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1922 · PDF PAGE 231

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…woken up frightfully hungry. Cockie’s awake too. He’s kneeling at the window with a shot gun. He aimed it two or three times, but didn’t fire. He came back to me after putting the gun in a corner. He said, ‘ It’s no good. They’ re too spry. The only chance to get them is at night.” He was hungry too. We rang for some food. Nobody answered the bell..

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1929 · PDF PAGE 58

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…f the 1. mm ; Yod, Hé, Yau, Hé, the Ineffable Name (Jéhovah) of the Hebrews. The four letters refer respectively to the four “éléments”, Fire, Water, Air, Earth, in the order named. 2. There is a further mystery herein, far deeper, for initiâtes. 22

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1996 · PDF PAGE 213

The Law is for All

…From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & wor­ ship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall min­ gle in the globed priest; …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 228

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… man's wife had taken him out to Ceylon to keep him way for alcohol, but prohibition forgot the proverb, "Out of the frying-pan into the fire". The elephant got him before I got the elephant. One of our most beautiful camps was a sort of dak baghla near the shores of a superb lake. Open on its principal arc, the further shore merged into marshes. In the shallow waters at the edge grew magnificent trees whose branches were festooned with legions of flying foxes, as they call the species of bat whose breast is furred with marvellous red and white…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 338

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…e task. My plan in such cases is not to undeceive the patient. I proposed to treat his story as literally true in every way and to fight fire with fire. I said to him: "What you must do is to develop your own magical powers so as to beat your mother at her own game." He had considerable capacity for Magick and understood the object of the measures which I proposed. We began by chartering a yacht, which we anchored in an unfrequented river on the south coast. I obligated him and proceeded to teach him how to develop his astral body. He rapidly a…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal God. Thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a Pentagram and saying: “It is not complete without its top point.” This is undoubtedly correct, but at this time he still failed to realise that when once the Supernal Triad has descended and is resting on the topmost point of the Penta- gram, this being now the point of juncture becomes th…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ht dome of the temple. “On, on we soared, through regions of cloud and air; on, on, past the stars and many myriads of burning specks of fire, till at length our journey led us to a vast blue sea, upon which was resting like a white swan a ship of silver. And without staying our flight, we made towards the ship, and descending upon it, rested awhile. “On awaking, we found that we had arrived at a fair island, upon which stood a vast temple built of blocks of silver, square in form, and surrounded by a mighty colonnade. Out- side it was there se…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal God. Thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a Pentagram and saying: “It is not complete without its top point.” This is undoubtedly correct, but at this time he still failed to realise that when once the Supernal Triad has descended and is resting on the topmost point of the Penta- gram, this being now the point of juncture becomes th…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ht dome of the temple. “On, on we soared, through regions of cloud and air; on, on, past the stars and many myriads of burning specks of fire, till at length our journey led us to a vast blue sea, upon which was resting like a white swan a ship of silver. And without staying our flight, we made towards the ship, and descending upon it, rested awhile. “On awaking, we found that we had arrived at a fair island, upon which stood a vast temple built of blocks of silver, square in form, and surrounded by a mighty colonnade. Out- side it was there se…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 55

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest; Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold ; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents ; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 55

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest; Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold ; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents ; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 337

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…m, it was like blowing the bellows of a blacksmith's forge; a shower of scintillating sparks came crackling from the sombre heart of the fire of his soul. Like Eckenstein, he saw through everybody at a glance. I used to haunt his shop and learned from him about London. He had already appeared in literature. Robert Hichens has set one of the most subtle incidents of Felix in his little shop. Another reason for my frequenting him was that he understood me, and one of my weaknesses is my bitter need of such people. He was (incidentally) one of the…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 129

The Vision and the Voice

… Diana a black stone?—and they burnt their books of magick. Now it seems that the centre of infinite space is that Urn, and Hadit is the fire that hath burnt up the book Tarot. For in the book Tarot was preserved all of the wisdom (for the Tarot was called the Book of Thoth), of the Aeon that is passed. And in the Book of Enoch was first given the wisdom of the New Aeon. And it was hidden for three hundred years, because it was wrested untimely from the Tree of Life by the hand of a desperate magician. For it was the Master of that Magician who…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 155

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ahma-loka was to the Aryas of Vedic India; that the vision of Moses when he beheld God as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of the Chaldean Oracles; and that Nib- bana the Non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the Christian heaven with its harps, halos and hovering angels. And the reason is, that the man who does attain to any of these states, on his return to consciousness, at once attributes his attainment to his particular business partner—Christ, Buddha, Mrs. Besant, etc., etc., and attempts to r…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 155

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ahma-loka was to the Aryas of Vedic India; that the vision of Moses when he beheld God as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of the Chaldean Oracles; and that Nib- bana the Non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the Christian heaven with its harps, halos and hovering angels. And the reason is, that the man who does attain to any of these states, on his return to consciousness, at once attributes his attainment to his particular business partner—Christ, Buddha, Mrs. Besant, etc., etc., and attempts to r…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 18

Jezebel

14 JEZEBEL Burnt in that shameful whirlwind of his ire, Consumed in one tall pyramid of fire Whose bowers of flame shall tell the sky of God How we despised his feet with thunder shod, And conquered, clasping, all the host of death. Turn to me, touch me, mix thy very breath With mine to mingle floods of fiery dew With flames of purple, like the sea shot through With golden glances of a fiercer star. Turn to me, bend above me, you may char These olive shoulders with an old-time kiss, And fix thy mouth upon me for such bliss Of sudden rage rekind…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

The Goetia

…ntil the day of judgment whose end cannot be, I say, pujo-3o0umebi pereji od salaberot3a, Das aberamiji pujo-babalonu unto _ the seas of fire and sulphur which I have prepared for the wicked gabe, Das ge-Dorebesa, nore madarida. spirits that obey not; the sons of iniquity. Christeos coremefa peripesol amema ilasa! Let the company of heaven curse thee! Christeos rorap, geraa, tofajilo aoiveae amema ilasa! Let the sun, moon, __ all the stars curse thee! Christeos lukiftias od tofajilo pire peripesol amema tlasa, pujo Let the light and all the Hol…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 323

The Star in the West

… perfect make — the “ superconscious ” 3— then I look again : the insect has changed , is changing , it is no more a bug , but a bogey , fire surrounds it, it is Lucifer , prince of the Bottomless Pit , now a great calm , and the fumes of Hell part , and the winds roar , and the earth quakes : “ How art thou fallen from Heaven , o Lucifer , son of the morning , how art thou cut down to the ground , which didst weaken the nations ." “ Howl , fir tree ; for the cedar is fallen ; because the mighty are spoiled : howl , O ye oaks of Bashan ; for th…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 56

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.” “Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” Later, concerning death, He says: “Think not, O king, upon that lie: That Thou must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever.” When you know that, what is left but delight? And how are we to live meanwhile? “It is a lie, this folly against self{—Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sen…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 33

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…skine as he passeth; let him hait when he next cometh to the South and face outward. 9. Let him trace the Averse Pentagram that invoketh Fire (Léo). 10. Let him point his wand to the centre of the Pentagram, and cry, HADIT ! 11. Let him give the sign Puer, standing with feet together, and head erect. Let his right hand (the thumb extended at right angles to the fingers) be raised, the forearm vertical at a right angle with the upper arm, which is horizontally extended in the line joining the shoulders. Let his left hand, the thumb extended forw…

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