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1910 · PDF PAGE 473

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…els it sounds Mighty and musical at need, As if a thirty couple hounds Quested within thee, Palamede! Now, then, he grasps the desperate truth He hath toiled these many years to see, Hath wasted strength, hath wasted youth— He was the Beast; the Beast was he! He rises from the cave of death, Runs to the sea with shining face To know at last the Bounteous Breath, To taste the Goodly Gift of Grace. Ah! Palamede, thou hast mistook! Thou art the butt of all confusion! Not to be written in my book Is this most drastic disillusion! So weak and ill wa…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 473

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…els it sounds Mighty and musical at need, As if a thirty couple hounds Quested within thee, Palamede! Now, then, he grasps the desperate truth He hath toiled these many years to see, Hath wasted strength, hath wasted youth— He was the Beast; the Beast was he! He rises from the cave of death, Runs to the sea with shining face To know at last the Bounteous Breath, To taste the Goodly Gift of Grace. Ah! Palamede, thou hast mistook! Thou art the butt of all confusion! Not to be written in my book Is this most drastic disillusion! So weak and ill wa…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 83

Liber Aleph

… Extension and Specialisation was rather the Word of Dionysus; for the true Word of Krishna was AUM, importing rather a Statement of the Truth of Nature than a practical Instruction in detailed Operations of Magick. But Dionysus, by the Word INRI, laid the Foundation of all Science, as We say Science to-day in a particular Sense, that is, of causing external Nature to change in Harmony with our Wills. k

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1909 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…rds of the Forces of In- telligence: Whose Abode is in the Place of the Gathering of the Waters: Come unto Me, ye in whom the Secrets of Truth have their Abiding. Come unto Me, O Tzaphqial, Aralim, Qashial, by the white Threefold Star, and in the Name of IHVH ELOHIM. 330

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1909 · PDF PAGE 338

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…rds of the Forces of In- telligence: Whose Abode is in the Place of the Gathering of the Waters: Come unto Me, ye in whom the Secrets of Truth have their Abiding. Come unto Me, O Tzaphqial, Aralim, Qashial, by the white Threefold Star, and in the Name of IHVH ELOHIM. 330

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1910 · PDF PAGE 81

The World’s Tragedy

28 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. HERACLEITUS Ah ! but some evil things have brooded here Over the sleepers. May it be indeed The truth that some strange fate threatens the world ? That Art and Love and Beauty, to renew Their glory, must be bathed in their own blood ? But who shall understand the Soul of Pan ? Involved in All and still apart from All ! For steeped therein as I am all my life, I know but exquisite beatitude, Knowing the whole, Then who shall know or care What may befall the part ? One must remain ; Many must change. Then all is well. The …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 483

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ce, Mercury, Raphael, Prince of sciences. RESH. Destruction and regeneration, Time, Saturn, Cassiel, King of tombs and of solitude. Tau. Truth, light, the Sun, Michael, King of the Elohim. 185

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1913 · PDF PAGE 483

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ce, Mercury, Raphael, Prince of sciences. RESH. Destruction and regeneration, Time, Saturn, Cassiel, King of tombs and of solitude. Tau. Truth, light, the Sun, Michael, King of the Elohim. 185

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1899 · PDF PAGE 12

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… music roll, that our desire Shall hear no sound ; shall beam a light so splendid That darkness shall be infinite: the lyre Fashioned of truth, strung with men’s heart-strings | blended, Shall sound as silence: and all souls be still In wisdom’s high communion with will.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 204

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… ’twere one strangling pain, Nor should I feel again. The Fear of Faithlessness! But well I know, Beyond the faith that mortals hold for truth, That we are wedded, in eternal youth, In the true marriage. While the rivers flow, And the sea mourns for Sappho, and the trees Croon over men their many melodies, And the sun burns above, and ice and snow With ermine robes and cloudy canopies Crown the rock pyramids, and God stands fast In heaven, our love shall last. It was the shadow of some cloudy Thing, That touched my mind a moment, and is past In…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 192

Oracles

A CAREER FOR AN ESSAY. THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH offer a Prize of One Hundred Pounds for an Essay upon the Works of Aleister Crowley, under the following con- ditions :— I. The essay may be either hostile or appreciative. 2. In awarding the prize, the following essential points will be taken into consideration :— (a) Thoroughness of treatment. (b) Breadth of treatment. (c) Excellence of prose style. (d) Originality. (e) Scholarship. 3. As some of Mr Crowley’s works are rare or alto- gether out of print, it will not be n…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 130

The Scented Garden

122 Devotion better than learning. XXXV ZAMZEM1 These holy talks and scriptures, truth to tell, Are foul to taste as Mecca’s holy well. Give me my boy’s narcissus waist to hold, His jasmine podex2 to my raptured smell, His rosy lips and coralline to kiss — Well saith the sage that youth’s sole heaven is hell ! A thousand times a night the Fatihah3 Did I recite — my member did not swell. Once for a night I slept with my Habib — A thousand times that member rose and fell !4 Love and not worship is the key of life ; Silence, not prayer, the univer…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

PART IV Darkness AQUARIUS. In truth, master, the ceremony cannot proceed. There is no god in the shrine. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Brother Aquarius, let search be made. AQUARIUS. Brother Capricornus, let search be made. [Light on. [CAPRICORNUS enters veil and walks πῤand down. He returns.] [bg/tts mir. Brother Capricornus, what do you find ? CAPRICORNUS. Master, there is nothing but a little pile of dust. AQUARIUS. There is no living thing therein? CAPRICORNUS. There is no living thing therein. MAGISTER TEMPLI. [Reni/e: poem: “ Collogue sen/z'men/al."] I…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

PART IV Darkness AQUARIUS. In truth, master, the ceremony cannot proceed. There is no god in the shrine. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Brother Aquarius, let search be made. AQUARIUS. Brother Capricornus, let search be made. [Light on. [CAPRICORNUS enters veil and walks πῤand down. He returns.] [bg/tts mir. Brother Capricornus, what do you find ? CAPRICORNUS. Master, there is nothing but a little pile of dust. AQUARIUS. There is no living thing therein? CAPRICORNUS. There is no living thing therein. MAGISTER TEMPLI. [Reni/e: poem: “ Collogue sen/z'men/al."] I…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 106

Sir Palamedes

…k to the kennel whence there came So false a hound.” ‘Good knight, in sooth,” Answered Sir Palamede, “not I Presume to assert the idlest truth ; And here, by this good ear and eye, I grant thou art Sir Palamede. But—try the first and final test If thou or I be he. Take heed!” He backed his horse, covered his breast, Drove his spurs home, and rode upon That knight. His lance-head fairly struck The barred strength of his morion, And rolled the stranger in the muck. “ Now, by God’s death!” quoth Palamede, His sword at work, “I will not leave So mu…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 237

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…er of the Lord of the Universe and therefore to speak with absolute authority. Secondly, it claims to be the statement of transcendental truth, and to have overcome the difficulty of expressing such truth in human language by what really amounts to the invention of a new method of communicating thought, not merely a new language, but a new type of language; a literal and numerical cipher involving the Greek and Hebrew Cabbalas, the highest mathematics etc. It also claims to be the utterance of an illuminated mind co-extensive with the ultimate …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 296

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX forces is the pathway made to true occult knowledge and practical power. Good alone is mighty, and Truth alone shall prevail; Evil is but weakness, and the power of evil ; magic exists but in the contest of unbalanced forces, which in the end will destroy and ruin him who hath subjugated himself thereto. As it is said: “stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the Earth ; a descent of Seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an Evil and Fatal force. Stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy bril…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 296

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX forces is the pathway made to true occult knowledge and practical power. Good alone is mighty, and Truth alone shall prevail; Evil is but weakness, and the power of evil ; magic exists but in the contest of unbalanced forces, which in the end will destroy and ruin him who hath subjugated himself thereto. As it is said: “stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the Earth ; a descent of Seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an Evil and Fatal force. Stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy bril…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 178

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…mmortal youth— To the long-lost love-lit day When the gods in glamour and ruth Passed as a dream away, In a dream that was known for the truth. III AMOR INTELLECTUALIS THE soft, gray autumn’s radiant stars Bend down, like pallid nenuphars Over a woodland pool, and I See night, blind night, beyond the sky: Autumn in London, gray and gold. Autumn in London, chaste and cold. By woodland ways, with silent tread, Pass, dusty dreams! dreams dim and dead 140

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1913 · PDF PAGE 178

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…mmortal youth— To the long-lost love-lit day When the gods in glamour and ruth Passed as a dream away, In a dream that was known for the truth. III AMOR INTELLECTUALIS THE soft, gray autumn’s radiant stars Bend down, like pallid nenuphars Over a woodland pool, and I See night, blind night, beyond the sky: Autumn in London, gray and gold. Autumn in London, chaste and cold. By woodland ways, with silent tread, Pass, dusty dreams! dreams dim and dead 140

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