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1929 · PDF PAGE 54

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

… In the fourth fortion the god is again invoked, but as if by Himself, as if it were the utterance of the will of the god that He should manifest in the magician. At the conclusion of this, the original object of the invocation is stateci. Th us, in the invocation of Thoth which is to be found in the rite of Mercury (Equinox I, VI) and in Liber LXIV, the first part begins with the words “Majesty of Godhead, wisdom- crowned TAHUTI, Thee, Thee I invoke. Oh Thou of the Ibis head, Thee, Thee I invoke”$ and so on. At the conclusion of this a mental …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 257

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…k; My soul’s ethereal spark Is dulled for sorrow ; my despairs recall At last Thy name, O gracious Paphian, Lady of Mercy to the love of man ! Come, come, immortal, of the many thrones ! Sparrows and doves in chariot diamonded Drawn through the midmost air ! O Lady of despair, Who bound the golden helmet of Thine head ? Whose voice rings out the pitiful low tones: ‘Who, who hath wronged thee? And my power atones. ‘‘She who now doth flee, shall soon pursue thee; ‘* She who spurns thy gifts, with gifts shall woo thee; ‘“¢ She who loves not, she s…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 20

Jephthah

…g; Our battles He fights as we fight them, our victories bring For His temple a tribute of tears. Enter Jephthah amid his Soldiers, with many young men of Israel. | JEPHTHAH. Yea, for a man’s sword should not turn again To his own bosom, and the sword of fear Smites not in vain the heart of cowardice. But who hath called me hither to what end ? ELEAZAR. For these, and for the sake of Israel. JEPHTHAH. And who are these? And who are Israel? CHORUS. Turn not thy face from us in wrath, for we Are thine own father’s children, and his loins With dou…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 34

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…breath, Better brave the horrid powers, Nor avoid the foreign death, Humbling all our pride before God’s most holy throne, abasing Every man’s strong soul, and facing All the heathen Ammon bore On the angry shore, Trusting to the mercy rare Of Jehovah, than to bare Hearts and bosoms to a friend

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1902 · PDF PAGE 25

Tannhäuser

…at is as molten glass. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. An holy man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him : he bade me not despair. " The Blood of the Osiris " was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) "The life, the tears, the tomb ! " The Love of I sis is its name ! " (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses bloom. For the Three Maries (so he said) were One : Three aspects of the mystic spouse of God, Isis ! This paga…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 134

The Scented Garden

… He as a virgin’s eye, While for His beauty are no words of earth, Nor can the heavens this need with song supply.]3 So thou with Allah, man ! hold Him as dear (Nay, dearer !) as the apple of thine eye.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 115

The Winged Beetle

…ce, insists it is pain ; Until, at the last, all the puzzle is plain. Cry out on Apollo ; he laughs at the whine. Evoke we a soul nor of man nor divine Deep-throned in a darker, unspeakable shrine. O beautiful, beautiful ! light be thy luck ! Unveil thee to me ; for my flower is to pluck ; God gives thee my virginal honey to suck. Lo ! now is the hour, lest the happy hour go. Ah ! love me an hour, if it kill me or no ! So be it, my God ! be it so, be it so !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 113

Sir Palamedes

…dour clutched, Like all the rest, begins to crumble. Where is the Beast? His bliss exceeded All that bards sing of or priests mumble; No man, no God, hath known what he did. Only this baulked him—that he lacked Exactly the one thing he needed. 107

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1919 · PDF PAGE 11

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…way édumdayere, KvAAavias XLovoKToou merpalas dd Seipddos pdvy6’, & Gctsv xopordi bvat Sorx. 4j. THRILL with lissome lust of the light, Oman! My man! Come careering out of the night Of Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady! Roaming as Bacchus, with fawns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, On a milk-white ass, come over the sea To me, to me, Come with Apollo in bridal dress (Shepherdess and pythoness) Come with Artemis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God, In the moon of the wood…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 93

Little Poems in Prose

…e that the Prince was annoyed at finding his favourite comedian amongst the rebels. The Prince was neither better nor worse than another man, but his ex- cessive sensitiveness made him in many cases

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1930 · PDF PAGE 34

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…tiative in such a way as to allow no dispute or complainte he must employ to this end the formula called “The Beast conjoined with the Woman” which establishes a new incarnation of deity ; as in the legends of Leda, Semele, Miriam, Pasiphae, and others. He must set up this idéal for the orders which he rules, so that they may possess a not too abstract rallying-point suited to their unde- veloped States. 10. The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main thème of the instructions of the A.'. A.*. It is characterised by the Attain- ment of the Knowledge…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 116

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…c breath, Telling all worlds how sweet is love, How beautiful is death, MEDEA. Sing, Orpheus, this doth madden them the most. Should one man leap—This tune is terrible ! ORPHEUS. T am not moved, although Tam aman. So strong a safeguard is cool chastity. MEDEA. But love thou me !_ My husband is distraught. ORPHEUS. . Madness is on him for thy punishment. MEDEA. Sing, therefore ! ORPHEUS. This last song of theirs was sweet, MEDEA. Thine therefore should be sweeter. ORPHEUS., The Gods grant it ! Lift up this love of peace and bliss, The starry sou…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 127

Magick Without Tears

… then there is the way of direct "inspiration," as in the case of "Hermes Eimi" in New Orleans.! Again, They may send an ordinary living man, whether one of Themselves or no I cannot feel sure, to instruct me in some task, or to set me right when I have erred. Then there have been messages conveyed by natural objects, animate or inanimate. 2 Needless to say, the outstanding example in my life is the whole Plan of Campaign concerning The Book of the Law. But is Aiwaz a man (presumably a Persian or Assyrian) and a "Secret Chief," or is He an 'ang…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 146

The Law is for All

…tate should consider their welfare to be its first duty; for if they are for the moment dependent on it, it is also dependent on them. A man might as well cut out his heart because it was weak, and in need of cautious care. But he would be no less foolish if he tried to prevent the used-up elements from eliminating themselves from his body. We respect the Will-to-Live; we should respect the Will-to Die. The race is auto-intoxicated by suppressing the excretory processes of Nature. Each case must of course be judged on its merits. His neigh­ bou…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 27

Songs of the Spirit

…Hear thou the feeble world, the lame desire, The dubious crying of the pinioned dove, The wordless eloquent emotion That speaks within a man, despite his mind ! Hear, who can pray for naught, unknowing aught Whereof, for what to pray. But hear me, thou ! Hear me, thou God, who fettered the bleak winds Of North and East, and held in silken rein The golden steeds of West and South, who bade The tireless sea respect its narrow bounds, And fixed the mountains, that eternal ice Might be thy chiefest witness, and who wove The myriad atoms of Infinitu…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 53

Songs of the Spirit

While his lewd visage no man may discern, And baffling darkness hides his terror if I turn. Fighting and falling ever, weariest Even of beating off the tempter’s blows, Struggling in vain to what one hopes the best, A distant river over many snows, On whose green bank the purple iris glows, And the anemone in some wild cleft, And the white violet, and the briar rose, And the blue gentian from the heavens reft— Lo ! ’Twas that golden bank but yester morn I left. O river where we dwelt ! Your summer sward Whereon we lay, two kings of earth and ai…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 67

White Stains

…e not, as are mortals’, hued All rose and lily, but linger unseen Passion-flowers purpled, garlands of green ! Who like thyself shall command our ways ? Who has such pleasures and pains for hire ? Who can awake such a mortal fire In the veins of a man, that deathly days Have robbed of the masteries of desire ? Who can give garlands of fadeless bays Unto the sorrow and pain we praise ?

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1899 · PDF PAGE 90

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… upon the snow, her eyes Fixed fast upon the fountain-head Whence from Eternity is drawn The awful glory of the dawn! ELEAZAR. Let every man depart unto his house. CHORUS. He hath made His face as a fire; His wrath as a sword; He hath smitten our soul’s desire; He is the Lord.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 46

Gargoyles

So he of politics; so I of love. I am a-many folk (let Buddha prove !) And many a month you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes! So the blind amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence, decay Of care to hold him—can I tell you which? Down goes the moon—one sees the howling bitch ! The salmon you had hooked in fin and gill You re…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 7

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…104, THE GARDEN OF JANUS, By AtzisTeR CrowLry THE DREAM CIRCEAN. By Martiat Nay THE LOST SHEPHERD. By Vicror B. Nevsurc A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY THE ORGAN IN KING’S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. By G. H. S. PINSENT A NOTE ON GENESIS THE FIVE ADORATIONS. By Dost Acumma Kuan ILLUSION D’AMOUREUX. By Francis Benpick THE OPIUM-SMOKER POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS. By Ateister CRowLEY THE WILD ASS. By Atys Cusack THE SPHINX AT GIZEH. By Lorp Dunsany THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA. By Exaine Carr , THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Boox II) AMONGST THE MERMAIDS. By Norman R…

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