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1905 · PDF PAGE 140

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ield, how gladly dower Our sin with my own spirit’s quenchéd gold, Clothe love with my own soul’s immortal power, Give thee my body as a fire to hold— O love, no words, no songs—your breast my bower ! A SAINT'S DAMNATION 133 LOT. ‘And while he lingered... they brought him forth, and set him without the city. — GEN, XIX. FO. Turns back from safety: in my love abide, Whose lips are warn as when, a virgin bride, T clung to thee ashamed and very glad, Whose breasts are Jordlier for the pain they had, Whose arms cleave closer than thy spouse’s own, …

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1902 · PDF PAGE 32

Tannhäuser

Dread forked fire across the cloven sky ; Stripped off thy body of mortality — Nay, but on steeper slopes my love shall strive ! Our bodies perish and our hearts revive Vainly, unless the shaking sense beware The crested snakes shot trembling through our hair, Their wisdom ! But our souls leap, flash, unite, One crowned column of avenging light, Fixed and yet floating, infinite, immense, Caught in the meshes of the cruel sense, Two kissing breaths of agony and pleasure, Mixed, crowned, divided, beyond age or measure. Time, thought, or being ! N…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…hou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I! Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, to thy child | So from the Father to the Son T…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…hou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I! Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, to thy child | So from the Father to the Son T…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 437

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ur joint work developed and we resolved to make a series of investigations of "The Watch Towers of the Elements", beginning with that of Fire. The {693} question arose: "Why does the instruction tell us to rise vertically in the astral body for a great distance before penetrating the symbol under examination?" I said, "It seems to me a mere superstition connected with the idea that heaven is above and hell beneath one." To clear up this point, we decided to enter the Watch Tower directly, without rising. Our visions, occupying three successive …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 80

Book 4 (Part II)

…s the path of Gimel through which the influence from the Crown descends upon the Sun of Tiphereth. And this is based upon the pyramid of fire which symboHzes the aspiration of the student. In Hindu symbohsm the Amrita or " dew of immortahty " ^ drips constantly upon a man, but is burnt up by the gross fire of his appetites. Yogis attempt to catch and so preserve this dew by turning back the tongue in the mouth. Concerning the water in this Cup, it may be said that just as the wand should be perfectly rigid, the ideal solid, so should the water …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 214

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…in! OQ worn with Thought ! springs again The Soul of Resurrection: thou art chief And lord of all thy mind: O patient thief Of God’s own fire! What mysteries find fane In the white shrine’ of thy white spirit’s reign, Thou man of Sorrows: O, beyond belief! thy purpose Let perfect Peace be with thee: let thy days Prosper in spite of thine unselfish soul ; And as thou lovest, so let Love increase Upon thee and about thee: till thy ways Gleam with the splendour of that secret goal Whose long war grows the great abiding peace. THE ROSICRUCIAN. A SA…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 100

Orpheus

…ng stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, O spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! Dawn shakes the molten fire of my delight From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. Nature my name is called. O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotte…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 196

The Book of Thoth

…violent form of that particular energy, without any modifying influences. The flames in the back ground of the card have run wild. It is Fire in its most destructive aspect. The card also refers to the influence of Saturn in Sagittarius. Here is the greatest an‐ tipathy. Sagittarius is spiritual, swift, light, elusive, and luminous; Saturn is material, slow, heavy, obstinate, and obscure. The eight Wands are still crossed, showing the enormous power of the completed en‐ ergies of Fire; but they have lost their patents of nobility. Their ends se…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 56

The Mother’s Tragedy

… lend A star of many summits to his head That rules his fate and compasses his end, And seeks the holy mountain of the dead To draw dead fire, and breathe, and give it life! But thou, be strong for strife, And, as a god, cry out, and let there be The mark of many footsteps on the sea Of angels hastening to 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, w…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 58

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of ail things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as mine intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I. Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, in thy child! The CHORUS: For of the Father and the Son The…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 165

The Winged Beetle

THE CAMP FIRE 155 I sate and shivered : so this pregnant breath Must be delivered at the door of Death ! Poor petty torch to which our spirits flutter Our wings to scorch ! Ah, shall no angel utter Some word to allay the universal doom ? All swept away into a dusty tomb ! My friend ! who dreamt that dream of Permanence ? Are we exempt from any common sense Was not my fire warm while it burned ? Am I No living lyre because my songs must die ? Is not Becoming Being’s twin ? Be mute ! Is Death’s low drumming louder than Life’s lute ? Was I the ass…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 7

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… OF COLUMN VI 23 lpd Water 24 mps Scorpio V 25 mp Sagittarius A 26 hj Capricornus V 27 Mars 28 Aquarius A 29 CM! Pisces V 30 Sol 31 U/tf Fire 32 Saturn 32 bis V~!X Earth 31 bis nK Spirit ~ 307 ~

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1944 · PDF PAGE 142

The Book of Thoth

SUMMARIZED DESCRIPTION OF THE SIXTEEN COURT CARDS KNIGHT OF WANDS The Knight of Wands represents the fiery part of Fire; he rules from the 21St degree of Scorpio to the 20th degree of Sagittarius. He is a warrior in complete armour. On his helmet for a crest he wears a black horse. In his hand he bears a flaming torch; a flame also in his mantle; and upon the flames does he ride. His steed is a black horse leaping. The moral qualities appropriate to this figure are activity, generosity, fierceness, im‐ petuosity, pride, impulsiveness, swiftness…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 24

Oracles

ADAPTATION I9 (Rev. xxi. 8), and that they “ shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death ” (Rev. xxi. 8), “ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched ” (Mark. ix. 44). Let me only add that they are “ a herd of many swine feeding ” (Matt. viii. 30). “ Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ? ” (Matt. xxiii. 33). And now, belovèd brethren, with every prayer that this adaptation may prove of lasting blessing to You all, bringing forth “ the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 156

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…and presence, whose works shall be a song of honour, and the praise of your God in your Creation 1 [Invokes : bitom; the whole tablet of Fire, The Angle of Δ of Δ The Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire] TH E SEVENTH KEY RA-ASA isalamanu para-di—zoda oe—cari—mi aao iala—pire- gahe Qui—inu Enaibutamonu od inoasa m' pa-ra-diala, Casa— remeji ujeare cahirelanu, od zodonace lucifatianu, caresa ta vavale-zodirenu tol—hami. Soba lonudohe od nuame cahisa ta Da 0 Desa vo-ma—dea od pi-beliare itahila rita od miame ca-ni-…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 156

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…and presence, whose works shall be a song of honour, and the praise of your God in your Creation 1 [Invokes : bitom; the whole tablet of Fire, The Angle of Δ of Δ The Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire] TH E SEVENTH KEY RA-ASA isalamanu para-di—zoda oe—cari—mi aao iala—pire- gahe Qui—inu Enaibutamonu od inoasa m' pa-ra-diala, Casa— remeji ujeare cahirelanu, od zodonace lucifatianu, caresa ta vavale-zodirenu tol—hami. Soba lonudohe od nuame cahisa ta Da 0 Desa vo-ma—dea od pi-beliare itahila rita od miame ca-ni-…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…kin falls back from her shoulders. Her right hand rests on a small golden or brazen altar ornamented with rams’ heads and with Flames of Fire leaping from it Her left hand leans on a long and heavy club, swelling at the lower end, where the sigil is placed; and it has flames of fire leaping from it the whole way down; but the flames are ascending This club or torch is much longer than that carried by the King or Queen Beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping Flames of Fire. Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of po…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…kin falls back from her shoulders. Her right hand rests on a small golden or brazen altar ornamented with rams’ heads and with Flames of Fire leaping from it Her left hand leans on a long and heavy club, swelling at the lower end, where the sigil is placed; and it has flames of fire leaping from it the whole way down; but the flames are ascending This club or torch is much longer than that carried by the King or Queen Beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping Flames of Fire. Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of po…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 79

The Star and the Garter

For the children of earth and fire that have brought us here. Give praise, O masterful maid, to Nina, and all as they die! The moon makes blackest of shade ; the star’s in the swarthiest sky. Be silent, O radiant martyr! Let the world fade slowly afar! But—had it not been for the Garter, I might never have seen the Star. 77

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