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1919 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…that this is not a fatal disadvantage. See Liber CCC. 54. Behold Migmar (Mars), as in his crimson veils his “Eye” sweeps over slumbering Earth. Behold the fiery aura of the “Hand” of Lhagpa (Mercury) extended in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics. Both are now servants to Nyima (the Sun), left in his absence silent watchers in the night. Vet both in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas, and may in future “Days” again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in Nature. The astronomy of the Author of this book is not …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…eth unto the Crown by the moon and by the Sun, and by the arrow, and by the Foundation, and by the dark home of the stars from the black earth. 10. Not otherwise may ye reach unto the Smooth Point. 11. Nor is it fitting for the cobbler to prate of the Royal matter. O cobbler! mend me this shoe, that I may walk. O king! if I be thy son, let us speak of the Embassy to the King thy Brother. 12. Then was there silence. Speech had done with us awhile. There is a light so strenuous that it is not perceived as light. 13. Wolf’s bane is not so sharp as…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 64

The Goetia

…ls above the fixed stars : Ophanim. To be assisting and aiding Thy servant: Tophiel. That I may command all spirits of air, water, fire, earth, and hell: Masloth. So that it may tend unto Thy glory and unto the good of man. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Elohim. God with us, God be always present with us: Binah. Strengthen us and support us, both now and for ever: Aralim. In these our undertakings, which we perform but as instru- ments in Thy hands: Zabbathi (should be Shabbathii). In the hands of Thee, the great God of …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 24

The Sword of Song

…passable, That He was damned and I was God ! Ay! Let him rise and answer me That false creative Deity, Whence came his right to rack the Earth With pangs of death,70 disease, and birth : No joy unmarred by pain and grief : Insult on injury heaped high In that quack-doctor infamy The Panacea of—Belief ! Only the selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of creation’s pain Not dumb !—forgetful of t…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 101

The Vision and the Voice

…erence of which that was nearest to him he had been filling up with sand all this time), and leaped upon the Scribe, throwing him to the earth. The conflict took place within the circle. The Scribe called upon Tetragrammaton, and succeeded in compelling Choronzon to return into his triangle. By dint of anger and of threatening him with the Magick Staff did he accomplish this. He then repaired the circle. The discomfited demon now continued:) All is dispersion. These are the qualities of things. 99

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than 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…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than 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…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 49

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…sed. I, PRIEST and KING, take thee, Virgin pure without spot; I upraise thee; I iead thee to the East; I set thee upon the summit of the Earth. He thrones the PRIESTESS upon the altar. The DEACON and the children followy they in ranky behind him. The PRIESTESS takes the Book of the Rawy résumés her seaty and holds it open on her breast with her two handsy making a descending triangle with thumbs and forefingers. The PRIEST gives the lance to the DEACON to hold; and takes the ever from the childy and sprinkles the PRIESTESS, making five crossesy…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 37

The Star in the West

…uch a purple as incarnadines The western sky when storms are amorous And lie upon the breast of toiling ocean , Such billows to beget as earth devours In ravening whirlpool gulphs . My veins are full , Throbbing with fire more potent than all wine , All sting of fleshly pangs and pleasures . Oh ! The god is fast upon my back ; he rides My spirit like a stallion ; for I hate The awful thong his hand is heavy with ." Again , in “ The Nameless Quest ": Then surged the maddening tide Of my intention . Onward ! Let me run ! Thy steed , O Moon ! Thy …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 20

The World’s Tragedy

…as, an Oxford man and a traveller. He taught me sense and manhood, and I shall not easily forget my debt to him. I hear he is dead — may earth lie light upon him ! Of course my Mother and her brother my uncle Tom couldn’t stand him. (I must excuse my mother and my Uncle. The former was the best of all possible mothers, only marred beyond belief by the religious monomania which perhaps started in what one may call “ Hysteria of Widow- hood ” ; the latter a typical sexual degenerate.) They stole his letters and faked up some excuse for getting ri…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 76

The Vision and the Voice

… darkness cover me; and behold, I am compassed about with the blackness that hath no name. O thou, who hast cast down the light into the earth, so must thou do for ever. And the light of the sun shall not shine upon thee, and the moon shall not lend thee of her lustre, and the stars shall be hidden, because thou art passed beyond these things, beyond the need of these things, beyond the desire of these things. What I thought were shapes of rocks, rather felt than seen, now appear to be veiled Masters, sitting absolutely still and silent. Nor ca…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 416

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…cast out from the Abyss into "the heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star. And the light thereof shineth even unto the earth and bringeth hope and help to them that dwell in the darkness of thought and drink of the poison of life." It was therefore for me to attend strictly to the Great Work which had been appointed for me by the Secret Chiefs, to dwell in communion with mine Holy Guardian Angel and to write down the instructions by following which men might attain "to the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness". {661…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 130

The Vision and the Voice

…vier than lead. In each pylon is seated a god. There seems an endless series of these pylons. And all the gods of all the nations of the earth are shown, for there are many avenues, all leading to the top of the mountain. Now I come to the top of the mountain, and the last pylon opens into a circular hall, with other pylons leading out of it, each of which is the last pylon of a great avenue; there seem 128

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1913 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…l ; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a K…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…l ; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a K…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 116

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…s of people would stand in real danger. For example, this brilliant morning, with the sun sparkling on the snow and the water, the whole earth ablush with his glory, the pure keen air rejoicing our lungs ; we certainly did say to ourselves, our young eyes ablaze with love and health and happiness, that we didn’t need any other element to make our poetry perfect. I said this without a hint of hesitation. For one thing, we felt like Christian when the burden of his sins fell off his back, at getting away from Paris and civilisation and convention…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 20

The Vision and the Voice

…ook upon him. And he cries: O ye spears and vials of poison and sharp swords and whirling thunderbolts that are about the corners of the earth, girded with wrath and justice, know ye that His name is Righteous- ness in Beauty? Burnt out are your eyes, for that ye have seen me in my majesty. And broken are the drum-heads of 18

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1913 · PDF PAGE 358

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…atholic.” —E.L. Christian authors unanimously hold that, like all ‘heretics, he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. What on earth does it matter? Life, not death, reveals the soul— TRANS. 60

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1913 · PDF PAGE 358

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…atholic.” —E.L. Christian authors unanimously hold that, like all ‘heretics, he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. What on earth does it matter? Life, not death, reveals the soul— TRANS. 60

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1907 · PDF PAGE 31

The Star in the West

… triumph - hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell ! ? Again , such lines as these from the “ Triumph of Man " : And all the earth is blasted ; the green sward Burns where it touches , and the barren sod 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . I, p . 11 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 181 .

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