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1913 · PDF PAGE 40

The Book of Lies

…ne mani- fested that returns into the Naught un- manifest. The All-Mighty, the All-Ruler, the All- Knower, the All-Father, adored by all men and by me abhorred, be thou accursed, be thou abolished, be thou annihilated, Amen!

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1906 · PDF PAGE 100

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…adict. JASON. He who speaks much and bitterly at last Lays himself open to retort. I think I never heard such contradictions fly As when men talk of gods—that never were ! ARGUS. Thou wouldst do better to leave men alone. The wisest talk is folly when work waits. Look ! how these sturdy villains gape around, Fling down their task, and hang upon the words That flow like nectar from your majesty. 1 The gibe in these twenty lines is against Rudyard Kipling’s silly vitalisation of machinery, and his ignorance even of the correct terms, CASTOR. In t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… forward, sculduddery wench! The flytin’, sweerin’ harlot 0’ Babylon ! EEL. An’ then she picks up her fiddle that she’s lured thousands 0’ men to their doom wi’, and she plays, ”We are na fou, we're no that fou.” ALL. Shame on her! GRAB, Hark! wha’s that? [Τhe inning of a m'a/in is heard, !# EEL. There she is! There‘s the Hear 0’ Babylon] [LILITH, offlay: a lively thangn elassz‘mlpz'ete of music. ΕΕι. Το your tents, O Israel! Το your hames, men 0‘ Houghmagandie! On to the marrow-bones o' your knees, and pray that the curse may be removed from us …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 265

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… forward, sculduddery wench! The flytin’, sweerin’ harlot 0’ Babylon ! EEL. An’ then she picks up her fiddle that she’s lured thousands 0’ men to their doom wi’, and she plays, ”We are na fou, we're no that fou.” ALL. Shame on her! GRAB, Hark! wha’s that? [Τhe inning of a m'a/in is heard, !# EEL. There she is! There‘s the Hear 0’ Babylon] [LILITH, offlay: a lively thangn elassz‘mlpz'ete of music. ΕΕι. Το your tents, O Israel! Το your hames, men 0‘ Houghmagandie! On to the marrow-bones o' your knees, and pray that the curse may be removed from us …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 184

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…My shoulder is a portion of my trunk. I hope no prostitute, however drunk, Would end the shocking sequence. Yet we find, Even in England, men of evil mind, Pornographers who love obscene details, Shameless enough to mention finger-nails.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 184

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…My shoulder is a portion of my trunk. I hope no prostitute, however drunk, Would end the shocking sequence. Yet we find, Even in England, men of evil mind, Pornographers who love obscene details, Shameless enough to mention finger-nails.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 317

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ve revolted against the mother of Abel; they have enslaved their mother. The beauty of woman has become a prey for the brutality of such men as cannot love. Thus woman closed her heart as if it were a secret sanctuary, and said to men unworthy of her: “I am virgin, c2 19

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1913 · PDF PAGE 317

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ve revolted against the mother of Abel; they have enslaved their mother. The beauty of woman has become a prey for the brutality of such men as cannot love. Thus woman closed her heart as if it were a secret sanctuary, and said to men unworthy of her: “I am virgin, c2 19

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1910 · PDF PAGE 436

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… dead, His brother smitten through the head, Himself sore wounded in the thigh, Weepeth upon the deed of dread, Alone among his murdered men, The champion fool, as fools were then, Utterly broken, like to die, Sir Palamede the Saracen.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 436

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… dead, His brother smitten through the head, Himself sore wounded in the thigh, Weepeth upon the deed of dread, Alone among his murdered men, The champion fool, as fools were then, Utterly broken, like to die, Sir Palamede the Saracen.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e earth which drank it. Why? In order that all may partake of the bread of intelligence, and of the wine of love. O sign of the union of men! O Round Table of universal chivalry! O banquet of fraternity and equality! When will you be better understood? Martyrs of humanity, all ye who have given your life in order that all should have the bread which nourishes and the wine which fortifies, do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: “This is our flesh and our blood” ? And you, men of the whole world, you whom …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e earth which drank it. Why? In order that all may partake of the bread of intelligence, and of the wine of love. O sign of the union of men! O Round Table of universal chivalry! O banquet of fraternity and equality! When will you be better understood? Martyrs of humanity, all ye who have given your life in order that all should have the bread which nourishes and the wine which fortifies, do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: “This is our flesh and our blood” ? And you, men of the whole world, you whom …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 41

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…eir pleasure in cruelty. There is no principle, even a false one, to give cohérence to the clamour of ethical propositions. Yet the very men that hâve smashed Moloch, and strewn the earth with shapeless rubble, grow pale when they so much as whisper among themelves, “While Moloch ruled ail men were bound by the one law, and by the oracles of them that, knowing the fraud, feared not, but were his priests and wardens of his mystery. What now ? How can any of us, though wise and strong as never was known, prevail on men to act in concert, now that…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 352

Magick Without Tears

.C. AND THE MASTERS 319 undamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of hose bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to lue Funk. Also, ascetiCism is all right when it is the proper means of ttaining some special end. It is when it produces eructations f spiritual pride, and satisfied vanity, that it is poisonous . e Greek word means an athlete; and the training of an thlete is not mortification of the body. Nor is there any rule hich covers all circumstances. When men go "stale" a few ays before the race, they are "ta…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 93

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…. LAYLAH. On the night of his begetting there was Christian blood on Sidi Omar’s hands. FATMA. He is as fair as a Christian. LAYLAH. The men of Sidi Omar‘s tribe are white men, thou wizened old black witch. FATMA. Ah! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Happy the prince whose wife is as faithful as thou. Thou canst not open thy mouth without uttering his name. LAYLAH. Do not take it in thine, mother of lies! FATMA. My mouth has been shut these twenty years. LAYLAH. What? Any time these twenty years thou hast 85

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1911 · PDF PAGE 93

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…. LAYLAH. On the night of his begetting there was Christian blood on Sidi Omar’s hands. FATMA. He is as fair as a Christian. LAYLAH. The men of Sidi Omar‘s tribe are white men, thou wizened old black witch. FATMA. Ah! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Happy the prince whose wife is as faithful as thou. Thou canst not open thy mouth without uttering his name. LAYLAH. Do not take it in thine, mother of lies! FATMA. My mouth has been shut these twenty years. LAYLAH. What? Any time these twenty years thou hast 85

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1913 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like Noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX Nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like Noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants o…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 9

Carmen Saeculare

…ten : from the face Of earth shall fail the misbegotten, root and race ; And the fair country unto them again I give, Whom in long exile men contemn : for they shall live.” Yea, they shall live ! The Celtic race ! Amen ! And I Give Praise, and close mine eyes, cover my face, and laugh— and die. 7

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1929 · PDF PAGE 96

Moonchild

…d her to continue in full control of the house, only modifying its rules so far as might be necessary for the success of a certain experiment in magick which he had come to carry out. Sister Clara acquiesced with the [137] slightest of nods; then she raised her voice, and summoned the others to the evening adoration of the Sun. Cyril performed this as leader; the duty done, he was free to meet his new brothers and sisters. Sister Clara was assisted by two young women, both of the slender willowy type — rather babyish even, one might say, with t…

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