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1954 · PDF PAGE 366

Magick Without Tears

…me sort of thing keeps on happening, and when, furthermore, I find myself able to predict, as experience has taught me to do in the last three years, that they will happen, and even how the pieces will fit into the puzzle, I am justified in assuming a causal connection.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 145

The Winged Beetle

…urs was Christ upon the cross ? How many days in hell ? But I have hung From the day of infinite loss Watching her degradation into dung Three years. Three years ! And now who asks me to shed tears ?

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1908 · PDF PAGE 6

Amphora

Prologue OTHER and maiden ! on the natal night Embowered in bliss of roses red and white, Westward three Magi move to minister To Him with gold and frankincense and myrrh. Those Pagans gazing on the Heavenly Host Were blest of FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST ; And me, though I be as an heathen Mage, Thou wilt accept in this my pious page. M

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1913 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…into orchestra or at the back of theatre. They are followed by juria and JOANNA, who bear the sacred Vesica in their arms. Nu. Cast off! three sons bend to the larboard oars, And three strong daughters man the starboard thwart. My wife shall spy, while I shall steer for, shores Worthy to welcome home our Argonaut. [yuLta plays music. The wind is heard to rise and the waves to wash, until a gust blows out the last candle on the stage, when the curtain falls, The bell tolls twelve strokes. In the distance one hears the chant of the sailors, at fi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…into orchestra or at the back of theatre. They are followed by juria and JOANNA, who bear the sacred Vesica in their arms. Nu. Cast off! three sons bend to the larboard oars, And three strong daughters man the starboard thwart. My wife shall spy, while I shall steer for, shores Worthy to welcome home our Argonaut. [yuLta plays music. The wind is heard to rise and the waves to wash, until a gust blows out the last candle on the stage, when the curtain falls, The bell tolls twelve strokes. In the distance one hears the chant of the sailors, at fi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 6

Hail Mary

Prologue OTHER and maiden ! on the natal night Embowered in bliss of roses red and white, Westward three Magi move to minister To Him with gold and frankincense and myrrh. Those Pagans gazing on the Heavenly Host Were blest of FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST ; And me, though I be as an heathen Mage, Thou wilt accept in this my pious page. M

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1913 · PDF PAGE 49

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…And Quiet kind ? Deep meadows yet , for to forget The lies , and truths , and pain ? . . . oh ! yet Stands the Church clock at ten - to- three ? And is there honey still for tea ?

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1919 · PDF PAGE 280

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…am that Iam! MEN. Glory to Thee, beyond all term, Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! Women. Glory to Thee, eternal Sun, Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One! Cuorus. Glory and worship unto Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! (These words are to form the substance of the an- them; but the whole or any part thereof shall be set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can devise. But even should other anthems be au- 266

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1909 · PDF PAGE 10

The Holy Books

… Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest! Thus ye have star and star, system and system: let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis—lazuli and jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine and rose, and t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 12

The Stratagem and Other Stories

three, while in one corner is a much larger and thicker cross and two smaller crosses not so symmetrical. This group represents the element of chance; and you will at least gain a hint of the truth if you reflect that eight is the cube of two, and twenty-seven of three.” Bevan looked intelligent. “On the return march,” continued Duguesclin, “Dodu said, ‘The spy is on the watch. But count the letters in the name of Aristotle’s favourite disciple.’ I guessed (as he intended me to do) that he did not mean Aris- totle. He wished to suggest Plato, a…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 9

Liber Al vel Legis

… Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest! Thus ye have star and star, system and system: let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis—lazuli and jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine and rose, and t…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 10

Orpheus

…ed to warn all but the strongest and most desperate natures from the task of reading or of attempting to read it? I have spent more than three years in fits of alternate enthusiasm for, and disgust of, it. My best friends have turned weeping away when I introduced its name into conversation; my most obse- quious sycophants (including myself) were revolted when I approached the subject, even from afar. I began Book I. in San Francisco one accursed day of May 1go1. I was then a Qabalist, deeply involved in ceremonial magic, with aPantheon of Egyp…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 170

Liber Aleph

…rtified by thy Life, the Bull, the Power of Works, and guided by thy Liberty, the Man, the Wit to adapt Action to Environment. These are three Virtues in One, necessary to all proper Motion, as I may say in a Figure, the Lust of the Archer, the propulsive Force of his Arm, and the equilibrating and directing Control of his Eye. Of these three if one fail, he Mark is not hit. But hold! Is not a Fourth Element essential in the Work? Yea, soothly, all were vain without he Engine, Arrow and Bow. This Engine is thy Body, possessed by thee and used b…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 31

Mortadello

…rays silently. MONICA. My Venice, ‘tis for thee I make the sacrifice. Must it be so ? Behold, like babe-soft moons of snow. Moons barely three days old, my virgin breasts aglow. Are these worth Magdalene’s, that blaze throughout the night. The swart imperious queen’s ? O read your heart aright ! Spare me, save Venice ! ORLANDO. No. This one thing I demand. To melt your shroud of snow, my sultry sun to brand Your bosom with its fierce intent, its angry ray. MONICA. Our Lady, still they pierce Thy heart. ORLANDO. You answer nay ? MONICA. I answer…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 276

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… and Malkuth: the Crown, the Father, and the Mother; the Son or King ; and the Bride. Also, a Division into seven Palaces, seven Planes, three Pillars or Columns: and the like. The Flashing Sword follows the Course of the Numbers and the Serpent Nechushtan or of Wisdom crawls up the Paths which join them upon the Tree of Life, namely the Letters. It is important to explain the Position of Daath or Knowledge upon the Tree. It is called the Child of Chokmah and Binah, but it hath no Place. But it is really the Apex of a Pyramid of which the three…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 362

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…45 4B, 3D. Y¥ andp Number of Stars in the Northern hemisphere 446 Destruction ; death nye 46 Pison pe Tali pedum pip 447 Initials of the Three N29 957 Above and the Three Beneath. [Vide 248] 448 Excelsa mya 449 Lux fulgentissima = MAXYMYYD WN Cloak mp 450 Tabulae ninth [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 508] mY The Fruit of the Tree yy me Transgression yu Beneplacitum ——y3) 93 PS termino carens ; Arbitrum illimitatum Inhabitans Aeternitatem “TY JY Craftiness, cunning pbyy The Dragon yn 451 The Essence of Man DINT TS Mortis SaVe) Angels of Tiphareth Dusiw The…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 362

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…45 4B, 3D. Y¥ andp Number of Stars in the Northern hemisphere 446 Destruction ; death nye 46 Pison pe Tali pedum pip 447 Initials of the Three N29 957 Above and the Three Beneath. [Vide 248] 448 Excelsa mya 449 Lux fulgentissima = MAXYMYYD WN Cloak mp 450 Tabulae ninth [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 508] mY The Fruit of the Tree yy me Transgression yu Beneplacitum ——y3) 93 PS termino carens ; Arbitrum illimitatum Inhabitans Aeternitatem “TY JY Craftiness, cunning pbyy The Dragon yn 451 The Essence of Man DINT TS Mortis SaVe) Angels of Tiphareth Dusiw The…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 40

The Holy Books

THE BOOK OF THE TRIGRAMS OF THE MUTATIONS OF THE TAO WITH THE YIN AND THE YANG Here is Nothing under its three forms. It is not, yet informeth all things. Now cometh the glory of the Single One, as an imperfection and stain. .. But by the Weak One the Mother was it equili- brated. Also the purity was divided by Strength, the force of the Demiurge. 41

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1930 · PDF PAGE 124

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…hod, it shall be easy for Him to combine that trinity from its éléments, and further to combine Sat- Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which méditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the grade of Practicus (which reflecteth Mercury into the lowest world) in Liber XXVII, “Here is Nothing under its three Forms.” 18. And this is the Opening of the Grade of Ipsissimus, and by the Buddhists it is called the trance Nerodha-Samapatti. 19* And woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe,…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 31

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…iverse in accordance with His Will. He is the Master of the Law of Change (Anicca). To attain the Grade of Ipsissimus he must accomplish three tasks, destroying the Three Guardians mentioned in Liber 418, the 3rd Aethyr; Madness, and Falsehood, and Glamour, that is, Duality in Act, Word and Thought. 6. The Grade of Master of the Temple is described in Liber 418 as above indicated. There are full accounts in the Magical Diaries of the Beast 666, who was cast forth into the Heaven of Jupiter, and of Omnia in Uno, Unus in Omnibus, who was cast for…

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