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1929 · PDF PAGE 255

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ticky sweat on one's body begins to evaporate and one's spirit to revive. There is a call to Chota Hazri. One steps out of the carriage. Good God! Not many miles away across the level to the east rise thickly wooded slopes, a confused tangle both of hills (as it seems) and of trees, and behind them again, still higher heights of misty purple and green. And then --- good God! Is it a mirage? Is it a phantom of hope created by courage from the chaos of nightmare? For there, above the highest hills, at an angle for which even one's experience of C…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdued. Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, But votive tears and symbol flowers. Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past. Oh, might it die or rest at last! Βκο. ARIES. 1-4444. The battle is indeed fought. SOL. IN ARIES. 333—333. The v…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 239

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdued. Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, But votive tears and symbol flowers. Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past. Oh, might it die or rest at last! Βκο. ARIES. 1-4444. The battle is indeed fought. SOL. IN ARIES. 333—333. The v…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 91

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…en. The old snake-skin dropped and Satan stood in his own shape, a radiant spirit. “ You bit me,” said Adam, embarrassed. “ For your own good ! God doomed you to death. My bite has filled your blood with a poison that will take away Death’s terrors, that will make him welcome even ! ” “ What is this poison called ? ” said Eve. And Satan replied “ Syphilis ! ” As he went away he laughed. God did not like to hear him. [91]

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1912 · PDF PAGE 71

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ought on A .'.) ,, 15. Thought a deal ofA ,, 16᾿Will think, again, not do the formal invocation. ,, 17. This thinking seems little or no good: but the fault is that the real P. is actually not thinking of A When he is, the invocation is unneces- sary; when he isn‘t, it’s feeble. What am I to do? (Should suggest sticking to it. D. D. S., whom I consulted, agrees.) ,, 18. The new method appears to be a mere dumb aspiration—a Prayer of Silence continued throughout the twenty-four hours. ,, 19. Worried all day, but aspired. ,, zo. Stitches out. Asp…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 71

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ought on A .'.) ,, 15. Thought a deal ofA ,, 16᾿Will think, again, not do the formal invocation. ,, 17. This thinking seems little or no good: but the fault is that the real P. is actually not thinking of A When he is, the invocation is unneces- sary; when he isn‘t, it’s feeble. What am I to do? (Should suggest sticking to it. D. D. S., whom I consulted, agrees.) ,, 18. The new method appears to be a mere dumb aspiration—a Prayer of Silence continued throughout the twenty-four hours. ,, 19. Worried all day, but aspired. ,, zo. Stitches out. Asp…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 20

Why Jesus Wept

… The twilight dangers of a boy’s dim way, His dragons to confront, his minotaurs to slay. Yet, when he knew himself the baronet, He took good order for the house, and bore Him as beseemed the master ; none may fret All are as well bestowed as aye before. His father’s eighty was with him fourscore. His father’s old advisers well he groups Into a closer company ; their lore He ardently acquires — he loops no loops, But — Bacon — grapples them to’s soul, with steely hoops ! You, lass, may see here for this Boy’s companions Virtue and Peace of Mind…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 33

The World’s Tragedy

…to my position. This lion can bite back. CHRISTIANITY But why — we may indeed ask — all this heavy me- tal to bombard a brothel ? Has no good thing come out of Nazareth?

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1929 · PDF PAGE 554

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…al, his motive had no logical link with his actions. It is therefore impossible to imagine any formula by which to judge him. So far, so good, but at least I failed to break up the complex which obsessed him. That is true, but I blame my inexperience and nowise the principles on which I proceed. I am not without excuse. Let me give one {874} example to illustrate the impossibility of guiding him or even enlightening his mind. He was anxious to do certain magical work, which forms part of the task of a Grade which he had not attained. In order t…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 96

Little Poems in Prose

…is ease; a fact which tended to confirm in the mind of the public the idea of grace and pardon. When one says of a comedian, “There is a good comedian,” one employs a formula which implies that beneath the person represented the comedian may still be found; that is to say, there is art, effort, will. Now, if a comedian succeeded in being, relatively to the character which it is his duty to express, that which the best statues of antiquity (miraculously ani- mated, living, walking, seeing, as they are,) are relatively to our general confused ide…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 140

Liber Aleph

…hy true Will letteth thee, so that there is Conflict, and the Humiliation of that Mind. Here will I call to Witness the common Event of “Good Resolutions” that defy the Lightning of Destiny, being puffed up by the Mind of an indigestible Ideal putrefying within thee. Thence cometh Colic, and presently the Poison is expelled, or else thou diest. But Resolutions of true Will are mighty against Circumstance. n

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1910 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX carr. Oh, Todd’s a good sort! I think I must be going, sir. EUPHEMIA. I wish you would stay and help me with the letters, Mr. Carr. We shall have a great deal to do in the next day or two. carr. Well, if you really wish it, I will try and be of what service I can. [carr, with his back to the audience, laughs with his hands, behind it. MRS. ossory. That is indeed kind of you, Professor! [carr’s hand-laugh grows riotous. GRANDFATHER. Where is Nurse? I want my whisky and milk. MRS. ossory. [Riugs.] I shall go down to lunch, Alfred. Lun…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 243

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…sible. 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. Iam too worn a slave in the world’s market for my fettered soul to grasp your inno- cence. Ah! you are vowed to Our Lady, perhaps? Yet, believe me: EUPHEMIA. Oh, sir, you distress me—indeed you distress me! 225

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1910 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX carr. Oh, Todd’s a good sort! I think I must be going, sir. EUPHEMIA. I wish you would stay and help me with the letters, Mr. Carr. We shall have a great deal to do in the next day or two. carr. Well, if you really wish it, I will try and be of what service I can. [carr, with his back to the audience, laughs with his hands, behind it. MRS. ossory. That is indeed kind of you, Professor! [carr’s hand-laugh grows riotous. GRANDFATHER. Where is Nurse? I want my whisky and milk. MRS. ossory. [Riugs.] I shall go down to lunch, Alfred. Lun…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 243

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…sible. 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. Iam too worn a slave in the world’s market for my fettered soul to grasp your inno- cence. Ah! you are vowed to Our Lady, perhaps? Yet, believe me: EUPHEMIA. Oh, sir, you distress me—indeed you distress me! 225

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1912 · PDF PAGE 95

Mortadello

…VENICE 79 If He could bear the scourge, the buffet, and the cross, What, shall His servants burn to avenge some paltry loss ? For shame, good Mother ! Duke, I beg to speak with you. I would take counsel with you how to quell this brew Of witches’ storm. Mount hither, I beseech you ! Friends, God will instruct us yet how all the turmoil ends. Wait here, and pray for me, that wisdom may inform My helmsman to ride through the centre of the storm ! MORTADELLO. Princess, you earn my thanks, even as you break my pride. I will speak with you, shamed. …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 119

Mortadello

…led, the poisonous bitch, livid and lean. And when I wed the crazy witch, God came between. Oh ! there are miles between her skin and my good sword ! Seal up her smiles, and thrust it in her bosom, Lord ! White cursed moons ! bewitch, betray you shall no more : My spirit swoons with lust to slay the spatulous whore. [THE LEGATE, attended, comes out of the church. Pss ! Pss ! here comes the snake, the black sly snake of Rome ! Once let my thumbs sink in his neck ! O damned dome

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1912 · PDF PAGE 366

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ii “py man 516 Lucus. [Vide K.D. L.C.K. AWN p. 168] Phylacterium Personae i) >) 517 Qliphoth of y. [Vide pyres no. 321, & Liber 777] The good gift, i.e. maw AND Malkuth Occultae. [Vide 417] mye Confractio. [Vide K.D. myvaw L.C.K. p. 698, et seq.] 518 519 Day Demon of 2" Dec. 0 W393 §20 Tears myn Legitium ws W521 Ignis descendens TY UN Angel of 2 P. mw) Nudatio candoris abn wnp G2

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1912 · PDF PAGE 366

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ii “py man 516 Lucus. [Vide K.D. L.C.K. AWN p. 168] Phylacterium Personae i) >) 517 Qliphoth of y. [Vide pyres no. 321, & Liber 777] The good gift, i.e. maw AND Malkuth Occultae. [Vide 417] mye Confractio. [Vide K.D. myvaw L.C.K. p. 698, et seq.] 518 519 Day Demon of 2" Dec. 0 W393 §20 Tears myn Legitium ws W521 Ignis descendens TY UN Angel of 2 P. mw) Nudatio candoris abn wnp G2

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1928 · PDF PAGE 61

Little Poems in Prose

…compose “Will you come with me?” That one may offer it to the beloved one, the soul’s sister! Yes, it is in this atmosphere that life is good—down there, where the slower hours contain more thoughts, where the clocks strike happiness with a deeper, a more meaning so- lemnity. Upon glittering panels or upon gilded leather, darkly rich, live pictures; pictures blesséd, calm and deep as the souls of the art- ists which created them. The setting suns which so richly colour the dining-room or the ‘drawing-room are sifted by fair stuffs or by high wi…

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