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1907 · PDF PAGE 88

The Star in the West

… body of my spirit's queen , Where nothing dwells that God did not devise .' The sonnets relating the events of the seventh to the tenth day are dismal , attempting to drown Love in Lust . On the twelfth a little flame burns up , then comes the poem , which Alice receives and reads . Every verse is as charming , simple , and fascinating as the following two : One kiss , like snow , to slip , Cool fragrance from thy lip To melt on mine ; One kiss , a white - sail ship To laugh and leap and dip · Alice , an Adultery , vol . ii, p . 66 . G

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1910 · PDF PAGE 24

The World’s Tragedy

…d abode in me and I in him — and wrote for four nights night by night, until the World’s Tragedy lay finished and perfect before me. All day I kept myself up to the mark by the stern

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1919 · PDF PAGE 194

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… Benediction of the All-Begetter be upon thee. Love is the law, love under will. @HPION 9° =2° A..A.. Given under Our hand and seal this day of An XII, the Sun our Father being in 12° 42’ 2” of the sign Leo, and the Moon in 25° 39’ 11” of the sign Libra, from the House of the Juggler, that is by Lake Pasquaney in the State of New Hampshire. 182

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1929 · PDF PAGE 335

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… us. But nothing can destroy the past, and the long years of our intimate friendship were indeed fertile. We saw each other nearly every day and worked together in perfect harmony. In "The Temple of Solomon the King" Fuller's style was already much improved, though the story of my life might have been set forth more simply. Though his tendency to burst out into ecstatic rhapsodies resulted in disordering the proportions of its events, in the main his task was admirably accomplished, and there are passages of astonishing sublimity, not only in t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 172

The Star in the West

…g about atheist death bed scenes . For these Crowley also has a word : “ Oh , very well !” I think you say , “ Wait only till your dying day ! See whether then you kiss the rod , And bow that proud soul down to God ! ” I perfectly admit the fact ; Quite likely that I so shall act ! 1 The Fatal Force , vol .i, p . 143 . 2 The Mother's Tragedy , vol . i, p . 163 . 3 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 168 . 4 Ibid . vol .i, p . 170 .

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1910 · PDF PAGE 40

Ambergris

…s flow Over the earth, throughout the sea, Till all its deserts glow, And all its salt springs vanish, and night flee The pinions of the day wide-spread, and pure

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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… was. And very bold it was, for conscience makes cowards of us all. The secret shame of his orgies 1 Every week—night— once even on a Sunday l—after everyone had gone to bed, he opened the little safe in the wall at the head of his bed, and drew forth the obscene picture from its envelope marked “ In case of my death or disability THIS PACKET is to be DESTROYED UNOPENED. T. Bugg. ” Then he would sit, and hold it in his hot hands, and gloat upon the evil thing, lifting it now and again to his mouth to cover it with greedy, slobbering kisses And …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 97

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… was. And very bold it was, for conscience makes cowards of us all. The secret shame of his orgies 1 Every week—night— once even on a Sunday l—after everyone had gone to bed, he opened the little safe in the wall at the head of his bed, and drew forth the obscene picture from its envelope marked “ In case of my death or disability THIS PACKET is to be DESTROYED UNOPENED. T. Bugg. ” Then he would sit, and hold it in his hot hands, and gloat upon the evil thing, lifting it now and again to his mouth to cover it with greedy, slobbering kisses And …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 353

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…e serious practice is started, and this in actual life means, map out your career as well as you can. Decide to do so many hours’ work a day in such conditions as may be possible. It does not mean that you should set up neuroses and hysteria by suppressing your natural instincts, which are perfectly right on their own plane, and only wrong when they invade other planes, and set up alien tyrannies. 61. Kill thy desires, Lanoo, make thy vices impotent, ere the first step is taken on the solemn journey. By “desires” and “vices” are meant those thi…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 17

Diary of a Drug Fiend

CHAPTER I A KNIGHT OUT Yes, I certainly was feeling depressed. I don’t think that this was altogether the reaction of the day. Of course, there always is a reaction after the excitement of a flight; but the effect is more physical than moral. One doesn’t talk. One lies about and smokes and drinks champagne. No, I was feeling quite a different kind of rotten. I looked at my mind, as the better class of flying man soon learns to do, and I really felt ashamed of myself. Take me for all in all, I was one of the luckiest men alive. War is like a wav…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 41

Ambergris

… fulfil Thy supreme, single will ! Alone, intense, unmoved, not made for change, Let thy one godhead rise To move like morning, and like day to range, A furnace for the skies, That all men cry : The uncreated God ! Formless, ineffable, just, whose period Is as his name, Eternity ! So bear The sceptre of the air ! So mayest thou avenge, all-seeing, blind, The wrath of this consuming fire, that licks The rafters and the portals of the house, The gateways of the kingdom, where behind Lurk ruinous fates and consequence ; where fix Their fangs the s…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ipped. carr. [Hides his head in his hands and groans, pretending to be overwhelmed by the tragedy. Looks up.| Well, 1 was told the other day that he held a lot of land in London, and has more tenants than the Duke of Westminster! ossory. Well, we'll hope it is true. But in these days one never knows. And he leaves a very unpleasant impression wherever he goes. If I were not an Englishman I should say that the feeling I had for him was not very far removed from actual fear! CARR. Well said, sir. Hearts of oak in the City, eh? [ossory glares at h…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ipped. carr. [Hides his head in his hands and groans, pretending to be overwhelmed by the tragedy. Looks up.| Well, 1 was told the other day that he held a lot of land in London, and has more tenants than the Duke of Westminster! ossory. Well, we'll hope it is true. But in these days one never knows. And he leaves a very unpleasant impression wherever he goes. If I were not an Englishman I should say that the feeling I had for him was not very far removed from actual fear! CARR. Well said, sir. Hearts of oak in the City, eh? [ossory glares at h…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 445

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ich would give an idea of it... And what shall I tell you,” added the Abbé Charvoz, “ of those miracles of blood which astonish us every day? Thousands of wounded and bleeding hosts are found upon our altars. The sacred stigmata appear to all who wish to see them. The hosts, at first white, slowly become marked with characters and hearts in blood. ... Must one believe that God abandons the holiest objects to the false miracles of the devil? Should not one rather adore, and believe that the hour of the supreme and final revelation has arrived?” …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 445

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ich would give an idea of it... And what shall I tell you,” added the Abbé Charvoz, “ of those miracles of blood which astonish us every day? Thousands of wounded and bleeding hosts are found upon our altars. The sacred stigmata appear to all who wish to see them. The hosts, at first white, slowly become marked with characters and hearts in blood. ... Must one believe that God abandons the holiest objects to the false miracles of the devil? Should not one rather adore, and believe that the hour of the supreme and final revelation has arrived?” …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 10

The Banned Lecture

…s against the interests of the Church, and in those times it was much easier to suppress people and ideas than it is now, though even to-day we find priests—at least in Oxford—who appear not to have heard of a certain recent invention by a notorious Magician inspired by the Devil—the Printing Press. But they feared. So those who pursued know-

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1944 · PDF PAGE 40

The Book of Thoth

…ement was hardly known to anyone but mathematicians like Archimedes, and astronomers. The foundations of Science, as it is understood to‐day, were hardly laid at all 200 years ago. There was an immense amount of knowledge; but it was nearly all qualitative. The classification of phenomena de‐ pended chiefly upon poetic analogies. The doctrines of “correspondences” and signatures” were based upon fanciful resemblances. Cornelius Agrippa wrote of the “antipathy” between a Dolphin and a Whirlpool. If a meretrix sat under an olive tree, it would be…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 64

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…y. Every month when her courses came on I revelled with peculiar lust in the miry bloodiness of her dearest bodily part. I would lie all day with her dumb-glutton perched on my aristocratic nose and chew the stringy mucus that issued smeary and glutinous from her bleeding privates : the taste I cannot hope to describe to you : you must taste it to appreciate it — ah ! You sly dog ! I see you have been there already — but it was beyond all praise. Hours flew by in this delightful occupation, she herself licking my beak with her enormous tongue (…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 117

Konx Om Pax

…one, Things grosser than it looked upon where Neva rolls or Tiber swings. We shall exceed: its lips unclean shall answer at the Judgment Day: “ The greatest of them all, I say, were this my poet and his queen l ” Ah, God! we look upon the Thames; the Arno’s palaces are gone. Dull glows the misty horizon with London’s stinking stratagems. But lift the lid of earth and see the good flame gush and wrap us round! For us, the Gods of the Profound, may England equal Italy. And 1 who revelled with Faustine in Rome make madder music here “[110 poise upo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 202

The Star in the West

…on which he in his turn wrote an equal absurdity in the words : nihil est in intellectu quod non antea fuerit in sensu . Leibnitz in his day , perceiving the weakness in this axiom , ex tended its phraseology , but in no way its meaning , by adding Excipi nisi ipse intellectus . This weakness in Locke's system became only too apparent to his followers ; and Berkeley , as well as Hume , and later still Kant himself , travelling by slightly different roads , ultimately arrived at the same destination : we cannot go beyond experience .” In the fir…

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