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1903 · PDF PAGE 18

The God-Eater

…a of the Mist, see truth in all Rather than truth in none. Below the rite The sight ! Beyond the priest, the power! Above The sense, the soul ! So men who made their gods Did make in very deed : so I will make In uttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma-juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be ! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death

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1905 · PDF PAGE 94

Oracles

…ove, and my wings feel no wind’s breath. Thou art all too fierce and calm, too bitter and sweet, alas ! Thou weavest a cruel charm on my soul that is as glass. I know thee not, who art naked ; I lie beneath thy feet Who hast called till my spirit achèd with a pang too deathly sweet. Thou has given thee to me dying, and made thy bed to me. I shiver, I shrink, and, sighing, lament it cannot be. I have no limbs as a God’s to close thee in and hold : Too brief are my periods, and my hours are barren of gold. I am not thewed as Jove to kill thee in …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 114

John St. John

12.55. 1.13. 6.23. 6.5!. THE EQUINOX the daily march and its strife with heat, thirst, fatigue, cure all the ills of the soul, so does Pranayama clear away the phantoms that Mayan, dread maker of Illu- sion, hath cumbered it withal. Io Breath-Cycles; calm, perfect, without the least effort; enough to go to sleep upon. He will read through the Ritual once, and then sleep. (The Pranayama precipitated a short attack of diarrhoea, started by the chill of the Ceremony.) He slept from 1.45 (approximately) till now. The mom is cold and damp; rain has …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 74

The Scented Garden

…hy desertion, Habib, and this thy ingratitude doth El Qahar give praise to the beloved One. 1. Again a long explanation from Mahbub. The soul (he says) falls from 66 [Persian text] to 45 ([Persian text] Adam, man). Then the twofold head

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1904 · PDF PAGE 138

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…retic. For fifteen years without cessation Did the hissing torrents roll out ; And at the P.M. examination They found she had pissed her soul out. They carved a beautiful chamber-pot On her tomb : and this moral appear did : “ This elegant girl in an hour from her twat Poured more than the Nile in a year did. Through the ages of earth her faultless fame Will never alter nor vary : Stranger, hats off to the honoured name Of Micturating Mary ! ” [140]

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1907 · PDF PAGE 300

The Star in the West

…w , there fore we must overcome existence . Existence , as we know it, spins A fatal warp , a woof of woe . There is no place for God or soul . Works , hopes , prayers , sacrifices , sins Are jokes . The cosmos happened so : Innocent all of guide or goal . Else , what were man's appointed term ? To feed God's friend , the coffin - worm ! Crowley further states in a short foreword to these Images of Life and Death ” : “ To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty , in solemnity and horror ; in emotions , to be brief , so …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 128

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ay the first gush of an artesian well amid the seas of sand. " Well,” quoth she, cheerful and brisk, to let the mask fall on her blushing soul, “ we have got through six dozen oysters and a devil of a lot of Burgundy. . . . I wonder if I am hungry! " She looked him between the eyes. "Hors d’oeuvresl” said Edgar. “I have a box for the Sam Hall fight" “ Oh do take me,” she panted. “Will he beat Joe Marie?" she added, with a touch of anxiety, “He has the weight, and the experience, and the record.” “Fools are betting he will. My money is on the man …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 128

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ay the first gush of an artesian well amid the seas of sand. " Well,” quoth she, cheerful and brisk, to let the mask fall on her blushing soul, “ we have got through six dozen oysters and a devil of a lot of Burgundy. . . . I wonder if I am hungry! " She looked him between the eyes. "Hors d’oeuvresl” said Edgar. “I have a box for the Sam Hall fight" “ Oh do take me,” she panted. “Will he beat Joe Marie?" she added, with a touch of anxiety, “He has the weight, and the experience, and the record.” “Fools are betting he will. My money is on the man …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 46

Book 4 (Part II)

…s like that which was in the widow's cruse : it renews and multiplies itself miraculously; its perfume fills the whole Temple; it is the soul of which the grosser perfume is the body.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ere is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com- ment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 533

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…r man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235

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1913 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ere is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com- ment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 533

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…r man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235

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1902 · PDF PAGE 13

Tannhäuser

Ibsen, otherwise in spirit and style purely Greek, and dealing as the Greeks did with the emotions of the soul, has realised the changed and infinitely more complex conditions of life ; our self-appointed spiritual guides notwithstanding, or, rather, withstanding in vain. Consequently it is impossible any more to divine whether virtue or vice (as understood of old) will cause the irreparable catastrophe which is the one element of drama which we may still (in the work of a modern dramatist) await with any degree of confidence. I trust that I ma…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 40

The Sword of Song

… Ah ! O in the silence, in the dark, In the intangible, unperfumed, Ingust abyss, abide and mark The mind’s magnificence asssumed In the soul’s splendour ! Hear is peace ; Here earnest of assured release. Here is the formless all-pervading Spirit of the World, rising, fading Into a glory subtler still. Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates, and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival. Peace ! Peace ! Silence of peace ! O visionless abode ! Cease ! Cease ! Through the dark veil press on ! The veil Is rent asunder, the stars pale, The s…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 33

Mortadello

…my martyrdom avail to save them then ! Be pleased to pardon her whose doom unfolds, a scroll All scribbled sinister, do thou receive her soul Whose body must endure what for myself she craved. A dark deed and impure—but Venice must be saved ! [ORLANDO lands from the gondola. Oh ! is it you so soon ? ORLANDO. I thought I had been slow. MONICA. Cannot we wait ? ORLANDO. Can June save January’s snow ?

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1954 · PDF PAGE 319

Magick Without Tears

… without failure, there will be great good fortune." O.K.; Let's! I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torment-and so you should be!- and persuaded me to take you as my pupil. What have you done with that year? First, suppose we put down what you agreed to do: The essential preliminaries of the work of the A :. A :. -you are to be heartily congratulated upon your swift perception that the principles of that august body were absolute. I. Prepare and submit your Magical Record. (Without this you are in th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 53

Mortadello

…toat—and there you are, my darling ! MONICA. My lord, you must forgive the youth—extravagant, He expends in foolish froth the truth, his soul is scant. [MORTADELLO signifies acquiescence by a nod Come, Alessandro, let me soothe this raving rant !

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1954 · PDF PAGE 352

Magick Without Tears

… be 50. ut worst of all is the effect on the temper! When it is permanent , and mistaken for a "virtue," it poisons the very soil of the soul. The vilest weeds spring up ; cruelty , narrowmindedness, arrogance-everything mean and horrible flowers in those who "mortify the flesh." Incidentally , such ideas spawn the "Black Brother." The complete lack of humour, the egomaniac conceit, self-satisfaction, absence of all sympathy for others , the craving to pass their miseries on to more sensible people by persecuting them: these traits are symptoma…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 203

Liber Aleph

…, is it not a marvel, this Light whereof we are the Quintessence and the Seed? By it are we made Whole, dissolved in the Body and in the Soul of Our Lady Nuith even as Her Lord Hadith, so that the Gnostic Sacrament of the Cosmos is perpetually Elevated before us. We behold all that is and comprehend its Mystery, and its Order in this High Mass eternally celebrated among us, acknowledging the Perfection of the Rite, neither con- fusing the Parts thereof, nor discriminating in Worship between them. So unto us is every Phenomenon a Shew of Godline…

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