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1905 · PDF PAGE 159

Collected Works (Vol. I)

….” And all the priests shall say And all the people: ‘‘ Verily and Amen.” [Stabs himself. Ciuorus. Spirit of the Gods! O single, sacred, secret, let the length least and west, the depth and height, North and south, with music tingle, Ring with battled clarion choirs of the far- resounding light ! Let the might Of Osirian sacrifice Dwell upon the self-slain king ! Spirit of the Gods! Unite Streams of sacramental light In the soul, thrice purified, Consecrated thrice, Till Osiris justified In the supreme sacrifice Take his kingdom. Hear the ery T…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 106

The Law is for All

… himself in the womb of the witch who lusts for his life, and buys it with the Coin that bears his Image and Superscription. Such is the secret of the Soul of the Artist. He knows that he is a God, of the Sons of God; he has no fear or shame in showing himself of the seed of his Father. He is proud of that Father’s most precious privilege, and he honours him no less than himself by using it. He accepts his family as of his own royal stock; everyone is as princely as he is himself. But he were not his Father’s son unless he found for himself a F…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 4

The Law of Liberty

…ide! A Law of feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A aberty. feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—secret, O prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kis…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 57

Collected Works (Vol. III)

ROSA MUNDI AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS 1905 I. Rose of the World ! Red vlory ot the secret heart of Love : Red flame, rose-red, most subily curled Into its own infinite flower, all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion, Its faint sweet passion, folded and furled In flower fashion ; And my deep spirit taking its pure part Of that voluptuous heart Of hidden happiness ! 2. Arise, strong bow of the young child Eros ! (While the maddening moonlight, the memoried caress Stolen of the scented rose Stirs me and bids each racing pulse ache, ac…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 116

Moonchild

… the Lion, with the Sun rising in trine and Jupiter conjoined with Saturn making an additional trine from the sixth house, which governs secret things such as magick [167] It was as formidable a combination as Mars could make in a thousand years. He happened also to belong to that grade of the Order — Adeptus Major — which specializes in Mars; Arthwait and Company had unwittingly come to meet him where he was strongest. To invoke Mars is to establish a connection with that order of nature which we class as martial. It may be remembered how a ma…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 44

The Goetia

…Men’s and Women’s Faces; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsels of any one ; for he knoweth the Thoughts of all Men and Women, and can change them at his Will. He can cause Love, and show the Similitude of any person, and show the same by a Vision, let them be in what part of the World they Will. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits ; and this is his Seal, which wear thou, etc. (72.) ANDROMALIUS.—The Seventy-second Spirit in Order is named Andromalius. He is …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 167

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… hate myself the more That I must wound you further with the truth. A double prong this poisoned poniard Snaps in our hearts. I kept the secret long. Your breath, that burns upon me, wraps me round With whirling passion, pierces through my veins With its unhallowed fire, constrains, com- pels, Drags out the corpse of twenty years ago From the untrusty coffin of my mind, To poison, to corrupt, to strike you there Blind with its horror. ULRICc. Leave these bitter words ! They torture me with terrible suspense, And you with fear. I see by these dr…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 174

Collected Works (Vol. I)

THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 167 Thy jet smooth body clung to mine awhile, Descending lke the thunder - pregnant night. Ominous, black, thy secret cruel smile Lured me. We lay like death; until the light Thy jet smooth body clung to mine awhile ! Thou wast a lion as an angel then, In copper-glowing lands that gnaws the prey He has regotten from the tribes of men. _ We lay like passion all that deadly day—- Thou wast a lion as an angel then ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover, Great hater of my body as my soul, To whom I gave my life and …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 205

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…Breath of men adoring. ‘‘ Worship we! ‘““The mighty Wisdom, the astounding power, "©The Horror, the immense profundity, ‘¢ The stealthy, secret paces of thy Bower ! ‘* Thee we adore and praise ‘Whose breast is broad as day’s ; ‘¢Thee, thee, the mistress of the barren sea, ‘‘Deep, deadly, poisonous ; ‘* Accept the life of us, ‘¢Dwell in our midst; yea, show thy cruelty ! “Suck out the life and breath ‘* From breast that quickeneth ! ‘¢ Such pain is death, ‘‘Such terror, such delight—all, all is unto thee !” I too, I also, I have known thy kiss. …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 144

Moonchild

…n's dawn, when nature was supposed to be a personal power of cruelty, delighting in murder, rape, and pillage, were called by their most secret names, and commemoration made of their deeds of infamy. Such was the recital of horror that, cloaked even as it was in Arthwait's unintelligible style, the meaning was salient by virtue of the tone of the enchanter, and the gestures with which Vesquit accompanied him, going in dumb show through all the gamut of infernal discord, the music of the pit. He showed how children were cast into the fire, or th…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 124

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…reat there is ever found the good. Honour and glory to the sacred house And ark of the covenant of holy trust, The unseen mother and the secret spouse Ever availing in the sorrow and dust That aye avenge the artist’s victory won, That cover up his monuments of fame, That twist his sight, once steadfast on the sun, To the fear folded in the robes of shame :— Lest he, to all the world plain victor, find Himself mere failure to his own white mind. LE PENSEUR. BLIND agony of thought! Who turns his pen Or brush or lyre to Art, shall see in this The …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 126

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…1is peacock pinions molten one by one, Falls to black earth through the impassive night. Lo! from uprushing earth arises love Ardent and secret, scented with the night, Amorous, ready. Sing the awakening bliss That catches him, from the inane above Hurled—nay, drawn down! What utter- most delight Dawns inthat death! Icarus and Gaia kiss. LA FORTUNE. ‘‘HfarL, Tyche ! From the Amalthean horn Pour forth the store of love! I lowly bend Before thee: I invoke thee at the end When other gods are fallen and put to scorn. Thy foot is to my lips ; my sig…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

John Yarker – In Memoriam

… author. Two years later saw an interesting work from his pen, Notes on Με Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; Με Gnosis and Secret Sclzools of Με Middle Ages, Modern Rosicracianism; and Με various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, a book which has been exceedingly well reviewed. A little later, but about the same date, the “Egyptian Ritual of the Book of Dead,” another paper on the Old Rosicrucian Doctrines and one on Astrology, made their appearance. All this time articles were being written for the Masonic perodical…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 6

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…gotten me Love as the gold from the furnace that melted my loves. Love is not bound to the body, not sparse and adrift with the mind Not secret with soul, though the soul seem one and alone of its kind. The body is naught but a corpse, its growth but a name of decay, A delirious dream of sick gods—where the Shadow hath sway. Concocted of offal and mire, putrescent with cancer of breath, A knot that unravels to naught, a riddle whose answer is Death? The mind is the reek of the fume of the body’s corruption, the mime Of its magotty moods as it r…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 217

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…Hermes! God of Arcady And all wild woodlands ! ORPHEUS, Neither Son, nor Sire, Nor God: but he is all: all else in him Is hidden: he the secret and the self Shrined central in. this orb of eyeless Fate, | Phantom, elusive, permanent. In all, In spirit and in matter immanent, He also is the all, and all is ill. Three forms and functions hath the soul; the sea Murmurs their names repeating: Marts call The soul as it engendereth things below ; Neptune the soul that contemplateth things Above ; and Ocean as itself retracts Itself into itself: choos…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 79

Moonchild

…ly. The only object of advertisement would be to get suitable members; but we have methods of finding them without publicity. We make no secret of our methods and results, on the other hand; but only the right man knows how to discover them. "It is not as if we were working in an old field where all the terms were defined, and the main laws ascertained. In Magick, even more than in any other science, the student must keep his practice level with his theory." "Don't you ever do magick under test conditions?" "Unfortunately, my child, creative ma…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 190

Moonchild

…k in the Lodge was called Thaumiel- Qeretiel, and there were two of these, "Annie" and Douglas, who were alone in possession of the full secrets of the Lodge. Only they and the Fourteen had keys to the cellar and the secret of the combination. Beginners were initiated there, and the method of introducing them was satisfactory and ingenious. They were taken to the house in an automobile, their eyes blinded by an ordinary pair of motor-goggles, behind whose glass was a steel plate. The cellar itself was arranged as a permanent place of evocation.…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 194

Moonchild

…"Hecate, mother only of death, devourer of all [274] life!" cried Douglas, in his final adjuration; "as I devote to thy chill tooth this secret spring of man, so be it with all that are like unto it! Even as it is with that which I shall cast upon thine altar, so be it with all the offspring of Lisa la Guiffria!" He ended with the thirteenth repetition of that appalling curse which begins Epikaloume se ten en to keneo pnevmati, deinan, aoratan,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 22

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…thor. Two years later saw an interesting work from his pen, Wotes on the Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; the Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages, Modern Rosicrucianism; and the various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, a book which has been exceedingly well reviewed. A little later, but about the same date, the “Egyptian Ritual of the Book of Dead,” another paper on the Old Rosicrucian Doctrines and one on Astrology, made their appearance, All this time articles were being written for the Masonic perodica…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…thor. Two years later saw an interesting work from his pen, Wotes on the Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; the Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages, Modern Rosicrucianism; and the various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, a book which has been exceedingly well reviewed. A little later, but about the same date, the “Egyptian Ritual of the Book of Dead,” another paper on the Old Rosicrucian Doctrines and one on Astrology, made their appearance, All this time articles were being written for the Masonic perodica…

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