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1926 · PDF PAGE 30

Liber Al vel Legis

…Hoor-Khuit! 39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret and not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; a…

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1937 · PDF PAGE 3

Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government

… Let my servants be few and secret: they shall rule the many and the known. 40. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. 42. Thou hast no right but to do thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 57. Love is the law, love under will. CHAPTER II. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No ! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen; who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leap…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 35

Jephthah

…e me on the road of happiness To the far goal of heaven. Would to God It might be so a little ere I die! CHORUS OF ELDERS. This doubtful word his fuming lips gave forth: A maiden shall be slain for many men. This only of his fury seemed obscure. JEPHTHAH. A maiden shall be slain for many men. Surely, O people, and men of Israel, The prophecy is happy to the end. For see yon moon that creeps inviolate Against the corner of the mountains so, Slowly and gracefully to lighten us. So, ere three nights be gone, the course of heaven Shall be most mons…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…rystallised of the gods who swing the chains Of the worlds in space ; and at the heart of thee Shall be the secret knowledge, the sacred word, The logos of the throbbing universe. And the years shall pass in myriads over the tree Whereon thou bloomest, O my Rose of the worlds 1 And one shall pluck thee forth, and love and death Shall lie together, and there shall be born He who shall bear for ever into life The rose-tipped lilies under the silent stars, The silent stars, and the red-blushing roses. O Rose, my Rose of the world, my Rose of Roses…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…rystallised of the gods who swing the chains Of the worlds in space ; and at the heart of thee Shall be the secret knowledge, the sacred word, The logos of the throbbing universe. And the years shall pass in myriads over the tree Whereon thou bloomest, O my Rose of the worlds 1 And one shall pluck thee forth, and love and death Shall lie together, and there shall be born He who shall bear for ever into life The rose-tipped lilies under the silent stars, The silent stars, and the red-blushing roses. O Rose, my Rose of the world, my Rose of Roses…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 182

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…e world, Where love is blind with lust, and hate grows strong On thine immortal song; Nor do the world’s winds blow Abroad the forbidden word, in thee, in thee impearled. My Rose! my Rose! my Rose! my ensanguined Rose, Blood o’ the heart of the love transcending life, Than death more cool, more eloquent, more still : There is moonlight on the hill, But thou art gone, as goes The promised joy of thee, the world’s still-virgin wife. They spurn thee from the temples of their Lady, Nor know the passion of thy virgin will, Nor heed the murmurous son…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 182

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…e world, Where love is blind with lust, and hate grows strong On thine immortal song; Nor do the world’s winds blow Abroad the forbidden word, in thee, in thee impearled. My Rose! my Rose! my Rose! my ensanguined Rose, Blood o’ the heart of the love transcending life, Than death more cool, more eloquent, more still : There is moonlight on the hill, But thou art gone, as goes The promised joy of thee, the world’s still-virgin wife. They spurn thee from the temples of their Lady, Nor know the passion of thy virgin will, Nor heed the murmurous son…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 52

Liber Aleph

…ER ALEPH VEL CXI 40 An De Voluntate Iuvenum (Of the Will of Children) ONG, o my Son, hath been this Digression from the plain Path of my Word concerning Children; but it was most needful that thou shouldst understand the Limits of true Liberty. For that is not the Will of any Man which ultimateth in his own Ruin and that of all his Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume that it is always an essential Part of the Will of any Child to grow to Manhood or to Womanhood in Health, and his …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 30

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ide, Till all the air took fire from that melodious roar ; All the mute mountains heard, Bowed, laughed aloud, concurred, And passed the word along, the signal of wide war. All earth took up the sound, And, being in one tune securely bound, Even as a star became the soul of silence most profound. IV. Thus there, the centre of that death that darkened, I sat and listened, if God’s voice should break . _And pierce the hollow of my ear that hearkened, Lest God should speak and find me not awake> For his own sake. No voice, no song might pierce or …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 41

The Mother’s Tragedy

…I grope—TI fall! What name is this That strikes my spirit as a broken bell Struck by some devilish hammer? In my brain Reverberates some word impossible. O I am broken on the wheel of death ; My bones are ground in some infernal mill ; My blood is as the venom of a snake, Striking each vessel with unwonted pangs, Killing all good within me. I am—Ah! MADELINE. Dear friend, dear friend, seek comfort in my arms! Look to Our Lady of the Seven Stars! CORA. Can you not see? I am cut off from God! Loathsome bull-men in their corruption linked Whisper …

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1902 · PDF PAGE 139

Tannhäuser

…n, smitten, slain— When—one unknown, a pilgrim with the rest. Darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes. Reached to the sceptre with his word and will — Buds, roses, blossoms ! Lilies of the Light ! Bloom, bloom, the fragrance shed upon the air ! ^i7

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1899 · PDF PAGE 34

Tale of Archais

…palate with extreme desire, And like a Mænad maddened ; equal fire Leapt in his veins ; locked close for love they lie, The heart’s dumb word exprest without a sigh In the strong magic of a lover’s kiss, And the twin light of love ; but Archais Felt through her blood a sudden chill ; her face Blanched and besought a moment’s breathing space ; Her heart’s desire welled up, and then again Whitened her cheeks with the exceeding pain Of uttermost despair. At last her strength Failed, and she flung her weary body at length Amid the bruiséd flowers ;…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 54

The Mother’s Tragedy

…asons and of stars gave ear, and these Vaults of the heaven heard The great white Light that shaped its secrecies Into one holy terrible word, | Higher than all words spoken; for He said: ‘‘ Death is made change, and only change is dead.” For the most holy spirit of a man Burns through the limit of the wheels that ran Through all the unrelenting skies When Icarus died, And leaps, the flight of wise omnipotent eyes, When Deedalus espied

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1907 · PDF PAGE 103

Konx Om Pax

…ssion’s min was not pain; But my pain wears another fashion; My dead men do not rise again. You hurt me, and the silent skin Whispers no word of bleeding bruises; Your subtle hate, your cunning sin Brands and corrodes me where it chooses. I fear not them that kill the body, But rather them that hurt the soul: My soul with your disdain is bloody; Your stripes are none to make me whole. Could you but see my vitals torn, My nerves on rack, my tortured spirit— Of all the ills to mortals born This is the sorest to inherit. If you could see the brand…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…(1—32) 528 23’ $529 Afl’atura ollaris cum?הך'רקT)": iusculo dulci Day Demon of 3rd Dec. 93?ירופיש 53° The Rose?תלצבח Voices?תלק Tekel, a. word of the ‘wrifing?לקה on the wall’ at Belshazzar’s fabled feast 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘material’ world 537 Emanatio ; Atzlluth, the?חילצא Archetypal World Medulla spinalis?הררשהmn Apertio uteriרטפ ?םהר 538 Daughter of the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 367

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…(1—32) 528 23’ $529 Afl’atura ollaris cum?הך'רקT)": iusculo dulci Day Demon of 3rd Dec. 93?ירופיש 53° The Rose?תלצבח Voices?תלק Tekel, a. word of the ‘wrifing?לקה on the wall’ at Belshazzar’s fabled feast 53I 532 533 Heaven of J'esodלבט ןוליו ?םימש of Malkuth King of Tenorsךלמ תוהלב 534 A certain Name of GOD?קשרלק 535 536תילט הנבל תולטמ A white cloak Sphere of the fixed stars 51 The World of Assiah,םלוע ?הישעה the ‘material’ world 537 Emanatio ; Atzlluth, the?חילצא Archetypal World Medulla spinalis?הררשהmn Apertio uteriרטפ ?םהר 538 Daughter of the…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 3

Hymn to Pan

…y, weary of empty clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp— ' Come, O come! Tam numb With the lonely lust of devildom. ; ‘Thrust thy sword through the galling fetter, All-devourer, all-begetter; Give me the sign of the Open Eye, And the token erect of thorny thigh, And the word of madaess and mystery, j © Pan! Io Pan! To Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan, Tamaman: Do as thou wilt, as a great god can, Pan! Io Pan! To Pan! Io Pan Pan! Iam awake In the grip of the snake. ‘The eagle slashes with beak and claw; The gods withdraw: ‘The great beasts co…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 84

The Book of Thoth

XI. LUST This Trump was formerly called Strength. But it implies far more than strength in the ordinary sense of the word. Technical analysis shows that the Path corresponding to the card is not the Strength of Geburah, but the influence from Chesed upon Geburah, the Path bal‐ anced both vertically and horizontally on the Tree of Life (see diagram). For this reason it has been thought better to change the traditional title. Lust implies not only strength, but the joy of strength exercised. It is vigour, and the rapture of vigour. “Come forth, o…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 53

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…e me on the road of happiness To the far goal of heaven. Would to God It might be so a little ere I die! CHORUS OF ELDERS. This doubtful word his fuming lips gave forth: A maiden shall be slain for many men. This only of his fury seemed obscure. JEPHTHAH. A maiden shall be slain for many men. Surely, O people, and men of Israel, The prophecy is happy to the end. For see yon moon that creeps inviolate Against the corner of the mountains so, Slowly and gracefully to lighten us. So, ere three nights be gone, the course of heaven Shall be most mons…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 79

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e short day’s dalliance fugitive! Speed hither through the enchanted air Our ladies, for our faith’s rewardl Would it not sharpen every sword And perfume every prayer? Love sharp as holly and pure as snow, And kisses Beneath the moon for mistletoe! SIR RAYMOND. Something ill sung, Jocelyn, and too sadly, forsoothl Here the hermits are foul and malicious. I would clear the land of them. SIR JAMES. Spies, every one. And enchanters to boot. SIR EUSTACHE. The maids are worse, to my mind. Think of the gallant Florimond, as tall a knight of his hands…

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