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1909 · PDF PAGE 5

Clouds Without Water

…he unhappy man need not have feared that the poor servants of God would claim him as repentant, though surely we would all have shed the last drop of our blood to bring him to the grace of God. Alas ! it was not to be. The devilish precautions of this human fiend excluded all such possibilities. He died as he had lived, no doubt. Alas! no doubt. — VII—

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1912 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…Nan, it’s the very worst. It’s the most malignant form of cancer. I haven't a month to live. (th'ldbl) Hal ha! ha! Dr. Doom’em doomed at last! (Bred/king down) Oh, Nan, Nan, what am I to say to you? And what am I to do about my work? Mrs. B. You’ve been working too much, dear. I dare- say it‘s not really very bad; and the rest will do you good. Dr. B. A pretty long rest. From now to the Day of Judgment. And you have nothing better to tell me than the same old lies! Lies ! Lies! Here, I’ve work to do. Good God l—I’ve work to do. [He rashes info …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…Nan, it’s the very worst. It’s the most malignant form of cancer. I haven't a month to live. (th'ldbl) Hal ha! ha! Dr. Doom’em doomed at last! (Bred/king down) Oh, Nan, Nan, what am I to say to you? And what am I to do about my work? Mrs. B. You’ve been working too much, dear. I dare- say it‘s not really very bad; and the rest will do you good. Dr. B. A pretty long rest. From now to the Day of Judgment. And you have nothing better to tell me than the same old lies! Lies ! Lies! Here, I’ve work to do. Good God l—I’ve work to do. [He rashes info …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 230

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…efore and the hour after are to dwell in peace, amity, and fraternity. EIGHTH HOUSE 33. Every Brother is expected to bear witness in his last will and testament to the great benefit that he hath received from the Order by bestowing upon it part or the whole of his goods, as he may deem fit. 34. The death of a Brother is not to be an occasion of melancholy, but of rejoicing; the Brethren of his Lodge shall gather together and make a banquet with music and dancing and all manner of gladness. It is of the greatest importance that this shall be don…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 34

The Law is for All

…n me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all! 24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty. 25. Divide, add, multiply, and understand. 26. Then saith the prophet and slave of …

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1996 · PDF PAGE 213

The Law is for All

…onthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. 25. This burn: of this make cakes & eat unto me. This hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me. 26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before you. 27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eat­ ing thereof. 28.…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 228

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…lung to the frame desperately, still squealing. She refused utterly to respond to the accents of the human voice. When I got her down at last, she clawed and scratched and bit and spat and squealed, exactly as the dying bat had done to her. It was quite a long time before I got her back to her human consciousness. It was the finest case of obsession that I had ever had the good fortune to observe. Of course it is easy to explain that in her hypersensitive condition the incident of the day had reproduced itself in a dream. She had identified her…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 468

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…on is the essay. I showed the manuscript to poor Tommy Earp who might have been a poet if he had not been a plutocrat. He said that "The Last Straw" was the limit in its line and my judgment jumps with his. Any considered statement, any documented plea, would lack the note of intensity and genuineness which my careless spontaneity and impulsive indignation taught me. I shall therefore print the scorpion as I wrote it. Its devil must excuse its indecorum. The savage contempt of Swift composed an indictment of human nature far exceeding the utmos…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 200

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…and wrath ! Clear the dread courses ! Split open the path ! With cruel remorse is Ilis heart brought to scath. And a terror is on him at last, the seed of his hate’s aftermath. MEGARA. Ha! who invokes? What horror rages Here, to compel our murderous hands to smite? ALECTO. What mortal summons? Who his battle wages So strongly as to call the seed of Night? TISIPHONE. Ha! The grim tyrant of despair engages Our deadly anguish with his useless might. HADES. Detested fiends! avaunt ! MEGAERA. He speaks ! ALECYro. He thunders ! TISIPHONE. His lightni…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 50

The Vision and the Voice

… is gray, like river mud, and his jaws fill the whole Aire. And he crunches up the whole tree and the ground and everything. Now then at last cometh forth the Angel of the Aethyr, who is like the Angel of the fourteenth key of Rota, with beautiful blue wings, blue robes, the sun in her girdle like a brooch, and the two crescents of the moon shapen into sandals for her feet. Her hair is of flowing gold, each sparkle as a star. In her hands are the torch of Penelope and the cup of Circe. 48

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1911 · PDF PAGE 98

The Vision and the Voice

… the pure springs of Paradise, that I may quench my thirst. (The Scribe refused.) Sprinkle water upon my head. I can hardly go on. (This last was spoken from the triangle in the natural voice of the Frater, which Choronzon again simulated. But he did not succeed in taking the Frater’s form—which was absurd! The Scribe resisted the appeal to his pity, and conjured the demon to proceed by the names of the Most High. Choronzon attempted also to seduce the faithfulness of the Scribe. A long colloquy ensued. The Scribe cursed him by the Holy Names o…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 134

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…d sights and scents; and it all seemed a mere ornamentation for our love, the setting for the jewel of our sparkling passion. _ Even the last few miles into Naples, where the road runs through tedious commercialised suburbs, took on a new aspect. The houses were a mere irregular sky- line. Somehow they suggested the jagged contour of a score of Debussy. 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 …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 81

Moonchild

…Paris" with many a look behind him. To be sure, this is but a reasonable precaution in a district so favourable to Apache activities. At last he came out into the great open square of the markets; and, crossing obliquely, came to a drinking den of the type which seeks to attract foreigners, preferably Americans. It bore the quite incongruous name "Au Pere Tranquille." Akbar mounted the stairs. It was too early for revellers; even the musicians had not arrived; but an old man sat in one corner of the room, sipping a concoction of gin, whisky and…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 158

Collected Works (Vol. II)

152 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 Home, Sri Swami Sabapati Vamadeva Bhaskara- nanda Saras- wati and the Christ. Latter com- pared to Madame Hum- bert. THE SWORD OF SONG Et praeter—such as Huxley tells) I’ll pierce your rotten harness-joints, Dissolve your diabolic spells, With the quick truth and nothing else. So not one word derogatory To your own version of the story ! I take your Christ, your God’s…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 92

Konx Om Pax

…ing had made him mad. Yet, well as he knew Greek and Latin, he had not yet read enough to see therein the luminous image of the Creator. Last was a doctor who, gazing ever on madness, had himself become mad. He, too, saw God, but, being already mad, died not. Men thought they understood him, and for that reviled him. Being mad, he did not care. All these men smoked heavily, and the silence of the world lay upon them.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 16

Ambergris

AMBERGRIS 7 In the last rustle of forgotten leaves. Over the bridges pass the throngs ; the sound, Deep and insistent, penetrates the mist— I hear it not ; I contemplate the wound Stabbed in the flanks of my dear silver Christ. He hangs in anguish there ; the crown of thorns Pierces that palest brow ; the nails drip blood ; There is the wound ; no Mary by Him mourns, There is no John beside the cruel wood. I am alone to kiss the silver lips ; I rend my clothing for the temple veil ; My heart’s black night must act the sun’s eclipse ; My groans …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…Moreover, certain vile fish rose from the water, and with their fins beat upon the planks of my boat, that I might not end it. However, at last I had it perfect, and was about to set sail at dawn. But first the dark man my brother departed from us, and went his way. And then the old man of the tower took me aside and offered me a seat at the funeral feast of his master. And although I verily believe that this old man was a rogue, a very knavish fellow, and a sot, yet in that funeral I took great pleasure. For the gentlest perfume was 58

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1911 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…Moreover, certain vile fish rose from the water, and with their fins beat upon the planks of my boat, that I might not end it. However, at last I had it perfect, and was about to set sail at dawn. But first the dark man my brother departed from us, and went his way. And then the old man of the tower took me aside and offered me a seat at the funeral feast of his master. And although I verily believe that this old man was a rogue, a very knavish fellow, and a sot, yet in that funeral I took great pleasure. For the gentlest perfume was 58

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1911 · PDF PAGE 77

The Vision and the Voice

… the terrible word that is the Key of the Abyss. I am Hermes, that am sent from the Father to expound all things discreetly in these the last words that thou shalt hear before thou take thy seat among these, whose eyes are sealed up, and whose ears are stopped, and whose mouths are clenched, who are folded in upon themselves, the liquor of whose bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. And that bright light of comfort, and that piercing sword * T suppose that only a Magus could have heard this word. 75

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1919 · PDF PAGE 412

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…is approved disciples. (Subsection VII.) We now find a muddle between the keys and the gates. The first five are all obviously keys. The last two seem to be gates, in spite of the statements in the text. We also find the term Bodhisattva in a quite unin- telligible sense. We shall discuss this question more fully a little later on. The Dhyanis are gods of sorts, either perfect men or what one may call natural gods, who occupy eternity in a cease- 90

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