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1905 · PDF PAGE 16

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…truck through him, ull his tortured mind Drove his young limbs, the wolf that hunts the hind, Far through the forest. Lastly sleep, like death, With strong compulsion of his labouring breath Came on him dreamless. When he woke, the day Stooped toward the splendour of the western bay, And he remembered. Like a wild bird's cry The song within him flamed, a melody Dreadful and beautiful. The sad sca heard And echoed over earth its bitter word. SONG. Ere the grape ofjoy is golden With the summer and the sun, Ere the maidens unbeholden Gather one by…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 236

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…w ; Tam thy queen, enraptured and possessed, Hide thee, sweet river; welcome to the sea, Ocean of love that shall encompass thee ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! [TANNHAUSER perceives that he ts in the palace of a Great Queen. Rise, rise, my knight! My king! My love, arise ! See the grave avenues of Paradise, The dewy larches bending at my breath, Portentous cedars prophesying death! ¢ See the long vistas and the dancing sea, The measured motion of fecundity ! Bright winds set swaying the sofi-sounding flowers …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 175

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ve.” (I seem to have asked him an- other question, but cannot remember what.) Then I said: “What writest thou, Father?” And he replied: “Death, always Death.” And I said: “Show me thy writing, Father” and looking he wrote the word HARTHA. And I said “This is a mystery to me” so he pointed to it letter by letter and I tried to interpret it Qabalistically, but was not successful. It seemed that the value of the letters was 507. He said I should understand, and with that I left him and returned. 167

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1929 · PDF PAGE 431

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…wing explanation of the psychological process of conversion in these cases. 1. The failure of the sexual energy turns their attention to death. 2. The inexpugnable fear of death demands the resort to some spiritual soporific. 3. Their scientific training makes it impossible for them to take refuge in any superstitious religion. 3a. They probably lack the pagan courage to accept the situation philosophically, their moral integrity having been injured in childhood by their Christian upbringing. 4. They seek consolation in some theory of immortali…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 145

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ood of other men is wet. So slowly, while the mob stood back, I went Out of the city, with no life content, And certain I should meet no death at least. And, riding ever to the stubborn east, . I came upon a shore whose ocean bent _ In one long curve, where folk were making feast. So with no heart to feast, I joined the mirth, Mingled the dances that resound the earth, And laughing looked in every face of guile, And answered fans with quick and subtle smile ; Ten thousand little loves were brought to birth, Ten thousand loves that laughed a lit…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 125

Oracles

I20 ANIMA LUNAE Free from disease and vice, sorrow and age. Only death’s joys assuage A gathering gladness at the thought of sleep. Never in all the archives, scroll on scroll, Reaching from aeons wrote they “ Women weep, Men hate, the children suffer.” In the place Where men most walked a table of fine brass Was set on marble, with an iron style That all might carve within that golden space If one grief came—and still the people pass, And since the city first began None wrote one word thereon till one—a man Witty in spite of happiness—wrote th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 12

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…serious account “The Apparition of Mrs. Veal to Mrs. Bargrave,” which was written by Daniel Defoe as a puff of some ass’s Meditations on Death!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 12

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…serious account “The Apparition of Mrs. Veal to Mrs. Bargrave,” which was written by Daniel Defoe as a puff of some ass’s Meditations on Death!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 287

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…tait la consequence d’un arrét de mort” — According to him life was sufficient for the greatest crimes, since these were the result of a death sentence.” “Vos meilleurs amis ont df concevoir des inquiétudes ”— “Your best friends have been reasonably anxious.” (The mistranslation here turns the speech into an insult.) Vv

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1913 · PDF PAGE 374

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…arbarian, and was he committing a crime against science? No, but he burned the winding-sheets of the resuscitated that they might forget death. Why, then, do we to-day recall the qabalistic origins of dogma? Why do we join again the figures of the Bible to the allegories of Hermes? Is it to condemn St. Paul, is it to bring doubt to believers? No, indeed, for believers have no need of our book; they will not read it, and they will not wish to understand it. But we wish to show to the innumer- able crowd of those who doubt, that faith is attached…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 287

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…tait la consequence d’un arrét de mort” — According to him life was sufficient for the greatest crimes, since these were the result of a death sentence.” “Vos meilleurs amis ont df concevoir des inquiétudes ”— “Your best friends have been reasonably anxious.” (The mistranslation here turns the speech into an insult.) Vv

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1913 · PDF PAGE 374

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…arbarian, and was he committing a crime against science? No, but he burned the winding-sheets of the resuscitated that they might forget death. Why, then, do we to-day recall the qabalistic origins of dogma? Why do we join again the figures of the Bible to the allegories of Hermes? Is it to condemn St. Paul, is it to bring doubt to believers? No, indeed, for believers have no need of our book; they will not read it, and they will not wish to understand it. But we wish to show to the innumer- able crowd of those who doubt, that faith is attached…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 48

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…er the wilderness appear the moon With cold lips to bestow the inestimable boon. 1 See the story of Samson. Sull I have never prayed for death, but rather Would be found fighting toward the goal I seek, Stretching both hands toward a_ loving father, And struggling toward some barren voice- less peak With feet made stedfast, if God made them weak ; So, on the journey, in the hottest fight I would be found by Death, whose palace bleak Should be a resting-place until the night Broke, and I met my God, and stood within His sight. Only my brain grow…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 112

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…RIUMPH OF MAN. BEFORE the darkness, earlier than being, When yet thought was not, shapeless and unseeing, | Made misbegotten of deity on death, There brooded on the waters the strange breath Of an incarnate hatred. Darkness fell And chaos, from prodigious gulphs of hell. Life, that rejoiced to travail with a man, Looked where the cohorts of destruction ran, Saw darkness visible, and was afraid, Seeing. There grew like Death a monster shade, Blind as the coffin, as the covering sod Damp, as the corpse obscene, the Christian God. So to the agony …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 11

Jezebel

JEZEBEL 7 “ Throw down that woman ! ” And my breath Caught as they flung her out to death. I think I died that moment. He, Foaming for vengeance and blood-lust, Laughed his coarse laugh of hideous glee. Her sweet bad body in the dust He trampled. Royal from the womb A martyred murderess lacks a tomb ! A tigress woman, clad with sin, And shod with infamy, who pressed The bloody winepress of my skin, And plucked the purple of my breast— Her lovers in their hearts shall keep Her memory passionate and deep. They cast her forth on Naboth’s field Sti…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 12

The Holy Books

…so is secret; my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: cer- tainty, not faith, While in life, upon death; peace unalterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods and gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is II, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, and the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue and gold are seen of the seeing. Also I …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…the lips of a dying god, pierced through By the spear of Dawn. Is Dawn still new, Now thou art faded in the gloom ? Now thou art lost in death and doom? I know not yet; nor shall I know Till thou art faded quite, and snow

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1913 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…the lips of a dying god, pierced through By the spear of Dawn. Is Dawn still new, Now thou art faded in the gloom ? Now thou art lost in death and doom? I know not yet; nor shall I know Till thou art faded quite, and snow

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1907 · PDF PAGE 195

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…r. Ant. 1 [Echo of the Damned). Ay! is the earth and upper ether gone, And all the joy of earth, and gathered close The darkness and the death-wind and the snows On us on whom the sun of air once shone. What souls are left alive Vainly lament and strive, For they. shall join the dead of utmost eld; The concourse mystical Who see the seasons fall Shall soon behold what all we have beheld :— The accursed stream, the intolerable veil Of night and death and hell, disastrous woof Of anguish overproof That fruitless wills assail Ever in vain: good fo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 248

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…. 2 Is love indeed eternal? ii. 85 Is there a soul behind the mask ? iii. 6 I stole her money, even then to prove, ii. 84 I stood within Death’s gate, i. 202 It has often been pointed out, ii. 58 I think, Sir, that I have you still, ii. 157 I think the souls of many men are here, 1. 44 It is a commonplace of scientific men that metaphysics is mostly moonshine, li. 258 It is a lamentable circumstance, ii. 185 It is fitting that I, Ambrose, ii, 212 It is loftily amusing to the student, ii, 203 It is summer and sun on the sea, i. 177 It is the sea…

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