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1929 · PDF PAGE 163

Moonchild

…d humanity; they had not understood that in order to grow one must assimilate oneself with another being, the death of two to create the life of one, in whom the two live once more, transmuted and glorified, the corruptible having put on incorruption. To them incarnation was death; and they did not know that death was life. They were not ready for the Great Adventure. So they stood like tall lilies about the coruscating cone of Light, wondering, doubting, drooping. But at the last came one taller than all the rest, sadder of mien, and lovelier …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ated by head, hands and feet, allude to the powers of the Number five, the letter 4, the Pentagram comprehending the concealed Spirit of Life and the four Elements, the originators of all living forms. The sign Scorpio especially alludes to stagnant and fetid water ; and to that property of the moist nature which initiates putrefaction and corruption. The eternal change from Life to Death, and through Death to Life, is symbolised in the grass which springs from and is nourished by putrefying and corrupting carcasses. The top of the scythe forms…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ated by head, hands and feet, allude to the powers of the Number five, the letter 4, the Pentagram comprehending the concealed Spirit of Life and the four Elements, the originators of all living forms. The sign Scorpio especially alludes to stagnant and fetid water ; and to that property of the moist nature which initiates putrefaction and corruption. The eternal change from Life to Death, and through Death to Life, is symbolised in the grass which springs from and is nourished by putrefying and corrupting carcasses. The top of the scythe forms…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 118

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… that may not forget ‘‘ The wasted hours!” Ah, bitter interest Of our youth’s capital—forgotten zest In all the pleasures of o’erflowing life, Wine tasteless, tired the brain, and cold the breast ! Ah! but if with it is one good deed wrought, One kind word spoken, one immortal thought Born in thee, all is paid; the weary strife Grows victory. ‘‘ Love is all and Death is nought.” Such an one wrote that word! as I would meet, Lay my life’s burden at his silver feet, Have him give ear if I say ‘‘ Master.” Yea! I know no heaven, no honour, half so …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 13

The Book of Thoth

…d the Elements; The Twenty­two Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Tree of Life; The Atu of Tahuti; The Roman Numbers of the Trumps; The Tarot and Magick; The Shemhamphorasch and the Tarot; The Tarot and Ceremonial Magick; The Tarot and Animism; The Cards of the Tarot as Living Beings.

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1902 · PDF PAGE 144

Tannhäuser

Create and uncreate, living and dead, The Mystery of Pain. I am the Mother, I the silent Sea, The Earth, its travail, its fertility. Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me- To Me! TCKKVULLAND8PRAS8.rRINTEES.BDISIBirROH.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 61

The Star in the West

… a day or so will have just about had her fill: Angela . Die, then , and kiss me dead ! Sir Percy . I die ! I die ! Angela . Thy flower -life is shed Into eternity , A waveless lake .1 He sleeps , and she awake becomes somewhat weary of these “jejune platitudes,” these “ ululations of pre posterous puberty ,"these very " eructations of ginger bread ” and “flatulence of calf-sickness ." 2 Soon he is kicked flying out of her ladyship's bed , and here we must leave him for a time to meet him again and his first love Molly further on , though not u…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 113

Tannhäuser

…r. Limits He set, made space unsearchable Yet bounded, made time endless to transcend Man's thought to comprehend : Builded the Tower Of life, and girded it with walls of hell, The name of Death. This limit in all things Baffles the spirit wings, Chains the swift soul ; for even Death is bound. In its apparent amplitude I saw, I, who have slept through death, have surely found The old accursed law. And death has changed to life. This task alone Shoots to the starry throne : 1 1 1

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1905 · PDF PAGE 83

Oracles

…farthest sea, the yet untravelled land. Where thou hast trodden, I have trod ; Thy folk have been my folk, and thine abode Mine, and thy life my life, and thou, who art thy God, my God. VII Draw me with cords that are not ; witch me chanted Spells never heard nor open to the ear, Woven of silence, moulded in the haunted Houses where dead men linger year by year. I have no fear To tread thy far irremeable way Beyond the paths and palaces of day, Beyond the night, beyond the skies, Beyond eternity’s Tremendous gate ; beyond the immanent miracle. …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 172

The Law is for All

…hose of the parrot and the monkey. Her physiology and pathology are hideously disgusting, a sickening slime of uncleanliness. Her virgin life is a sick ape’s, her sexual life a drunken sow’s, her mother life all bulging filmy eyes and sagging udders. These are the facts about “innocence;” to this has man’s Chris­ tian Endeavour dragged her when he should rather have made her his comrade, frank, trusty, and gay, the tenderer self of himself, his consubstantial complement even as Earth is to the Sun. We of Thelema say that “Every man and every wo…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…, is as light is where its rays Cross, interweave, and marry with the day’s ! I am : the heart that flames from central Me, Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching.…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…, is as light is where its rays Cross, interweave, and marry with the day’s ! I am : the heart that flames from central Me, Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching.…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 23

Songs of the Spirit

…yes intent to penetrate The black circumference, and find out God— And only see myself. The walls of Space Mock me with silence. What is Life ? The stars Are silent. O ye matchless ministers That daily pass in your appointed ways To reach—we know not what ! How meaningless Your bright assemblage and your steady task Of doubtful motion. And the soul of man Grapples in death-pangs with your mystery, And fails to wrestle down the hard embrace That grips the thighs of thought. And so he dies To pass beyond ye—whither ? To find God ? All my life lon…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 34

Ambergris

…ven ! Sights of impetuous floods, Foam like the daisy at even, Folding o’er passionate gold petals that sunrise had riven ! See, like my life is the stream Now its desire is grown quiet ; Life was a passionate dream Once, when light fancy ran riot,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 130

The Scented Garden

…did not swell. Once for a night I slept with my Habib — A thousand times that member rose and fell !4 Love and not worship is the key of life ; Silence, not prayer, the universal spell. For while I knelt, how could I clasp Habib ?5 And while I prayed, how kiss ? Adorable And perfect boy, thy podex serves alike My member both to challenge and to quell ! So say the Sufis ; Allah wakes desire For Him, and grants it, Life is like a shell That rouses echoes of some distant sea To Zahid-lubbers all innavigable ;

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1919 · PDF PAGE 385

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE TWO PATHS 50. The selfish devotee lives to no purpose. The man who does not go through his appointed work in life—has lived in vain. This verse repeats this lesson yet once more. It is another way of saying: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 51. Follow the wheel of life; follow the wheel of duty to race and kin, to friend and foe, and close thy mind to pleas- ures as to pain. Exhaust the law of Karmic retribution. Gain Siddhis for thy future birth. This again states the same thing, urges the aspirant to live his life fully on…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 327

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ape like incense smoke. One feels oneself in love, ineffably in love, with all that is beauty, truth, and justice; one throbs with a new life, and one fears no more to die. For prayer is the eternal life of intelligence and love; it is the life of God upon earth. Love one another—that is the Law and the Prophets! Meditate, and understand this word. And when you have understood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more—love ! Be no more wise, be no more learned—love! That is the whole doctrine of true religion; religion means charity, and God H…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 327

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ape like incense smoke. One feels oneself in love, ineffably in love, with all that is beauty, truth, and justice; one throbs with a new life, and one fears no more to die. For prayer is the eternal life of intelligence and love; it is the life of God upon earth. Love one another—that is the Law and the Prophets! Meditate, and understand this word. And when you have understood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more—love ! Be no more wise, be no more learned—love! That is the whole doctrine of true religion; religion means charity, and God H…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 12

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ore and praise “Whose breast is broad as day’s; ‘‘ Thee, thee, the mistress of the barren sea, “‘ Deep, deadly, poisonous; “‘ Accept the life of us, ‘‘ Dwell in our midst; yea, show thy cruelty! ‘‘ Suck out the life and breath ‘‘ From breast that quickeneth. “ Such pain is death, “ Such terror, such delight—all, all is unto thee!” I too, I also, I have known thy kiss. I also drank the milk that poisons man, Sought to assume the impenetrable bliss By spells profound and draughts Canidian. One lifted me: and, lo! Thalassian, white as snow,

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1901 · PDF PAGE 125

The Soul of Osiris

…ent, in the breathless strife ; So silent, under scourge and knife ; So tranquil, in the surge of things ; I bring them from the well of Life, Love, from celestial water-springs ! From the shrill fountain-head of God I draw out water with the rod Made luminous with light of power. I seal each æon’s period, And wait the moment and the hour. Aloof, alone, unloved, I stand With love and worship in my hand. I commune with the Gods : I wait Their summons, and I fire the brand. I speak their Word : and there is Fate. I know no happiness, no pain, No …

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