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1905 · PDF PAGE 63

Collected Works (Vol. I)

- 50 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT For truth and desire and devotion May lend through the verses a voice, They tremble with violent motion, They yearn to be fair for thy choice As billows and winds of the ocean that roar and rejoice. For winds that are shaken and riven I bound by my power unto me; For these have I battled and striven With winds that are rapid and free; : With weapons of words I have driven the| pulse of the sea. | There steals through my coldness a fire, Between my slow words is a sword, One lit by the heart of desire, One sharp in the h…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 169

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…eaks my heart. [He seks exhausted. (Rallying.) By God, I swear to you no lie shall keep Its Dead Sea bar against our marrying. CORA. The truth! Thetruth! The truth! Iam indeed That whoreI told you. That makes nothing here. I am the mother of thy bastard birth! Uuric (the conventional critictsm ts nearest the surface.) Stop! stop! I did not hear you. O my God! What agony is this? What have I done To earn this infamy? Or rather, Thou, What have I not done? Have Thou pity yet ; . Sustain me in this vile extremity ! [He prays silently. CORA (watchi…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…F. Now, old man, don't get excited. Dr. B. Excited! Why my life would be one long hell if I hadn’t chosen a very simple method. Tell the truth. I‘m not a lawyer, paid to tell lies. Tell the truth Then I’ve done my part; my conscience is clear; I eat hearty and sleep sound. Dr. F. But is it always best to tell the truth? May you not sometimes overlook a grain of hope, and kill it by your diagnosis? [Enter MRS. BOB “ΖΜ 6W2. Mrs. Β. Ican‘t believe it is right to send away people smashed. Dr. F‘ Yes ; you're a hanging judge. 68

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1912 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…F. Now, old man, don't get excited. Dr. B. Excited! Why my life would be one long hell if I hadn’t chosen a very simple method. Tell the truth. I‘m not a lawyer, paid to tell lies. Tell the truth Then I’ve done my part; my conscience is clear; I eat hearty and sleep sound. Dr. F. But is it always best to tell the truth? May you not sometimes overlook a grain of hope, and kill it by your diagnosis? [Enter MRS. BOB “ΖΜ 6W2. Mrs. Β. Ican‘t believe it is right to send away people smashed. Dr. F‘ Yes ; you're a hanging judge. 68

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1913 · PDF PAGE 588

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…endured poverty, calumny, proscription, prison, the forsaking of those whom he loved:—and yet never did he find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love hu…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 588

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…endured poverty, calumny, proscription, prison, the forsaking of those whom he loved:—and yet never did he find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love hu…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 364

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense of what I have said unto you.” : Now the Spirit of Truth is the spirit of science and intelli- gence, the spirit of force and of counsel. It is that spirit which solemnly manifested itself in the Roman Church, when it declared in the four articles of its decree of the 12th December, 1845 : 1°.—That if faith…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 364

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense of what I have said unto you.” : Now the Spirit of Truth is the spirit of science and intelli- gence, the spirit of force and of counsel. It is that spirit which solemnly manifested itself in the Roman Church, when it declared in the four articles of its decree of the 12th December, 1845 : 1°.—That if faith…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 2

Oracles

…ENTS OF THE WORK OF ALEISTER CROWLEY WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY R. P. LESTER AND THE AUTHOR 1905 Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth BOLESKINE, FOYERS, INVERNESS

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1907 · PDF PAGE 9

Konx Om Pax

…LEY LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE Y WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK: 3, EAST 14TH STREET SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGA _ r TION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH O BOLESKINE, FOYERS, INVERNESS I907

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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

The Rosicrucian Scandal

…ley’ is debarred from taking legal action by the reasons set forth hereafter. I have therefore determined to publish a striking form the truth of the matter, less to defend him (he hhas no need of it) than to bring to an end the villanies of the Rosierucian” sang. I have proceeded on the principle that Mathers is obliged cither to tell the truth oF to repeat The latter are indicated by inverted commas, It is against the express wish of Mr. Crowley thatI in his own phrase, * played scavenger"; but I rather break my Vow of Holy Obedience than all…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 148

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE EQUINOX do they matter? Nothing. We get the truth about the Second Empire—~and if Zola’s facts were all false, it would not alter the truth he came to tell, poor, provincial, time-serving truth as it is.” “ Take Ibsen l It is no accusation to say that Norwegians never act as his characters do; no defence to prove that Norwegians always do act so. It has nothing to do with the question. Romeo and Juliet make love in English—nobody minds! Macbeth is not obliged to say, ‘Hoots! ma leddy!’ every time he addresses his wife. The fool who bothers …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 148

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE EQUINOX do they matter? Nothing. We get the truth about the Second Empire—~and if Zola’s facts were all false, it would not alter the truth he came to tell, poor, provincial, time-serving truth as it is.” “ Take Ibsen l It is no accusation to say that Norwegians never act as his characters do; no defence to prove that Norwegians always do act so. It has nothing to do with the question. Romeo and Juliet make love in English—nobody minds! Macbeth is not obliged to say, ‘Hoots! ma leddy!’ every time he addresses his wife. The fool who bothers …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 73

The Star and the Garter

…s fate! Our friends a little while may grieve, And then forget : but we, elate, Live in a larger air : awake, Compassion in the Halls of Truth! Disdain love for love’s very sake! Take all our beauty, strength, and youth, And melt them in the crucible To that quintessence at whose gleam Gold shudders and grows dull ; expel The final dross by intimate stream Of glowing truth, our lunar light! Are you not ready? Who would stay ? Arise, O Queen, O Queen of Night! Arise, and leave the little day! 71

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1944 · PDF PAGE 242

The Book of Thoth

THE ATU: MNEMONICS a Truth, laughter, lust: Wine’s Holy Fool! Veil rent, Lewd madness is sublime enlightenment. b The Word of Wisdom weaves the web of lies, Weds irreducible Infinities. g Mother, moon‐maiden, playmate, bride of Pan; God’s Angel‐Minister to every man. d Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought’s reach: the wholeness of the world is Love. x Sire and inceptor, Emperor and King Of all things mortal, hail Him lord of Spring! v Wisdom to each apportioned to his want By modes of Light, shed forth, great Hierophant! z To each …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…hdraw himself to pray. He has become a priest unto him- self his own Guardian, he may administer to himself the holy sacrament of God in Truth and in Right, he has become Exempt from the shackles of Earth. He is the Supreme Man, one step more he enters the Sanctuary of God and becomes one with the Brotherhood of Light. Up to this stage progress has meant Work, work terrible and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may be compared to the five methods of Yoga. From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge, Qabalistically th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 163

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…hdraw himself to pray. He has become a priest unto him- self his own Guardian, he may administer to himself the holy sacrament of God in Truth and in Right, he has become Exempt from the shackles of Earth. He is the Supreme Man, one step more he enters the Sanctuary of God and becomes one with the Brotherhood of Light. Up to this stage progress has meant Work, work terrible and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may be compared to the five methods of Yoga. From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge, Qabalistically th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 485

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…MYSTERIES passive; the woman sympathizes with death, and draws Adam with her in her fall. They are then driven out from the sanctuary of truth, and a kerub (a bull-headed sphinx, vide the hieroglyphs of Assyria, of India and of Egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the pro- fane from destroying the tree of life. Here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. The idol has replaced God, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up to the worship …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 485

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…MYSTERIES passive; the woman sympathizes with death, and draws Adam with her in her fall. They are then driven out from the sanctuary of truth, and a kerub (a bull-headed sphinx, vide the hieroglyphs of Assyria, of India and of Egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the pro- fane from destroying the tree of life. Here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. The idol has replaced God, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up to the worship …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 38

The Star and the Garter

…veins; The mind sinks deathward, and the will. It is no figure of boy’s speech, Lover's enthusiasm, rhyme Magniloquent of bard, to reach Truth through the husk of space and time: No truth is more devout than this : “In you I live: I live in you.” Had Latmos not known Artemis, Where were the faint lights of that dew Of Keats? O maiden moon of mine, Imperial crescent, rise and shine! 36

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