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1906 · PDF PAGE 170

Collected Works (Vol. II)

Poem dissimi- lar to its pre- decessor. Will it lead some- where this time? Reflections on the weather, proper to be- ginning a con- versation in English. Autobiography of bard. Lehrjahre. Wanderjahre. ‘* Themagician of Paris." How clever I am / PENTECOST To-DAY thrice halves the lunar week Since you, indignant, heard me speak Indignant. Then I seemed to be So far from Christianity ! Now, other celebrations fit The time, another song shall flit Reponsive to another tune. September's shadow falls on June, But dull November's darkest day Is hghte…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 76

Book 4 (Part I)

… percentage of primaries and secondaries will diminish, even though the total number of breaks in a meditation remain stationary. By the time that you are meditating two or three hours-a day, and filling up most of the rest of the day with other practices de- signed to assist, when nearly every time something or other happens,and there is constantly a feeling of being “ on the brink of something pretty big,” one may expect to proceed to the next state—Dhyana.

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1898 · PDF PAGE 8

Jephthah

…Jephthah. Soldiers of Israel. Chorus of Elders of Israel. Maidens of Israel. SCENE :—An Open Place before Mizpeh. In the midst an Altar. TiME :—The duration of the play is from noon of the first day to dawn of the third.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 38

Household Gods

…r touch me there! Crassus. Why? Have I not? ALICIA. ‘You have not. Crassus. Just my band. Auta. You disobey your mistress's command? The time is near when you shall see ‘The keyhole of my comedy! Crassus. Hal Ha! Hal ar

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1913 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…oul as thou that I may be A citizen of the world! I will quench the fire Immortal in me! I will be as thou, Prostitute unto Pan and unto Time.— I will live upon the dreams thou givest me In fee for sated passion! Yea! I will be A vanquisher of genius, a dream palled With life and time, knowing naught else there be But thou, who art slime, whose fingers through the veil Transform the world to dust, the sun to fire, Life unto lust, love to polluted dreams Of rose-buds ruined by slimy worms that crawl, Seeking desire, through the crapulous bed of …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…oul as thou that I may be A citizen of the world! I will quench the fire Immortal in me! I will be as thou, Prostitute unto Pan and unto Time.— I will live upon the dreams thou givest me In fee for sated passion! Yea! I will be A vanquisher of genius, a dream palled With life and time, knowing naught else there be But thou, who art slime, whose fingers through the veil Transform the world to dust, the sun to fire, Life unto lust, love to polluted dreams Of rose-buds ruined by slimy worms that crawl, Seeking desire, through the crapulous bed of …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 101

The World’s Tragedy

…om what a lash ! 2ND NYMPH O the monstrous travail—gape In the belly of the sky ! IST NYMPH Shall the man beget the ape, All the wine of time run dry ? 2ND NYMPH Ah ! the grisly spoil of rape Dark with vilest ecstasy ! IST NYMPH Listen, how shall life escape From such death it breedeth by ? 2ND NYMPH Hangs there not a single grape From that nightshade galaxy ?

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1996 · PDF PAGE 65

The Law is for All

…he act of love can no more “trammel up the consequence”1 2 than any other act. As long as you possess the talisman, it must be used from time to time, whether you will or no. If you injure the quality, or diminish the quantity, of that quintessence, you blas­ pheme yourself, and betray the trust reposed in you when you accepted the obligation of that austerely chivalrous Order called Manhood. The powers of the talisman are irresistible like every other natural force. Every time they are used, a child must be begotten. This child must be in your…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 121

Little Poems in Prose

… strings of a little piano that was hung to his neck by a strap, seemed to be laughing at his neighbor’s complaint, while the third from time to time clashed his cymbals with an extraordinary violence. They were so pleased with themselves that they kept on playing their wild men’s music even after the crowd had dispersed; finally they gathered up the half- pence that had been thrown them, slung their luggage on their backs, and went off. I wanted to know where they lived, so I followed them a long way off, right to the edge of the forest, and o…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 18

The God-Eater

16 o’ the time !—cold, logical to a fault !—Ay ! and a crime, acrime at which the stars shake in the heaven ; men might think. Yet the stars, I will wager, are indifferent. True, the news has not reached them : true, that star I see is not a star; it was so six, ten, twenty thousand years ago— logical, I say !—and I will drink, for parenthetical is a poor substitute— [Drinks.] Why, how thou fir’st me! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. It well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 8

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… will be there to meet them. THE Chancellor of the A A considers it desirable to make a brief statement of the financial position, as the time has now arrived to make an effort to spread the knowledge to the ends of the earth. The expenses of the propaganda are roughly estimated as follows— Maintenance of Temple, and service . 4 £200 pa, Publications 4 . . 4 . 4 £200 pa Advertising, electrical expenses, etc. . . £200 pa Maintenance of an Hermitage where poor Brethren may make retirements . . £200 pa. £800 p.a. As in the past, the persons respons…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 8

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… will be there to meet them. THE Chancellor of the A A considers it desirable to make a brief statement of the financial position, as the time has now arrived to make an effort to spread the knowledge to the ends of the earth. The expenses of the propaganda are roughly estimated as follows— Maintenance of Temple, and service . 4 £200 pa, Publications 4 . . 4 . 4 £200 pa Advertising, electrical expenses, etc. . . £200 pa Maintenance of an Hermitage where poor Brethren may make retirements . . £200 pa. £800 p.a. As in the past, the persons respons…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… is over now. We are one for ever, O my secret Rose, Pale phantom of the vastest god of rest, His wandering ghost, obsessed by space and time, Set free, a torment to the rolling worlds. And Life, a foe for ever more of Time Springs still, the ghost of No Thing. Oh, sweet hour 183

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1913 · PDF PAGE 221

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… is over now. We are one for ever, O my secret Rose, Pale phantom of the vastest god of rest, His wandering ghost, obsessed by space and time, Set free, a torment to the rolling worlds. And Life, a foe for ever more of Time Springs still, the ghost of No Thing. Oh, sweet hour 183

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1929 · PDF PAGE 350

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ged makes it probable that there is some truth in it. But consider what the biographers will say? They will discover that Lloyd George's time was fully accounted for without the penal servitude, and they will simply wonder what spirit of insanity possessed me to make so ridiculous a mis-statement. They will have {565} no difficulty in understanding that he, preoccupied with affairs of state, could not be bothered to leave his work to chastise me. Another consideration arises in this connection. It is always difficult to discover who has really …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 153

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… musical instrument. My Will runs over the strings, causing complete and harmonious vibrations in my being, which seems to give forth at times an unformulated and therefore most delightful melody. March 28th. How can I write it, how put into words the least idea of that which is unformed? Yet I will try while yet a vestige of the thought remains. I have conceived within my womb a child. Or is it that I have for the first time realized that I have a womb? Yet it is so, that “blank” within, into which I have projected my thoughts, and from which …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 26

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Jephthah. Soldiers of Israel. Chorus of Elders of Israel. Maidens of Israel. SCENE :—An Open Place before Mizpeh. In the midst an Altar. TiME :—The duration of the play is from noon of the first day to dawn of the third.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 99

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…Soon his head is hiding : For love hath no abiding, But dies before the come ; So hath it been, so be it ! Get out of bed and pe ! It Is time the doctor see it, Or smell it : — care I which ? Lest all who loved and licked your Fat oyster get a stricture : For though you are a picture, You are a rotten bitch. [101]

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1954 · PDF PAGE 319

Magick Without Tears

45 "Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here pops up Zola again-this time he says J'Accuse! To-day's Hexagram for me is No. X. Li, the Tiger: and the Duke of Chau comments on the last line as follows: "The sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune." O.K.; Let's! I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torm…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 94

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… were being battered by the boots of the mob. We must have been about a dozen, not more, and we had to fight off forty. It was the first time that I had ever had to face the animal anger, unreasoned and uncontrolled, of a mass of men whose individual intelligences, such as they were, had been for the moment completely swamped by the savage instinct to stamp on anything that seemed to them sensitive. Fate familiarized me with this psychology in another form. It breaks out every time any man speaks or acts so as to awaken the frantic fear which i…

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