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1909 · PDF PAGE 73

John St. John

…! Dance Thou upon this prostrate saint of Thine! . . . I suffer from thirst . . . it is a thirst of the body . . . yet the thirst of the soul is deeper, and impossible to quench. Lord Adonai ! Let the Powers of Geburah plunge me again and again into the Fires of Pain, so that my steel may be tempered to that Sword of Magic that invoketh Thy Knowledge and Thy Conversation. Hoor! Elohim Gibor! Kamael! Seraphim! Graphic]! 71

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1910 · PDF PAGE 59

Ambergris

…yer, as incense teems Skyward, to those immeasurable streams ! Breathe the creative Sigh upon my mouth That even the body may become the soul : Cry, as the chain’d Eagle of the South, “ A house of death,” and make my spirit whole ! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come ! come away ! but not your mighty sounds ! O wind of all the world ! O silent river ! O sea of seas ! O flower of all the flowers ! O fire ! O spirit ! Beam thou on for ever Through æons of illimitable hours !

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1911 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…dmit Futility the lord of will. Life was an episode for me, As for the meanest monad, knit To man by mightier bonds than skill Of subtle-souled psychology May sever, Aim in chaos? None. The soul rolls senseless as the sun, [All are driven back μῤto altar. BRO. CAPRICORNUS [emis]. “ There is no God.” MARS [leaps?ושand goes ta altar with uplifted sword]. I. Silence ! [a flame]. There is no God—«but God! [ARIES and PROBATIONERS dance a war dance. [CAPRICORNUSslink:from temple. [MARS recites. This is the day which down the void abysm At the Earth~bo…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…dmit Futility the lord of will. Life was an episode for me, As for the meanest monad, knit To man by mightier bonds than skill Of subtle-souled psychology May sever, Aim in chaos? None. The soul rolls senseless as the sun, [All are driven back μῤto altar. BRO. CAPRICORNUS [emis]. “ There is no God.” MARS [leaps?ושand goes ta altar with uplifted sword]. I. Silence ! [a flame]. There is no God—«but God! [ARIES and PROBATIONERS dance a war dance. [CAPRICORNUSslink:from temple. [MARS recites. This is the day which down the void abysm At the Earth~bo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 127

Mortadello

…, but with each line rimed within itself : Oh for the blind kiss of the wind, the desert air Thrilling the blue and shrilling through my soul’s despair. (“ Thrilling ” and “ shrilling ” are here thrown in without extra charge. This device frequently recurs.) There may be one or two other complications which I have overlooked. I have made use of the usual liberties in the matter of using anapæsts and trochees for iambics. With regard to double rimes, I have sometimes treated them as single rimes, when they occur in the middle of a line ; sometim…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 77

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

CHAPTER VII The Formula of the Holy Graal: of Abrahadabra: and of certain other Words. Also : The Magicai. Memory. The Hieroglyph shewn in the Seventh Key of the Tarot (des- cribed in the I2th Aethyr, Liber 418, Equinox I, V) is the Charioteer of Our Lady Babalon, whose Cup or Graal he bears. Now this is an important formula. It is the First of the Formulæ, in a sense, for it is the formula of Renunciation. 1 2 It is also the Last ! This Cup is said to be full of the Blood of the Saints ; that is, every “sainC’ or magician must give the last dr…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 87

John St. John

…any Path or Attainment? Have you been fooled all along ? " But to-night‘s thought struck at my own integrity, at the inmost truth of the soul and of Adonai. As I said, there is no answer to it; and as these seven days have left me fairly master of the fortress, I caught him young, and assigned him promptly to the oubliette. I put down this—not as a “ pose "—but because the business is so gigantic. It encourages me immensely; for if my Dweller on the Threshold be that most formidable devil, how vast must be the Pylon that shelters him, and how g…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 488

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ntire is the correspondence. To say a word is to evoke a thought and make it present. To name God is to manifest God. The word acts upon souls, and souls react upon bodies; consequently one can frighten, console, cause to fall ill, cure, even kill, and raise from the dead by means of words. To utter a name is to create or evoke a being. In the name is contained the verda/ or spiritual doctrine of the being itself. When the soul evokes a thought, the sign of that thought is written automatically in the light. To invoke is toadjure, that is to sa…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 488

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ntire is the correspondence. To say a word is to evoke a thought and make it present. To name God is to manifest God. The word acts upon souls, and souls react upon bodies; consequently one can frighten, console, cause to fall ill, cure, even kill, and raise from the dead by means of words. To utter a name is to create or evoke a being. In the name is contained the verda/ or spiritual doctrine of the being itself. When the soul evokes a thought, the sign of that thought is written automatically in the light. To invoke is toadjure, that is to sa…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 227

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…dependence and freedom of thought and character, and to warn them that servility and cowardice are the most deadly diseases of the human soul. SIXTH HOUSE 16. Personal or domestic attendants should be chosen from among the members of the Order when possible, and 213

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1961 · PDF PAGE 149

Liber Aleph

…ine Hand when I was in Gaul the beloved, at Montigny that is hard by the Forest of the Blue Fountain, with Agatha my Concubine, the very Soul of Love and of Musick, that had ventured herself from beneath the Cross Austral that she might seek me, to inspire and comfort me, and this was my Reward from the masters, and Consolation in the Years of my Sorrow. But the way that leadeth to the other Form of this Vision of Beatitude, to wit, Science is Gnana Yoga or Raja Yoga, of which I have written only here and there, as one who should throw great St…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 137

The Star in the West

…f their despair . The horror of this mental struggle is well depicted in “ Jephthah ” when Jared says : Those eyes upon me, torturing my soul And threatening revenge ? Those fingers gross , Purple , and horrible , to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat . O Hell ! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood , But make not me the devilish minister Of such a deed as this !! Such was the almost frenzied exclamation of Jared , when he tried to shake off the awful power that was urging him to become parti…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 259

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a crooning lay to the tune (and the words, mutato mutando) of “Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly,” the bass accompaniment being an obbligato by Wilfred Merton. Mr. E. S. P. Haynes (to the horror of Ada Lake- man and Col. Gormley) was reading Morrison’s Red Triangle to conceal his emotion. Mr. Austin Harrison, Veli Bey, Madame Strindberg, the Editor of the Zyuinox, and some others, were avoidably absent from the death-bed of the dying saint. Transfusion of blood having been su…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 259

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a crooning lay to the tune (and the words, mutato mutando) of “Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly,” the bass accompaniment being an obbligato by Wilfred Merton. Mr. E. S. P. Haynes (to the horror of Ada Lake- man and Col. Gormley) was reading Morrison’s Red Triangle to conceal his emotion. Mr. Austin Harrison, Veli Bey, Madame Strindberg, the Editor of the Zyuinox, and some others, were avoidably absent from the death-bed of the dying saint. Transfusion of blood having been su…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 349

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…his verse. (See “The Hermit of Esopus Island,” part of the Magical Record of 666, to be published in THE Equinox, Vol. III.) 50. Let thy Soul lend its ear to every cry of pain like as the lotus bares its heart to drink the morning sun. 51. Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thy- self hast wiped it from the sufferer’s eye. 52. But let each burning human tear drop on thy heart and there remain; nor ever brush it off, until the pain that caused it is removed. This is a counsel never to forget the original stimulus which has driven …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 572

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…een life and death for some months and was still weak from the effects of the loss of blood. Even worse, perceiving the splendour of his soul, he refused to be daunted by its sheath, which led him to commit the fatal folly of marrying a girl whom he had met in a sordid and filthy drinking den in Soho, called the Harlequin, which was frequented by self-styled artists and their female parasites. One of these went by the name of Betty May. Born in a slum in the East End, she had become an artist's model of the most vicious kind. She had been marri…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 240

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…not happened—I knew it was a long time since we missed a week. By the way, have you heard the terrible news about Queen Anne? Dead, poor soul! Never mind, silly, you told me most dramatically, and it shall be counted unto you for righteousness. EUPHEMIA. I think you're the greatest brute in the world— and I love you. carr. How reciprocal of you! EUPHEMIA. Sweet! carr. On my honour, I haven't a single chocolate on me. Have a cigar? [Business with case. EUPHEMIA. Be serious! You must marry me at once. carr. Then how can I be serious? I understand…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 240

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…not happened—I knew it was a long time since we missed a week. By the way, have you heard the terrible news about Queen Anne? Dead, poor soul! Never mind, silly, you told me most dramatically, and it shall be counted unto you for righteousness. EUPHEMIA. I think you're the greatest brute in the world— and I love you. carr. How reciprocal of you! EUPHEMIA. Sweet! carr. On my honour, I haven't a single chocolate on me. Have a cigar? [Business with case. EUPHEMIA. Be serious! You must marry me at once. carr. Then how can I be serious? I understand…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 3

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

… fight Flames at the end beyond the darkling goal ? “These are my passions that my feet must tread; ‘This is my sword, the fervour of my soul ; ‘This is my Will, the crown upon my head. For see! the darkness beckons : I have gone, Before this terrible hour, towards the gloom, Braved the wild dragon, called the tiger on With whirling cries of pride, sought out the tomb Where lurking vampires battened, and my steel Fhas wrought its splendour through the gates of death, ‘My courage did not falter: now I feel My heart beat wave-wise, and my throat …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 185

The Star in the West

…ere is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire of life , yet if our souls be spotless our abasement , “ ... bringeth back the sheaves ” XV . Of golden corn of exaltation , With strange intoxications mad and manifold . It is this curious phase , yearning towards Perfection , which forms the great stumbling - block to all progress in the life of a soul . Priestcraft has drawn a definite line between Vice and Virtue ; it has hedged itself round with chastity , veracity , honesty …

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