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1906 · PDF PAGE 42

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…e House of Sri Parananda Swami, Ceylon. WITH feet set terribly dancing, With eyelids filled of flame, Wild lightnings from Him glancing, Lord Shiva went and came. The dancing of His feet was heard And was the final word. 1 The MS. of this Hymn most mysteriously (for I am very careful) disappeared two days after being written. I can remember no more of it than the above; nor willinspiration return, —A, C. He danced the measure golden. On dead men... His Saints and Rishis ' olden, : The yogins that... He trampled them to dustand they Were sparks …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 51

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…age on the fiery wings Of stinging song to all the race of men: That they have hope ; for we are happy here.” 1 The ‘‘ Voice” is that of Lord Tennyson, whose rooms were in this court.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 77

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…or violate, And all our young men murderously slain, And children spitted on their coward spears. CHORUS. How heavy is Thy hand upon us, Lord ! MESSENGER. Nor stayed they there ; but, firing Mahanaim, Sweep toward Mizpeh like a locust-cloud. ELEAZAR. Get thee to horse and carry me this message: The Elders unto Jephthah, greeting: Help! No single cry beyond that Help! Be gone! [#x7z¢t Messenger. CHORUS. I fear me our necessity is sure. But they come hither. Shall we rather flee? ELEAZAR. I stand here manly, and will die a man. CHORUS. For coward…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 21

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…oes of toil. Seed of Abel, this thy shame— To the boar-spear yields the sword. Seed of Cain, to heaven flame, And to earth cast Heaven’s Lord ! THE LITANY OF SATAN. O thou, of Angels fairest and most wise, God by Fate’s treachery shorn of liturgies ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! O Prince of Exile, Sufferer of wrong, Whose vengeance, conquered, rises triply strong ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery !

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1906 · PDF PAGE 88

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…, loving to see her children laugh, Let cowards twit them with their mother’s lust. Even our own purity confirmed the trust. How long, O Lord, how long? Too long by half Till men read, wondering, wedlock’s epitaph. THE FORTY-FOURTH DAY. ‘lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death.” Romeo and Jultet. SLEEP, O deep splendour of disastrous years, Gone likea star fallen at the fall of night ! Wake, O mute mouth and majesty of light, Made of no sound that even silence hears,

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1944 · PDF PAGE 44

The Book of Thoth

…s which go to make up the human body; but the collection is very far from being a man. Still less does it explain the difference between Lord Tomnoddy and Bill Sykes. Nineteenth century chemists were at great pains. to analyse opium and isolate its alkaloids, rather like a child pulling a watch to pieces to see what makes it go. They succeeded, but the results were not altogether wholesome. Morphine has much more direct hypnotic effect than opium; its action is speedier and more violent; but it is also a very dangerous drug, and its effects are…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 226

Moonchild

…martre. There they told her that he had gone to join the British army. Various excited enquiries in official quarters led her at last to Lord Antony Bowling. He was genuinely sympathetic: he had liked the girl at first sight; but he could hold out no hopes of arranging for her to see him. "There's only one way for you to get to the front," said he. "Join the Red Cross. My sister's here forming a section. I'll give you a note to her, if you like." Lisa jumped at the suggestion. She saw, more vividly than if it were actual, the obvious result. Cy…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 266

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…Deity? Yes! But to love thee otherwise than that? ELIZABETH. This one thing clearly do I understand : We shall not marry. It is well, my lord. | TANNHAUSER. Miserable, miserable me! I bring Hate and disruption and unhappiness Unto all purity I chance to touch. I have no hope but I am fallen now ; So journey, in this purpose of despair, To Lilith and-the Venusberg. ELIZABETH. Oh no! Grant me one boon—the one that I shall ask Ever in this world! Promise me! TANNHAUSER. Alas ! One promise gave I once to woman—that Drove me to this illusion of your…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 327

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…stage --- 1. The Universal Peacock. {532} 1. Captain Fuller's. 2. The Universe as Ego. "I who am all and made it all, abide its separate lord," i.e. the universe becomes a single and simple being, without quantity, quality or conditions. In this the "I" is immanent, yet the "I" made it, and the "I" is entirely apart from it. (This is the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, or something very like it.)

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1929 · PDF PAGE 64

Moonchild

…fully as the builders of an earthly bridge. There was no doubt as to the validity of their knowledge or their powers. She perceived that Lord Antony Bowling had spent his life in the investigation of disjointed, purposeless items of mostly plain fraud; while under his very nose the Brethren of this Order were proceeding calmly with some stupendous task, not troubling even to acquaint the world with their results. And she could dimly guess why this was so, and must be so. They did not wish to be dragged into foolish controversies with the ignora…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 144

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ashing, We come that our lover may find us Rolling where the banks divide— His bride as he found us before. I obey thee, I am with thee, Lord of Light- | We listen, and love; and his voice is the ning, lotus-eyed ! voice of the God we adore. ORPHEUS. ORPHEUS. In sacred grove, Come forth in your gladness, In silent wood, O end of all these ! In calm alcove, O sorrow and madness In mirrored mood, And passion and ease, What light of love Sharp joy and sweet sadness, Your depth endued? Deep life and deep peace : Come forth! I invoke ye, O wells, ye…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 217

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…eed who made the choral world And stars the greatest, and all these the least Flowers at our feet: but also we may praise This Dionysus, lord of life and joy, In whom we may perceive a subtle world Hidden behind this masquerade of things. O sisters, thither, thither ! ORPHEUS., All deceit. Delusive as this world of shadows is, That subtler world is more delusive yet, Involving deeper and still deeper: thought, Desire of life, in that warm atmosphere Spring up and blossom new, rank poisonous flowers, The enemies of peace. Nay! matter’s all, And …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 63

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

… is entirely absorbed in its own sphere (or cylinder, on Einstein’s équations) of action. This Work is to be regarded as Holiness to the Lord”. The Hebrews, in fact, conferred the title of Qadosh (holy) upon its adepts. Its effect is to consecrate the Magicians who perforai it in a very spécial wav. We may take note also of the correspond¬ ance of Nine with Teth, XI, Léo, and the Serpent. The great merits of this formula are that it avoids contact with the inferior planes, that it is self-sufhcient, that it involves no responsibilities, and tha…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 213

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…nd mirth ! I lift my wand and wave you Through hill to hill of delight : My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you, lord of the maze, | In the darkness free of the sun ; In spite of the spite that is day’s We are wed, we are wild, we are one! FirsT M/AENAD. A VOICE As OF RUNNING BROOKs. Love! FIRST M4AENAD. Chase me not Love, love, I give, I give. I yield, I pant, I fall upon thy breast,

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1929 · PDF PAGE 132

Moonchild

… Proserpine, a soul of double nature, living half upon earth and half in Hades, because, having eaten the pomegranate offered her by its lord, her mother could not bring her wholly back to earth; and thirdly, she is Hecate, a thing altogether of Hell, barren, hideous and malicious, the queen of death and evil witchcraft. [187] All these natures are combined in woman. Artemis is unassailable, a being fine and radiant; Hecate is the crone, the woman past all hope of motherhood, her soul black with envy and hatred of happier mortals; the woman in …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 58

777

….—The furniture, &c., is attributed as told in the ritual, here duly 4-d, c-d, and ”-r °T-~ Co.. CXXI.—Add the “‘ Waiting ” Grades of ‘‘ Lord of the Paths in the Portal of the Vault of the Adepts” between the rst and 2nd Orders; and ‘* Babe of the Abyss ” between the 2nd and 3rd. Cor. CXXV.—Burton gives these upside down. The true attribution is checked by the I ire- vorshippers (Guebres) in 5. Yet, of course, the Kether Hell may be considered as more awful than the Malkuth.

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1996 · PDF PAGE 296

The Law is for All

…,187 Dionysus 47,84,85 disease 51,60,68,70.72.73,102,103, 111,133,162 disk 30 Disraeli, Benjamin 118 divorce 43,175,180 Douglas, Alfred, Lord 36 drugs 84,85,109-111 duat (duant) 193 dwarf 29,31 dwarf self 163 dwarf soul 95,103,128 dweller on the threshold 111 economics 68,129,176,182 Eddington, Arthur, Space, Time and Gravitation 94 Eddy, Mary Baker 182 education 102 ego 92 annihilation of 95 conscious 41 death of sense of the 93 Egypt 74,85,93 Egyptian Book of the Dead 171 Eliot, George 44 elixir of life 140 Elizabeth I of England 44 Empedocle…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 106

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…desperate destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damnéd minion Of Set,! the accursed lord of Hell. Yea ! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. 1 The ass-headed deity of the Egyptians, slayer of Osiris. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Druse on Lebanon. Moreover pylon shouldered round To pylon an unearthly tune, Lik…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 74

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ful word, and who shall fathom it? PROPHET. Thy help is from the hills and desert lands. CHORUS. Our help is from the hills: we know the Lord. PROPHET. Death rides most violently against the sun. CHORUS. And who shall bridle him, or turn his way? lor Fate alone of gods, inflexible, wAnd careless of men’s deeds, is firm in heaven. PROPHET. I sec a sword whose hilt is to thy hand. CHORUS, But which of us shall wield the shining blade?

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1905 · PDF PAGE 246

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…the three ancient to oblivion! Oh! Love is grown fury! TANNHAUSER. Kall me! VENUS. In the kiss. [TANNHAUSER Sleeps, ACT III. For Love is lord of truth and loyalty, Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden piumes up to the purest sky, Above the reach of loathly sinful lust, Whose base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weak wings dare not to heaven fly, But like a moldwarp in the earth doth lie. His’ dunghill thoughts, which do themselves enure To dirty dross, no higher dare aspire, Nor can his feeble earthly eyes endure The flaming …

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