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1930 · PDF PAGE 66

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…iritual life. A is the formless Hero; U is the six-fold solar sound of physi- cal life, the triangle of Soûl being entwined with that of Body; M is the silence of “death”; GN is the nasal sound of génération & knowledge. “Identical Point!” “Nuith ! Hadith ! Ra-Hoor-Khuit ! ” “Hail, Great Wild Beast!” “Hail, I A O ! ” I. Sacred to AHAThOOR. The idea is that of the Female conceived as invulnérable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity etc. — 270 — obedient unto Me. Sec lion F. Hear Me: AFT ABAFT BAS-AUMGN. ISAK SA-BA-FT

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1911 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… observed Rolles as he removed the tea-tray, ”since you have done no prescribed practices (wicked little sister !) you cannot banish the body by bidding it keep silence. So it must be banished by exhaustion, and the spirit awakened by a sevenfold dose of the Elixir.” “ Have you the Elixir?" she asked, rather awed. “It is entrusted to me,“ he answered simply. ”To this laudable end I have appointed a sufficiency of Bisque Kadosh at the Cafe Riche, followed by Homard Cardinal and Truffes au champagne With a savoury of my own invention. The truffes …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… observed Rolles as he removed the tea-tray, ”since you have done no prescribed practices (wicked little sister !) you cannot banish the body by bidding it keep silence. So it must be banished by exhaustion, and the spirit awakened by a sevenfold dose of the Elixir.” “ Have you the Elixir?" she asked, rather awed. “It is entrusted to me,“ he answered simply. ”To this laudable end I have appointed a sufficiency of Bisque Kadosh at the Cafe Riche, followed by Homard Cardinal and Truffes au champagne With a savoury of my own invention. The truffes …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 59

Book 4 (Part I)

43 The only difficult question is that of continence, which is com- plicated by many considerations, such as that of energy; but every- body’s mind is hopelessly muddled on this subject, which some people confuse with erotology, and others with sociology. There will be no clear thinking on this matter until it is understood as being solely a branch of athletics. We may then dismiss Yama and Niyama with this advice: let the student decide for himself what form of life, what moral code, will least tend to excite his mind; but once he has for- mula…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

Book 4 (Part II)

…!" He says: "Z>^;z'/ believe me!" He does not ask for followers; would despise and refuse them. He wants an independent and self-reliant body of students to follow out their own methods of research. If he can save them time and trouble by giving a few useful "tips," his work will have been done to his own satisfaction. Those who have wished men to believe in them \vere absurd. A per- suasive tongue or pen, or an efficient sword, with rack and stake, pro- duced this "belief," which is contrary to, and destructive of, all real religious experienc…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 144

Liber Aleph

…ur Æon that is ended. Therefore behold how this our Law of Thelema, Do what thou wilt, is the first Foundation of Health, whether in the Body or in the Mind, either of a simple, or a complex Organism. i

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1899 · PDF PAGE 116

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ere lewd fishes snapped at us, - And watersnakes writhed silently toward Our craft. But these I fought against, and smote Head from foul body, to our further ill, For frightful jelly-monsters grew apace, And all the water grew one slimy mass Of crawling tentacles, My sword was swift That slashed and slew them, chiefly to protect

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1905 · PDF PAGE 37

Oracles

…ow thee, breast and thigh, Lips, hair, and eyes, and mouth : I will not die But thou come with me o’er the gate of death. So, bloody and body furious with breath That pants through foaming kisses, let us stay Gripped hard together to kiss life away, Mouths drowned in murder, never satiate, Kissing away the hard decrees of Fate, Kissing insatiable in mad desire, Kisses whose agony may never tire, Kissing the gates of hell, the sword of God, Each unto each a serpent or a rod, A well of wine and fire, each unto each, Whose lips are fain convulsive…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 20

John St. John

… the Task. Especially do I get the Buddhist feeling, not only that Asana is intensely painful, but that all conceivable positions of the body are so. Still sitting; quite sceptical; sticking to it just because I am a man, and have decided to go through with it. Have done 10 RY. cycles. Α bit better, and a slight hint of the Bhuchari Siddhi foreshadowed. Have been saying mantra; the question arises in my mind:

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1909 · PDF PAGE 25

Clouds Without Water

…l, stagnant and abhorred Should one compare it with the tiniest tithe Of one soft glance your eyes on me might shed, One gesture of your body limber aiid lithe, One smile — the sudden white, the abiding red! Then — should one slander you in idiot verse By speaking of the subtle seven-fold sweetness Your lips can answer me, all fate to amerce In one mad kiss in all its mad completeness? O Gods and Muses ! give me grace for this To match my wine for sweet with Lola’s kiss. VII AMfine. ’Tis impossible, but so it is. My mouth is Lola’s and my Lola’…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

Clouds Without Water

…lights ‘Than ever in the world you guessed or knew. Stick to it! One fine day you'll find on waking ing! Me in your arms, and — oh! your body aching: — 6 —

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1910 · PDF PAGE 55

Ambergris

… the sun-ripped snows, Where icy fingers grip the overbold Son of their secrets, and like springes close On his choked throat and frozen body—Nay ! That death were twilight, and the gate of Day ! No death ye bring as his, that grips the flag In desperate fingers, and with bloody sword Flames up the thundering breach, while bastioned crag, Glacis, and pent-house belch their monstrous horde

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1954 · PDF PAGE 52

Magick Without Tears

… meant you might try to trace a parallelism between his journeyings and the Path of Initiation . Astral travel-development of the Astral Body is essential to research; and, above all, to the attainment of "the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel." You ought to demonstrate your performance of the Pentagram Ritual to me; you are probably making any number of mistakes. I will, of course, take you carefully through the O.T.O. rituals to 111° as soon as you are fairly familiar with them. The plan of the grades is this: 0° Attractio…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 176

Liber Aleph

…at art not thou, else were I segrated, a Stagnation, a Thing of Hate and of Fear. But ever-moving, ever-changing, there is a Star in the Body of Our Lady Nuith, whose Word is None and Two. i

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1901 · PDF PAGE 102

The Mother’s Tragedy

…anged life met its fate. There came a man and loved her, and her soul The first time knew true sympathy. Elate, That pure joy filled her body’s broken bow! With infinite fresh fire and purer wine; Her whole life grew one exquisite divine Flower of the sunlight; memory alone Held its stern sceptre on a cruel throne. She simply fled and would not see his face. A noble folly! In the countryside Where her harsh youth was nurtured, in the place Where she revolted, she lay down and died. With crossed hands folded on her budded breast She closed her e…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 89

The Star in the West

…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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1912 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…t with great resolution. Vision good. Aimed at passive attitude. 7. A good; starry effect concentrating into a brilliant moonlight in my body. 8. A same effect as yesterday. 9. A poor. (This begins the railway journey from Vancouver.) 10. A poor. Am really worn out. n. A better—much reverie ; vision not acute. 12. A not bad. 13. A purposely done more rapidly than usual. But restful. 25

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1912 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…t with great resolution. Vision good. Aimed at passive attitude. 7. A good; starry effect concentrating into a brilliant moonlight in my body. 8. A same effect as yesterday. 9. A poor. (This begins the railway journey from Vancouver.) 10. A poor. Am really worn out. n. A better—much reverie ; vision not acute. 12. A not bad. 13. A purposely done more rapidly than usual. But restful. 25

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1961 · PDF PAGE 160

Liber Aleph

… and Woes many, that come of the Errors of men in Respect of the Will; but there is none greater than this, the Interference of the Busy-body. For they make Pretence to know a Man’s Thought better than he doth himself, and to direct his Will with more Wisdom than he, and to make Plans for his Happiness. And of all these the worst is he that sacrificeth himself for the Weal of his Fellows. He that is so foolish as not to follow his own Will, how shall be be so Wise as to pursue that of another? If mine Horse balk at a Fence, should some Varlet c…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 48

Clouds Without Water

…s Like fiery opals or mad amethysts Curse me! I love you. Let your anger rise cAnd with your teeth tear bleeding bits of flesh Out of my body — kill me if you can! T love you. I will have you fair and fresh, A maenad maiden maddening for a man. Ay ! you shall weary in the erotic craving ! Pil have you panting —aching to the marrow — Exhausted, but a maiden (Lesbia raving : " Catullus brings a song and not a sparrow "’) Famished with love, fed full with love, your soul Still on the threshold of the unenvied goal, - 70 on The goal of love is gott…

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