeat. "I tell you that you will never do anything yourself, still less anything for others, so long as you rely on women. This victory of the woman's is only the chance resultant of a chaos of emotional states. She's in it for the fun of the thing; she's not even an artist; she's merely the female of the species; and I do not alleviate the situation by one further preci…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 199
Magick Without Tears
…points that you would like to discuss. I will end by betting you six clothing coupons to a pound of sugar that in two years concentrated work on these lines you will become a better astrologer than ever I was. (This is very cunning of me; in two years we shall all be getting clothes without coupons.) Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
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1961 · PDF PAGE 57
Liber Aleph
…dge of Doctrine mathematical, of Laws physical and chemical. So then first, that thou mayst understand clearly the Nature of thine whole Work, map out thy Mind, and extend its Powers from the essential outwards, from the near to the far, always with Firmness and great Thoroughness, making every Link in thy Chain equal and perfect. i
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1961 · PDF PAGE 143
Liber Aleph
…ss, by Failure in Elasticity or in Obstinacy, each at its Moment, suffering Defeat in the Hour of Shock. So, then, o my Son, this is thy Work, to know the Word of thy Will without Error, and to make perfect every Faculty of thy Mind, in right Order and Readiness to impose that Word as Law upon the Universe. So mote it be! t
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