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1906 · PDF PAGE 232

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ate in a man’s cheek, and darkened utterly. ‘Foaming at the mouth the wretched Jeh- jaour clutched at air and fell prone. Hil. ‘‘To what God should he appeal? own, Hanuman, was silent. Sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. So Jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out ina mighty current of hate towards his former friend. His 1 Allan MacGregor Bennett (whose motto in the ‘‘ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” was lehi Aour, z.e, ‘‘ Let there be light’’), now Ananda Metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issuedis inscrib…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 269

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…t of your ridiculous Rosicrucians. S. No more so than your Semitic Romeike. M. Semitic? ; S. Ike for Isaac, non est dubium— M. Quin— 5S. God save His Majesty !? but is this Midsummer Night, ance are we dream- ing? MM. ‘‘There are wetter dreams!’3 us discuss the Divided Middle ! 5S. Beware of the Water Jump! Mf. Hurrah for Taliganj! I can improve on, John Peel’s Map of Asia and that ere dawn. I will map you the lucubrations of the (converted) Hindu intellect upon this vital part of the Hegelian logic. Aum Shivaya vashi !4 S. Dulce ridentem Mysti…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 23

The Book of Thoth

…y which he has during these incarnations, because he knows he will come through unchanged. “Therefore you can have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc., exist. Evil is only an appearance, because (like “Good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 111

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ces, therefore do I rejoice that my sacrifice is accepted. Therefore do I again postpone the Operation of Abra-Melin the Mage, having by God's Grace formulated even in this a new link with the Higher and gained a new weapon against the Great Princes of the Evil of the World. Amen. I went to Paris, discussed the situation with Mathers and formulated the following proposal for dealing with the refractory "temple". I. The Second Order to be summoned at various times during two or three days. They to find, on being admitted one by one, a masked man…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 82

The Sword of Song

…y phed in the vast ocean of lim itless life.2 Do I make myself clear ?’ ‘Perfectly . Who would have thought it was all so simple ? ’ The God cleared his throat, and rather diffidently, even shamefacedly, went on : “ ‘But what I really wished to know was about my incarnation. How is it I have so suddenly risen from change and death to the unchangeable ?’ “ ‘Child !’ answered Gautama, ‘your facts are wrong—you can hardly expect to make 1 Feet. 2 This astonishing piece of bombastic drivel is verbatim from a note by S. L. M athers to the “Kabbalah …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 281

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…k solid, and 1 Hindu reformer (about 1000 A.D.), who raised the cult of Shiva from that of a local phallic deity to that of an universal God. The Tamil Isaiah.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 221

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ays and twenty days :® and she gave him gifts. 1 Lamed means ox-goad; Aleph, an ox. Lamed Aleph means No, the denial of Aleph Lamed, El, God. 2 Read reverse, the Star [=the Will and the Great Work] is to fold up the Sephiroth; z.e. to attain Nirvana. 3 The houses of the Moon. All the gifts are lunar symbols. Sapientiae Lux Viris Baculum. Femina Rapta Inspirat Gaudium. Pleiades. Dignitates. Amicitia. Amor. Sophia,

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1929 · PDF PAGE 15

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… for fireworks. Send up my bankbook by the 1st please. I am awfully well, thank you! I have joined a sort of band of chaps, who are with God's blessing, going to try & help others & speak to them about their souls. I will write soon again. Write quick please. Good bye Yr loving son Alec He was thoroughly happy at this school; the boys liked and admired him; he made remarkable progress in his studies and was very proud of his first prize, White's Selborne, for coming out top in "Religious Knowledge, Classics and French". But to this day he has n…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 205

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…aganinic.* They vowed to make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic: He had scoffed at God's battue, The flood for mortal’s sin—Ic- thyosaurian Waterloo! They eyed the sage askew ; They searched him through and through With violet rays actinic. They asked him ‘ Wer bist du?’ He answered slowly ‘ Bin ich?’ ” 387. The Fish.°8—Because of ix@us, which means Fish, And very aptly symbolises Christ, —Ring and Book (The Pope), ll. 89, go. 395. Dharma,®»®—Consult the Tripitaka. 409. [cannot trace the cha…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 245

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…eet smell of ether haunts, ili. 9 A fool indeed! For why complain, iii. 2 A foolish and a cruel thing is said, i. 182 Again the unveiled goddess of delight, ii. 73 Against the fiat of that God discrowned, ii. 64 Age and despair, poverty and distress, ili, 112 A good stout song, friend Argus, ii. 92 Ah! Christ ascends? Ascension day? ii. 163 Ah me! no fruit for guerdon, iii. 192 Ah! ten days yet to Pentecost, ii. 163 Ah! there be two sides to all shapes of truth, li, 85 | Alas! that ever the dark place, ili. 201 Ali bade Hassan to his house to s…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 87

The Sword of Song

… a sickle. And the tenth week did he daily offer up his own body . Said the goat: “Though I be not an ox, yet am I a sword.” “ Masked, O God !” cried the Adept. “ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—” There was silence. And under the Goat’s throne was a rainbow 2 of seven colours: our Father fitted himself as an arrow to the string (and the string was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and s hot through stormy heavens. And they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair 3 robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 542

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…winning post. I made a rapid summary of my situation. The bronchitis and asthma, which were the symptoms of the emphyzema exacted by the God of the Mountains as the sacrifice due from whoever would approach his altars, had become a regular feature of winter. My obvious course was to dodge it by migrating to North Africa. There was no opposing argument. England was still upside down. I perceived the futility of any campaign to establish the Law there at present. My original plan had been to join the Ape of Thoth in Switzerland where she was stay…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 25

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

25 He had started a school for the sons of Brethren at 51 Bateman Street, Cambridge. May God bite into the bones of men the pain of that hell on earth (I have prayed often) that by them it may be sowed with salt, accursed for ever! May the maiden that passes it be barren and the pregnant woman that beholdeth it abort! May the birds of the air refuse to fly over it! May it stand as a curse, as a fear, as an hate, among men! May the wicked dwell therein! May the light of the sun be withheld therefrom and the light of the moon not lighten it! May …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 34

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…rs. Cameron almost wept for joy. When (the message continued) Major McArthy had risen to his feet and retorted, "He that hath the Son of God hath everlasting life", Mr. Cameron executed a Highland through funeral fling1. When Mr. Raven, stung to the quick, had shaken his fist at the major and yelled, "Brother, you're a sinful old man!" Mrs. Cameron "had always known there was something", and invented a ruined governess. But --- oh the laughter of her husband when the telegraph brought the major's retort, "Brother, have you no sin?" --- spoken w…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 267

The Book of Thoth

…that the sun was de‐ stroyed every evening, and had to be raised again every morning by priestly machinations. The “formula of the dying god”, as this is usually called, does actually exist, but it repre‐ sents a stage in human development which is now past as far as external theology is con‐ cerned. It has a sort of shadowy validity in psychology; for instance, in taking up a new task of any importance, one begins very pleasantly, the period of Isis; the task becomes tedious and baffling, one begins to despair, the period of Apophis; then sudd…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

The Sword of Song

…ate in a man’s cheek, and darkened utterly. “Foaming at the fouth the wretched J eh- jaour clutched at air and fell prone. III. “To what God should he appeal? His own, Hanuman, was silent. Sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. So Jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 Allan M acGregor Bennett ( whose motto in the “ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” was Iehi Aour, i.e. “Let there be Light”), now Ananda Metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscrib…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 226

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…es, and springing muscle and shortening limb --- With chin aslant indrawn to a tightening throat, Grave, and with gathered sinews like a god, and biff him Right in the hairiest hollow of his hide Under the last rib, sheer through bulk and bone Deep in --- and see

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1929 · PDF PAGE 236

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ese may be divided into three classes. 1. Such men as Moses an Mohammed state simply that they have received a direct communication from God. They buttress their authority by divers methods, chiefly threats and promises guaranteed by thaumaturgy; they resent the criticism of reason. 2. Such men as Blake and Boehme claimed to have entered into direct communication with discarnate intelligence which may be considered as personal, creative, omnipotent, unique, identical with themselves or otherwise. Its authority depends on "the interior certainty…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 64

The Sword of Song

…nic.* They vowed they’d make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic : He had scoffed at God’s battue, The flood for mortal’s sin—Ic- thyosaurian Waterloo ! They eyed the sage askew ; They searched him through and through With violet rays actinic They asked him ‘Wer bist du ?’ He answered slowly ‘Bin ich ?’ ” 387. The Fish.58—Because of „cquj, whi ch means Fish, And very aptly symbolises Christ. — Ring and Book (The Pope), ll. 89, 90. 395. Dharma.59—Consult the Tripitaka. 409. I cannot trace the c…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 379

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…range them, the door opened and Ganggs walked in with his eternal bicycle. He jumped to the false conclusion that she was kissing me -- (God forbid!) --- and started a row. I was really too ill to do more than look on lazily, with amused contempt; but after half an hour of recriminations, Gnaggs went out to telegraph to her father, his lawyer and several possible allies. She followed him out. {607} 1. WEH Note: Another artificial name, this time based on that dread but largely trivial eruptive inflammation. The remaining names are suggestive as…

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