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1926 · PDF PAGE 18

Liber Al vel Legis

38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! Feast! Rejoice! there.is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in …

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1926 · PDF PAGE 26

Liber Al vel Legis

…p around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. I am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast and his Bride are they: and for the 26

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1961 · PDF PAGE 123

Liber Aleph

…hou wilt mark also that great Men are commonly great Lovers; and this is in Part also because (consciously or not) they are ware of that Secret following, that every Act of Love communicateth somewhat of the Wisdom stored within him to his percipient Mind. Yet must such Act be done rightly, according to Art; and unless such Act is of Profit alike to Mind and Body, it is an Error. This then is true Doctrine; which if it be understanded aright of thee, shall make diamond-clear thy Path in Love, which (to them that know not this) is so obscure and…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 119

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…rid? And if these be extinct—’tis a fiend that laughs eager and low: “* Shall beauty avail thee, Caryatid ?” Shall JEUNE MERE SURELY the secret whisper of sweet life Shakes in the shell-ear murmurous memories Of the old wonder of young ecstasies In the first hours when the white word of wife She won so hardly out of dark wild strife And mystery of peace ; thine utter ease, Abandoned rapture! Caught and cut by seas Of sudden wisdom, stinging as a knife Swift struck sets all the blood a-tingle. Woe! What wakes within? What holiest intima- tion Of…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 99

Ambergris

90 AMBERGRIS Rosa Mundi 1. Rose of the world ! Red glory of the secret heart of love ! Red flame, rose red, most subtly curled Into its own infinite flower, all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion, Its faint sweet passion, folded and furled In flower fashion ; And my deep spirit taking its pure part Of that voluptuous heart Of hidden happiness ! 2. Arise, strong bow of the young child Eros ! (While the maddening moonlight, the memoried caress Stolen of the scented rose Stirs me and bids each racing pulse ache, ache !) Bend in…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 292

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… of spring are on winter’s traces . . . The wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. TAURUS. The goddess stirs not. CANCER. Silence is the secret of our Lady Artemis. PAN. Hath no man lifted her veil? CANCER No man hath lifted her veil. TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation! CANCER. 333-333—333. It is the hour ofsealing up the shrine. TAURUS. Let us banish the spirits of the elements. [Per/farms Με Lesser Banishing Riinal af Με Pentagram ana’ nim/m.] Bear the Cup of Libation! CANCER. 333-333-333. Let us banish the spirits of the planets. [Performs Με …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 292

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… of spring are on winter’s traces . . . The wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. TAURUS. The goddess stirs not. CANCER. Silence is the secret of our Lady Artemis. PAN. Hath no man lifted her veil? CANCER No man hath lifted her veil. TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation! CANCER. 333-333—333. It is the hour ofsealing up the shrine. TAURUS. Let us banish the spirits of the elements. [Per/farms Με Lesser Banishing Riinal af Με Pentagram ana’ nim/m.] Bear the Cup of Libation! CANCER. 333-333-333. Let us banish the spirits of the planets. [Performs Με …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 149

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… ; The people murmur. wrong, But be thou mighty to avenge ! She hath done thee S’AFI. To-day I, Horus, shall become Osiris. Yea, Strange secret dreams of some mysterious fate Godlike have come upon me, and the throne Totters for your disloyalty. AMENHATEDP. Beware ! How died thy father? S’AFTI. That amazing god Incarnate in him chose a nobler form, And in my mother’s body sought his home, Whose double incarnation is divine Beyond the old stories. Yes, Iam a god. AMENTATEP. Beware the fatal magic of her heart ! For she is great and evil, and her…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 123

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL I THE SUPREME RITUAL “A feast for the Supreme Ritual.” “To him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.” —Liber Legis. Let a feast be made by the Officers of the Temple. This Temple, into which they then retire, may be any convenient place. An altar is necessary; also a vessel of wine; other- wise as may be appointed by them: e.g. the robes, etc., as said ims. ee. eee The Officers are two in number, and seek Nuit and Hadit through Babalon and the Beast.1 To conceal themselves, they are disguised as …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 123

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL I THE SUPREME RITUAL “A feast for the Supreme Ritual.” “To him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.” —Liber Legis. Let a feast be made by the Officers of the Temple. This Temple, into which they then retire, may be any convenient place. An altar is necessary; also a vessel of wine; other- wise as may be appointed by them: e.g. the robes, etc., as said ims. ee. eee The Officers are two in number, and seek Nuit and Hadit through Babalon and the Beast.1 To conceal themselves, they are disguised as …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 69

Why Jesus Wept

…ease These amorous longings with grave ecstasies, The holy act of uttermost communion, The sacrament of life ! Awake, awake ! There is a secret in our subtle union That masters the grey snake. Ay ! let him lurk ! The Tree of Knowledge we Have fed our fill of ; this is Eden still. Awake, O Love ! and let me drink my fill Of thee — and thou of me ! Angela wakes.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 48

Mortadello

…m I trust. MORTADELLO. Trust me to strike, my father. THE DOGE. Son, we are but dust [They greet solemnly, and MORTADELLO departs by the secret entry. Is it vainglory, or the confidence of youth ? I would give half my realm for certainty of truth. But oh ! my heart misgives me. Pshaw ! I am old ! I am old ! All will be well, will be well. But—how these bones are cold !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 149

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ish, and (His) Name is become mighty among us. In whom we say: Movel Descend I and apply yourselves unto us as unto the partakers of His Secret Wisdom in your Creation. [67 words in this English Call [Invokesz Exarp; the whole Tablet of Air, The angle of A of Δ. The Prince of the Chariot of the Winds. 107

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ish, and (His) Name is become mighty among us. In whom we say: Movel Descend I and apply yourselves unto us as unto the partakers of His Secret Wisdom in your Creation. [67 words in this English Call [Invokesz Exarp; the whole Tablet of Air, The angle of A of Δ. The Prince of the Chariot of the Winds. 107

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1913 · PDF PAGE 153

Book 4 (Part II)

141 It also represents Hadit, of which one can here only quote these words: "I am the secret serpent coiled about to spring; in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one; if I droop down mine head and shoot forth venom, there is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one." The serpent is also the Kundalini serpent, the Magical force itself, the manifesting side of the Godhead of the Magician, whose unmani- fested side is peace and silence, of which there is no symbol. In the Hindu system the Great Work is repre…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 190

Book 4 (Part II)

178 Qabalah. See "The tradition of secret wisdom of the Hebrews," Equinox V. Qliphoth. '•Shells " or demons. The excrement of ideas. Ra-Hoor-Khuit. See "Liber Legis." Ruach. The intellect and other mental qualities. See 777, etc. Saliasrara Cakkra. "The Temple of Solomon the King-." See Equinox I\'. Sammasati. See " The Training of the Mind,'"' Equinox V, and " The Temple of Solomon,'' Equinox VIII. Also "Science and Buddhism,"' Crowley, Coll. Works, Vol. II. Saiikha-ra. See " Science and Buddhism." Sauna. See "Science and Buddhism." SepJiiroth…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…m of the deep impearled, Cry from the cloud-place of the Underworld. Let the gold banner of the day be unfurled That. I may manifest the secret curled In the darkling bosom of the world’s great night! Then I arose in majesty, and came, Spurning the loves of the world for thee, for thee, For that my soul had quenched all meaner flame, Than the flame that burned still for thy majesty!

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…m of the deep impearled, Cry from the cloud-place of the Underworld. Let the gold banner of the day be unfurled That. I may manifest the secret curled In the darkling bosom of the world’s great night! Then I arose in majesty, and came, Spurning the loves of the world for thee, for thee, For that my soul had quenched all meaner flame, Than the flame that burned still for thy majesty!

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1961 · PDF PAGE 94

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 82 Gd De Arcano Nefando (Of the Forbidden Secret) MY Son, learn this concerning Magick, that the Yang moveth, and thus giveth itself up Eternally; but the Yin moveth not, seeking ever to enclose or restrict, reproducing in its own likeness what Impressions soever it made thereon, yet without Surrender. Now the Tao absorbeth all without Reproduction; so then let the Yang turn thereto, and not unto he Yin. And that thou mayst understand this, I say: It is a Mystery of O.T.O. For the Sun ariseth not and entereth to strike upon …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 138

Liber Aleph

…ent is the salvation of the Species. Only among Men, his Fellows turn ever upon the Saviour, and rend him, until those who follow him in secret, and it may be unconsciously, prove their Virtue and his Wisdom by their Survival when his Persecutors perish in heir Folly. But we, being secure against all primary Enemies to the individual, or the common Weal, may, nay, we must, if we would attain the Summit for our Race, devote all spare Leisure, Wealth, and Energy to the Creation of Variation from the Norm, and thus by clear Knowledge bought of Exp…

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