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1899 · PDF PAGE 9

An Appeal to the American Republic

…teep in its unquiet rest The old years whose red hands have made us great. O fair republic, strong and swift, unbind The shackles of thy mind : More than our kin ye are ; henceforth not less than kind. Bind on the splendid sandals, and unloose The burning horses, and fling wide the reins ! From cold Archangel unto Syracuse Europe shall see and tremble and ask truce, And new blood pour through Asia’s wasted veins. Our Empire from Guiana to Hong Kong, In your new love made strong, Shall last while earth is glad because of sun and song. And O ! ye…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 98

Tannhäuser

…Between two fingers, dreamily enough ! Then, too, you went away out of my life ! You see the symbol you have been to me ? The swift high mind, the heart of gold and fire. The living purpose and the mystic life Of lonely seeking for the Grail of God ! I—call you husband ? When I said your name, It was to set the task impossible :— Had they but known it —just as one should say : " Bring down St Michael : let me marry him ! " They knew the angels were too pure ; but you, They guessed not how exalted were your hopes ; How utterly unselfish, pure, a…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 210

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…coiled and constricted and chosen ! Ο tortured and twisted and twined! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind! As a bright snake curled Round the Vine of the World !

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1911 · PDF PAGE 210

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…coiled and constricted and chosen ! Ο tortured and twisted and twined! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind! As a bright snake curled Round the Vine of the World !

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1954 · PDF PAGE 7

Magick Without Tears

27 Structure of Mind Based on That of Body 198 28 Need to Define "God" and "Self" 202 29 What Is Certainty? 209 30 Do You Believe in God? 215 31 Religion: Is Thelema a "New Religion"? 218 32 How Can a Yogi Ever Be Worried? 220 33 The Golden Mean 223 34 The Tao (1) 227 35 The Tao (2) 231 36 Quo Stet Olympus: Where the Gods 240 and Angels Live 37 Death-Fear-Magical Memory 242 38 Woman-Her Magical Formula 247 39 Prophecy 255 40 Coincidence 265 41 Are We Reincarnations of the 271 Ancient Egyptians? 42 This "Self" Introversion 274 43 The Holy Guardi…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 152

Liber Aleph

…that offereth Beauty and Ecstasy in the Orgasm of every Change, and that exciteth thy Wonder and thy Worship by the Contemplation of Her Mind many-wiled! Blessed be She, that hath filled Her Cup with every Drop of my Blood, so that my Life is lost wholly in the Wine of her Rapture! Behold, how She is drunken thereon, and staggereth about the Heavens, wallowing in Joy, crying aloud the Song of uttermost Love! Is not She thy true Mother among the Stars, o my Son, and hast thou not embraced Her in the Madness of Incest and Adultery? Yea, blessed b…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 269

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… God! [All eomeferwam’; SATURN and LIBRA linked; LUNAana' PISCES linked; and?!לעשla him,] LUNA. The Treason is accomplished. PISCES. The mind is nobler than the body. SATURN. Friendship is holier than love. LIBRA. Nature is overcome by wit. PISCES. How shall we adore thee? TAURUS. As you like it. SATURN. What shall we sacrifice? TAURUS. What you will. [LUNAplays a meto "811203?/??מוALL bowing in adoration to MERCURVJ LIBRA. Brother, what is the hour? PISCES. Dawn. LIBRA. Let us depart unto the work of the clay. ALL. Amen. * Moto perpetuo: Ries. …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 269

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… God! [All eomeferwam’; SATURN and LIBRA linked; LUNAana' PISCES linked; and?!לעשla him,] LUNA. The Treason is accomplished. PISCES. The mind is nobler than the body. SATURN. Friendship is holier than love. LIBRA. Nature is overcome by wit. PISCES. How shall we adore thee? TAURUS. As you like it. SATURN. What shall we sacrifice? TAURUS. What you will. [LUNAplays a meto "811203?/??מוALL bowing in adoration to MERCURVJ LIBRA. Brother, what is the hour? PISCES. Dawn. LIBRA. Let us depart unto the work of the clay. ALL. Amen. * Moto perpetuo: Ries. …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 386

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… seek satisfaction in spiritual spheres, the religious instincts to realize their sublimity through ritual, and to assist the scientific mind to see that even the most materialistic concept of the cosmos was ultimately mystical, that though mind might be merely a function of matter, yet that matter might equally well be represented as a manifestation of mind. The sequel will show how I fared in this ambitious adventure.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 22

Tale of Archais

…sky. Speak but thine anger quickly ; let me die ! ” “ But I forgive thee, thou art good and kind. ” “ O love ! O love ! O mistress of my mind, You love me ! ” “ Nay, I was a while afraid, Being so white and tender ; for a maid I lived alone with flower and brook, nor guessed Another dwelt within the quiet nest

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1905 · PDF PAGE 161

Oracles

…l Sideways each step towards the House of Wrong, “ Were but one choice demented. Choice is small Here though. (A flash of insight in his mind) Which of these three gets answer to its call ? “ Yon shallop ?—leave to Galahad ! Resigned Yon hermit to be welcome Lancelot ! For me—the inn—what fate am I to find ? “ Who cares ? Shall I seek ever—do ye wot ?— But in the outré, the obscure, the occult ? My Master is of might to lift me what “ Hangs, veil of glamour, on my ‘ Quisque vult,’ The morion’s motto : to exhaust the cross, Bidding it glow with …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 117

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…mariner with tarry hand ; The clerk, with pale and foolish brow, His brain bought cheap for brainless grind: The bloodless martyr of the mind ! Grow up the grades, O godlike hand, Rodin, most rightly named ‘ August”! Thy splendid sons and daughters stand Obedient to the master ‘‘ must.” The decadent dust thy spells assoil ; Death lives in this, thy Tower of Toil. Grow up the grades! record the tasks These arduous phantoms have achieved! The growth of mind to mortals asks A power not swift to be believed. What bosoms heaved ere Nature’s age From…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 184

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ning lips, While Eos blushes in the sky, to find A fairer, queenlier maiden, and as kind To man and maid, whose eyes are lit by the same mind. Thou hast, as Pallas hath, a polished shield, Whose Gorgon-head is Hatred, and a sword Sharper than Love’s. Thy wisdom is revealed To them who love, but thou hast aye abhorred The children of revenge, to them is sealed Thy book, so clear to me. Thy book where seven sins their sceptres wield, And seven sorrows track them, and one joy Cancels their infamy ; Shame and regret are fused to an alloy, Whose dro…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 132

The Soul of Osiris

…e All-Divine ! Ship that shalt carry me by many winds Driven on the limitless ocean ! Mighty sword, By which I force that barrier of the mind’s Miscomprehension of its own true lord ! Listen, and answer, and behold my brow Fiery with hope ! Bend down, and touch it now ! Press the twin dawn of thy desirous lips In the swart masses of my hair ; bend close,

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1903 · PDF PAGE 27

Ahab and Other Poems

…nefs a firange feature. Dea, Ferily! fypond felicf As He machinery of man’s nature! SF Hus [pake Solomon iy Rind OF body, Sf of foul and mind! The Casy accents ffir at Café The fen&d air: “OF, Wherefore, ford, Be Gp foul fad? This Weary fale Strikes & mp feart a fonelp (Word!” Ay Grief Words feammemd forth Sf [poke Moy feat; and tHe long (poll Broke. And noWw tHe gilwd fin of fer Zeapt and Was Cambent iy a (miles “© Bike me But Cate fo mmifter EGHis Kingdom for a Little White! Ele Binepard (hal & Hine. © Ring, This trouble is a Little Hing!” S …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 153

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… recover my ordinary health. I lived on a low level, {263} without desire even to die. I began to understand the psychology of Allan. My mind was abnormally clear: I was cleansed of the contamination of desire. Nothing was worth wishing for; I did not even complain of suffering. This state of mind is a useful experience. Something very similar can be induced artificially by fasting. I recovered quite suddenly, though the cachexia continued. I was quite well, but felt extraordinarily weak. The curious thing about malaria is that one seems to lac…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 144

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…med to him that they were insidious obstacles to true spiritual progress; that their occurrence, in reality, broke up the control of the mind which he was trying toe establish and prevented him from reaching the ultimate truth which he sought. He had the strength of mind to resist the appeal of even these intense spiritual joys. Like physical love, they persuade their dupe to put up with the essential evil of existence. As for myself, I had become impatient with the whole business. Dhyana had washed my brain completely out. I went on this pilgr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 29

Moonchild

…is all part of the assumption of baby-hood," said Cyril, coldly "and a bad one; for there is no reason why obsession by a baby's soul or mind should interfere with adult reflexes. The real reason is that this woman comes from the lowest sewers of Buda-Pesth. She was a common prostitute at the age of nine, and only took up this game as a better speculation. It is part of her pleasure to abuse the licence we allow her by such bestialities: it is a mark of her black envy; she does not understand that her foulness does not so much as soil our shoe-…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 119

Orpheus

… life, And in sweet shapes of art: The same thought for the ointment and the knife— Oh lightning! blast the image of my wife _ Out of my mind and heart! How can one hour dissolve a year’s delight ? One arrow striking the full eagle-flight Drop him so swift, giving no time to die, No dusk to herald and delay the night? A serpent stung her sleeping: if the abyss ‘Know any cell more dolorous than this, Were there a sharper tooth to destiny Than this that strikes me in the dead girl’s kiss :— O if aught bitterer could be, could know, If nine-fold S…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 144

Orpheus

…that binds me, as in Panic Dance to some grasp unthinkable, Titanic, Unto the words fresh flowers that distil Uttermost fragrance in the mind and will, The unsuspected blossom! Whatis the change—new birth of spring-time kisses Alonein all these water-wildernesses ? What change? what loveliness ! Comes this to all? I heard my sisters crying No tale like this—O! were I only lying Asleep amid the ferns, my soul would weep Over and over in its endless sleep; ‘Yes, love!” and “yes!” and “yes!” So by some spell divinely drawn She came to me across th…

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