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1909 · PDF PAGE 15

John St. John

…ade me sweat again thoroughly. Stopped not from fatigue but from lunch. [Odd memoranda during lunch. Insist on pupils writing down their whole day; the play as well as the work. “By this means they will become ashamed, and prate no longer of ‘beasts.’ "] Ι am now well away on the ascetic current, devising all sorts of privations and thoroughly enjoying the idea. Having finished a most enjoyable lunch, will drink coffee and smoke, and try and get a little sleep. Thus to break up sleep into two shifts. A nice sleep. Woke refreshed. Am arrived home…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 30

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…hou, a gleaming goddess of pure pearl, Price of mine homage to the great glad god! Come, saint and satyr praise alike the girl Who to my whole life put the period 01 all fulfilment, whose prophetic breath Girds me with life, and garlands me with death Come, be thy magic in the rime and rhythm, Until the sea sways to the tender tune, And the Winds whisper, and the leaves wave with them, The leaves wherethrough we look upon the moon, So that men hear me 01 the world within Secure from sorrow, sanctified from sin,

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1912 · PDF PAGE 30

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…hou, a gleaming goddess of pure pearl, Price of mine homage to the great glad god! Come, saint and satyr praise alike the girl Who to my whole life put the period 01 all fulfilment, whose prophetic breath Girds me with life, and garlands me with death Come, be thy magic in the rime and rhythm, Until the sea sways to the tender tune, And the Winds whisper, and the leaves wave with them, The leaves wherethrough we look upon the moon, So that men hear me 01 the world within Secure from sorrow, sanctified from sin,

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

The Argonauts

…and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow The bitter draught of Truth; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine; the whole sea’s glades And hills and springs are void of my Apollo— The Sea herself my tune and my desire! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre! CHORUS. This song is sweeter than the honeycomb. MEDEA. Nearly as sweet as good friends quarrelling. JASON. Look, friends, methinks I see a silvern shape Like faint mist floating on the farthest sea.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 157

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Dryness” such as almost invariably follows a partial success. On Sunday May 7th he writes: I have not made an entry in this record for a whole week. I seem to be losing control, and my diary, lying untouched in my drawer, is becoming like a horrible fiend. It worries me when I do not enter it; and yet it requires a great effort even to touch it or take it out, while to enter it daily appears an almost superhuman task. Why is this? I have done exercises this week as usual, but a little earlier than previously, because I have to be at the office …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 129

The Soul of Osiris

… planet knows his place In that supreme unquiet quietude. I am the master of my own deep mood. I am the master. Yea, no doubt I rule The whole mad universe by will extended— Who whispers then, “ O miserable fool ! This night thy might and majesty are ended ; Thy soul shall be required of thee ” ? I heard This voice, and knew it for my proper word ! Yes, mine own voice : the higher spirit speaks, Stemming the hands that guide, the arms that hold, Even the infinite brain : that spirit seeks A loftier dawn of more ephemeral gold— Ephemeral, and et…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 131

Oracles

…f dreamless sleep. The stream grew darker, and the willows cover (As lover from a lover Even for love’s sake all the wealth of love) The whole light of the skies : there came to him Sense of some being dim Bent over him, one colour and one form With the dark leaves ; but warm And capable of some diviner air. Her limbs were bare, her face supremely fair, Her soul one shapely splendour, Her voice indeed as tender As very silence : so he would not speak, But let his being fade : that all the past Grew shadowy and weak, And lost its life at last, B…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 223

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…nd Treasurer General, Keeper of the Golden Book, President of the Committee of Publications of the O.T.O. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It has been represented to US that some persons who are worthy to join the O.T.O. consider the fees and subscrip- tions rather high. This is due to your failure to explain properly the great advantages offered by the Order. We desire you therefore presently to note, and to cause to be circulated throughout the Order, and among those of the profane who may seem worthy to join it, these matters…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 100

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…eepy eyelids of the night, no eve Shall fall and cleave The blue deep eyes of day. queen ! My ship Your hand, my Look down and lean Your whole weight on me, then leap out, as light As swallow’s flight, And race across the shadosys of the moon, And keep the {tine With ringing hoofs across the fiery way. Your eyes betray Ilow eager is your heart, and yet--O dare To fashion fair A whole Jong life of love ! low! Leap high, laugh T dove Yotl=--so f— One kiss—and then to freedom! bay So far away, But not too far for love! hoof, And put to proof The s…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 300

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…d he went on groaning that there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, and I went on sighing that I should like to see one. During my whole journey, I never saw a man whom I could call definitely the worse for opium. My wife's chair coolies were cases in point. They had smoked from twelve years old or thereabouts; and when I say smoked, I mean smoked. Every night on reaching the inn, temple or camp, as the case {489} may be, they cooked their rice and started to smoke directly they had eaten it, continuing till they went to sleep. In the mor…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 8

The Holy Books

…close into the word. For there are therein three grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is. Restriction. Ο man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! 0 lover, if thou 7

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1919 · PDF PAGE 282

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ss, and takes back his Lance. He turns to the PEOPLE, lowers and raises the Lance, and makes ¥ upon them. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Tue Propte. Love is the law, love under will. He lowers the Lance, and turns to East. The Priestess takes the Lance in her right hand. With her left hand she offers the Paten. The PRIEST kneels. Tue PRIEST. In my mouth be the essence of the life of the Sun! He takes the Host with the right hand, makes * with it on the Paten, and consumes it. Silence. The Priestess takes, uncovers, and offers …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 329

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

….—Eb.] 1. These instructions are for those ignorant of the dan- gers of the lower Iddhi (magical powers). Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Nothing less can satisfy than this Motion in your orbit. It is important to reject any Iddhi of which you may be- come possessed. Firstly, because of the wasting of energy, which should rather be concentrated on further advance; and secondly, because Iddhi are in many cases so seductive that they lead the unwary to forget altogether the real purpose of their endeavours. The Student must be pr…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ites of the One. But should your revolution stop Ye would inevitably drop Headlong within the central Soul, And all the parts become the Whole. Sloth and activity and peace, When will ye learn that ye must cease? TYPHON. How should I cease from lethargy? HERMANUBIS. How should I quench activity? SPHINX. How should I give up ecstasy? 01.01 What shines upon your foreheads? .`1,־5.1-1? (tagetker). The Eye within the Triangle. * Serenade: Drdla. 25

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1911 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ites of the One. But should your revolution stop Ye would inevitably drop Headlong within the central Soul, And all the parts become the Whole. Sloth and activity and peace, When will ye learn that ye must cease? TYPHON. How should I cease from lethargy? HERMANUBIS. How should I quench activity? SPHINX. How should I give up ecstasy? 01.01 What shines upon your foreheads? .`1,־5.1-1? (tagetker). The Eye within the Triangle. * Serenade: Drdla. 25

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1913 · PDF PAGE 23

The Rosicrucian Scandal

Ihave made her gore potent I her cheeks are both as bout sme there's no pronouncing As her y rt of the whole seheme of the poem? ‘The chief character isa vile procurer who is trying to sell Pippi into the White Slave Trafic, “The frst episode deals most realistically with adultery crowned by murder. ‘The second episode deseribes plot to marry an innocent youth ‘The third episode shows mother trying to prevent her son from committinga murder in cold blood, and tailing to do so. ‘This assassination has the open approval of the “so-called poet.” ‘…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 7

Liber Al vel Legis

…close into the word. For there are therein three grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is. Restriction. Ο man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! 0 lover, if thou 7

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1944 · PDF PAGE 47

The Book of Thoth

…omplementary, theory. If one assumes that the Tarot is of Egyptian origin, one may suppose that Mat (this card being the key card of the whole pack) really stands for

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1961 · PDF PAGE 114

Liber Aleph

…ee?” Is not all Fear the Word of Failure? Shall I distrust my Destiny? Am I that am the Word of the Æon of so little avail that even the whole Powers of Choronzon can disperse me? Nay, o my Son, here is Courage of Ignorance and Discretion of Knowledge, and by no less Virtue will I win through unto mine End. As it is written: with Courage conquering Fear will I approach thee. Aumgn. w

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1904 · PDF PAGE 45

Why Jesus Wept

…— ay ! and me ! [He opens the note, and reads : — “ To love you, Love, is all my happiness ! To kill you with my kisses ; to devour Your whole ripe beauty in the perfect hour That mingles us in one supreme caress —” Why, here is love articulate, vital ! I thought that only poets, not lovers, could so speak. And that poets, poor devils, speaking, could never know. “ So Percy to his Angela’s distress —” Then it is not my Molly that writes this — who is this Percy ? — not me, at all events, for there is no Angela that loves me. (A sound of sobbing…

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