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1954 · PDF PAGE 390

Magick Without Tears

…cepticism gleamed pale at the age of I 0, when I asked my form master how it was that Christ managed to be dead for three days and three nights between Friday night and Sunday morning. He said that he did not know, and (to a further question) that no one had ever explained it. This merely filled me with ambition to be the great exegetist who had explained it. I never thought of doubting the story. Well, all this time, and then through puberty, despite my romantic bent, my absorption in the gramarye of Sir Walter Scott, my imaginative life as on…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 237

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e, dear, The loves of lambent spring, Our lamp the drooping moun, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing ; The bed, of moss and roses ; The night, as long as death ! Still, breath ! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth ! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,! The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep |— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. TANNHAUSER. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The ha…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 319

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…c but their rattling; ....No scent but death's grown faint and fugitive; No fight but this their leprous pallor battling ....Weakly with night. Lord, shall these dry bones live? ........O keep us in the hour ........Wherein the King-Ghost hath his power! The King-Ghost girds me with his gibbering creatures, ....My dreams of old that never saw the sun. He shows me, in a mocking glass, their features, ....The twin fiends "Might-have-been" and "Should-have-done". ........Keep us, by Jesu's ruth, ........What time the King-Ghost grins the truth! Th…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 167

Moonchild

…o get at her. He continued in his bitter mood until the early hours, and he was interrupted by the return of his wife from her miserable night's trudging. She put two francs on the table without a single word as soon as she entered. "Is that all?" snarled Douglas. "You ought to be getting fives again now spring's coming. Though you're not as pretty as you were." He garnished this greeting with garlic of low abuse. Rarely to any other person did he use even mild oaths; he affected the grand manner; but he [236] knew that foulness of speech empha…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 107

The Law is for All

…sture. Next, he must give himself utterly up to that Form; he must annihilate himself absolutely in every act of love, labouring day and night to lose himself in lust for it, so that he leave no atom unconsumed in the furnace of their frenzy, as did of old his Father that begat him. He must realize himself wholly in the integration of the infinite Pantheon of images; for if he fail to formulate one facet of himself, by lack thereof will he know himself falsely. There is of course no ultimate difference between the Artist as here delineated and …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 37

Moonchild

…see I can hardly bear this any more?" "You're safe within these walls," said Simon, "now that there is no enemy within the gates; and to-night we shall take you under guard to a protected area. To-morrow the fun will begin in [55] good earnest. Meanwhile, here is the preliminary knowledge with regard to the project. Before you start, you have to take a certain vow; and we cannot allow you to do that in ignorance of all that it implies, down to the tiniest iota." "I am ready." "I am going to make everything as simple as I possibly can. You have …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 164

Moonchild

…ng, but we know we're on the way. And, whatever we've got, we've got it." Suddenly her mind ran back to her vision. "Where were you last night,

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1907 · PDF PAGE 80

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…LAIN. I must apologise, no doubt, but the cir- cumstances are peculiar. Is it your custom to steal into the houses of gentlemen after midnight, and accuse the owners of lunacy? [Chuckles.} Well—let us be polite if we cannot be friendly. DENYS. Then, sir, you will permit me to explain my intrusion. ALAIN. [Laughing.] Ha! Ha! a fine story, I wager. ’Twill interest me much, ?’ faith. (DENYS shows signs of tmpatience ; ALAIN begins to look a tattle doubtful. With sudden interest :] Well, how dd you come here? DENYS, [With much quaint lively gesture…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 194

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…sions of the most appalling Abrame- lin devils, which had evidently clung to the spot ever since the operations of February 1900. On the night of the 16th of June he began to practise Mahasatipatthana,; and found it easy to get into the way of it as a mantra which does not interfere much with sense- * Till 1906. The theory of the Great White Brotherhood, as set forth in the story called “The Blossom and the Fruit,” by Miss Mabel Collins. + The practice of Mahasipatthana is explained by Mr. A. Crowley in his “Science and Buddhism” very fully. Br…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 194

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…sions of the most appalling Abrame- lin devils, which had evidently clung to the spot ever since the operations of February 1900. On the night of the 16th of June he began to practise Mahasatipatthana,; and found it easy to get into the way of it as a mantra which does not interfere much with sense- * Till 1906. The theory of the Great White Brotherhood, as set forth in the story called “The Blossom and the Fruit,” by Miss Mabel Collins. + The practice of Mahasipatthana is explained by Mr. A. Crowley in his “Science and Buddhism” very fully. Br…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 91

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…t issue. One consequently remembers having one’s ears cropped as a lucky escape, while the casual jest of a drunken skeinsmate in an all-night café stings one with the shame of the parvenu to whom a poli te stranger has unsuspectingly mentioned “Mine Uncle”. The testimony of intuitions is, however, strictly subjective, and shrieks for collateral security. It would be a great error to ask too much. In conséquence of the peculiar character of the recol¬ lections which are under the microscope, anything in the shape of gross confirmation almost pr…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 34

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…n the chant of wonder; Star to star must add to the glowing chorus ; Sun and moon must mingle and speed the echo Flaming through heaven. Night and day divide, and the music strengthens, Gathers roar of seas and the dirge of moor- lands; Tempest, thunder, birds, and the breeze of summer Join to augment it. 1 Spanish term for wide, grassy plains.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 230

Moonchild

…s bluff, too; but it's true for all that — and it's the one chance in the world." "Right O!" "Are we retreating again?" "All through the night. There's not a dog's chance to save Paris, and the line stretches every hour." "Don't worry about Paris — it's as safe as Bordeaux. Safer, because the Covernment is at Bordeaux!" "My poor friend, wouldn't you be better in a home?" The British Army had no illusions about its situation. It was a thin, drab line of heroes, very thin and very drab, but there was no doubt about the heroism, and no uncertainty…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…l a doubtful tear. These are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is fusion in the spirits shadow-veil, Till the KnowledgeeLotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them, As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 206

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…l a doubtful tear. These are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is fusion in the spirits shadow-veil, Till the KnowledgeeLotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them, As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 70

Moonchild

…s the Eternal Babe). But her greatest surprise was in her physical health and energy. She had passed through a fierce and furious day, a night of infernal torture; yet she was unaccountably buoyant, eager, assiduous in every act, from her smiled word of pleasure to the drinking of her coffee. Everything at that meal seemed matter of intoxication. She had not previously realized that toast, properly understood, was a superior stimulant to brandy. When breakfast ended, she could not have walked across the room. It was dancing or nothing, so she s…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 97

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…ends, and at its end continue openly thy Method. 27. Concerning Dryness. — Another State wherein at times the soûl may fall is this dark night. And this is indeed purifying, in such depths that the soûl cannot fathom it. It is less like pain than like death. But it is the necessary death that cornes before the rising of a body glorified. This State must be endured with fortitude; and no means of alleviating it may be employed. It may be broken up by the breaking up of the whole Method, and a return to the world without. This cowardice not only …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 79

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… throat.| Sir, let me —explain that ALAIN. Don’t explain. May I beg you to be seated, my dear young friend. We've been expecting you all night: the lady is ready, though I believe a little tearful : a bride has so much to fear, you know —et corde et gentbus tremtt—eh, my Gaetulian lion? DENYS. [Nazses his hand authoritatively to check speech. Sir! this misunderstanding, for such I am convinced it is, must go no further. I am a stranger here— ALAIN. Well, well, you'll get to know the old place in time. Blanche

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1930 · PDF PAGE 95

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… for Maheswara, of Abdullah Haji Shirazi for Allah, of St Ignatius Loyola for Mary, and many more. Now do thou take one such story every night, and enact it in thy mind, grasping each identity with infinité care and zest, and do thou figure thyself as one of the lovers and thy Deity as the other. Thus do thou pass through ail adventures of love, not omitting one 3 and to each do thou conclude : How pale a reflection is this of my love for this Deity! Yet from each shalt thou draw some knowledge of love, some intimacy with love, that shall aid t…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 143

The Law is for All

…ve by an alien law. When parents insist on a boy adopting a profession which he loathes, because they themselves fancy it; when Florence Nightin­ gale fought to open hospital windows in India at night; then the Ideal mutilates and murders. iii:60 Every organ has “no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” Its law is determined by the history of its development, and by its present relations with its fellow-citizens. We do not fortify our lungs and our limbs by identical methods, or aim at the same tokens of success in training the throat of the tenor and…

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