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1909 · PDF PAGE 308

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Kerubim of Ezekiel might perhaps engage your individual attention.” The truth is, it does not matter one rap by what name you christen the illusions of this life, call them substance, or ideas, or hallucinations, it makes not the slightest difference, for you are in them and they in you whatever you like to call them, and you must get out of them and they out of you, and the less you consider their names the better; for name-chang- ing only creates unnecessary confusion and is a waste of time. Let us therefore call the world a serie…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 308

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX Kerubim of Ezekiel might perhaps engage your individual attention.” The truth is, it does not matter one rap by what name you christen the illusions of this life, call them substance, or ideas, or hallucinations, it makes not the slightest difference, for you are in them and they in you whatever you like to call them, and you must get out of them and they out of you, and the less you consider their names the better; for name-chang- ing only creates unnecessary confusion and is a waste of time. Let us therefore call the world a serie…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 24

Why Jesus Wept

…s me, this heaven Of thine, Adonai ! Rather be limed In the dusk, in the deep, Seven times seven Thy hells, O Jehovah ! I tune the great Name To a million vowels : — It escapes me, the flame ! But deep in my bowels Growls the deep lust, The bitter distrust, The icy fear, The cruel thought ! O ! I am here — And here is nought. I must rave on. I hate the sun. Anon ! Anon ! Let us both begone, Thou fiend that pourest One by one These evil words

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1909 · PDF PAGE 83

Clouds Without Water

…ed to bring them out of darkness into Light, by the virtue of our crucified Lord, risen and ascended, Thine only- begotten Son, in Whose name we ask this Thy blessing, For Jesus Christ's sake, Amen. The End

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1922 · PDF PAGE 383

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Messrs. COLLINS’ Latest Novels Messrs. COLLINS will always be glad to send their book lists regularly to readers who will send name and address. PIRACY Michael Arlen This is the story of Ivor Pelham Marlay between the ages of 18 and 32, and the period is London, 1910-1922. It is the history of England, two loves, and an ideal. Mr. Arlen deals with all the types of London Society, and he likes to bring out the queer and unexpected sides of his characters. No one who read Mr. Arlen’s first book, A London Venture, or his delightful short stories, …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 37

Songs of the Spirit

…stilence-light dances, A spectre-flame, through midnight’s infamy. My blood grows chill and stagnant with my shame. O Love, to speak thy name ! O Life ! O Heaven ! O dreams long dead ! Ye Spirits Rising unbidden from Hope’s cobwebbed door, Ye quick desires that every soul inherits, Leave me to weep, and torture me no more ! My face grows grey with sheer despair ; I shrink From dreams ; I dare not think. I had a poet’s dreams. My soul was yearning To grasp the firmament and hold it fast, 27

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1904 · PDF PAGE 37

Why Jesus Wept

…es of delusion ! Mage, I will trounce thee ! Sage, to confusion ! Problems to solve ? Here is my life ! My secret is told — What is your name, O fairest of women ? Bosom of gold ! Faultless your fame ! An aeon were shame Your beauty to hymn in ! Will you be mine, Mine and mine only ? Beauty divine, How I was lonely ! How I was mad ! Say, are you glad, Glad of me, happy here, Here in my arms ? I kiss you, I kiss you ! Say, is it bliss, you Spirit of holiness ? Holy I hold you ! Swift as a rapier Stabbed me your charms, Broken with lowliness, Smi…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 24

Orpheus

… love, was the lyre of his love; When laurels I bore to the harper, When bays for the lyrist I bore, My life was diviner and sharper, My name in the Muses was more; When virgin I came to him stainless, When love was a pleasure and painless! What Destiny dreams and discovers The fragrance men know for a lover’s? Peace turned into laughter and tears, Borne down the cold stream of the years! Ant. a ORPHEUS O mother, O queen many-minded, More beauty than beauty may be, 2)

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1909 · PDF PAGE 68

777

52 TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCES Figure. Nature. Name. Divination and Spiritual Meaning. —— Ee es 41 — — VW ot V | San Diminution. a a) a) a ag | me | A ot AY i. Addition, increase. a ee) ee Ss a 43 7mV of t+ | Kwai. Displacing, strength, complacency, tact. es ee) Pe) a 4) eee + of A| Kau . Unexpected event, a bold woman. ae se — es 45 | ome | V of O | Tahui. Collected, docility. a a — a a Se — 46 | ae © ot A | Shing. Advance and ascent. ee a se —- a as e 47 | ee ae | V of w | Khwin Straightened, distressed, $° Carcer, growth re- a strained. ° ae Ge…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 188

The Law is for All

… outlined in previous notes. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 75

The Vision and the Voice

…e spirit of man with the lust of light. I am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. The egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the Scorpion. The pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the abyss is th…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 28

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…the mystic sacrifice, And in the knowledge of my Selfhood made One with the Everlasting Lords of Life. The Glorified through Trial is My Name. The Rescuer of Matter is My Name. I am the Heart of Jesus girt about With the Swift Serpent! I, Osirified, Stand in this Hall of Twofold Truth and say : Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hathnot formed! Holy art Thou, O Vast and Mighty One! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Consciousness …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 47

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…n one Earth, the Mother of us ail, and in one Womb wherein ail men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON. And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in his name BAPHOMET. And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is 0EAHMA. And I believe in the communion of Saints. And, forasmuch as méat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass. And I confess one Baptism of Wisdom wh…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 12

Book 4 (Part I)

…t even in this, My son, thou shalt not do amiss If thou restrain the expression, shoot Thy glance to rapture’s darkling root, Discarding name, form, sight, and stress Even of this high consciousness; Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here: Thou art the Master. I revere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O Brother of the Silver Star! CROWLEY“ AHA l”

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1907 · PDF PAGE 331

The Star in the West

…herefore represent ( Mr. Spencer's projected cube ) methods of stimulating or regulating those particular spots ( through the eye ). The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish : (a) General control of the brain ( Establishment of func tions relative to the subtle world ). (6) Control over the brain in detail . ( Rank or type of the Spirit .) (c) Control of one special portion . ( Name of the Spirit .) 1 66 Carlyle also partially grasps this idea in “ Sartor Resartus " when he writes : Witchcraft and all manner of Spectre - work , a…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 95

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ntity Beyond experience, that tricks Our folly with its idle claim To be because we feel it. a. Sticks The reason there? iV. We choose a name To cover all the host of facts Comprised in thought. A. (astde) The elixir acts. Then backward work ; the name becomes With pomp of metaphysic drums A causa causans—God, soul, truth. So raves the riot, age and youth, The cart before the horse. Revered And reverend master, is your beard Darwin’s survival of some tail? Who rants of soul were best to saddle His face, his arms the ass to straddle, Since for h…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 35

Oracles

…t. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) There are three kings upon the road. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice cursed the name of God. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) There stands her star above the sky. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice prayed that she may die. (O Holy Spirit, pity her !) Her bitter anguish hath sufficed. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She is delivered of the Christ. (The angels come to worship her.)

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1913 · PDF PAGE 21

The Book of Lies

…with Form? Wherefore hath Matter manifested itself in Motion? Answer not, O silent one! For THERE is no ‘ wherefore,’ no ‘ because.’ The name of THAT is not known; the Pro- noun interprets, that is, misinterprets, It. Time and Space are Adverbs. Duality begat the Conjunction. The Conditioned is Father of the Preposition. The Article also marketh Division; but the Interjection is the sound that endeth in the Silence. Destroy therefore the Eight Parts of Speech; the Ninth is nigh unto Truth. This also must be destroyed before thou enterest into T…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 271

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…athomable ecstasy, O kissible Tarshitering! I must explain that oriental modesty does not allow the selfrespecting poet to introduce the name of a woman, just as in Shakespeare's time it was considered scandalous for a woman to appear on the stage. I respected this convention and replaced the name of Tenguft by a male name, which I thought euphonious and suitable to my scheme of time and scansion.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 30

Konx Om Pax

…e House of Gold, and all of them are very dreadful. One is called the Terror by Night, and another the Arrow by Day, and the third has a name that people are afraid to hear, so I won’t say. Via P v. Oculus But in the first we came to a mighty throne of gray granite, shaped like the sweetest pussy eat you ever saw, and set up on a desolate heath. It was midnight, and the Devil came down and sat in the midst; but my Fairy Prince whispered: “Hush! it is a great secret, but his name is Yeheswah, and he is the Saviour of the World.” And that was very…

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