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1907 · PDF PAGE 58

The Star in the West

…ze , fresh as the dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic lust . So closely interwoven in spirit are the true lyrics with the remainder of his amatory poetry , that it would be dangerous to attempt to separate them , and such an attempt would almost certainly lead to repetition or a breaking of the chain of psychosexual sensations , dimming that lustre which thrills through these mag nificent verses , from the chaste kiss of a mother to the Phaedrian embrace of a Sadistic sow . In “ Why Jesus Wept,…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 489

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…lept. At dawn, I woke refreshed, had breakfast in a cabin hard by and wandered back to the railway. I had had a perfect holiday from the Spirit of America! The fresh morning air became articulate and whispered a sound in my ear. Hear it is: AT BIG TREES, SANTA CRUZ Night fell. I travelled through the cloven chasm ....To where the redwood's cloistered giant grove ....Sprung gothic and priapic; wonder wove God's glory, gathered in the Titan spasm Nature's parturient anguish. Murk pantasm ....Moving I seemed! I found the treasurer trove ....Of fir…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 371

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…divine, is manifested in the world. It is charity. The work of true religion should be to produce, to preserve, and to spread abroad the spirit of charity. To arrive at this end she must herself possess all the characteristics of charity, in such a manner that one could define her satisfactorily, in naming her, “ Organic Charity.” Now, what are the characteristics of charity? It is St. Paul who will tell us. Charity is patient. Patient like God, because it is eternal as He is. It suffers persecutions, and never persecutes others. It is kindly a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 587

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…re and humanity. One will feel that Christianity only brought light and heat into the universal temple by causing to descend therein the spirit of charity, which is the Very Life of God Himself. EPILOGUE Thanks be unto thee, O my God, that thou hast called me to this admirable light!__ Thou, the Supreme Intelligence and the Absolute Life of those numbers and those forces which obey thee in order to people the infinite with inexhaustible creation! Mathematics proves thee, the harmonies of Nature proclaim thee, all forms as they pass by salute th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 371

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…divine, is manifested in the world. It is charity. The work of true religion should be to produce, to preserve, and to spread abroad the spirit of charity. To arrive at this end she must herself possess all the characteristics of charity, in such a manner that one could define her satisfactorily, in naming her, “ Organic Charity.” Now, what are the characteristics of charity? It is St. Paul who will tell us. Charity is patient. Patient like God, because it is eternal as He is. It suffers persecutions, and never persecutes others. It is kindly a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 587

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…re and humanity. One will feel that Christianity only brought light and heat into the universal temple by causing to descend therein the spirit of charity, which is the Very Life of God Himself. EPILOGUE Thanks be unto thee, O my God, that thou hast called me to this admirable light!__ Thou, the Supreme Intelligence and the Absolute Life of those numbers and those forces which obey thee in order to people the infinite with inexhaustible creation! Mathematics proves thee, the harmonies of Nature proclaim thee, all forms as they pass by salute th…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 91

The Soul of Osiris

…as water in the sun Flecked by wonderful bars, most delicately crossed, Worked into wedded beauties, flickering, never lost— That is the spirit of love, incarnate in your flesh ! Your bodies had wearied me, but your passion was ever fresh : You were many indeed, but your love for me was one. Then I perceived the stars to reflect a single sun— Not burning suns themselves, in furious regular race, But mirrors of midnight, lit to remind us of His face.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…the Northern Quarter of the Universe of Matter, and around me glows the Ruddy Flame of Earth. Before me is the Portal of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal Flame: Thence gleameth the Red Glory into the World of Assiah. Lift up your Heads O ye Gates! And be ye lifted up, ye Everlasting Doors! And the King of Glory shall come in. I am come forth from the Gates of Matter: I advance over the Path of Primal Flame: And about me the Glory of the Fire is established. Vast before me in the distance looms the Portal of the Glory. I am come before the G…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…the Northern Quarter of the Universe of Matter, and around me glows the Ruddy Flame of Earth. Before me is the Portal of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal Flame: Thence gleameth the Red Glory into the World of Assiah. Lift up your Heads O ye Gates! And be ye lifted up, ye Everlasting Doors! And the King of Glory shall come in. I am come forth from the Gates of Matter: I advance over the Path of Primal Flame: And about me the Glory of the Fire is established. Vast before me in the distance looms the Portal of the Glory. I am come before the G…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 346

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… 2.?הרימא saying, speech. [Vide KiD. L.ciKi p. πε] The Sons of the Righteousיבב ?קדצ [See no. 705] [Vide κυ.?ןימלופמ Ι.͵.Ο.Κ. p. zo] The Spirit of the Mother?אמאΙ'ΙἸἼ Aromatarius?לבור π 25 7 The Ark?]ורא A Magician?םטרה “To His fearers,”??אלל [Ps, xxv. 14] The White Wandלקמ ?הנבל Terribilis Ipsa?ארונ 2 58 The red lightדוא ?םירא Hiram (King of Tyre)?םריח Mercy?ימחר 259 Throat?ןורג Nitre?רטנ Reuben?ןבואר

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1912 · PDF PAGE 346

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… 2.?הרימא saying, speech. [Vide KiD. L.ciKi p. πε] The Sons of the Righteousיבב ?קדצ [See no. 705] [Vide κυ.?ןימלופמ Ι.͵.Ο.Κ. p. zo] The Spirit of the Mother?אמאΙ'ΙἸἼ Aromatarius?לבור π 25 7 The Ark?]ורא A Magician?םטרה “To His fearers,”??אלל [Ps, xxv. 14] The White Wandלקמ ?הנבל Terribilis Ipsa?ארונ 2 58 The red lightדוא ?םירא Hiram (King of Tyre)?םריח Mercy?ימחר 259 Throat?ןורג Nitre?רטנ Reuben?ןבואר

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1913 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…and one shepherd. XVI THE NUMBER SIXTEEN SIXTEEN is the number of the temple. Let us say what the temple of the future will be! When the spirit of intelligence and love shall have revealed itself, the whole trinity will manifest itself in its truth and in its glory. Humanity, become a queen, and, as it were, risen from the dead, will have the grace of childhood in its poesy, the vigour of youth in its reason, and the wisdom of ripe age in its works. All those forms, which the divine thought has successively clothed, will be born again, immortal…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 479

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…arly terrible when per- versity takes possession of them. It is then that one can really affirm the intervention and the presence of the spirit of evil. Perversity or fatality, these pretended miracles obey one of these two powers. As to qabalistic writings and mysterious signatures, we shall say that they reproduce themselves by the magnetic intuition of the mirages of thought in the universal vital fluid. These instinctive reflections may be produced if the magic Word has nothing arbitrary in it, and if the signs of the occult sanctuary are t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…and one shepherd. XVI THE NUMBER SIXTEEN SIXTEEN is the number of the temple. Let us say what the temple of the future will be! When the spirit of intelligence and love shall have revealed itself, the whole trinity will manifest itself in its truth and in its glory. Humanity, become a queen, and, as it were, risen from the dead, will have the grace of childhood in its poesy, the vigour of youth in its reason, and the wisdom of ripe age in its works. All those forms, which the divine thought has successively clothed, will be born again, immortal…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 479

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…arly terrible when per- versity takes possession of them. It is then that one can really affirm the intervention and the presence of the spirit of evil. Perversity or fatality, these pretended miracles obey one of these two powers. As to qabalistic writings and mysterious signatures, we shall say that they reproduce themselves by the magnetic intuition of the mirages of thought in the universal vital fluid. These instinctive reflections may be produced if the magic Word has nothing arbitrary in it, and if the signs of the occult sanctuary are t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 191

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e. The Hermit, with his Lamp and Wand, is Hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the Greek Ritual of o = o.—P.] + The Name Dw, the Spirit of God, second Deity-Name in the Law, the Trigrammaton, or Threefold Name, by which the Universe came forth. 181

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1909 · PDF PAGE 191

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e. The Hermit, with his Lamp and Wand, is Hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the Greek Ritual of o = o.—P.] + The Name Dw, the Spirit of God, second Deity-Name in the Law, the Trigrammaton, or Threefold Name, by which the Universe came forth. 181

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1899 · PDF PAGE 17

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

PRELUDE. xvii Armed, we reject you; the bright scourge we ply, Your howling spirits stumble to your sty: The worm that was your lie—our heel its head Bruises, that bruised us once ; the snake is dead. Who of mankind that honours man discerns That man of all men, whose high spirit burns, Crowned over life, and conqueror of death, The godhood that was Christ of Nazareth— Who of all men, that will not gird his brand And purge from priestcraft the uxorious land? Christ, who lived, died, and lived, that man might be Tameless and tranquil as the summ…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 42

John St. John

…e following, so it appears, should be the outlines— damn it, I’ve a good mind to write it straight off—no! I’ll be patient and tease the Spirit a little. I will be coquettish as a Spanish catamite. I. Death summons Life and clears away all other forces. 2. The Invocation of the Word. Death consecrates Life, who in her whirling dance invokes that Word. 3. They salute the Word. The Signs and M M must be a Chorus, if anything. 4. The Miraculous appearance of Iacchus, un- invoked.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 47

Ambergris

… it slips, her bosom to my own ! The throat leans back, to tantalise the lip :— The sudden shame of her is over thrown ! O maiden of the spirit of the wheat, One ripening sunbeam thrills thee to the soul, Electric from red mane to amber feet ! The blue skies focus, as a burning bowl, The restless passion of the universe Into our mutual anger and distress, To be forbidden (the Creator’s curse)

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