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1914 · PDF PAGE 10

Chicago May

…easure in their load ; ‘The toad has got a jewel in its head— O Christ of God | I wish you were a toad! A toad is cold and clammy, it is true; But you are hot and sticky, and smell too. VIIL ““T thought I was worth something!” Yes, you are; ‘Worth what the jeweller and the old-clothes-man ‘And the pork-butcher offer. Soul's a star, (And that is why no woman ever loathes man.) Tf you've that star, how could I “ guess it, say,” From the inspection of your Milky Way?

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1939 · PDF PAGE 57

Eight Lectures on Yoga

the Supplement of the fifth number of the First Volume of The Equinox, an idea is only true in so far as it contains its contradictory in itself. 33. It is such states of mind as this which constitute the really important results of Samyama, and these results are not to be destroyed by philosophical speculation, because they are not susceptible of analysis, because they have no component parts, because they exist by virtue of their very Unreason—"certum est quia ineptum!" They cannot be expressed, for they are above knowledge. To some extent we…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 56

Liber Aleph

…ithdraw himself from a like Danger, cast out forever from the Mountain of Salvation; and Parsifal, who yielded not, able to exercise the true Power of Love, and thereby to perform the Miracle of Redemption. Of this also have I myself written in my Poema called Adonis. It is the same with Food and Drink, with Exercise, with Learning itself, the Problem is ever to bring the Appetite into right Relation with the Will. Thus thou mayst fast or feast; there is no Rule than that of Balance. And this Doctrine is of general Acceptation among the better …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 109

The Sword of Song

… of Bhuddism have been summed up by the Buddha himself. To me, of course, what the Buddha said or did not say is im material; a thing is true or not true, whoever said it. We believe Mr. Savage Landor when he affirms that Lhassa is an im portant town in Tibet. Where only probabilities are concerned we are of cours e influenced by the moral char- acter and mental attainments of the s peaker, 1 See Childers, Pali Dictionary, s.v. Nibbana.

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1930 · PDF PAGE 62

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…nd that which nourisheth ail created Life. 3. Hear Thou Me, for I am the Angel of PTAH - APO- PHRASZ - RA (vide the Rubnc) : this is Thy True Name, handed down to the Prophets of KHEM. 266

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1961 · PDF PAGE 101

Liber Aleph

…st that conscious Thought is but phenomenal, the Noise of thy Machine. Now Chemistry, or Al-Chem-y meaneth the Egyptian Science, and the true Magick of Egypt hath this for its Foundation. We have in our House many Substances which act directly upon the Blood, and many Practices of Virtue similar, to simulate, compose, purify, analyse, direct, or concentrate the Thought. Confer CCXX. II, 22. But this Action is subtle and of man Modes, and dependeth heavily on the Conditions of the Experiment, whereof the first is thine own Will therein. Therefor…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 127

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 115 Dk De Cantu (Of Song) O then, o my Son, there is my Wisdom, that the Voice of he Soul in its true Nature Eternal and Unchangeable, comprehending all Change, is Silence; and the Voice of the Soul, dynamic, in the Way of its Will, is song. Nor is there any Form of utterance that is not, as song is, the Music proper to that Motion, according to the Law. Thus, as thy Cousin Arthur Machen hath rejoiced to make plain unto Men in his Book called “Hieroglyphics,” the first Quality of Art is its Ekstacy. So, night to all …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 139

Liber Aleph

…Speed, as one will. Yet is this Work but a false Magical Artifice, temporary and of Illusion; for thy Masterpieces are but Monsters, not true Variations, and if thou leave them, they revert swiftly to their own proper and authentic Type, because that Type was fitted by Experience to its Environment. So every Variation must be left free to perpetuate itself or perish, not cherished for its Beauty, or guarded for its Appeal to thine Ideal, or cut off in thy fear thereof. For the Proof of its Virtue lieth in the Manifestation of its Power to survi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 147

Ambergris

… life at the lips of the sage, Its love at the lips of the dew. With kisses and tears The return of the years I sure as the starlight is true. Yet the drift of the stars is to beauty, To strength, and to infinite pleasure. The toil and the worship and duty Shall turn them to laughter and leisure. Were the world understood Ye would see it was good, A dance to a delicate measure. Ye fools, interweaving in passion The lyrical light of the mind ! Go on, in your drivelling fashion ! Ye shall surely seek long and not find. From without ye may see All…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 46

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…his holt, Whence let no dog dare draw him; let him skulk ! All is an empty broken hulk Floating on waters of derision, Save for the sole true vision, Angela, star in chaos! Breathe, breathe deep! Dear heart of gold, beat slowly in suft sleep ! Ifer lover watches over Angela. Angela! O thou wondrous woman, Thou chaste pale goddess blooded to the human, Artemis rosy like Hippolyta !? Ay, my lord, were it true, your liar’s lore, (Oh blasphemy !) were my young love an whore, 1 Possibly the Hippolyta in ‘‘ Midsummer Night’s Dream.” An hag of sixty ;…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

Mortadello

…HE ANGEL OF VENICE 81 MORTADELLO. The devil may have wrought This miracle on you. MONICA. And on St. Francis too ! Between the false and true there’s wisdom’s work to do. MORTADELLO. Well, this I know for sure, you are possessed. MONICA. Possessed ? Ay, there lies many a lure of perfume in my breast. MORTADELLO. Ha ! did Orlando sin with you ? I guessed aright. MONICA. Have you no wage to win ? Day’s wont to follow night. MORTADELLO. Cynic as wanton. MONICA. Well ? Come, you are cold, you are cold ! MORTADELLO. She-devil sprung from hell ! Wher…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 111

Liber Aleph

…is Shadow, it cometh and goeth even as the tides of Ocean; and he only is in Darkness who is hidden by that Shadow from the Light of his true Self. Now therefore understand thou the Formula of Horus, the Lion God, the Child crowned and conquering that cometh forth in Force and Fire! For thy Changes are not Phases of thee, but of the Phantoms which thou mistakest for thy Self. c

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1919 · PDF PAGE 280

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Glory to thee from wait- ing womb! Men. Glory to Thee from earth unploughed! Women. Glory to Thee from virgin vowed! MEN. Glory to Thee, true Unity Of the eternal Trinity! Women. Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam And self of Iam that Iam! MEN. Glory to Thee, beyond all term, Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! Women. Glory to Thee, eternal Sun, Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One! Cuorus. Glory and worship unto Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! (These words are to form the substance of the an- them; but the whole or any part thereof …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 137

Liber Aleph

… Therefore save and except he interferes thereby with the root Laws of common Weal, a man is free to develop as he will according to his true Nature. s

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1907 · PDF PAGE 16

The Star in the West

FOREWORD IN N “ Frazer's Magazine ” of November, 1866 , may be found the following : “ Wherever there is any kind of true genius , we have no right to drive it mad by ridicule or invective ; we must deal with it wisely, justly , fairly . Some of these passages which have been selected as evidence of (the poet's ) plain speaking, have been wantonly misunderstood . The volume , as a whole , is neither profane nor indecent . A little more clothing in our uncertain climate might perhaps have been attended with advantage . To us this volume , for th…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 51

Liber Aleph

… my Son, that in this Argument I have set Limits to individual Freedom. For each Man in this State which I purpose is fulfilling his own true Will by his eager Acquiescence in the Order necessary to the Welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. But see thou well to it that thou set high the Standard of Satisfaction, and that to everyone there be a surplus of Leisure and of Energy, so that, his Will of Self-Preservation being fulfilled by the Performance of his Function in the State, he may devote the remainder of his Powers to the Satisfac…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 65

Liber Aleph

…ne, might not be turned to high Purpose and assured Success upon another. For an hundred Acorns, rightly set in Conditions fit for their true Growth, will become an hundred Oaks, while otherwise they make but one Meal for one Hog, and their subtle Nature is wholly lost to them. Learn then, o my Son, this Mystery of Œconomy, and apply it faithfully and with Diligence in thy Work. b

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1961 · PDF PAGE 116

Liber Aleph

… the general Formula is Love, so that their habit itself urges them to the Bed of our Lady BABALON. Know then the Black Brothers by this true Sign of their Initiation of iniquity, that that they resist Change, restrict and deny Love, fear Death. Percutiantur. o

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1961 · PDF PAGE 134

Liber Aleph

…R ALEPH VEL CXI 122 D% De Ioco suæ Mœchæ (Of the Sport of his Mistress) ESIST not Change, therefore, but act constantly according to thy True Nature, for here only thou standest in Sorrow, if there be a Division conscious of itself, and hindered from its Way (whose Name is Love) unto its Dissolution. It is written in The Book of the Law that the Pain of Division is as nothing, and the Joy of Dissolution all. Now then here is an Art and Device of Magick that I will declare unto thee, albeit it is a Peril if thou be not fixed in that Truth and in…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 17

The God-Eater

…ght. The room is lighted by electricity, the globes being the eyes of strange sculptured stone beasts on the walls.] So far the story is true. [Drinks a little.] Why, that 1s better already. I am again the priest of Maurya—who is the brother of Maurya? A trivial ape

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