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1904 · PDF PAGE 51

Why Jesus Wept

WHY JESUS WEPT 37 ANGELA, aside. O true apothecary ! Thy drugs are — expensive, but well worth the money. (Aloud) Nay ! but I will go. You have shamed me enough. Go ! Go ! SIR PERCY. Nay ! I know better of a sudden. It is you that I love ! He would kiss her. She draws away. ANGELA. False, fickle wretch ! SIR PERCY. I will ! I will ! ANGELA. No ! No ! SIR PERCY. Yes, I was a fool, an ass, a brute. A village girl ! ANGELA. Blood will have blood, they say. SIR PERCY. You are my equal, Angela ! You shall be mine, mine, mine ! ANGELA. If I will not …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 91

Why Jesus Wept

…ince the Marquis of Glenstrae must have had normal habits, other wise so pure a poet as Crowley would never have introduced him. This is true ; but Sir R. Burton has pointed out that the outcry against Greek Art comes chiefly from those who are personally incapable of it. Englishmen and Virgins are then like Alpine guides and mountains ; some can’t go, and the rest lose the way. Hence Mr. Kensit

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1930 · PDF PAGE 87

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…nd ail, saying, Such are the Words ! 1 For b y this he maketh proclamation before ail them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this Ritual aright, per- fect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons, next, thrice, noon added, for three moons, afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; le…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 8

Khing Kang King

…NCE OF THE TRUTH FLAWLESS THAT TRUTH AND FIXED YET APT TO EACH APPEAL NATURE AND SENSE TO INFLUENCE— THE MAGNET TO THE STEEL ! OH ! THIS TRUE TOUCH WITH ALL ELASTIC AND EXACT THAT YET ABIDES ABOVE THEIR TIDES— THE SILENCE FREE FROM ACT ! HE THAT HATH THIS SHALL COME LITTLE BY LITTLE, A BREATH, SO FLOWETH HE NOW, TO TRUTH OF TAO, WHEREIN HE VANISHETH.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 465

Magick Without Tears

… this Digression from the plain Path of my Word concerning Children; but it was most needful that thou shouldst understand the Limits of true Liberty. For that is not the Will of any Man which ultimateth in his own Ruin and that of all his Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume that it is always an essential Part of the Will of any Child to grow to Manhood or to Womanhood in Health, and his Guardians may therefore prevent him from ignorantly acting in Opposition thereunto, Care being…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 468

Magick Without Tears

…Collateral Offshoots , though such were in themselves better and wiser. Yea, 0 my son, in these Writings thou mayst study to come to the true Comprehension of thine own Nature, and that of the whole Universe, in the dimension of Time, even as the Mathematic declareth it in that of Space: that is, of Extension. Moreover, by this Study shall the Child comprehend the Foundation of Manners: the which, as sayeth one of the Sons of Wisdom, maketh Man. Sequitur (3) Scientifica Since Time and Space are the conditions of Mind, these two Studies are fund…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 83

Rodin in Rime

… an hunter, hungers, leaps above, Attains, exults, despairs. This love is doomed, Were there no hell. In granite walls entombed Lies the true spirit and the soul thereof. The body is here—yet is it not enough, These litanies unchanted, unperfumed? Live in the shuddering marble they remain: Here is the infinite credo of pure pain. Here let life’s agony take hold enough Of all that lives: let partial tears for them Wake knowledge, brain-dissolving diadem Of white-hot woe upon the brows of love! D0

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1903 · PDF PAGE 21

Berashith

…eny. The consciousness of the Absolute-wala really extended infinitely rather than diminished infinitely, as he will himself assure you. True, Hegel says: “ Pure being is pure nothing!” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites * cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute! Maybe its joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0° and finity are phases of an identical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side of …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…AZIERS’ HOUSES Tories was but a bed-ridden and toothless hag, mumbling the senile curses and jests which she could no longer articulate. True it is that the Word of Shaw is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword. Yet the habit of sword- swallowing is probably fatal to the suicidal intentions of a Brutus, and it has certainly grown on him until he can no longer slay either himself or another. A dweller in the glass houses of Fad, he has thrown stones at the fishy god. A Society Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is b…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…AZIERS’ HOUSES Tories was but a bed-ridden and toothless hag, mumbling the senile curses and jests which she could no longer articulate. True it is that the Word of Shaw is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword. Yet the habit of sword- swallowing is probably fatal to the suicidal intentions of a Brutus, and it has certainly grown on him until he can no longer slay either himself or another. A dweller in the glass houses of Fad, he has thrown stones at the fishy god. A Society Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is b…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ural need of religion, it must be the only really natural religion. We arrive, without help from others, at this double definition, that true natural religion is revealed religion. The true revealed religion is the hierarchical and traditional religion, which affirms itself absolutely, above human discussion, by communion in faith, hope, and charity. Representing the moral authority, and realizing it by the efficacy of its ministry, the priesthood is as holy and infal- lible as humanity is subject to vice and to error. The priest, A 4

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1913 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ural need of religion, it must be the only really natural religion. We arrive, without help from others, at this double definition, that true natural religion is revealed religion. The true revealed religion is the hierarchical and traditional religion, which affirms itself absolutely, above human discussion, by communion in faith, hope, and charity. Representing the moral authority, and realizing it by the efficacy of its ministry, the priesthood is as holy and infal- lible as humanity is subject to vice and to error. The priest, A 4

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1954 · PDF PAGE 243

Magick Without Tears

…stated, the quiddity of our query with his accustomed lucidity. He discerns three degrees of Truth; and he distinguishes accordingly: 1. True 2. Certain without error 3. Of all truth. Clear enough, the difference between 1 and 2: ask me the time, I say half-past two; and that's true enough. But the Astronomer Royal is by no manner of means satisfied with any approximation of that kind. He wants it accurate. He must know the longitude to the second; he must have decided what method of measuring time is to be used; he 1. It seems natural to me-ap…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 437

Magick Without Tears

404 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS any statement as true without criticism, examination, verification, or any other method of test. Faith of this sort is evidently the main symptom of the moron, the half-wit, the village idiot . It is this kind of faith upon the possession and exercise of which religious persons always insist as the first condition of salvation. Here is my own lamentable foresight on the subject! The Convert (A Hundred Years Hence) There met one eveJn a sylvan glade A horrible Man and a beautiful maid. "Where are you going so meek and ho…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 387

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…for this statement. (A Srotapatti becomes an Arahat in seven more incarnations. “Siddhis’”—magic powers.) 57. Tell him, O Aspirant, that true devotion may bring him back the knowledge, that knowledge which was his in former births. The deva-sight and deva-hearing are not obtained in one short birth. The promise in this verse is less difficult to believe. By true devotion is meant a devotion which does not depend upon its object. The highest kind of love asks for no return. It is however misleading to say that “deva-sight and deva- hearing are n…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 71

The Star in the West

…terpart in the divine poetic sincerity of Charicles and Archais ; we will now view it in its maturer form , and firstly , in the form of true and sincere love , unconventional and pure , whether under the bond of marriage , or under the boundless bond of free love , between two souls of similar affinity . True love is a pure , unal loyed attraction , urging two souls from their inherited duality into their inherent oneness , that all are cap able of attaining , and yet so few attain ; and it is on account of the fewness of its adepts , that the…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 110

The Argonauts

…se breath Destroys all life CHORUS. Thou dealest in such arts? THIRD WOMAN. Ay! for this hate’s sake. Are we sisters all Herein? CHORUS. True sisters! THIRD WOMAN. The familiar soul Sucks at her mouth—She sickens not nor dies; More poisonous than he. FIRST WOMAN. Ah! beast of hell! What may avail us? SECOND WOMAN. Jason is quite lost In her black sorceries.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 451

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Blavatsky had taken the sword to a Gordian knot. By saying that Compassion is no attribute she is merely asserting what is evidently not true, and she therefore de- fines it in a peculiar way, and I am afraid that she does so in a somewhat misleading manner. It would be improper here to disclose what is presumably the true meaning of this verse. One can only commend it to the earnest considera- 129

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1905 · PDF PAGE 265

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…g will, Even in that horror, to the Highest ; at last Your choice of me—the middle course of them, Pure human love? And, if your song be true, As I, who heard the voice, the earnestness, Saw the deep eyes, and truth aflame in them, Know—then the choice be Mary’s and not mine } I love you better, were that possible ; Will make you a true wife, and lead your hand, Or be led by you, in the pleasant path. For me, I enter not—Blesséd be God !— In those dark problems that disturb your soul. Mine is the simple nature. Look at me! TANNHAUSER, O Lady pu…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 101

Tannhäuser

…ave. Welcome all minstrels ! Let us celebrate In the old fashion, dear to Germany, My child's betrothal to this noble youth. Great lord, true knight, and honest gentleman, So long who journeyed on the holy quest Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace. In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet's tourney. Wolfram. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. Landgrave. Ha ! He is not here ! 99

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