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1898 · PDF PAGE 13

White Stains

…me, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises ; bye-and-bye the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they were lost, and how those frag- ments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite statements lack cor-

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1912 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Horse?םוס On, a name of GOD [see no], [W penalty of iniquity; “ being taken away ” ! ?ווי2 7 Material?עבטומ Angel of 5 P.?לאירפ 27 1/123 Eliphaz?זפילא Angel ruling ::?לאומבא To deliver, loose?ץלח Robustus gratin, Wide ΚΒ. ran L.c,l<. p. 399] GOD, the Eternal Oneהוהי ?וניהלא r z Pleasure [Gen. xviii, 1:1?הברע 9 Delight, pleasure?גנוע .I3° Deliverance?הלצה The Angel of re-ךאלמ ?לאגה demption Decrees, prophetic sayings?ץלמ Eye; the letter Ayin?ןיע The Pillars?ידומע Destilute my A staircase, ladder?םלס Angel of 5 C.?הילהפ ?וז131 He…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Horse?םוס On, a name of GOD [see no], [W penalty of iniquity; “ being taken away ” ! ?ווי2 7 Material?עבטומ Angel of 5 P.?לאירפ 27 1/123 Eliphaz?זפילא Angel ruling ::?לאומבא To deliver, loose?ץלח Robustus gratin, Wide ΚΒ. ran L.c,l<. p. 399] GOD, the Eternal Oneהוהי ?וניהלא r z Pleasure [Gen. xviii, 1:1?הברע 9 Delight, pleasure?גנוע .I3° Deliverance?הלצה The Angel of re-ךאלמ ?לאגה demption Decrees, prophetic sayings?ץלמ Eye; the letter Ayin?ןיע The Pillars?ידומע Destilute my A staircase, ladder?םלס Angel of 5 C.?הילהפ ?וז131 He…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 184

The Book of Thoth

…os, Tetragrammaton. Their rulers are the Intelligences, in the Yetziratic world, who go to form the Schemham‐ phorasch. Nor is even this Name, “Lord of the Universe” though it be, truly Divine, as are the Lords of the Atu in the Element of Spirit. Each Atu possesses its own private, personal and particular Universe, with Demiourgos (and all the rest) complete, just as every man and every woman does. For example II’s or VI’s Three of Disks might represent the establishment of such an oracle as that of Delphi, or VIII’s might be the first formula…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 355

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…s Tragedy, some ten thousand words, at a stretch; and certain lyrics, mostly about Dorothy, of whom more in a moment. "Mr. Todd", as the name implies, is a personification of death an the idea of the play is to introduce him as deus ex machina, helping the characters one by one out of their various troubles. The idea sounds a good one, but apart from availing myself of my opportunities for double entendre ("I was told the other day that he held a lot of land in London and has more tenants than the Duke of Westminister!"), I could not make much …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 171

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…Fate. How desperate the anarchy Wrought in one hour ! The fickle sands Run through the glass, and all the light is gone. Abysses without name the mighty power Spans with spread fingers; on the horizon Blood stains the setting sun, The shattered sun ; it shall not rise again ! No resurrection to the trampled flower, No hope to angels watching as in vain Love—lies—slain ! Madness and Terror and the deadly mood of Fortitude, A misbegotten brood Of all things shameful—O the desolate eyes Of the cold Christ enthroned! The weep- ing heaven Answers fo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 7

The World’s Tragedy

…ural reluctance to strike a tragic chord so early in my narrative obliges me to omit some account of the circumstances in which the well-named Mrs. Clapham the fishmonger’s wife was expelled from “ fellowship ”. But above all I remember how we soused Leggett’s boy, known as the Living Mushroom from the shape of his hat, in old Ailes’s pig-tub. And then my father died, and the note changes. To explain, I find myself obliged to give a short account of the Plymouth Brethren, their tenets, character, and history. THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN The religious…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet of scarlet flame. Lo! through the fire the mantram comes to me, Shouted by the world in chorus, and I lie In utter rapture; the virginity Of the inmost Light, that knows not how to die. Oh, cast thy mantle over me! I am taken By the goddess! Sprinkle water on my head, Lest I in rapture care not to awaken, Knowing the utter glo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I fall in swoon unstained by earth’s gray mire, Being wrapped about in a sheet of scarlet flame. Lo! through the fire the mantram comes to me, Shouted by the world in chorus, and I lie In utter rapture; the virginity Of the inmost Light, that knows not how to die. Oh, cast thy mantle over me! I am taken By the goddess! Sprinkle water on my head, Lest I in rapture care not to awaken, Knowing the utter glo…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 162

Liber Aleph

…befogged, and their Judgment made null, by their emotional Reaction. They are swayed by the Eloquence of a Numscull, or overpowered by a Name or an Office, or the Magic of a Tailor; else, it may be, they, being made Fools too often, reject without Reflection even as at first they accepted. Again, they are wont to believe the best of the worst, as Hope or Fear predominateth in them at the Moment. Thus, they lose Touch of the Blade of Reality, and it pierceth them. Then they in Delirium of their Wounds increase Delusion fortifying themselves in B…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 238

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX carr. Why havea long Latin name if you mean to play the English hypocrite? Who was poor Uncle Henry? Did you love poor Uncle Henry so dearly as all that? How old were you when your father quarrelled with poor Uncle Henry? About two and a half! The only thing you can know about poor Uncle Henry is that poor Uncle Henry once tickled your toes. [EUPHEMIA gives a Little scream of hovvory.| Enough humbug about poor Uncle Henry!... Sweetheart! EUPHEMIA. Mine own! [They embrace and kiss with great intensity. EUPHEMIA. Unhand me, villain! .…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 238

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX carr. Why havea long Latin name if you mean to play the English hypocrite? Who was poor Uncle Henry? Did you love poor Uncle Henry so dearly as all that? How old were you when your father quarrelled with poor Uncle Henry? About two and a half! The only thing you can know about poor Uncle Henry is that poor Uncle Henry once tickled your toes. [EUPHEMIA gives a Little scream of hovvory.| Enough humbug about poor Uncle Henry!... Sweetheart! EUPHEMIA. Mine own! [They embrace and kiss with great intensity. EUPHEMIA. Unhand me, villain! .…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 272

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… delight. The PRIEST mounts the third step. Tue Priest. Thou that art One, our Lord in the Universe the Sun, our Lord in ourselves whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose radiance enlightening the worlds is also the breath that maketh every God even and Death to tremble before Thee—By the Sign of Light * appear Thou glorious upon the throne of the Sun. Make open the path of creation and of intelligence be- tween us and our minds. Enlighten our understanding. Encourage our hearts. Let thy light crystallize itself in our blood, fu…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 44

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… the Fire shall reveal to his eyes his own image in its own true glorv; and it shall speak in his ears the Mystery that is his own right Name. This then is the virtue of the Magick of The Beast 666, and the canon of its proper usage: to destroy the tendency to discriminate between any two things in theory, and in practice to pierce the veils of every sanctuary, pressing forward to embrace every image ; for there is none that is not very Isis. The Inmost is one with the Inmostj yet the form of the One is not the form of the otherj intimacy exact…

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1947 · PDF PAGE 11

The Last Ritual

GNOSTIC ANTHEM Thou who art I, beyond all I am, Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as mine intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicl…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 296

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… Schools through which the earnest citizen may learn how to converse as though he had seen the world, make $125 a week, never forget any name or telephone number once heard, write a short story or a Broadway Revue, draw comic cartoons, manage his wife, never look more than thirty-five, and live to be a hundred. Yet Mr. Pound is ignored by the great American public. When all the readers and reviewers in the land should be hasting in their thousands to acclaim this ‘new birth of our new soil, the first American’—as indeed Mr. Pound is the first C…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 89

The Star in the West

…y discover that man - made honour is but as winter snow . All is hence Alice , as is shown in that sweet and simple song which bears her name : The stars are hidden in dark and mist , The moon and sun are dead , Because my love has caught and kissed My body in her bed . No light may shine this happy night , Unless my Alice be the light . This night shall never be withdrawn Unless my Alice be the dawn.3 1 Alice , an Adultery , vol . ii, p . 69 . 2 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 70 . 3 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 71 .

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1911 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—light, All—power! Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, by whatever name I call Thee, Thou art still un-named and nameless to Eternity] Come thou forth, I say, and aid and guard me in this Work of Art. Thou, Star of the East that didst conduct the Magi! Thou art the same, all present in Heaven and in Hell. Thou that vibratest betwixt the Light and the Darkness. Rising, descending; changing ever, yet ever the same! The Sun is Thy Father! Thy Mother the Moon! The Wind hath borne…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—light, All—power! Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, by whatever name I call Thee, Thou art still un-named and nameless to Eternity] Come thou forth, I say, and aid and guard me in this Work of Art. Thou, Star of the East that didst conduct the Magi! Thou art the same, all present in Heaven and in Hell. Thou that vibratest betwixt the Light and the Darkness. Rising, descending; changing ever, yet ever the same! The Sun is Thy Father! Thy Mother the Moon! The Wind hath borne…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 6

The Vision and the Voice

THE EQUINOX the Rivers have rushed together and the Name mn? is broken in a thousand pieces (against the Cubic Stone). Tremble ye, O Pillars of the Universe, for Eternity is in travail of a Terrible Child; she shall bring forth an universe of Darkness, whence shall leap forth a spark that shall put his father to flight. The Obelisks are broken; the stars have rushed together: the Light hath plunged into the Abyss: the Heavens are mixed with Hell. My Father shall not hear their Noise: His ears are closed: His eyes are covered with the clouds of …

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