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1926 · PDF PAGE 15

Liber Al vel Legis

…the world. Think not, Ο king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength and Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star and the Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship I5

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1930 · PDF PAGE 26

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…u wilt shall be the whole of the Law. i. The Order of the Star called S. S. is, in respect of its existence upon the Earth, an organised body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumerated. They exist in their own Truth, which is both universal and unique. i. The Name of The Order and those of its three divisions are not disclosed to the profane. Certain swindlers hâve recently stolen the initiais A A.-, in order to profit by its réputation. 230 -

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1961 · PDF PAGE 150

Liber Aleph

…ed away as a Stone from thy Tomb; it is with this that thou art wholly freed from the Illusions of Distinctions, being absorbed into the Body of our Lady Nuith. May she grant thee this Beatitude; yea, not to thee only, but to all that are. n

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1899 · PDF PAGE 7

The Honourable Adulterers

…ked me down, And mocked me through the highways of the town, And brought me where they sang to censers swung A grotesque hymn before her body brown. For Sin was like a woman, and her feet Shone, and her face was like the windy wheat; Her eyes were keen and horrible and cold, Her bronze loins girdled with the sacred gold ; Her lips were large, and from afar how sweet ! How fierce and purple for a kiss to hold ! om . But somehow blood was black upon them ; blood In stains and clots and splashes; and the mud Trampled around her by the souls that k…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 8

The Honourable Adulterers

122 MYSTERIES: Worshipping where her false lewd body dwelt Was dark and hateful ; and a sleepy flood Trickled therefrom as magic gums that melt. I had no care that hour for anything : Not for my love, not for myself; I cling Desperate to despair, as some to hope, Unheeding Saturn in their horoscope ; But I, despair is lord of me and king ; But I, my thoughts tend ever to the rope. But I, unknightly, recreant, a coward, Dare not release my soul from fate untoward By such a craven’s cunning. Nay, my soul Must move unflinching to what’bitter goal …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 104

The Scented Garden

96 Ecstasy overcometh Individuality. XXIV THE BLASPHEMER Hast thou never thought, O Habib of the athletic body, that when thou wrigglest thy velvet buttocks with immense vigour, and bitest hard with thy po- dex-muscle upon the member of El Qahar, that thou hast no remembrance of any circumstance connected with my personality or thine, but art completely absorbed by the act ? It causes me to remember an antient folly and blasphemy spoken to me — Allah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 330

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ere of )) 88 Redness; sparkling?לולכה To be hot?םמה Darkness?ךסה A duke of Edom?לאידגמ Roaring, seething ,' burning?לחנ π 89 Shut up?ףונ Body?ףוג Silence?הממד Angel of 9 S. BR'HD 90 Very silent?םמוד The Pillar, Iachin?ןיבי Water D") Kings?ךלמ Wicker-basket?לט Night Demon of "?:'יDec, 52,?ךופ 20-19 The Mystic Number of 91 Kether as Achad. The Number of Paths in the Supernal Beard; according to the number of the Letters,:?בn, etc. A tree?]ליא Amen. [Cf. 74x]?]םא The Ephod?רופא The «x)—m ,"?הןהיinter-?”הבחורש laced Angel of 4 s.?לאילכ 14 Archangel…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 330

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ere of )) 88 Redness; sparkling?לולכה To be hot?םמה Darkness?ךסה A duke of Edom?לאידגמ Roaring, seething ,' burning?לחנ π 89 Shut up?ףונ Body?ףוג Silence?הממד Angel of 9 S. BR'HD 90 Very silent?םמוד The Pillar, Iachin?ןיבי Water D") Kings?ךלמ Wicker-basket?לט Night Demon of "?:'יDec, 52,?ךופ 20-19 The Mystic Number of 91 Kether as Achad. The Number of Paths in the Supernal Beard; according to the number of the Letters,:?בn, etc. A tree?]ליא Amen. [Cf. 74x]?]םא The Ephod?רופא The «x)—m ,"?הןהיinter-?”הבחורש laced Angel of 4 s.?לאילכ 14 Archangel…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 565

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…and by indefinitely enlarging his own mirage, he thinks that he may be able to sketch in infinite space the shadow of Him Who is without body, without shadow, and without space. 267

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1913 · PDF PAGE 565

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…and by indefinitely enlarging his own mirage, he thinks that he may be able to sketch in infinite space the shadow of Him Who is without body, without shadow, and without space. 267

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1899 · PDF PAGE 143

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ked me down, And mocked me through the highways of the town, And brought me where they sang to censers swung A grotesque hymn before her body brown. For Sin was like a woman, and her feet Shone, and her face was like the windy wheat; Her eyes were keen and horrible and cold, Her bronze loins girdled with the sacred gold ; Her lips were large, and from afar how sweet ! How fierce and purple for a kiss to hold ! om . But somehow blood was black upon them ; blood In stains and clots and splashes; and the mud Trampled around her by the souls that k…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 144

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

122 MYSTERIES: Worshipping where her false lewd body dwelt Was dark and hateful ; and a sleepy flood Trickled therefrom as magic gums that melt. I had no care that hour for anything : Not for my love, not for myself; I cling Desperate to despair, as some to hope, Unheeding Saturn in their horoscope ; But I, despair is lord of me and king ; But I, my thoughts tend ever to the rope. But I, unknightly, recreant, a coward, Dare not release my soul from fate untoward By such a craven’s cunning. Nay, my soul Must move unflinching to what’bitter goal …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 104

Konx Om Pax

…There is a glory born of danger; What anger gat, desire may end. Give me the phrenzy of your lip! My heart accepts your usurpature. Your body leaps beneath the whip; Our pain is in love’s very nature. It is enough. The woe is over, The woe begins; the vial brims, And all the anguish of your lover And you is hidden in wrestling limbs. Drain the black cup of bruiséd bloodl Its bitter shall beget devotion, And Bacchus sweep its frenzied flood Into the Eleusinian oceanl Certainly, the plane is very low indeed. We hardly came here to learn thatl said…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 24

Clouds Without Water

… by an holy anchoret to summon Out of the labyrinths of heaven and hell Some grave, majestic, and deep-breasted woman To bring her naked body shining, shining With flowers of heaven or flames of Phlegethon Into his hermit cell, her love entwining Into his life with spells that murmur on Black words! For one thing be you sure the same My wine is as the music of your name! Marden. Believe me, mystic maiden 0’ mine, That title shall assure the throne of heaven To you — the more so that your love divine That maidenhood to me hath freely given? Nor …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 119

Mortadello

…tar That gains to-night the glowing goals of lust and war ! [All dance, fearfully, while LUCREZIA plays wildly, and dances upon the dead body of ZELINA. SCENE IV. Outside St. Mark’s. Early morning. Enter MORTADELLO wildly with drawn sword, ALESSANDRO, LORENZO, and THE MASKS. MORTADELLO. God ! God ! the foam of stars ! the towers of iron ! the stairs ! The crested comb of demon powers that flares and flares ! The devil take the toasured louse ! I’ll trim his tail ! For God’s sake get thee to thy house, unruly snail ! Why are those eyes so black …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 112

Ambergris

… its cup for modesty when I sing So softly to you and hold you in my hands, You wild, wee wonder of wisdom ? Now I bring My lips to your body and touch you reverently, Knowing as I know what Gabriel understands When he spreads his wings above for canopy When you would sleep, you frail angelic thing Like a tiny snowdrop in its own life curled— But oh ! the biggest heart in all the world !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 103

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…by hands andfeet with his three nails. ARAB. Give me the secret of the shrine ! JOHN. It is not mine. [The zuv drives his spear into the body of Joun. zuLu. Give me the secret of the shrine. JOHN. It is not mine. [He dies. 63

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1913 · PDF PAGE 103

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…by hands andfeet with his three nails. ARAB. Give me the secret of the shrine ! JOHN. It is not mine. [The zuv drives his spear into the body of Joun. zuLu. Give me the secret of the shrine. JOHN. It is not mine. [He dies. 63

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1944 · PDF PAGE 160

The Book of Thoth

…ansmission. She rules from the 21St degree of Virgo to the 20th degree of Libra. She is enthroned upon the clouds. The upper part of her body is naked, but she wears a gleaming belt and a sarong. Her helmet is crested by the head of a child, and from it stream sharp rays of light, illuminating her empire of celestial dew. In her right hand, she bears a sword; in her left hand, the newly severed head of a bearded man. She is the clear, conscious perception of Idea, the Liberator of the Mind. The person symbolized by this card should be intensely…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 170

Liber Aleph

…ut hold! Is not a Fourth Element essential in the Work? Yea, soothly, all were vain without he Engine, Arrow and Bow. This Engine is thy Body, possessed by thee and used by thee for thy Work, yet not Part of thee, even as are his Weapons to this Archer in my Similitude. Thus is thy Dragon to be cherished of thy Lion, but if thou lack Energy and Endurance of thy Bull, thy Tools lie idle, and if Cunning and Intelligence, with Experience also of thy Man, thy Shaft flieth crooked. So then, o my son, do thou perfect hyself in these Four Powers, and …

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