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1913 · PDF PAGE 224

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…he sunlight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the sigil of the sun, Gray world, soft light, strong wind, and burning day, L take the arrows cast by Blake away, Andfling them surely…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 65

The Star and the Garter

XXVIII Anp who is then the moon? Bend close, And clothe me in a silken kiss, And I will whisper to my rose The secret name of Artemis. Words were not needed then : to-day Must I begin what never I thought To do: mould flowers in common clay? Mud casket of mere words is nought, When by love’s miracle we guess What either always thinketh. Yes? 63

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e mysteries of time Fade and grow pale before the eternal cry! Light! Light! The doom of time is thrown to the winds— And I have set the secret wide and still In the heart of thee, my Mother; I have known The incarnate miracle of the birth of man, The twin of Time, the heir of the gods’ debauch ; The shedder of the raiment of the loom Whereon are woven birth and life and death. Yea! Is revealed the Sword, the eye of light! Hail to the fivefold star! The secret awe Of the world unborn ; and thou, that hast the key, Let the lyre sound before thee…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e mysteries of time Fade and grow pale before the eternal cry! Light! Light! The doom of time is thrown to the winds— And I have set the secret wide and still In the heart of thee, my Mother; I have known The incarnate miracle of the birth of man, The twin of Time, the heir of the gods’ debauch ; The shedder of the raiment of the loom Whereon are woven birth and life and death. Yea! Is revealed the Sword, the eye of light! Hail to the fivefold star! The secret awe Of the world unborn ; and thou, that hast the key, Let the lyre sound before thee…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 362

Magick Without Tears

…hat this was the case; yet the proof has not strengthened my faith, and disproof would do nothing to shake it. I knew in myself that the Secret Chiefs had arranged that the manuscript of The Book of the Law should have been hidden under the Watch Towers and the Watch Towers under the ski; that they had driven me to make the key to my position the absence of the manuscript; that they had directed Kenneth Ward's actions for years that he might be the means of the discovery, and arranged every detail of the incident in such a way that I should und…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 235

The Book of Thoth

… the highest exalted. These last three cards seem to prepare the explosion which will renew the whole Cycle. Note that Virgo is Yod, the secret seed of Life, and also the Virgin Earth awaiting the Phallic Plough. The interest of this card is the interest of the common people. The rulership of the Sun in Virgo suggests also birth. The disks are arranged in the form of the geomantic figure Popu‐ lus. These disks may be represented as the flowers or fruits of a great tree, its solid roots in fertile land. In the Yî King, Sol in Virgo is represente…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 191

The Law is for All

…ions upon the Obverse of the Stèle of Revealing Above, the gemmed azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit. The winged globe, the starry blue Are mine, O Ankh-f-n-Khonsu. I am the Lord of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veilèd sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremb…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 325

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…טיב destruction 55 56 57 Built?הנב χ. [Fish (pl.) ; vide 7]?םינד Angel of 8 Cr?הילוי Angel of5 C.?היוול Altar?חבזמ The layingeby, making secret?אןבהמ [Vide not 499]?םיבהא [VideK,D, Lox. p. 69,] An?ןזא ear Night Demon of is1 Dec. 1?!גאד יליה Love, kindness, grace; notarlqon l"? of Chokmah Nesethrah, the? Secret Wisdom? My strength, power, might Ruler of Water?רהילט Angel of 6 s. "?לאז Angel of 3 P.?,ריתהל [Vide KD. L.C.K. p. 69]?הב Brethren [Referred ιο Lilith?םיחא &Sallnael—KrDr L.CrK. p- 54] Heathen?םיוג A wall?המוה Mensa-uata?,דרנ Tried by fir…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 325

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…טיב destruction 55 56 57 Built?הנב χ. [Fish (pl.) ; vide 7]?םינד Angel of 8 Cr?הילוי Angel of5 C.?היוול Altar?חבזמ The layingeby, making secret?אןבהמ [Vide not 499]?םיבהא [VideK,D, Lox. p. 69,] An?ןזא ear Night Demon of is1 Dec. 1?!גאד יליה Love, kindness, grace; notarlqon l"? of Chokmah Nesethrah, the? Secret Wisdom? My strength, power, might Ruler of Water?רהילט Angel of 6 s. "?לאז Angel of 3 P.?,ריתהל [Vide KD. L.C.K. p. 69]?הב Brethren [Referred ιο Lilith?םיחא &Sallnael—KrDr L.CrK. p- 54] Heathen?םיוג A wall?המוה Mensa-uata?,דרנ Tried by fir…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 10

The Goetia

…Aleister Crowley,’ a poet, and skilled student of Magical Lore, and an expert Kabbalist, to complete openly that which had been begun in secret.” This is that which is written: ‘‘ His Bishoprick let another take.” And again: ‘ Oculi Tetragrammaton.” This ts also that which is said: “Nomen Secundum tow yop refertur ad Gedhurah; qui est Rex secundus, quo moriente delabebantur Postertora Matris, unde Bittul atque Corruptio Achurajim Patris et Matris hoc indigit- atur.” And so saying we wish you well. Ex Deo Nascimur. In Jesu Morimur. Per S.S. Revi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 41

John St. John

…e of the Double Kingdom, and he wields the Wand of Double Power by the signs of the grade. He is recognised an initiate, and the word of Secret Power, and the silent administration of the Sacrament of Sword and Flame, acknowledge him. Then, the words being duly spoken and the deeds duly done, all is symbolically sealed by the Thirty Voices, and the Word that vibrateth from the Silence to the Speech, and from the Speech again unto the Silence. Then the Pyramid is sealed up, even as it was opened ; yet in the sealing thereof the three men partake…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 6

The Winged Beetle

…amid the wreck of Things Poised on inexorable wings ! . . . . So much the universe may see When its bat’s-eyes may endure the sun : This secret rests my prize to me, That I knew thee, surpassed of none, Fighting and faithful to the end, A Perfect knight, a perfect friend.

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1944 · PDF PAGE 92

The Book of Thoth

…Nature. Furthermore, he is crowned with the crown of Osiris; he represents Osiris in the waters of Amennti. Yet more, he is the original secret male creative God: see Atu XV. “Redeunt Saturnia regna.” It was only the cor‐ ruption of the Tradition, the confusion with Set, and the Cult of the Dying God, misunderstood, deformed and distorted by the Black Lodge, that turned him into a senile and fiendish symbol. With the sweep of his scythe he creates bubbles in which are 1The Qabalists embodied in the Book of Genesis, Caps I and II, this doctrine …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 41

The Holy Books

…an arose, and veiled the Upper Heaven with her body of stars. Now then a giant arose, of terrible strength; and asserted the Spirit in a secret rite. And the Master of the Temple balancing all things arose; his stature was above the Heaven and below Earth and Hell. 42

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1913 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Even as flutters a bird, I fluttered : before and behind ‘Thundered the secret Word Into mine ears. I have pined Because the Word was unkind ; But now the spirit hath stirred. I sought not, yet did I find, For the wonderful thing occurred. Though I be blind, shall I gird Because I see not? The gods bind Mine eyes. But I heard! I heard! Shall it avail, O wind? ExpLicir OpuscuLum NONDUM FINIS

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1913 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX Even as flutters a bird, I fluttered : before and behind ‘Thundered the secret Word Into mine ears. I have pined Because the Word was unkind ; But now the spirit hath stirred. I sought not, yet did I find, For the wonderful thing occurred. Though I be blind, shall I gird Because I see not? The gods bind Mine eyes. But I heard! I heard! Shall it avail, O wind? ExpLicir OpuscuLum NONDUM FINIS

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1907 · PDF PAGE 300

The Star in the West

…May man attain the eternal rest , Dissolve the desperate lust of life By infinite agony and zest . Thus , O my Kali ,I divine The golden secret of thy shrine ! The strife to attain to this golden secret we have already seen depicted in so many of Aleister Crowley's Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 84 . 2 Ibid . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 98 .

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…em that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of red, sweet lilies under the moon ? But now there is no moon, nor any sun; The world's gray noon only is for thee and me; There is no sound in the nerveless silences Of the fading world; there is a quiver of light On the river of life…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…em that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of red, sweet lilies under the moon ? But now there is no moon, nor any sun; The world's gray noon only is for thee and me; There is no sound in the nerveless silences Of the fading world; there is a quiver of light On the river of life…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 161

The World’s Tragedy

…d — ISSA No odds — all genealogy’s absurd. JOHN Suppose, Lord, I should simply call Thee “ Word ” ? ISSA Happy the thought ! But, in thy secret ear, There was a scheme — thou mark’st me ?

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