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1939 · PDF PAGE 10

Khing Kang King

MEN WIN NOT TRUTH OF TAO BECAUSE THEIR MINDS ARE WIRED. THE MIND UNCURBED, THE SELF’S PERTURBED, AND LOSES TUNE OF TIDE. LOST, THE EXTERNAL LURES ; THEY TURN TO SEEK IT : THEN ALL THINGS PERPLEX, CONFUSE, AND VEX THOSE MISERABLE MEN. DISORDERED THOUGHTS ARISE ; BODY AND MIND GROW SICK. DISGRACE AND FEAR GROW YEAR BY YEAR TO THEIR CLIMACTERIC. WILD, THEY ARE TOSSED ABOUT THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH ; THEY QUIVER, SUNK IN SEA-STRESS OF BITTERNESS, AND LOSE THE TAO FOR EVER. THE TRUE, THE ABIDING TAO ! WHO UNDERSTANDETH HATH ; WHO HATH THE TAO IS HERE …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 181

Moonchild

…the perfect prose jewels of a master cutter and polisher, lit by the rays of an imagination that is the godlike son of the Father of All Truth and Light; but if he kept them to himself, they would be the symptoms of an incurable lesion of the brain. A madman will conceal the Terrible Secret that "today is Wednesday," perhaps "because the devil told him to do so." "I am He who is Truth" was the boast of a great mystic, Mansur, and they stoned him for it, as they stone all men who speak truth; but had he said "Hush! I am God!" he would have been …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 76

The Goetia

…elling be empty until he visit us in peace, speaking the laiada: kakareji Dorebasa na-e-el od totza quaa, clonusabi Mada, El, secrets of truth; until he obey my power and hiscreation inthe powerofGod, EI, Das it quo-o-al 3a Das larasada tofijilo; peripesol, caclazo0, caosago, who is the Creator and doth dispose of all things, heaven, firmament, earth, oD faorejita oresa. and the dwelling of darkness. YE GENERALL CURSE. YCLEPT YE SPIRITS’ CHAYNE, AGAYNSTE ALL SPIRITS YT REBELLE. §lasa babalonu gabe MQ. das ge-Dorebesa, bajilenu oborela, od vinu …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…visible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe other men. They speak either truth or untruth; but if they speak truth, even then is it a falsehood.” “ All men are not necessarily obliged to kill their opponents or those who doubt them, or who are not of any use to them ; but some men are—all Men-Covers are.” I was interrupted in the profound meditation that followed this discovery by the approach of a strong party of natives. My heir-apparent, if I may be allowed to use that expressio…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…visible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe other men. They speak either truth or untruth; but if they speak truth, even then is it a falsehood.” “ All men are not necessarily obliged to kill their opponents or those who doubt them, or who are not of any use to them ; but some men are—all Men-Covers are.” I was interrupted in the profound meditation that followed this discovery by the approach of a strong party of natives. My heir-apparent, if I may be allowed to use that expressio…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 39

The Sword of Song

THE SWORD OF SONG 32 As by a lightning flash, solve doubt And turn all Nature inside out : And, if such potency of might Hath Truth, once state the truth aright, Whence came the use for all these pages Millions together—mighty sages Whom the least obstacle enrages ? Condemn the mystic if he prove Thinking less valuable than love ? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s ? How many are Hegelians ? This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develop reason.45 Af…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 188

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…tended, or expanded; and hence Zhou (¢.e., God, Ateh, the All) a extension. But by Metathesis of these six letters is obtained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and “cast into the midst thereof the Fire of the Sun "—z.e., y (6), “ the Seal of Creation ”—and we have y12,an Egg. Where we see the whole universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology : and the Formulation of the Sphere 178

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1909 · PDF PAGE 188

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…tended, or expanded; and hence Zhou (¢.e., God, Ateh, the All) a extension. But by Metathesis of these six letters is obtained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and “cast into the midst thereof the Fire of the Sun "—z.e., y (6), “ the Seal of Creation ”—and we have y12,an Egg. Where we see the whole universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology : and the Formulation of the Sphere 178

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1907 · PDF PAGE 66

Konx Om Pax

46 KONX OM PAX Bowley. Then what is the converse of Truth? Bones. My dear Pilate, it certainly is not falsehood. A crooked line is not the contradictory of a straight one. Curves and corners alike exclude the straight line and— Bowley. No proposition can possibly have two logical contradic tories. Bones. There I pass. Bowley. Keynes. Bones. I should certainly have brought it in justifiable homicide had the remark been Abel’s. Bowley. Our old friendship— Bones. All very well—you know I should never have made such a remark in real life and it’s da…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 123

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…and through love. And the Magus is Love, and bindeth together That and This in His Conjuration. 1. In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soûl. Yet therein is the Mystery of Rédemption. 2. By his Wisdom made He the Worlds: the World that is God is none other than He. 3. How then shall He end His Speech with Silence ? For He is Speech. 4. He is the First and the Last. How shall He cease to number Himself ? 5. By a Magus is this writing made known through the mind of a Magister. The one u…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 556

Magick Without Tears

…ky, Leon , 336, 337 True Will, 8, 130, 133, 153, 154, 228 , 254 , 309, 344, 361 , 391 , 393 , 415, 423, 444, 461 , 467 , 474 Trusts, 461 Truth , of All Truth, 211, 212, 213,437 Tsar, 181 Twain , Mark, 444 Tyndall , 31 Typhon, 113 U.B., 103 Udgitha , 275

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1904 · PDF PAGE 14

The Argonauts

ARGONAUTAE JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great Aeson’s heir. MEN. We learn good news, most enviable sir; That Aeson hath such grand inheritance. JASON. You have grown fat beneath an evil rule. Your period is at hand. Go, one of you, And drag the impious wretch before my sight! MEN. Aeson? Thy father? JASON. Play not with my wrath! My mood is something dangerous. MEN. Dangerous sir, 1 go indeed, to bring some danger more Hither. JASON. Poltroonery dislikes t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 4

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ntastic than those which have thrown doubt upon the historicity of the Buddha. It should be the true will of this book to make plain the truth about the man. Yet here again there is a lion in the way. The truth must be falsehood unless it be the whole truth; and the whole truth is partly inaccessible, partly unintelligible, partly incredible and partly unpublishable --- that is, in any country where truth in itself is recognized as a dangerous explosive. A further difficulty is introduced by the nature of the mind, and especially of the memory,…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 256

The Star in the West

…he Qabalah is mere Buncombe . Because a weak man cannot lift a certain weight , that is no criterion that a strong man cannot . There is truth in everything , and truth lies beyond mere utility . If we cannot understand , it is sheer falsehood to say Yes or No , the agnostic mode being the only right course open to us ; yet if it were put to us to answer such a question as Is the reverse of the moon studded with tintacks ? ” “ No !” would naturally be the correct answer , and not , “ I cannot tell you ”; for as long as the bastion of our doubt …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 25

Rodin in Rime

…drop back, Back from the contemplation. Stand and span With one great grip his cup, the Zodiac! Distil from all time’s art his wine, the truth! Drink, drink the mighty health—an age’s youth— Salut, Auguste Rodin! Here is a man. 11

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1905 · PDF PAGE 149

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… this much of a god in me— I am not shaken at your cries; my lips Are silent at your -blasphemy ; my ears Are strong to hear if there be truth at all In your mixed murmurs: I command you, speak ! AMENHATEP. The burden of the madness of the Queen Lies on the land: the Syrian is near ; And she, believing that her godhead guards Her people, sleeps. The altars are thrown down ; The people murmur. wrong, But be thou mighty to avenge ! She hath done thee S’AFI. To-day I, Horus, shall become Osiris. Yea, Strange secret dreams of some mysterious fate G…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 243

Magick Without Tears

…we jog to the Divine Pymander, who saw, and 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…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 180

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

158 - MYSTERIES: The constant ripple of your long white hands, The soul-tormenting violin that speaks Truth, and enunciates all my soul seeks, And binds my love in its desirous bands, And clutches at my heart, until there stands No fibre yet unshaken, while it wreaks In one sharp song the agony of weeks, And all my soul and body understands. The music changes, and I know that here, In these new melodies, a tongue of fire Leaps at each waving of the silver spear; And all my sorrow dons delight’s attire Because the gate of Heaven is so near, And …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS conquering error, and aiding men and women in their efforts of attaining the power of recognizing the truth‘ This order has existed already in the most remote and prehistoric times; and it has manifested its activity secretly and openly in the world under different names and in various forms; it has caused social and political revolutions, and proved to be the rock of salvation in times of danger and misfortune. It has always upheld the banner of freedom against tyranny, in whatever shape this appeared, whether as cle…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS conquering error, and aiding men and women in their efforts of attaining the power of recognizing the truth‘ This order has existed already in the most remote and prehistoric times; and it has manifested its activity secretly and openly in the world under different names and in various forms; it has caused social and political revolutions, and proved to be the rock of salvation in times of danger and misfortune. It has always upheld the banner of freedom against tyranny, in whatever shape this appeared, whether as cle…

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