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1954 · PDF PAGE 238

Magick Without Tears

… matter. 3. 'Self' . For a full discussion of this see Letter 42. 4. 'God.' This is really too bad of you! Of all the hopelessly mangled words in the language, you settle with unerring Sadism on the most brutally butchered. Crippen 2 was an amateur . Skeat hardly helps us at all, except by warning us that 'good' has nothing whatever to do with it. Dieu comes from Deus, with all its Sol-Jupiter references, and Deos, which Plato thought meant a runner; hence, Sun, Moon, Planets. The best I can do for you, honest Injun! is the Russian word for god…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 61

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…s of a single day, \nd wrought into continuous tune,! One Jaughter with one languor for its neigh- bour, One thought of winiter with one word of June, Muddled and mixed in mere dismay, Chisclled with the cunning chisel of despair, Found wanting, well aware Of its own fault, even insistent Thereon ; some fragrance rare Stolen from my lady’s hair Perchance redeeming now and then the distant Fugitive tunes. 18. Ah! Love! the hour is over! The moon is up, the vigil overpast. Call me to thee at last, () Rose, O perfect miracle lover, Call me! I hear…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 19

The Vision and the Voice

…It is not possible that one should come to ZAA. Give me thy face. Let me kiss it with my cold kisses. Ah! Ah! Ah! Fall back from me. The word, the word of the aeon is MAKHASHANAH. And these words shalt thou say back- IV c 17

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1906 · PDF PAGE 65

Gargoyles

…n the hideous way. What? Must we pray? Verily, O thou littlest babe, too weak To stir or speak, Capable hardly of a thought, yet seed Of word and.deed ! To thine assured fruition we may trust This weary dust. We who are old, and palsied, (and so wise !) Lift up our eyes 57

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1911 · PDF PAGE 131

The Vision and the Voice

…fted me, and I saw that the edge of the altar, as I must call it, was surrounded by holy men. Each has in his right hand a weapon—one a sword, one a spear, one a thunderbolt, and so on, but each with his left hand gives the sign of silence. I wish to see what is within their ring. One of them bends forward so that I may whisper the pass-word. The Angel prompts me to whisper: “There is no god.” So they let me pass, and though there was indeed nothing visible therein, yet there was a very strange atmosphere, which I could not understand. Suspende…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 151

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ll be caught in a very few hours, and you'll have all your things back.’ a Of course I had sense enough to know that he didn’t believe a word of what he was saying. The proverb, “ Set a thief to catch a thief,” doesn’t apply to Italy. If a thief were worth stealing, that would be another story. , There was no boat back to Naples that night. There was nothing to do but to wait till the morning. The manager was extremely sympathetic. He got us some clothes, if not exactly what we were accustomed to, at least better than the horrible things we wer…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 14

The Book of Thoth

…o discuss relevant details. The part of it which is here relevant is called Gematria, a science in which the numerical value of a Hebrew word, each letter being also a number, links that word with others of the same value, or a multiple thereof. For example, AChD unity (1+8 +4) =13; and AHBH love (1+5+2+5)=13. This fact is held to indicate “The nature of Unity is Love”. Then IHVH Jehovah (10 +5+6+5) =26=2 X 13. Therefore: “Jehovah is Unity manifested in Duality.” And so forth. One important interpretation of Tarot is that it is a Notariqon of t…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 84

White Stains

…ow sweet a passion, shame, is this, A strong man’s love is my delight ! Free women cast a lustful eye On my gigantic charms, and seek By word and touch with me to lie, And vainly proffer cunt and cheek ; Then, angry, they miscall me weak, Till one, divining me aright, Points to her buttocks, whispers “ Greek ! ”— A strong man’s love is my delight ! Boys tempt my lips to wanton use, And show their tongues, and smile awry,

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1903 · PDF PAGE 111

Alice: An Adultery

…as due, And how the hateful system stank thereof : I let her go, both weeping, both enough Heart-broken : no farewell went ever through— Words came not : only ever : “ I love you ! ” With broken kisses and stained cheeks of love. So all day long and half the night we wandered Down deep lanes and in gardens, like lost souls. Strong kisses that had surfeited a score Of earthly bridals in an hour we squandered ; And tears like fire, and looks like burning coals, Without a word passed on for evermore. 91

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1904 · PDF PAGE 49

Why Jesus Wept

… love a better thing than you think ! Do I perspire now ? Do my cheeks run down nasty wet tears ? Is my love a monotonous harping on one word ? Love, Percy — dare I call you Percy ? SIR PERCY. If I may call you Angela.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 32

The Winged Beetle

…gh his elfin beard. Then what art thou ? the evil whisper whirred. I doubt me sorely if the hermit heard. To all God’s questions never a word he said, But simply shook his venerable head. God sent all plagues ; he laughed and heeded not, Till people took him for an idiot. God sent all joys ; he only laughed amain, Till people certified him as insane. But somehow all his fellow-lunatics Began to imitate his silly tricks. And stranger still, their prospects so enlarged That one by one the patients were discharged. God asked him by what right he i…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 51

Songs of the Spirit

… for the last time beside the ocean gray. Soul of my soul, we never can forget— But, is our parting burnt across the skies ? Is the last word said ? Must our lips be set Not to new song, but to the bitter sighs As of a child whose flower-garden dies, Who knows no hope of some enduring spring ? 41

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1903 · PDF PAGE 73

Alice: An Adultery

…t my whisper stirs Into live flame her passion, and deters Her fear from spurning all the day’s due joys. She had not dared to speak one word, to tell How deep and pure a fountain sunward leapt In her life’s garden : but to-night she lay In my intense embraces : so the spell Moved her : “ I love you,” said she. So we kept, Remurmuring that one phrase until the day. 53

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1910 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… I pile the curses on ; Him will I hang, or saw him through, Or burn with fire, who doubts upon This doctrine, hotototon spells The holy word otototon.” The poor Sir Palamedes quells His rising spleen ; he doubts his ears. “ How may I catch the Beast?” he yells. The smiling sage rebukes his fears: ‘Tis easier than all, Sir Knight! By simple faith the Beast appears.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 422

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… I pile the curses on ; Him will I hang, or saw him through, Or burn with fire, who doubts upon This doctrine, hotototon spells The holy word otototon.” The poor Sir Palamedes quells His rising spleen ; he doubts his ears. “ How may I catch the Beast?” he yells. The smiling sage rebukes his fears: ‘Tis easier than all, Sir Knight! By simple faith the Beast appears.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 286

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…OBATIONERS bend their heads low. MERCURY slanols »?₪/! with SOR. GEMINI VIRGO stands slz'll before the shrine, hooded] MERCURY. And this word I speak unto ye: [He is heardwhl¢erlng StiBeTTChePhMeFShiSS [A flame. MERCURY (loudly). Konx Om Fax! [Pnrþle light of, while lzgh! on. [He seals SOR, GEMINI uþon his Throne. She play: her babe-mnsz'o.* ] FR. GEMINI. The will of the Gods be accomplished! [All deifiarl. * Nocturne: G. Boyle. 108

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1911 · PDF PAGE 286

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…OBATIONERS bend their heads low. MERCURY slanols »?₪/! with SOR. GEMINI VIRGO stands slz'll before the shrine, hooded] MERCURY. And this word I speak unto ye: [He is heardwhl¢erlng StiBeTTChePhMeFShiSS [A flame. MERCURY (loudly). Konx Om Fax! [Pnrþle light of, while lzgh! on. [He seals SOR, GEMINI uþon his Throne. She play: her babe-mnsz'o.* ] FR. GEMINI. The will of the Gods be accomplished! [All deifiarl. * Nocturne: G. Boyle. 108

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1922 · PDF PAGE 3

Poetica Erotica

… sleeping foam, whose silver gleams On motionless dark seas; it seems As if some gentle spirit stirred. Their lazy brows with some swift word. So, in the secret of the shrine, Night keeps them nestled, so the gloom Laps them in waves as smooth as wine, As glowing as the fiery womb Of some young tigress, dark as doom, Andswift as sunrise. Love's content Builds its own monument, And carves above its vaulted tomb The Phoenix on her fiery plume, To their own souls to testify Their kisses’ immortality.

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1916 · PDF PAGE 2

The Message of the Master Therion

…stinence from action. For the curse of His grade that He must Speak Truth, that the Falsehood thereof may censave men.” ‘The Key is this word ORAHMA—Will, Negati, first obvious meaning of this Law is confirmed by 3 ‘The word of Sin is Restriction. Again : “Thou hast noright bur to do thy will, Do that and no other shall say nay. For pore will, unaaaged ofpape, delivered from the Ina of reati ‘every way Take thi ere it seems to imply a theory that if ‘very man and every woman did his and her will—the true I—there would be no clashing. “Every man…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 203

Moonchild

…greatest and the least, To the unimaginable marriage-feast; And, in the self-same sacrament, is stirred To recreate their essence with a Word; This All, this Sire and Lord of All, abides Behind the unbounded torrent of Its tides, [285] In silence of all deed, or word, or thought, So that we name It not, or name It Naught. This is the Truth behind the lie called God; This blots the heavens, and indwells the clod. This is the centre of all spheres, the flame In men and stars, the Soul behind the name, The spring of Life, the axle of the Wheel, Al…

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