1913 · PDF PAGE 146
Book 4 (Part II)
…ways there. For it there is no here nor there ^ no then nor now, all parts of speech are abolished, save the noun : and this noun is not found either in
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Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…s engine going Much to the ladys satisfaction, Till in the morning, by her showing, His total (after due subtraction Of income-tax) was found in fine Eleven thousand and eighty nine ! Still, as through years the solid rocks stand, No weakness did this hero show. He still possessed a mighty cock stand When his fair mistress had to go, And he repaired to wash his balls Before he paid his social calls. But Nemesis ! The drawing-room Is not the place for exhibition Of that which satisfies the womb. At last involuntary emission [93]
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1905 · PDF PAGE 69
Oracles
…Reach the Ineffable : Come forth, I say, And make me one with thee : that all my ways May glitter with the holy influence, That I may be found worthy at the end To sacrifice before the Holy Ones : That in thy Glory, Strength, and Majesty, And by the Beauty and Harmony of Heaven That fills its fountains at the Well of Life, I may be mighty in the Universe. Yea, come thou forth, I mightily conjure Thy radiant Perfection, to compel All Spirits to be subject unto Me, That every spirit of the Firmament And of the Ether, and upon the Earth And under …
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1905 · PDF PAGE 130
Oracles
…The stream, and drew its mist Up through their silent atmosphere. Some sorrow drawing near That slow, dark river would for sympathy Have found its home and never wandered out Into the sunlight any more. A sigh Stirred the pale waters where the moonlight stood Upon the sleepy flood In certain bough-wrought shapes of mystic meaning, As if the moon were weaning The king her babe from milk of life and love To milk new-dropped above From her sweet breast in vaporous light Into the willowy night That lay upon the river. So the king Heard a strange ch…
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1901 · PDF PAGE 73
The Soul of Osiris
…r me ! in my heart this thing became My sacrament, my pentecostal flame. And with it grew a fear—a fear of Her. What Her ? Shame had not found itself a name. Simply I knew it in myself. I brood Ten years—so seemed it—O ! the bitter food In my mouth nauseate ! In the silent hall One might have heard God’s sparrow in its fall. But I was lost in mine own solitude— I should not hear Mikhael’s trumpet-call. Yet there did grow a clamour shrill and loud : One cursed, one crossed himself, another vowed His soul against the quest ; the tumult ran Indeco…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 30
Why Jesus Wept
16 WHY JESUS WEPT. Of armed insistence against my restraint. What is worth while, though, to a woman found Fragrant and fearful to a host of men Even yet ? they throng me, hunt me ! Why should I Do this unutterable wickedness ? Because that Moina Marjoribanks grins and boasts She will achieve him ? Angela, not so ! For its own sweet, most damnable sake, say yes ! Look to those cheeks, redress the red-gold hair, Awake the giant wit, the master sin That is, for an apple’s sake, Lord of us all : These shall despoil her ; these shall ruin him. Yes,…
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1911 · PDF PAGE 80
The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)
THE EQUINOX Who would be found On the ground Of Mahound A recreant knight, and a renegade boaster? Better we each Leave our bones here to bleach And be saved, than go burn with the Paynim impostorl For the infidel swine Lack our spirit divine ; Their crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! Drink, every knight! God and my right! We’ll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-nightl SIR JAMES. Peace to thy ribaldry! Here comes the Preceptor. To saddle! JOCELYN. Why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? SIR JAMES. Who poises in his mind …
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1911 · PDF PAGE 80
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)
THE EQUINOX Who would be found On the ground Of Mahound A recreant knight, and a renegade boaster? Better we each Leave our bones here to bleach And be saved, than go burn with the Paynim impostorl For the infidel swine Lack our spirit divine ; Their crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! Drink, every knight! God and my right! We’ll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-nightl SIR JAMES. Peace to thy ribaldry! Here comes the Preceptor. To saddle! JOCELYN. Why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? SIR JAMES. Who poises in his mind …
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1905 · PDF PAGE 243
Collected Works (Vol. I)
…ween Aphro- dite the divine, and Eve the human. 2 Persephone was compelled to spend six months of the year in Hades. And, to forget her, found due somnolence In such a warm brown bosom as thine own Is fire and amber. Then I came away :— I heard of knights no better horsed than I, No better sworded, with no gift of song, Who, caught by one ineffable desire, Kode on by old mysterious watersheds, Traversed strange seas, or battled with strange folk, Held vigil in wild forests, all to seek The vision of the Holy Grail. And I Rode forth on that same…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 559
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…accept the way of escape that we offered so freely. Her suffering was intensified by the sight of the carefree happiness which {882} she found in the abbey. At the time of her visit, we happened to be particularly short of funds, and it enraged her to see that poverty was powerless to destroy our happiness or drag love from his throne in our hearts. Why couldn't we quarrel and scold like the people she was accustomed to? Envy gnawed at her liver and black bile oozed from the wounds. She began to hate us with insane intensity and the fiend fatte…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 167
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… Lies, in the brain benumbed, At the end of time and space, An abyss, unmeasured, unplumbed— The haunt of a facel | She it is, she, that found me In the morphia honeymoon ; With silk and steel she bound me, In her poisonous milk she drowned me, Even now her arms surround me, Stifling me into the swoon That still—but oh, how rarely |— Comes at the thrust of the needle, Steadily stares and squarely, Nor needs to fondle and wheedle Her slave agasp for a kiss, Hers whose horror is his That knows that viper womb, Speckled and barred with black On it…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 187
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…r them --- good rimes, not mere assonances --- and introducing them into "Ascension Day" and "Pentecost". In that poem will therefore be found rimes for refuge, reverence, country, virgin, courtesan, Euripides, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Aischulos, Sophocles, ARistobulos, Alcibiades, fortress, unfashionable, sandwich, perorate, silver, bishop (eight rimes for this word), Sidney (three rimes for this), maniac, Leviticus, Cornelius, Abra-Melin, Brahmacharya, Kismet, Winchester, Christ Church, worship, Chesterton, Srotápatti (two rimes to this), Bal…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 171
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
…ere two. All day we fought the cowards, the Saxon and the Scot; We gave them Hell and Tommy, as we answered shot for shot, Till a bullet found its billet, and poor Fritz lay dead at last. Then I lit the pile of shavings, nailed our colours to the mast. Ayl we left the red flag flying, the red flag of fire that flew, Though they were fifteen hundred, and we were only two. VIII 1 129
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1912 · PDF PAGE 171
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
…ere two. All day we fought the cowards, the Saxon and the Scot; We gave them Hell and Tommy, as we answered shot for shot, Till a bullet found its billet, and poor Fritz lay dead at last. Then I lit the pile of shavings, nailed our colours to the mast. Ayl we left the red flag flying, the red flag of fire that flew, Though they were fifteen hundred, and we were only two. VIII 1 129
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1919 · PDF PAGE 175
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…ht, sent it straight up. Egg opened; and I opened eyes in space. I saw above me a shining object, oblong in shape, and travelling to it, found it almost like a kite. Leaning upon it, I was carried backwards for some distance, during which time I watched a changing landscape below. Wishing to descend, I dropped towards the Earth, and found body supported by another. When near the ground, skimmed over the earth and eventually came to a dark gateway or tunnel. Walked into this and pro- ceeded, lighted by a silver star on brow, till I arrived at a …
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1929 · PDF PAGE 115
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…ings; I was to be utterly uninitiate. It was like Jekyll and Hyde, but with the two personalities balanced and complete in themselves. I found this practice of very great service. It was in fact essentially a beginning of systematic control of thought. The method is now incorporated in the instructions of the A.'. A.'. (See Liber Jugorum.) Mexico proved a glorious galloping ground for my Pegasus. The magnificent mountain air, the splendour of the sun, the flamboyant beauty of the flowers, the intoxicating intimacy of leaping, fearless love whic…
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1898 · PDF PAGE 17
White Stains
…own two years later for an article which he had contributed to some University or College Magazine. No confirmation of any sort is to be found anywhere with regard to these or any other statements of our author. There is, however, no doubt that in 1861 he quarrelled with his family ; went over to Paris, where he settled down, at first, like every tufthead, somewhere in the Quartier Latin ; later, with Mathilde Doriac, the noble woman who became his mistress and held to him through all the terrible tragedy of his moral, mental, and physical life…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 16
The Star in the West
FOREWORD IN N “ Frazer's Magazine ” of November, 1866 , may be found the following : “ Wherever there is any kind of true genius , we have no right to drive it mad by ridicule or invective ; we must deal with it wisely, justly , fairly . Some of these passages which have been selected as evidence of (the poet's ) plain speaking, have been wantonly misunderstood . The volume , as a whole , is neither profane nor indecent . A little more clothing in our uncertain climate might perhaps have been attended with advantage . To us this volume , for th…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 117
The Scented Garden
…n enough in Eastern literature, though the gen- eral Fichtean positing of the non-Ego by the Ego implied in the previous stanza is to be found open- ly or obscurely in most sacred books. 3. This stanza is almost certainly spurious. 4. This is the old jest : “ As long as you drink a drop of this medicine daily, you will not die.” Though perhaps the erectio penis of the hanged may give the lie to the jape. 5. In fact, I saw a very beautiful copy so inlaid on thin sheets of ivory in the house of a wealthy whoremaster.
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1929 · PDF PAGE 540
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…r anyone needed in his work was provided without a moment's grudging. None of us hankered after anything unnecessary to our work. We had found out and fixed in our minds that all such possessions, however delightful as new toys, were in the long run a nuisance. Whatever is not ultimately useful is a source of distraction and anxiety. It gets in one's way. It is like having to live with someone whom one does not love. We thus got rid of that senseless envy which embitters life by filling the mind with perverse cravings for things neither good no…
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