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1924 · PDF PAGE 10

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…nt you privately a full statement, supported by documents, not only refuting your editor’s calumnies, but containing sufficient positive truth concerning Mr. Crowley’s life and work to prove that the case put forward by the Sunday Express was as false in the spirit as in the letter. I did everything I could to ensure that these representations should come to your personal — 10 —

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1930 · PDF PAGE 13

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…aswear obedience and faith to Him that liveth and triumpheth, that reigneth above him in His palaces as the Balance of Righteousness and Truth” by the Names used in that évocation. It is then only necessary to formulate the Oath or Charge in language harmonious with the previously announced purpose of the operation. Tlie précaution indicated is not to let oneself sink into one’s humanity while the weapon is extended beyond the Circle. Were the force to flow from it to you instead of from you to it, you would be infallibly blasîed, or, ai the le…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

Book 4 (Part II)

…of, all real religious experience. The whole life of Frater Perdurabo is now devoted to seeing that you obtain this living experience of Truth for, by, and in yourselves! SoROR ViRAKAM (Mary d'Este Sturges).

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1930 · PDF PAGE 24

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…word, 20 The Prophet of the Eternal, the Magus of the Voice of Power. 21 The Lord of the Forces of Life. 22 The Daughter of the Lords of Truth; The Ruler of the Balance. 23 The Spirit of the Mighty Waters. 24 The Child of the Great Transformers. The Lord of the Gâte of Death. 25 The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer-forth of Life. 26 The Lord of the Gates of Matter. The Child of the forces of Time. 27 The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty. 28 The Daughter of the Firmament; the Dweller between the Waters. 29 The Ruler of Flux & Reflux. The …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 97

Liber Aleph

…ISDOM OR FOLLY 85 Gz De Missa Spiritus Sancti (Of the Mass of the Holy Ghost) OW at last, o my son, may I being thee to under- stand the Truth of this Formula that is hidden in the Mass of the Holy Ghost. For Horus that is Lord of the Æon is the Child crowned and conquering. The formula of Osiris was, as thou knowest, a Word of Death, that is, the Force lay long in Darkness, and by Putrefaction came to Resurrection. But we take living Things, and pour in Life and Nature of our own Will, so that instantly and without Corruption the Child (as it …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 41

Clouds Without Water

…dent intentness of my cat-green eyes Flecked with red fire is like a potion mixed Straight out of Lethe, or divination lies. If there be truth in augury, your lips Fastened to mine should be a certain spell To put your memory ot me in eclipse: — In short, if all be true that sages tell, Two days of absence with roast beef and beer Will cure me of you perfectly, my dear!

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1961 · PDF PAGE 162

Liber Aleph

…thy True Will the Mind is balanced about it, and confirmeth its Flight, as the Feathers upon an Arrow, so that thou hast a Touchstone of Truth, Experience holding thee to Reality, and to Proportion. Now therefore see from yet another Art of Heaven the Absolute Virtue of Our Law. t

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1905 · PDF PAGE 105

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…and true love Of his fair lady, and these songs shall be His hope, and his tradition, and his pride. Thus have I written for the sake of truth, And for his sake who bears his father’s sword— I pray God under my fond guardianship As worthily. Thus far, and §0—the end. THE HONOURABLE ADULTERERS I. I LooKED beneath her eyelids, where her eyes Like stars were deep, and dim like summer skies 3 I looked beneath their lashes; and be- hold ! My own thought mirrored in their maiden gold. Shame drew to them to cloud their light with lies, And shrank back…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 102

The Mother’s Tragedy

…t. Now, in that moment, quite a miracle! Through all the shell of miserable sin, Through all the blackness of the gulf of Hell, She sees Truth’s angel. She is locked within No irrefragable bars; her spirit woke From its dull slavery; her passion broke Her history’s prison, from that hour to endure Mighty as tempest and as spring wind pure. After a year her changed life met its fate. There came a man and loved her, and her soul The first time knew true sympathy. Elate, That pure joy filled her body’s broken bow! With infinite fresh fire and pure…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…dgment and reasonings had been so readily accepted by the others, grew in his turn a sceptic, since faith cannot live without doubt, and truth is only co-existent with untruth, as day with night, as life with death, as, O beloved! my heart with thine, as vain and coloured chatterings like this with noble and inviolate silence. Epwarb STORER. 324

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1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…dgment and reasonings had been so readily accepted by the others, grew in his turn a sceptic, since faith cannot live without doubt, and truth is only co-existent with untruth, as day with night, as life with death, as, O beloved! my heart with thine, as vain and coloured chatterings like this with noble and inviolate silence. Epwarb STORER. 324

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1911 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…Trnu, Lord of the City of the Sun ! The God who commands is in my mouth; The God of Wisdom is in my heart: My tongue is the sanctuary of Truth : And a God sitteth upon my lips! My word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of Ptah when he creates his works. I am Eternal; therefore everything acts according-to my designs, and everything obeys my words. Therefore I say unto Thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—light, All—power! Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, by …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…Trnu, Lord of the City of the Sun ! The God who commands is in my mouth; The God of Wisdom is in my heart: My tongue is the sanctuary of Truth : And a God sitteth upon my lips! My word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of Ptah when he creates his works. I am Eternal; therefore everything acts according-to my designs, and everything obeys my words. Therefore I say unto Thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—light, All—power! Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, by …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 31

Book 4 (Part I)

…had undoubtedly heard in his boyhood, and said “Gabriel appeared to me.” But in spite of his ignorance, his total mis- conception of the truth, the power of the vision was such that he was C

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1912 · PDF PAGE 107

Mortadello

…ite poppy holds poison and death. MONICA. Ah, well ! The whitest soul enfolds all mysteries of hell. ALESSANDRO. Ah ! there’s a mystic’s truth. MONICA. Saint Paul infers the same. All beauty and all youth but feed the eternal flame. Saints know, and only saints, the horrors of the soul, Its foul and fiery taints, its nigromancer’s scroll. Kneel, and love God. Enough if you would fathom hell ! The Path is straight and rough. MORTADELLO. If only it end well. For me the easy way has always proved the best. MONICA. So it may seem to-day, but death’…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 61

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ows, Poet, each word ! SNOWS Extending beyond sunset, beyond dawn ! O Rase, inviolate, utterly withdrawn Maiden, each burden ci i In the truth:—for this is truth: Love knows ! Ah! Kose of the World! Rose! Rose!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 107

The Scented Garden

… Possibly a pun with the word [Persian text] jazbat, which I have translated “ charm.” However there is (ac- cording to Mahbub) a mystic truth con- cealed. Arithmetic like all sciences was at one time considered magical by the vulgar ; to this day the “ magic squares ” of numbers of which the simplest cast is : 492 357 816 are attributed to the planets, and credited with su- pernatural powers. There is an Arab saying — I think by Averrhoes — “ God is the square root of man ” : and a certain very holy Fakir (only recently dead) determined to dis…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 85

Book 4 (Part II)

…oodness of God was such that wherever men had built a great city. He had placed a river to assist them in conveying merchandise. But the truth is that in no way can we imagine the Universe as devised. If horses were made for men to ride, were not men made for worms to eat?

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1954 · PDF PAGE 329

Magick Without Tears

… it. In other letters there is quite a lot of detail about the constitution of Man, and there is my Essay No. I, in Little Essays Toward Truth; you had better get these well fixed in your mind, in case some of what now follows should prove obscure. lean 't be bothered to define all the technical terms all over again. Do I believe in it? Yes. Why? 1. Because I remember a dozen or so of my previous lives on earth . (See Magick, Chapter VI.) 2. Because no other theory satisfies my feeling for justesse, for equilibrium, for Newton's Third Law of Mo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… 01 initiation. By the Right Use of the “ Key” alone the " Master Word ᾿᾽can be found. In order to afford genuine seekers after Hermetic Truth some information on the aims of the Ancient Order of Oriental Templars, we now print the preliminary instruction issued by the Fratres of this Order. FIRST INSTRUCTION T0 al! whom it may comem— Let it be known that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient order of sages, whose object is the amelioration and Spiritual elevation 01 mankind, by means of viii

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