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1907 · PDF PAGE 60

Rodin in Rime

…abit, and not ours that flee The intimate touch of love and think to sleuth By intellect all the scent of being, whirled In the wheel of time—roll back, slow years, and be A monument, a memory for me; That I may in their passion have a part, And feel their glory glow within my heart! II This holy rapture is the eternal spring, Here in the love that tunes the untrammelled feet, Here in the ardour of the arms that cling, The alluring amber-touch of sweet to sweet, The ageless awe of the new love revealed, The reverence of the new love hovering ni…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 279

Collected Works (Vol. II)

TIME 273 that Halley’s Comet, being the sole measure of time in use on his farm, was 133° S., entering Capricorn, at the very moment of the blow being struck. Myst. Tam glad you join me in ridicule of the scheme ; but do you quite grasp how serious the situation has become? Scept. I confess I do not see whither you would lead me. Your own computation strikes one as fantastic in the extreme. Myst, Who knows? Think, yourself, of certain abnormal and pathological pheno- mena, whose consideration might lay down the bases for a possible argument. Sc…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 45

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…norant of the existence of English literature and I became a first-rate French scholar without reading any French literature. In my play time I was either hunting flappers on the front, playing chess or climbing Beachy Head. My chess was almost entirely book learning and I was very mush surprised to find myself the best player in the town. For although the local champion insisted on giving me pawn and more, I beat him so easily every time I met him that the odds might have been reversed without making much difference {93} to the result. I edite…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 5

John Yarker – In Memoriam

IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER Absolute Sovereign Grand Master, Rite of Mizraim, 90°, from 1871 down to the present time. Received over twelve patents of 33° of the Supreme Council in various parts of the world. Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece by patent, July Ist, 1874. Hon. Member of Lodge 227, Dublin, 1872, and of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882—3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, w…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 53

The Mother’s Tragedy

…gotten hate And changeless circles of desire, Formless creations uncreate, Swift fountains of ungathered fire, The misty counterpoise of time, Dim winds of ocean and sublime Pyramids of forgotten foam Whirling, vague cones of shapeless sleep And infinite dreams, and stars that roam,

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1904 · PDF PAGE 86

In Residence

…serman of “ Tosca ” wild, I admit that I have certainly made plenty. But I find that in a Tripos (tis the Moral Scientific) I have never time to understand the question ; When the clock strikes I am only just beginning a terrific Answer after the completest of digestion. 74

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1904 · PDF PAGE 11

The Goetia

… create the Might and the Dap. Chee, that didst create the Darkness and the Light. Chou art Dsorronophris: Tabom no man hath seen at anp time. Chou art Jabas: Chou art Japos: Chou hast distinguished between the just and the Gnjust. Chou didst make the female and gale. Chou didst produce the Seed and the fruit. Chou Didst form gen to love one another, and to hate one another. Jam gposheh Chp JProphet, unto TAibom Chou didst commit Chp Wpsteries, the Ceremonies of Jsbrael: Chou didst produce the moist and the Ory, and that which nourisheth all cr…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 30

Rodin in Rime

… Toil. Below be miners fashioned fair, And all that labour in the sea Sepulchred from the ambient air, A fatal weird of dole to dree. No time to be, no light to live, Earth’s need to these hath hope to give. Above be various shapes of labour, The bodily strength, the manual skill; They shape the anvil and the sabre, The ploughshare and the bolt; they fill The myriad will of brains that boil: Their fame be thine, O Tower of Toil! 16

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1910 · PDF PAGE 77

Ambergris

…go. Her stature waves, as if a flower Forgot the evening breeze, But heard the charioted hour Sweep from the father seas, And kept sweet time within her bower, And hushed mild melodies. So grave and delicate and tall— Shall laughter never sweep Like a moss-guarded waterfall Across her ivory sleep ? A tender laugh most musical ? A sigh serenely deep ? She laughs in wordless swift desire A soft Thalassian tune ; Her eyelids glimmer with the fire That animates the moon :

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1961 · PDF PAGE 30

Liber Aleph

…by the Qabalists the Sleep of Shiloam, and of this doeth also Porphyry make mention mention, and Cicero, with many other Wise Men of Old Time. Compare, o my Son, with this Doctrine that which was taught thee in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis concerning the Death of the Righteous; and learn moreover that these are but particular Cases of an Universal Formula. n

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1909 · PDF PAGE 72

777

…ich has been variously described as “saintship,” “ Mahatma- ship,” ‘‘mastership,” ““adeptship,” and so on, according to the accidents of time and place. They consider that the time is now come for a more general diffusion of Their own knowledge, and have founded 7e Equinox as one means to that end. They wish to discover suitable pupils for special training. Such pupils must be prepared to work on strictly scientific lines. Prejudice and dogma must be laid aside. The Brothers of the A.°. A.*. do not ask for faith : They insist on each pupil maki…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 52

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…on and answer are limited in validity by their own conditions 3 and these conditions are such that truth may cease to be true, either as time goes on, or if it be flawed by the defect of failure to considei some circum- stances whose concealed operation cancels the contract. In a word, divination, like any other science, is justified of its children. It would be extraordinary should so fertile a mother be immune from still-births, monstrosities, and abomons. We none of us dismiss our servant science with a kick and a curse every time the téléph…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 143

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…d— , The fire of love no waters shall devour; Thou new strong nation! as the eagle} The faith of friendship stands the shocks aspires of time 5 To match the sun’s own fires, Seal with your voice the triumph of this hour, Children of our Jand, hear the children of | Your glory to our glory and our power, your sires. Alliance of one tongue, one faith, one clime ! Seal and clasp hands; and let the sea pro- We stretch out hands to-day when the white claim wings . 4 Friendship of righteous fame, ol eace are spread heneath you and your And lordship o…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 5

Moonchild

…ebrating her birthday for twenty-three hours without cessation as Big Ben tolled eleven. Lisa was having her fortune told for the eighth time that day by a lady so stout and so iron-clad in corsets that any reliable authority on high explosives might have been tempted to hurl her into Temple Gardens, lest a worse thing come unto him, and so intoxicated that she was certainly worth her weight in grape-juice to any Temperance lecturer. [11] The name of this lady was Amy Brough, and she told the cards with resistless reiteration. "You'll certainly…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 44

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…by means of a convention. Every aspect of every object may thus be referred to the Tree of Life, and evoked by using the proper keys. 9) Time and Space are forms by which we obtain (distorted) images of Ideas. Our measures of Time and Space 1 are crude conventions, and differ widely for different Beings. (Hashish shows how the same mind may vary.) 10) We may admit that any aspect of any object or idea may be presented to us in a symbolic form, whose relation to its Being is irrational. (Thus, there is no rational link between seeing a bell stru…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 83

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…for me, that I may go Two months upon the mountains, and bewail, I and my fellows, my virginity ! JEPHTHAH. Go! CHORUS OF MAIDENS. O the time of dule and teen! O the dove the hawk has snared ! Fate the cruel and obscene, Fate that snaps us unprepared, We, who else had dared Every mountain cold and keen, Cleft and stricken in between By the joy our bosoms shared ; Would to God we had not been, We, who see our maiden queen, Love has slain whom hate had spared. Sorrow for our sister sways All our maiden bosoms, bared To the dying vesper rays, Wher…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 87

The Mother’s Tragedy

…easons ; The earth has swept, exultant, round the sun; Our love has slept, and, sleeping, made us one. The thirteenth moon, be sure, the time of treasons ! Another spirit waves its pinions. Love vanishes : we hate each other's sight. In sullen seas sinks our sun-flaming light, Darkness is master of the dream-dominions. Lo! in thy womb a child! How rotten Seems love to me who love it as my soul! The love of thee hath broken its control, The misconceived become the misbegotten. In thee the love of me is broken. Fear, hatred, pain, discomfort mock…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 181

The Book of Thoth

… relating to actual money, there is a sort of strength in doing nothing at all. The problem of every financier is, first of all, to gain time; if his resources are sufficient, he always beats the market. This is the card of “putting something away for a rainy day”. Its attribution is Sol in Virgo; it is the card of the husbandman; he can do little more than sow the seed, sit back, and wait for the harvest. There is nothing noble about this aspect of the card; like all the Eights, it represents an element of calculation, and gambling is securely…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 23

The Goetia

…by the said Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his great knowledge, for by them in a short time he knew all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad: from these Notes it is called the NoTARY ART, etc. ART ALMADEL, do relate unto Good Spi- rits alone, whose knowledge is to be obtained through seeking unto the Di- vine. These two Books be also classed together under the Name of the First and Second Parts of the Book THEURGIA OF SOLOMON. (5) Tue Firru Book of the Lemege- ton is one of Prayers and Orations. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 21

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER Absolute Sovereign Grand Master, Rite of Mizraim, 90°, from 1871 down to the present time. Received over twelve patents of 33° of the Supreme Council in various parts of the world. Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece by patent, July ist, 1874. Hon. Member of Lodge 227, Dublin, 1872, and of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882-3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, w…

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