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1929 · PDF PAGE 47

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ff its feet and become secondary. Worse --- she will expect her man to abandon the whole interest of his life in order to look after her new toy. A bitch does not lose all her interest in her master just because she has puppies. I found a new climbing companion on Beachy Head in a man named J. S. New. We worked out the possible climbs systematically and made a largescale map of the cliff. I ultimately contributed an illustrated article on the subject to the Scottish Mountaineering Journal. But with the exception of Mr. H. S. Bullock, and one or…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 117

Moonchild

…course the danger in every magical experiment; and this constitutes the evergreen glory of every man who adventures upon it; for at each new portal he enters, naked and new-born, to confront he knows not what malignant enemies. The sole excuse for the existence of our miserable species lies not in intelligence, but in this masterful courage, this aspiration to extend the empire of the spirit. Even the blackest of magicians, like Douglas, or the stupidest, like Arthwait, is a higher type of being than the bourgeois who goes along with his nose o…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 412

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ER FOURTH LARGE EDITION NOW IN PREPARATION THROUGH ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelligence. In these fields Captain Fuller isa master dramatist.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 412

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ER FOURTH LARGE EDITION NOW IN PREPARATION THROUGH ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelligence. In these fields Captain Fuller isa master dramatist.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 242

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 235 2 Everything in the world con There is nothing simple , but sists of simple (parts ). everything is composite . 3 There are in the world causes There is no freedom , but all through freedom . is Nature . 4 In the series of the world There is nothing necessary causes there exists a necessary but in this series all is con being tingent . “ The above is the most remarkable phenomenon of the human Reason , of which no instance can be shown in any other sphere . If, as generally happens , we regard the phenomena of the world of sens…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 236

Moonchild

…of glory had spread like sunlight over a sky swept clear of storm. The supply [331] trains radiated confidence. Always the young man met new guns, new wagons, new horses. At every turn of the road were fresh regiments, gaily singing on their way to the front. Cyril was enchanted at the aspect of the troops. Their elasticity and high spirits were overwhelming. Once he came upon a regiment of Turcos being transferred to another sector — every man of them with a trophy of the great battle. His intense love for all savage men, true men unspoilt by …

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1928 · PDF PAGE 141

Little Poems in Prose

…b or a dray. And then she is so sweet and fervent; she loves as one loves in autumn; one would say that the approach of winter kindles a new fire in her heart, and the servility of her tenderness has no element that might weary one therein.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 42

Konx Om Pax

…an’t. So you fall and fall faster and faster; and I can’t tell you any more. The Third House is called the House of Sorrow. They gave me new clothes of the queerest kind, because one never thinks of them as one’s own clothes, but only as clothes. It is a House of utmost Darkness. There is a pool of black solemn water in the shining obsidian, and one is like a vast veiled figure of wonderful beauty brooding over the sea; and by and by the Pains come upon one. I can’t tell you anything about the Pains. Only they are different from any other pains,…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 100

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…it were no sweeter than her spend to me ! Shit of dead lobsters under the cold sea ! What fart could get between my lips and hers ? What new sweet splutter of her hairy arse ? Unless perhaps her spitting piss me shot, Kissing her twat.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 259

The Star in the West

…lory set ; The sun is blotted , and the skies are riven A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and His love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether , Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather ." In many other of these poems do we find depicted other phases of the philosophy of the Qabalah ; one , Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 190 . • Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . 4 Ibid . vol . i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 494

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…EDITION NOW IN PREPARATION THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intellig- ence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 494

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…EDITION NOW IN PREPARATION THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intellig- ence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 246

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…upt, that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! VENUS. This man was drained of music! Five new songs Chase the three ancient to oblivion! Oh! Love is grown fury! TANNHAUSER. Kall me! VENUS. In the kiss. [TANNHAUSER Sleeps, ACT III. For Love is lord of truth and loyalty, Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden piumes up to the purest sky, Above the reach of loathly sinful lust, Whose base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weak wings dare not to heaven fly, But like a moldwarp in the ear…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 127

The Book of Lies

…able, as are the frequent richness and vision- ary splendour of the imagery and the aptness and the transfiguring power of the rhythms.”—New York Nation. Mr. G. K. Chesterton also writes a_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the side of a mind concerned with idle merriment [sic!] there is certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout, and Nuit, and Ra, and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the English mind to lend thems…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 601

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…TH LARGE EDITION NOW READY THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelli- gence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 601

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…TH LARGE EDITION NOW READY THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelli- gence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 228

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 221 wilderness of doubt , he also left the great riddle un answered , to leap voiceless midst the desert wind , and to dance songless 'mongst his bleached and rattling bones . Further on we shall see how Crowley , setting out with both chart and compass , like a second Edipus wrested the secret from the age -worn lips of the Sphinx ; for as he himself says : Eternal mockery is the real ; Eternal falsehood , the ideal .' However , Hume arrives at a negative result of ex traordinary worth . He took Newton's second law of motion ,' i.…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 429

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…II ιΑΜ'Ε EDITION NOW READY THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelli- gence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 429

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…II ιΑΜ'Ε EDITION NOW READY THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelli- gence. In these fields Captain Fuller is a master dramatist.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 12

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

… 550 220 vir 550 660 G.LC. 550 220 PRS. 550 880 vue 10 10 0 iro vue 2100 2320 xe 4200 3413. 0 ‘+ When a Brother in good standing takes a new degree be pays ‘with bis fee only the extra subscription. n

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