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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… murdered me With one soft touch of her most tender lips ; For dying on her breast, love’s face I see: Love calls me back from death; my spirit slips Back to the old forgetfulness, ere I Was risen to life’s surface, virgin-pure To tinge my soul with the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we, being de…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 226

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… murdered me With one soft touch of her most tender lips ; For dying on her breast, love’s face I see: Love calls me back from death; my spirit slips Back to the old forgetfulness, ere I Was risen to life’s surface, virgin-pure To tinge my soul with the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we, being de…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 10

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

To watch thy wantonness weeping through The tangled grove, the gnarléd bole Of the living tree that is spirit and soûl And body and brain — corne over the sea, (loPan! IoPan!) Devil or god, to me, to me, My man ! my man ! Corne with trumpets sounding sbrill Over the hill ! Corne with drums low muttering From the spring! Corne with flûte and corne with pipe! Am I not ripe? I, who wait and writhe and wrestle With air that hath no boughs to nestle My body, weary of empty clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp — Corne, O corne! I am numb With …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 258

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…most Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight ; Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Lo! on the barren bosom, on the brine, The spirit of the Mighty One arose, A flickering light, a formless triple flame, The self-begotten, the impassive shrine, The seat of Heaven’s archipelagoes; Yet lighted not the glory whence it came, Nor shone upon the surface of the sea. Time, and the Great One, and the Nameless Name, Held in their grip the child, Eternity. Silence and Darkness in their womb with- held That spiritual fire, and brooded still: Natu…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 6

Jezebel

2 JEZEBEL My body towards the city turns, My spirit seeks its fierier goal ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered self ; I grew at last A prophet chosen of the Lord ; I blew the trumpet’s iron blast That called on Zimri Omri’s sword ; My voice inflamed the fiery steel That was to smite upon Jezreel. And now, I haste from yonder sands, With fervour filled, to say God’s doom To Ahab of the bloody hands, The spoiler of his father’s tomb, The slayer of the vineyard king. God’s judgment, and his fa…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 11

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…— Yea, but as strong as the storm-smitten sea, Their forehead consecrated with the dew, Their heart made mighty: let my voice decree, My spirit lift their standard: clear and true Bid my trump sound, “ Let all the earth be free!” With thine own strength and melody made strong, And filled with fire and light of thine own song. Only a boy’s wild songs, a boy’s desire, , I bring with reverent hands. The task is ended— The twilight draws on me: the sacred fire Sleeps: I have sheathed my sword, my bow un- bended : , So for one hour I lay aside the l…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 25

Oracles

…h song ! Glory, praise and honour unto Us alone ! Christians’ necks our footstool, Heaven itself Our throne ! P.S.—BELOVED BRETHREN,—The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. For I, like Balaam (in the old legend), was compelled to express our real feelings and not our pretended ones. This, of course, absolutely ruins the adaptation. In fact, I am not certain as to whether it does not rather give us away ! Alas ! we are only poor, weak, failing creatures ! Your broken - hearted, broken - winded, broken - kneed brother, JUDAS CAIAPHAS…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 104

Orpheus

…Delphian gold, the Ephesian quiver, To float down Time for ever and for ever ;— I am thy lyre and thou mine harper: thou My music, I thy spirit: thou the lover And I the bride: the glory of my brow Deeper delight, new ardour, to discover Stoops in thine heart ; my love and light endow Thy life with fervour as I bend me over The starry curve and surface of the sea, And kiss thy very life out into me. O central fountain of my yearning veins! O mountain single-soaring, thou art blended Into my heaven : prescient of the pains That shall bring forth…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 20

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

xx PRELUDE. _Completing Truth in its amazing span :— “ Godhead is made the Spirit that is Man.” To whose white mountains, and their arduous ways, Turn we our purpose, till the faith that slays Yield up its place to faith that gives us life, The faith to conquer in the higher strife ; Our single purpose, and sublime intent, With their spilt blood to seal our sacrament, Who stand among the martyrs of the Light; Our single purpose, by incarnate might Begotten after travail unto death, To live within the light that quickeneth ; To tread base though…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 349

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…EPHIROTl-l [Vide S.D. 528]?רפ Terror?ףר 1r 281 A crown—Ashes?רפא Attire; adorned?ראפ 282 Angels of ΒΜ], and of?םילארא Malkuth of Brial‘l Spirit of Lives D"l'|?הור ?וז283 Aurum inclusumבהז ?רונט Memoriale. [Vide no. 964]?ןורכז That goes on foot?םילגר 284 Geomantic Intelligence?לאחבמא of Π The small area o( an en-?!רערע closed garden 285 286 High, lofty?םורמ 287 Pars Azymorum?ןמוקפא Night Demonחג013? Dec. δ?ראפו Little?ר`עז Geomantic Intelligence of?לאירוט 288 ?רועיב Day Demon of 15‘ Dec. "1??רפש Breeding, beating; offspring.?רוב'ע [Vide κυ, L.C.…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 349

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…EPHIROTl-l [Vide S.D. 528]?רפ Terror?ףר 1r 281 A crown—Ashes?רפא Attire; adorned?ראפ 282 Angels of ΒΜ], and of?םילארא Malkuth of Brial‘l Spirit of Lives D"l'|?הור ?וז283 Aurum inclusumבהז ?רונט Memoriale. [Vide no. 964]?ןורכז That goes on foot?םילגר 284 Geomantic Intelligence?לאחבמא of Π The small area o( an en-?!רערע closed garden 285 286 High, lofty?םורמ 287 Pars Azymorum?ןמוקפא Night Demonחג013? Dec. δ?ראפו Little?ר`עז Geomantic Intelligence of?לאירוט 288 ?רועיב Day Demon of 15‘ Dec. "1??רפש Breeding, beating; offspring.?רוב'ע [Vide κυ, L.C.…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 10

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…cient 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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1905 · PDF PAGE 73

Collected Works (Vol. I)

66 JEPHTHAH Of earth, and leave thy mantle, and thy lyre, A double portion of thy spirit to render, That yet the banner may fling out on high, And yet the lyre teach freemen how to die! Master, the night is falling yet again. I hear dim tramplings of unholy forces : I see the assembly of the foully slain : The scent of murder steams: riderless horses , Gallop across the earth, and seek the inane : The sun and moon are shaken in their courses : The kings are gathered, and the vultures fall Screaming, to hold their ghastly festival. Master, the s…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… practices (wicked little sister !) you cannot banish the body by bidding it keep silence. So it must be banished by exhaustion, and the spirit awakened by a sevenfold dose of the Elixir.” “ Have you the Elixir?" she asked, rather awed. “It is entrusted to me,“ he answered simply. ”To this laudable end I have appointed a sufficiency of Bisque Kadosh at the Cafe Riche, followed by Homard Cardinal and Truffes au champagne With a savoury of my own invention. The truffes au champagne of the Cafe Riche are more to be desired than all the hashish drea…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… practices (wicked little sister !) you cannot banish the body by bidding it keep silence. So it must be banished by exhaustion, and the spirit awakened by a sevenfold dose of the Elixir.” “ Have you the Elixir?" she asked, rather awed. “It is entrusted to me,“ he answered simply. ”To this laudable end I have appointed a sufficiency of Bisque Kadosh at the Cafe Riche, followed by Homard Cardinal and Truffes au champagne With a savoury of my own invention. The truffes au champagne of the Cafe Riche are more to be desired than all the hashish drea…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ntic Intelligence?לאיךבלמ of 'T‘ A destitute female 7“)? The Congregation. [Vide?להק no. 161] [Vide K.Da L.C.Ki p, 673]?הלק Σ (1-16). ll Spirit of u?לאזנםה Intelligence of [! '?לאיפה The Avenging Angelךאלמ ?לאוגה 132 Ι33 134 Ι35 Fines, penalties IV)?) A voice?יליק ar 137 A wheel?ןפוא

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1912 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ntic Intelligence?לאיךבלמ of 'T‘ A destitute female 7“)? The Congregation. [Vide?להק no. 161] [Vide K.Da L.C.Ki p, 673]?הלק Σ (1-16). ll Spirit of u?לאזנםה Intelligence of [! '?לאיפה The Avenging Angelךאלמ ?לאוגה 132 Ι33 134 Ι35 Fines, penalties IV)?) A voice?יליק ar 137 A wheel?ןפוא

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1944 · PDF PAGE 184

The Book of Thoth

…emham‐ phorasch. Nor is even this Name, “Lord of the Universe” though it be, truly Divine, as are the Lords of the Atu in the Element of Spirit. Each Atu possesses its own private, personal and particular Universe, with Demiourgos (and all the rest) complete, just as every man and every woman does. For example II’s or VI’s Three of Disks might represent the establishment of such an oracle as that of Delphi, or VIII’s might be the first formula of a Code such as Manu gave to

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1961 · PDF PAGE 105

Liber Aleph

…our Elements) ONCERNING the Use of chemical Agents, and be mindful that thou abuse them not, learn that the Sacrament itself relateth to Spirit, and the Four Elements balanced thereunder in its Perfection. So also thy Lion himself hath a fourfold Menstruum for his Serpents. Now to Fire belong Cocaine, which fortifieth the Will, loosing him from bodily Fatigue, Morphine, which purifieth the Mind, making the Thought safe, and slow, and single, Heroin which partaketh as it seemeth, of the Nature of these twain aforesaid albeit in Degree less notab…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 199

Collected Works (Vol. I)

192 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST One moment, and I should have passed be- yond Linked unto Spirit by the fourfold bond. Not dead to earth, but living as divine, A priest, a king, an oracle, a shrine, A saviour! Yet my misty spirit conned The secret murmur: ‘‘ Gereth, Iam thine !” [ must have listened to the voice of hell. The earthly horror wove its serpent spell Against the Beauty of the World: I heard Desolate voices cry the doleful word “*Unready !”’ All the soul invisible Of that vast desert echoed, and concurred. The voices died in mystery…

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