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1907 · PDF PAGE 123

Konx Om Pax

… and in we chip (lnvigorated by our rest) Just where the jury at the ’Quest At the Asylum duly find “Suicide while of Unsound Mind.” This time we skip from earth to heaven God stands among the Spirits Seven. The Seven Lamps about Him flame. Myriad archangels cry His name. Millions of elders, prophets, preachers, Saints, martyrs, virgins, hermits, teachers, Angels, evangelists, apostles All singing like a lot of throstles All out of tune with one another, And every one a Plymouth Brother, With praise set heaven in a whirl. Up slinks the poor bedev…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 49

Mortadello

…on’t know ? Who stole away my Sandro ? LUCREZIA. Yours ! Three years ago. Is it a crime ? Go take your mirror ; you will see The work of time—blame him instead of blaming me ! ZELINA. Cat ! LUCREZIA. You wear badly. Paint conceals the sallow skin. What hides how sadly falls the flesh was fair within ? ZELINA. So you’re the vogue to-day ? Oh, we have heard of that, But that same rogue will turn your plumpness into fat. LUCREZIA. You scurril thing ! ZELINA. Cat’s eyes, cow’s belly, and bear’s feet ! If these can bring success—— LUCREZIA. Be off, …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ng of their own seats, which are garnished with 69,636 ever—burning lamps: whose numbers are as the First, the Ends, and the Contents of Time. Therefore come ye and obey your creation: visit us in peace and comfort: conclude us receivers of your mysteries: for why? Our Lord and Master is the All-One! [Invokes2 Nanta; the whole tablet of Barth. The angle of Vי019? The Princess of the Echoing Hills, the Rose of the Palace of Earth] THE OPENING OF THE TEMPLE IN THE GRADE OFם4<>=7? GIVE the sign of Thoum—aesh-neithr [Knock] Let us adore the Lord an…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 293

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…s yet, Through worlds I shall traverse not a few ; E'en Η͵ Ρ. Blavatsky I shall forget Ere again I read Annie Besant with you. V But the time will come, at last it will, When, Evelyn Hope, what’s meant I shall say By the novels of Evelyn Underhill, And Tchekhof's and Wedekind’s dramas gray. Why you loved Bergson I shall divine ; The Lords of Karma may then have said \Vhy you never dipped into books of mine, But read G. K. Chesterton’s works instead. VI I have read, I shall say, 50 much since then ; Have ransacked Mudie’s so many times ; Gained …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ng of their own seats, which are garnished with 69,636 ever—burning lamps: whose numbers are as the First, the Ends, and the Contents of Time. Therefore come ye and obey your creation: visit us in peace and comfort: conclude us receivers of your mysteries: for why? Our Lord and Master is the All-One! [Invokes2 Nanta; the whole tablet of Barth. The angle of Vי019? The Princess of the Echoing Hills, the Rose of the Palace of Earth] THE OPENING OF THE TEMPLE IN THE GRADE OFם4<>=7? GIVE the sign of Thoum—aesh-neithr [Knock] Let us adore the Lord an…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 293

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…s yet, Through worlds I shall traverse not a few ; E'en Η͵ Ρ. Blavatsky I shall forget Ere again I read Annie Besant with you. V But the time will come, at last it will, When, Evelyn Hope, what’s meant I shall say By the novels of Evelyn Underhill, And Tchekhof's and Wedekind’s dramas gray. Why you loved Bergson I shall divine ; The Lords of Karma may then have said \Vhy you never dipped into books of mine, But read G. K. Chesterton’s works instead. VI I have read, I shall say, 50 much since then ; Have ransacked Mudie’s so many times ; Gained …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 17

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…urse, none the less there. The boy seems to have despised from the first the absence of hierarchy among the Brethren, though at the same time they formed the most exclusive body on earth, being the only people that were going to heaven. There is thus an extreme psychological contradiction inherent in the situation. It is improbable that Alick was aware at the time of the real feelings which must have been implanted in him by this environment; but the main result was undoubtedly to stimulate his pride and ambition in a most unwholesome (?) degre…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 467

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ll paid me by using my Gnostic Mass as the material for Chapter XXII of his Jurgen. The suggestion is utter rubbish; though, at the same time, I admit cordially that no other form of appreciation of my work would have pleased me half so well. I regard his epic of such supreme importance to mankind as an exposition of the nature of the universe that I have not only sent him a copy of The Book of the Law in the hope that he may find in it the way out of his Buddhistic demonstration that "everything is sorrow" but followed it up by letter after le…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 55

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…l vengeance rightly wrought Bring all their house of wrong to nought ! Scorn, the catastrophe of crime, These be their monuments through time ! And Ireland, green once more and fresh, Draw life from their dissolving flesh! By Saxon carcases renewed, Spring up, O Shamrock virgin-hued ! And in the glory of thy leaf Let all forget the ancient grief! Now is the hour! The drink is poured! Wake! fatal and avenging sword ! Brave men of Erin, hand in hand, Arise and free the lovely land ! Death to the Saxon! Slay nor spare ! O God ofJustice, hear us sw…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 138

Book 4 (Part II)

126 inclines to suppose, that this action involves one in the doom of being killed by a louse a hundred thousand times. This ledger of Karma is kept separate from the petty cash account; and in respect of bulk this petty cash account is very much bigger than the ledger. If we eat too much salmon we get indigestion and perhaps nightmare. It is silly to suppose that a time will come when a salmon will eat us, and find us disagree. On the other hand we are always being terribly punished for actions that are not faults at all. Even our virtues rous…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 430

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…e in London just before the war of 1914. His claim to fame was based on two items. First, if you put your hand on his head you could sometimes feel a throbbing, which of course proves beyond all possibility of a doubt the immortality of the soul. In this calculation I have adopted the official American standard of proof. Second, he was able to read and answer questions which had been previously written on slips of paper in his absence (presumed), folded up and distributed in various pockets. Having answered the first question a paper was handed…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 80

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…* But I must also feel it as a man!” Note. Eheieh is the Hebrew for ‘‘I] am that Iam.” Its numerical value is 21. I was not aware at the time that this was the 21st day.— AUTHOR.! THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY. ‘*T’ll have her: but I will not keep her long.” Richard Ill, IT was impossible that she should come Over the leagues of summer-coloured sea Alone with love and laughter. and tears and me To the toy land ? of the chrysanthemum, Where. all the flowers lack scent, the birds are dumb, The fruits are tasteless : jewelled lea And all the many-leavéd g…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 84

Moonchild

…ved. Thus he hugs the fearful growth, cherishes it as his one dearest possession, stimulates it by every means in his power. Yet all the time he nurses in his heart an agonizing certainty that this is the way of death. Balloch knew S.R.M.D. well; had known him for years. He hoped to supplant him, and while he feared him with hideous and unmanly fear, hated him with most hellish hatred. He was under no delusion as to the nature of the Path of the Black Lodge. Akbar Pasha, a mere outsider, without a crime on his hands as yet, was a rich and honou…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 40

Tannhäuser

… the gentle foresters of spring Crush dainty violets in their dalliance, Laughing in chorus with the birds ; and then (Coming at harvest time upon my tracks) See these same lovers in the golden sheaves Under the sun. The same, the fuller fruit. Say you ? But somehow, nearer to the end. Lost the old sense of mystery, and lost That curious reverence in sacrilege With Wonder—the child's faculty ! Less joy, Less laughter, yes ! that symptom I approve ; Yet is that subtle fading-out of smiles Rather the coming of a dull despair. And not at all that …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 7

Rosa Inferni

…way from me. I see it once ; no need to tell me twice ! II OME Yankee yelled—I tag it to a rime— “ You can’t fool all the people all the time.” So he of politics ; so I of love. I am a-many folk (let Buddha prove !) And many a month you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring ! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes ! So the blind amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute ! 2 S

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1910 · PDF PAGE 39

Ambergris

…egotten hate And changeless circles of desire, Formless creations uncreate, Swift fountains of ungathered fire, The mist 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, And comets moving through the deep Unfathomable skies, Darker for moonlight, and the glow-worm eyes Of dusky women that were stars, And paler curves of the immutable bars That line the universe with light, Great eagle-flights of mystic moons That dip, while the dull…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 273

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…y in years, I reckon not, but tribulations wild, With stormy battle, stress of life and fears. I see thee once again athwart the mist Of Time, and past the wane of many moons Not changed, with still a change—the same, I wist, Yet not—as purest daylight’s change from noon. ΙΙ I then beheld thee with thy tresses rolled In darkling curls and masses long adown : A child thou wert, in maiden’s youthful mould, \Vith childhood‘s pensive magic round thee thrown. 231

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1912 · PDF PAGE 273

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…y in years, I reckon not, but tribulations wild, With stormy battle, stress of life and fears. I see thee once again athwart the mist Of Time, and past the wane of many moons Not changed, with still a change—the same, I wist, Yet not—as purest daylight’s change from noon. ΙΙ I then beheld thee with thy tresses rolled In darkling curls and masses long adown : A child thou wert, in maiden’s youthful mould, \Vith childhood‘s pensive magic round thee thrown. 231

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1913 · PDF PAGE 179

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ness of waking thought! The gray night gathers, soft and cold, The old dead dreams, dead dreams of old,— The cold, gray, windy breath of time, The old dead loves, the unsung rime : Autumn, the pale, gray, crispéd star, Virginal, golden nenuphar, Folden upon itself to sleep, To sleep and die, to wake and weep Soft silver tears of old desire. O molten silver of my lyre, Transmute, transmute my autumn dream, Transmute the winding star-lit stream To the stream of olden grace and love; The earth beneath, the sky above ; And round the russet autumn’s…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ness of waking thought! The gray night gathers, soft and cold, The old dead dreams, dead dreams of old,— The cold, gray, windy breath of time, The old dead loves, the unsung rime : Autumn, the pale, gray, crispéd star, Virginal, golden nenuphar, Folden upon itself to sleep, To sleep and die, to wake and weep Soft silver tears of old desire. O molten silver of my lyre, Transmute, transmute my autumn dream, Transmute the winding star-lit stream To the stream of olden grace and love; The earth beneath, the sky above ; And round the russet autumn’s…

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