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…nes. Before the gods Thy music moves, coequal, coeterne, Thou, Lord of Light and Life and Love ! Come forth ! I call thee in the holiest name of Him Lord of the Universe, and by His Name, Osiris perfected through suffering, Glorious in trial : by His Holy Name, Jesus, the Godhead passing through the gates Of Hell, that even there the rescuers Might find the darkness, and proclaim the light ; For I invoke thee by the sacred rites And secret words of everlasting power : By the swift symbol of the Golden Dawn And all its promise, by the Cross of F…
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…the mystic sacrifice, And in the knowledge of my Selfhood made One with the Everlasting Lords of Life. The Glorified through Trial is My Name. The Rescuer of Matter is My Name. I am the Heart of Jesus girt about With the Swift Serpent ! I, Osirified, Stand in this Hall of Twofold Truth and say : Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, O Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light ! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods ! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Conscio…
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…n the soul of Zôhra grew A fashioned orb of fiery dew : Yet (as cool water on a leaf) It touched his spirit not with grief, Although its name was sorrow. “ O for a name to borrow ” (He mused) “ some semblance for this subtle sense Of new experience ! For on my heart, untouched, my mind not used To any metre mused, Save the one tranquil and continuous rhyme Of joy exceeding time, Here the joy changes, but abides for ever, Here on the shining river Where the dusk gathers, and tall trees begin To wrap the shallop in, Sweet shade not cast of sun or…
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…Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name, your God’s, I say, arise ! Behold ! His mercies murmur in the skies. His Name is mighty in us to the end. In Him we cry : Move, answer, and descend ! Apply yourselves to us ; arise ! For why ? We are the Wisdom of Your God most High ! This Fragment is a paraphrase of one of the elemental invocations given in Dr Dee’s famous record of magical working. 72
1905 · PDF PAGE 196
… furnish me with one copy of “THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY.” Volume I., for which I agree to pay the sum of Five Shillings on delivery. Name .................................................. Address TO BE TORN OFF. [Ready in December ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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…ssays should be sent by registered post : their receipt will be immediately acknowledged. I3. All essays should be forwarded without the name of the Author upon them, accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name of the competitor, on the outside of which should be inscribed a motto selected by the competitor, and which motto should also appear upon the essay. These envelopes will not in any case
1905 · PDF PAGE 35
…t. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) There are three kings upon the road. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice cursed the name of God. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) There stands her star above the sky. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice prayed that she may die. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) Her bitter anguish hath sufficed. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She is delivered of the Christ. (The angels come to worship her.)
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… gate of mercy Over the Cast Away. Melt me its gold to money, Coin me that small, small ring Stamped with the Hoof of Satan, Bearing the name of King. Then, in the murky midnight, Silently lead me down, Down into Hell’s dark portals, Far in the West of Town.
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…he sunrise, Ghost of daylight seen beyond the sunset. All hath past beyond the soul’s delusion. All hath changèd to the ever changeless. Name and form in nameless and in formless Vanish, vanish and are lost for ever.
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THE HILLS I75 Not death as ye name in derision The change to a cycle of pain, To a cycle of joy as a vision Ye chase, and may capture in vain. Endeth you peace, and your change is Like the change in a measure that shrills And slackens and ranges ; your passion estranges The love of the hills ! Nay ! death is a portal of passing To miseries other but sure. Yet the snow on the hills amassing The wind of an hour may endure ; But as day after day grows the summer The crystals melt one after one. The hill—shall they numb her ? Their frost overcome h…
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…ritions dim, Where Antony beheld, like lavers, rise The nude empurpled breasts that tempted him. Some, by the dying torch-light call thy name, In the dumb hollow of old pagan fanes, To succour feverish shriekings of fierce flame, O Bacchus, soother of men’s ancient pains. Others, whose throat is thirsty for breast-blood, To hide a whip ’neath flowing robes are fain, Mingling in lonely night and darksome wood The foam of pleasure and the tears of pain. O virgins, demons, monsters, O martyrs ! Great souls contemptuous of reality ! Seekers for the…
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…rs, the sun, the Universe. I was in Heaven, lost, alone. Alone ! A new curse gathered as a sombre breath : “ Power without Wisdom is the Name of Death ! ” And therefore from my devastating hand (for I was then unwilling to be dead) I loosed the lightning, and in hate and dread Despairing, did I break the royal wand. Mortal, a plaything for a thousand fears, I found the earth ; I found a lonely place To gaze for ever on the ocean’s face, Lamenting through the lamentable years ; Without a god, deprived of life and death, Sensible only to that som…
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… selfishness, and have one friend, Self, and behold one God, and be, and look beyond the End. VI O Solitude ! how many have mistaken Thy name for Sorrow’s, or for Death’s or Fear’s ! Only thy children lie at night and waken— How shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears ? O Soul of Tears ! For never hath fallen as dew thy word, Nor is thy shape shewed, nor as Wisdom’s heard Thy crying about the city In the house where is no pity, But in the desolate halls and lonely vales of sand :
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…nderstanding, that am I ! Even I, perceiving deeply beneath the eyes of flame The soul that, kindling, is not kindled : I have known thy Name. Awake, O soaring billows ! Lighten the raging dome, Wrap the wide horizon in a single cloak of flaming foam, Leap in your fury ! Beat upon the shores unseen ! Devour your food, The broken cliff, the crumbled bank, the bar. I know the mood. Even so I see the terror of universal strife : Murderous war, and murderous peace, and miserable life : The pang of childbirth, and the pain of youth, and the fear of …
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… And thence there came Soft laughter that may hardly stir The flowers that shake not in the City of Loves. (For so men called the city’s name Because the people were more mild than doves, More beautiful than Gods of wood or river ; And so the city should endure for ever.) But the king’s mood was otherwise this day. Along time’s river, fifty years away, There was a young man once Ruddier than autumn suns
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…r All the workings of its will, and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style “ Cessation ” ; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, “ ἀγ ὡς ταχιστα, του χρονου δε σοι φθονω ”—“ Why waste we time in talking ? Let us now away unto the mountains ! ” So the wise, e…
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…nto battle, see their followers go. Onward, Plymouth Brethren, marching as to war, With the cross of jesus trampled on the floor. At the name of Barton, Raven’s host doth flee, On, M‘Arthy’s following, on to victory, Stoney’s scoundrels shiver at Our howls of rage, Brothers, lift Your voices, Shriek aloud, Rampage ! Like a mighty army moves the Church of god. Brothers, We are treading where the saints have trod.
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…n as a veil for thy face, thy face in a breathed-on glass, Hangs there a vulture, and tears with a beak of iron and fire. I know not his name, for he wears no feathers of my desire. It is thou, it is thou, lone maiden ! My heart is a bird that flies Far into the azure laden with love-lorn songs and cries. O Goddess of Nature and Love ! Thyself is the lover I see. But thou art in the above, and thy kiss is not for me.
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… ; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.’ We should like to give other examples, but we can only name some of those pieces that seem to us the most remarkable. Such are ‘ An Ill Dream,’ of which the glowing imagery seizes and holds fast the vagueness of shifting impressions ; a ‘ Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile,’ containing some fine lyric flights ; ‘ The Initiation,’ and ‘ Succubus,’ a record of fearful obsessions in a metre which, in spite of a few unaccountable lapses, we think extremely effective.” —…
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…ible to all who have passed that way. But there is good wine there ; he must be reckoned with. If he progresses, his will become a great name. If he has arrived at his limits we shall hear no more of him. But from the power and earnestness of the book before us we are inclined to favour his chances in the future. He has shown at least the foot of Hercules.” —Birmingham Gazette. The Mother’s Tragedy, etc. 5s. The two dramas in this volume are of a nature to freeze the blood in the veins of the most sanguine of mankind. Also a short collection of…