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1904 · PDF PAGE 75

The Argonauts

…: Zhe Argo. MEDEA. Ay! I would murder not my brother only, But tear my own limbs, strew them on the sea, To keep one fury from the man I love! CHORUS. This act and speech are much akin to madness. MEDEA. Remember that your own skins pay the price. CHORUS. I now remember somewhat of the voice Of the oracle, that Madness should hunt hard On the thief’s furtive track, upon the prow Brooding, and at the table president, And spouse-like in the bed.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 57

Gargoyles

…ies virgin of experience, Untrodden avenues of mind, Things far from hurrying humankind. Thus spins out life its splendid charm :— Live, love, enjoy, yet do no harm. No rose of thought may bear or breed The poisonous thorn of word and deed. Call ** homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and doers—missing links! Such songs are twilight’s, when I stretch My limbs, and wander down to fetch My water from the cool cascade, My wood from the enchanted glade, 49

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1910 · PDF PAGE 233

The Winged Beetle

223 L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE MY sister, my child, How sweet to the wild To travel and live there together ! At leisure to lie, To love and to die In thine own strange native weather ! The watery suns Of those hot horizons Have the mystical charm of the years That mysterious lies In thy traitorous eyes As they glitter behind their tears. There, all is peace and ecstasy ; Pleasure, calm, and luxury ! Furniture fine That the years make shine Shall stand in our own bedchamber. The rarest flowers Shed their scented showers To tinge the vague rapture o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 144

The World’s Tragedy

…prudish latch. Dear apeling, hold the torches while I catch This monster. So. Dispatch ! MIRIAM God ! let it be a boy. I would enjoy His love. Who hath come forth with such keen pain Owes keener pleasure, going back again. A curse upon that Dove.

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1944 · PDF PAGE 116

The Book of Thoth

…consciousness that every breath we draw swells the sails which bear our frail vessels to the Port of the Grave. We must cast out Fear by Love; seeing that every Act is an Orgasm, their to‐ tal issue cannot be but Birth. Also, Love is the law: thus every act must be Righteousness and Truth. By certain Meditations this may be understood and established; and this ought to be done so thoroughly that we become unconscious of our Sanctification, for only then is Inno‐ cence made perfect. This state is, in fact, a necessary condition of any proper con…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 135

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…the Path. You were in greater danger than you knew this afternoon; you will yet pay the price." ”I understand,” she said. “ You devil! I love you." " And I love every inch of your white body I " They ran laughing arm in arm through the swing doors. 127

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1911 · PDF PAGE 135

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…the Path. You were in greater danger than you knew this afternoon; you will yet pay the price." ”I understand,” she said. “ You devil! I love you." " And I love every inch of your white body I " They ran laughing arm in arm through the swing doors. 127

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1954 · PDF PAGE 311

Magick Without Tears

… this effect. The very test of worth is that one should be aware of it and not afraid to sock the next man on the jaw if he disputes it! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 P.S. But what do I mean when I say "myself' in normal speech? I mean Tiphareth, the human self as determining the identity of the Supreme Triad plus as much Ruach as I have succeeded in organising as extensions of it. Though your Supernal Triad is in essence identical with mine, your Tiphareth is quite definitely not mine. It is like mine in its nature and man…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 77

The Law is for All

…sage, from Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 393, is “The fools (not here implying X fools, for 111:57 says ‘all fools despise’) may mistake. This love, then, should be the serpent love, the awakening of the kundalini. The further mystery is of S and unsuited to the grade in which this comment is written.”] 3 [See Crowley, The Book ofThoth (1944), pp. 8-11. This is illustrated in his diagram “The Double Loop in the Zodiac” (Hebrew added): s a 0 j a

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1904 · PDF PAGE 81

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…y, sprang from the sofa where they had been lying and hastily arranged the disorder their passion had made necessary. The middy took his lover’s hand, raised it to his lips, bit it hard with sudden mad desire and whispered, in a voice shuddering with un-satiated lust “ Ah God ! Ah God ! I love you now ! ” He slipped through the door and left Andrew Clayton to sweet memories and disquieting thought of the future. For Monty Le W... had never given him his love before. Monty was a dark, languid-eyed boy with jetty hair ; there was about him the in…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 194

Liber Aleph

…hat Impression of Sense have Oppo- sites readily conceived, as long to short, or light to dark; and so with Emotions and Perceptions, as Love to Hate, or false to true; but the more violent is the Antagonism, the more is it bound in Illusion, determined by Relation. Thus the Word “Long” hath no Meaning save it be referred to a Standard; but Love is not thus obscure, because Hate is its Twin, partaking bountifully of a Common Nature therewith. Now, hear this; it was given unto me in my Visions of the Æthyrs, when I was in he Wilderness of Sahara…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 19

Aceldama

… yon gold With strange intoxications mad and manifold. XVI. Only beware gross pleasure—the delight Of fools : the ecstasy, the trance of love— Life's atom-bonds must strain—aye, and most move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. 1 9

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1901 · PDF PAGE 93

The Mother’s Tragedy

…cle of Death. From many lands Come many worshippers. Their fading brands Rekindle from the sacrificial fire. Before the altar of Plenty, Love, and Peace, Stand purer priests in bloodless sacrifice, And quiet hymns of happiness are heard. _ Here sound no hatreds and no ecstasies; Here no polluted sacrament of Vice Unveiled! I chose the first without a word!

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1901 · PDF PAGE 136

The Soul of Osiris

…th flowers for a virginal gaud ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Light and the flame of the down-rushing Sword ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Love for maiden and mother and wife ! Hail unto Isis ! Hail ! For She is the Lady of Life ! Isis crowned !

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1903 · PDF PAGE 76

The Star and the Garter

And I who am not, know thee well Who art not: then the chain divides From love-enlightened limbs, and swell The choral cries unutterable Out of the salt, out of the tides, The sea, whose drink is death by thirst. The triumph anthem overrides The ocean's lamentable sides, And we are done with life: accurst Who linger; lost who find ; but we Follow the gold wake of the first Who found in losing ; who reversed The dictates of eternity. Lo! in steep meditation hearsed, Coffined in knowledge, fast we flee Unto the island from the sea. 74

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1906 · PDF PAGE 16

Gargoyles

…s, Some virtue in the chrysopras, Some nymph or undine in the stream. Things as we know them should be enough To glut our misery and our love. VIII. Why must despair to madness drive The myriad fools that fear to die? God’s but a fervid phantom drawn Out of the hasty-ordered hive Of thoughts that battle agony In the melancholy hours of dawn. When vital force at lowest ebbs Anaemic nerves weave frailest webs.

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1908 · PDF PAGE 16

Amphora

…t worship shall inspire Our hearts with His devoted fire. O mother, to Thy house of death We fly from life’s deceitful breath. O star of love upon the sea, We sail to Thee—we sail to Thee ! Amen. O 9

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1929 · PDF PAGE 491

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

491 ....Soars through the boundless blue to greet Apollo: ....I call my love by name. Remote and hollow The rocks re-echo me: "Hilarion!" How pure and beautiful the body is Lapped in fatigue's caressing ecstasies! ....For then the soul is free to leap above it, To soar, to dive, to seek and find his mate In the dominion of the uncreate, ....And lastly --- to return to it, and love it! This was my last adventure. I returned to New York by short stages and resumed the anchorless tossing. The one new feature was my affair with Stuart X. The next a…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…o mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll Το make one tear in my superb caresses, When on myself myself begets …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…o mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll Το make one tear in my superb caresses, When on myself myself begets …

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