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1899 · PDF PAGE 178

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…vine. I know not all I say, but through it all Mark the dim hint of ultimate sunshine ! Remember me for this! And when I go To sleep the last sleep in the slumberous snow, Let child and man and woman yet recall One little moment that I loved you so! Let some high pinnacle my tombstone be, My epitaph the murmur of the sea, The clouds of heaven be fleeces for my pall, My grave one thought within the hearts of ye. Without much strength but ever unafraid I sang to boy and man, to wife and maid ; And my last whisper was, “ Though shadows fall, Love …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 128

Oracles

ANIMA LUNAE I23 Last, passing through the city wall, he came Out to the living flame Of lambent water and the carven quay, Stone, like embroidery ! All the dear beauty of art’s soul sublime He looked on the last time, And trod the figured steps, and found the ledge At the white water’s edge Where the king’s pinnace lodged ; but he put by That shell of ivory, And chose a pearl-inwoven canoe, whose prow Bore the moon’s own bright brow In grace of silver sculputred ; and therein He stepped ; and all the water thin Laughed to receive him ; now the …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 94

The Winged Beetle

… My boy’s lust—all the mighty building’s glamour Dislimns—the shrine’s a stye. Who dares to blight My dreams I damn. You would not throw—last night— Your carrion lump of lechery to my clamour, Cheap, common as it is, a crawling cheese . . . So, for those verses, be content with these !

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1907 · PDF PAGE 119

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…t relit. Beyond resource, above appeal, Love comes to flit. TETE DE FEMME (MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG). IT shall be said, when all is done, The last line written, the last mountain Climbed, the last look upon the sun Taken, the last star in the fountain Shattered, that you and I were one. What shall they say, who come apace After us, heedless, gallant? Seeing Our statues, hearing of our race Heroic tales, half-doubted, being So far beyond a rime to trace. What shall they say? For secret we Have held our love, and holy. Splendour Of light, and music of…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 95

Ambergris

…e bless’d, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One last stroke, O heart-free master, one last cer- tain calm of will, And the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s ut- most flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name ! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre ; lake, rise up in mist to sun ; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Mas- ter’s work is done. Nectar perfume gentl…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 86

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH ZE SIC TRANSEAT —— “‘At last I lifted up mine eyes, and beheld; and lo! the flames of violet were become as tendrils of smoke, as mist at sunset upon the marsh-lands. ‘*And in the midst of the moon-pool of silver Thus the disciples that watched found a dead body kneeling at the altar. Amen!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 228

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

190 THE EQUINOX The livid lightning strikes us, and we fall With one last cry into a vast abyss, And time and space exist there not at all: We have encompassed heaven in a kiss. And for a moment we are gods, immortal, Stricken to death within the secret portal. (v1) In the red dusk of Autumn, when the day Died down to night, and lamps were lit, and we Stared at the flames that made the ceiling gray With wavering shadows, sporting eerily, We lay all naked, talking of the things Of the old dim world, when life and art were young; Of the old bards…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 228

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

190 THE EQUINOX The livid lightning strikes us, and we fall With one last cry into a vast abyss, And time and space exist there not at all: We have encompassed heaven in a kiss. And for a moment we are gods, immortal, Stricken to death within the secret portal. (v1) In the red dusk of Autumn, when the day Died down to night, and lamps were lit, and we Stared at the flames that made the ceiling gray With wavering shadows, sporting eerily, We lay all naked, talking of the things Of the old dim world, when life and art were young; Of the old bards…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 95

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…y reality just as much as the events of the day. The truth is to be apprehended by the correct translation of the symbolic language. The last section of the Oath of the Master of the Temple is: “I swear to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soûl.” The Magical Memory is (in the last analysis) one manner, and, as expérience testifies, one of the most important manners, of performing this vow. 59

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1954 · PDF PAGE 366

Magick Without Tears

…he same sort of thing keeps on happening, and when, furthermore, I find myself able to predict, as experience has taught me to do in the last three years, that they will happen, and even how the pieces will fit into the puzzle, I am justified in assuming a causal connection.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 4

Liber Aleph

…, 1991. This electronic edition (based on the 1991 printing) issued by Celephaïs Press, somewhere beyond the Tana- rian Hills, 2004 E.V. Last revised and corrected 07.07.2004 (c) Ordo Templi Orientis JAF Box 7666 New York NY 10116 U.S.A.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 520

Magick Without Tears

…oror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In one or two-no, I think more like three or four-letters of yours to hand in the last couple of months , you have put forward various excuses for slackness, the necessities of your economic situation . You say you must have "regular work," and a "steady income ," and all that sort of thing. My innocent child, that species of Magick is quite simple. Take the horns of a hare ... That's enough for the present: I'll tell you what to do with them when you've got them. In Macbeth we read- ... Se…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 56

In Residence

44 A BALLADE OF FAREWELL Now, ere our last sun sinks in red, Clasp hands in friendship, ere we die, Nor shame us if a tear be shed :— The time has come tosay Good-bye. ENVOI Prince, whether in Life’s Tripos classed Or ploughed quite irretrievably, Our friendship for all time is cast. The time is come to say Good-bye.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 86

Orpheus

Or saddening smile, the laughter not forbidden And love enfolding the green-woven sphere : Lastly, the burning year of flame and fume That burns men up in fire’s sepulchral womb. Fivefold: the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong laughing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion : then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefol…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

John Yarker – In Memoriam

…s Sovereign Grand Master General then opened the Convocation as a Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of 33° and last degree of the Antient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and he was duly elected Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander. He then opened the meeting as an Absolute Grand Sovereign of the 90° and last degree of the Oriental Rite of Mizraim, and was duly elected as its Patriarch. The Sovereign Grand Master returned thanks in an eloquent speech for his election, and conferred the degree of Prince Patriarch Grand Co…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 16

The Star in the West

…n or melodious twanger of another man's lyre , but authentically a poet ." So writes the critic . The name I have omitted is that of the last of the great Victorian poets , Algernon Charles Swinburne . In the dying glory of this last great singer of the nineteenth century , the deepening twilight shows but few rising stars ; alone perhaps amid the younger generation of poets - alas , how many and yet how few --- Aleister Crowley stands forth with no little of the glory of the great Victorian cast o'er him ; enhancing our pleasures , and enchant…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 26

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…s Sovereign Grand Master General then opened the Convocation as a Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of 33° and last degree of the Antient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and he was duly elected Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander. He then opened the meeting as an Absolute Grand Sovereign of the go° and last degree of the Oriental Rite of Mizraim, and was duly elected as its Patriarch. The Sovereign Grand Master returned thanks in an eloquent speech for his election, and conferred the degree of Prince Patriarch Grand Co…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 26

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…s Sovereign Grand Master General then opened the Convocation as a Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of 33° and last degree of the Antient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and he was duly elected Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander. He then opened the meeting as an Absolute Grand Sovereign of the go° and last degree of the Oriental Rite of Mizraim, and was duly elected as its Patriarch. The Sovereign Grand Master returned thanks in an eloquent speech for his election, and conferred the degree of Prince Patriarch Grand Co…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 118

Mortadello

…r with this red steel ! Advance ! Array ! Array yourselves as brides ; these bloody robes are mine. Blood on my breasts ! Storm rides at last the Apennine ! Bend yourselves ! Swing you with the blast ! The raging revel Bring all of us, yea, all, at last, to dare the devil !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 79

Mortadello

…E ANGEL OF VENICE 63 Hell surges ; all its demons yell with triumph ; fell Swell their appalling choirs the unutterable spell ! Now, the last thrust—oh Jesus, bear me to thy side ! Thou, whom I trust, my bridegroom, am I not thy bride ? [MONICA falls in swoon upon the prie-Dieu. A moment’s silence. Then a sound of cracking wood— a door burst in—is heard ; the noise of fighting grows louder, and presently ORLANDO and five soldiers enter the Charnel, pursued by THE LORD GABRIELE and his sbirri. GABRIELE. Now, pay thy vices ! ORLANDO. [At the door…

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