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LIBER A’ASH 19. There is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 20. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments 21. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. All corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. All lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. I am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is u…
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…e to the Earth and to the Sun and to the holy body and soul of Man ; and glory be to Love and to the Father 01 Love, the secret Unity of things! Glory be to the Shrine within the Temple, and to the God within the Shrine, to the Word and to the Silence that bore it unto Him that is beyond the Silence and the Speech! Also thanksgiving in the Highest for the Gift of all these things, and for the maiden in whom all these things are found, for the holy body and soul 01 man, and for the sun, and for the earth. AMEN. FRANCIS BENDICK.
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…vail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by Hermes the Invisible. 17. And this is the wrath of God, that these things should be thus. 18. And this is the grace of God, that these things should be thus. 19. Wherefore I charge you that ye come unto me in the Beginning; for if ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or t…
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…Seven who are the Ten Glory on the Earth, Amen! 16. And of the difficulties of this practice and of the Results that reward it, let these things be discovered by the right Ingenium of the Practicus. Ι5
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…the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of the Absolute Truth. So also are the philosophies. To the adept, seeing all these things from above, there seems nothing to choose between Buddha and Mohammed, between Atheism and Theism. 20. The many change and pass; the one remains. Even as wood and coal and iron burn up together in one great flame, if only that furnace be of transcendent heat ; so in the alembic of this spiritual alchemy, if only the zelator blow sufficiently upon his furnace all the systems of earth are consumed in the On…
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…ese is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from death ? 12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them. 13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the servants 01 V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto. 14. It is impossible to tell you 01 the splendours of that to which they have attained. Little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you the ineffable glory of the Path 01 the Ade…
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…e bound to a fate that brings release; We move in a moi] that must one day cease; We shall win to the everlasting peace, Jeanne! And how things are, and why, and whence Are puzzles for fools that lack the sense Of cows—enough of the future tense, Jeanne! For the end of love and the end of art Is just—my ear against your heart! ALEISTER CROWLEY. 51
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…ed Rolles. “ I love to see the pure animal beat the mere brute. White men ought not to fight: they ought to think, and do lovely physical things, things gracious and of good report." “Ida! my Ida! Could you see your nostrils twitching! I can imagine you fighting with all their fierceness, incapable of keeping to the rules of boxing.” “ Ι hate you,” she said. “ In everything you see—" “ Your lust of blood," he answered gravely. “ It is true," said Ida slowly. “There is no light of battle in your eye. You see it as a picture." “ It is a hieroglyph."…
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…like by her new love and by the terrible ordeal that she had undergone, Her mind remembered nothing of it— such is the merciful order of things ; but her soul, beaten with rods, was sore. So Edgar Rolles went to England to his martyrdom, with a lock of her hair in his pocket-book; and he turned martyr— dom to battle, and battle to victory. Kingdoms have been won for an eyelash, before now. 134
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…eams that twist Thy lithe long limbs in fierce abandonment, Awake, and learn of me the secret of the sea, Whose meaning is the sum of all things blent In fiercest harmony. Soft winds are calling on the cloudy deep, (Like foam-flowers falling from the breasts of Sleep Their Lotus-kiss is), such a world forestalling Of wanton blisses, that the fear of palling Makes e’en the Sirens weep. Ah me! What serpent hisses from out those purple bysses, Far in the womb of the long-lying sea? She wakes I Nor dare he creep back to her soul, whence Sleep Has torn…
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…UTONOE. Fall soft and sweet! AGAVE. Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land Lies thirsty for our kisses. MAENADS. All wild things Yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. AGAVE, Blood! Blood | Bring wine! Ha! Bromius, Bromius! M/ENADS Come, sweet God, Come forth and lie with us!
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44 THE EQUINOX Things beyond history and art In the tresses that tumble over her earl In what grim gloom did Satan get This child on what wood—nymph dishevelled? Whence was the wind that swayed the woods On their bestial beatitudes? Or what garden of rose and violet Lay under the moon wherein they revelled? She is like a poppy-petal. All the seas of sleep are hidden Under the languorous eyelids, whose Lashes are long and strong to bruise My heart where her lusts like hornets settle On sacred leaves, on flowers forbidden. She is like a drug of wo…
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THE AUTUMN WOODS THE eye of Fate is closed; the olden doom Lies in the wrack of things. There is no sigh; Only the wind cries through the lonely woods, And the barren motherhood of the world is manifest Shamelessly ; in the dank, pale Autumn woods The fallen leaves lie squelching under the feet Οἱthe desolate gnomes ; and now the birds are silent, And the streams flow sluggishly through the veins of the world. Dark gray and cloudy, the skies no more are blue, And grayness reigning solitary makes music Drearily through the wind-harp. The dripping…
1911 · PDF PAGE 190
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS As in the blood of murdered things The afirighted augur shaking skries Earthquakeand ruinous fate of kings, Famine and desperate destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damned minion Of Set, the accursed lord of Hell. Yea! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Drus…
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…ndures, The holy heaven of will ! Ι kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star; Your hair as a comet's horrent, Ye shall see things as they are! 41
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…lest not. 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F. I. A. T. is enthroned on the day of Be—with-Us. 7. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpo- crates his twin is hidden within him. Set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of Μ. Α. Α. T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple ofA c., A ,.?.־whose name is Truth. 35
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THE RITE OF MERCURY Power of the making of fair things. Sing ye unto your Shepherd! FR. GEMINI. [Rises and stands 62/07/12 MERCURY.] 0 Spirit, Ο Divine Messenger, Mighty One, most mighty circling and all comprehending Divine Bearer of the Wand, hail! Coelestial, aethereal, inter-aethereal, water like, air like, fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his sea…
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…LI. Then . . . Lights! [CAPRICORNUS switches on the blue glare. 1. Brother Aquarius, I scent danger. AQUARIUS. I. Master, there are evil things abroad. [To CAPRICORNUS] Turn out the guard! CAPRICORNUS. Brethren, stand to your arms! [All PROBATIONERS rise and follow hz'm. He prick: all assistant: with he': spear, z'hsþec/s doors, eta] Master, every man is vigilant at his post. There is no alarm. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Ι. Brother Aquarius, I scent danger. AQUARIUS. L Master, there is a traitor within the gates. [To CAPRICORNUS] Inspect the garrison I C…
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… since all is immanent The vast content Of all the universe unalterabler We know too well How no one thing abides awhile at all, How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. So we, Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fail us on the hideous way. What? Must we pray?
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…attle! We conquer! We conquer. [CAPRICORNUS07204711/?ששמand threm‘ens them, mailing : My head is split. The crashing axe Of the agony of things shears through The stupid skull: out spurt the brains. The universe revolves, then cracks, Then roars in dissolution due; And I am counting up the gains And losses of a life afire With dust of thought and dulled desire. 53