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1907 · PDF PAGE 72

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…in a practised pen, and strive to art ; Accomplish art, and lose the art therein. I sit, a bitter Witenagemot,! The saint, the poet, the man : the lover’s heart Pleads at the bar. How should he hope to win? The saint is silent while the poet strings These futile follies, gives for bread a stone, And the man endures. The lover breaks the lyre. Its death-cry, agony, O agony! rings One name. The lover sits in hell alone Fondling the devil that men call desire. 1 The ancient parliament,of Britain.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 67

Moonchild

…urned Georges Sand to stone. The light went out. The thought of flight from that abominable chapel never came to her. It was Cyril — the man to whom [96] she had given herself utterly at the first touch — who was plunging this poisoned dagger into her soul. And she could not even die; it was ferocity and madness that awoke in her. She would wait until the morning — and she would find a way to be avenged. Yet she felt that she was slowly bleeding to death; it did not seem that any morning could ever come to her. She would not be able to face Cyr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 446

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…n error for HB:Heh HB:Vau HB:Shin HB:Heh HB:Yod , Yeheshuah or Jesus; but how do I know that this word and not another has power to make man triumphant over matter, to harmonize and sanctify the blind forces of the universe? Thus: I know that HB:Heh HB:Vau HB:Heh HB:Yod represents the four elements; that 4 is a number symbolizing limitation. It is the square of 2, the only number which cannot be formed harmoniously into a "Magic Square". (Two represents the Dyad, the original Error.) I know also that the letter Shin represents a triune essence,…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

The Argonauts

…ns me: all my flesh is teeming With the live kisses of the sea, my mate, My mistress, till the fires of life abate And leave me languid, man-forgotten, deeming T see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light. Light! ever light! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light invades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow The bitter draught of Truth; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine; the …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 11

Rosa Inferni

VII HIS is the circle ; as the manhood rises And laughter and rude rhyme engage my pen ; As I stalk forth, a Man among mere men, The balance changes ; all my wit surprises That I who saw the goblins in your face, That I who cursed you for the murderous whore Licking up life as a cat laps its milk, Now see you for a dream of youth and grace, Relume the magic aura that begirt you, Bless you for purity and life—a store ! An ever-running fountain-head of virtue To heal my soul and buckler it and harden ! Your body is like ivory and silk ! Your lips…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 27

777

TABLE I (continued) Il XXXVI. XXXVI. XXXV. Hindu Legendary See ee a) Bean clists (9) Some Roman Gods. and Churches of (7). oO . \ ( God, the 3 in 1 Jupiter . 1 | God the Father, God who guides Parliament. | Janus 2 The Virgin Mary . Juno, Cybele, Saturn, Hecate, 3 God the Rain-maker (vide Prayer-book), God Jupiter , 4 Chit omice te Foage the World . Mars . J God the Son (and Maker of Fine Weather) Apollo 6 Messiah, Lord of Hosts (vide Prayer-book, | Venus 7 Goi theFils Ghost (as Comforter and Inspirer | Mercury . 8 God the Holy ero tas iene Pla…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 52

The Holy Books

…cene ones, bull-men linked in the abyss of putrefaction, that gnawed each other’s tongues for pain. I saw Thee in these. 10. I saw the Woman. Ο my God, I beheld the image thereof, even as a lovely shape that concealeth a black monkey, even as a figure that draweth with her hands small images of men down into hell. I saw her from the head to the navel a woman, from the navel to the feet of her a man. I saw Thee even in her. I I. For mine was the keyword to the Closed Palace 418 and mine the reins of the Chariot of the Sphinxes, black and white. B…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 150

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…s a storm of chattering and gesticulating fools. The police pushed them aside. The corpse to the mortuary; the girl to the hospital; the man to the Poste. Ninon, wringing her hands and crying and laughing, had run like a Bacchante up the Boulevard to the Dome. 142

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1911 · PDF PAGE 150

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…s a storm of chattering and gesticulating fools. The police pushed them aside. The corpse to the mortuary; the girl to the hospital; the man to the Poste. Ninon, wringing her hands and crying and laughing, had run like a Bacchante up the Boulevard to the Dome. 142

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1913 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…student may thoroughly understand his own limitations, Liper XXX.—Liber Libre. An elementary course of morality suitable for the average man. Lizer LVIII. This is an article on the Qabalah in the Temple of Solomon the King, Eguinox V. Liper LXI.—Lider Cause. The Preliminary Lection, including the History Lection. Explains the actual history of the origin of the present movement. Its statements are accurate in the ordinary sense of the word. The object of the book is to discount Mythopeeia. Liser LXIV.—Liber Isvafel, formerly called Anubis. An i…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… most mild, As it is lawful, to thy child | So from the Father to the Son The Holy Spirit is the norm: Male-female, quintessential, one, Man-being veiled in Woman-form, Glory and worship in the Highest, Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest, Being that race—most royally run To spring sunshine through winter storm !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nd love, and these Shall not suffice; for love and death are one; In all the secret star-wrought harmonies, By married death and love is man undone. There is some secret thing I wot not of; It is not death; I know it is not love. So do my songs end here ; the hour is fled, And there are no more roses; I am fain To cease from singing. Wait! the hour is sped, My songs are turning into dreams again. Oh! now the hour is dead, and I am fain Awake life's young song back to soul again! THE EPILOGUE SHALL they avail, O wind, The things that I have hear…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…student may thoroughly understand his own limitations, Liper XXX.—Liber Libre. An elementary course of morality suitable for the average man. Lizer LVIII. This is an article on the Qabalah in the Temple of Solomon the King, Eguinox V. Liper LXI.—Lider Cause. The Preliminary Lection, including the History Lection. Explains the actual history of the origin of the present movement. Its statements are accurate in the ordinary sense of the word. The object of the book is to discount Mythopeeia. Liser LXIV.—Liber Isvafel, formerly called Anubis. An i…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… most mild, As it is lawful, to thy child | So from the Father to the Son The Holy Spirit is the norm: Male-female, quintessential, one, Man-being veiled in Woman-form, Glory and worship in the Highest, Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest, Being that race—most royally run To spring sunshine through winter storm !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nd love, and these Shall not suffice; for love and death are one; In all the secret star-wrought harmonies, By married death and love is man undone. There is some secret thing I wot not of; It is not death; I know it is not love. So do my songs end here ; the hour is fled, And there are no more roses; I am fain To cease from singing. Wait! the hour is sped, My songs are turning into dreams again. Oh! now the hour is dead, and I am fain Awake life's young song back to soul again! THE EPILOGUE SHALL they avail, O wind, The things that I have hear…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 18

Little Poems in Prose

…errible Mirrors-of-Venus that I recognize by their terri- fying malice. They attract, they subjugate, they devour the glance of the rash man who contemplates them. I have studied them often, those black stars which compel curiosity and admiration. To what benevolent demon do I owe it that I am thus surrounded with mystery, with si- lence, with peace and with perfume? Oh bless- edness! what we ordinarily call Life, even in its happiest expansion, has nothing in common with this supreme life which I now hold, and which I taste minute by minute, s…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 277

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…TION OF THE ELEMENTS The PRIEST makes the five crosses. “KI on paten 3 ke and cup; 4 on paten alone; 5 on cup alone. Tue PRIEST. Life of man upon earth, fruit of labour, sustenance of endeavour, thus be thou nourishment of the Spirit! He touches the Host with the Lance. By the virtue of the Rod Be this bread the Body of God! He takes the Host. TOUTO ESTI TO SOMA MOU. 263

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… Therion. Unpublished. Liber CLXV. A Master of the Temple, being an account of the attainment of Frater Unus In Omnibus. The record of a man who actually attained by the System taught by the A . *. A . *. Part-published in Equinox III. I., p. 127. Liber CLXXV. A star te vel Liber Berylli. An instruction in attainment by the method of dévotion, or Bhakta-Yogi. Equinox VII, p. 37. Liber CLXXXV. Liber Collegii Sancti. Being the tasks of the Grades and their Oaths proper to Liber XIII. This is the official paper of the various grades. It includes t…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 20

Liber Aleph

…thine original Nature? My son, this is not so; for by a peculiar Ordinance of Heaven, and a Disposition occult within his Mine, is every Man protected from this Loss of his own Soul, until and unless he be by Choronzon disintegrated and dispersed beyond power of Will to repair; as when the Conflict within him, rending and burning, hath made his Mind utterly desert, and his Soul Madness. Give Ear, give Ear attentively; the Will is not lost; though it be buried beneath a life-old midden of Repressions, for it persisteth vital within thee (is it n…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 67

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… O wisest of our race, Ahinoam, the aged priest of God, , Who weighest out the stars with balances, And knowest best of men the heart of man? AHINOAM. Ye are as children, and nowise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. Sing to him perchance! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. CHORUS. What say ye, brethren, shall we sing to him Some sweet low ditty, or the louder pean?

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