1922 · PDF PAGE 320
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…e indeed filled with a feeling of the futility of human effort as we contemplated the layers of civilisations, and looked down upon that last of them
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Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…or of a dreamless death, a mere deliciously indefinite serenity, were being gently awakened to understand that its unguessed goal was at last in sight. The negative ecstasy of perfect release from the pressure of existence developed into its positive equivalent when the soul, soothed and made strong, by its swoon into stainless silence, was ready to spring, sublimely self-sufficient, to the summit of its starry stature, to grasp and grapple with the manifested majesty of the Most High ... In vain have I striven to compel language to convey the …
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1905 · PDF PAGE 189
Oracles
… forehead to the earth. Still just, Still patient, passionless, and proud, I ruled my heavy wrath. I passed That hidden insult, spake at last.’ The other pieces include a grandiose sonnet on Rodin’s statue of Balzac ; ‘ Melusine,’ in which mannerisms and affectations pre- dominate ; and ‘ The Dream,’ a smooth piece of verse that leaves no very strong impression. There are an introduction and an epilogue in verse by Count Vladimir Svareff.”—Manchester Guardian. RECENTLY ISSUED. The God-Eater. 2s. 6d. A satirical drama, teaching that whatever may…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 63
Moonchild
…d upon some razor-edge whose supports she could not even imagine; the adventure was to her a supreme excitement, and she lived first and last for that. Had she known herself better, she would have understood that her love for Cyril was little more than a passion for the bizarre. But at the moment she was Joan of Arc and Juliet in one. Moreover, she had the instinctive feeling that wherever these people might
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1930 · PDF PAGE 29
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)
…in its greatest and highest sense. Ipsissimus. — Is beyond ail this and beyond ail compréhension of those of lower degrees. But of these last three Grades see some further account in The Temple of Solomon the King, Equinox I to X and elsewhere. It should be stated that these Grades are not necessarily attained fully, and in strict consecution, or manifested wholly on ail planes. The subject is very difficulté and entirely beyond the limits of this small treatise. We append a more detailed account. 3. The Order of the S. S. is composed of those …
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1904 · PDF PAGE 40
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…r rubigo. So I made the best of a bloody bad job, and gave her a spirit-indeed-is-willing-but-the flesh-is-weak prick-scouring as if the last trump were going to sound in a minute, and I were afraid to be caught with my work half done on Judge- ment Day, as Browning says. So I leather-stretched wearily on. During all this time the Empress had kept up her strength by copious libations of whisky, (which stood in casks at a great height above her head, and trickled down in tubes into her royal mouth, on the same principles as saline injections)…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 146
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…ee them makes a very favourable impression.” He paused and bit his lip, and pulled at his neck. | “It’s very difficult,” he continued at last. ‘The facts of the case, on the surface, are undeniably ugly. You are found in disguise in one of the worst places in Naples, and you have actually arms in your hands, which is strengst verboten, as they say in Germany. On the other hand, you give an account of yourself which makes you out to be such utter fools, if you will
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1929 · PDF PAGE 452
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…iciously fantastic is that of what I may call the phantom battleship. This vessel cost well over two million sterling. She was to be the last word in naval construction. She was launched at Odessa in the presence of a great gathering of notables, and the scene lavishly photographed and described in the newspapers. Alas! upon her maiden cruise she was spurlos versenkt. The fact of the matter was that she had never existed! Her cost had gone straight into the pockets of the various officials, the photographs were simply faked, and the description…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 25
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
of every kind of perversion from her youth up, she at last finished by obtaining the sexual orgasm only by thinking of those people with whom she was not familiar. President R . . . . . . . t, E . . . . d VII, in spite of his impotence, the Czar, the Khe- dive, and other poxy potentates thus fell easy vic- tims to her lewd importunities. Malheur ! in her later days she caught the King of E . . . . . ds impo- tence, and was compelled to the end of her life for the disease proved intractable to solace her- self as best she could with the col…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 45
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
… H......t S.....ts column in the dusty square of Abu-Klea : she had held up the dying heros head with her black knees and received the last spend- ing he ever spent this side of Heaven in her capa- cious mouth. She, and she alone, had avenged Arabi Pasha, when on the stricken field of Tel-el- Kebir, she pitched her cunt and poxed eleven thousand Tommies in one night. She was the vet- eran who stood by statued Memnon at sunrise, and with the music of her farts out sang the sto- ried stone. She, uncrowned Empress of mankind, she, carrion of a m…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 317
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…ll take you away with me. But will you let me make one condition? ” She lifted her face to his. In spite of the physical wreckage of the last few months, love was able to transform her bodily. She was radiantly beautiful. She only waited for him to take her in his arms. She was trembling all over with ecstatic passion. I gripped the arms of my chair in futile rage. Before my very face the only woman I had ever loved had disowned me, cast me off with contempt, and was offering herself to another man with the same impulsive ardour that she had on…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 1
The Stratagem and Other Stories
…ws it, to the country that tolerates it, to the civilisation that permits that such things should be. The same thing happened to me here last year, sir, though luckily on that occasion I had but half-an-hour to wait. But I wrote to The Times a strong half-column letter on the subject, and Im damned if they didnt re- fuse to print it. Of course, our independent press, etc.; I might have known. I tell you, sir, this country is run by a ring, a dirty ring, a gang of Jews, Scotchmen, Irish, Welshwheres the good old jolly True Blue English- man?…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 53
Magick Without Tears
…You must have an aim, and one aim only: yet on no account must you want to achieve it!!! Those chapters of The Book of Lies quoted in my last letter 4 do throw some light onto this Abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the Will with a capital W, and desire, want, or velleity. The main point seems to be that in aspiring to Power one is limited by the True Will. If you use force, violating your own nature either from lack of understanding or from petulant whim, one is merely wasting energy; things…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 148
Magick Without Tears
… 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 of truth, and all that power and beauty that they have made of themselv…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 72
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…r eyes upon your mistress, you dog ! She raved at him, and pressed her hot and amorous beauty-spot against the bruised belly-ruffian. At last not even all her art could raise the drooping head : it was practi- cally mashed into a pulp ; her dainty mouth ap- proached its bleeding tip, and with infinite lust she began to chew and swallow the entire intercrural pudding of the yelling black. She finished her meal by a savage bite at his hairy hangers, which she gulped down with every appearance of intense pleasure. Not content yet with the spectacl…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 82
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…teal a kiss oc- casionally were always frustrated as if by accident, though they now knew it must be of set purpose. Andrew suggested at last that, to allay suspicion, he should choose another middy and pretend to make violent love to him. Montys jealousy said no, and only after a long time was he persuaded to agree. Katie Ambrose, the boy selected for this vicari- ous duty, was a dirty little fellow of the most vi- cious type. His favourite fancy, in public, was to [82]
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1904 · PDF PAGE 89
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
… Up and up he writhed, and the mouth of her womb spasmodically closed and re- opened in vain. He penetrated more and more deeply, and at last, with a convulsive wriggle, dis- appeared entirely into the temple of love at the very moment Eve, in a strong shudder, consummated her suppressed desire and fell to the ground in a swoon. Adam was alarmed. Some burnt clippings of mastodon-hoof were effectual in restoring her, but Eves furs had fallen off again, and Adam di- vined the nature of his good ladys excitement. To think now, He observed, wi…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 264
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…g food from us. His conduct was murderously criminal, if only because we might have been prevented by bad weather from descending in the last resort. That afternoon Reymond and I mad a little excursion up the slopes. We found that the snow was not as bad as might have been expected, and the gradients were so easy and the glacier so free from ice fall that there would be no danger for a prudently conducted party, even when the snow was soft. On this slope of Kangchenjunga one occasionally meets a condition of snow which I have never seen elsewhe…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 84
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…lliard-room. Spelton was long-damned long-coming ; no doubt of that. And Montys desires were getting less controllable every minute. At last he took down his trousers and began to play with himself, hoping to ease a little his discomfort. At this moment Andrew glided forward and whispered If you speak we are both lost. Your dress . . . The frightened boy made a movement of agony. He was terribly angry, and yet dared not speak or make the least sound. After the other affair he knew the Captain would never believe his story. The lusty lieuten…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 143
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)
…ason for the respective virtues of water and lire. The world was purified by water at the Deluge, and will be consecrated by lire at the last Judgment. Not until that is fmished can the real ceremony begin. 2. These may now advantageously be replaced by (a) “pure will unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of resuit, is every way perfect” (CCXX, I, 44) to banish; and (b) “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.” (CCXX, II, 62) to consecrate. For the Book of the Law contains the Suprême Spells. …
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