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1930 · PDF PAGE 36

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

working together and so blurring each other’s individuality; also to prevent work developing into social intercourse. The Grades of the Order of the G. D. are fully descrihed in Liber 185 1, and there is no need to amplify what is there stated. It must however, be carefuliy remarked that in each of these preliminary Grades there are appointed certain tasks appropriate, and that the ample accomplishment of each and every one of these is insisted upon with the most rigorous rigidity. 2 3 * * * * Members of the A A of whatever grade are not bound …

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1939 · PDF PAGE 10

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…de of ineffable things, Quintessence of joy and of strength, that, abolishing future and past, Mak’st the Present an infinite length, my soul all-One with the Vast, The Lone, the Unnamable God, that is ice of His measureless cold, Without being or form or abode, without motion or matter, the fold Where the shepherded Universe sleeps, with nor sense nor delusion nor dream, No spirit that wantons or weeps, no thought in its silence supreme. I sit, and am utterly still; in mine eyes is my fathomless lust Ablaze to annihilate Will, to crumble my be…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 38

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… is given A robe of light. As when'the conqueror Christ burst forth of prison, And triumph woke the thunder of the spheres, So brake the soul, as newly re-arisen Beyond the years. Far above Space and Time, that earth environ With bands and bars we strive against in vain, Far o’er the world, and all its triple iron And brazen chain, Far from the change that men call life fled higher Into the world immutable of sleep, We see our loved one, and vain eyes desire In vain to weep. Woeful our gaze, ifon lone Earth descendent, To view the absence of yo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 128

Moonchild

…aken by means of a net. It is argued, therefore, that anything whatever, no matter how elusive, such as the ghost of one's father or the soul of one's enemy, may be caught similarly, though of course the net must be adapted to the special game that one is after. With these things Arthwait was familiar, and it occurred to him that it should be easy to identify string, or, preferably, cat-gut, with the viscera of his victims. There could then be no difficulty in knotting up the cords in such a pattern, for example, as the Many Stars, or the Owl, …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 190

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e world—-unseen, Most terrible. Dawns that unheard-of terror! Never a word of The spells that chain ill spirits I re- member. And oh! my soul! What hands of ice un- heard-of Disturb, dismember !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… otherwise are liars, probably hired liars—unless, of course, they are Englishmen, who are such natural-born fools in all matters of the soul that they not only require no bribe to lié, but can hardly be paid to see truth. Until Strindberg’s life is utterly dissociated from his art, the latter will not be truly valued. ACG WIND ALONG THE WasTE. By MAUDE ANNESLEY. William Rider & Son. I CONFESS to having expected a very flatulent novel. Judge of my surprise to find a novel of Paris as it is! The heroine (a rich Englishwoman) is robbed by apaches…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… otherwise are liars, probably hired liars—unless, of course, they are Englishmen, who are such natural-born fools in all matters of the soul that they not only require no bribe to lié, but can hardly be paid to see truth. Until Strindberg’s life is utterly dissociated from his art, the latter will not be truly valued. ACG WIND ALONG THE WasTE. By MAUDE ANNESLEY. William Rider & Son. I CONFESS to having expected a very flatulent novel. Judge of my surprise to find a novel of Paris as it is! The heroine (a rich Englishwoman) is robbed by apaches…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 81

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…air I half believed her an enchantress fair Cruel as hell and dowered with subtle skill To strain my life out with her love, and kill My soul with misery : suddenly a rare Swift smile set shimmering all the am- bient air, And then I knew she was my true love still. She would not come? Why, were Hell’s portals fast Shut, as to Orpheus on Eurydice, Their brass would break before love’s gold and steel, The sharpness inlaid with sweet tracery Of talismans of virtue: she is leal To come and live and be my love at last. UNDER THE PALMS. THE woodland …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 85

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…at is the humour of it, but adieu.” King Henry V. THE third time bitterly came reason back. Is it a fault in love when mornings find The soul grown sober and rethroned the ‘ mind? Or is it mere necessity to track The candid chequer cross-wise to the black, And love, not mutable, yet well inclined To take his pleasure in becoming blind After such sight mere day is wont to lack? _So we were angry with ourselves and said We would not kiss—two days, and we would part. And she prayed heaven that she might be dead, And I cursed heaven and my foolish …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 62

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…. {120} 1. Mr. Gladstone was attacked by a cow in Hawarden Park in 1891. You've gained your every seat, my friend, ....By perjuring your soul; You've climbed to Downing Street, my friend, ....A very greasy poll. You bear a traitor's brand, old man, ....1You bear a liar's brand; I will not shake thy hand, old man, ....I will not shake thy hand. And I didn't. My life at Cambridge did nothing to make me think more deeply. With regard to foreign politics, the position was parallel. It was pure Kipling; but (in another watertight compartment) I was …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 66

Moonchild

…saw Cyril and Cybele draw together; they gave a laugh which (once again) she fancied she could hear. It rang demoniac in her very inmost soul. An instant more, and their mouths met in a kiss. Lisa felt her knees give way. She caught the altar, and saved herself from falling; but she must have lost consciousness for a second or two, for when her eyes opened she saw that they had discarded their robes, and were dancing together. It was wild and horrible beyond all imagination; the dancers were locked so closely that they appeared like a single mo…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 96

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…LEAZAR. Let every man depart unto his house. ClORUS., 'H{fe hath made Ilis face as a fire ; [lis wrath as a sword ; tfe hath smitten our soul’s desire; Ife is the Lord. Ife hath given and taken away, hath made us and broken 3 Lic hath made the blue and the gray, the sea for a token ; Ile hath made to-day and to-morrow3 the winter, the spring ; Ile bringeth us joy out of sorrow; Tehovah is King. [Axcunt, JePuTHAL zs left standing weth whete set face. Presently tears come into his eyes, and he advances, and kiteels at the altar.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 161

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…, , (Intolerable as its purpose seemed,) Redeemed by love: I see the jealous days Pass into sunshine, and youth-beaming rays Quicken the soul’s elixir. Let me show Tow these air-castles tumble into woe. [Aazses sceptre as tf to start action of play. Cora. Why did your eyelids quiver as I spoke? A smile, a tear? that trembling, in their deep Violet passion, of the beautiful Eyes that they half discover? me. I have long thought a secret was your spouse, Shared your deep fancies and your lightest word, Partook your maiden bed, and gave you dreams …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 23

Collected Works (Vol. II)

TRANSLATIONS FROM BAUDELAIRE 17 CARRION. Recall, my soul, the sight we twain have looked upon This summer morning soft and sweet, Beside the path, an infamous foul carrion, Stones for its couch a fitting sheet. Its legs stretched in the air, like wanton whores Burning with lust, and reeking venom sweated, Laid open, carelessly and cynically, the doors Of belly rank with exhalations foetid. Upon this rottenness the sun shone deadly straight As if to cook it to a turn, And give back to great Nature hundredfold the debt That, joining it together, …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 71

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… shun. The onyx eyes that saw me not as one Possible even for a moment’s play. Thus I was tangled in some house of hell, Giving mine own soul’s beauty up to lust, Hoping to build some fort impregnable Against my love: instead the deep disgust Of my own beasthood crushed it into dust, And left my manhood twisted in her . spell. THE THIRD DAY. ‘* My love is most immaculate white and red, ”’ Love's Labour's Lost, SHE was more graceful than the royal palm ; Tall, with imperial looks, and excellence Most simply swathed in spotless ele- gance, And ho…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 71

The Law is for All

…n art no less than Rembrandt’s, a science no less than Lister’s. The mind must make the heart articulate, and the body the temple of the soul. The animal instinct in man is the twin of the ape’s or the bull’s. Yet this is the one thing lawful in the code of the bourgeois. He is right to consider the act, as he knows it, degrading. It is, indeed, for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dig­ nity of man or of the majesty of the God within him. So is the

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1930 · PDF PAGE 33

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

is man. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 59

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…d. I sing strange stories of that world No man may ever see ; My lips with strong delight are curled To kiss the sacred knee, And all my soul is dewed and pearled With tears of poetry. The strong mysterious spell is. cast ~ To bind and to release ; To give the devils hope at last, To the unburied peace ; To gladden the reluctant past With silent harmonies. The song grows wilder now and strives All heaven to enchain, As who should grasp a thousand lives, And draw their breath again Into some cavern where he dives, ._ A hell of grisly pain. And n…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…of the Golden Dawn !” They then recite the mystic words, “ KHABS AM PEKHT,.” as sealing the current of the Flaming Light. But the Higher Soul remaineth in the Invisible Station of Harpocrates, and to the Spirit Vision, at this point, there should be a gleaming white Triangle formulated above the forehead of the Candidate and touching it, the symbol of the white Triangle of the Three Supernals. The Hierophant now calleth forward the Kerux, and turning towards the Candidate says to him: “Tn all your wanderings through darkness, the lamp of the Ke…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…of the Golden Dawn !” They then recite the mystic words, “ KHABS AM PEKHT,.” as sealing the current of the Flaming Light. But the Higher Soul remaineth in the Invisible Station of Harpocrates, and to the Spirit Vision, at this point, there should be a gleaming white Triangle formulated above the forehead of the Candidate and touching it, the symbol of the white Triangle of the Three Supernals. The Hierophant now calleth forward the Kerux, and turning towards the Candidate says to him: “Tn all your wanderings through darkness, the lamp of the Ke…

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