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1929 · PDF PAGE 217

Moonchild

…li proved that he could no longer rely on Italy. And when Russia resorted to so shameless an assassination as that of Sarajevo — my dear good man! England has been a pirate as she always was. From Hengist and Horsa, and the Vikings, she first learnt the trick. William the Conqueror was a pirate; so was Francis Drake. Look at Morgan, whom we knighted, and all the other buccaneers! Look at our system of privateering! Ever hear of the 'Alabama'? We learnt the secret of sea-power; we can cut the alimentary canal of any nation in Europe — bar Switze…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 42

Mortadello

…u have the nerve ? Then try these folk, and see. MARCO. My lord, I will deserve the purse you promised me. [MARCO advances to the crowd. Good-day, good friends ! God bless all here ! Have heard the news ? ’Twill set the city by the ears. You can’t refuse Assent : I saw myself the Doge’s doctor’s barge Outside the gates. GIUSEPPE. Whose gates ? MARCO. [Pointing off R., to canal.] Why there she goes, as large As life, and twice as natural !

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1922 · PDF PAGE 159

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ot true. I do love him with all my heart and soul; and yet, somehow, I can’t. I want to be able to love until I get back. Oh, what’s the good of talking about it! I know I love him, and yet I know I can’t love any one. , I took a whole lot of cocaine. It dulled what I felt. I was able to fancy I loved him. We went to the show. It was awfully stupid. I was thinking all the time how I wanted to love, and how I wanted dope, and how I wanted to stop dope so that. the dope might do me some good. I couldn’t really feel. It was a dull, blind sense of …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 36

Clouds Without Water

…d Of Tears that he may mingle yours and mine, Already more than our fair share of pleasure. Water therewith Life’s unresponsive sod, The good god Dionysus ivy-clad And raise therefrom some sickly growth of vine Hath poured us out a draught of brimming measure. Whose grape shall yield a bitter draught of woe Let us then rather give the lustiest praise Fit for the assuaging of a deadlier thirst Our throats can sound than pray for further favour; Than Attis knew or Abelard: even so Even though our sorrow, eating up our days, I suffer; than some lo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 27

Mortadello

…ies. MORTADELLO. Then, before God, I swear it, she shall drink of steel ! I go now to give order. Be at peace. MAGDALENA. I will. And so good night. My hand is yours to bend and kiss. Let its blood pulse what breast allures to burning bliss. I would—I would—I know not what I would. But you Divine it. MORTADELLO. Ah ! MAGDALENA. The night is hot, no wind beats through The hushed canals. So is my heart—for you, my lord, My excellent lord ! and so—to part. MORTADELLO. Draw out my sword ! [She does so. So, sweet, while faintest fear can threat my t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 58

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX A goodish: lengthy and reverie-like. Yet my heart is well. I spake it audibly. April 5. A vocalized: goodish. (Knocked sideways by 18 malaria; a sharp attack of shivering.) 6. At Shanghai. A very ethereal. 7. Bowled clean over by fever; spent pm. in bed drunk with Dover’s Powder. Quite sufficiently ill to excuse slackness: e. g. I could not even read a light novel. 8. Feeble but convalescent. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, sa…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 58

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX A goodish: lengthy and reverie-like. Yet my heart is well. I spake it audibly. April 5. A vocalized: goodish. (Knocked sideways by 18 malaria; a sharp attack of shivering.) 6. At Shanghai. A very ethereal. 7. Bowled clean over by fever; spent pm. in bed drunk with Dover’s Powder. Quite sufficiently ill to excuse slackness: e. g. I could not even read a light novel. 8. Feeble but convalescent. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, sa…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 27

Gargoyles

…ase, O my sons, to desire! Change is the whole that we see By the light of a chaos on fire. Cease to desire—you are free!” _ Your words, good Gotama, are brave and true; Easy to say, but difficult to do! 19

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1907 · PDF PAGE 18

Konx Om Pax

…stars Than to empty-headed Athenians. It's only too easy to form a cult, To cry a crusade with " Deus Vult"— But you won't get much of a good result From empty-headed Athenians. The people of London much resemble Those empty-headed Athenians. I could very easily make them tremble, Those empty-headed Athenians. A pinch of Bible, a gallon of gas, And I, or any otherguess ass, Could bring to our mystical moonlight mass Those empty-headed Athenians. In fine, I have precious little use For empty-headed Athenians. The birds I have snared shall all go …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…t love God, and not fear Czsar; as it is written in the Holy Book, “ He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.” You wish to be good? Then be just. You wish to be just? Then be free. The vices which make man like the brute are the first enemies of his liberty. Consider the drunkard, and tell me if this unclean brute can be called free ! The miser curses the life of his father, and, like the crow, hungers for corpses. The goal of the ambitious man is—ruins; it is the delirium of envy! The debauchee spits upon the breast of his mother, a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…t love God, and not fear Czsar; as it is written in the Holy Book, “ He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.” You wish to be good? Then be just. You wish to be just? Then be free. The vices which make man like the brute are the first enemies of his liberty. Consider the drunkard, and tell me if this unclean brute can be called free ! The miser curses the life of his father, and, like the crow, hungers for corpses. The goal of the ambitious man is—ruins; it is the delirium of envy! The debauchee spits upon the breast of his mother, a…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 59

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…f the most intense magical work imaginable—a minute of it would represent the equivalent of about twelve hours of Asana.) April 10, A no good (rather tired, especially at night). ,, I I. A very bad indeed: worried. ,, 12. A better, but sleepy. Not by any means good, but more impersonal. ,, 13. A sleepy: in fact dropped off. (He had been doing a magic for a Soror of the Great Order, and exhausted himself.) ,, I4. (Easter Eve). An. mediocre. The Op. of Abramelin being due to commence on Easter Sunday, methinks it would be well to make a certain p…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 59

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…f the most intense magical work imaginable—a minute of it would represent the equivalent of about twelve hours of Asana.) April 10, A no good (rather tired, especially at night). ,, I I. A very bad indeed: worried. ,, 12. A better, but sleepy. Not by any means good, but more impersonal. ,, 13. A sleepy: in fact dropped off. (He had been doing a magic for a Soror of the Great Order, and exhausted himself.) ,, I4. (Easter Eve). An. mediocre. The Op. of Abramelin being due to commence on Easter Sunday, methinks it would be well to make a certain p…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 178

Little Poems in Prose

…e was perhaps somewhere—who knows af- ter all?—to recompense so much courage, so much patience, so much toil, a special Paradise for the good dogs, the poor dogs, the sorry and unfriendly dogs. Does not Swedenborg say that there is one for Turks and another for Dutchmen? The shepherds of Virgil and Theocritus ex- pected as the prize of their successive songs a good cheese, a flute by the best maker, or a she-goat with swollen dugs. The poet who sang of the poor dogs received as his reward a fine waistcoat, of a colour at once rich and faded,

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1907 · PDF PAGE 164

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ower." —7he Wisdom of the Ancients. ORPHEUS, FINDING EURYDICE Stir once, move once, rise once, Eurydice ! DEAD, STUNG BY A SERPENT, : Be good to me! LAMENTS OVER HER. ' Rise once.—O sleep not! Listen ! Is not all | Nature my thrall ? Come back, come back, come back, Eury- |“Once only: be not dead, Eurydice! dice! ! Be good to me! Come back to me! Y love you—be not dead !—rise up and say Lie not so quiet, draw some faint sharp_ ‘“T feigned, I lay breath ! - Thus so you kissed me ”—O Eurydice, It is not death : Be good to me! It cannot, must not …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 251

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Ballads’; it contains a riot of words without much thought at the back of them. We seem, for example, to have heard this sort of thing a good many times before : ‘The garland I made in my sorrow Was woven of infinite peace; The joy that was white on the morrow Made music of viols at ease. The thoughts of the Highest would borrow The roar of the seas.’ And yet, despite a good deal of bombast about ‘lust being one with love,’ and the like, Mr. Crowley has many poetical qualities, and a good deal of promise. His muse is windy, and boyish in over-e…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 39

Clouds Without Water

…ng i’ the dust this consecrated brow, And answer Thee in broken murmur thus, That Iam altogether base and vile, That Thou art altogether good and great, That Thou hast given the guerdon grace for guile Even while I lifted up myself to Fate And cursed Thee. And from me who scorned to pray Thou hast rolled the sad sepulchral stone away. III On this wise : that by uttermost good Fortune I met you walking out in London city, Even when from Heaven I did not dareimportune Hardly to pass your house! The Gods took pity They whirled us in a chariot of f…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 204

The Winged Beetle

…ight help me. God knows I have tried every one else. Now—— [TODD takes him by the shoulder and whispers in his ear. Why, really, that is good of you—damned good of you ! Why, damme, sir ! you’re a public benefactor. Come, let us arrange the preliminaries—— [They go out, OSSORY clinging tightly to TODD’S arm. Enter MRS. OSSORY and CARR, dressed for walking. MRS. OSSORY. She cut me ! You saw it ! She cut me absolutely dead ! CARR. Possibly she didn’t see you. [As MRS. OSSORY is not looking, he employs a gesture which lessens the likelihood of thi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 45

John St. John

… I long since possessed.) I. It may perhaps mean severe asceticism. In case I should be going out on that path I will try and get a real good dinner to fortify myself. 2. The paths leading to Geburah are from Hod, that of the Hanged Man, andfrom Tiphereth, that of Justice, both equilibrated aspects of Severity, the one implying Self—Sacrifice, the other involuntary suffering. One is Free- will, the other Karma; and that in a wider sense than that of Suffering. The Ritual DCLXXI will still be applicable: indeed, it may be considered sufficient; b…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 53

Collected Works (Vol. III)

WHY JESUS WEPT 47 the Baptist minister at Brixton (Zr. Chester- ton executes the cake-walk), who they say is a good man, and very much blessed of the dear Lord, my dear, in his ministrations, though of course he has not been brought out of sect as yet.! 2ND AGED SISTER (sotto voce). Dear! Dear! Very sad! Perhaps the dear Lord will open his eyes. [The praying brother sits doum sud- denly, satisfied with himself. A HoRNY-HANDED BROTHER (who rises grunting, as if the action were painful or unfamiliar). Matthew Twenty-fourth and Forty-third and he …

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