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1910 · PDF PAGE 26

Ambergris

… fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darken, she hath not her will Of deeds beyond recall, that shall endure : For us, these three divinest glasses fill, Fill to the brim with lustrous dew, nor fail To leave the blossom and the nightingale, Loves earlier kiss, and manhood’s glowing prime ! Let these suffice. Shall man or Fate prevail ? Low, we are blind, and dubious fingers grope In Despair’s dungeon for the key of Hope ; Lo, we are chained, and with a broken rhyme Would file our fetters and enlarge our scope. Yet ants may move the …

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1917 · PDF PAGE 4

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

…ctuary: my hope is drawn om wells profounder than the very sea. ea, Lam come, where least I guessed it so, Into the very Presence of the Three That Are beyond all Gods, And now I know E spiritual Light is drawing me ‘0 its stooping splendour. In my soul

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1961 · PDF PAGE 197

Liber Aleph

…e Temple when They bade me welcome o their Order, appointing a Siege for me in the City of the Pyramids, under the Night of Pan; but for three Years I was not willing to avail myself thereof. Now mark well this, o my Son, that this Path was peculiar to the law of my Star, and none other should follow me herein, or seek to follow me, for he hath his own proper Orbit. O my Son, err not by Generalisation and Conformity, for this is the very Idleness, and breedeth Ideals and Standards that are Death. t

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1913 · PDF PAGE 16

Book 4 (Part II)

…rformed in accordance wdth that are holy. The scourge tortures him; the dagger wounds him; the chain binds him. It is by virtue of these three that his aspiration remains pure, and is able to consecrate all other things. He wears a crown to affirm his lordship, his divinity; a robe to symbolize silence, and a lamen to declare his work. The book of spells or conjurations is his magical record, his Karma. In the East is the Magick Fire, in which all burns up at last.^ We will now^ consider each of these matters in detail. ^ He needs nothing else …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 24

Book 4 (Part II)

…h/ About this Tau is escribed a triangle, which is inscribed in the great Circle; but of the triangle nothing is actually marked but the three corners, the areas defined by the cutting of the lines bounding this triangle. This triangle is only visible in the parts which are common to two of the ^The Ten Sephiroth are the Ten Units. In one system of classification (see " 777 ") these are so arranged, and various ideas are so attributed to them, that they have been made to mean anything. The more you know, the more these numbers mean to you.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 234

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e right to reside in our Profess-Houses for a portion of every year, as shown:— VI°. Two weeks. VII°. Two months. G.T. One month. S.G.C. Three months. P.R.S. Six weeks. VIII’. Six months. 52. Members of the IX°, who share among themselves the whole property of the Order according to the rules of that degree, may, of course, reside there permanently. In- deed, the house of every Brother of this grade is, ipso facto, a Profess-House of the Order. FIFTH HOUSE 53. All Brethren may expect the warmest co-operation in their pleasures and amusements fr…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 295

Magick Without Tears

…tand but who described Himself as "The Minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat' (the Lord of Silence). " Prospectus of book says it's been published three times before; adds, sinisterly, that first publication was nine months before outbreak of Balkan war, second, nine months before outbreak of world war, third, nine months before outbreak of Sino-Japanese war. No coincidence, it says: "the might of this Magick burst out and caused a catastrophe to civilisation. " Well, we'll see next September . ..

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1907 · PDF PAGE 127

The Star in the West

… your righteousness is filthy rags Wherein ye strut , and hide the one base thought . To mask the truth , to worship , to forget ; These three are one .“ The moral character of a nation is its true capital , and the two great laws of existence are The 2 Ibid . 414 . 1 Beverland , 238 . 3 Oracles , vol . ii, p . 5. 4 Orpheus , vol . iii, p . 208 .

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1909 · PDF PAGE 131

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…blind him, rush in with my dagger—he gave back and back in a circle round the courtyard. “No sound came from the room above. Probably we three were alone. The fight was not to be prolonged for ever; the weight of the fur would tire me soon, counter- balance the advantage of age. Then, almost before I knew what had happened, we were fighting in the street. I would not cry for help; one was more likely to rouse a bandit than a guardian of the peace. And, besides, who could say how the law stood ? “T had certainly killed a lady; I was doing my bes…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 131

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…blind him, rush in with my dagger—he gave back and back in a circle round the courtyard. “No sound came from the room above. Probably we three were alone. The fight was not to be prolonged for ever; the weight of the fur would tire me soon, counter- balance the advantage of age. Then, almost before I knew what had happened, we were fighting in the street. I would not cry for help; one was more likely to rouse a bandit than a guardian of the peace. And, besides, who could say how the law stood ? “T had certainly killed a lady; I was doing my bes…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 113

The Scented Garden

… confess to fantastic license in translation of this curious passage. But some of the words are not Persian or anything else, and two or three seemed me formed in this manner. For example, I have translated [Persian text] “ Allah knows ” rea- sonably enough ; and [Persian text] Shayadistan, Perhaps — country, is well for “ maybe ”, while [Persian text] “ happy memory ” justifies “ Sweetit- was.” But what shall I say of [Persian text] and the rest — mangled though suggestive roots ? Possibly the poet knew very little about ships and their name. …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 455

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Mysticism . Part II. Magick (Theory) Part III. Magick (Practice) PartIV. The Law. . . Cottecrep Works oF ALEISTER CrowLey (India Paper). Three Volumes Boundin Vellum, ties, with photographs Lizer VII (Japanese vellum, black and gold, bound in vellum) , Lisrr CXX, XXVII, CCCXIII. (Japanese vellum, black and ‘gold, boundin vellum) | Lrert LXI and LXV (Japanese vellum, ‘black and ‘gold, bound iinn vellum) THE STAR IN THE West, by Captain J. F. C. Fuller THE UNIVERSAL PUBLISHING CO. Retail Department $7 Grand River Avenue Detroit, Michigan « $0.25 …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 203

The Winged Beetle

…tton. OSSORY. But I shall be hammered, my dear child. We shall all have to go to the workhouse ! EUPHEMIA. [coldly]. I thought mamma had three thou- sand a year of her own. OSSORY. That’s just what I say. The workhouse ! EUPHEMIA. My dear father, I really can’t pity you. I think you’re a fool, and you’ve insulted me. Good morning ! [She goes out. OSSORY. Oh, the disgrace of it, the shame of it ! She little knows—How will the Receiver look at that Gala- pagos turtle deal ? Receivers are damned fools. And juries are worse. Ah, Phemie, so little a…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 17

Tannhäuser

… must not be taken as ungracious if I so speak. From nearly all I have received the utmost justice, kindness, and consideration : two or three only seem to take delight in deliberately perverting the sense of my remarks : and to them, for their own sake, I now address these words of elementary instruction. You are perfectly welcome to do with my work in its entirety what Laertes did with his allegiance and his vows : but do not pick out and gloat over a few isolated passages from the Venusberg scenes and call me a sensualist, nor from the Fourt…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 33

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…or some days my ponderous and unwieldy bollocks had become turgid and swollen with the fluid we know, my boy, you dog ! As spunk. Eighty-three pounds and four ounces they weighed on the penny-in-the-slot machine at our village station, and had it not been for the singular ro- bustness of my physique, unenervated by de- bauch, I should have seen myself condemned to share the unenviable lot of the Samoan with ele- phantiasis of the scrotum, and support my too generous endowments with a wheelbarrow. Fortu- nately this extreme measure was not requi…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 85

The Star in the West

… Love burns pure as a flame , and if it is , as it is here , between a married woman and a lover | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 232 . 2 The Three Shadows , Rossetti . 3 In the second edition , the first edition began with White Poppy .

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1910 · PDF PAGE 241

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…orell Barnes, or some name like that! EUPHEMIA. But you will, won’t you? carr. No, I won't, will I? [Sings.] “I have a wife and bairnies three, And I’m no sure how ye’d agree, lassie!” EUPHEMIA. What? [She releases herself. CARR. Well, the wife’s dead, as a matter of fact. Her name was Hope-of-ever-doing-something-in-the-Wide-Wide. But the bairns are alive: young Chemistry, already apt at repartee —I should say retort; little Biology, who’s rather a worm between you and me and the gate-post ; and poor puny, puling, sickly little Metaphysics, wi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 241

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…orell Barnes, or some name like that! EUPHEMIA. But you will, won’t you? carr. No, I won't, will I? [Sings.] “I have a wife and bairnies three, And I’m no sure how ye’d agree, lassie!” EUPHEMIA. What? [She releases herself. CARR. Well, the wife’s dead, as a matter of fact. Her name was Hope-of-ever-doing-something-in-the-Wide-Wide. But the bairns are alive: young Chemistry, already apt at repartee —I should say retort; little Biology, who’s rather a worm between you and me and the gate-post ; and poor puny, puling, sickly little Metaphysics, wi…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 269

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…g.” my breeches— worse than Plato’s in his bonnet. -M. A Scottish sceptic ! S. A Wee Free, Mysticus. . A gaelic- speaking Calvinist with three thousand million bawbees in my sporran and a brace of bed-ridden cattle-thieves in my kirk. So I withdraw breeks. AZ. And you rely not on Plato? S. Verily and Amen. As the French lady exclaimed, O mon Plate !—she would not say Platon, having already got one rhyme in ‘ mon ’—and the Italian took her up that omoplat was indeed good to support the head, wherein are ideas. But to our divided middle ! a Mf. A…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 38

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…d experi- ment is perfectly easy to perform. It is best to learn by “travelling” with a person already experienced in the matter. Two or three experiments will suffice to render the student confident and even expert. See adso ‘‘The Seer,” pp. 295-333. 28

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