1928 · PDF PAGE 130
Little Poems in Prose
…ull of fair promise, which sent to us a mysterious perfume of rose and musk, and whence in an amorous murmur came to us all the music of life.
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Page 22 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 411
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
411 only far more fiercely. If, however, when one's second wind fails one knows that life depends on going on, the third wind comes into court. In this state one is almost anesthetized. One has become an absolute machine, incapable of feeling or thinking; one's actions are automatic. The mind is just capable of making connections with such circumstances as bear on the physical problem, though men of weak will, and those in whom the habit of self-control is not established inexpugnably, are sometimes subject to hallucinations. The famous mirage …
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1906 · PDF PAGE 50
Gargoyles
… balance changes; all my wit surprises That I who saw the goblins in your face, That I who cursed you for the murderous whore Licking up life as a cat laps its milk, Now see you for a dream of youth and grace, Relume the magic aura that begirt you, Bless you for purity and life—a store ! An ever-running fountain-head of virtue To heal my soul and buckler it and harden! Your body is like ivory and silk! Your lips are like the poppies in the garden! Your face is like a wreath of flowers to crown me! Your eyes are wells wherein I long to drown me!…
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1961 · PDF PAGE 32
Liber Aleph
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 20 s De Motu Vitæ (Of the Motion of Life) EARN then, o my Son, that all Phenomena are the effect of Conflict, even as the Universe itself is a Nothing expressed as the Difference of two Equal- ities, or, an thou wilt, as the Divorce of Nuit and Hadit. So therefore every Marriage dissolveth a more material, and createth a less material Complex; and this is our Way of Life, rising ever from Ecstasy to Ecstasy. So then all high Violence, that is to say, all Consciousness, is the spiritual Orgasm of a Passion between two lower a…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 367
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…remely idiotic and extremely annoying; but at the same time one had to admit that the result of his method was to add a sort of spice to life. I remembered a remark of Maisie Jacobs: ‘‘ Never dull where Lamus is.” The events had been of an ordinary and insignificant character, and yet he had given a value to each one. He made life taste like it does when one is using heroin and cocaine, yet he did it without actual extravagance. I could understand how it was that he had his unique reputation for leading a fantastic life, and yet how no one coul…
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1901 · PDF PAGE 130
The Soul of Osiris
…of the infinite Crushes the juice from out the poppy’s stem, And brown-stained fingers wring the petals white, And weary lips seek lotus-life in them Vainly : the lotus burns above the tomb— Yea, but in thought’s unfathomable womb ! For spiritual life and love and light Climb the swayed ladder of our various fate
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1913 · PDF PAGE 135
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…9 we find the drawing together of the Paths by which Frater P. had been travelling. First (March 21), the conscious personal work of his life was crystallized in the thorough establishment of his system of Scientific Illuminism or Sceptical Theurgy through the publication of Number I of the Equinox; Second (October 27), he accomplished his purely human duty without which he had no right to become Sannyasin ; Third (April), another purely human side of his life reached a proper climax ; Fourth (December), he was relieved of his last human respon…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 135
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…9 we find the drawing together of the Paths by which Frater P. had been travelling. First (March 21), the conscious personal work of his life was crystallized in the thorough establishment of his system of Scientific Illuminism or Sceptical Theurgy through the publication of Number I of the Equinox; Second (October 27), he accomplished his purely human duty without which he had no right to become Sannyasin ; Third (April), another purely human side of his life reached a proper climax ; Fourth (December), he was relieved of his last human respon…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 147
Magick Without Tears
…hath led thee! Thou didst ask for fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations, and the two and twenty Privileges, and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the Universe. Veiled are their faces, that have beheld the glory Ineffable. These adepts seem like Pyramids-their hoods and robes …
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1903 · PDF PAGE 14
Ahab and Other Poems
YU Bild férong life B’k maw of mine, Not AL mp one Food wed is %wne— Ay! for Hat Bry wed riFine— Comes the fierce mouth of matifon. So gwWs my doubt again, fo (Bek Mp andent fears for Afcace. SF Burkd Iehotah’s altars WWy ; HfeB and SH purfued Gis pricfts; SF Wok a Bife from Sidon ToWy; S gat gis amples & the keafts; SF (et up gods and graBen fhapes Of males and womdikes and apes. Myfelf & forceries Sh betook ; AL fins Hat aw vid Sf contrk, Seahd in the Thora’s dreadful fook— & like, and life my fife, and Hrike! Doth God not fee? His car is dul…
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1903 · PDF PAGE 29
The Star and the Garter
… unseen I stand And look to seaward still : We would not look upon the land Again, had I my will. The ship is trim: to sea! to sea! Take life in either hand, Crush out its wine for you and me, And drink, and understand! 27
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1906 · PDF PAGE 20
Gargoyles
XVI. Wisdom and Love, intenser glow! Beauty and Strength, increase and burn! Be brothers to the law of life! Things as they are—their nature know! Act! Nor for faith nor folly turn! The hour is nigh when man and wife, Knowing, shall worship face to face, Beget and bear the royal race. 12
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1906 · PDF PAGE 40
Collected Works (Vol. II)
…sical marge Watches alone the man. O silvern shape and span Of moonlight, reaching over the grey, large Breast of the surf-bound strand, Life of the earth, God’s child, Man’s bride, the light of the sweet land ! Are emeralds ever a spark of this clear green, Or sapphires hints of this diviner blue, Or rubies shadows of this rosy hue, Or light itself elsewhere so clear and clean? For all the sparkling dews of heaven fallen far Crystalline, fixed, forgotten (as a star Forgets its nebulous virginity) Are set in all the sky and earth and sea. Shini…
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1901 · PDF PAGE 87
The Soul of Osiris
… one moment’s lust. I too was wounded : shameful runs the song. She nursed me through that melancholy long Month of despair : she won my life from death. Ah God ! she won that most reluctant breath Out of corruption : love ! ah ! love is strong ! What waters quench it ? King Shalomeh saith. I am the king : you know it, friend ! We wed. That is the tale of how my wooing sped. And oh ! the quest : half won—incredible ? I am so brave, and pure—folk love me well. But oh ! my life, my being ! That is dead, And my whole soul—a whirlwind out of hell !
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1919 · PDF PAGE 121
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
… are two dangers, the obstacle of Failure, and the snare of Success. Now this second mode is to dissociate the beings which make up your life. Firstly, because it is easiest, you should segregate that Form which is called the Body of Light (and also by many other names) and set yourself to travel in this Form, making systematic exploration of those worlds which are to other material things what your own Body of Light is to your own material form. Now it will occur to you in these travels that you come to many Gates which you are not able to pas…
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1902 · PDF PAGE 42
Tannhäuser
…of this decree : No man can look upon the face of God ! Yet Moses looked upon His hinder parts. And I —yes, goddess ! in this passionate Life in our secret mountain, well I know Thy beauty, and Thy love, (although they be Infinite, far beyond the mortal mind, Body, or soul to touch, to comprehend. And dwell in) that the utter intimate Knowledge of Thee, if once I ravelled out Thy secret, laid Thee naked to the bone— Nay, to the marrow ! were to come, aware. Face to face full with deity itself And this I strive at ! Therefore is my love Wholly i…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 18
Ambergris
… away one moment bonds of clay, And touch the day With pallid, wistful lips beyond the earth, And bring to birth New thoughts with which life long has travailed ; As if one dead Should rise and utter secrets of the tomb, And from hells womb Or heavens breast bring all the load of fears, Toils of long years, Sorrows of life and agonies of death, Hard caught-up breath, The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of shame, The gloomy flame Of lust, the cruel torment of desire More than hell fire, And bid them fade, as if the bryony Let her flower di…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 138
Book 4 (Part II)
…lanced by idleness. Eros gives place to x\nteros. Not one man in a thousand makes even an apparent escape from the commonplace of animal life. Birth is sorrow ; Life is sorrow ; Sorrowfiil are old age, disease, and death; But resurrection is the greatest misery of all.
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1913 · PDF PAGE 534
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess always, one must will patiently and long. Axiom VI To pass one’s life in willing what it is impossible to possess always, is to abdicate life and accept the eternity of death. Axiom VII The more obstacles the will surmounts, the stronger it is. It is for this reason that Christ glorified poverty and sorrow. Axiom VIII When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by eternal reason. Axiom IX The will of the just man is the will of God himself, and the law of Nature. 2…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 534
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess always, one must will patiently and long. Axiom VI To pass one’s life in willing what it is impossible to possess always, is to abdicate life and accept the eternity of death. Axiom VII The more obstacles the will surmounts, the stronger it is. It is for this reason that Christ glorified poverty and sorrow. Axiom VIII When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by eternal reason. Axiom IX The will of the just man is the will of God himself, and the law of Nature. 2…
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