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1911 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… You treat me as if I were a pebble in the sand. Nothing moves you. RINALDO. Love moves me‘ LAYLAH. We are opposites in all. RINALDO. So Nature hath ordained. Man hates his neighbour : but when he finds his opposite, he loves it. All joy is the warfare of enemies, from the clash of lance and sabre, when Saracen meets Christian on the plain to—this, when Christian crushes Saracen in his arms and— [He elasps her. LAYLAH. Oh! [The ?}]]/!67 is overturned and the water flow: oni. RINALDO. I love you. LAYLAH. I am a speck of dust in the simoom. RINALDO…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… You treat me as if I were a pebble in the sand. Nothing moves you. RINALDO. Love moves me‘ LAYLAH. We are opposites in all. RINALDO. So Nature hath ordained. Man hates his neighbour : but when he finds his opposite, he loves it. All joy is the warfare of enemies, from the clash of lance and sabre, when Saracen meets Christian on the plain to—this, when Christian crushes Saracen in his arms and— [He elasps her. LAYLAH. Oh! [The ?}]]/!67 is overturned and the water flow: oni. RINALDO. I love you. LAYLAH. I am a speck of dust in the simoom. RINALDO…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 62

Little Poems in Prose

… man who has well toiled and has deserved well of the whole world. Strange country, superior to all others, as Art is to Na- ture, where nature is re-formed by dream, where she is corrected, beautified, re-moulded. Let them seek, let them still seek; let them ever push back the limits of their happiness, these alchemists of gardening; let them pro- pose their prizes of sixty and one hundred thousand florins for whoever shall solve their ambitious problems; for me, I have found my black tulip and my blue dahlia. Incomparable flower, re-discovere…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 59

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…force is a kind of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. Take a substance 1 symbolic of the whole course of nature, make it God, and consume it, There are many ways of doing this; but they may easily be clas- sifîed according to the number of the éléments of which the sacra- ment is composed. The highest form of the Eucharist is ihat in which the Elément consecrated is One» It is one substance and not two, not living and not dead, neither liquid nor solid, neither bot nor cold, neither male nor female. This sacramen…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 373

Magick Without Tears

…xquisite, how delicate, first flush of dawn upon the glowing meadows! The young man who is courting is not idle, either; he serves great Nature in yet other ways. He is taking a prize cow to be "served": on him depend our milk, cheese, butter veal and beef. He also contributes to our Wienerschnitzel Holstein, our Filet de Boeuf a la Robespierre, our Sole au Gratin and our oeufs a la Neige. 340

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1954 · PDF PAGE 439

Magick Without Tears

…the use of the word faith to imply conscious belief of any sort. At least, if there should ever be an element of awareness, it is of the nature of a sudden leap into daylight of the quintessence of a mass of subconsciously selected and ordered experience. Then what , if you please, did Paul mean when he wrote "Faith is the substance of things hoped-for, the evidence of things unseen." Oh, spot the Lady! Love is the law, love under will. Yours, 666

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1961 · PDF PAGE 95

Liber Aleph

…d Will vehement, toward him, as I have written in many Books. But because thou art NEMO, thou mayst safely invoke him, no matter of what Nature, within thy Circle. Now then do thou confer on him as a Guerdon of his Obedience the Dignity of a Soul seeking Incarnation, and so precede to consecrate thine Act by performing the Mass of the Holy Ghost. Then shall that Spirit make himself Body from those Elements, and thou partaking thereof makest thine own Body his Machinery of Manifestation, and thus mayst thou work with any Spirit soever; yet this …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 258

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…lime, In one dark miracle of flame Unluminous and void: the silent claim Of that which was, to be: the cry to climb, The bitter birth of Nature: uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight ; Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Lo! on the barren bosom, on the brine, The spirit of the Mighty One arose, A flickering light, a formless triple flame, The self-begotten, the impassive shrine, The seat of Heaven’s archipelagoes; Yet lighted not the glory whence it came, Nor shone upon the surface of the sea. Time, and the Great One, and…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…the sheets of our family four-poster. If unions were sanctioned outside the marriage bond, even if such unions were only of an ephemeral nature, there would be no necessity to procure young girls, for natural love-making would take the place of state-fostered abduction. The root of the evil lies neither in the inherent lust of man after woman, which is natural, or of woman after gold, which shows her business-like capabilities; but in the unhealthy point of view adopted by the general public. There is nothing more disgusting in the act of gener…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…the sheets of our family four-poster. If unions were sanctioned outside the marriage bond, even if such unions were only of an ephemeral nature, there would be no necessity to procure young girls, for natural love-making would take the place of state-fostered abduction. The root of the evil lies neither in the inherent lust of man after woman, which is natural, or of woman after gold, which shows her business-like capabilities; but in the unhealthy point of view adopted by the general public. There is nothing more disgusting in the act of gener…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 60

777

… and tracing the heptagram unicursally, the order of the days of the week is obtained. Cor. CLXXVIII.—These intelligences are angelic in nature, but possessing material and even earthy dominion. Hence they preside over the geomantic figures, whose nature indeed expresses their relation to man. Cor. CLXXXI.— Line 1]1.—He laughs; bearing a sphere containing Illusion in his left hand, but over his right shoulder, and a staff 463 lines long in his right. A lion and a dragon are at his feet, but he seems" unaware of their attacks or caresses,

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1929 · PDF PAGE 517

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… French rather neatly call le-struggle-for-lifeisme; and that with the absolute moral certainty of being completely beaten from the very nature of things. In a country where the most week and ignorant, the least intelligent and resourceful, find it easy enough on the whole to earn a fairly decent living, and where the slightest capacity of almost any sort makes it a safe bet that ten years will put its possessor in Easy Street, I was to find myself a candidate for complete destitution. For many months I was, for the first time in my life, const…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 66

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…e Fathers, male-female, desire Thee! ” (The conception is of Earth, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Hippopotamus * 1 of a Venereal nature.) Hear IVfe. and make ail Spints subject unto ]Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether: upon The Earth and under the Earth: on dry land and in the Water: of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire: and every Spell and Scourge of God may be Spirit. aMale-Female Spints!” aMale-Female Sires!” aYe that are Gods, going forth, uttering AUMGN. (The Word that goeth from (A) Free Breath. (U) throug…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 13

White Stains

…ception of note, till this day unsuspected, in the person of George Archi- bald Bishop. In a corner of Paris this young poet (for in his nature the flower of poesy did spring, did even take root and give some promise of a brighter bloom, till stricken and blasted in latter years by the lightning of his own sins) was steadily writing day after day, night after night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises ; bye-and-bye the whole world should know his name. Of th…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…t thou that hast assumed His Throne? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. I am the Mother of the Gods and the Sister of Time and the Daughter of Space. I am Nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. . . . . , . Brother Leo, I am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the Lion. Behold ! I strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. I command thee to declare me unto the multitude. LEO. Lo ! in the interstellar space of night Clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces Abidethe dawn of deity and light, Vibrate before the passionless pale fa…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…t thou that hast assumed His Throne? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. I am the Mother of the Gods and the Sister of Time and the Daughter of Space. I am Nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. . . . . , . Brother Leo, I am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the Lion. Behold ! I strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. I command thee to declare me unto the multitude. LEO. Lo ! in the interstellar space of night Clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces Abidethe dawn of deity and light, Vibrate before the passionless pale fa…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 70

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…easing alternative! Probably the real trouble was due to the fall with his horse months before. The microscope failed to reveal its real nature; but it was evidently nothing serious.) 9. Operation performed with little pain. My display of cowardice (he asked for a drink of water during the operation, which was done with only local anaesthetics. But he had made up his mind not to speak during the operation, unless to make a joke) may be partly excused by my general nervous break-down, I hope.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 70

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…easing alternative! Probably the real trouble was due to the fall with his horse months before. The microscope failed to reveal its real nature; but it was evidently nothing serious.) 9. Operation performed with little pain. My display of cowardice (he asked for a drink of water during the operation, which was done with only local anaesthetics. But he had made up his mind not to speak during the operation, unless to make a joke) may be partly excused by my general nervous break-down, I hope.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 13

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… this reflection inspire you with noble sentiments ; may you be penetrated with a religious abhorrence of every vice that degrades human nature; and may you feel the elevation of soul which scorns a dishonour- able action, and ever invites to the practice of piety and virtue. “These are the wishes of a father and a brother con- joined. Of you the greatest hopes are raised; let not our xiii

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… this reflection inspire you with noble sentiments ; may you be penetrated with a religious abhorrence of every vice that degrades human nature; and may you feel the elevation of soul which scorns a dishonour- able action, and ever invites to the practice of piety and virtue. “These are the wishes of a father and a brother con- joined. Of you the greatest hopes are raised; let not our xiii

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