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1996 · PDF PAGE 209

The Law is for All

208 The Law is for All & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings! 65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One. 66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harder! Hold up thys…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 32

The Vision and the Voice

…be unto thee, who didst set thy feet in the North; whose forehead is pierced with the sharp points of the diamonds in thy crown; whose heart is pierced with the spear of thine own fecundity. Thou art an egg of blackness, and a worm of poison. But thou hast formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother. Thou art the basilisk whose gaze turns men to stone, and the cockatrice at the breast of an harlot that giveth death for milk. Thou art the asp that has stolen into the cradle of the babe. Glory unto thee, who art twined about the world as t…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 104

Orpheus

… my moving moven, Are as my tears: all worlds that ever swam As dew of kisses on my lips: I am. But thou, chief lover, in whose golden heart The melody and music lifts its pzean, Whose lyre fulfilled of me, fathered of Art And that Sun’s song beyond the Empyréan, Who art myself, not any more apart, Having called my children by the call Pandean, Mellowed with 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…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 245

The Book of Thoth

APPENDIX A THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE TAROT: ITS USE IN THE ART OF DIVINATION

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1928 · PDF PAGE 97

Little Poems in Prose

… to describe to you this un- forgettable evening. Fanciullo proved to me in a peremptory and irrefutable manner that the intoxication of art is apter than any other to veil the terrors of the abyss; that genius may play its part upon the edge of the tomb with a joy which prevents it from seeing the tomb, lost as it is in a Paradise which excludes all idea either of death or of destruction. The entire audience, right world-word and frivolous as it may have been, soon surren- dered itself to the all-powerful domination of the artist. Nobody thoug…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 361

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…s’ comes very strangely as the precursor of verses 88 and 89. 89. Behold! thou hast become the Light, thou hast be- come the Sound, thou art thy Master and thy God. Thou art THYSELF the object of thy search: the VOICE unbroken, that resounds throughout eternities, exempt from change, from sin exempt, the Seven Sounds in one, THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE Om Cat Sat. This is a pure peroration, and clearly involves an ego- centric metaphysic. The style of the whole treatise is characteristically occi- dental. 39

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1911 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…MERCURY Iam the image of my Father Trnu, Lord of the City of the Sun ! The God who commands is in my mouth; The God of Wisdom is in my heart: My tongue is the sanctuary of Truth : And a God sitteth upon my lips! My word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of Ptah when he creates his works. I am Eternal; therefore everything acts according-to my designs, and everything obeys my words. Therefore I say unto Thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—light, All—power…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…MERCURY Iam the image of my Father Trnu, Lord of the City of the Sun ! The God who commands is in my mouth; The God of Wisdom is in my heart: My tongue is the sanctuary of Truth : And a God sitteth upon my lips! My word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of Ptah when he creates his works. I am Eternal; therefore everything acts according-to my designs, and everything obeys my words. Therefore I say unto Thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the Silence, unutterable Wisdom, All—light, All—power…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 164

Oracles

… state ! O woman without change or joy or date I await thy oracle as the Delphian stone’s ! So thou to me : best lover of . . . Thou who art love and pity and clean art, Wearing a rosebud on thy blood-bright heart, A lily on thy brows ; I comprehend Thy mystic utterance : read its rune aright : For . . . , love ; for Aleister, delight. * So the schoolboy : Nemo sapit omnibus horis—no one is safe in an omnibus with ladies. 159

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1954 · PDF PAGE 169

Magick Without Tears

…says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art; if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! But exceed! exceed! Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine-and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous-death is the crown of all. Here, in a few simple phrases, is a complete guide-in skeleton-to the Art of Love. Genius without technique is often clumsy and unintelligible; but technique without genius i…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 12

Rodin in Rime

…magistrale De la Force égyptienne, de la Simplicité grecque, De la Subtilité celte.—Libéré par la souffrance Le grand courage calme de l’Art Futur, raffiné En sa nerveuse majesté, glisse, profond, Sous la beauté de chaque rayon d’harmonie. Titan! Les Siécles amoindris s’enfoncent, S’enfoncent a4 l’‘horizon des contemplations. Debout, et léve D’un ferme poing la coupe supréme, le Zodiaque! La écume son vin—essence de l’ Art Eternel—la Vérité! Bois, bois a la toute puissante santé, au Temps rajeuni! —Salut, Auguste Rodin! Vous étes un homme! Trad…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 172

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 160 #d De Pyramide (Of the Pyramid) OW then at last art thou made ready to confront the Pyramid, if thou art established as a Sphinx. For It also hath the foursquare Base of Law, and the Four Triangles of Light, Life, Love and Liberty for its Sides, that meet in a Point of Perfection that is Hadith, poised to the Kiss of Nuith. But in this Pyramid there is no Difference of Form between the Sides, as it is in thy Sphinx, for these are wholly One, save in Direction. Thou art then an Harmony of the Four by Right of thy Attainme…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 115

Liber Aleph

…ome Modes of Seeking an Oracle) Y Son, in all Judgment and Decision is great Deli- cacy, but most in these Matters of the Will. For thou art Advocate as well as Judge, and unless thou have well organized thy Mind thou art Bondslave of Prejudice. For this Cause it is adjuvant to thy Wisdom to call Witnesses that are not of thine own Nature, and to ask Oracles whose Interpretation is bound by fixed rule. This is the Use of the Book TAROT, of the Divination by Earth, or by the other Elements, or by the Book Yi-King, and many another Mode of Truth.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 117

The World’s Tragedy

… ! The Lord hath listened unto thy lament, The ululation of that wolfish stress ; And I am sent To heal thy loneliness. MIRIAM Ah ! thou art not as he that saw me To-day. Thou art comelier than he, And softly mayest thou draw me From this perplexity. But hast thou — hast thou such a thing of fear (Like an old giant’s knotty spear) As he ? Thou dost not laugh and leer As he did. No ! I will not show my face She drops her veil. Stand back, stand back a space ! She advances toward him.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 106

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 94 Go De Virtute Experientiæ in hoc Arte (Of the Value of Experience in this Art) OT Sleep, not Rest, not Contentment are of the Will of the Hero, but these Things he hateth, and consenteth to enjoy them only with Shame of his weak Nature. But he will analyse himself without Pity, and he will do all Things soever that may free and fortify his Mind and Will. Know that the Technick of the Right Use of this Magick with Poisons is subtle; and since the Nature of every Man differeth from that of his Fellow, there entereth Idiosyn…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 56

Orpheus

…ong Day, twilight, and night, As a bride in her chamber that dreams many visions of varied delight. O how shall my lyre Divide thee, dispart Thy water and fire, Thy soul and thy heart, Thy hills that spring higher, Thy flowers that upstart, How quire thee, my limitless love, with a lewd and a limited art? A fortress, a sphere, An arrow of flame; Let thy children appear At the sound of thy name! In my silence uprear The sweet guerdon of shame! Be they choral to hymn thee, O mother, thy magic ineffable fame! Last birth of the Sun, Best gift of th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 83

The Winged Beetle

73 THE MUSE O THOU who art throned by the well That feeds the celestial streams ! O daughter of heaven and hell ! O mother of magical dreams ! O sister of me as I sit At thy feet by the mystical well And dream with the web of my wit Of the marriage of heaven and hell ! O thou who art mad with the Muse That delights in the beauty of form ! O desire of the dream of the dews ! O Valkyrie astride of the storm ! I am thine as we ride on the blast To exult in the mystical Muse, As there drip on the desert at last The immaculate Delian dews. I am thin…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 39

White Stains

… is fled. Thinkst thou that I will fructify Now, at thine own good time, thy dead And barren bed ? “ How worship me, yet break my laws ? Art thou a God ? Didst thou devise The infinite world ? Did thy word cause The silver Caucasus to arise ? Art thou all-wise ? “ Or hast thou mocked me, setting high A molten calf, a graven block,

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1910 · PDF PAGE 116

The World’s Tragedy

…’s unfathomable mirror, That, laughing back upon me laughing, lies. I will creep in — afar From the frenzy of yon nameless star. But who art thou Descending in a cloud of cherubim ? A moon-white sickle crowns that flashing brow ; Thine head like the wise bird Splendidly grim That utters that unutterable word ; Thy body like the bright sun in his strength ; And all thy virgin length Armed with the sword and balances, Gold as the ultimate galaxies — Thou art evanished. Surely the Presence of the Lord wast thou

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1919 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… about his ‘Dwarf-Self,’ and he is now wholly absorbed therein. For IT is also ALL, being of the Body of Nuith. 82. And now, Lanoo, thou art the doer and the witness, the radiator and the radiation, Light in the Sound, and the Sound in the Light. Important, as indicating the attainment of a mystical state, in which you are not only involved in an action, but apart fromit. There is a higher state described in the Bha- gavad Gita. “I who am all, and made it all, abide its sepa- rate Lord.” 83. Thou art acquainted with the five impediments, O bles…

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