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1903 · PDF PAGE 12

Alice: An Adultery

…hrill voice rose in a great curse. The hoarse anger of drunken harlotry snarled back. “ Not a drop more,” shouted my friend, adding many things*. It was time for my return. “ I will let them know,” I whispered. “ Good- bye.” “ ‘ There is not one thing with another ; But Evil saith to Good : ‘ My brother—’ ” he went on unheeding. I left him to his peace. My re-appearance restored harmony. The * The substance of his remarks, and subsequent adven- tures are detailed in my “ Three Screams at Mid- night.”—ED.

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1996 · PDF PAGE 102

The Law is for All

…eternal. Such love must hâve no relation with phenomena whose condition is time. Similarly, one’s “immortal soul” is a different kind of thing alto­ gether from one’s mortal vesture. This Soul is a particular Star, with its own peculiar qualities, of course; but these qualities are all “eternal,” and part of the nature of the Soul. This Soul being a monistic consciousness, it is unable to appreciate itself and its qualities, as explained in a previous entry; so it realizes itself by the device of duality, with the limitations of time, space and…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 51

White Stains

BALLADE DE LA JOLIE MARION 45 BALLADE DE LA JOLIE MARION It is a sweet thing to be loved, Although my sighs in absence wake, Although my saddening heart is moved, I smile and bear for love’s dear sake. My songs their wonted music make, Joyous and careless, songs of youth, Because the sacred lips of both Are met to kiss the last good-bye, Because sweet glances weep for ruth That we must part, and love must die. Remembrance of love’s long delights Is to remember sighs and tears, Yet I will think upon the nights I whispered into passionate ears Th…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 24

The Argonauts

…ine eyes kindled at the golden thought? JASON. * Mine eyes see farther than the Fleece of Gold. PELIAS. What heroes can attain so fair a thing? JASON. I have some friends who would esteem this quest

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1905 · PDF PAGE 133

Orpheus

…e-kissed And kissed at close of day From ruby unto amethyst, Within the veil of grey. And there within the circled light I saw a dancing thing, Most like the tender-leavéd night Of moonrise seen in spring, A shadow luminous and white Like a ghost beckoning. And then dim visions came to me, Faint memories of fear: As when the Argo put on sea Such stories we did hear, 134

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1910 · PDF PAGE 225

The Winged Beetle

…l the world ! Hast thou no shame ? and hast thou no alarm Whose mirror shows thee thy decaying charm ? Hath not the vastness of the evil thing Thou think’st thee wise of, sent thee shuddering When Nature—grand, persistent, tenebrous— Uses thee, woman, thee, princess of pus, Vile animal !—to slay a genius ? O golden mire ! fame ignominious !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

The Book of Lies

… IT moves from motion into rest, and rests from rest into motion. These IT does alway, for time is not. So that IT does neither of these things. IT does THAT one thing which we must express by two things neither of which possesses any rational meaning. Yet ITS doing, which is not-doing, is simpleand yet complex, is neither free nor necessary. For all these ideas express Relation; and IT, comprehending all Relation in ITS sim- plicity, is out of all Relation even with ITSELF. All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 71

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Au Pays de Cocaine 57 guessed we might get tired of coco, ‘grateful and com- forting’ as it is. So the dear old thing sent us some heroin. And there are still some people who tell us that life is not worth living!” “Ever try it?’’ 1 asked, and delayed the answer with a kiss. | When the worst was over, she told me that she had only taken it once, and then, in a very minute dose, which had had no effect on her as far as she knew. “That’s all right,” I said, from the height of my superior knowledge. “It’s all a question of estimating the physiolog…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 18

The Heart of the Master

…he conditions of Time and Space, and the idea of evil comes only from perceiving the oppositions which are transcended by Truth. So each thing that is hath its root in Necessity; were the least of these lost, the whole Work should be marred. LIFE wells in the Heart of the Master; Death is but the Systole of that marvelous pulse. Faint are the phantoms of Illusion; these, seized on by that vivid stream, thrill and throb with the glow of his reality; he leaves no possible form inane or inert; in him do all partake the sacrament of birth to Truth.…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 270

Magick Without Tears

…ce of meditation and playing golf. To do so is to create an internal conflict. "Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing & any other thing, for thereby there cometh hurt." He who knows the Tao knows it to be the source of all things soever; the most exalted spiritual ecstasy and the most trivial internal impression are from our point of view equally illusions, worthless masks, which hide, with grotesque painted pasteboard false and lifeless, the living face of truth. Yet, from another point of view, they are equally expres…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 86

The Star and the Garter

Some Poynter, lift the thing aloft, Announce a Morice, see you fling ‘Your soul on knees in fervid praise :-— If so—O4, Lilith! runs the phrase, Now, is no barb upon the dart? Now, little lady, What ofart? v ‘Moreover (just a word) this chance T fling you over space—for luck! ‘This Scotland yet may catch your France, ‘My crow grow germane to your cluck. See art: see truth as I who see, (Am wellnigh fallen in the fight!) ‘Then the last lie, duality, ‘May break before the victor sight. ‘Then, and then only, That, Sweet hours Of trivial passion de…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

PREFACE AN any good thing come out of Palestine? is the broader anti-Semitic retort to the sneer cast by the Jews themselves against the harmless and natural Nazarene; one more example 01 the poetic justice 01 History. And no doubt such opponents 01 the modern Jew will acclaim this volume as an admirable disproof of that thesis which it purports to uphold, The dissimilarities, amounting in some cases to sheer contradiction, which mark many numbers, will appear proof positive that there is nothing in the numerical Qabalah, especially as we may p…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 303

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

PREFACE AN any good thing come out of Palestine? is the broader anti-Semitic retort to the sneer cast by the Jews themselves against the harmless and natural Nazarene; one more example 01 the poetic justice 01 History. And no doubt such opponents 01 the modern Jew will acclaim this volume as an admirable disproof of that thesis which it purports to uphold, The dissimilarities, amounting in some cases to sheer contradiction, which mark many numbers, will appear proof positive that there is nothing in the numerical Qabalah, especially as we may p…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 107

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ause I was a tolerably rich man to start with anyhow, and besides, the five thousand I was putting into Feccles’ business would mean something like a quarter of a million at least, on the most conservative calculations, as I had seen with my own eyes. And that was all clear profit, so there was no reason in the world why one shouldn’t spend it in a sensible way. Mr. Wolfe himself had emphasised the difficulty of getting satisfactory investments in these times. He told me how many people were putting their money into diamonds and furs which alwa…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 38

Songs of the Spirit

… if I tasted, Felt its fierce savour pulse, and burn, and beat, Yet in my veins its sleepy fire might bring Strange dreams of some sweet thing. Half a regret and half a shuddering terror, The past lies desolate and yet is here, 28

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1922 · PDF PAGE 295

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ieve it’s written in golden letters round the chancel in Westminster Abbey. If it isn’t, it ought to be. “Now don’t worry. And above all things, don’t get a fit of repentance and take too little to-day and to- ' morrow. If you do, you'll have another relapse. I know it sounds as though I were contradicting myself. Make the most of it, I don’t care. I’m going to do it again in the following elegant manner. “T want you to get the whole subject of heroin out of your mind; and that is the reason why [ insist so strongly on your keeping a record of …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 286

Magick Without Tears

…ns of becoming aware, as we are in fact aware, of that distinction. Somewhat of this is perhaps intended in The Book of the Law: "Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!" (AL,I: 22-23) Whoso availeth (i.e., can put to practical service) is of "presidential timber," so to speak, because he is able to understand the Being behind the Function, and is accordingly not liable to be deceived by the facet that …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 89

White Stains

…ing, The bitter bastard of a bloody kiss, The Parthian arrow poisoned from Love’s sling ! Lo, sweet Lord Christ, thou knowest how sore a thing Is a cock crooked and consumed of fire Shooting out venomous sap that hath a sting ! This is the end of every man’s desire. The burden of bought boys. Behold, dear Lord, How plump their buttocks be, lift up Thine eyes, See how their cocks stand at an amorous word, How their lips suck out life until love dies, See, Lord, Thou knowest, how wearily one lies Cursing the lusts that fail, the deeds that tire ;…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 22

Household Gods

Aurcta. Fool! Now all my pain Must be gone through again. Iris sure your chastity's unstained by crime; ‘You do the wrong thing just at the right time! Crassus. Why do you taunt me? All the wood is spring's, And love is hovering o'er us with his wings. Aurcia. Sub pennis, penis! Crassus. Hush! you break the spell. Aticta. Oh! you great fools of men, I know you well. But nothing is so detrimental To love as to be sentimental. I will yet make you wise. Know that I have the magic to disguise Myself in many ways. Do you feel this? (Lie still, this …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 61

Konx Om Pax

… allow that it is but a talking down to the level of his bearer, we must adorineg recognize the One-pointedness of the command. Let everything die, and stay dead. Let there be one thing, which is N 0 thing. Enough. Such is the foolish attempt of the boy O.M. to instruct the adults with whom he is thrown by the force of the Great Falsehood. Let him become as a little child! 1 Babel—correctly spelt bnn- = 36, 6 x 6. WW, Lion = 216 = 6 x 6x 6. And 3", Bear = 6. Six is Tiphereth, the symbol of the Ruach. 2 NE: 443 short by Unity of 4.44—the divine …

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