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1907 · PDF PAGE 160

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…! They fear; they appal— They are not as ye deem ! Death died when I dipped my lyre in the sweet Heliconian stream ! Give praise to your lord, All souls that draw breath, All flowers of the sward ! For the song of me saith: ‘¢ Sound the loud chord ! Let love be a wreath ! Death is not for ye any more, for I am the Master of Death!” PARABASIS.! As I sit in the sound Of the wash of the surf, On the long low ground, The trees and the turf; In front the profound, The warrior seas, Upstirred of the breeze, by the far reef bound— I know the low music…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 61

The Book of Thoth

…of Buddhism (really identical with the doctrine of Shiva and Shakti). A vision of this image will be found in the document entitled “The Lord of Illusion”. (See Appendix.) The present card endeavours to represent all the above conceptions. Yet no true image is possible at all; for, firstly, all images are necessarily false as such; and, secondly, the motion being perpetual, and its rate that of the limit, c, the rate of Light, any stasis contradicts the idea of the card: this picture is, therefore, hardly more than mnemonic jottings. Many of th…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 60

Moonchild

… surely led by some mysterious Providence — to the very poulterer whom I had seen in the morning. I led her to that worthy man. 'Yes, my lord,' he replied to my urbane question with affable obsequience, 'this is the lady to whom I sold the quail.' She contradicted the statement brusquely; she had never been in the shop in her life. We proceeded on our walk. 'Tell me,' I said, 'exactly what you did do when you were out yesterday.' 'Nothing at all,' she answered. 'I went and sat in the park for a little. Presently my sister came and sat down with…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 52

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…the shield of sleep is peace. Clear and bright the lamp burns ; clean and sharp the sword,! While I watch their paths between before the Lord. A RONDEL. REsT, like a star at sea Thrice loved, thrice blest, Burns. Will there come to me Rest? 1 Common magical implements. The lamp signifies Illumination and the sword Will.

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1935 · PDF PAGE 11

One Star in Sight

…scious of his own incomprehensible calamity, and clumsily incapable of repairing it. Achieved, he is no less than the co-heir of gods, a Lord of Light. He is conscious of his own consecrated course, and confidently ready to run it. The Adeptus Minor needs little help or guidance even from his superiors in our Order. His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictates. To attain the Grade Adeptus Major, he must accomplish two tasks; the equilibration of himself, especially a…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 210

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…th !” ‘¢ Three voices has thy frame, Their music is but one. Fool-demon, slave of night and shame, That canst not see the sun ! I am the Lord thy God:? make thou homage and orison !” The wild heads. sank in fear: Then, troubled, to those eyes Remembrance crept of many a year, Barred gates of Paradise. Again the Voice rolled in the deep, mingled with murmuring sighs : ‘¢T mind me of the day One? came from Death to me; His soul was weary of the day, His look was melancholy ; He bade me open in the Name that binds Eternity. ‘‘ Yet though He passed…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 33

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…sake, say yes | Why Look to those cheeks, redress the red-gold | hair, Awake the giant wit, the master sin That is, for an apple’s sake, Lord of us all: These shall despoil her; these shall ruin him. Yes, I shall clutch him to these sagging breasts Stained, bruised,—enough !—and take his life in mine— Ugh ! pleasure of Hell ! Sir Percy Percivale,! Here is a strumpet. Ha! have you a sword? Enough. Iam dressed. communed With my dark heart : I see my way to it :— Oh joy! joy ! joy !—Hortense, these candles out ! [Zhe maid blows out the mirror cand…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 204

Moonchild

…ce me to introduce as Mrs. Dough-Nut, was once left lorn in the desert island of Manhattan, while her husband was on a spook-shikar with Lord Antony in this very Naples, which

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1905 · PDF PAGE 76

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…the harsh attack, Nor his followers call, [fear thou, O Most Thigh, give ear To our pitifl complaint : Under woes of war we faint. Pity, Lord of Hosts, our fear ! Hear, Most Tligh, oh, hear! Enter Messenger. MESSENGER. My lords, take heed now, prayer is good to save While yet the foemen are far off; but now They howl and clamour at our very gates. ELEAZAR. Blaspheme not God, but tell thy woeful news. CHorus, I fear me for the sorrow that he speaks. MESSENGER. The tribe of Ephraim went forth to fight Armed, and with bows, and turned them back to…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 170

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…her, the spiritists have thrown upon science the task of proving a universal negative. If Sir Oliver Lodge, or Professor Munsterberg, or Lord Cholly Cauliflower, or Mr Upthe Pole comes to me with a tale 01 unicorns in Piccadilly, I merely humour him. Munsterberg, at least, might be dangerous. But I should not investigate his statement, and I certainly should not claim to be able to disprove it on a‘pn‘orz'grounds. Even in the evidential cases, there is so much room 101” a mixture of fraud, telepathy, chance, and hysteria, and humanity is so clev…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 170

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…her, the spiritists have thrown upon science the task of proving a universal negative. If Sir Oliver Lodge, or Professor Munsterberg, or Lord Cholly Cauliflower, or Mr Upthe Pole comes to me with a tale 01 unicorns in Piccadilly, I merely humour him. Munsterberg, at least, might be dangerous. But I should not investigate his statement, and I certainly should not claim to be able to disprove it on a‘pn‘orz'grounds. Even in the evidential cases, there is so much room 101” a mixture of fraud, telepathy, chance, and hysteria, and humanity is so clev…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 105

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…vilization is rapidly destroying itself; that it stinks in my nostrils tells me that ti is rotting and my consolation is in the words of Lord Dunsany. In the meantime, the water was to be wasted in producing wealth --- the most dangerous of narcotic drugs. It creates a morbid craving --- which it never satisfies after the first flush of intoxication. Now the furnaces of the British Aluminium company cost a great deal to light. It was, therefore, impossible to extinguish them every Saturday evening. The people of the neighbourhood learnt this fa…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 276

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ister Crowley), 11, 163 Geomancy, Handbook of (Aleister Crowley), Il, 137 Ghouls, The (Aleister Crowley), VII, 159 Gizeh, The Sphinx at (Lord Dunsany), II, 205 Glasses, The Magic (Frank Harris), I, 49 Gnome, The (Victor B. Neuburg), 1V, 237 Gulf, Across the (A/eister Crowley), VII, 293 Half-hours with Famous Mahatmas. No. I, Mahatma Shri Agamya Paramahansa Guru Swamiji (7. F.C. Fuller), IV, 284 Handbook of Geomancy (Aleister Crowley, revised), II, 137 Hashish, A Pharmaceutical Study of (Z. Whineray), I, 233 Hashish Eater, The (/7. G. Ludlow), 1…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 276

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ister Crowley), 11, 163 Geomancy, Handbook of (Aleister Crowley), Il, 137 Ghouls, The (Aleister Crowley), VII, 159 Gizeh, The Sphinx at (Lord Dunsany), II, 205 Glasses, The Magic (Frank Harris), I, 49 Gnome, The (Victor B. Neuburg), 1V, 237 Gulf, Across the (A/eister Crowley), VII, 293 Half-hours with Famous Mahatmas. No. I, Mahatma Shri Agamya Paramahansa Guru Swamiji (7. F.C. Fuller), IV, 284 Handbook of Geomancy (Aleister Crowley, revised), II, 137 Hashish, A Pharmaceutical Study of (Z. Whineray), I, 233 Hashish Eater, The (/7. G. Ludlow), 1…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 91

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ith those enduring kisses that endow Heart, hope, and life with gladness. he soon P? Comes ELEAZAR. Maiden most perfect, daughter of our lord, And ye, most fairest branches of our tree, Maidens of Israel, we await: you here That ye, no other, may go forth to meet The chief victorious. And after you Accept the bargain. Those villains that once cast him out shall forth In sackcloth to his feet, if haply so He spare their vagabond and worthless lives. ADULAH. Not so, my father. In my father’s name I promise unto all great happiness, And vengeance …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 212

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…one who is ‘‘ crucified ” thereon. 5 Raphael dwells in Tiphereth, Beauty. 6 Gabriel, dweller in Yesod, where are the Kerubim. 7 Michael, lord of Hod, an Ennanation of a watery nature. 8 Auriel, archangel of Netzach, to which Fire is attributed. 9 The path of N, or Saturn and arth, which leads from Malkuth to Yesod indeed, but is dark and illusory. This first step upward attracts the bitterest opposition of all the Enemies of the Human Soul. Flames on my front the fiery star, About me and around.? Pillared, the sacred sun, afar, Six symphonies o…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 225

Moonchild

…. Poor old Lisa! Poor old Abdul! Well, as I said, it's none of my business. My business is to divine the thoughts of the enemy, and — oh Lord! how long? — to get the powers that be to understand that I am right. Considering that they needed eight million marching men to persuade them that Bloody Bill meant war, I fear that my task may be no sinecure." He went to the barracks, where a military automobile was waiting for him, and told the chauffeur, with bitter wit, to go out to meet General Cripps. [317] As to Lisa and the Turk, it was twenty-fo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 86

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… thts boyish rudeness.) But J will not have you die. I zw22/ marry you. [With determination, DENYS. [Aside.} Here is love’s language—and Lord knows who’s meaning. [A/ozd.] What you are too generous to refuse I may be too proud to accept. BLANCHE. [Controls her indignation.] Osir! listen! I have no mother—no father. I am very lonely—how can I tell you? [Goes over and crouches on chair half-sobbing.| Threemonths ago a young man began to stand near me in church. I—I could see I pleased him— and that pleased me; so I listened, when, as I went down …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 278

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…the rejected ones,” and gives unto him the symbol of Ruach, which is the Hebrew for Air. The Closing then takes place. “Let us adore the Lord and King of Air!” says the Hierophant. The prayer of the Sylphs follows ; and in the Name of SHADDAI EL CHAI the Temple is closed in the 2°=9° Grade of Theoricus. The following month, February, P. passed through the next grade, that of 3° = 8°. RITUAL OF THE 3° = 8° GRADE OF PRACTICUS This Grade is particularly attributed to the element of Water, and especially refers to the planet Mercury and to the thir…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 278

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…the rejected ones,” and gives unto him the symbol of Ruach, which is the Hebrew for Air. The Closing then takes place. “Let us adore the Lord and King of Air!” says the Hierophant. The prayer of the Sylphs follows ; and in the Name of SHADDAI EL CHAI the Temple is closed in the 2°=9° Grade of Theoricus. The following month, February, P. passed through the next grade, that of 3° = 8°. RITUAL OF THE 3° = 8° GRADE OF PRACTICUS This Grade is particularly attributed to the element of Water, and especially refers to the planet Mercury and to the thir…

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