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1901 · PDF PAGE 14

Carmen Saeculare

… on the seer’s sight— I cannot see the future of thy state. Or, am I dazzled by resounding light ? I know this thing—thy future shall be great ! Come war, come revolution ! In their spite Thou mayst compel thy Fate. O German Empire ! Let thy sons beware, Not crowding sordid towns for lust of gold, Not all forgetful of the herdsman’s care, Not arming all men in an iron mould. Peaceful be thou : with watching and with prayer. But be not overbold. Fall, Austria ! In the very day and hour That reverend head that holds thee in its awe Shall sink in …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 102

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…d swollen the torrent Of solid and spasmical spend Rolls luminous up through the horrent Back-side of a friend ! Thou hast come, and the great anticlimax Is pallid in face of the dawn ; But thy joy with a quickmoving eye Max B..rb..m has rapidly drawn. A penis erect is thy totem, Thy fetish a boot — very quaint ! But thy visage resembles a bottom, O, Stephane, saint ! The garlands that crowned you and girt you, Of feminine : figures and frail Are torn from the bosom of virtue By sodomy’s gustier gale. [104]

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1907 · PDF PAGE 236

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…lso shall see God face to face. Thus shall we give back its youth to the world, for like tongues of triple flame we shall brood upon the Great Deep— Hail unto the Lords of the Groves of Eleusis ! VOL. IIT.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 221

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…Daughter fair ; Splashed on her peacocks and on her pretty Page - boy , And lo ! there steals a music calling soft and faint Through the great gardens and orchards of the King 's joy From the ancient terraced thousand steps — " The Bride 's Descent .” Behold ! her true love is a prince enchanted , And he has turned wild swan , to see his love at play : And lo ! her page has shot him , but his Fairy Sire has granted His death 's wish - He 's a galleon to bear them all away . 202

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1910 · PDF PAGE 207

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…stial regions, unless every act of chastity was computed and performed in a magical manner, each act be- coming as it were a link in one great chain, a formula in one great operation, an operation not leading to Chastity, the symbol, but beyond Chastity to the essence itself—namely the Atman,—Adonai. Further he proved to his own satisfaction that, though absolute Chastity might mean salvation to one man, inducing in the lecherous a speedy concentration, it might be the greatest hindrance to another, who was by nature chaste.+ flax, a frog; ifa …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 207

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…stial regions, unless every act of chastity was computed and performed in a magical manner, each act be- coming as it were a link in one great chain, a formula in one great operation, an operation not leading to Chastity, the symbol, but beyond Chastity to the essence itself—namely the Atman,—Adonai. Further he proved to his own satisfaction that, though absolute Chastity might mean salvation to one man, inducing in the lecherous a speedy concentration, it might be the greatest hindrance to another, who was by nature chaste.+ flax, a frog; ifa …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 29

The Law is for All

…s kingdom in the partition with Hades, who took Fire, and Poseidon, who took Water. Shu is the Egyptian God of the Firmament. There is a great difficulty here, etymologically. Zeus is connected with iao, Abrasax, and the Dental Sibilant Gods of the Greater Mysteries, with the South and Hadit, Adad, Set, Saturn, Adonai, Attis, Adonis; he is even the “Jesus,” slain with the Lance, whose blood is collected in a Cup. Yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the North and Nuit, with the “John” slain with the Sword, whose flesh is p…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 340

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…self over to see that every article of my costume was correct. I then began to recite what I had learnt from my sheikh in Egypt --- the "Great Word to become mad and go about naked". Subhana Allahu walhamdu lilahi walailaha illa allahu wallahu akbar wala baala wala quata illa billahi alaliu ala'zhim. Glory to God and thanks to God, and there is only one God, and God is most great, and there is no strength but in Him, the Exalted, the Great. It does not take me long to work myself up by means of a mantra, even of this lengthy type, into a state …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 10

Rosa Mundi

…d key-stone of the Royal Arch of Sex ; Unsolved the ultimate x ; The virginal breeding breeze Was yet of either unstirred ; Unspoken the Great Word. Then on a sudden, we knew. From deep to deep Reverberating, lightning unto lightning Across the sundering brightening Abyss of sorrow’s sleep, There shone the sword of love, and stuck, and clove The intolerable veil, The woven chain of mail Prudence self-called, and folly known to who May know. Then, O sweet drop of dew, Thy limpid light rolled over and was lost

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1913 · PDF PAGE 220

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Edmund Vale. THE KING 'S WHITE DAUGHTER . DEHOLD ! “ The Bride's Descent," a thousand steps to a great river, Decked all with garlands for nuptials soon to be Old towers and gateways leading up for ever Through ancient Courts of Silence to the Kingdom of Faerie . And the wild swans flew up that sunny water , And the wild swans flew down ; And high above the lawns where walked the King 's White Daughter They flew and took the sunlight which sparkled in her crown . And on the lawn she saw them , their long V'd shadows slanting , While beside her …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 145

The Book of Thoth

…ire is represented by the 17th hexagram, Sui. It indi‐ cates reflection upon impulse, and the consequently even flow of action. There is great capac‐ ity for lucid conception and steady prosecution of work; but this is only at the bidding, and under the guidance, of some creative mind. There is a tendency to be fickle, even disloyal; the ideas which she obeys make no deep or permanent impression. She will “cleave to the little boy and let go the man of age and experience” or the reverse (lines 2 and 3) without realizing what she is doing. There…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 50

777

…hanged or crucified man * The Spirit of the Mighty Waters . . . . (23 A skeleton with a scythe mowing men. The scythe | The Child of the Great Transformers. The 24 handleis a Tau Lord of the Gate of Death The Figure of Diana huntress* . . . The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer- 25 forth of Life | The figure of Pan or Priapus * The Lord of the Gates of Matter. The Child 26 A of the Forces of Time A tower struck by forked lightning* . The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty 27 The figure of a water-nymph disporting herself * The Daughter of t…

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1943 · PDF PAGE 6

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

TO MEGA THERION is in England, devoting great energy and time to the enormous amount of work before Him. Of outstanding importance in His schedule is the publication of the Tarot, that ancient Book of Thoth, which now requires an interpretation to fit the Aeon of Horus. This is a most meticulous and arduous work, entailing the designing and engraving of an entirely new set of Cards, as well as an accom- panying Book of Tarot which gives their history, their mystic and symbolic significance. It is essential, therefore, that we wholeheartedly con…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 143

Oracles

…s wind throws down the feeble tree. Careless of passion, well restrained his senses, such an one we find Moderate in pleasure, faithful, great in mighty energy of mind , Him Mara shakes not ; are the hills thrown down by fury of the wind ? * Sodden—the habitual—who lives unrestrained, etc.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 337

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…h the moon! Nay! I knew not what glory shone Gold from the breathless bliss beyond: But this I know that I am gone To the heart of God’s great diamond! I match, &c. 329

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1909 · PDF PAGE 337

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…h the moon! Nay! I knew not what glory shone Gold from the breathless bliss beyond: But this I know that I am gone To the heart of God’s great diamond! I match, &c. 329

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1944 · PDF PAGE 50

The Book of Thoth

…begin with the entry of the Sun into Aries the Ram, in‐ stead of Pisces the Fishes as was the case in the earliest times recorded.) The “Great Fool” of the Celts (Dalua): This is a considerable advance on those purely naturalistic phenomena above de‐ scribed; in the Great Fool is a definite doctrine. The world is always looking for a saviour, and the doctrine in question is philosophically more than a doctrine; it is a plain fact. Salvation, whatever salvation may mean, is not to be obtained on any reasonable terms. Reason is an im‐ passe, reas…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 135

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

… or its energy may be as it were poisoned. It must also not be too large: * 1 2 3 the amount of energy disengaged is almost unimaginably great, and out of ail anticipated proportion to the strength of the animal. Con- sequently, the Magician may easily be overwhelmed and obsessed by the force which he has let loose; it will then probably manifest itself in its lowest and most objectionable form. The most intense spirituality of purpose is absolutely essential to safety. In évocations the danger is not so great, as the Circle forms a protection …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 149

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…9 I had made a point from the beginning of making sure that my life as a Wanderer of the Waste should not cut me off from my family, the great men of the past. I got India-paper editions of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Browning; and, in default of India paper, the best editions of Atalanta in Calydon. Poems and Ballads (First Series), Shelley, Keats and The Kabbalah Unveiled. I caused all these to be bound in vellum, with ties. William Morris had re-introduced this type of binding in the hope of giving a mediaeval flavour to his publications. I ado…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… black ravines of ice. I am drowned in the universal thunder; The hours disrupt, the aeons involve. Ah I not in any mortal mood Ends the great verb we conjugate From the highest hyberbole she doth swerve In an incommensurable curve, And the line of our beatitude Is one with the sigil of our Fate.

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