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1914 · PDF PAGE 12

Chicago May

…tole ‘What she had given me herself: she took The body, wants the mind, would take the soul If she knew any longer where to look. No, my good sow. You take what you have paid for; ‘The other matters you were never made for. ‘That is her curse. She feels and knows she has Nothing of any value, feels and knows She is cast out for ever, cannot pass From her own mire to my eternal snows. She could not, would not; yet is not exempt From feeling all my close-concealed contempt.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 199

The Winged Beetle

…ible. DELHOMME. Ah, fairest of maidens, well I know your English coyness and modesty ! [Taking her hand.] Ah, give me this pure hand for good, for ever ! This hand which has been ever open to the misery of the poor, ever closed to box the enemies of your country ! EUPHEMIA. It is not mine ! DELHOMME. I do not understand. I am too worn a slave in the world’s market for my fettered soul to grasp your innocence. Ah ! you are vowed to Our Lady, perhaps ? Yet, believe me—

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1899 · PDF PAGE 76

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…p, and waking served? O horrible distortion of all truth That I must serve thee still. Thy word’s a lie, That if I keep my silence, I do good To her, the milk-white virgin sacrifice, And only smite the bloody father down! A lie, Isay! A lie! Yet—dare I speak, Those eyes upon me, torturing my soul And threatening revenge? His fingers gross, Purple, and horrible, to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat. O Hell! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood, But make not me the devilish minister Of such a…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 28

The World’s Tragedy

…, we can enjoy our property without alarm. Young men ! there is the enemy. I am no coward, I hope ; and believe that I may make a fairly good general — at least no traitor. But without an army I am useless ; a Napoleon at St Helena. Give me my army, young men ; and we will sweep these dogs into the sea. Those in the front rank will have the honour of getting killed first.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 107

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…nown unto me in divers places, upon the mountains and in the deserts, but also in great cities, which thing I speak for your comfort and good courage. And so be it unto all of you! Know first, that from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the centre of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. And these four are Light, Life, Love, and Liberty. Io1r

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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

The Rosicrucian Scandal

…and, the change of climate cured at least temporarily his disease. and he instantly abandoned the practice. Scorpio, K.C. He left you on good terms? MatHeErs. Yes. Scorpio, K.C. And you have never quarrelled with him since? Matuers. Never. Scorpio. K.C. Then why do you detame him now and allow the vilest crimes to be imputed to him? Matuers. Anything to damage Crowley! Scorpio, K.C. Did you quarrel with him ever at the time? MatHERS. Yes. Scorpio, K.C. Let me read you the published account of your quarrel: seen, induced Mathers to put in force …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 118

The Star in the West

…r Crowley . On our book -shelves his works stand literary pickled birches , to administer to our mental ultimatums a corrective dose . A good purgative is an excellent thing taken now and again , it keeps both the bowels free and the mind clear , and Mrs. Grundy is nothing if she be not constipated . “ Thou poisonous bitch , ” says Crowley , when he addresses a Spenserian verse to Mrs. Sally G--d , 1 Tannhäuser , vol i, p. 249. 2 lbid .

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1912 · PDF PAGE 26

Mortadello

8 MORTADELLO MAGDALENA. I thank you, my good lord. This hand I place in yours. Shall help you to hold fast our land, while life endures. The faith of Mortadello guard, his love keep warm. Alike his city and his ward, from hate and harm. MORTADELLO. God grant it. All is now arranged, the council firm. The houses hostile or estranged all brought to term, The Doge content, the Church well bribed, the navy ours, None left that might have circumscribed our parted powers. That blessed hour that joins our hearts and hands in one Sees also the State’s …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 66

Mortadello

…ng his people to their own. It’s we that build the church, it’s we that gild the throne. SHACKABACK. I have a great idea ; Our bonds are good as gold. Suppose we lent and borrowed, never bought or sold ? ISRAEL. What do you mean ? SHACKABACK. Suppose we made our paper pass All through the world, what use for silver, gold, and brass ? ISSACHAR. Why, that’s a great idea ; we could do business then Without a coin ! SHACKABACK. Why yes ! what think you, gentlemen ? ISRAEL. That no one would accept our paper. ISSACHAR. That’s a bar ! SHACKABACK. Whe…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…denying therewith. High-minded, not easily satisfied with small and limited ideas. Apt to be maligned through too much self—assumption. A good and generous, but sometimes foolish natured Yesod of( ?הComplete success, pleasure and happiness, wishes fulfilled). Therein rule the Angels?הילאמand .א`רע7?ו XLIV THE LORD OF PERFECTED SUCCESS Ten ofCuþs or Chalice: HAND, as usual, holding bunch of water-lilies or lotuses, whose flowers pour a white water into all the cups, which all 71111 over. The uppermost cup is held sideways by a hand, and pours water…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…denying therewith. High-minded, not easily satisfied with small and limited ideas. Apt to be maligned through too much self—assumption. A good and generous, but sometimes foolish natured Yesod of( ?הComplete success, pleasure and happiness, wishes fulfilled). Therein rule the Angels?הילאמand .א`רע7?ו XLIV THE LORD OF PERFECTED SUCCESS Ten ofCuþs or Chalice: HAND, as usual, holding bunch of water-lilies or lotuses, whose flowers pour a white water into all the cups, which all 71111 over. The uppermost cup is held sideways by a hand, and pours water…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 57

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…an convey our experience to others familiar with that experience to a less degree by the aesthetic method. And this explains why all the good work on Yoga- alchemy, magick and the rest—not doctrinal but symbolic—the word of God to man, is given in Poetry and Art. In my next lecture I shall endeavour to go a little deeper into the technique of obtaining these results, and also give a more detailed account of the sort of thing that is likely to occur in the course of the preliminary practices. Love is the law, love under will. 4—Tannhäuser, writt…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 303

Magick Without Tears

270 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS gambling! And a good riddance, at that! Well, there is one advantage in the system; it does help the intelligent man to steal a march on his neighbours! In all this the important point for my present purpose is to show you how entirely this question of probability and coincidence is dependent on your attention . The sequence BBBBBBB at roulette is most unlikely to occur; but so, in exactly the same degree, is the sequence B R B R R B R or any other sequence. The one passes unnoticed, the other causes surprise, only beca…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 483

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… in a huff, a sagging, shapeless suet pudding. He then sent Henry Hall, who had married a French wife and learnt courtesy. He had read a good deal of good stuff and possessed natural intelligence. I found him charming. He confirmed my diagnosis of W. T. Stead, whom he interviewed. In walking down the street, Stead broke off every minute or two to indulge in a lustful description of some passing flapper and slobber how he would like to flagellate her. Hall wrote a clever and accurate article about the evocation of Bartzabel. I dined at Cosegrave…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 54

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…t was the same thing. Christianity was the official religion with which it was convenient to comply, just as it is convenient to go to a good tailor. It was, in short, a political paganism. I don't suppose that I appreciated this fact at the time, in that way. My attitude was determined by the unquestionable beauty of ecclesiastical architecture and the comparative dignity of the ritual. But when I discovered that chapel was compulsory I immediately struck back. The junior dean halled me for not attending chapel, which I was certainly not going…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 63

Eight Lectures on Yoga

… own part. It took me a long while before I understood what was meant by 'tendency.' To help you to realise this I should like to find a good illustration. For instance, a clock does nothing at all but offer indications of the time. It is so constructed that this is all we can know about it. We can argue about whether the time is correct, and that means nothing at all, unless, for example, we know whether the clock is controlled electrically from an astronomical station where the astronomer happens to be sane, and in what part of the world the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 77

Mortadello

…is right arm hanging use- less by his side. He staggers and gasps. SOLDIER. Pardon me ! All’s lost. MONICA. Nay, say nothing yet ! Be of good courage. God’s a host they have not met ! ORLANDO. What is it ? SOLDIER. The damned hunchback ’tis so bloodily That bears it. The two gates are his. We can but die. ORLANDO. Is he run mad ? A convent ! SOLDIER. Mad ! he’s mad with lust And blood. Yet by his side he had the Archbishop. ORLANDO. Trust His wit to find a trick for that ! SOLDIER. So now we fight In the very court. ORLANDO. I’ll hurl me at his…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 564

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ing of our body the portrait of our soul, guarantees its resemblance for ever, and tirelessly retouches it. You pretty women who are not good, be sure that you will not long remain beautiful. Beauty is the loan which Nature makes to virtue. If virtue is not ready when it falls due, the lender will pitilessly take back Her capital. Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys, creates at the same time a fatality of needs which urges it to its own destruction, to its death. The less the perverse man enjoys, the more thirsty…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 564

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ing of our body the portrait of our soul, guarantees its resemblance for ever, and tirelessly retouches it. You pretty women who are not good, be sure that you will not long remain beautiful. Beauty is the loan which Nature makes to virtue. If virtue is not ready when it falls due, the lender will pitilessly take back Her capital. Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys, creates at the same time a fatality of needs which urges it to its own destruction, to its death. The less the perverse man enjoys, the more thirsty…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…re easy to be unloosed.” “Nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good.” ZOROASTER. CoMPaRABLE to the Alf Laylah was Laylah itself, a very Tower of Babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the Herb—Hashish—the Herb Dangerous. Of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic many have been appalled, many disappointed. Few have dared to crush in arms…

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