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1907 · PDF PAGE 109

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…el, as He felt his life thence pass. Also he smote his spine; the base Of life burnt up apace. Then rose the many-coloured sage ; He was right sad with age. With him arose the ruddy and fair ; He was right debonair, They twain to upper air and lower Advanced the eyes of power. Ay! but above the dead man’s head A lotus-flower was spread. Thence dripped the Amrita, whereby Life learneth not to die. The seventh in silence tended it Against the horror of the pit. Ill. 103 1 A meaning may be found for this poem by any really profound student of the …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 191

Moonchild

… the most sacred rites, their quite casual employment as the mere prelude to a crime which is tantamount to murder in the opinion of all right-minded men, must seem even to the Freethinker or the Pagan as an abomination not to be forgiven. No pains had been spared by Douglas to make all secure. Balloch and Cremers had sponsored both "infants," and Douglas himself, as having most right, gave his wife in marriage to the Turk. A brutally realistic touch was needed to consummate the sacrilege; it was not neglected. Much of the pleasure taken by Dou…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 56

The Law is for All

… When I knew him he had 18 children living, and two more were born during that period. It was evidently his view that he had an absolute Right to impregnate his wife, and that it was her business whether she lived or died. During all these years she was no sooner well enough to leave her bed than she was again “in the family way.” Thus in 25 years, she was never permitted so much as a month’s good health. This Mr. W. was a most kindly and genial man, devoted to her and his family, genuinely pious and tender­ hearted. But it never occurred to hi…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 37

Moonchild

…ght as much," said Cyril. "I didn't," said Iff frankly, "and it worries me. I'm not guessing, like you are — and it's no credit to guess right, my young friend, but a deceit of the devil, like winning at roulette. I'm deducing from what I know. Therefore, the fact that I'm wrong proves that there is something I don't know — and it worries me. But, clearly, we must get into a properly protected area without a moment wasted. That is, you must. I'll watch at the front. There must be somebody big behind that clumsy fool Akbar Pasha." "Yes; I've bee…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 127

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e symbol or image of {fhe god) be in the East of the Temple. . it. Let incense burn before { her. Let there be two other thrones: on her right that of Nuit, on her left that of Hadit; the child is Ra Hoor Khuit. Nuit is dressed in blue, Hadit in red; the child is . . . (ZS. torn here. The lamp shall be burning above R.H.K., who crouches in the centre, in the prescribed posture. If they be assistants, they shall all wear the robes of their grade; they shall be seated in balanced disposition about the temple; and they shall enter only after the o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 127

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e symbol or image of {fhe god) be in the East of the Temple. . it. Let incense burn before { her. Let there be two other thrones: on her right that of Nuit, on her left that of Hadit; the child is Ra Hoor Khuit. Nuit is dressed in blue, Hadit in red; the child is . . . (ZS. torn here. The lamp shall be burning above R.H.K., who crouches in the centre, in the prescribed posture. If they be assistants, they shall all wear the robes of their grade; they shall be seated in balanced disposition about the temple; and they shall enter only after the o…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 238

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…Bids them keep memory of His iron rod. The vale is black with priests. They fight, Wild beasts, for food, The orphan’s gold, the widow's right, The virgin’s snood. All in their maws are crammed within the night That hides their chosen wood, Where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise Of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys. The valley steams with slaughter. Here Shall the pure snow The bloody reek of murder rear To crush the foe? Like a mad giant shall the rocks spring clear And smite the fiends below ?

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1929 · PDF PAGE 70

Moonchild

…the apex of the vault, made its thorny bloom of the very fire and colour of day. Simon Iff stood behind the altar; Cyril Grey was on her right hand, Sister Cybele on her left. They joined their hands about her. "I will now complete the formality of your reception," said the old man. "Say after me: 'I (your name).'" "I, Lisa la Giuffria —" "Solemnly promise to devote myself" She repeated the phrase. To the discovery of my true purpose in this life." She echoed in a lower tone. All three concluded "So mote it be." "I receive you into this Order,"…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 139

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…rnt how to act up to it. We can analyse the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat méat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine our- selves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose. It is ceremonially désirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritual, and accordingly the first operation in any actual ceremony is bathing and robing, with app…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 172

The Law is for All

… absolute, original, inde­ pendent, free, self-justified, exactly as a man is. We dare not thwart Her Going, Goddess she! We arrogate no right upon Her will; we claim not to deflect Her development, to dispose of Her desires, or to determine Her destiny. She is Her own sole arbiter; we ask no more than to supply our strength to Her, whose natural weakness else were prey to the world’s pres­ sure. Nay more, it were too zealous even to guard Her in Her Going; for She were best by Her own self-reliance to win Her own way forth! We do not want Her …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 66

In Residence

…the young man said, “ And your waistcoat is awfully tight, And yet you persistently plough up Sty Head, Do you think, at your age, it is right?” “In the days of my youth,” Father William replied, “T fostered each Sybarite taste ; But now I strive hard my tum-tum to retard, By wasting to limit my waist!” “ You are old, Father William,” the young man cried, “ Relinquish a passion so dread ! Lay ice axe and rope and dementia aside !— Remember the years o’er your head!” “In the days of one’s youth,” Father William replied, “A passion more deadly ap…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…rus sped the flame, Harpocrates Receive the flame, and set the soul at ease. I who was One am One, all light Balanced within me, ordered right, As it was ever to the initiate’s ken, Is now, and shall be evermore. Amen. THE ASCENT UNTO DAATH Come unto Me, ye, the Divine Lords of the Forces of In- telligence: Whose Abode is in the Place of the Gathering of the Waters: Come unto Me, ye in whom the Secrets of Truth have their Abiding. Come unto Me, O Tzaphqial, Aralim, Qashial, by the white Threefold Star, and in the Name of IHVH ELOHIM. 330

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1909 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…rus sped the flame, Harpocrates Receive the flame, and set the soul at ease. I who was One am One, all light Balanced within me, ordered right, As it was ever to the initiate’s ken, Is now, and shall be evermore. Amen. THE ASCENT UNTO DAATH Come unto Me, ye, the Divine Lords of the Forces of In- telligence: Whose Abode is in the Place of the Gathering of the Waters: Come unto Me, ye in whom the Secrets of Truth have their Abiding. Come unto Me, O Tzaphqial, Aralim, Qashial, by the white Threefold Star, and in the Name of IHVH ELOHIM. 330

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1898 · PDF PAGE 65

White Stains

…ust and abundant might, Filled with the phantom desire to free Body and soul from the sound and sight Of a world and a God that doth not right.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 48

The Goetia

… (Colours.—The space between the outer and inner circles, where the serpent is coiled, with the Hebrew names written along his body, is bright deep yellow. The square in the centre of the circle, where the word “ Master ” is written, is filled in with red. All names and letters are in black. In the Hexagrams the outer triangles where the letters a, D, 0, N, A, J, appear are filled in with bright yellow, the centres, where the T-shaped crosses are, blue or green. In the Pentagrams outside the circle, the outer triangles where “Te, tra, gram, ma,…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 155

Oracles

… the ill race from faithless graves Arise again to make us slaves. Arise, O God, and stand, and smite For Ireland’s wrong, for Ireland’s right ! Our Lady, stay the pitying tear ! There is no room for pity here ! What pity knew the Saxon e’er ? Arise, O God, and slay nor spare, Until full vengeance rightly wrought Bring all their house of wrong to nought ! Scorn, the catastrophe of crime, These be their monuments through time ! And Ireland, green once more and fresh, Draw life from their dissolving flesh ! By Saxon carcases renewed, Spring up, O…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 26

Liber Aleph

…ion be the Resultant. Seek therefore this Will, and conjoin with it thy conscious Self; for this is that which is written: “Thou hast no right but to do thy Will. Do that, and no other shall say nay.” Thou seest, o my Son, that all conscious Opposition to thy Will, whether in Ignorance, or by Obstinacy, or through Fear of others, may in the end endanger even thy true Self, and bring thy Star into Disaster. And this is the true Key to Dreams; see that thou be diligent in its Use, and unlock therewith the secret Chambers of thine Heart. t

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1909 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…he light Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe Of glory; of how One most white Withdrew that Whole, and hid it in the lobe Of his right Ear, So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear. XI Yea! and the end revealed a word, a spell, An incantation, a device Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must mak…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 106

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…he light Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe Of glory; of how One most white Withdrew that Whole, and hid it in the lobe Of his right Ear, So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear. XI Yea! and the end revealed a word, a spell, An incantation, a device Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must mak…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 141

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…nclusion, it is usually well to pause for a few moments, and to make sure once more that every thing necessary to the ceremony is in its right place. The Magician may then proceed to the final consécration of the furniture of the Temple.1 i. That is, of the spécial arrangement of that furniture. Each object should hâve been separately consecrated beforehand. The ritual here in question should summarize the situation, and devote the particular arrange¬ ment to its purpose by invoking the appropriate forces. Let it be well remembered that each ob…

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