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1904 · PDF PAGE 132

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…true though, it sounds rather steep, That a ram can satisfy 80 sheep. Even so, I have doubts (though you tell me it’s true) If an 80 ram-man could satisfy you. [134]

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1906 · PDF PAGE 193

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…le creature he had so foolishly married. Cordelia goes, and the sisters talk together. Theirs is the language of quiet sorrow for an old man’s failing mind; yet a most righteous determination not to allow the happiness of the English people to depend upon his whims. Bad women would have rejoiced in the banish- ment of Kent, whom they already knew to be their enemy; these truly good women regret it. ‘‘Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this of Kent’s banishment ” (Act I. Se. i. I. 304-5). In Scene ii. Edmund is shown; he feel…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 256

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…the rotting dead When a wind from a pest-house blows. She clasped the ghost to her skinny dugs,— No other love might she know,— The dead man squirmed at her panting hugs, But she had her passionate will, And a sobbing breeze began to blow From the top of the lonely hill. And then a dim grey streak of dawn Came, and the sad ghost fled, With staring sockets and jaw-bone drawn, Back to the desolate place; The morning breeze grew still and dead As it played around his face. So we fled from the Mother Troll Under the dawning grey; We left the Hill o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 256

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…the rotting dead When a wind from a pest-house blows. She clasped the ghost to her skinny dugs,— No other love might she know,— The dead man squirmed at her panting hugs, But she had her passionate will, And a sobbing breeze began to blow From the top of the lonely hill. And then a dim grey streak of dawn Came, and the sad ghost fled, With staring sockets and jaw-bone drawn, Back to the desolate place; The morning breeze grew still and dead As it played around his face. So we fled from the Mother Troll Under the dawning grey; We left the Hill o…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 64

The Star and the Garter

Coprolite less than chrysolite, Flowers fairer than their food, the ground ; We knew our destiny, saw how Man’s fate is written on his brow, And how our love throughout was hewn And masked and moulded by the moon. 62

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1912 · PDF PAGE 185

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…THE CARDS OF THE TAROT WITH THEIR ATTRIBUTIONS; INCLUDING A METHOD OF DIVINATION BY THEIR USE “ All divination resembles an attempt by a man born blind to obtain sighl by getting blind drunk.” FRA. P. I43

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1912 · PDF PAGE 185

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…THE CARDS OF THE TAROT WITH THEIR ATTRIBUTIONS; INCLUDING A METHOD OF DIVINATION BY THEIR USE “ All divination resembles an attempt by a man born blind to obtain sighl by getting blind drunk.” FRA. P. I43

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1904 · PDF PAGE 46

The Sword of Song

PENTECOST 39 But as for me I have a test Of better than the very best. Respice finem ! Judge the end ; The man, and not the child, my friend ! First ecstasy of Pentecost, (You now perceive my sermon’s text.) First leap to Sunward flings you vexed By glory of its own riposte Back to your mind. But gathering strength And never, you come (ah light !) at length To dwell awhile in the caress Of that strange super-consciousness. After one memory—O abide ! Vivid Savitri lightning-eyed !— Nothing is worth a thought beside. One hint of Amrita55 to taste…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 70

Eight Lectures on Yoga

19. I could quote you the case of a man—a very inferior and wishy- washy poet—who undertook for a time very strenuously the prescribed magical practices. He was very fortunate, and attained admirable results. No sooner had he done so that his poetry itself became flooded with supernal light and energy. He produced masterpieces. And then he gave up his Magick because the task of further progress appalled him. The result was that his poetry fell completely away to the standard of wet blotting paper. 20. Let me tell you also of one man almost illi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

INTRODUCTION . victory at the price he knew he must pay for it, in being subject to the reading and hearing of so many ill verses as he was sure would be made upon it.' Now so far as we can separate it from the literary skill let us particularly consider the courage of this opening — which may challenge anything in Plato . Dryden no more fears to introduce a high literary dis cussion straight upon the retreating Dutch cannon than did Boccaccio to oppose his merry tales against a back ground of plague - swept Florence : for Boccaccio and Dryden …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 124

Orpheus

Of sevenfold twining worlds and sevenfold ways And nights made sevenfold of the sevenfold days All the vast scheme evolving into man, And upward, onward, through Olympian haze Into the crowning spiritual mist, Where spirit in the spirit may subsist, Evolve itself in the amazing plan Through many planes, as shining amethyst Melts to the sapphire’s sombre indigo, And lifts, still sapphire, to the ocean glow; Thence into emerald and the golden light, Till ruby crowns the river’s living flow And glory of colour in the sun’s own flame— Beyond, to co…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 99

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…d precede initiation and that it should not be mixed up with it. Consider the analogy of poetry. One could, to a certain extent, teach a man to write poetry, by offering to his soul a set of spiritual and emotional experiences, but his technique must be based on the study of grammar and so on, which have no essential relation with art. Talking over these matters with Jones and Baker, I found them quite in sympathy with my pint of view; but they insisted, rightly enough, that I was not in a position to judge the circumstances. I must first reach…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 33

The Goetia

things Past, and to Come. If desired he causeth the love both of Friends and of Foes. Hecan makea Man to go Invisible. And he hath under his command 36 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, to be, etc. (26.) Bune, or Brut.—The Twenty-sixth Spirit is Buné (or Bim), He is a Strong, Great and Mighty Duke. He appeareth in the form of a Dragon with three heads, one like a Dog, one like a Gryphon, and one like a Man. He speaketh with a high and comely Voice. Hechangeth the Place of the Dead, and causeth the Spirits which be under him to gather togeth…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 42

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

42 the Great Cliff. I had reached the Grass Traverse when I heard voices in the mist above me, and a few minutes later a powerful man with red whiskers and a rope about his shoulders came towards me from the cliff. It was J. W. Robinson, a local farmer, who had laid the foundation of Cumberland climbing. He offered to show me some of the easier climbs. He had started that morning with a man named Owen Glynne Jones. Jones had insisted on trying to climb Steep Gill, which is for the most part a shallow gully of smooth slabs set at a dangerous ang…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 118

Konx Om Pax

98 KONX OM PAX I eat her flesh: I drink her blood. God! could I love a woman more By Arno’s flower-enamelled shore, or Father Tiber‘s tawny flood? And reeking with her lusty life I back the gilded mask and burn With joy and hate. Aha! to turn to my own guts the glutted knife! 0 Satan! stand morose and cold above our bodies swimming thus And plunge thy glory into us, and fan our death with plumes of gold! Write with our blood before thee spilt on catafalque and catacomb The dire monition of our doom, the story of the Mask of Gilt! The paradox is ri…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 52

The Sword of Song

…le creature he had so foolishly married. Cordelia goes, and the sisters talk together. Theirs is the language of quiet sorrow for an old man’s failing mind ; yet a most righteous determination not to allow the happiness of the English people to depend upon his whims. Bad women would have rejoiced in the banish- ment of Kent, whom they already knew to be their enemy ; these truly good women regret it. “Such unconstant stars are we like to have from him as this of Kent’s banishment” (Act I. Sc. i. ll. 304-5). In Scene ii. Edmund is shown ; he fee…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 203

The Star in the West

…nterfused , Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns , And the round ocean and the living air , And the blue sky , and in the mind of man ; A motion and a spirit , that impels All thinking things , all objects of all thoughts , And rolls through all things .? To the uninitiated this matter must for the present remain dark , and though at first the neophyte may think that the following solution , which I trust I shall be able in some little way to explain , is but one on a similar footing to that as set forward by those super naturalists who …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 249

The Star in the West

…t it would be possible in thought to construct a scale of vividness from a to n, by which we could erect a formula to express all that a man is . “ For example , he might be : 10 a +33125 b + 890 c + 800112 658 e +992 f + .. + + .n , and , if we can find the ratio of a : b : c : d : e:f : n, we can resolve the equation into a single term , and compare man and man .' It therefore follows that “ all states of conscious ness are single units , or time marks , by which we measure intervals .” So that Time is wholly and solely founded on experience …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 38

The Scented Garden

30 Is the passion of man for man. Let him but taste the wine ! It grips him body and soul. Once and for all, Whatever befall, He is bound to the golden goal By the joy of his shuddering spine.” He will know that in the rites of sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite does…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 64

Collected Works (Vol. I)

THE POEM. A LITTLE DRAMA IN FOUR SCENES. 1598. I dedicate this play * to the gentleman who, on the evening of June 24th, 1898, turned back in Shaftesbury Avenue to give a halfpenny to a little girl, and thereby suggested to me the idea here rendered. SCENES, Piercy. J, THE ANGEL oF Pity. I am sad to-night. I am very lonely in Tl. ‘Tum ANGEL OF LOVE. this place. If. THe ANGEL OF DEATH. IV. ‘THe FORM OF ‘THE FOURTIL WAS LIKE VAUGHAN. THE S ¥ Gop.! , THE SON OF Go Chere are plenty of people about. PERSONS. PERCY. PERCY BRANDON (a Poet) People—mere…

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