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1911 · PDF PAGE 139

The Vision and the Voice

…are set upon him that pardoneth transgression. Behold the six-fold Star that flameth in the Vault, the seal of the marriage of the great White King and his black slave. So I looked into the Stone, and beheld the six-fold Star: the whole Aethyr is as tawny clouds, like the flame of a furnace. And there is a mighty host of Angels, blue and golden, that throng it, and they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of be- with-us is at hand! For he hath cr…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 167

The Vision and the Voice

…tunic is a pure soft blue. Now the whole Aethyr is swallowed up in a forest of un- quenchable fire, and fearlessly through it all a snow-white eagle flies. And the eagle cries: the house also of death. Come away! The volume of the book is open, the Angel wait- eth without, for the summer is at hand. Come away! For the Aeon is measured, and thy span allotted. Come away! For the mighty sounds have entered into every angle. And they have awakened the Angels of the Aethyrs that slept these three hundred years. For in the Holy letter Shin, that is t…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 38

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…. “This beastly alcohol brutalises men. Why is Lou so superb? She has breathed the pure snow of Heaven into her nostrils.” **O Thou snow-white chalice of Love, that art

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1910 · PDF PAGE 32

The Scented Garden

24 we suspect) author of ‘ White Stains ’, and the nameless Aristophanes who wrote the ‘ Nameless Novel ’, nobody in modern times has dared to voice openly the supreme sanity, the splendid athletic- ism, and the unutterable spirituality of the male rapture of the passion between man and man. In treating of this matter I must first premise that by paederasty I mean actual sodomy as de- fined by British law1 — immissio penis in corpus vivum. “ Arse makes life golden, want of it dull yellow ; The rest is only leather and prunella.” At least, the r…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 493

Magick Without Tears

…pon the multitude! 58. And the grape fell ripe and rich into his mouth. 59. Stained is the purple of thy mouth, 0 brilliant one with the white glory of the lips of Adonai. 60. The foam of the grape is like the storm upon the sea; the ships tremble and shudder; the shipmaster is afraid. 61. That is thy drunkenness, 0 holy one, and the winds whirl away the soul of the scribe into the happy haven. 62. 0 Lord God! Let the haven be cast down by the fury of the storm! Let the foam of the grape tincture my soul with thy light! Yes, I dare say. But is …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 100

The Star in the West

…gion of Use . If now , supposing at one end of our pole we find Lust seated crimson as a rose , then at the other we shall find Chastity white as a lily . This system of extremes has during the world's history exerted an overwhelming force on the will of man . Beholding a satyr he worshipped a virgin ; feel ing the ills of the flesh , he conceived the bliss of the soul . This diametric opposition , verging ever towards the extreme circumference of utility , has given and is giving birth to numerous world - wide systems and philosophies . The ta…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 134

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… But all this, exquisite as it was, gripping as it was, was in a way superficial. At the bottom of our hearts there seethed and surged a white hot volcanic lake of molten, of infernal, metal. We did not know what hideous, what monstrous abominations were in store for us at the Gatto Fritto. - I have set down how the action of the drugs had partially stripped off the recent layers of memory. It had achieved a parallel result much more efficiently on the moral plane. The toil of countless generations of evolution had been undone in a month. We st…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 158

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ll, Never attain to heaven and stand (Stephen) or sit (Paul) ® at the hand Of the Most High !—And that alone, That question of the Great White Throne, Is the sole point that we debate.” I answer, Here in India wait 300 305 310 315 320 325 330 335

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1911 · PDF PAGE 57

The Vision and the Voice

…y-third violet cobalt, for the twenty-fourth beetle-brown, blue-brown colour, for the twenty fifth acold dark gray, for the twenty-sixth white flecked with red, blue, and yellow; the edges of the letters shall be green, for the twenty-seventh angry clouds of ruddy brown, for the twenty-eighth indigo, for the twenty-ninth bluish-green, for the thirtieth mixed colours. This shall be the form to be used by him who would par- take of the mystery of any Aethyr. And let him not change so much as the style of a letter, lest the holy word be blasphemed…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 435

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…are, with terribly intense eyes from which glared an expression of indescribably pain and hopeless horror. Her hair was bobbed and dirty white, her dress severely {690} masculine save the single concession of a short straight skirt. Her figure was sturdy and her gait determined though awkward. Laylah found her in a miserable room on 176th Street or thereabouts. Pitifully poor, she had not been able to buy Liber 777 and had therefore worked week after week copying in the Astor Library. She impressed Laylah as an ernest seeker and a practical bus…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 17

The Sword of Song

…all, Never attain to heaven and stand (Stephen) or sit (Paul)50 at the hand Of the Most High !—And that alone That question of the Great White Throne, Is the sole point that we debate.” I answer, Here in India wait Christian pre- misses ac- cepted. Severe mental strain involved in reading poem. The Ascension at last ! This is a common feat. Prana- yama. Difference be- tween David Douglas [sic] Home, Sri Swami Sabapati Vamadeva Bhaskara- nanda Sara- swati and the Christ. Latter com- pared to Madame Hum- bert. 300 305 310 315 320 325 330 335

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1907 · PDF PAGE 114

Konx Om Pax

… a gust of scent is borne An herald of the awaking morn to that unhappy brotherhood; An herald of the healing kiss of maids with eyes of white and black Whose heavenly lips shall woo them back into a bright eternal bliss. O laughter of delicious boys that bring the cup and pour the wine And with their rosy limbs entwine fresh garlands of mirific joys! The boy is prone upon the sand; he lies as one who nestles in Some arbour delicate of sin built by the Everlasting Hand. His lover is the Open Eye, that kindles Light within the Abyss, And wakes wi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 245

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… life on a Swiss glacier with one whom, though he knew it not at the time, was destined ever and anon to bring him wisdom from the Great White Brotherhood, This one we shall meet again under the initials D. A. + Afterwards known as Frater C. S. 237

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1909 · PDF PAGE 245

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… life on a Swiss glacier with one whom, though he knew it not at the time, was destined ever and anon to bring him wisdom from the Great White Brotherhood, This one we shall meet again under the initials D. A. + Afterwards known as Frater C. S. 237

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1910 · PDF PAGE 7

The Rites of Eleusis

…ury the schoolboy, happy, careless and gay, mischievous and full of animal life. Luna the age of childhood and innocence, unsmirched and white as the planet herself. Each will have its own ritual, arranged for the purpose of illustrating the particular deity to which it is devoted ; each ritual will be both poetic and musical. Verses of the great poets appro- priate to the planet and all that the planet represents will be re- cited, and the ideas suggested to the spectators will be translated into inspired music by an accomplished violin player…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 40

The Vision and the Voice

… these tastes issue from his eyes; he signua/s them. I can see his eyes now. They are very round, with perfectly black pupils, perfectly white iris, and the cornea pale blue. The sense of desolation is so acute that I keep on trying to get away from the vision. I told him that I could not understand his taste-language, so instead he set up a humming very much like a big electric plant with dynamos going. Now the atmosphere is deep night-blue; and by the power of that atmosphere, the pillars kindle to a dull glowing crim- son, and the throne is …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 227

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…Lytton’s. We found a first edition of A Strange Story, with an inscription. Lytton had taken him for the model of Sir Philip Derval, the white magician who gets murdered. Lytton said so in this copy. It was all very weird and exciting. The room was full of the strangest objects. There was a table painted with mysterious designs and characters and a huge cross-hilted sword; two silver crescents separated by two copper spheres and a third for the pommel. The blade was two-edged, engraved with Arabic or some- thing. Cockie began to swing it about.…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 322

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… power of taking only spiritual nourishment --- but probably it means much more than this. Next I came into an apparently empty hall, of white ivory worked in {525} filigree. A square slim altar was in the midst, I was questioned as to what I would sacrifice on that altar. I offered all save my will to know A.'. which I would only change for its own realization. I now became conscious of god-forms of Egypt sitting, so vast that I could only see to their knees. "Would not knowledge of the gods suffice?" "No!" said I. It was then pointed out to m…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 324

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…he truth of his statement without difficulty. “ That’s the Abbey,” he went on, as we turned the corner of the hillside. And a long, low, white building came into sight. “ But that isn’t an Abbey,” I protested. ‘‘ That’s a villa.” “ That’s because you’re looking with the wrong kind of eyes,’’ objected Hermes. ‘I used to think the same myself before I was educated.” “Do you think Mr. Lamus will be able to educate us ? ’”’ I asked, overpowered by a sense of the comicality of the situation. , “Oh, he isn’t Mr. Lamus here,” retorted Hermes loftily. …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 288

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…th a special "down" on "foreign devils". He thought the we would be very much upset by that natural curiosity of the natives at seeing a white woman and interpret their interest as intentional insult. When he found with what practical common sense I travelled, he realized immediately that there was going to be no trouble. During this lunch he gave me more genuinely valuable information about China that I had had in the whole previous course of my life. One of his sayings was this: whatever one hears, however extraordinary, is true in China some…

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