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1930 · PDF PAGE 34

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…ense solemnitv and détermination. “3. Let him be very careful to cause his imaginary body to rise in a line exactly perpendicular to the earth’s tangent at the point where his physical body is situated (or, to put it more simply, straight upwards). “4. Instead of stopping, let him continue to rise until fatigue almost overcomes him. If he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at ail costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward !…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 61

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…renewal of body and brain, than content himself with a stagnant immortality upon this mote in the Sunlight of the Universe which we call earth ? 1. The Lance and the Graal are fïrstly dedicated to the Holy Spirit of Life, in Silence. The Bread and Wine are then fermented and manifested by vibration, and received by the Virgin Mother. The éléments are then intermingled and consumed after the Epiphany of Iacchus, when “Countenance beholdeth Countenance”. 2. J. K. Huysmans, who was afraid of them, and tried to betray the little he knew of them, be…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 205

The Law is for All

…g, The folk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched 8c the weak: this…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 73

The Goetia

…dachia ; and in this Name Primeumaton, which Mosheh cameliatza, od caosaji potlape, oD Korab, Dathban, od Abiram lonukabo spake, and the earth was divided, and Korah, Dathan, and Abiram fell pi-adapebe. ca Darebesa do-tofajilo ilasa gabe 32. Darebesa go-a- in the depth. Therefore obey in all things, O spirit N., obey _ thy crea- anu, iIQtisa, ilasa; 3odameranu pujo-ooaona felathe-are-zo0Di; tion. Come thou forth: appear unto my eyes ; visit us In peace, sodoreje: niisa ole oanio: Dorebesa nac-e-el, gobola laiada be friendly ; come forth in the …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 105

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…nes, Seeking His presence, reel before the glance ; ” And They, the greatest that may be of men, Become that Light, and care no whit for earth. But all your prayers are answered by your- selves, As I myself achieve this thought of niine. CHORUS. To me thou seemest to blaspheme the gods. MEDEA. Belike I seem, O ye of little wit. CHORUS. Surely thy tender years and gentle looks Belie such hatred to our king! I scorn To triumph on an enemy once fallen. MEDEA. Fools always! Iam tenderer than my years, And gentler than my glances. CHORUS. Sayst thou…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 110

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… pale path with his purple feet, Heedless of stones and serpents. Hail! he holloaed To the new Rahan! whom he bowed to greet Kissing the earth: O holy master, say If a fair female hath passed by this way ! Vv. The Bhikkhu blessed the irritated man. Then the slow sloka? serpentine began: ‘‘ Friend ! neither man nor woman owns This being’s high perception, owed Only to Truth ; nor beams nor stones Support the Arahat’s abode. Who grasps one truth, beholds one light, Becomes that truth, that light ; discedes From dark and deliquescent night, From f…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 256

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…nths, and we had to make up for it. The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to the earth ! But it doesn’t satisfy, even so. The intervals between one’s emotions are appallingly long. I think drugs intensify the high lights for one thing ; but for another, and this is really more important, they fit up the inter- stices of shadow. It’s hard, I imagine, in the ordinary way, to come off one’s honeymoon back into regular life. I often wonder how a poet feels when he isn’t absorbed in the ecstasy…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 52

The Law is for All

… ereign soul, lawful and current coin no less than the gold talent of his neighbour. The derelict Moon has the same right to drift round Earth as Regulus to blaze in the heart of the Lion. Collision is the only crime in the cosmos. The Beast refuses therefore to assent to any argument as to the propriety of any fashion of formulating the soul in symbols of sex. A canon is no less deadly in love than in art or literature; its acceptance stifles style, and its enforcement extinguishes sincerity.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 38

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…. p. 181, —I am afraid. (He discovers ANGELA,) Madam, can I aid you? ANGELA. Leave me! Leave me! I am the wretched- est girl on the wide earth. SiR PERCY. The comeliest, mademoiselle, (Aside.) I see this is a woman of the world. To her with speeches fit for such, then. ANGELA, I have seen all. Pity me! is a sword in my heart ! Your flattery Sir PErRcy, Seen ? ANGELA, Your love—you call it so! SIR PERCY. Have you, then— ANGELA. I saw all. Ah me! Poor Angela! SIR PERCY. Angela is your name? ANGELA. My name. Sir PERCY. A lovely name. tion runs par…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 142

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…-minded, My lyre to my prayer Responds, and the elements answer or ever| my soul is aware. Ye powers of deep water And sea-running bays, Earth’s fugitive daughter In deep-riven ways, i Enamoured of slaughter, A mirage of grays, Deep blues, and pale greens unbegotten, I turn to your lyrical praise. I tune the loud lyre To the haunts of the vale As a sea-piercing fire On the wings of the gale. I lift my desire, I madden, I wail! Come forth! I invoke ye, O powers, in the waters that purple and pale. Come forth in your pleasure, O fountains and spr…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 162

The Law is for All

… People, is the Cult of the Sun, who is our particular star of the Body of Nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of Him, and all our Light and Life. His vice-regent and representative in the ani­ mal kingdom is His cognate symbol the Phallus, representing Love and Liberty. Ra-Hoor-Khuit, like all true Gods, is therefore a Solar-Phallic deity. But we regard Him as He is in truth, eternal; the Solar-Phallic deities of the old /Eon, such as Osiris, “Christ,” Hiram, Adonis, Hercules, etc., were suppose…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 92

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…in snowy cquipoise. Jephthah ! Semicnorus II. With hearts infused of fire, Eyes clear with many waters, With lips to air that quire, We, earth’s desirous daughters, Lift up the song of triumph, sound the lutes of our desire ! Jahveh ! SeMicnuorus I. With branches strewn before us, And roses flung In all the ways, we chorus With throat and tongue The glory of our warrior sires whose victor swords restore us Jephthah ! SEMICHORUS IT. With angels vast and calm That keep his way, With streams of holy balm, The prayers of them that pray, We go to br…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ling through the air refer to the Solar influence descending. «The | {/\} 2... two children, standing respectively on ere Sars Water and Earth, represent the generating Osun EEE influences of both, brought into action by JE | totam oy the rays of the Sun. They are the two & inferior and passive elements, as the Sun Fegre | Bessey and the Air above them are the superior Reaves =r faa and active elements of Fire and Air.” — V Furthermore, these two children resemble be osatt, svar af weak the sign Gemini (which the Greeks and Romans referred to C…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ling through the air refer to the Solar influence descending. «The | {/\} 2... two children, standing respectively on ere Sars Water and Earth, represent the generating Osun EEE influences of both, brought into action by JE | totam oy the rays of the Sun. They are the two & inferior and passive elements, as the Sun Fegre | Bessey and the Air above them are the superior Reaves =r faa and active elements of Fire and Air.” — V Furthermore, these two children resemble be osatt, svar af weak the sign Gemini (which the Greeks and Romans referred to C…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 75

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…iss, intense, supreme ! The sense of Nature’s dream And scent of Heaven Shown in the glint and gleam Of the pure dawn’s first beam, With earth for leaven ; Moulded of fire and gold, Water and wine to fold Me in its life, and hold !— In all but seven! I would not kiss thee, I! Lest my lip’s charactery Ruin thy flower. Curve thou one maidenly Kiss, stooping from thy sky Of peace and power ! Thine only be the embrace !— I move not from my place, Feel the exultant face — Mine for an hour ! THE THIRTEENTH DAY. ‘‘If it be a sin to make a true electio…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 82

The Law is for All

…ose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! 6…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 84

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

… successive incarnations create the appearance, just as the individual star, which every man is, remains itself, irrespective of whether earth perceives it or not. Now it so happens that the root GN signifies both knowledge and génération combined in a single idea, in an absolute form independent of personality. The G is a silent letter, as in oür word Gnosisj and the sound GN is nasal, suggesting therefore the breath of life as opposed to that of speech. Impelled by these considérations, the Master Therion proposed to replace the M of AUM by a…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 26

The Law is for All

…philosophers have jeered at his presumption. But it was he that was precisely right. The yokel is no more “petty” than the King, nor the Earth than the Sun. Each simple elemental Self is supreme, Very God of Very God. Ay, in this Book is Truth almost insufferably splendid, for Man has veiled himself too long from his own glory: he fears the abyss, the ageless Absolute. But Truth shall make him free!4

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1930 · PDF PAGE 65

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…cesses of Magick. What, by our définition, is initiation ? The First Matter is a man, that is to say, a perishable parasite, bred of the earth’s crust, crawl- ing irritably upon it for a span, and at last returning to the dirt whence he sprang. The process of initiation consists in removing his impurities, and finding in his true self an immortal intelligence to whom matter is no more than the means of manifestation. The initiate is eternally individual; he is ineffable, incorruptible, im¬ mune from everything. He possesses infinité wisdom and …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 58

The Law is for All

…ay have been misunderstood from a scientific point of view, just as modern science has modi­ fied our conception of the relations of the earth and the sun with­ out presuming to alter one jot or tittle of the observed facts of Nature. So we may assert that modern discoveries in physiology have rendered obsolete the Osirian conceptions of the sexual process which interpreted chastity as physical abstinence, small regard being paid to the mental and moral concomitants of the refusal to act, still less to the physical indications. The root of the …

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