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1907 · PDF PAGE 310

The Star in the West

… have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own law . Thus when we have raised our hearts to the nth power , we become as Gods knowing good and evil ; and if this raising of the heart , which Crowley so brilliantly sets forth throughout his works , can in any way lead a man into a nobler and higher insight of himself , no one can ever doubt then that it is right for him to so raise it . We have already seen from Dr. Maudsley what dangers have to be expected by those who chose this hill - top…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 147

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…nch she had allured the big black savage, until beneath her glances he was in agony. ΑΗ the primitive passions fought one another in his heart. He could have killed Rolles for the very nonchalance of his small-talk It hurt him that anyone should speak to Ida save in words of love. Equally, he could have killed him {or a trace of inflec- tion in his voice. Edgar Rolles understood his torture, understood the sup- pressed intensity of Ida’s purpose, though he could not guess its nature. Somehow he distrusted the event. “ Take literature I ᾽᾽he went…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 253

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish My own life’s being, that is, and is not other ; For I am God and Nature and thy Motherr f 75

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1911 · PDF PAGE 147

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…nch she had allured the big black savage, until beneath her glances he was in agony. ΑΗ the primitive passions fought one another in his heart. He could have killed Rolles for the very nonchalance of his small-talk It hurt him that anyone should speak to Ida save in words of love. Equally, he could have killed him {or a trace of inflec- tion in his voice. Edgar Rolles understood his torture, understood the sup- pressed intensity of Ida’s purpose, though he could not guess its nature. Somehow he distrusted the event. “ Take literature I ᾽᾽he went…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 253

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish My own life’s being, that is, and is not other ; For I am God and Nature and thy Motherr f 75

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1911 · PDF PAGE 53

The Vision and the Voice

…they bear wine, for their wine shall be turned to bitter- ness; or if they have a spear, for with a spear shall they be pierced unto the heart. And the nails are desires, of which * The Doctrine implied is that one must not be the child, but the Mother. 51

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1919 · PDF PAGE 103

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…efore Thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. Amen. 58. Moreover, I heard the voice of Adonai: Seal up the book of the Heart and the Serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. As fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the Pyramid of the ceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one Thought of Me thy delight Adonai. 59. And I answered and said: It is done even according unto…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 252

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… pure, unsullied soul. Even so, forsooth! They tell no secrets in the scullery. And there is Heinrich, wastrel of the Court, Yet hides a heart beneath the foolish face. And lo! The Landgrave! Flushed, undigni- fied ! The chase was long—if he could see himself! Wind, wind the mort! What call will answer me When I step forward? Am I dead, I wonder, Or merely on my hare-brain quest? ‘Three years Since I was seen in Germany ! (He descends the hill and enters the CoM pany. Hail, friends ! Good cousin Landgrave, merry be the meet! LANDGRAVE. Hands of…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 216

The Star in the West

…sumed And consecrated and made savour sweet To our changed senses . And the dual self Of love grew less distinct and I began To feel her heart in mine , her lips mine . Then mistier grew the sense of God without , And God was I , and nothing might exist , Subsist , or be at all , outside of Me , Myself Existence of Existences . This magnificent passage is the very consummation of idealism . The sense of God the crude outer reality growing dim , dimmer , and yet more dim ; till finally it is absorbed in Self . And yet when we with our five sense…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 285

The Star in the West

…of nature. This is the method of true science , the great white magic of the Black Goddess : Gape wide , 0 hideous mouth , and suck This heart's blood , drain it down , expunge This sweetening life of mire and muck ! Squeeze out my passions as a sponge , Till nought is left of terrene wine But somewhat deathless and divine ! 2 Huxley continues : “ The day - fly has better grounds for calling a thunderstorm supernatural than has man , with his experience of an infinitesimal fraction of dura tion , to say that the most astonishing event that can …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 18

The Vision and the Voice

… Mother, wilt thou never have compassion on the children of earth? Was it not enough that the Rose should be red with the blood of thine heart, and that its petals should be by 7 and by 7? 16

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1911 · PDF PAGE 93

The Vision and the Voice

… it with the fire of His Angel, and the blush of His loveliness informeth it, and with delight and with wit hath He made it merry at the heart, and the core thereof is the Secret of His being, and therein is His name Generation. And this His stability hath the number 80, for that the price thereof is War.+ Beware, therefore, O thou who art appointed to understand the secret of the Outermost Abyss, for in every Abyss thou must assume the mask and form of the Angel thereof. Hadst thou a name, thou wert irrevocably lost. Search, therefore, if ther…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 135

The Vision and the Voice

…he wings of Maut the Vulture. Thou mayest draw to an head the bow of thy magical will; thou mayest loose the shaft and pierce her to the heart. Iam Eros. Take then the bow and the quiver from my shoulders and slay me; for unless thou slay me, thou shalt not unveil the Mystery of the Aethyr. Therefore I did as he commanded; in the quiver were two arrows, one white, one black. I cannot force myself to fit an arrow to the bow. And there came a voice: It must needs be. And I said: No man can do this thing. And the voice answered, as it were an echo…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Vision and the Voice

…hath it all, and hath no need of thee. Despair! Despair! Nor canst thou cling to her knees and ask for pity; nor canst thou cling to her heart and ask for love; nor canst thou put thine arms about her neck, and ask for understanding; for thou hast had all these, and they avail thee not. Despair! Despair! Then I took the Flaming Sword, and I let it loose against Typhon, so that his head was cloven asunder, and the black triangle dissolved in lightnings. 157

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1907 · PDF PAGE 202

Collected Works (Vol. III)

196 ORPHEUS TISIPHONE. Tear wide apart The jaws ! MEGARA., Force fear against the inmost heart ! PERSEPHONE. Mercy! I plead, sweet sisters! ORPHEUS. And I plead Vengeance, and help in my extremest need. Pile up the torture! Had he not the power, And silence mocked me? MEGARA. Urge us hour by hour, Thou couldst not add one particle of pain. ALECTO. He speaks not! Bid his torture speak again ! TISIPHONE. Speak, murderer ! MEG-ERA. Hades! answer us! ALECTO. Expel These torments from thy being, us from [lel], Or Zeus from Heaven ! TISIPHONE. Or els…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 363

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…d- bye! S. HOLMEs. SECRET REMEDIES. British Medical Association, 429, Strand, W.C. 1s. Every person who has the welfare of the people at heart should buy this book for free distribution among the poor. The major portion of the Press (which lives corruptly on the advertisements of the scoundrels exposed in this book, knaves who sell ginger at the price of gold) has done its best to boycott the book. The public—the’ helpless, ignorant section of it—spends nigh 2} millions sterling every year on these quack nostrums. We must safeguard them. We mus…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 363

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…d- bye! S. HOLMEs. SECRET REMEDIES. British Medical Association, 429, Strand, W.C. 1s. Every person who has the welfare of the people at heart should buy this book for free distribution among the poor. The major portion of the Press (which lives corruptly on the advertisements of the scoundrels exposed in this book, knaves who sell ginger at the price of gold) has done its best to boycott the book. The public—the’ helpless, ignorant section of it—spends nigh 2} millions sterling every year on these quack nostrums. We must safeguard them. We mus…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…is necessary to fill the abyss which separates the finite from the infinite, and it affirms this intervention with all the warmth of its heart, with all the docility of its intelligence. If separated from this act of faith, the need of religion finds no satisfaction, and turns to scepticism and to despair. But in order that the act of faith should not be an act of folly, reason wishes it to be directed and ruled. By what? By science? We have seen that science can do nothing here. By the civil authority? It is absurd. Are our prayers to be super…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…is necessary to fill the abyss which separates the finite from the infinite, and it affirms this intervention with all the warmth of its heart, with all the docility of its intelligence. If separated from this act of faith, the need of religion finds no satisfaction, and turns to scepticism and to despair. But in order that the act of faith should not be an act of folly, reason wishes it to be directed and ruled. By what? By science? We have seen that science can do nothing here. By the civil authority? It is absurd. Are our prayers to be super…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 93

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…s of myriads of flowers. 45. Also I beheld my God, and the countenance of Him was a thousandfold brighter than the lightning. Yet in his heart I beheld the slow and dark One, the ancient one, the devourer of His children. 46. In the height and the abyss, O my beautiful, there is no thing, verily, there is no thing at all, that is not altogether and perfectly fashioned for Thy delight. 47. Light cleaveth unto Light, and filth to filth; with pride one contemneth another. But not Thou, who art all, and beyond it; who art absolved from the Division…

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