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1996 · PDF PAGE 33

The Law is for All

…th positive integers. “Come forth”—from what are you hiding? “under the stars,” that is, openly. Also, let love be “under” or “unto” the Body of Nuit. But above all, be open! What is this shame? Is Love hid­ eous, that men should cover him with lies? Is Love so sacred that others must not intrude? Nay, “under the stars,” at night, what eye but theirs may see? Or, if one see, should not your worship wake the cloisters of his soul to echo sanctity for that so lovely a deed and gracious you have done? 13. I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is i…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 174

The Law is for All

… and the cruelty of their jeal­ ousies to avenge thee on thy slave as thou thyself hadst neither wit nor spite to do? And Woman, weak in body, and starved in mind; woman, morally fettered by Her heroic oath to save the race, no care of cost, helpless and hard, endured these things, endured from age to age. Hers was no loud spectacular sacrifice, no cross on a hill-top, with the world agaze, and monstrous miracles to echo the applause of heaven. She suffered and triumphed in most shameful silence; she had no friend, no follower, none to aid or a…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 61

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

… Touchher — home, with the Magdalene’s clap-juice sticking to it still, and reverently kissed it) — That there was not one ounce of that body of love that could reasonably be firky-toodled any more. As long as anything that could be called Viscosity was inherent in the mass, I jounced it like a man. But this soon ceased : I reluctantly withdrew. Yet such was my love for my darling that I buggered a hole clean through his tomb- stone, and for six months I never left the hallowed spot. My spiritual superiors, however, soon put a spoke in my wheel…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 299

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…, Allah! Allah! In the shadows flung by the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b) it only read well weekly because of its pornographic or Prudential surroundings. But, lol it is most excellent, VIII R 257

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1912 · PDF PAGE 299

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…, Allah! Allah! In the shadows flung by the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b) it only read well weekly because of its pornographic or Prudential surroundings. But, lol it is most excellent, VIII R 257

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1996 · PDF PAGE 36

The Law is for All

… ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. Commentary: It is proper to obey The Beast, because His Law is pure Freedom, and He will give no command which is other than a Right Interpretation of this Freedom. But it is neces­ sary for the development of Freedom itself to have an organiza­ tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control. This is especia…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 70

Konx Om Pax

…t us consider the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, brother, this is fulsome. Bones. Ass! . . . He lives (it is true) in Kether; but his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. What about your poetry? Bowley. Certa…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 222

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…salm,’ he asked her, ‘*’ I can tell all my bones, they look and stare upon me?’”’’ You know the girl hasn’t got an ounce of flesh on her body. She’s perfectly healthy ; she’s just a freak of nature. And while he sketched her he asked her to suggest a title for the picture. ‘ Paint me as a dead soul,’ she answered. He caught up the phrase with fiery enthusiasm, and began to work on an enormous screen, a triptych with the strangest beasts and birds and faces, all arranged to lead up to

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1910 · PDF PAGE 193

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…warn D.D.C.F.; supposing him to be innocent, as he perhaps was, of so black and evil an offence. But as he hesitated a voice entered the body of the Sibyl and bade him leave matters alone, which he did. Not yet was the cup full. In April he journeyed to London, and the month of May 1903 once again found him amongst the fastnesses of the north in the house he had bought in which to carry out the Sacred Operation of Abramelin. At this point of our history, in a prefatory note to one of Frater P.’s note-books, we find him recapitulating, in the fo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 193

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…warn D.D.C.F.; supposing him to be innocent, as he perhaps was, of so black and evil an offence. But as he hesitated a voice entered the body of the Sibyl and bade him leave matters alone, which he did. Not yet was the cup full. In April he journeyed to London, and the month of May 1903 once again found him amongst the fastnesses of the north in the house he had bought in which to carry out the Sacred Operation of Abramelin. At this point of our history, in a prefatory note to one of Frater P.’s note-books, we find him recapitulating, in the fo…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 62

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…of “defects”. 2. The Word Chastity is used by initiâtes to signify a certain State of soûl and of mind déterminant of a certain habit of body which is nowise identical with what is commonly understood. Chastity in the true magical sense of the word is inconceivable to those who are not wholly emancipated from the obsession of sex. — 182 —

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1954 · PDF PAGE 313

Magick Without Tears

…. We may then expect the head or headdress of the spirit to be in some way characteristic of the Sign of Pisces. The general form of the body will be indicated by the Daleth, the letter of Venus, and the lower part (or perhaps the quality) will be determined by the watery Mem-the termination Aleph Lamed is usually taken to indicate appropriate symbols. For instance, the Aleph might show a golden aura, and the Lamed a pair of balances. Some further detail might be indicated by taking the letters Daleth and Mem together , for Dam is the Hebrew wo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 123

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…uld have it so. Her secret wonders grow and glow, limned in the luminous vatine. Worship, the sculptor’s, clean forgot in worship of her body lithe, And time forgotten with his scythe, and thought, the Witenagemot. Confused in rapture: peace is culled a flower from the arboreal root, The vision dulled, the singer mute, shattered the lute, the song annulled.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 460

Magick Without Tears

…cret Chiefs of A:. A:. (c) by virtue of the Secret a magical weapon of incalculable power. You are not "stuck ." You can use your Astral Body well enough: too well, in one way. But I think you need a few more journeys with me: you ought to get on to the stage where the vision results from a definite invocation. 1. How do you know They are "invisible"? I foresee that sooner or later you will be asking for more information about them, so I am planning a separate letter to supply this.-

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1929 · PDF PAGE 26

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…nfluence ultimately affects action, though it may not do so at the time. (Illustration: The least gesture causes a change in a man’s own body and in the air around him; it disturbs the balance of the entire Universe, and its effects continue eternally throughout ail space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on the mind. It stands as one of the causes of every subséquent thought, and tends to influence every subséquent action. A golfer may lose a few yards on his drive, a few more with his second and third, he may lie on t…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 65

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…ccomplished, thou mayest enter again into the Vision, that thereby shall be perfected in Thee. 17. After this shalt thou return into the Body, and give thanks unto the Most High God IAIDA, yea unto the Most High God IAIDA. 18. Mark well that this operation should be performed if it be possible in a place set apart and consecrated to the Works of the Magick of Light. Also that the Temple should be ceremonially open as thou hast knowledge and skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most carefully accomplished. But in t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 224

Magick Without Tears

…hink of none better-which enables them to assume at times the human form. No. I-and the rest are also rans-is the seal. There is a whole body of literature about this. Then come wolves, hyc:enas, large dogs of the hunting type; occasionally leopards. Tales of cats and serpents are usually the other way round; it is the human (nearly always female) that assumes these shapes by witchcraft . But in ancient Egypt they literally doted on this sort of thing. The papyri are full of formulas for operating such transmutations. But I think that this was …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 177

The Law is for All

…lf if she be but left alone to do it. I see it! I, the Beast, who have seen—who see—Space splendid with stars; who have seen—who see—the Body of our Lady Nuit, all-pervading; and therein swallowed up, to have found—to find—no soul that is not wholly of Her. Woman! thou drawest us upward and onward for ever; and every woman is one among women, of Woman; one star of Her stars. 1 See “Liber D” [§206]. I see thee, Woman, thou standest alone, High Priestess art thou unto Love at the Altar of Life. And Man is the Victim therein. Beneath thee, rejoici…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 94

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ts not, breeds pestilence.” { Verily: ‘‘ Arise, and drink your bliss, for everything that lives is holy.”§ The six acts of purifying the body by Hatha-Yoga are Dhauti, Basti, Neti, Trataka, Nauli and Kapdlabhati,|| each of * “Konx om Pax,” by A. Crowley, pp. 62, 63. + The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. } Lbid. § Visions of the Daughters of Albion. {| “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 30. Dhauti is of four kinds: Antardhauti (internal washing); Dantdhauti (cleaning the teeth); Hriddhauti (cleaning the heart); Mulashodhana (cleaning the anus). Basti is of…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 94

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ts not, breeds pestilence.” { Verily: ‘‘ Arise, and drink your bliss, for everything that lives is holy.”§ The six acts of purifying the body by Hatha-Yoga are Dhauti, Basti, Neti, Trataka, Nauli and Kapdlabhati,|| each of * “Konx om Pax,” by A. Crowley, pp. 62, 63. + The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. } Lbid. § Visions of the Daughters of Albion. {| “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 30. Dhauti is of four kinds: Antardhauti (internal washing); Dantdhauti (cleaning the teeth); Hriddhauti (cleaning the heart); Mulashodhana (cleaning the anus). Basti is of…

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