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1913 · PDF PAGE 213

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…halice of lilies under the moon! I bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon! Light is no more: oh! let us swoon and die! And the secret way is star-lit, star-bestrewn, Star-guarded, star-set, under the starry moon ! Is there no way but this under the sky? Oh, moon of Eld, ah! shall we die or swoon? 175

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1913 · PDF PAGE 213

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…halice of lilies under the moon! I bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon! Light is no more: oh! let us swoon and die! And the secret way is star-lit, star-bestrewn, Star-guarded, star-set, under the starry moon ! Is there no way but this under the sky? Oh, moon of Eld, ah! shall we die or swoon? 175

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1929 · PDF PAGE 35

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

35 Here, by the way, is a curious point. These bigots are so inconsistent that I have never been able to follow the working of their minds. There is a great deal of doctrine in "The Ancient Mariner" which outrages every tenet of the Plymouth Brethren, but my mother does not appear to have taken offence at that. My only suggestion is that she detested snakes for Freudian reasons; she had probably met them in dreams and had therefore good reason (from her point of view) for identifying them with the devil in his most objectionable form. My mother…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 89

Book 4 (Part I)

…dividual, especially as it is his entire conception of things, including his most deep—seated conception, the standard to which he has always referred everything, his own self, that is overthrown; and when we try to explain it away as hallucination, temporary suspension of the faculties or something similar, we find ourselves unable to do so. You cannot argue with a flash of lightning that has knocked you down. Any mere theory is easy to upset. One can find flaws in the reason- ing process, one can assume that the premisses are in some way false; b…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 93

The Soul of Osiris

…, a little touch of time, And you shall blindly reach to the subtle and sublime ; You shall gather up your girdles to make ready for the way, And by the Cross of Suffering climb seeing to the Day. Then we shall meet again in the Presence of the Throne, Not knowing ; yet in Him ! O Thou ! knowing as we are known.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 48

Book 4 (Part I)

32 The best way to time the breathing, once some little skill has been acquired, with a watch to bear witness, is by the use of a mantra. The mantra acts on the thoughts very much as Pranayama does upon the breath. The thought is bound down to a recurring cycle; any intruding thoughts are thrown off by the mantra, just as pieces of putty would be from a fly-wheel; and the swifter the wheel the more difficult would it be for anything to stick. This is the proper way to practise a mantra. Utter it as loudly and slowly as possible ten times, then no…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 83

In Residence

THE VILLAGE CHAMPIONS 71 “ Well, mister, that’s the facs as seen Ten year ago come Chris’mas day, An’ so our villidge always been - The leadin’ villidge down our way ; But Billy Stokes ’ull always ’ave A ruin’ stummick to ’is grave. “ An’ when ’e tell the story now, ’"E seem to gasp fur want of breath— Yes, mister, Sawbones ses as ’ow ’E wean’t be better till ’is death ; ‘Unto ’is grave,’ ’e ses, ses ’e, ‘A ruin’ stummick’s what ’e be!’”

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1910 · PDF PAGE 79

The World’s Tragedy

…ou are out of order, sir. THE LAMB I shall get my own back later In the Theatres of London Where a show of legs decides. THE DOVE By the way — THE VULTURE These sleeping women Are no good to us, of course ? THE DOVE No indeed ! I want a creature Very different to that, THE VULTURE Well, you’ll have a job to find one.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 16

The Star and the Garter

…s youth, And time is time, and I am I, Too busy with my work to lie, Or love lie’s prize—or work's, forsooth !— Too strong to care which way may go The ensuing history of woe, Though I were jaw, and you were tooth ; So, more concerned with seeking sense Than worried over consequence, I'll speak, and you shall hear, the truth. 14

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1907 · PDF PAGE 119

Konx Om Pax

…him to its own path. When I was in Marrakesh, they lynched a poor old man because their mosque had been defiled in some real or imaginary way (with which he had in any case nothing to do, having been paralyzed for years). The excuse was, on the soles of his feet the creases formed the word Allah, so that he always trod upon the name of God! They killed Burckhardt for that, by the way. A pure invention in both instances. I saw his feet, and they were just like anybody else’s, only dirtier. Poverty and paralysis were his crimes, I warrant ye, my m…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 440

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…f dots for the last paragraph of this verse. It is that final scene of Parsifal, which words are unfitted to express. 71. Henceforth thy way is clear right through Virya gate, the fifth one of the Seven Portals. Thou art now on the way that leadeth to the Dhyana haven, the sixth, the Bodhi Portal. 72. The Dhyana gate is like an alabaster vase, white and transparent; within there burns a steady golden fire, the flame of Pragnyé that radiates from Atmé. Thou art that vase. 118

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1919 · PDF PAGE 44

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX to manifest in any way whatever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. Liser LXVI. Liser STELLA Ruse#&. A secret ritual, the Heart of IAO-OAI, delivered into V.V.V.V.V. for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis, and written down under the figure LX VI. Lizer CLVI. Liser CHeTH VEL VALLuM ABIEGNI Sub Figura CLVI. This book is a perfect account of the task of the Exempt Adept, considered under the symbols of a particular plane, not the intellectual. Liser XLIV. Tue Mass or THE PHenix. A Ritual of the Law. …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 146

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…scension Day and Pentecost; with some Prose Essays and an Epilogue,’ just as the title is ‘The Sword of Song’ you know, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way...” Alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream. “Oh, dear me! * This passage is a parody on one in “‘ Alice through the Looking-Glass.”’ 140 That's]. . Where references and explanations can be concisely given, harder than ever!” she said to herself, and then, looking determinedly intelligent : ‘‘So that’s what the song is called. I see. But what z…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…rotherhood, through Whom this Law was obtained, is a Body of the highest Initiates, pledged to aid mankind. It offers instruction in the Way of Spiritual Progress and Illumination to individual seekers. The work of the A..A.. is called Scientific Iluminism. This may be briefly expressed by quoting Its motto: “The method of Science; the aim of Religion.” Every seeker is taught how to realise Truth for himself, by means accurate and well-tested. The O.T.O. is the first of the great religious Societies to accept the Law. It trains groups by way of…

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1941 · PDF PAGE 9

Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War

…one, (Baby-killing German!) Bomb them every mother's son, Jewish-English vermin! (Chorus) Cruiser sighted—time to run! Well! there’s one way surer; Scuttle quick and say we won, Trusting to the Fuhrer! (Chorus)

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1903 · PDF PAGE 26

Alice: An Adultery

Unto the floral face, Carven in ancient grace Of Gods or Greeks, The whole sky’s way gives place : Open the walls of space, And silence speaks. See ! I am floating far Beyond space and sun and star, As drifts a nenuphar Down lilied creeks. Beyond the heavens I see The pale embroidery Of some wan child Waster by earth and sea, Whose kisses were too free, Too swift and wild ; A Maenad’s floating tress Lost in the wilderness Of death’s or my caress, Discrowned, defiled. 4

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

In Residence

…ughty Mr Swinburne scribbles ; The human heart with love enring ; Don’t dig right into it with dibbles! Good luck, my lass, you now your way can see! —I feared she might have taken me to Replenish the unusual vacancy ; And I have other things to see to.

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1941 · PDF PAGE 5

Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of The V Sign

…one, (Baby-killing German!) Bomb them every mother's son, Jewish-English vermin! (Chorus) Cruiser sighted—time to run! Well! there’s one way surer; Scuttle quick and say we won, Trusting to the Fuhrer! (Chorus)

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1907 · PDF PAGE 126

The Star in the West

…kisses thousand fold , Add to them a hundred more ; Other thousands still be told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride , And on my neck his foot triumphant press'd . So it is to - day . Conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered . Mutinus is worshipped at every street corner , and the goat of Mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 85

The Star in the West

…y .” As golden a book of poetry as Mademoiselle de Maupin is of prose . The first poem in the book is called “ Messaline ." 3 It is in a way a foreword to the ensuing sonnet - se quence , and yet in a way it is not , its spirit being more essentially of Lust ; for whatever the “ unco gude ” may say , that of Alice and her lover is not . To adulterate is to debase ; but there is no debase ment here . Love burns pure as a flame , and if it is , as it is here , between a married woman and a lover | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 232 . 2 The Three Shado…

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