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1930 · PDF PAGE 62

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…darkness and the Light. 5. Thou art ASAR UN-NEFER (aMyself made Perfect”) : Whom no man hath seen at any time. 6. Thou art IA-BESZ (“the Truth in Matter”). 7. Thou art IA-APOPHRASZ (athe Truth in Motion”). 8. Thou hast distinguished between the Just and the Unjust. 9. Thou didst make the Female and the Male. 10. Thou didst produce the Seeds and the Fruit. 11. Thou didst form Men to love one another, and to hâte one another. Section Aa. 1. I am ANKH - F - N - KHONSU thy Prophet, unto Whom Thou didst commit Thy Mysteries, the Ceremonies of KHEM. …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 55

Konx Om Pax

…tery'erts, “ Flirted! Autres temps, Autres motsl You’re improving, Frater ! ” Reader replies “ Pig l ”] But she says the same words with truth to Mrs. 1., who is merely asking out of curiosity. For if she changes the subject, or is rude, it is tantamount to a con fession, and Mrs. J. has no right to trick or force one from her. This is called Keeping the Vow of Secrecy which one has sworn to one’s own Soul. [BONES protests violently, and is reminded that dis cussion follows, net/er interrupts, the Paper.] But why insist? The so-called casuists …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 117

Liber Aleph

…, and Heresy against thee, and feareth to destroy Abuse lest worse Things come of it. For he Will of the Universe in its Wholeness is to Truth, and hou dost well to purge it from its Costiveness. For it is written that there is no bond that can unite the Divided but Love, so that only those Complexes which are in Truth Simplicities, being built Cell by Cell unto an Unity by Virtue of Love under Will, are worthy to endure in their Progression. k

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1913 · PDF PAGE 399

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…t in blaming this love for ignorance, and in saying to this rash faith, ‘Since you slight your sister, you are not the daughter of God!” Truth, reality, reason, justice, Providence, these are the five rays of the flamboyant star in the centre of which science will write the word “being,”’—to which faith will add the ineffable name of God. SOLUTION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS FIRST SERIES QUESTION. What is truth? ANSWER. Idea identical with being. 101

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1913 · PDF PAGE 399

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…t in blaming this love for ignorance, and in saying to this rash faith, ‘Since you slight your sister, you are not the daughter of God!” Truth, reality, reason, justice, Providence, these are the five rays of the flamboyant star in the centre of which science will write the word “being,”’—to which faith will add the ineffable name of God. SOLUTION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS FIRST SERIES QUESTION. What is truth? ANSWER. Idea identical with being. 101

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1938 · PDF PAGE 18

The Heart of the Master

…our Virtues of the Heart of the Master. LIGHT is throned in the Heart of the Master, so that he thinks no evil. For in that Light all is Truth. Falsehood is but a function of the conditions of Time and Space, and the idea of evil comes only from perceiving the oppositions which are transcended by Truth. So each thing that is hath its root in Necessity; were the least of these lost, the whole Work should be marred. LIFE wells in the Heart of the Master; Death is but the Systole of that marvelous pulse. Faint are the phantoms of Illusion; these, …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 88

Mortadello

…. 1ST VOICE. Yes, he talks too bold. 3RD VOICE. And false as brass ! ALESSANDRO. They’re just a pack of mules. 1ST VOICE. We’ll have the truth, by God ! 2ND VOICE. Ay ! we’ll tear down the prison ! Kill him ! ALESSANDRO. Devilish odd That truth as sharp as steel and glittering as gold, So hard to tell, receives no credit when it’s told. Body of Jesus, Governor ! I think you must Have earned Cassandra’s doom, betraying some God’s trust ! 1ST VOICE. Where’s the Princess ? 2ND VOICE. Let’s see her !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 398

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…bsolute in intelligence, the supreme regulator of forms, the living ideal of spirits, is God.” “In its identity with the ideal, being is truth,” says science. “In its identity with the ideal, truth is God,” replies faith. “Tn its identity with my demonstrations, being is reality,” says science. “In its identity with my legitimate aspirations, reality is my dogma,” says faith. “In its identity with the Word, being is reason,” says science. “In its identity with the spirit of charity, the highest reason is my obedience,” says faith. “In its ident…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 398

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…bsolute in intelligence, the supreme regulator of forms, the living ideal of spirits, is God.” “In its identity with the ideal, being is truth,” says science. “In its identity with the ideal, truth is God,” replies faith. “Tn its identity with my demonstrations, being is reality,” says science. “In its identity with my legitimate aspirations, reality is my dogma,” says faith. “In its identity with the Word, being is reason,” says science. “In its identity with the spirit of charity, the highest reason is my obedience,” says faith. “In its ident…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 246

Magick Without Tears

…term of abuse-Mr. A, Lord B, the Duke of C, Mrs. X, or whatever he or she may chance to be called-into five. The Structure called of-alI-Truth in neither of us is affected in the least, any more than in the reading of a Thermometer with Fahrenheit on one side and Centigrade on the other. You naturally object that this answer is little better than an evasion, that it automatically pushes the Gamut question outside the Charmed of-alI-Truth Circle. No, it doesn't really; for if you were able to put up a Projection of those two minds, there would b…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 118

The Scented Garden

…lar twat of a certain concubine with splendid breasts like erect members1 so firm were they. Such mirage, if it be mirage, is truer than truth, if it be truth. Nothing can shake thee in love, any more than any affliction touches the Sufi. It is therefore of no service that I restore to thy sweet podex its accus- tomed guest. Whether it be there or not, it is there for thee2 ; so that thou wilt never again bemoan thy- self, saying : “ Give me my Nubian ! for without stiffness is the contemptible member of El Qahar the sage.” 1. I have seen such …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 91

Collected Works (Vol. II)

AFTER 85 We sobbed, and stretched our arms out, and despaired, And—parted. Out the brute-side of truth flared ; ‘¢Thank God I’ve finished with that foolishness | ”’ II. AH! there’ be two sides to all shapes of truth ! I might indeed go back to bitter toil, Prune the mind’s vine, and gather in the spoil Rough-conquered from fields, without ruth Pillaging Nature, pawning youth For some strange guerdon (or its counter- foil) Gainless or not-to-be-gained, priestly or royal, Profane, canaille—I know not, in good sooth ! books, men, strength and I mi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ied and quite forgotten ; hidden away From jarring strife, the myriad tongues that shout Their petty shibboleths of faith and doubt. One truth, one knowledge, and one thing shall save: The cool, dark temple of the silent grave. One knowledge and one truth: one thing alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, one love, one death; and Death at last Is master of all life to be, far passed

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1913 · PDF PAGE 204

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ied and quite forgotten ; hidden away From jarring strife, the myriad tongues that shout Their petty shibboleths of faith and doubt. One truth, one knowledge, and one thing shall save: The cool, dark temple of the silent grave. One knowledge and one truth: one thing alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, one love, one death; and Death at last Is master of all life to be, far passed

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1904 · PDF PAGE 73

The Goetia

o0 D0 MD Cheos, Actros, Athanatos. Md do vaunesa omasdasa laiada andin QO _ Theos, Ictros, Athanatos. And in these names of secret truth, Agia, On, Cetragrammaton, wvinu ol od sodvame ilasa. Md Do Agla, On, Tetragrammaton, do I invoke and move thee, And in paunesa omaodasa, oD tofajilo Das cabiga Do-o-a-inu Jada laiada these names, and all things that are the names of the God of Secret Truth Das apila, Ja-t-Don, WMI vinu od larinujt ilasa, Jlasa gabe m. who liveth for ever, the All-Powerful. I invoke and stir thee up, O spirit N. nomiji Do ftot…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 110

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… irritated man. Then the slow sloka? serpentine began: ‘‘ Friend ! neither man nor woman owns This being’s high perception, owed Only to Truth ; nor beams nor stones Support the Arahat’s abode. Who grasps one truth, beholds one light, Becomes that truth, that light ; discedes From dark and deliquescent night, From futile thoughts and fatuous deeds. Your girl, your gems, your mournful tones Irk not perfection with their goad. One thing I know—a set of bones Is travelling on upon this road !” 1 Arahat. 2 Stanza.

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1996 · PDF PAGE 111

The Law is for All

112 The Law is for All truthfully from lack of imagination and analysis. Idealist painters like Bouguereau, awake to the divergence between Nature and their academic standards of Beauty, falsify the facts in order to delude themselves. The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it w…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 36

The Mother’s Tragedy

…he harlot cleanse herself— Tardy repentance !—In the name of God! Worse, you have lied, and built me up a house Of trust in you as being truth and love, - Who are in truth all lies, all treachery! You made me love you as an honest man ! You watched this passion, this intolerable Desire, this flame of hell; you fed it full, Sunned it and watered—O my brain will snap !— Only to blast it. Take your story back ; Be what you will except that infamous! For as my mother—I should spit on you! [CORA zs at his feet grovelling. She half rises to listen. '…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 91

John St. John

…shing the importance of others which lend them- selves less obviously. But the answer to this, friend Satan] is that the Canon of Art is Truth, and the Canon of Magic is Truth; my true record will make a good book, and my true book will make a good record. 89

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1961 · PDF PAGE 125

Liber Aleph

… Rite, and many another of Antiquity. And it is this, that our Forefathers made of these Ceremonies an Epitome Mnemonic, wherein certain Truths, or true Relations, should be communicated in a magical Manner. Now therefore by the Practice of these mayst thou awaken thy Wisdom, that it may manifest in thy conscious Mind. And this Way is of Use even when the Ceremonies, as those of he Christians, are corrupt and deformed; but in such a Case hou shalt seek out the true ancient Significance thereof. For there is that within thee which remembereth Tr…

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