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1905 · PDF PAGE 104

Orpheus

…self, 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 my brow Deeper delight, new ardour, to discover Stoops in thine heart ; my love and light endow Thy life with fervour as I bend me over The starry curve and surface of the sea, And kiss thy very life out into me. O central fountain of my yearning veins! O mountain single-s…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

Clouds Without Water

…rning drear, No fluctuant in our tideless ecstasies — Whereby, o maiden o’ mine, the runic rime Tells me we have ree’d the riddle of old Time. XIII Never, o never shall I call you bride! Never, o never shall I draw you down Unto my kisses by the dim bedside Bathing my body in the choral crown, Your comet hair! Nor smooth our shimmering skins Each to the other and mount the sacred stair Even from the lesser to the greater sins Up to the throne where sits the royal and rare Vision of Pan. O never shall I raise This oriflamme, and lead the hope fo…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…he icoresaka 3 uniji beliore. THE NINTH KEY A MIGHTY guard of Fire with two-edged swords flaming (which have eight Vials 01 wrath for two times and ahalf, whose wings are of wormwood and of the marrow 01 salt), have set their feet in the West, and are measured with their 9996 ministers, These gather up the moss 01 the Earth 35 the rich man doth his Treasure. Cursed are they whose iniquities they are! In their eyes are mill—stones greater than the earth, and from their mouths run seas of blood, Their heads are covered with diamonds, and upon thei…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…he icoresaka 3 uniji beliore. THE NINTH KEY A MIGHTY guard of Fire with two-edged swords flaming (which have eight Vials 01 wrath for two times and ahalf, whose wings are of wormwood and of the marrow 01 salt), have set their feet in the West, and are measured with their 9996 ministers, These gather up the moss 01 the Earth 35 the rich man doth his Treasure. Cursed are they whose iniquities they are! In their eyes are mill—stones greater than the earth, and from their mouths run seas of blood, Their heads are covered with diamonds, and upon thei…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 231

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…lay? My love is calm and sure, Not passionate, but certain of its end ; Wilt thou not come—and gladly? I can cure Alone the weariness of time, O friend. I shall not weary of thee; thou shalt sleep For ever on my breast, nor wake, nor weep. (xm) Still must I sing of thee? O Fate, delaying The last reward of unremitting toil, Give me the cup I crave! How shall my praying Avail me? For alas! I’ve neither oil, Nor wine, nor grape, nor corn, nor anything That may palliate thee! One only thing is mine, And that is but a sweet and bitter thing, Rarer …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 231

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…lay? My love is calm and sure, Not passionate, but certain of its end ; Wilt thou not come—and gladly? I can cure Alone the weariness of time, O friend. I shall not weary of thee; thou shalt sleep For ever on my breast, nor wake, nor weep. (xm) Still must I sing of thee? O Fate, delaying The last reward of unremitting toil, Give me the cup I crave! How shall my praying Avail me? For alas! I’ve neither oil, Nor wine, nor grape, nor corn, nor anything That may palliate thee! One only thing is mine, And that is but a sweet and bitter thing, Rarer …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 118

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…lver feet, Have him give ear if I say ‘‘ Master.” Yea! I know no heaven, no honour, half so sweet ! Ife passed before me on the wheel of Time, He who knows no Time—the intense sublime Master of all philosophy and play, Lord of all love and music and sweet rhyme. Follow thou him! Work ever, if thy heart Be fervent with one hope, thy brain with art, Thy lips with song, thine arm with strength to smite : Achieve some act ; its name shall not depart. Christ laid Love’s corner-stone, and Czesar built The tower of glory ; Sappho’s life was spilt From…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 39

Clouds Without Water

… many an age! So Regent’s Park may seem to hot desire; So the archangel gets a cabman's wage; So all the aeons that pass still leave one time To take one’s lunch at the appointed hour — This is the difference between prose and rime And this the great gulf fixed for leaf and flower. The British public grunts and growls and grovels, Swilling its hogwash of neurotic novels.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 8

Book 4 (Part I)

… refuse them. He wants an independent and self—reliant body of students to follow out their own methods of research. If he can save them time and trouble by giving a few useful “tips,” his work will have been done to his own satisfaction. Those who have wished men to believe in them were absurd. A per- suasive tongue or pen, or an efficient sword, with rack and stake, pro- duced this “belief,” which is contrary to, and destructive of, all real religious experience. The whole life of Frater Perdurabo is now devoted to seeing that you obtain this …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 84

Mortadello

… approached on the left by a bridge, behind which is seen the Bridge of Sighs. ALESSANDRO. The clouds are charged with fire. I think the time is come. To loose the lightning flash. LORENZO. Our lion drugged and dumb Stirs in his torpor ; let him rise and shake his mane, Open his mouth and roar ! ALESSANDRO. Well, off with you, explain To the Committee ! Say we fear that the Princess Is murdered in her cell. Send forty men express To cry the news aloud by street and by canal. LORENZO. We’ll hold upon the quays a merry Carnival. ALESSANDRO. So, a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 68

Book 4 (Part II)

56 there at the time when he would normally do the forbidden thing, to warn him against its repetition. There will thus be a clear connection in his mind of cause and effect, until he will be just as careful in avoiding this particular act which he has consciously determined, as in those other things which in childhood he has been trained to avoid. Just as the eyelid unconsciously closes when the eye is threatened,^ so must he build up in consciousness this power of inhibition until it sinks below consciousness, adding to his store of automatic…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 10

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

… for any other offence) was demonstrably untrue, and asking simply for the full and frank withdrawal of that particular lie. At the same time I sent you privately a full statement, supported by documents, not only refuting your editor’s calumnies, but containing sufficient positive truth concerning Mr. Crowley’s life and work to prove that the case put forward by the Sunday Express was as false in the spirit as in the letter. I did everything I could to ensure that these representations should come to your personal — 10 —

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1919 · PDF PAGE 308

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…he does. The only detail in which his scheme goes wrong is that his wife manages, against all odds, to survive her miscarriage. All this time, the ‘worm’ himself is living with a German prostitute; and, as he finds this expensive, he tries to keep the wolf from the door by getting this un- fortunate woman to copy out various items from the works of his wife’s lover, which are not very well known in America, and she proceeds to hawk them about New York. The man whose property they are will not be likely to hear of it, as the inexplicable conduct…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 52

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…uel Kant, who founded an epoch-making system of subjective idealism, is perhaps the first philosopher to demonstrate clearly that space, time, causality (in short, all conditions of existence) are really no more than conditions of thought. I have tried to put it more simply by defining all possible predicates as so many dimensions. To describe an object properly it is not sufficient to determine its position in the space-time continuum of four dimensions, but we must enquire how it stands in all the categories and scales, its values in all 'kin…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 13

White Stains

… in latter years by the lightning of his own sins) was steadily writing day after day, night after night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises ; bye-and-bye the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they were lost, and how those frag- ments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfa…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

John St. John

…rises, Cafe Noir, despatched without Yoga or ceremonial, I wrote the Ritual in verse, in the Egyptian Language. I don’t think very well. Time must show: also experience. I’d recite Tenny- son if I thought it would give Samadhil Now more mantra, though by the Lord I’m getting sick of it. It occurs to me, now that I am seeing my way in the Operation a little more clearly, that one might consider the First Day as Osiris Slain 44, the Second as that of the Mourning of Isis U, the third as that of the Triumph of Apophis V, and to-day that of Osiris …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 84

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…that has beggared Europe and made Asia 3 shambles these nigh five score years. LAYLAH. I cannot tell you. This is all I know, that in the time of Pope?י111113130 Urban the Second, some pilgrims to Jerusalem began to? 76

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1911 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e? LEO. Our Lord is slain. And who art thou that hast assumed His Throne? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. I am the Mother of the Gods and the Sister of Time and the Daughter of Space. I am Nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. . . . . , . Brother Leo, I am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the Lion. Behold ! I strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. I command thee to declare me unto the multitude. LEO. Lo ! in the interstellar space of night Clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces Abidethe dawn of deity and light, V…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 84

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…that has beggared Europe and made Asia 3 shambles these nigh five score years. LAYLAH. I cannot tell you. This is all I know, that in the time of Pope?י111113130 Urban the Second, some pilgrims to Jerusalem began to? 76

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1911 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…e? LEO. Our Lord is slain. And who art thou that hast assumed His Throne? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. I am the Mother of the Gods and the Sister of Time and the Daughter of Space. I am Nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. . . . . , . Brother Leo, I am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the Lion. Behold ! I strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. I command thee to declare me unto the multitude. LEO. Lo ! in the interstellar space of night Clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces Abidethe dawn of deity and light, V…

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