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1929 · PDF PAGE 545

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… grew less continuous; he began to enjoy life as a child should. I gave him and Dionysus their first lessons in rock climbing. In two or three days they began to find the best way to tackle a crag and to use their muscles to the best advantage. The central principle of my teaching is to compel the pupil to rely on his own resources, and having thus acquired good judgment and confidence, to develop intelligent initiative. One must show them how to choose the best hand holds and foot holds, but not let them acquire the habit of looking for the te…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 60

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…od, in pain too great to know what I was doing except to try to be brave. The blow had set up cystitis which kept me in bed for the next three weeks. The inflammation gradually disappeared after spreading to the prostate gland and the urethra. Nor was that the end of the trouble. The urethritis caused a discharge which proved very refractory to treatment and ultimately determined a triple stricture for which I am being treated at the moment of dictating this paragraph more than a quarter of a century after the accident. The moral is, of course,…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 195

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…eroism, the simple honesty, of the true Christian; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries, **T was contracted to them both: all three Now marry in an instant At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“‘ I pant for life: some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature.! Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send intime" (IL. 245-249). And in that last supreme hou…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 54

The Sword of Song

…roism, the simple honesty, of the true Christian ; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries, “I was contracted to them both : all three Now marry in an instant——” At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“I pant for life : some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature. 1 Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle ; for my w rit Is on the life Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send in time.” (ll. 245-249). And in that last supreme…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 192

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…Yet it avails her little. She is hanged like the foul Vivien she is. * Cordelia’s farewell to her sisters shows up the characters of the three in strong relief. Cordelia—without a scrap of evidence to go on —accuses her sisters of hypocrisy and cruelty. (This could not have previously existed, or Lear would not have been deceived.) Regan gravely rebukes her; recommends, as it were, a course of Six Easy Lessons in Mind- * Tuse the word Vivien provisionally, pending the appearance of an essay to prove that Lord Tennyson was in secret an ardent re…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 51

The Sword of Song

…Yet it avails her little. She is hanged like the foul Vivien she is.* Cordelia’s farew ell to her sistes show s up the characters of the three in strong relif. Cordelia—without a scrap of evidence to go on —accuses her sisters of hypocrisy and cruelty. (This could not have previously existed, or Lear would not have been deceived.) Regan gravely rebukes her ; recommends, as it were, a course of Six Easy Lessons in Mind- * I use the word Vivien provisionally, pending the appearance of a n essay to prove that Lord Tennyson was in se cret a re form…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 203

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…appeared, the arrest was effected. He was com- mitted to an asylum, for there could be no longer any doubt of his complete insanity; for three weeks he had been raving with absinthe and satyriasis. He survived his confinement no long time ; the burning of the asylum with its in- mates was one of the most terrible events of the war of 1870. So died one of the must talented Englishmen of his century, a man who for wide knowledge of men and things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esa…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 62

The Sword of Song

…appeared, the arrest was effected. He was com-mitted to an asylum, for there could be no longer any doubt of his complete insanity ; for three weeks he had been raving with absinthe and satyriasis. He survived his confinement no long time ; the burning of the asylum with its in-mates was one of the most terrible events of the war of 1870. So died one of the most talented Englishmen of his century, a man who for wide knowledge of men and things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 409

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…nour of our Blessed Lady. They ae arranged in four books, each of which contains thirteen pieces. Thus with the prologue there are fifty-three poems in all. Neediess to say they breathe a spirit of deep piety and filial love towards our Heavenly Mother, Many beautiful and touch- ing thoughts are emabodied in the various verses, which cannot but do good to the pious soul.” The ‘Staffordshire Chronicle” says: “Under, this title there has appeared an anonymous volume of varses breathing the same exotic fragrance of Rossetti’s poem on out Lady that…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 409

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…nour of our Blessed Lady. They ae arranged in four books, each of which contains thirteen pieces. Thus with the prologue there are fifty-three poems in all. Neediess to say they breathe a spirit of deep piety and filial love towards our Heavenly Mother, Many beautiful and touch- ing thoughts are emabodied in the various verses, which cannot but do good to the pious soul.” The ‘Staffordshire Chronicle” says: “Under, this title there has appeared an anonymous volume of varses breathing the same exotic fragrance of Rossetti’s poem on out Lady that…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 593

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…our of our Blessed Lady. They are arranged in four books, each of which contains thirteen pieces. "Thus withthe prologue there are fifty-three poems in all, Needless to say they breathe a spirit of deep piety and filial love towards our Heavenly Mother. Many beautiful and touching thoughts are embodied in the various verses, which cannot but do good to the pious soul.” ‘The "Staffordshire Chronicle” ‘says—"Under this title there has appeared an anonymous volume of ‘verses breathing the same exotic fragrance of Rossetti's poem on Our Lady that, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 593

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…our of our Blessed Lady. They are arranged in four books, each of which contains thirteen pieces. "Thus withthe prologue there are fifty-three poems in all, Needless to say they breathe a spirit of deep piety and filial love towards our Heavenly Mother. Many beautiful and touching thoughts are embodied in the various verses, which cannot but do good to the pious soul.” ‘The "Staffordshire Chronicle” ‘says—"Under this title there has appeared an anonymous volume of ‘verses breathing the same exotic fragrance of Rossetti's poem on Our Lady that, …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…our of our Blessed Lady. They are azranged in four books, each of which contains thirteen pieces. ‘Thus with the prologue there are fity-three poems in all Needless to say they breathe a spirit of deep piety and filial love towards our Heavenly Mother. Many beautiful and touching thoughts are embodied in the various verses, which cannot but do good to the pious soul.” ‘Staffordshire Chronicle” says— Under this title there has appeared an anonymous volume of verses breathing the same exotic fragrance of Rossetti’s poem on Our Lady that begins ‘M…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…our of our Blessed Lady. They are azranged in four books, each of which contains thirteen pieces. ‘Thus with the prologue there are fity-three poems in all Needless to say they breathe a spirit of deep piety and filial love towards our Heavenly Mother. Many beautiful and touching thoughts are embodied in the various verses, which cannot but do good to the pious soul.” ‘Staffordshire Chronicle” says— Under this title there has appeared an anonymous volume of verses breathing the same exotic fragrance of Rossetti’s poem on Our Lady that begins ‘M…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 610

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…eed, I fear that though his method lifted me to Shakespeare's level in “Genius or Godhead "it played its inventor false." Perhaps two or three or even more ‘ways of attainment” clashed with each other. Or—and with reverence must we contemplate this possibility—Frater Perdurabo attained too much. He put bimsef so vigorously in motion towards his goal that he overshot it and was carried past the common, godhead of genius and hurled into something far keyond it,a region of super-divinity or super-genius so far above us that language will not bridg…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 610

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…eed, I fear that though his method lifted me to Shakespeare's level in “Genius or Godhead "it played its inventor false." Perhaps two or three or even more ‘ways of attainment” clashed with each other. Or—and with reverence must we contemplate this possibility—Frater Perdurabo attained too much. He put bimsef so vigorously in motion towards his goal that he overshot it and was carried past the common, godhead of genius and hurled into something far keyond it,a region of super-divinity or super-genius so far above us that language will not bridg…

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