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1910 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…wn on him until he can no longer slay either himself or another. A dweller in the glass houses of Fad, he has thrown stones at the fishy god. A Society Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. True, every thought of Shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far-seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. His births are all Siamese twins; his god is Janus; his sign is Gemini . . . but his end is (I fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-Hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearil…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…wn on him until he can no longer slay either himself or another. A dweller in the glass houses of Fad, he has thrown stones at the fishy god. A Society Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. True, every thought of Shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far-seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. His births are all Siamese twins; his god is Janus; his sign is Gemini . . . but his end is (I fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-Hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearil…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 46

Songs of the Spirit

…fety and Peace and Passover abide. Blood on the lintel ! But within our gates Spilt our own blood lies curdling on the ground, Crying to God from each envenomed wound While the fierce combat yet no whit abates, And though protected, confident, unspent, Sighs for relief with battle-cries are blent. 36

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1913 · PDF PAGE 487

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hiero- phants the first classification of the whole of natural history. Minerals, vegetables, animals were studied analogically; and they attributed their origin and their properties to the passive or to the active principle, to the darkness or to the light. The sign of their ele…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 487

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hiero- phants the first classification of the whole of natural history. Minerals, vegetables, animals were studied analogically; and they attributed their origin and their properties to the passive or to the active principle, to the darkness or to the light. The sign of their ele…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 122

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…n fleeter revels run, And Life revives, and all the flowers rejoice, Bird and light butterfly have made their choice, Creation hymns its God with an united voice. There is a storm without. The hoary trees Stagger; the foam is angry on the sea: I know the secret mountains are at ease, And in the deepest ice-embroidery Where great men’s spirits linger there is peace. Heed not the unquiet wind! Dawn’s finger shall be raised, its wrath shall cease, The sun shall rouse us whom the tempest lulled, And thy poor poet’s mind For respite by its own deep …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 340

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… naked". Subhana Allahu walhamdu lilahi walailaha illa allahu wallahu akbar wala baala wala quata illa billahi alaliu ala'zhim. Glory to God and thanks to God, and there is only one God, and God is most great, and there is no strength but in Him, the Exalted, the Great. It does not take me long to work myself up by means of a mantra, even of this lengthy type, into a state of ecstasy, and to proceed, if desired, from that state to actual Dhyana, by concentrating upon any appropriate cakra. By ecstasy I do not mean anything characterized by extr…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 301

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…l and the most lively. It generates itself, whether by affirmation or negation, with an equal fanaticism, some obstinately affirming the god that they have made in their own image, the others denying God with rashness, as if they had been able to understand and to lay waste by a single thought all that world of infinity which pertains to His great name. Philosophers have not sufficiently considered the physio- logical fact of religion in humanity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. It is a faculty of the human soul…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 556

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…this is why the penalty of death is a natural right, and will never disappear from human laws. The stain of murder would be indelible if God did not justify the scaffold ; the divine power, abdicated by society and usurped by criminals, would belong to them without dispute. Assassination would then become a virtue when it exercised the reprisals of outraged nature. Private vengeance would protest against the absence of public expiation, and from the splinters of the broken sword of justice anarchy would forge its daggers. “Tf God did away with …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 301

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…l and the most lively. It generates itself, whether by affirmation or negation, with an equal fanaticism, some obstinately affirming the god that they have made in their own image, the others denying God with rashness, as if they had been able to understand and to lay waste by a single thought all that world of infinity which pertains to His great name. Philosophers have not sufficiently considered the physio- logical fact of religion in humanity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. It is a faculty of the human soul…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 556

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…this is why the penalty of death is a natural right, and will never disappear from human laws. The stain of murder would be indelible if God did not justify the scaffold ; the divine power, abdicated by society and usurped by criminals, would belong to them without dispute. Assassination would then become a virtue when it exercised the reprisals of outraged nature. Private vengeance would protest against the absence of public expiation, and from the splinters of the broken sword of justice anarchy would forge its daggers. “Tf God did away with …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 77

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

Ego. A <:Spell” of God is any form of conscious- ness, and a “Scourge” any form of action. The Charge, as a whole, demands for the Adept the control of every detail of the Universe which His Angel has created as a means of manifesting Himself to Himself. It covers command of the primary projection of the Possible in individuality, in the antithetical artifice which is the device of Mind, and in a balanced triplicity of modes or States of being whose combinations constitute the characteristics of Cosmos. It includes also a standard of structure,…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 82

White Stains

…ing from hell our last home, this is the key of our might. Come, fiery birds of a clime we know not, and sing us your paean ; Triumph of gods that are known secretly, not by a name, Gods whose implacable feet have trampled the god Galilean, Cast though they be into hell, given to death and to shame. Heaven and hell has striven in war, Sappho and Hylas, with Christ and Jah ; We are of those, though they lose their power, Never shall fade their fiery flower.

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1908 · PDF PAGE 36

Amphora

…and of vigilance, We pierce beyond to brilliance. For all the blessed blood that poured Out of Thine heart at sorrow’s sword Is borne in GOD’s cherubic cars About the sky to make us stars. We in the world of woe who stray Lift up our hearts to Thee and pray : Turn all our pain to virgin might, And all our sorrow into light ! Amen. T 29

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1913 · PDF PAGE 273

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ess, Thou my frenzy and my fire, Lamp of living loveliness ! Thou the ruler of the rod That beneath thy clasp extends To the galaxies of God From the gulph where ocean ends, Cave of dragon, ruby rose, Heart of hell, garden-close, 235

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1913 · PDF PAGE 273

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ess, Thou my frenzy and my fire, Lamp of living loveliness ! Thou the ruler of the rod That beneath thy clasp extends To the galaxies of God From the gulph where ocean ends, Cave of dragon, ruby rose, Heart of hell, garden-close, 235

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1944 · PDF PAGE 50

The Book of Thoth

…ery least, his mother must be a virgin; and, to match this wonder, his father cannot be an ordinary man; therefore, his father must be a god. But as a god is a gaseous vertebrate, he must be some materialisation of a god. Very good! Let him be the god Mars under the form of a wolf, or Jupiter as a bull, or a shower of gold, or a swan; or Jehovah in the form of a dove; or some other creature of phantasy, preferably disguised in some animal form. There are innumerable forms of this tradition, but they all agree on one point: the saviour can only …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 171

Oracles

…n- throned ; all proposeless, all unatoned ; all putrid of a hope, all vacant of a soul. I called upon its master, as who should call on God. Instead, arose a shining form, sweet as a whisper of soft air kissing the brows of a great storm ; his face with light was molten, musical with waves of his delight moving across : his countenance utterly fair ! then was my philosophic vision shamed : conjecture at a loss ; and my whole mind revolted ; then I blamed the vision as a lie ; yet bid that vision speak how he was named, being so wonderfully des…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 163

The Star in the West

…ST Renan , before he assumes the biting satire of a Saladin , or the poetic iconoclasm of a Swinburne . Christ , firstly , as the Son of God , is divine , omni potent , in fact he is God ; secondly , as the Son of Man , is noble , generous , lovable , in fact , man ; but , thirdly , as the offspring of the carnalities of a Byzan tine mob , which is the true Christ of history , he assumes a vampire form , a horror fed on the blood of children , the virility of youths , the chastity of maidens . Hardly a single evil of the present day , if traced…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 80

Clouds Without Water

TI, #1, AIH. 9. TV. 7. VI. 8. Vil. iX, Blind worms — pious swine. — The poor servants of God! Ah, well! we have our com- fort in Him; like Our Blessed Lord, we can forgive. It is for our loving Lord to set His foot upon the necks of our enemies, and to cast them out into the blackness of darkness for ever. This is quite unintelligible to me. I think this is what is called Echolalia, a sure sign of ‘degeneracy’; or, as I prefer to think, a wickedness which has gone, dreadful as it sounds to write, beyond the Infinite Mercy of God. “ I will send …

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