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1906 · PDF PAGE 117

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…tals. CHORUS. Here is home at last. ORPHEUS. The sunset comes: the mist is lifted now To let the last kiss of the daylight fall Once ere night whisper. ‘‘ Sleep !” JASON. And see ! the ship Glides between walls of purple. MEDEA. The green land Cools the tired eyes. CHORUS. The rocks stand sentinel. MEDEA. Let still the song that saved us gladden us. Lift up thy lyre, sweet Orpheus, on the sea. ORPHEuS.,} Over a sea like stained glass At sunset like a chrysopras :— Our smooth-oared vessel over-rides Crimson and green and purple tides. Between th…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 126

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…give something away—you know how it is.” So we left him quietly smoking, and went back to our own little cubby and had the most glorious night, whispering imaginary intrigues which somehow lent stronger wing to the real rapture of our love. We neither of us slept. We simply sailed through the darkness to find the dawn caressing the crest of Posilippo and the first glint of sunrise signalling ecstatic greetings to the blue waters of the Bay of Naples. . When the train stopped, there was Hector Laroche at the door, ordering everybody about in flu…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 8

Moonchild

…ful lover in her way. This creature could not even excite the jealousy of the wealthy automobile manufacturer who financed her. But this night she could not concentrate her thoughts upon him; they wandered continually to the man on the floor. "Who is he?" she whispered, rather fiercely, "what did you say his name was?" "Cyril Grey," answered Monet-Knott, indifferently; "he's probably the greatest man in England, in his art." "And what's his art?" "Nobody knows," was the surprising reply, "he won't show anything. He's the one big mystery of Lond…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 70

The Book of Thoth

The background of the whole card is the dark blue of the starry night of Nuit, from whose womb all phenomena are born. Taurus, the sign of the Zodiac represented by this card, is itself the Bull Kerub; that is, Earth in its strongest and most balanced form. The ruler of this sign is Venus; she is represented by the woman standing before the hierophant. Chapter III of the Book of the Law, verse xi, reads: “Let the woman be girt with a sword before me.” This woman represents Venus as she now is in this new aeon; no longer the mere vehicle of her …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 178

Magick Without Tears

…d rise far above the terrestrial atmosphere, while the music continues softly in the background. You open your eyes, and find that it is night . Dark clouds are on the horizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. This light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world . In the midst looms a cluster of blue-black crags. Now there appears from their recesses a gigantic being. His strength, especially in his hands an…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 176

The Law is for All

…nst imaginary or artificial dangers; and the quacks who trade on fear will be put out of business. All this must follow as the Light the night as soon as Woman, true to Herself, finds that She can no longer be false to any man. She must hold Herself and Her Will in honour; and She must compel the world to accord it. The modern woman is not going to be dupe, slave, and victim any more; the woman who gives herself up freely to her own enjoyment, without asking recompense, will earn the respect of her brothers, and will openly despise her “chaste”…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 359

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ne through mighty cliffs of earth. The following day the road led over a high pass, a barren wilderness of bizarre beauty. It was nearly nightfall when we reached a wretched hamlet, so poor that there was really no food to be had. There was not even any pretence of an inn, and it was only by long negotiation and the display of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, in the shape of a silver dollar, that we persuaded the inhabitants to let us have a cup of goat's milk apiece, a small scrap of dry bread, and a bed in the straw in a horribly dirty ba…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 179

Collected Works (Vol. III)

LIBER SECUNDUS VEL AMORIS 173 Nothing but love : in vain my thoughts evoke That light amidst the deadly night and smoke Of this dread hour: there’s nothing serves nor skills Here, since that hateful ‘‘ I” of me awoke, Making ime separate from the wings of life, Nothing avails me of the cruel strife With my own being : hideous sorrow fills My heart—O misery ! my wife! my wife! Stay ! if I cannot be the Absolute, Let me be man! discard the wailing lute And wake the lyre: the mightier than me Drag up the courage in me to dispute The battle with de…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 273

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…gorated us. I got an entirely new point of view about Lala. Before, she had seemed to me little more than part of the furniture, but to- night she was the resident spirit of the place. She informed it, gave it a meaning. The intimacy between her and her master was not in any way personal. She was the medium by which his thoughts became per- ceptible.

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1922 · PDF PAGE 355

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ne. Partly from this and partly from the psychological crisis, its effects were such as I had never before ex- perienced. I remained all night in a state between sleep and waking, unable to call for assistance, unable to control my thoughts; and I was transported into a totally unfamiliar world. I did not exist at all, in any ordinary sense of the word. I was a mathematical expression in a complex scheme of geometry. My equilibrium was maintained by innumerable other forces in the same system, and what I called myself was in some mysterious way…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 9

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

One night in Paris some of us took him to No 8 rue Colbert. He was very disgusted, and remarked, “ My uncle might stay, if he came, but I’m off.” None of us saw any joke, but I happened to call at the old gentleman’s house the next day, and found him suffering from gout in both thumbs ! On another occasion he walked into a house in Paris, lazily surveyed the grinning girls, snapped out “ Une douzaine de Marennes ! ” and made for the door. He it was who painted a number in im- mense characters on the door of a girl he dis- liked. He had at one t…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 279

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…osed? No, Sir Peter, while you and I are wasting our time discussing. our troubles, there’s one thing working for us, never stops day or night, and that is Vts medicatrix nature.” Lala nodded emphatically. ‘“Didn’t you notice that even in the Red-Cross ?” she said to Lou. ‘“‘ The cases that got well were those that were left alone. All the surgeons did was to repair, as well as possible, the interference with nature caused by the wound. Anything beyond that was a mistake.” “We'll be back in about an hour,” said Lamus, “and take you to lunch at …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 454

Magick Without Tears

…ual: the Holy Man prays for the threatened Dynasty, blesses the Barren Queen; and they all live happy ever after. This is not an Arabian Night's Tale of Antiquity; it is the same to-day; there are very few Englishmen who have spent any time in India who have not been approached with proposals of this character. Similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in France; the fils a papa was usually a hopeless rotter, and his wife often resorted to a famous monastery on the Riviera, where was an exceptionally holy Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, p…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 356

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…cated chaos of machinery, but was, as it were, the reason. for its assuming its actual appearance in preference to any other. And as the night went on, the enormous complexity of the vision co-ordinated itself. There was a sensation of whirling and rising communicated to the entire universe of my thought. A sort of dizziness seized upon my spirit. It was as if a wheel had been set in motion and gradually increased its pace so that one could no longer distinguish the spokes. It became an indefinite whirr. This feeling invaded my entire conscious…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 14

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…, showed me that his giant brain had not only grappled with the problem, but solved it to his satisfaction. The plan was perfect; on the night of the eclipse those three guards would be on duty at such and such gates; Dodu would tear his clothes into strips, bind and gag Bertrand, come and release me. Together we should spring on Rolland, take his uniform and rifle, and leave him bound and gagged. We should then dash for the shore, do the same with Monet, and then, dressed in their uniforms, take the boat of an octopus-fisher, row to the harbou…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 220

Magick Without Tears

… never to a height of more than a foot or so. Here is the best account of such an incident, of those at my immediate disposal. Nearly midnight. At this moment we stopped dictating, and began to converse. Then Fra. P. said: "Oh, if I could only dictate a book like The Tao Teh King!" Then he closed his eyes as if meditating. Just before I had noticed a change in his face, most extraordinary, as if he were no longer the same person; in fact, in the ten minutes we were talking he seemed to be any number of different people. I especially noticed the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 58

Konx Om Pax

…espeare is perhaps thought by some (may it be credited?) to have written the lines: To thine own self be true, And it will follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all Eternity !—and the possibility of lying is avoided. For one speaketh not, nor, if one spake, is there any to hear. Know that the greater the Adept, the more truthful; should he—in error—speak, the more must he appear a liar…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 153

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…on with, and, of course, we had only one use for it. We stayed in our room in a little hotel unfrequented by English, and crawled out by night to try to buy drugs. That in itself is a sordid epic of adventure and mis- adventure. The lowest class of so-called guide was our constant companion. Weary in spirit, we dragged ourselves from one dirty doubtful street to another; held long whispered conferences with the scavenger type of humanity, and as often as not bought various harmless powders at an exorbitant price, and that at the risk of blackma…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 262

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… not having been there for a (long time. I told him that we had both been very ill; |and-then-Eow put in;-in. a “ We shall -be-better-te-night,” der intonation was so sinister that the man almost d. I was afraid for the moment that everything be spoilt, but I saved the situation by some silly

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1954 · PDF PAGE 302

Magick Without Tears

… either a dilettante, a crook, or a B.F. If you could get the B.F.'s to understand the very elementary mathematics set forth above, good-night to

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