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1904 · PDF PAGE 41

Why Jesus Wept

WHY JESUS WEPT 27 SIR PERCY. Time matters not. I am so drunk with love. MOLLY. One kiss, one kiss ! SIR PERCY. A million ! Ay, slack moon, Dull moon, haste, haste ! MOLLY. Kiss me again, again ! ANGELA. Would I had the kissing of her with vitriol ! SIR PERCY. Your kisses are like young rain. ANGELA. The slobbery kisses of virginity. He shall soon know these calculated, keen, Intense, important kisses, — mine ! Hell’s worm ! MOLLY. Yes, do not leave me. Let us away now ! No, I must tell them, fetch my —

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1919 · PDF PAGE 95

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… darling, I also wait for the brilliance of the hour ineffable, when the universe shall be like a girdle for the midst of the ray of our love, extending beyond the permitted end of the endless One. 65. Then, O thou heart, will I the serpent eat thee wholly up; yea, I will eat thee wholly up. 89

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1905 · PDF PAGE 61

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…st bring all the load of fears, Toils of long years, Sorrows of life and agonies of death, Hard caught-up breath, The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of shame, The gloomy flame Of lust, the cruel torment of desire More than hell fire, And bid them fade, as if the bryony Let her flower die, And banished them through space, as if a star Dropped through the far Vault of the sky, and, as a lamp extinct With blood-red tinct, Went out. So lonely in mysterious night A wild, strange light Flickers around the sacred head of man, And bids him scan Th…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 79

The Star in the West

… morality , based on Nature , and manifested to us through our divine powers of reason . And much of this new morality do we find in the love-gospel of Aleister Crowley . First turning to the love incarnate in motherhood , we find a touching case in the picture of Cora in “ The Mother's Tragedy." Cora Vavasour , late of the halls , yet as true and noble a woman as ever lived , a type of woman that , thank Heaven , is not so uncommon among those whom the prudes call fallen classes . Cora was scarcely , however , one of these ; living in luxury s…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 167

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…owards East. See, see! I seek Thee on maternal knees ! Conceive Her pangs that bore Thee, when her shame Devoured Her, with no memory of love— As mine, as mine! O bitter memories ! [4 pause. ULRIC. Tell me, dear friend ! anxiety and love Are like to kill me. Tell me in three words. Cora (slowly and deliberately). I am a dancer and a prostitute ! ULRIC smzles contemptuously. Why trick me with so pitiful a lie? Were you the vilest woman on the earth, Mere scum of filth shed off the city’s dregs— Were you the meanest and most treacher- ous-— Were …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 189

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…terialise of all forms of What spiritual fact you choose, existence. And all such turn to folly—-lose The subtle splendour, and the wise Love and dear bliss of truth. Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference *Twixt spirit and the things of sense. What is the quarrel between us ?- Why do our thoughts so idly clatter? — I do not care one jot for matter, | One jot for spirit, while you say One is pure ether, one pure clay. I’ve talked too long : you’re very good— Practical ad- I only hope you…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…t not the Bodhi—sattva who let the tigress eat him. She always wins ; she cannot lose. As the proverb says : ’ Lucky at play, unlucky in love—and ‘ God is love.’ " " Listen ! he is saying the Black Mass again," cried Ninon, and springing on a table began the Dance of the Postman’s Knock, just then the rage of Montparnasse before the infection spread to Paris and London. A Polish youth jumped on to the table opposite and joined her; in a minute the whole cafe was aflame with it. But Edgar Rolles, his hands thrust deep into his pockets, and the th…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…t not the Bodhi—sattva who let the tigress eat him. She always wins ; she cannot lose. As the proverb says : ’ Lucky at play, unlucky in love—and ‘ God is love.’ " " Listen ! he is saying the Black Mass again," cried Ninon, and springing on a table began the Dance of the Postman’s Knock, just then the rage of Montparnasse before the infection spread to Paris and London. A Polish youth jumped on to the table opposite and joined her; in a minute the whole cafe was aflame with it. But Edgar Rolles, his hands thrust deep into his pockets, and the th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 90

Mortadello

…ly bower Showers from its space of lily-bloom and passion flower. There is a touch, sublime, caress beyond all kisses Kissed overmuch in love’s distress—they are not as this is ! Ah, me unworthy of the love of God ! me stained With every sin, and bruised with every rod ! me drained Of all things, given up to the great King ! me brought By infinite mercy to his banqueting, me wrought Out of myself, out of all earthly taint ! Me shod Even with the silver sandals of a saint of God ! ALESSANDRO. She is with God, not upon earth ! A CITIZEN. Ask for …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 133

Magick Without Tears

…bly more powerful than our present electricity number one. (V.S. Alder, The Fifth Dimension, p. 132.) Exhausted; I must restring my bow. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666

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1905 · PDF PAGE 28

Oracles

IN A LESBIAN MEADOW I UNDER the summer leaves In the half-light Love his old story weaves Far out of sight. Here we are lone, at last. Heaven is overcast Yet with no night. Ere her immortal wings Gather the thread of things Into her might, Up will the moon arise Through the black-azure skies : Birds shall sing litanies Still of delight. II Let my lips wander where Tender moss grows, Where through their dusky air Beams a red rose. Where the bee honey sips Let my desirous lips, Kissing, unclose 23

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1908 · PDF PAGE 78

Amphora

…s chapel. From the solemn monitions of even I brood ; Thou dost shine from above. The veil of Thy mystical heaven Is melted in glory and love. O Thou, of Thy mercy apply Thy grace to my spurs and my sword, That my banner may flame to the sky In the van of the hosts of the LORD ! Amen. W 71

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1907 · PDF PAGE 124

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…e bloodhounds ache upon the slot! Soon, soon they are on him: soon the fangs of hate, The sharp teeth of the infinite are in him ! Shall love, or fame, or gold, those pangs abate? What siren with smooth voice and breast shall win him? Never a one, be sure! In serene awe The thinker formulates eternal law. QUATORZAINS LA PENSEF. EXQUISITE fairy, flower from stone begotten Sprung into sudden shape of maidenhood, ITast thou thy father’s anguish all forgotten? Hast thou a balm, who hast hardly under- stood ? Is not thy beauty for his comfort moulde…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 119

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ren sing aloud as they drive home the spade. Glory be to the Earth and to the Sun and to the holy body and soul of Man ; and glory be to Love and to the Father 01 Love, the secret Unity of things! Glory be to the Shrine within the Temple, and to the God within the Shrine, to the Word and to the Silence that bore it unto Him that is beyond the Silence and the Speech! Also thanksgiving in the Highest for the Gift of all these things, and for the maiden in whom all these things are found, for the holy body and soul 01 man, and for the sun, and for…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 119

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ren sing aloud as they drive home the spade. Glory be to the Earth and to the Sun and to the holy body and soul of Man ; and glory be to Love and to the Father 01 Love, the secret Unity of things! Glory be to the Shrine within the Temple, and to the God within the Shrine, to the Word and to the Silence that bore it unto Him that is beyond the Silence and the Speech! Also thanksgiving in the Highest for the Gift of all these things, and for the maiden in whom all these things are found, for the holy body and soul 01 man, and for the sun, and for…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 435

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…agram, that eternal formula of the Great Arcanum, G.°. A.’. “The two points on the right represent force, as those on the left symbolize love, and the four letters should be read from right to left, beginning by the right-hand upper corner, and going thence to the left-hand lower corner, and so for the others, making the cross of St. Andrew. “The suppression of the two left-hand points expresses the negation of the cross, the negation of mercy and of love. “The affirmation of the absolute reign of force, and its eternal antagonism, from above t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 435

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…agram, that eternal formula of the Great Arcanum, G.°. A.’. “The two points on the right represent force, as those on the left symbolize love, and the four letters should be read from right to left, beginning by the right-hand upper corner, and going thence to the left-hand lower corner, and so for the others, making the cross of St. Andrew. “The suppression of the two left-hand points expresses the negation of the cross, the negation of mercy and of love. “The affirmation of the absolute reign of force, and its eternal antagonism, from above t…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 539

Magick Without Tears

…th, only adding that he should beware lest the logical antinomies inherent in Yoga divert him from or discourage him in his simple path. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666

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1904 · PDF PAGE 30

The Goetia

…n, but after the command of the Master of the Exorcism he putteth on Human shape, and that very beautiful. He enflameth men with Women’s love, and Women with Men’s love; and causeth them also to show themselves naked if it be desired. He governeth 60 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, to be worn as a Lamen before thee, etc. (13.) BeLetH.—The Thirteenth Spirit is called Beleth (or Bileth, or Bilet). He is a mighty King and terrible. He rideth on a pale horse with trumpets and other kinds of musical instruments playing before him. He is very f…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 94

Collected Works (Vol. I)

JEPHTHAH To a rent uncouth attire Changed with cares ; Happy songs our love had made Ere the sun had sunk his fire, In the moonrise fall and fade, And the dregs of our desire Fall away to death ; Tears divide our labouring breath That our sister—O our sister ! Speak, Jephthah, speak! What ill has| Moon and sun and stars have kissed her ! fallen? Speak ! She must touch the lips of death, [Stlence. After a littl the Chorus of | Touch the lips whose coldness saith : Maidens understand, and break into) Thou art clay. wating, The old men gradually \…

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